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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
Mike seemed really invested in learning more about Milton Berle's legendary penis. I had to look it up for myself because I wasn't sure if Tim was joking. Nope. I guess the man was known to have a giant pecker. Could you imagine the canceling that would happen if uncle Milty was going around flashing randos like he used to? They all just laughed it off back then apparently.
 
KrewlKween said:
Mike seemed really invested in learning more about Milton Berle's legendary penis. I had to look it up for myself because I wasn't sure if Tim was joking. Nope. I guess the man was known to have a giant pecker. Could you imagine the canceling that would happen if uncle Milty was going around flashing randos like he used to? They all just laughed it off back then apparently.
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He wasn't joking, but according to my research, the Bruce Willis story may have been embellished by Milton. Apparently the "took out just enough to win" story is a favorite of Berle's, although it probably didn't happen the way he told it Tim; according to Berle's autobiography, it's a joke he learned from Jackie Gleason, and has been telling variants to people ever since. (the internet has other versions, such as Berle with Desi Arnez, so my guess is that Berle told a similar story to many different fans over the years, changing the rival actor's identity depending on who his audience was)

As for the more important question - did Milton Berle have a huge penis? - there does indeed appear to be a lot of documentary evidence attesting to that fact. Even Berle's own Wikipedia page has a section on his cock.
 
Solid Snek said:
He wasn't joking, but according to my research, the Bruce Willis story may have been embellished by Milton. Apparently the "took out just enough to win" story is a favorite of Berle's, although it probably didn't happen the way he told it Tim; according to Berle's autobiography, it's a joke he learned from Jackie Gleason, and has been telling variants to people ever since. (the internet has other versions, such as Berle with Desi Arnez, so my guess is that Berle told a similar story to many different fans over the years, changing the rival actor's identity depending on who his audience was)

As for the more important question - did Milton Berle have a huge penis? - there does indeed appear to be a lot of documentary evidence attesting to that fact. Even Berle's own Wikipedia page has a section on his cock.
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Berle and Sinatra were both apparently legendary for having third legs, though Berle was supposedly a pump-and-dump, where Sinatra was known for being a sixty-minute man.

Showbiz has always been the Land of Plentiful Fucking, all the way back to Shakespeare cockblocking his lead actor and scooping up the best pussy for himself.
 
alright fine said:
Berle and Sinatra were both apparently legendary for having third legs, though Berle was supposedly a pump-and-dump, where Sinatra was known for being a sixty-minute man.

Showbiz has always been the Land of Plentiful Fucking, all the way back to Shakespeare cockblocking his lead actor and scooping up the best pussy for himself.
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So Sinatra was the one who fucked Mia Farrow into an ahegao cunt.
 
Mola Ram said:
I agree that it's not "preachy," but it is a little heavy handed. Still awesome, though.
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It dodges "preachy" by one (1) micron of butt lint via way of keeping it's messaging vague enough towards any specific dated issues, barring only "MARRY AND REPRODUCE" since the lizard people's messaging has flip flopped on that issue present day for whatever reason*

*although through a pop culture lens, the "anti-family" type sentiment has been a mainstream point since the 60s in hollywood, so that could very well include this film's ideas "villain sez marriage is good - rebel by rejecting family!" but then that's just in hollywood, mainstream america was still very pro-nuclear family and the news media was a very uptight protestant flavor at the time, so I think he was using it in-earnest, but it does make me contemplate astroturf rebellion, hell Green Day could write the rock opera adaptation!!🙃🔫
 
Mola Ram said:
I agree that it's not "preachy," but it is a little heavy handed. Still awesome, though.
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Even that kind of ends up debatable because one thing the movie doesn't explain is what the aliens are doing that's so bad. If you're one of those "alt movie theory" types you could make a case that maybe the aliens are hippies just trying to get humanity to calm down and be less violent*.

Like compare to this short film (which everyone agrees is pretty much a remake) and they at least put in a quick shot of the aliens actually doing something worth shooting them over.

Yes I get the idea Carpenter wants to convey that the aliens are responsible for all the systemic problems plaguing people at the beginning of the film, but that falls apart just a bit when you ask yourself: Why would it be any better with pure humanity in charge? Even within the film, you can point out that the entire middle section is two pure-blood humans, all completely on their own - outside of the system - literally beating each other to near death over wearing a pair of sunglasses. Considering that sequence, it makes you wonder if once the aliens are driven off, that you humans wouldn't devolve back into primitive barbarism against each other.

I just find it funny that I think the movie ends up being more complicated than Carpenter clearly intended purely because he forgot to add in one more sledgehammer blow.
 
Flexo said:
literally beating each other to near death over wearing a pair of sunglasses
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Nah, I say that's Keith David seeing Roddy as a crazy potential murderer and wanting nothing to do with him and Roddy just discovering that aliens literally brainwash humans, which would be more than a little overwhelming, he needs allies, and isn't thinking straight.
 
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GhostButt said:
It dodges "preachy" by one (1) micron of butt lint via way of keeping it's messaging vague enough towards any specific dated issues, barring only "MARRY AND REPRODUCE" since the lizard people's messaging has flip flopped on that issue present day for whatever reason*

*although through a pop culture lens, the "anti-family" type sentiment has been a mainstream point since the 60s in hollywood, so that could very well include this film's ideas "villain sez marriage is good - rebel by rejecting family!" but then that's just in hollywood, mainstream america was still very pro-nuclear family and the news media was a very uptight protestant flavor at the time, so I think he was using it in-earnest, but it does make me contemplate astroturf rebellion, hell Green Day could write the rock opera adaptation!!🙃🔫
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I think the idea in They Live is humans are just cattle. You don’t want the cattle to despair entirely, you want them to keep going as a species under your control.
 
Flexo said:
Even that kind of ends up debatable because one thing the movie doesn't explain is what the aliens are doing that's so bad. If you're one of those "alt movie theory" types you could make a case that maybe the aliens are hippies just trying to get humanity to calm down and be less violent*.

Like compare to this short film (which everyone agrees is pretty much a remake) and they at least put in a quick shot of the aliens actually doing something worth shooting them over.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_kYUf-Qncss
Yes I get the idea Carpenter wants to convey that the aliens are responsible for all the systemic problems plaguing people at the beginning of the film, but that falls apart just a bit when you ask yourself: Why would it be any better with pure humanity in charge? Even within the film, you can point out that the entire middle section is two pure-blood humans, all completely on their own - outside of the system - literally beating each other to near death over wearing a pair of sunglasses. Considering that sequence, it makes you wonder if once the aliens are driven off, that you humans wouldn't devolve back into primitive barbarism against each other.

I just find it funny that I think the movie ends up being more complicated than Carpenter clearly intended purely because he forgot to add in one more sledgehammer blow.
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Rob Ager said something along these lines.

 
Mola Ram said:
It's very good, but it's also the only John Carpenter movie I can think of that will elicit a "Well that was a very nice movie!" from grandmas.
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It's my grandma's favorite John Carpenter movie can confirm.

I actually watched Big Trouble in Little China for the first time because of the list and it's pretty good. The Thing, Escape from New York and They Live still sit higher than BTILC on my list though. Kind of felt like Goonies, but I really like the way Kurt Russell is nearly useless in the movie and flips the genre on it's head. And I like seeing Kurt Russell play someone who isn't a moody bastard in a John Carpenter movie
 
The alien in Starman had a line where he said that the thing he loves about humanity is that they are at their best when things are at their worst. I saw an interview with John Carpenter made years later where he said he doesn't believe that anymore. Dat trademark Carpenter cynicism. lol.
 
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