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[Anonymous No.5333952]

ITT: Literature from other mediums

This show is a whirlwind of symbolism, subtext and puns that as far as I know is completely unrivaled in the western cannon. Then there's the visual gags.

[Anonymous No.5333977]

I've tried getting a lot of people into that show, but none of them get it really. I hate being that guy, but I think this show is 2deep4 most people.

Rick and Morty isn't on quite the same level, but is also quite good.

[Anonymous No.5333999]

>>5333952
that shit uncanny and edgy as shit.

[Anonymous No.5334038]

>>5333952

[Anonymous No.5334042]

>>5333977
It pokes fun at its own "2deep4u" nature. I disliked it at first but soon got into it.

[Anonymous No.5334050]

00:02:00 [ Dial tone ] [ Telephone rings ] >> Self: Hello? hello?
00:02:03 >> Xavier: Hello?
00:02:04 >> Self: Who's this?
00:02:05 >> Xavier: Who'sthis?
00:02:07 >> Self: I'm asking the questions.
00:02:09 I calledyou.
00:02:10 >> Xavier: No, I calledyou.
00:02:11 And you sound like the ugliest son of a bitch I ever heard.
00:02:15 >> Self: You sound like the physical manifestation of some loser's inner demons.
00:02:20 >> Xavier: Well, you sound like some total chode's inability to confront the reality of his past actions.
00:02:26 >> Self: If I ever get your stinky mug in my line of sight, I swear to jack off, I'll cock your clock off.
00:02:33 >> Xavier: Well, I'm going to be the bigger man and hang up fi-- [ receiver clicks ] damn it!
00:02:39 Listen, we don't cotton to freaks 'round these parts.
00:02:43 Scram, weirdo.
00:02:44 >> Self: Oh, yeah?
00:02:45 I don't polycotton to copingtropes, even my own.
00:02:49 So why don't you split?
00:02:50 >> Xavier: Looks like I already did.
00:02:52 You're the sad figment of my twisted psyche's tragic dividend.
00:02:56 You're the un-me.
00:02:58 I'm the real me.
00:02:59 You want to be me?
00:03:00 >> Self: Kiddo, I was the real me when you we still in my short pants.
00:03:04 >> Xavier: Hate to break it to you, but I wore them first.
00:03:07 Me bequeathed thee the psychopathological hand-you-down.
00:03:11 >> Self: So you're the one who stained them.
00:03:13 >> Xavier: Whoever found it browned it.
00:03:15 >> Self: You'd like me to be you, wouldn't me?
00:03:18 But it's too late.
00:03:19 You snoze, you loze.
00:03:20 >> Xavier: You sleeped, you weeped.
00:03:22 >> Self: You nap-uh, you get slap-uh.
00:03:24 >> Xavier: You slumber, a cucumber.
00:03:26 >> Self: You catch up on some zeds, you get out of my heads.
00:03:29 >> Xavier: You slumber, ham-- burger!
00:03:31 I don't want to talk about nothing else.
00:03:33 >> Self: Listen, this psyche is not big enough for two metaphysical seekers.
00:03:37 >> Xavier: You couldn't seek your way out of a cardboard bag.

[Anonymous No.5334051]

This show was funky

[Anonymous No.5334057]

>>5334038
Considering the bar for anime is the lower than most mediums, you posting this is saying alot. I'll check it out. Right now I'm binging on the new Hunter X Hunter

[Anonymous No.5334060]

>>5334050
00:03:40 >> Self: Yeah, I know, 'cause it would be an egg.
00:03:42 >> Xavier: [ Thinking ] ooh!
00:03:44 This guy might be better than me.
00:03:45 >> Self: You're right.
00:03:46 I am better than me.
00:03:47 >> Xavier: Look, buddy, know when you're defeated.
00:03:50 Accept your defecation.
00:03:51 >> Self: No, thanks.
00:03:52 I'm full, 'cause I eat pussies like you for breakfast.
00:03:55 >> Xavier: Look at you.
00:03:56 You look so superficial, you probably judge things by their physical appearance.
00:04:00 >> Self: Oh, yeah?
00:04:01 Your mom's so shallow, she probably thinks this quip is about her.
00:04:05 >> Xavier: You're about as deep as a bowl of soup, and your tongue is about as sharp as a soup spoon.
00:04:10 >> Self: Hey, say what you want about me, but lay off the soup.
00:04:14 >> Xavier: If you love soup so much, why don't you marry soup?
00:04:18 >> Self: 'Cause I'm already married -- to justice.
00:04:20 >> Xavier: Yeah, only a blind girl would marry you.
00:04:24 >> Self: I know everything you're gonna -- >> Xavier: Say.
00:04:27 And I know everything you're gonna -- >> Self: Don't.
00:04:31 >> Xavier: Oh, yeah?
00:04:32 Well, when god was passing out insight, you thought he said that when god was passing out holy prophets, you thought he said, "oily faucets," 'cause your soul has diarrhea of the mouth faucet.
00:04:44 >> Self: Are you so dumb you even answer rhetorical questions?
00:04:49 >> Xavier: I don't know. do you?
00:04:50 >> Self: We can play this game all night.
00:04:53 >> Xavier: First of all, it's daytime, and this is no game.
00:04:57 >> Self: Checkmate.
00:04:58 >> Xavier: Oh!
00:04:59 So you admit that you're checking me out and you want to mate.
00:05:02 >> Self: Ooh!
00:05:03 You got a license to sell hot dogs, chico man?
00:05:06 >> Xavier: No.
00:05:07 They wouldn't give it to me because when I was filling out the application, my penis was sticking out.
00:05:13 >> Self: Oh, yeah?
00:05:14 You only got one peni?
00:05:15 Let me see it.
00:05:17 >> Xavier: See with your eyes, not with your mouth.
00:05:19 >> Self: I'll call your bluff.
00:05:21 I'll see your penis with your mouth, and I raise you with my hand.
00:05:24 >> Xavier: Ante up.
00:05:25 >> Self: Oh! damn it!
00:05:26 >> Xavier: What's wrong?
00:05:27 >> Self: I crapped out, but I'm tough.
00:05:29 I can suck it up.
00:05:30 >> Xavier: Okay.
00:05:31 Count of three, we show what's under the loincloth.
00:05:35 Wiener take all.
00:05:36 >> Both: One, two, three.
00:05:44 >> Self: I guess there's only one way to settle this.
00:05:48 >> Both: A shakashuri blowdown.
00:05:51 >> Self: I assume you're familiar with st. louis rules.
00:05:55 >> Xavier: Fine.
00:05:56 We'll blow to the death.
00:05:57 >> Self: Okay. ladies first.

