Jokes: They can stand on their own. Who knew? - The online computery journal thingy of a turtle
Feb. 1st, 2011
07:22 pm - Jokes: They can stand on their own. Who knew?
Okay, I just remembered another good thing about the new My Little Pony series.
In Episode 3, "Applebuck Season", after stopping a stampede, Applejack says to the cows, "Next time, try and *steer* clear of Ponyville." She emphasizes the word "steer" a bit, but -- here's the part I like -- she does NOT then proceed to say "Get it? Steer? That's a pun! Ha ha!" I HATE it when cartoons/movies/whatevers do that. YES I GET IT ALREADY! Hitting me over the head with the joke feels like my intelligence is being insulted. Letting me get the joke on my own feels like I'm being let in on something fun; it's much more enjoyable that way.
--Manny the Mammoth to Sid the Sloth, in "Ice Age"
This hearkens straight back to me as a young'un, when Filmation ruled SatAM. I think they had five pieces of incidental music for all their shows, and they would bust out one particular bit of "whimsy music"; a lilting, swaying, punchline jingle which they'd pull out at least once per episode, and later on, they adopted a "horn sting"- sharp crescendo of trumpets followed by a guitar pluck with a warbling "boi-oi-oinng!" whammy bar. These would accompany the inevitable comic relief moments, and even as a young child, I felt that was just insult on top of the injury of this lousy recycled animation, the flat, rehashed music and about twelve unique sound effects. Kids today, if they only knew the pointless suffering, oy...