"To the Moon, Alice"

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Well, pretty likely we're finally going back (or for the first time) today. Not landing this time, but we are taking a crewed lap around the ole hollow ball of cheese.

I haven't been keeping up, so I'm getting up to speed via YouTube University...



 
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the honeymooners ralph kramden GIF
 

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Well, pretty likely we're finally going back (or for the first time) today. Not landing this time, but we are taking a crewed lap around the ole hollow ball of cheese.

I haven't been keeping up, so I'm getting up to speed via YouTube University...




How long will it take before the conspiracy theories start that this is all fake? I'm guessing they have already started.
 

mstateglfr

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How many people get that reference nowadays?
My 19yo and 15yo know the reference. They have known it for years because I have mockingly said it. After explaining the joke, they were dumbfounded as to why physical abuse was funny.
I was like - WELL THEY DONT CALL IT A PUNCHLINE FOR NOTHING! HAHA!
 

Bulldog Bruce

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My 19yo and 15yo know the reference. They have known it for years because I have mockingly said it. After explaining the joke, they were dumbfounded as to why physical abuse was funny.
I was like - WELL THEY DONT CALL IT A PUNCHLINE FOR NOTHING! HAHA!
Guess they couldn't watch the Roadrunner or Tom and Jerry or Foghorn Leghorn or most of the cartoons I grew up on.
 
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mstateglfr

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Guess they couldn't watch the Roadrunner or Tom and Jerry
They have watched both, but largely preferred more recent cartoons, even ones with violence and offensive/off-color commentary like South Park and the Simpsons.

Your comment seems to equate a cartoon's comedic value due to the violence of pretend animal characters with spousal abuse in a televised show. If that is accurate, I would push back and say they are not at all similar, much less close to equal.

I think this gets to the well documented difference for how many children perceive the obvious fantasy of a cartoon vs human actors on a show.
 

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How many people get that reference nowadays?
When I was a sophomore at State, the room across from ours in a four-room suite was occupied by an older guy we'd see coming in and out with a chainsaw. Don't know if he was an employee or not, but most nights he seemed to fall asleep in front of his TV with it blaring the theme to "The Honeymooners." Oh, and there were quite often boiled peanuts draining in the sink in the shared bathroom.
 

Bulldog Bruce

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They have watched both, but largely preferred more recent cartoons, even ones with violence and offensive/off-color commentary like South Park and the Simpsons.

Your comment seems to equate a cartoon's comedic value due to the violence of pretend animal characters with spousal abuse in a televised show. If that is accurate, I would push back and say they are not at all similar, much less close to equal.

I think this gets to the well documented difference for how many children perceive the obvious fantasy of a cartoon vs human actors on a show.
You just love to over analyze. Ralph never hits Alice. She is never cowering to Ralph as you see in the gif dawgbite posted. The cartoons are still solving issues with violence is the point. They are both fake violence.

Mel Brooks definition of comedy versus tragedy.

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mstateglfr

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You just love to over analyze. Ralph never hits Alice. She is never cowering to Ralph as you see in the gif dawgbite posted. The cartoons are still solving issues with violence is the point. They are both fake violence.

Mel Brooks definition of comedy versus tragedy.

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I didn’t overanalyze. I just posted that my kids knew the reference and didnt find it funny.
Then I provided a possible explanation that is well researchd.

I also posted my response to their reaction, which I did think was funny.

Humor is subjective. It is OK that you and I find different things to be funny.
 

Bulldog Bruce

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I didn’t overanalyze. I just posted that my kids knew the reference and didnt find it funny.
Then I provided a possible explanation that is well researchd.

I also posted my response to their reaction, which I did think was funny.

Humor is subjective. It is OK that you and I find different things to be funny.
now you are overanalyzing your overanalyzing. My god give it up man!

The funny part is that Alice could care less and she knows Ralph can bellyache all he wants and isn't going to do anything. It is not domestic violence. That youngsters considers it so is sad. It's just like if someone says I could kill you when they don't actually mean it or have any intention of actually doing it. It's just a figure of speech and is not literal.
 
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