scoobdog

Happy Birthday, Jeep Cherokee aficionado.

Your name was on a mortgage document, you didn’t actually take out a mortgage. No bank will fall for that bullishit if they’re giving you money. Now if your brother wants to use your name again and then murder you this time, your credit score is absolutely perfect.

Sucks when other people are better at AI than you are, huh?

"Sir, why are you stealing some child's luggage?"

Maybe that's why your forecast wasn't so accurate.

Cancer is just bonus meat when the cow is dead.

Not as cruel as his tailors, apparently.

Always a worthwhile goal. What's the occasion, Ghosty?

The anticipation is killing me.... Or maybe it's just dread.

You get NYC media all the way down in your cesspit?

Not with a 640. Your 800+ scores only indicate you don’t own anything of value, like property. Good luck trying to use your scores for what they’re good for, namely getting a loan.

You don’t understand the life of an angry midget.

I don’t see a lot of rain.

You can’t do much, can you?

I have one, thanks.

You don’t need a tailor to sew on patches.

Is this the coda to the tailor thread? Are you suggesting a good tailor could have solved this problem for a reasonable flat fee?

Amazing. I can’t figure out who’s been looking for a tailor either. You have to be really short and emaciated to need a tailor.

Happy Birthday to both of youse!

Why can't you sew your own things instead of chasing off one tailor and killing the other one?

My comments were more focused on the overstepping of personal boundaries than the work itself. South Park is in a vain of self-important satire that extends back to the invention of the printing press. It takes an immense amount of bravado and self-assurance to pronounce the perceived foibles of society and its leadership, and that naturally progresses into arrogance. That being said, the arrogance you see is in the characters, not the writers, because it's the characters that end up facing the consequences of their arrogance. Family Guy is more of an animated sitcom, relying on a stand-up type of humor that has its roots in golden age greek comedies. That takes a similar amount of bravado, but there's also the understanding that, like a stand up comedian, the jokes are as much a product of the flawed nature of the animated comedian as they are of their targets. In that sense, its easy to take a hearty "you suck" from your audience because jokes bombing is in a integral part of the stand-up process.

There’s an invisible but distinct division between the creator and their creation. A great example is Chris Rock. Will Smith had every right to be angry and hurt at Chris Rock’s alopecia joke because regardless of what Jada has done to not deserve sympathy it’s mean spirited. That doesn’t make it right for him to be slugged on stage, but he did get slugged because it’s harder to distinguish the joke from its writer when the delivery is by a real face. Not coincidentally, Seth McFarlane bombed at the Academy Awards when he hosted because the jokes he typically delivers as Peter (or Brian, or Stewie) have a face in person. In the broader view, this is how animation has played such an important part in the history of comedy. The earliest Mickey Mouse shorts minimize the humiliation the villain experiences to utilize the action while downplaying the seriousness of the drama. More recently, animation allows for shows like Bojack Horseman that have jokes built into psychological drama of an unlikeable protagonist without the pathos unintentionally reflecting the writers of those shows. Somewhere in between, you have the likes of Matt Groenig who creates a universe characters who deliver the jokes through their distinct personalities. Ultimately, guys like Seth push that boundary. He repeatedly includes jokes about other shows in FG, and those jokes veer into criticizing the writers either indirectly or, in the case of Seth Green, almost directly. It opens up McFarlane to anger and vitriol.

They have every right to be mad. Seth has a reputation for being mean spirited in the guise of humor.