A new video in time for Christmas!
The inhabitants of Greendale become so fed up waiting for HourofPoop to upload a YTP, that Postman Pat decides to make one himself... with mixed results.
Thanks for your patience, and have a very Merry Christmas! - The HourofPoop Brothers.
Let's get one thing straight. I am enjoying Mandalorian and Grogu bombing at the box office. It genuinely makes me happy.
Disney and Lucasfilm have earned every bit of this. Their treatment of George's work and worse, the treatment of the fans is why they are failing. They never understood either.
Hubris, activism, and idiocy have turned it into a zombie franchise. It walks and talks, but has no soul.
What Disney did to Star Wars is a crime against imagination.
Fire EVERYONE at Lucasfilm or not.
Welcome to the long dark apathy of the soul, twats.
Is there a term or example like Surf Dracula except when he gets his iconic surfboard he just lampshades and goes “heh as if something this dumb will ever work” and then we never see it ever again?
DID YOU KNOW?
In 1996, SEGA released a set of plushies including Robotnik in his ICONIC Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog design?
In addition, some SEGA World employees were given exclusive and illusive TALKING variants?
This video showcases one in action!
The thing is, a whole generation didn’t hate the Star Wars prequels.
I was 18 when Phantom Menace came out, saw it opening night with a few friends from student res, and then rewatched it at least three or four times in the theatre over the next month or so.
Pretty much everyone saw this movie (and EpII & III). Guys and girls. Nerds and casuals. Many went multiple times (the box office numbers prove this).
The merch sold through the roof, every magazine featured cover stories with the cast, most casual fans thought Jar Jar was funny while the Star Wars nerds were obsessed with the tech behind the character. Girls loved Padme’s fashion while straight guys loved Portman.
The online fandom was hyperactive with fan theories, fan art, etc with a very clear even split between the male/female demos.
Fan and general public reaction was insanely positive.
This particular scene became ICONIC.
98% of the negativity came from the professional film critics. TPM wasn’t perfect by any means but the media definitely tried to push the message that it was a disaster, Jake Lloyd sucked, and that Jar Jar was offensive and racist.
This weird gaslighting that it was the fans who were negative and toxic is just current media trying to do damage control for just how negative they were at the time.
As a chocaholic nothing would bring me more pleasure than for Cadburys to collapse.
They betrayed everyone when they closed down their factory in Birmingham and sold to a filthy American conglomerate.
A glass an a half in every dairy milk ended up three glugs of palm oil and a cheap labour plant in Poland.
Boycott the cunts
You need to watch Kenneth Clark’s 1969 docuseries, Civilisation. He covers the fall of Rome up to the mid 20th century. It’s 13 parts and 11 hours long, but it’s incredible.
I'm sad to see it go, but Smiling Friends got to stick the landing and end on a high. Not many shows get the chance. Even fewer shows open themselves up to the wider community of artists and embrace a mix of visual styles
I'm grateful to have contributed a few freakish characters and I'm buzzing for whatever's next 🔥
@reciticus Thanks Reciticus, completely agree. It reminds me of when John Cleese and Connie Booth decided to end Fawlty Towers while they were on a high, because both believed the quality of the show would wane eventually. As you say, sad, but understandable.