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Saturday Night Live "Fantasy Characters Come To Life" Skit - Funny Or Insulting?!?


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honestly, i think if you found that skit insulting, you lack a sense of humor. now, how funny you found it is clearly subjective, but if you tuned into SNL and didn't know there as a joke at work, and thus, it shouldn't be taken as serious commentary, you're out of touch with reality.

 

personally, i thought the skit was funny, though the addition of ariana grande as she-ra was perhaps ill conceived. i know she had a tv show on nick, but she's not an actress, and that skit kind of proved that. you'd have gotten more mileage out of the character appearance by casting a real comedian. it got my wife, mother in law, and son all laughing with me, so the appeal was there as the four of us represent a pretty substantial cross section of americans.

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Kudos to SNL for doing their homework and depicting the kid with the pants-less Mattel toys as sad and lonely. The kids collecting Hasbro toys like GI Joe or Transformers were always the cool ones. : Þ

On the topic of whether it was offensive, I don't know. Seems I should be able to sue someone for making me feel one way or the other on this, but it's just not happening. Now I feel unAmerican... thanks a lot, TNI! ;)

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It's pretty obvious that the point of the skit was, "What if toys came to life, but they were mentally blank." The fact that there was only one kid at the party was a reason to have less people on the set at a time and streamline the skit.

 

I think if you're offended by this, you're probably being a bit too sensitive.

 

And wow, Lion-O's costume, makeup and hair were SPOT ON... gives the cosplayers something to live up to. If someone came to a Halloween party in that pitch-perfect getup, they'd win a costume contest for sure.

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Are you a freaking idiot? First of all, it's obviously supposed to be a kid in the sketch. Mother's don't tend to talk to grown children living in their homes that way. Secondly, if you identified AT ALL with the kid in that sketch I think you may need to examine your own life... not the sketch that caused you to feel so bad about yourself. When i first read the headline, I couldn't even fathom who might've been insulted by that sketch. Maybe Lion-O and He Man would be offended except they're fictional characters. This story is ridiculous.

 

...and SNL is still great. Stop comparing it to the past and just enjoy it for what it is now.

 

If you really look at the original episodes half the time we're supposed to laugh just because John Belushi showed up on screen in a samurai outfit... before he'd even done anything yet. They actually have to work much harder to make it funny these days and it's all lost on your dumb asses because you just want to see John Belushi in a Bee outfit or something. Get over it, the man is dead. It was hit and miss even back then too you know.

 

...and those of you who say it hasn't been funny since Mike Meyers clearly don't appreciate the genius of Will Ferrel.

 

Even today, the fake TV adds they do are awesome, weekend update is always funny, and there's even a good sketch here and there.

 

If you think you can do better then go ahead and make your own Fing sketch show except you won't because you can't and it would suck. Stop dogging the people who are actually trying to do one.

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How anyone could be offended by this is beyond me. I actually thought it was pretty funny. If you didn't think it was funny when they were patting their crotches, you probably need to pull the stick out of your ass. Lol

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