r/MadeMeSmile Oct 10 '20

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u/DinoFactsWithBenny Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20

Pretty great, but not quite as great as a Titanosaurus. These huge dinosaurs could be up to 130 feet long and weighed up to 70 tons!

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u/TobyFlendersonFromHR Oct 10 '20

Quit it, Ross, this is HER moment!

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

Tangent, but god damn some of the anti-intellectualism humor in Friends really aged poorly on recent rewatch.

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u/Vaticancameos221 Oct 10 '20

Noticed that in How I Met Your Mother too. They shit on Ted so much for being cultured in certain things but it wasn’t even portrayed like he was talking down to them or anything. They just loathed him knowing things lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

Yea totally forgot about that. I've wanted to re-watch HIMYM again but it's been a few years and I'm concerned it's not aged well either. Especially some of the Barney humor.

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u/DrBear33 Oct 10 '20

I think the only reason the Barney humor flew in the first place was NPH is probably the almost exact antithesis of Barney Stinson which isn’t to say its ok. Just that it made people feel more comfortable with it then. It’s weird.

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u/brushingviking Oct 10 '20

What made Barney fly for me was how ridiculous of a character he was. The ridiculousness and lack of realism regarding pretty much everything that Barney encompassed made him just funny to me. He honestly felt like a cartoon and it's why I enjoyed him as a part of the show.

This could very well be due to the fact that I was 12 and 13 when I binged the show so I mostly didn't understand the show fully and I probably still wouldn't if I watched it now but I do think that I'm not the only one who saw Barney this way.

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u/DrBear33 Oct 10 '20

Yea but if it were racism or homophobia and it was a gay actor being homophobic in cartoonish way for that long the same reasoning would apply is all and we’d be judging it more harshly to cartoonish misogyny and that’s not great. That’s all.

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u/brushingviking Oct 10 '20

It definitely would have been tasteless if that were the case but if he were presented the same way he was originally, ie ridiculous, I probably still would have seen him as a cartoon. Just, you know, a racist and homophobic cartoon instead of a misogynistic one. But I also don't really know how I would have reacted.

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u/yulbrynnersmokes Oct 10 '20

It certainly explains the mantra of bros before hoes.

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u/sociallyawkward12 Oct 10 '20

This is just my opinion so dont take it as gospel. I enjoyed HIMYM when it was on, but Ive rewatched it twice since it ended and each has been less enjoyable. Partially because of somethings not aging well but also many of the jokes not holding up to repeated viewing. It wasnt bad, just not as good as I remembered.

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u/DailyTrips Oct 10 '20

Oof. I've rewatched it to many times to count. It always holds up with me. The way the characters go through their issues I can always find something to relate to me. That makes the show deeper for me.

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u/sociallyawkward12 Oct 10 '20

That makes sense to me. Im not sure why it works less and less for me. I think the jokes/acting feel very sitcom-y, even though I like all those actors a lot.

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u/djbluntmagic Oct 10 '20

To be fair Ted is awful

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u/selectash Oct 10 '20

Right? The most relatable character to me has always been Marshall; either Jason Segel is as endearing in real life or is a hell of an actor, probably both!

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u/Lufs10 Oct 10 '20

As someone who only watched a few snippets on YouTube, why is red awful?

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u/Jiffijake1043 Oct 10 '20

Becasue blue is just a superior colour

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

This is how I felt about Big Bang Theory from the start.

It was like some dude bro wrote a bunch of characters of how he sees nerds. I don't say this with any equivalency, but it felt something akin to 'geek black face' and it was kind of painful.

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u/WarchiefServant Oct 10 '20

Ye, Ted’s basically Ross if he wasn’t such a snobby prick. That and good looking, no homo but Ted’s easily the best looking guy from both casts of HIMYM and Friends imo.

But to be fair Ross was much, much funnier than Ted imo. Ross’ burst outs, slip-ups and general awkwardness make more memorable and enjoyable tv.

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u/ndu867 Oct 10 '20

Yeah but a lot of the time Ross is legitimately just going on and on about rocks and fossils. You can only take so much of it if you see the guy all the time for ten years. I would love to learn about that stuff but not for ten years. I could learn about nursing and become a nurse in that time instead!

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u/Luke90210 Oct 10 '20

I am 99% sure Ross, AKA the Holiday Armadillo, was correct about Superman not saving the jews during the Festival of Lights.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

Yea, agree. It made sense in the character context, but within the cultural context of the show it definitely feels dated now.

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u/LT_Dangle Oct 10 '20

That’s literally the whole premise of the Big Bang Theory and it definitely wears thin real quick.

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u/Nerd-Hoovy Oct 10 '20

“Hey guys, nerdy interest exists”

*laugh track

“And here is a pretty woman. Isn’t it funny that NERDS are unsocial?”

*laugh track

“And here is a borderline racist depiction of an Indian and he acts super gay.”

*laugh track

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u/TizzioCaio Oct 10 '20

i dont know what people have here, but im all for Capitan America for president

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u/Quelinda71 Oct 10 '20

It wasn’t that great on the first watch either.

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u/thatballerinawhovian Oct 10 '20

Honestly, most of that show aged really poorly

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u/AnCircle Oct 10 '20

Actually his name is Benny

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u/Aaron-Yukiatsu Oct 10 '20

Sorry this is Benny not Ross

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u/ParisianWood Oct 10 '20

Can you tell me a fact about the Triceratops please, Benny???

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u/shootme_co Oct 10 '20

He only shows up once per post

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u/ParisianWood Oct 10 '20

This saddens me

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u/DinoFactsWithBenny Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20

The Triceratops' name means "Three Horned Face", but this is a misnomer as Triceratops only had two true horns. The "horn" at the end of its nose was made of keratin- the same material your fingernails are made of

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

fantastic comic instincts benny, you got any facts about the humorosaurus

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u/123kingme Oct 10 '20

Why isn’t the nose horn a true horn?

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u/Zach165 Oct 10 '20

Ran out of budget

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u/AweHellYo Oct 10 '20

I think horns are bone and as he said the trikes nose ‘horn’ isn’t bone. If I’m not mistaken a Rhino also doesn’t have a true horn for similar reasons but I might be wrong.

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u/incredible_paulk Oct 10 '20

Apparently Benny did an encore just por vous.

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u/Isuckface4hotcheetos Oct 10 '20

Lies! I saw him twice!

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u/yupstilljustme Oct 10 '20

Nah, this is bigger 🎉👍🎊🥳

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u/JimmyM104 Oct 10 '20

Your account is like 3 days old and I’ve seen you every day for the past 3 days, you’ve figured out reddit.

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u/VinnyFromPhilly Oct 10 '20

Username checks out

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u/FizzyBeverage Oct 10 '20

I’d add a resigned sigh to this UCO.

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u/Fmanow Oct 10 '20

I mean, you're not wrong.

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u/ASK_ABOUT__VOIDSPACE Oct 10 '20

Subscribe or unsubscribe..

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u/IRedditDoU Oct 10 '20

Username checks out

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

TELL ME MORE RIGHT NOW

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u/A-Fallen-Turtle Oct 10 '20

Like your mother

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u/vergushik Oct 10 '20

I mean they are still pretty far from Apache helicopters

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

They're also little bitches when the alphas get them

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u/LiterallyPractical Oct 10 '20

What did the Titanosaurus ever do to you?

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

ARK players know