Podcasting Day: Unintentional Dark Comedies with Jason Pargin 🌭
Added 2023-11-01 12:00:09 +0000 UTC
Jason Pargin's new book is available now! It's called Zoey is Too Drunk for this Dystopia and you can buy it! Here! But even more urgently, he's on this week's Dogg Zzone 9000 to talk about absolutely silly shit. Not ordinary silly shit, though; unintended silly shit. We each brought very serious movies to discuss, all of them made by talented filmmakers, and then present our cases for how they were accidentally comedies.
Listen here or wherever you get podcasts.
Footnotes:
To follow along at home, you'll need to cut out and assemble your Poxco Whoopsie Zany Funglasses included with every Dogg Zzone 9000 Podcast Footnotes:

To see Seanbaby's example, put them on now.

Seanbaby chose Dragged Across Concrete, a fascinatingly miserable movie he's already written about in great detail. The filmmaker, racist, took an 11 minute break from the gritty crime drama to invent his own mommy emotional disorder so we'd be extra upset when he explodes a bank teller's fingers and head and then cuts to a reaction shot of a man in whiteface.
Take off your glasses, wait don't, now.

Jason's pick was We Need to Talk About Kevin, a movie about a real jerk made by someone who has no idea how bows and arrows work. That's not an editorial, that's from the poster:

Brockway chose a classic of the genre-- the highest achievement unintentional hilarious cinema may ever achieve. It was, of course, the dude who got slapped into a thousand cartwheels by one of the Titanic's propellers:

