Once every couple years, Dwight from The Office says that show couldn't be made today because of woke, and then another season of Always Sunny gets released

[healyn@normal.style]

@breakfastgolem @Louisa that sounds great! My concern always is that the person is a mean asshole

[breakfastgolem@goblin.camp]

@healyn @Louisa Not at all. I was worried he'd be stiff about the show but he's been a huge fan of it for years so he knew to let loose and have fun.

[healyn@normal.style]

this shit always somehow goes back to right-wingers saying you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today, and who the fuck on the left is offended by Blazing Saddles?

conservatives just laugh at the n-word, that's literally it. It's that fucking simple

You know why you couldn't make Blazing Saddles these days? Hollywood is scared of taking a risk on any mid-budget comedy

[julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social]

@healyn they literally just made an ñ remake of the office that was very popular

[healyn@normal.style]

this is not subtext! Mel Brooks is awesome, but he isn't subtle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYTQ7__NNDI

[wohali@timeloop.cafe]

@healyn i feel like that laugh was genuine

[healyn@normal.style]

@wohali I kinda think Gene Wilder improvised that line

[wohali@timeloop.cafe]

@healyn if he didn't, it'd certainly have been the first time he delivered that line in that tone at that angle

[healyn@normal.style]

@wohali If Cleavon Little was supposed to laugh there, it's just great acting

[sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net]

@healyn especially bc if they made blazing saddles today despite those limitations, conservatives would still be the ones lining up to shut it down

[wendinoakland@beige.party]

@healyn You know what couldn’t be made today? Midnight Cowboy. Sorry, dark.

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

@healyn

You'd never get Blazing Saddles made today, because if you took that script to a movie studio they'd read it and then say "this is just the script from Blazing Saddles, where did you get this? Please leave"