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Spoony Bard
09/15/09

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That sounds like Seth Green!
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jmeltzer
09/15/09

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This really is an insensitive and completely inappropriate video. To play off the Death Star destruction as a tragedy while completely overlooking the destruction of Alderaan is just wrong. How insensitive College Humor! Shame on you.
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Anthony Clifton
09/14/09

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What's the blue stuff they are drinking? It looks tasty.
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SQLGuru
09/15/09

@Anthony Clifton: When I was growing up, we called it "Magic Milk". Take one glass of milk and add various drops of food coloring. Stir and enjoy.
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VilleNike
09/14/09

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Frankly, this is distasteful, disgusting, disturbing, and disrespectful. Eight years ago, as a psychologist in an elementary school where many parents worked in the World Trade Center area, I did not know if I would be trying to help respond to a few, dozens, or hundreds of deaths of parents, relatives, and friends of young children. The aftermath of this horrific terrorist event continues to impact the lives of so many children and families to this day. This "spoof" is horrible. It is like trying to find humor in the Holocaust. Please remove it, in the name of human decency.
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Barry99705
09/14/09

@VilleNike: The thing is, people need to let the past be the past. Sure it was a horrible event, will it happen again, most likely, there's nothing anybody can do to stop someone from doing something again. Yea that's vague, which is why it can happen again. The only direct connection with the event my family had was my cousin and I both got sent to the desert, my cousin several times. If you can't make fun of the past, then all you have left to make fun of is dick and fart jokes.
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The5thElephant
09/14/09

@VilleNike: Oh give it a rest. Like you haven't EVER laughed at a joke around the subject of death.

I live within walking distance of Ground Zero. Does our proximity somehow make us suddenly more worthwhile of righteous indignation?

This is a very funny video, which manages to approach a very difficult topic in a non-insulting and carefully worded way. Not only do they avoid making fun of anyone who was hurt or directly affected by the attacks, they also cover many of the opinions and points of view people have afterward.

The worst way to get over a tragedy is to continue to be bitter and tragic. The people I know who have lost loved ones but maintain a sense of humor about them, even about their deaths, are far more comfortable in their lives after that loss, and are far more capable of fondly remembering them, rather than remembering them with constant pain and anguish.

The very reason we New Yorkers managed to pull through 9/11 so well is because of our ability to use that terrible event as a driving cause for betterment, not a lingering cause for misery.
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jacksonwhole
09/14/09

@Barry99705: Yeah, like the Holocaust always has me rolling in the aisles. Dying people are FUNNEEY! This argument is just tired.
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dingus
09/14/09

@jacksonwhole: "The Jews were horrified. I received resentful letters of protest, saying things like: "How can you make jokes about Hitler? The man murdered 6 million Jews." But "The Producers" doesn’t concern a concentration camp or the Holocaust. ...Of course it is impossible to take revenge for 6 million murdered Jews. But by using the medium of comedy, we can try to rob Hitler of his posthumous power and myths." - Mel Brooks in a 2006 interview with Spiegel
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dingus
09/14/09

@jacksonwhole: "The Jews were horrified. I received resentful letters of protest, saying things like: "How can you make jokes about Hitler? The man murdered 6 million Jews." But "The Producers" doesn’t concern a concentration camp or the Holocaust. ...Of course it is impossible to take revenge for 6 million murdered Jews. But by using the medium of comedy, we can try to rob Hitler of his posthumous power and myths." - Mel Brooks in a 2006 interview with Spiegel
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Kilgore Trout
09/15/09

@VilleNike: Guess what? I'm a firefighter. The number 343 means a hell of a lot to me. I have several (now former) co-workers who were deployed to NYC as part of a FEMA Task Force immediately after 9/11. All of them have been forced into early retirement and a couple of them are in the process of dying from lung diseases they got there.

All that is to say this: this clip is funny as hell. If you ask nicely, I might tell you every firefighter's favorite knock knock joke.
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weatherman
09/14/09

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As tolerant as I usually am about this stuff, I just couldn't watch it. It's too close to home.
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smcallah
09/14/09

@weatherman: Do you live in a giant space station with an exploitable weak point that is managed by an oppressive empire?
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Antonio Jacinto Vizcarra
09/14/09

@smcallah: HAHAHAHA!!!!
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weatherman
09/15/09

@smcallah: Actually, when you put it that way, I guess I actually do...

