The science fiction genre often falls into the escapist direction of storytelling, so it's no surprise that male writers tend to create ideal heroes, villains, and other characters. So the male gaze comes into play. That...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/03/A-Female-Science-Fiction-Character-Written-by-a-Male-Writer/The Golden Girls premiered in 1985 and ended its run in 1992 while it was still popular. It remains a cultural force with a lively fanbase to this day. But let's say that the series had never ended at all and NBC decided...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/10/22/The-Golden-Girls-a-Thousand-Years-into-the-Future/YouTuber DemonFlyingFox is an AI artist who creates videos that bring pop culture figures to zenith of their narrative purposes. That's why this song imagines Harry Potter as an American redneck. He's still a wizard and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/01/Harry-Potter-as-a-Redneck/Godzilla Minus One but it’s Cookie Monster. pic.twitter.com/K9Pur6kKZl— Matthew Highton (@MattHighton) August 22, 2024 The historical drama Godzilla Minus One recounts the 1945-1947 struggle of postwar Japan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/23/Godzilla-Minus-One-Plus-Cookie-Monster/The 1950s and 60s saw a vast proliferation of educational films on a wide variety of purely interpersonal topics. The Baby Boomers were still quite young and thus it was necessary to inform them of how to interact with o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/19/How-To-Use-a-Sidewalk-The-Instructional-Film/13th Century Tiktok Live Streamers Pregame a Night at the Tavern pic.twitter.com/42vpRsZnyC— Sklumper (@InternetJumbo) November 7, 2023 This summer, geezers such as myself discovered the trend of people paying str...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/11/08/Medieval-Streamers-Talk-to-Their-Viewers/Bob Barker, the famous host of the game show The Price is Right, has departed from us for the great showcase in the sky. He was 99 years old. As the joke circulating the internet goes, he managed to get as close as possi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/08/28/An-Amazing-The-Price-of-Right-Parody-of-Star-Wars/1/ Here is how the abomination that is the AT-ST came about. Spoiler alert, it comes down to compromises & mission creep."Initial Requirement: We need a small dropship deliverable armored sentry tower (ST) for forwar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/11/The-AT-ST-Represents-the-Failure-That-is-the-Bureaucracy-of-the-Galactic-Empire/The Turbo-Encabulator is a classic engineering joke that dates back to at least 1944. It's a long, deadpan description of a fictitious piece of new technology. It is, from an engineering perspective, complete gibberish.I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/11/08/Advancements-in-Turbo-Encabulation-Have-Led-to-the-Development-of-the-HyperEncabulator/Alasdair Beckett-King, a very English comedian, offers reasonably good Texas accents in this brief parody of The Lord of the Rings and King of the Hill.I would really enjoy seeing a special episode of King of the Hill in...
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