Supporters of our Patreon, and hopefully that's you since it's the only way we make money, can tune into the bonus podcast where Brockway and Jason square off in a Seanbaby's Book Game. We read from 1003 Ways to Stay Young, a book too stupid for anyone to predict, but these men are veterans. They've become tidbit wizards. They not only found the exact moment the author lost her mind, they threw out the rules and made up their own impossible win conditions. And then they achieved them tog-- you know what? I've said too much. Buy Jason's book!
Footnotes footnote: We have so much great stuff coming in from our all-star cast of writers that starting next week, we're running regular articles on Wednesdays. The podcast schedule won't change, we are just retiring this method of reminding you, and giving you even more comedy instead. In some parts of ancient Constantinople, it is said people used to show their gratitude for surprise comedy by upping their fucking Patreon pledge.
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Comments
Speaking of Mel Gibson and his mental illness, he inserted pictures of himself hugging the native actors into the Apocalypto trailer so they flash onscreen almost subliminally. This is absolutely true. Details: https://www.mattbrundage.com/2006/03/03/mel-gibsons-apocalypto-trailer-easter-egg/
Chauncey
2023-11-09 09:08:06 +0000 UTCOverly graphic violence can be shocking or hilarious or occasionally both on purpose (ED-209's malfunction in the director's cut of RoboCop) but directors should look in the mirror and ask themselves "Am I Paul Verhoeven?" before attempting either in a film.
David Conner
2023-11-03 17:56:03 +0000 UTCIt'd be even funnier if they draped the sheets over the arrows, cause they couldn't cover all the surface areas of the body, what with the arrow sheet pyramids, so you can see their heads and feet.
David Conner
2023-11-03 17:49:14 +0000 UTCWhen I was dating my wife I showed her Requiem for a Dream and she was the first person I had met to not laugh at it, she was actually very sad afterwards and asked if we could never watch it again, I was glad I did not show her Trainspotting 😵💫
ZapCoffee
2023-11-03 17:09:08 +0000 UTCI just came up with an alternate theory: the bow and arrow was another dick move by the son. If he had used a gun, the gun lobby would have protected the mom’s money against any lawsuits. But the bow lobby…
Vyncent
2023-11-02 23:18:22 +0000 UTCI looked around on the internet after listening to this episode, and it is indeed pretty amazing how NOBODY talks about how silly We Need to Talk About Kevin is. There's you guys, and then there's one YouTube commenter who pointed out something absurd about the bow and arrow scene that not even you guys mentioned: when they wheel the bodies out, they're covered in sheets, and the arrows are sticking out through the sheets, as if Kevin's victims were wearing the sheets as he shot them. It boggles my mind how anyone could take this seriously.
Joey JoJoJoestar
2023-11-02 20:12:08 +0000 UTCI prefer the inverse - dark moments in otherwise hilarious comedies. I’m looking at you Phoebe Cates story in Gremlins
James Boyd
2023-11-02 18:47:03 +0000 UTCThat remix has no right to slap so hard
dave hvizdos
2023-11-02 17:26:09 +0000 UTCYou sons of bitches. That ending kicked in and I almost crashed my car laughing. 🤣
John Dean
2023-11-02 17:14:04 +0000 UTCSo why was the school massacre in We Need to Talk About Kevin done with a bow and arrow? Was there some sort thematic reason, like he was trying to redistribute his pain like Robin Hood? Or were the filmmakers gun nuts trying to prove massacre will still happen even if there are gun laws?
Scott David Hamilton
2023-11-02 16:28:40 +0000 UTCMy go to is the big sword fight at the end of the first underworld movie. When theyre fighting and he's gearing up to go for round 2 and she reveals his sword and the top half of his head slides off. I laughed out loud
DeltaFoxtrot
2023-11-02 12:03:38 +0000 UTCEveryone do me a favor and please watch this scene of Brad Pitt's sweet little brother getting WWI annihilated by mustard gas, barbed wire, and finally a very slowly loaded German machine gun in Legends of the Fall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHYFEjPrX-o
Brandon Spoelstra
2023-11-02 04:01:26 +0000 UTCNevermind. Just got to it :-)
Vyncent
2023-11-01 23:06:04 +0000 UTCSo are we to assume that Meet Joe Black was intended as comedy? Otherwise that needs to be on this list
Vyncent
2023-11-01 23:02:09 +0000 UTCWhoever thought to add those crickets after the ruff joke deserves half the pledge money from this month.
Will Taylor
2023-11-01 22:29:13 +0000 UTCThat photo reveals exactly how I expected Jason Pargin--a man who by his own words finds school shootings funny--to look.
Brendan McGinley
2023-11-01 17:16:11 +0000 UTCI'm team Laughed at Titanic in Theaters with Brockway, however what broke me was DiCaprio snapping off the door, frozen, and sinking into the ocean in that pose. It hit me hard enough I couldn't hold back the laughter and several people shushed me.
Jessica Hayes
2023-11-01 16:59:08 +0000 UTCWhen did this happen? Nevermind. I'm not Turkish, so I'm not allowed to pay attention.
Pee-Wee's Uncle
2023-11-01 16:12:43 +0000 UTCyes i am grateful for community and sharespace around this topic i took trayton to watch 2001 at the college theater and that part where the yellow spaceman kinda starfishes off into the void in the background he was laughing so hard but i coudent be upset because i was laughin too and also every body else in the theater
sissyneck
2023-11-01 15:51:21 +0000 UTCI almost couldn't get past that photo of Jason: his expression, the way it's cropped, everything about it cracked me up. Then the end of the podcast (the VERY end) provided the context that just made it that much more hilarious. Also props to Jamie (I assume) for the cricket bit. Perfectly timed, and it went on long enough to hit that "funny -> enough, we get it -> okay, it's funny again" spot.
Skebotron
2023-11-01 15:23:41 +0000 UTCIt is Istanbul now.
Fatamatician
2023-11-01 14:39:48 +0000 UTCI legitimately thought We need to talk about Kevin was a comedy, based on just the title.
latsöm
2023-11-01 14:35:07 +0000 UTCI'd be careful - demanding money for something to be revealed is basically reverse blackmail. What dark secret are they trying to keep not hidden?
Herbzz
2023-11-01 14:33:11 +0000 UTCAlright, fine, fuck you: I’ll increase my goddamn pledge amount right now!
Mark Mahoney
2023-11-01 13:40:33 +0000 UTC