Comments on: Shunnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

By: kabol

kabol — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:47:08 +0000

strong bad hunts ghosts, too.

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail48.html

By: kabol

kabol — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:43:45 +0000

speaking of which – strong bad had a vortex in one of his animations – with an alternate universe – and lots of dopplegangers!

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail150.html

(just FYI – if you are not a fan of or familiar with strong bad, you will likely find this even less amusing than charlie the unicorn)

By: kabol

kabol — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:57:04 +0000

…like Charlie meets up with Sylvia Browne or gets taken to a psychic fair or a medium – that kind of thing.

or the pink and blue unicorns have baby psychic unicorns who are forced by chip coffey to go, with charlie, into dark scary places to ‘face their fears’ on national television.

and then charlie wakes up to find someone spray painted him with black and white stripes.

By: kabol

kabol — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:54:12 +0000

Damn, I picked a bad day to kick heroin.

LSD would probably work better.

not that i’d know.

By: kabol

kabol — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:51:50 +0000

i made the mistake of clicking on #3 first, sat watching kind of perplexedly – my 12 yr old came running in “you’re watching charlie the unicorn!” and proceeded to explain some of it to me. “you have to watch them in order to get it” he sagely advised.

so i did.

yes, it moved kind of slow. but when you watch them all in order you understand the connecting little quirks of wit and the “bored-skeptic-who-gives-in-to-woo equals possible patsy” theme. the funny little songs featured in each clip WERE pretty creative.

i liked #2 the best. it had a vortex and everything! :)

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:05:35 +0000

Well… ok.

By: sgerbic

sgerbic — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:08:55 +0000

You know that is not true Devil!

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:37:11 +0000

I think you love Charlie more than me.

*sigh*

By: sgerbic

sgerbic — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:28:33 +0000

They grow on you Trausti. There are far more than two jokes, the amount of inside jokes you can get from one episode is priceless. Yeah Charlie is very skeptical, and even when confronted with singing letters, a leopluradon, and flying pink and blue unicorns he still manages to try to remain skeptical. Sometimes we all feel this way, at least I do. Then when he is forced to face the woo that is all around him he gets taken. Was it all fake woo set up just to get his liver? I know I’ve been taken in, still got my liver but you know what I mean.

The best part is that living in all this woo is a skeptical unicorn, a magical creature that does not exist.

Watch the video again, and then try the other two and I bet it will grow on you.

Susan

By: Trausti

Trausti — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:52:32 +0000

Hmm… tens of thousands of reviews and those videos all have 5 star ratings. Personally I thought the video was pretty bad. Too slow, too long, and only 2 jokes??

Also I fail to see any skeptical viewpoint in there. All I see is 1 cynical unicorn and 2 demented, happy-go-lucky unicorns. The happy ones tell farfetched tails, which then come true. But Mr. Cynical keeps on not believing those, obviously honest, friends of his.

But I guess there is some genius in there that I just don’t see.