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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Jan 2020

      The funny thing I haven't seen people really talk about is that Rick and Morty is, for better or for worse, 100% a modernization of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Everything people don't like about it is what they wouldn't like about Douglas Adams if he were new

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    2. Gregory Wild-Smith  💉 ⏳‏ @GregWildSmith 28 Jan 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I get where you’re coming from but Adams cynicism was MUCH less nihilistic and a lot more absurdist & whimsical. Rick & Morty is more nasty & a lot less clever than most of Adams work. It also seem to take itself way more seriously than HHG

      6 replies 0 retweets 51 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Jan 2020
      Replying to @GregWildSmith

      My whole thing here is if you reread Adams, as I recently did, the HHGG series is a LOT darker than a lot of the fans remember it as, there's a lot of shit all the way through it that's just brutal

      9 replies 1 retweet 72 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Jan 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GregWildSmith

      He's the one who started the whole "Invent a whole civilization and then kill them all off just for the sake of making a point" thing

      3 replies 0 retweets 45 likes
    5. Gregory Wild-Smith  💉 ⏳‏ @GregWildSmith 28 Jan 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Sure, but it was pretty much always presented in a way that wasn’t then framed with “lol”. It may have been incidentally funny, but his darkness felt tragic, not just a punchline (even if it *was* a punchline). Like I said: not mean.

      1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
    6. Stephen Geigen-Miller‏ @Stephen_GM 28 Jan 2020
      Replying to @GregWildSmith @arthur_affect

      I'm going to respectfully suggest that Arthur has a point when he says that we've rounded up a lot of the humour to "not mean" in memory. Like, this is a *throwaway gag* from Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I'd call it mean and it's definitely framed as a "LOL".pic.twitter.com/UrmbHciEkc

      2 replies 1 retweet 32 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Jan 2020
      Replying to @Stephen_GM @GregWildSmith

      The whole thing with the sperm whale is absolutely R&M-style sadistic humor

      2 replies 1 retweet 45 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Jan 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Stephen_GM @GregWildSmith

      And the retcon with Agrajag being the bowl of petunias is absolutely a R&M escalating callback

      1 reply 1 retweet 36 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Jan 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Stephen_GM @GregWildSmith

      And I wanna say making Agrajag into a sympathetic character is very much a Dan Harmon style thing, making the cruel joke worse by giving it depth, giving actual pathos to this ridiculous cartoonish thing with the Cathedral of Hate against Arthur

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        1. Not Even Comedy‏ @NotEvenComedy 28 Jan 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Stephen_GM @GregWildSmith

          Honestly, I maintain that the Agrajag scene is the funniest moment in the entirety of English-language literature for precisely that reason. It’s perfectly preposterous pathos. Sorry for the alliteration.

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        2. Gregory Wild-Smith  💉 ⏳‏ @GregWildSmith 28 Jan 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Stephen_GM

          That’s giving Dan Harmon way too much credit for originality.

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Jan 2020
          Replying to @GregWildSmith @Stephen_GM

          Of course I'm not saying Dan Harmon invented it, but I am saying he's the guy on TV right now most notable for using it

          0 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
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