You can't be perfect all the time.
And I sincerely wasn't being condescending, nor making it an American vs whatever thing like you seemed to believe.
THE ORVILLE S1, E8: "INTO THE FOLD"
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You can't be perfect all the time.
And I sincerely wasn't being condescending, nor making it an American vs whatever thing like you seemed to believe.
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I apologize for assuming you were. I should have simply asked instead.
I'm generally not one for crass or gross-out humor, but the glory hole gag was the perfect example of humor arising from situation and character. It's exactly the sort of nickname that cadets would come up with for a space anomaly, and Bortus's naive repetition of it was just the icing on the cake.
And it's kind of amusing that crass humor is considered American-- it always makes me think of Benny Hill.
And it's kind of amusing that crass humor is considered American-- it always makes me think of Benny Hill.
I enjoyed the episode. As for Claire killing her kidnapper.. play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I liked this episode as well and thought it pushed some interesting boundaries. Claire's escape while shooting people with bullets rather than stun rays was powerful. It really drove home the idea how far a mother is going to go to save her own children.
Or if all you have is a gun at your disposal and cannibals are going to kill and eat you, any rational person would use that gun, mother or not. Stunning wasn't even an option on the table.
Stunning in terms that the Trek series (at least until recently) would have never gone this route or if they did there would have been a long moral speech about it.
They killed bad guys all the time if there were no phasers around.
Or did most enemies survive their ships getting blown up in space in every other episode? Laughably, it's often the same footage, too (Klingon bird of prey of the movies, for example). Not to mention all the neck snapping Worf and Data do (Borg, Jem'Hadar, Weyounn...).
In self defense, killing to prevent yourself from getting killed is never a problem in Star Trek when there are no other options.
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I grew up watching Benny Hill, and his cheeky flavor of adult humor. He knew exactly where to walk the line, and to this day I credit him with my interest in burlesque humor. ♥I'm generally not one for crass or gross-out humor, but the glory hole gag was the perfect example of humor arising from situation and character. It's exactly the sort of nickname that cadets would come up with for a space anomaly, and Bortus's naive repetition of it was just the icing on the cake.
And it's kind of amusing that crass humor is considered American-- it always makes me think of Benny Hill.
I guess I just found it to be more intense than I'm used to --excluding some of the war episodes in DS9.
Or Picard and Riker making Remmick's head graphically explode in 1988.
That was comical!
Those who claim British humor is never crass are walking on shaky ground. 
Less bodily function humor maybe, but turnip turnip turnip turnip turnip turnip man in drag man in drag.
I sir have seen every Flying Circus episode. ALLLLLL of them. You can not fool me.
Less bodily function humor maybe, but turnip turnip turnip turnip turnip turnip man in drag man in drag.
I sir have seen every Flying Circus episode. ALLLLLL of them. You can not fool me.
And don't forget The League of Gentlemen.Those who claim British humor is never crass are walking on shaky ground.
Less bodily function humor maybe, but turnip turnip turnip turnip turnip turnip man in drag man in drag.
I sir have seen every Flying Circus episode. ALLLLLL of them. You can not fool me.
I have to disagree. If you want a good glory hole joke, watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Benny Hill was awesome.
Best episode of the season.
It’s amazing how this show just gets better and better.
When Isaac shot that mobile game with the laser gun... I laughed and laughed. A parent definitely wrote that scene.
“We will not speak of the game ever again.” Lol!
