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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fifth panel: United Healthcare— They all die from treatable injuries and diseases.

[–] MeatPilot 40 points 1 week ago

United Healthcare --> Luigi's Mansion

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

imagine if all of these establishments were walkable without a half mile wide moat of paved parking lots around each one

Also some metaphor could be made about the cop running past all these billion dollar chains

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

But then people without cars can get there, and they might be poor or even black.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay this visual gag is amazing and if it were in a movie I'd laugh

[–] Benaaasaaas 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You might like Edgar Wrights movies then

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Benaaasaaas 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of the more obvious examples would be Baby Drivers opening titles scene (sound is a must) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYv2a_VF328

But all of his movies are full of music/visual related gags.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I've heard some backstory about this movie.

One was that there was a bit in the script where the bankrobbers used Michael Myers masked to rob a bank, but the studio couldn't get the rights to show Mikeyboi. So they just rewrote it into a joke and used Mike Myers masks, with the in-universe explanation being that the guy who bought the masks has simply never seen Halloween and did not know he was supposed to get the Horror Movie Character... and that Mike Myers apparently thought the bit was so funny that he okay'd his likeness for the flick.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Corn Goal O times 3? What?

[–] lemonmelon 2 points 1 week ago

They're making a stretch of a reference to the Cornetto trilogy, three Edgar Wright films featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] A7thStone 1 points 1 week ago

Username does not checkout.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't get the Sam's club one. What is it?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

The cop's baton is technically a type of club. I guess his name is Sam.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The guy is a target

[–] faltryka 7 points 1 week ago

OK it took me a second but that’s pretty funny

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Is this loss

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 3 points 1 week ago

Red robbin’

[–] gi1242 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

don't get it. can someone explain?

[–] ChicoSuave 7 points 1 week ago

The brand names indicate what is happening in each frame.