lol out loud
“woman”
If they made Better Call Saul in the 80s it would have been about Mike ruthlessly tracking a family through an authoritarian pan-dimensional nexus.
someone give RizzRustbolt a 50 million usd budget
Nah. Wouldn’t it have just been one season and then cancelled the rest because they didn’t make a billion overnight?
Shaking my head my head.
ATM Machine
Thanks, I hate it
Anyone who says that TV in the 80s and 90s didn’t have ‘woke’ or ‘politically correct’ elements in it hasn’t been (re)watching a lot of TV from the era. Many major shows I grew up watching in the 90s were chock full of it. Quantum Leap, MacGyver, Sliders, The entire premise of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and basically every fucking Saturday morning cartoon…
Speaking of Saturday morning cartoons. I wonder what those people would think of characters like Charlie from Biker Mice from Mars? She was a tough, no-nonsense girl working a blue collar job (motorcycle mechanic), and there were times when they wanted to ‘Damsel’ her but it turned out they didn’t. The funniest one for me was when an episode that starts out with a bank robbery, and the robbers claim they have a hostage, the Mice all go ‘Charlie?’ and then she shows up behind them and says ‘why do you always think I’m the hostage?’ You know who the hostage was? Greasepit… the villain’s main henchman and a certified dumbass.
Every fucking time I go back to rewatch those cartoons I ALWAYS find elements that would make reactionaries go nuts. The pilot episode to M.A.S.K had the bad guys think that one of the protagonists trying to thwart their plans was a man… only for them to figure out quickly that it was a woman. Even shows that I would now consider to be really, really stupid, like Dinosaucers, had gender flipped characters. In Dinosaucers they were making a tribute episode to old-school Film noir detectives, and they had to meet ‘Sam Spade’ (Sam Spade was the protagonist of the Maltese Falcon), only for them to find out it was not Samuel Spade, but Samantha Spade.
I could go on forever. But one thing that I DID want to say that I honestly did find problematic even as a child from cartoons of the era was what I would call ‘the love potion episode’. What I mean is that sometimes in some cartoons they would have an episode where a love potion or something or the other that causes a character to fall in love with another and cannot control it. So what’s the contradiction I found as a kid and more so as an adult?
Well… if the person afflicted by the potion is female, the entire episode will center around it. Two examples is one from Dinosaucers were a female dinosaucer gets influenced by it and now is OK with wanting to marry the leader of the antagonists. One other example that was played more for laughs is in Gummi Bears when Duke Igthorn wanted to get Lady Bane to fall in love with him in order for him to gain access to her powers or something or the other to finally capture the Gummis… only problem? The person she falls in love with is Toady, Igthorn’s bumbling chief henchman, and the whole episode centers around getting Lady Bane to snap out of it.
So that being said, one thing I DID notice is that sometimes the person being affected by a love potion or spell is a guy… and when that happens, the plot or the show doesn’t take it seriously at all and is usually a quick gag. The main example that comes to mind is from Conan the Adventurer where they have a quick scene where a very large, ogre-like woman is dragging a scrawny little man who is actively resisting her and she says ‘give him a love potion, I want to marry him!’ and the man protests, but the love potion is forced on him and he then he falls in love with the woman he detested and… well, that’s it. The episode continues and those two are never mentioned again. There are probably other examples, but that is all that comes to mind.
Trust me when I say it, if these people ended up waking up 30 or 40 years ago and thinking ‘ah ha! finally! no more woke!’ they would be in for a rude awakening. Don’t get me wrong, there was a fuckload of problems with representation in the media at the time. Things like brownface/yellowface hadn’t fallen entirely out of style yet, and there were issues with female representation and racial stereotyping. MacGyver had those issues to an irritating degree, especially in the earlier seasons. Neurodivergent people weren’t well represented and in many cases not present at all. And don’t get me started on transgenderism. It is almost like at the time being transgender was a gag more than anything at best or a highly sinister trait at worst.
