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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Basically I chose movies that lack inside jokes that might be forgotten or rely on music or other ephemeral cultural references that might not make sense 20 years from now. That's why South Park isn't on the list, despite how funny I think it is.
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If you watch old Bugs Bunny cartoons you'll see lots of social commentary and jokes of the time. They were funny then, but make little to no sense today and aren't funny.
I'm not sure how Simpson, Futurama, Family Guy, American Dad, and South Park will hold the test of time.
Classic comedy that is timeless? Is that Three Stooges? Marx brothers?
Airplane's running joke with the "White Zone is for loading and unload of passengers. No Parking." Doesn't get announced anymore at LAX. So how can anyone think it's funny that they play on it?
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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Yeeeaaahhh...but you're missing the point. The comedy in Airplane was sophmoric and assinine. However...it was the actors that delivered that drivel that made it over the top funny. These were some heavy hitting dramatic actors. We'd never seen them in comedic roles before, and it was completely out of synch with everything we knew. Steve Carell is a comedic actor. He's supposed to be funny. But Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves and Robert Stack? No...not so much.
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don't forget Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Leslie Neilsen... that was his pivotal move to slapstick comedy. Prior to that he was a serious actor with many serious roles.
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