[Anonymous No.5334063]

>>5334050
Life is just death in drag.

[Anonymous No.5334076]

>>5333977
>tfw under mensch plebs don't get it
>hahaha the creators must have been so high when they wrote thisxD

[Anonymous No.5334079]

>>5334060
that sounds stupid as fuck.

[Anonymous No.5334086]

>>5334079
5 star post

[Anonymous No.5334100]

>>5334057
HxH is very good, especially the dodgeball arc.

>>5334038
I second this.

[Anonymous No.5334102]

>>5334050
Shakashuri Blowdown is easily the best episode

[Anonymous No.5334104]

>>5334076

I have no doubts that the creators have used psychedelics because the show so perfectly represents a lot of that mindset and those experiences, but yeah, most people think this is just some weird adult swim show to watch while high. It's a shame really, I haven't seen anything else that has a similar balance of great wordplay, satire, and legitimate spiritual/philosophical quandry.

[Anonymous No.5334109]

>>5333977
rick and morty is a funny back to the future parody but that's about it

[Anonymous No.5334114]

>>5334086
>i like fugly cgi with 2deep4u messages

[Anonymous No.5334116]

>>5334104
I haven't crossed paths with the show since I was a kid. Save to say it went over my head.

I guess I'll give it an honest try.

[Anonymous No.5334118]

>>5334051
I enjoyed that show but most of the symbolism and references were just there for the sake of being obtuse rather than to say anything meaningful.

[Anonymous No.5334121]

it's literally just bullshit somebody spewed out in 5 minutes

>>5333993

[Anonymous No.5334125]

>>5334100
I didn't even know there was a dodgeball arc. I just finished the exam episode (im on episode 22 now) and I have no idea where this show is going. I keep hearing it gets amazing though.

[The cats No.5334137]

Well off the cuff his left arm is a snake and the 'left hand path' is supposedly black magic. Damn I gotta check this out again, I haven't watched it since I was like 15.

[Anonymous No.5334142]

>>5334116
I think Xavier can only truly connect with intellectually excitable* 13 year old kids
if you were to watch it now you would dismiss it as juvenile random bullshit
it's best watched at a young age, subconsciously retained, and discarded

[Anonymous No.5334143]

>>5334137
You don't know your ass from your elbow, snake-hand.

[Anonymous No.5334147]

>>5334142
I first watched it when I was 19 and I've grown to love it more in the years since.

[Anonymous No.5334159]

Police Squad! is comparable to Xavier in regards to clever gags.

I think the body of slam poetry that's circling youtube these days reflects the spirit of the time we live in better than any other art.

True Detective is not comparable to Xavier or Police Squad! but it is absolutely literary on its own terms. Probably moreso than any HBO show that I can think of (and absolutely more than any show that's not HBO).

[Anonymous No.5334189]

Xavier is a brilliant show. I got turned on to it via The Heart, She Holler which is a great show in its own right.

[Anonymous No.5334195]

>>5334159
>I think the body of slam poetry that's circling youtube these days reflects the spirit of the time we live in better than any other art.
examples?

[Anonymous No.5334293]

>>5334195
There's one about bullying that went viral last year that you might have seen. Look up "To This Day" by Shane Koyzcan (and look up some of his other stuff too, like his "Blueprint for a Breakthrough" TED talk).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAx845QaOck Here's one about how the digital age functions as a way to bring people together but in reality is isolating them even more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aop1sGjhgH8&list=UU5DH3eN81b0RGJ7Xj3fsjVg Here's one about Biggie Smalls and the impact he had on black youth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y_ZmM7zPLyI This is one about the reality of higher education.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCIjP3RMnMk&feature=player_embedded People Starve In America. Self explanatory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx5wXwfjYlA To Chase The Thing That Destroys You. A poem about obsession told through the lens of a cultural icon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppwowTJg0mI My personal favorite by Shane Koyczan, about Beethoven.

These are just some of my favorites. I spend alot of time consuming this shit.

[Anonymous No.5336033]

>>5334121

>literally

do you think you should be here?