I recognized even back then that it wasn’t perfect, yet in many ways the culture of the 90s felt more progressive than today. And there was hope about the future.
Okay but like some of the cartoons weren’t woke, like that one about the respectable businessmen fightong those eco terrorists and their heathen goddess of hating job creation.
I know, right! The writers were also pedophiles! I mean teenagers saving the day? What is the obsession with teens! It tell you something!
No no tjis one had good job creators fighting terrorists, so they agreed with everything i think.
I don’t remember that one
The terrorists recruited children by grooming them with rings? I think there was some sort of horrible mulleted demon they summoned by combining them?
It was the guy played by Don Cheadle. He turned people into fuckin trees.
What a terrifying abomination unto the markets.
It was tastefully done and minimal. It’s so over represented and in your face it comes off as forced.
translated: “I didn’t notice it, it kept those ‘different ones’ out of the spotlight for me, so that I could continue to pretend that they didn’t really exist.”
🤦🏻♂️
Removed by mod
Sorry it’s true?
Removed by mod
No one’s triggered, but I’m guessing you are?
I’m late to the action but my guess is that he showed up to explain why his name isn’t just “alan”.
No, no, no… they were as subtle as an anvil falling on your head.
Honestly, one of the worst things House did to the modern zeitgeist was to convince techbros that shoving ket up your nose 24/7 will make you smarter.
-
It was vicodin
-
It didn’t make him smarter, it allowed him to think about something else besides the pain.
It didn’t make him smarter, it allowed him to think about something else besides the pain.
As far as I know, that’s 99% the reason why people use drugs.
Then there are those of us who are mostly taking drugs to calm down our immune system when god’s green creatures are mating.
I take clown tranquilizers!
Sounds more fun than my dumb antihistamines.
-
Wasn’t it vicodin abuse? All I remember them saying about ketamine was House saying it was a lame drug for being heroin without the high.
At some point he starts injecting ketamine for his leg
It didn’t make him smarter.
If I recall correctly, he was afraid it was making him dumber.
yeah but only because his leg didn’t hurt at all, so he wasn’t miserable. Non-miserable House didn’t make others miserable as much, which in his mind was bad because him being an ass made others better doctors. and since nothing mattered more than saving the puzzle, he didn’t want less than the best from his team
so House in fact thought being nice made him dumber
I think at the end of s2 or start of s3 (or s1 and s2) he had a spinal injection of Ketamine that removed his pain, but it eventually came back.
Wasn’t it vicodin abuse?
Yes, for the leg pain initially. Although, I thought for sure either he or one of his staff experimented with other drugs, including stimulants, for various reasons.
I might just be confusing him with Sherlock Holmes, who was notorious for cocaine addiction.
Well for one episode he did try some risky drug that eliminated his pain completely, but he ended up stopping the use because it was extremely dangerous.
I think the lady that had the degenerative disease did party drugs as she grappled with her diagnosis. I don’t remember names.
lmao very fitting because she was referred to as “13” for most of the show, i think her real name was Remy? she had Huntingtons
That’s right! And lol, thanks for reminding me what she was called, that’s funny!
wait did that character really kill someone?
Not really, it was acting. He killed an African warlord.
This clears up nothing up haha. He was just acting. So pretended to kill someone? Or he actually killed an African warlord… Which somehow doesn’t count, and acting is a non sequitar
He killed a tyrant dictator who was hospitalized at their hospital, because the guy was leading a genocide against the native population of his country. Falsified his test results and administered “treatment” that ended up killing him IIRC.
based and chadpilled
In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!
I loved that guy! You get a katana named scalpel as a reward, too!
The OG is https://theoffice.fandom.com/wiki/Hidetoshi_Hasagawa, but the reference in Cyberpunk 2077 you’re talking about really cracked me up
I mean, it’s an Office reference first and foremost.
I’ll give him a pass.
Wow, this show really went places. I’ve only ever seen like the first half of season one.
