Last Person to Post XI

Marky Mark starred in Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes. You put Makaze's avatar over Marky Mark's face. Thus, I blame him for the 2001 Planet of the Apes reboot.

 

Makky Mak is waaay cooler and in no way related name-wise to Marky Mark.

(It's actually not. At least, not intentionally. Maybe subconciously...?)

 

Who is this person?

 

Well, Makky Mak is a person who got banned, then came back for about two weeks and then got banned again and now is back again, I assume.

 

D'you think it's possible to be a "sitcom pleb" ? This is the strangest designation I've ever been granted. On the surface it seems like an overt contradiction, but what's to say it doesn't hold merit when the works of Shakespeare were once marketed toward the lower class masses as second-rate entertainment. Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist was serialized in monthly installments, which is kind of reminiscent of soap operas (and indeed a lot of his works relied on soap operatic twists à la inheriting long-lost family fortunes). For goodness' sake, one of the side characters in Dickens' David Copperfield is named Mealy Potatoes. Really. Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando whilst on vacation, and it garnered more than twice as much in sales than her previous novel.

Perhaps it is possible.

 

Can you define it?

 

Being a pleb of plebeian entertainments, the likes of which are susceptible to change status depending on the era or time, continental location, circumstances, etc. Sitcoms are considered a plebeian form of entertainment, but the point I was making above concludes with the speculation that that might change eventually (historians value all artifacts from the past). Although, I think it is unlikely that sitcoms or any other form of "plebeian entertainment" will achieve the same height of success as Shakespeare's stories for the simple reason that nowadays media is curated and accessible globally more than ever; the dearth of surviving texts from periodic authors is what makes them valuable to modern audiences. So, let me introduce an unlikely hypothesis: if [in the future] media is collectively maintained so that there is a plethora available from the 20th century and onward, then viewers will undervalue those products and the media may fall into obscurity consequently. Thus, plebeian entertainment will remain plebeian because they are no longer of historical importance because so much (in this case sitcoms) are available for public viewing. This is an elaborate hypothesis which does not take into consideration censorship, global catastrophes that might occur in the long future, etc.

So that was a tangent on the concept of "plebeianism" from a historical perspective. Someone else can talk about ranking plebeian entertainments, i.e. sitcoms and soap operas, in order of artistic merit. I've watched a few episodes of Cheers, thus I will vouch for its merit by citing a certain episode which was relevant to the plights of people during that time: The Boys in the Bar, episode 16 of season one (aired 01/27/87). Sitcoms can have some gold material, I guess, though I think it's the individual episodes we should be judging as opposed to the series on the whole (which shuffle through a variety of writers/directors).

I don't know if this at all answered your initial question.

 

It did. Interesting take. I agree. Soon it will become impossible to peruse the entirety of popular culture in one lifetime. Post-scarcity does devalue things. It's one of the reasons no one should want to live forever.

 

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Ad nauseum*

 

That too I suppose.

 

Just dropping in to say hai again

 

Behold the power.

 

No.

 

I cannot allow you to deny the all powerful Pudding Flap.

 

That gif clipping.

 

It is denied.

 

Let's see you deny THIS.

 

If you ever go somewhere and forget a towel don't have a shower don't do it you may think you'll dry off naturally and you may have a hair dryer for your hair but don't do it you will freeze it will be so so so cold and especially if you have long hair it will drip for years all down your back so even if your body eventually dries sucking all the heat out of you your back will still have constant drips going down it not nice not nice abort abort don't do it

 

I would, but that gif would involve trains and a watch and I just don't want to go through that again.

Where were you? Did you have a spare blanket you weren't using? Those can double as towels in a pinch. And clearly, you haven't been paying attention. A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.