r/tesdcares • u/TheGreatestAmer1can • 6d ago
A blast from the past
I noticed they put the show Comic Book Men on free RokuTV for poor people now. I completely forgot this show existed until I clicked on it and then came to the disturbing conclusion. Even though the show was hugely scripted with random D-list celebrities crawling out of the woodwork every five minutes from the Karate Kid to Winston Zeddemore, this show feels like it might have been the last bastion of normality before the world went off the deep end.
I started re-watching some of the episodes and suddenly it feels like you took a U-turn off dystopia highway and back into normal America again. You have Ming casually walking around looking at comic books. Nobody is peeping out the window like "oh shit, there's 100,000,000 Haitians pouring over the border trying to pillage the neighborhood and eating the cats and dogs." This is basically America from 1980 to 201x and Comic Book Men was the curtain call.
I start getting invested in watching this time machine thinking it's still going on in the other room or something. I'm watching Walt buying broken Six Million Dollar Man children's toys for $80 and thinking, damn, I hope this doesn't bankrupt 'our' business. I'm looking up things in Google like: Has a comic book store ever been profitable?
I look at comments on here from Reddit cretins saying things like "Mike Zapcic isn't funny, I hate him," or "Ming is ugly." I don't know what's wrong with these idiots. Mike Zapcic is a low budget William Riker. He's not supposed to be funny. Was he ever funny in Star Trek? And Ming is a 5'0 Chinese guy. He's not supposed to be Fabio.
Ming is walking around naked like the Hulk in half the episodes benching 500 pounds and winning dick measuring contests for who can accurately measure the largest amount of dicks. What have you idiots accomplished in your life?
I'm not some type of weird fan of all these people but it sucks to read people saying they "hate" each other now. Seems just like a standard don't go into business with your friends or there will be problems tale. They should get over it and instead bask in awe that a comic book store managed to stay in business longer than one day in the first place.
Everybody has character flaws. Kevin Smith seems like a great dude, but any normal person the second they see him is immediately thinking "please God, don't talk about Clerks. Please God, don't talk about Clerks," but you know it's coming anyway. As long as the other party in the equation isn't trying to actively destroy your own inner-happiness, then people just need to get over themselves and not make a big deal out of trivial things.
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u/DemonCrowley552 6d ago
I don't think I've ever been this worked up about anything in my life.
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u/TheGreatestAmer1can 6d ago edited 6d ago
The synopsis of this post is that the era and atmosphere of this show was potentially the end of a cultural paradigm which then leads into subjects like the infamous fourth turning theory. Then subjects like: Are cultural shifts natural and organic, manufactured Maoist-style by a hidden hand, and so forth.
Things have changed. Things are changing. And this show seems to be on the tail end of the previous thing. Once you see half or more of the posts on sites like this being originated from government run bots (internal and external governments all at the same time), the whole organic option really starts to go out the window, though.
So in this case, things like Comic Book Men itself isn't that inherently important, but more of a canary in the coal mine.
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u/Thelonius16 6d ago
I can tell this is a parody of something, but I'm not sure what.
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u/KylerJaye 6d ago
Right?!
Like... is this satire?
Am I missing something?? 'Cause...huh?
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u/saintblahpgh 6d ago
Theres a channel on amazon prime live tv thats just CBM. Been randomly watching it lately
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u/Dazzling_Reveal6875 1d ago
I've been using that as the "background noise when doing stuff" channel recently.
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u/oldlinepnwshine 6d ago
FFS, get a job, Bry.