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Tavarin posted:It's a story told by someone who is drunk. Why would you expect it to be super accurate? Super accurate != implying the exact opposite of someone's defining trait in their legacy.
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Midnight City posted:Uh, plenty of people probably care and there's really no reason they couldn't or even shouldn't have put at the end "oh by the way Schmelling was actively working against Hitler the whole time" and had Weird Al make a funny face about being betrayed or something. Either way that isn't really relevant to the story at all, and I'm not going to go rewatch it to find out but I'm pretty sure they didn't call him a nazi, just a german dude who was a boxer that the government co-opted as a national symbol, who had his rear end beat by the boxer the US co-opted as a national symbol. If they outright said the dude was a nazi then yeah I guess that would be a bit hosed up, but even then I can't really find it in myself to get worked up about it.
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They didn't imply schmelling was a Nazi, just German.
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Someone being literally drunk IRL when telling a story is probably the easiest and clearest way to establish that they're an unreliable narrator. Also, yes, no one in the episode says that Schmelling was a Nazi, just that the two boxers were co-opted by their respective countries as symbols of their conflict in the form of a boxing match. Hewlett fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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Midnight City posted:Super accurate != implying the exact opposite of someone's defining trait in their legacy. It's a comedy Central show. Are you his grandson or something?
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the girl playing Claudette Colvin was incredible and I hope she becomes a recurring cast member and Jordan Peele was incredible. edit- Morgan Murphy, the storyteller for Lewis v Schmeling was probably my least favorite drunk ever. she seems like she'd forget to mention that Schmeling did anything positive even if she was sober. the escape goat fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Jul 6, 2014 |
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timp posted:Huh...I'd never heard that story before. Not a lot of people have. The Charleston Museum/Historic Charleston Foundation folks and their predecessors did a good job making sure of that. They put a statue of him in a park next to the Citadel a few months back and it royally pissed off the white people there.
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Bewildrbeast posted:edit- The story wasn't about schmeling so she doesn't have to go into anything positive he did. Also drunk.
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Maybe I'm an unreliable narrator because I'm from Europe where history is from, but I don't automatically assume every German during world war 2 was a Nazi.
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Jul 6, 2014 19:20
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Don't eat Play-Doh Smurf dicks.
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Jul 9, 2014 03:09
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The stuff with how crappy the statue effects were was pretty great.
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Jul 9, 2014 03:10
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Flaps him in the neck.
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Jul 9, 2014 03:13
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Kind of weird that they had two different people play Pulitzer.
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Jul 9, 2014 03:21
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I love it when the storyteller's pets make it into the story, it's always magical.
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Jul 9, 2014 03:27
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Gif request: Hey. Blah blah. I got it. (If it looks like poo poo, feel free to ignore it.)
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Why isn't Drunk History on Hulu anymore? Its really bumming me out that I can't watch it.
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It's still on Amazon prime.
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404GoonNotFound posted:Gif request: Hey. Blah blah. I got it. 
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PopRocks posted:Why isn't Drunk History on Hulu anymore? Its really bumming me out that I can't watch it. Hulu is weird and sometimes has CC episodes ~30 days after the original air date. Might be the case this season but maybe not.
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That's a hell of a way to start the show.
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Jul 16, 2014 03:04
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Cracking up at the drunk rapping, oh my god
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Jul 16, 2014 03:23
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Seeing Urkel caught me more off-guard than Weird Al as Hitler
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neckbeard posted:Seeing Urkel caught me more off-guard than Weird Al as Hitler Haha, watching it DVRed and I just got to that part too.
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SgtSteel91 posted:Cracking up at the drunk rapping, oh my god 
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My absolute favorite moment from the entire series (at 2:04): https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=d7UxQ9Z1wR8#t=124 The entire supporting cast is really consistently funny. I always recognize them but I don't actually know any of their names!
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 This guy is in like every episode at least once, his name is Craig Cackowski and he's an amazing improv guy / comedic actor / voice actor and also just a super nice guy. He and this frequent drunkard...  (Mark Gagliardi, also super talented and a very nice person) along with Paget Brewster, who's getting drunk next week...  can all be seen monthly and heard weekly together in The Thrilling Adventure Hour.
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Annakie posted:along with Paget Brewster, who's getting drunk next week... She's the strangest one for me. Did she get her start in stand up comedy or something? The only place I remember seeing her before this was on Criminal Minds. So it was really bizarre when she showed up last season on Drunk History. Like, everyone else I recognize telling the drunk stories are stand up comedians. And then, BAM, Agent Prentiss, last seen serial killer hunter, getting drunk and showing off her shoe collection.
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thrawn527 posted:She's the strangest one for me. Did she get her start in stand up comedy or something? The only place I remember seeing her before this was on Criminal Minds. So it was really bizarre when she showed up last season on Drunk History. Looks like someone didn't see Andy Richter Controls the Universe.
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Tavarin posted:Looks like someone didn't see Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Well, to be fair, a lot of someones didn't see Andy Richter Controls the Universe.
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thrawn527 posted:Well, to be fair, a lot of someones didn't see Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Too true.  She seems to be a person who splits time between drama and comedy. She's especially good on the Thrilling Adventure Hour.
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Tavarin posted:Too true. Don't forget that she was also BIRDGIRL!!! in the later seasons of Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law.
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"Holographic Piece of poo poo"
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Jul 23, 2014 03:01
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"Gonna punch you in the balls with this story!" And we're already off to a great start 
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This story rules already. MOTH
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Jul 23, 2014 03:04
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MOTH! edit: poptart hat
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Sorry stovepipe. Gotta go icognito.
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But to himself because he's undercover
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Drunk History: MOTH
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MOTH!
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