I love the way 9/11 now is purely comedy fodder.
Turns out when you turn a tragedy into a pop cultural lodestar in order to gin up popular support for starting forever wars in two countries, you leave said event open to parody
It’s almost as if comedy requires tragedy or something and good drama is made by the balancing of those two principles.
Terry Gilliam’s Brazil captures the vibe perfectly with bombings going off in the background of multiple scenes that elicits a surprised stare from the characters and a business owner who always comes over to apologize while the cleaning crews shuffle in to repair the giant hole in the scenery
Don’t laugh. 9/11 was a national tragedy.
Mr. Peanut was already a veteran of the vietnam war.
yeah, he came back with shellshock
!
Sir, a second peanut has appeared behind Al Roker
a few years later he showed up at the protests against the Iraq War with a sign that said “No Peanut Oil for Oil”
“Technically, this isn’t nuts, it’s legumes”
He did it
It was Osama Bin Laden in there. No half measures.
The vision of that costume is probably hidden in the smile. I guess that’s technically still eye holes.
Oh shit… we’ve just been assaulted!
Imagine a triage situation and some rando with a nut allergy walks in.
Mr peanut walked through blood and bone that day.
