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Huh. I don't know how that that synchs up with the OldBoy scene, since that also happens to be a kickass fight scene. It's just linear and very long, so absurd because of the odds he overwhelms.
Personally, for jokes I prefer three or five iterations of a joke. Five tells me you know the standard answer is three, and that's all I need to know. Nine? It had better be a good joke.
Yeah. Basically, it's a little funny once, and then it keeps happening so you're like, "You have sucked the marrow from comedy's bones, move on," and then it keeps going and somehow circles back around to hysterical because it's so stupid.
So I understand the comparison at that level. I don't understand the thrills and the sadness and the deep thoughts.
The fact that someone got deep thoughts out of the Sideshow Bob rake thing is the funnier than the actual bit.
I submit that the Oldboy fight scene is both funny and awesome. Or, rather, awesome and funny. Cursory searching doesn't show me the rake scene. Well, not in English. Can anyone help?
ita, I googled "Sideshow Bob vs Rakes". There's an annoyingly low-res hit on youtube and another site appears to have the clip but it wouldn't play on my machine. If I find one that works I'll post the link here.
The low res version on youtube hurt my ears. Also, it started out with The Thompsons, so I wasn't sure if it was the ep or a parody of it.
Here's info about the whole episode with details about the rake scene. wikipedia
I can't find a watchable clip of it anywhere, ita.
Looks like the Fox lawyers are on the case!
The fact that someone got deep thoughts out of the Sideshow Bob rake thing is the funnier than the actual bit.
Well, there are loose rules to comedy writing, and this rule of nine or exhaustion bit just hadn't been done in this way before. It shouldn't be funny on paper, but it is, in a very simple way.