So you missed the whole “House Houses in Prison” arc?
This is in, I think, season 4.
I’m more puzzled by the “twink” guy.
I think the patient was like a tyrant dude played by James Earl Jones: https://house.fandom.com/wiki/President_Dibala.
Is calling mid-2000s stuff “90s” the new meta?
Bojack Horseman actually came out in the 90s. That’s why in the theme song it talks about running in th 90s. For more movie facts subscribe to my webzone.
Idk but we need to tell more people that the early 2000s was hugely influenced by the I Love the 80s VH1 TV series which caused a resurgance of swing and is where we see some of the stuff like Mambo #5 and Christina Aguilera’s Candyman, please teach your children the lore
Did people who grew up in the 90s not see shows made for adults in the mid 2000s?
They don’t remember or give a fuck.
Okay, okay. I should’ve put 90s/2000s
No, your title makes more sense. People who grew up in the 90s would have watched House in its original run. The thing that makes no sense is the censoring of the word god.
I’m not religious, but some religious people don’t like to say god’s name in vain and I was mimicking that.
Maybe it was too much
Just gotta relax a little so the ‘*’ becomes an ‘o’ again.
2005 was essentially the 90s. People were still talking about the matrix, playing n64 and ps1, barely anyone had a mobile phone and most internet connections were still dial up.
BS the 90s ended after 9/11 and 2005 is when people started using social media and YouTube…the beginning of the end.
That was 2006. Youtube came out december 15th 2005. Facebook became available to general public in september 2006.
Look, hsres a graph
2005 was roughly the end of the internet dark ages, but it was barely different to the 90s.
the end of the Internet dark ages
That seems like a strangely backwards way to word it in my mind. Thats around the time the Internet stopped being “the internet” to me.
I see what you mean. Yeah, the internet was a better place back then.
I was coming from more of a stance of the tech behind the internet.
When someone could ruin my game of ultima online by picking up the phone.
When niche message boards existed and msn messenger was how i spoke to my friends.
Bleh that was just in the US
Idk about the PS1 as I def had the PS2 by then, but the rest checks out, that was def my life
Woman
litarelly the worst
imagine if they made house’s boss a woman
that too a hot one
I bet those woke libs would put 2 or more women in the main cast if they made the show today.
But maybe they’d all be gorgeous.
One of them might even be clutches pearls bisexual… and interested in black men
And they’d be named Cameron, Thirteen and Cutthroat Bitch.
I mean at least they made her conventionally smoking hot and have other characters recognize that
Wo-man. Whoooah, man.
I don’t remember any of this. Since when was foreman black?
I salute you. Nice job on not seeing color.
Ashly Burch is so talented!
That was delightful
This vexes me
Lots of people have black hair. How is that wake?
How is that wake?
its about to crash, so get on your surfboard already!
Guys, House is woke now. Yeah, they made a meme in this thing called “Lemmy” that suggests it’s woke, so it’s woke now.
Lemmy is woke, so that checks out
I’m not sure Lemmy is woke since it’s half tankies that love dictatorships as long as they once cosplayed as communist
Uh the correct expression is shaking my smh
I’m not sure, but I think that in the 90s, those goddamn Nazis couldn’t express their despicable views publicly without being met with widespread contempt. So it seems to me that the 90s were much more “woke,” whatever that means.
I agree, but there’s a trend with some Millennials (and younger) boomerifying themselves and saying you could be a bigot or even a literal nazi with few or no consequences “back in the day”
My speculation: as long as there were significant numbers of WW2 vets around, an outright Nazi movement could never gain traction in the US. Not that the Greatest Generations was made up of paragons of social justice, but there were limits to what they were willing to tolerate in open society. That generation (and probably home front Silents, as well) was inoculated against going full Nazi in ways that Boomers weren’t.
The few that remain now aren’t numerous enough to hold much sway.
Episodes 7 and 15 would’ve taken place on the holodeck.
More mouse bites
