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Bonus #24 - Looney Tunes: Victims of Gun Control?! (microDOSE)
🕑 Added 2020-07-01 16:05:01 +0000 UTCVIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/O7eVDSS-ZaI
Another week, and another bonus video for those of you supporting this channel! This is one of my favorite videos I've made in a while, and really embodies what I'm trying to do with the "microDOSE" concept: Not a ton of explanation, just "here's the story, here's some jokes about it". And for my American supporters who are also 2A advocates, before you dismiss this video as more of my "anti-gun nonsense", give it a shot (pun intended?), I think you'll find we agree here (and you get to see me trying to look cool while holding an arcade gun!)
Still Reading? Just a note as well: I've added a couple new limited tiers here on Patreon, including one where you can get a signed script from me, and one where you can get a one-on-one call (sort of a virtual "meet & greet") with me. Check them out if that's something that would interest you.
Comments
Alexander Noyle
Excellent ending. Lol
Leigh Baldwin
Best finish I’ve ever seen! Haha.
Adam Buckley
While I get your point, I think that the idea would be that kids, like 6 - 10 year olds, may have never seen an original Looney Tunes cartoon in their life, and wouldn't know the guns were "cut out", they'd just assume Elmer Fudd has always been a blade-wielding maniac. I have to disagree about comics to a certain degree. Yes, a lot of people talk about "Well, X-Men was way more subtle", although those people may have never read "God Loves, Man Kills". But the very first issue of Captain America Comics, in the 40s, has him punching Hitler in the face on the cover. The story goes that Jack Kirby actually received death threats over the phone about this, and one story suggests he told a person "you come down here and I'll meet you outside". Americans didn't like the comic because they felt America "shouldn't get involved" in WWII at that point. While I get there's a lot of people who truly believe this whole "they're pushing an agenda now" thing, I think they're either reading the wrong comics, or not realizing they can ignore the ones that bother them. Amazing Spider-man for example is still pretty much the same thing it's been for 60 years.
Inspector Javert
Its not that Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam represent gun owners, its more about the subtext, the only reason they'd remove guns from a TV show is if they thought it would affect the people who watch it. Whether they think it would affect them by scaring them (stupid because these kids are watching scarier shit after they figure out their parents' netflix password) or by making them into killers (extremely stupid for obvious reasons) or they might think that by cutting guns out of the cartoons they can try and influence kids to dislike guns or to see them as inherently dangerous (rather than cool or funny). The final (and most probable reason) is some moron in whatever passes for Standards and Practices at HBO had their non-binary life partner nag them about the guns in the cartoons until they finally gave in and removed them. Also comics may have been political to begin with but the messages were generally positive and were far far more subtle. Before a good story came before politics, NOW politics comes before a good story, and good characters.
Kyle Dingle
Jesus that ending though
Mary Hammarlund
That ending image is fucking gold
Pim
Hahahhha
Yongguk Is Ultimate Daddy
Holy fuck i choked on that last line
Sierra Reppert
Lmao the end