Seriously though, I think people need to respect that many people here have different experiences around 9/11; some witnessed it, some responded to it, some lived through it, some watchedit on tv, and some lost friends and family. I am not saying that this video should be taken down or anything, and I agree that good humor sometimes has to push bounderies, but for me this video is just touches a nerve that is still a little too raw.
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Topsy_Elephante
09/14/09

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This was absolutely incredible.
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09/14/09

@Topsy_Elephante: You want another round.
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suckerpin
09/14/09

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Brilliant. I was expecting another robot chicken/seth macfarlane rehash. This has managed to be neither, yet still be funny. Win.
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Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected
09/14/09

@suckerpin: Personally, I thought Blue Harvest was horrible. It had a few funny jokes (mainly the couch one) but it was mediocre otherwise.
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Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected
09/14/09

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Mind trick at the end.

Win.
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kitsuneconundrum
09/14/09

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was totally waiting for them to take a drink and they really do it at the end. awesome.
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Kaiser-Machead
09/14/09

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Wouldn't it be more like the Storm Troopers' Pearl Harbor? How many civilians, other than the contracted construction crews were in the Death Star? (please consult Clerks for further clarification) They knew the score. It was a combat vessel. I say boo-freaking-hoo Galactic Empire.
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92BuickLeSabre
09/14/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Pearl Harbor? That was like eleventy-million years ago. You can't reference something Oooooold. Nobody can remember back that far.
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kylenalepa
09/14/09

@Kaiser-Machead: The Death Star was, clearly, a combat vessel, but in "reality", it probably functioned more as a mobile city than anything. I'd be willing to bet that there were a number of civilian business operating on the Death Star to serve the needs of the stormtroopers stationed there. They all died just because they had a little entrepreneurial spirit and wanted to make a little money.

Funny video, BTW.
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cgee
09/14/09

@kylenalepa: Of course there were civilian businesses. For example, someone had to operate the cafeteria and dish out the Penne Arrabiata.
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Kaiser-Machead
09/14/09

@92BuickLeSabre: I know your kind. Buncha lib'ral potheads, sitting on a fire escape, smokin' that junk and slurpin' your freak juice while real men go out to die for the greater good.
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Kaiser-Machead
09/14/09

@kylenalepa: And then there's the maintenance workers that know the duct system. Surely someone saw that there was a huge vent that lead all the way to the core of the station.
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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
09/14/09

@Kaiser-Machead:
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lostarchitect
09/14/09

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hmmm... funny or offensive? funny or offensive... i'm going with funny with a little offensive on the side.
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92BuickLeSabre
09/14/09

@lostarchitect: I'm going with sketch served two ways. On one side of the plate, they've served it funny, on the other side the dish is done offensive.
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AvidBlogger
09/14/09

@92BuickLeSabre: As tragic as 9/11 was (and I saw this without actually have knowing anyone directly involved in the attack) there comes a point in time where you need to be able to make some sort of light of situation. In many cases humor is a great stress relief. Was it offensive? Hell yeah it was, but it wasn't meant to piss people off.

I found my self busting my gut the whole time.
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92BuickLeSabre
09/14/09

@Matthew Rebmann: Not disagreeing. Just thought it was closer to 50-50 than "with a side of." I cringed, but I liked it.
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HIcycles
09/14/09

@92BuickLeSabre: same here. liked it, but it felt funny at the same time.
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Bigbadbikernerd
09/14/09

@92BuickLeSabre: Same here. Made me feel like I shouldn't think it was funny, but I couldn't help but laugh....
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G-Ram
09/14/09

@Matthew Rebmann: Exactly, you gotta make light of the situation.

If it still offends you for somebody to make an off -color parody of the situation 9 years later, then consider yourself defeated by the terrorists... because that's what they WANT. They want you to live in fear and be hurt about it for the rest of your life, but I'm not going to let them get to me.

I say it was a fucking hilarious take on a previously undiscovered coincidence. I really enjoyed it.
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