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"As the white boys say on the internet,...what are those."

Walking Dead is a sick TV show, and the parody is sick, too. Why would you post this, Marcus?

Because I liked it.

What is the attraction? I just don't get it. I'm being serious.

Attraction ? I don't know. Analyzing humor is impossible. It's like analyzing art. Part of it probably has to do with the concept of dark or black comedy.

I'm familiar with "what are those" meme becasue of kids teasing me a couple summers ago for my choice of comfortable footwear. Chapelle's delivery on that was awesome.www.youtube.com/embed/J7xj6zZeYUU

Why does Apocalypsefuck and others think talking about cannibal anarchy is funny ? I don't know. It's dark humor. Maybe it's becasue we know how bad humans can actually be ?

Okay, so you like the skit but not the TV show?

I got hooked on it for a while on Netflix . Maybe in part becasue I don't do cable anymore. IT's very over the top and dark, but it makes one think about what life must be like, in say parts of Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, or Syria and I'm sure parts of Africa and elsewhere. Obviously the zombie backdrop is silly. I'm not generally that big a fan of dystopian drama, but it can be thought provoking.

This was also on reddit today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad#Cannibalism

Fair enough, Marcus. I watched a few episodes myself but got really disillusioned with a show that basically is about paranoia of people that are different from you, to the point of having to cast them as flesh-eating zombies in order to justify the incredible violence to be done against them.

I didn't see it that way at all. In the show they are zombies - what all people turn in to after they die, becasue everyone has the virus. They aren't just people that are different.

But the drama centers more on competing with other humans that are operating in an extreme survival mode. Many willing to do anything to protect themselves and their group. And the "good guys" essentially become just like the bad guys in many ways. Hence the need to create characters that are SUPER bad guys, like the guy with the bat.

marcus says

I didn't see it that way at all

But after I said it, are you starting to see it perhaps differently?

Why do people have such a deep-seated need for a TV show that fundamentally panders to the idea that "we are the good guys, but the other people are so bad that we have to do lots of bad things, too". It smells greatly of self-justification and the need to rationalize your own bad deeds, at least to me it does.

>>Hence the need to create characters that are SUPER bad guys, like the guy with the bat.

Exactly. The show is about justifying our badness by setting up strawmen and charicatures that are even worse than us.

Excluding Chapelle that was the lamest Saturday night live I've ever seen and that's saying something. First 15 minutes with Kate McKinnon singing horribly at the piano in mourning. Just awful.

www.youtube.com/embed/--IS0XiNdpk

Host Dave Chappelle jokes about Donald Trump being elected president and how being rich has changed his life.

just_passing_through says

First 15 minutes with Kate McKinnon singing horribly at the piano in mourning.

I didn't see it until later, on youtube. 3 minutes actually. I liked it. Didn't realize she had that talent. Hey the people that strongly prefered Hillary (including most New Yorkers) need to get over this.

www.youtube.com/embed/BG-_ZDrypec

justme says

What is the attraction? I just don't get it. I'm being serious.

Could ask the same about the two party voters.

justme says

But after I said it, are you starting to see it perhaps differently?

Nope. Not at all.

justme says

Exactly. The show is about justifying our badness by setting up strawmen and charicatures that are even worse than us.

Again, I don't see it that way. It's not justifying anything. Seeing the good guys as actually sometimes being the bad guys too (when viewed from another perspective) is something many of us can not handle.

When surveys are given elsewhere in the world as to what the biggest threat is to world peace, guess what their answer is.

http://www.ibtimes.com/gallup-poll-biggest-threat-world-peace-america-1525008

I'm not saying the show is high art. Hardly. It's a cliff hanger type series - guilty pleasure, somewhat mindless type show. The equivalent in music would be audio slave or some other similar kind of ear candy but somehow moving pop rock (not my usual).