Lemmy tell you something.

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distantsounds@lemmy.world · 105 pts · 2y (2 replies)

terribleChoices

Orange v. Banana

BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y

Hahahahah!

dutchkimble@lemy.lol · 3 pts · 2y

Same in the UK if you take sunak and Boris, and India with modi and gandhi :)

garfaagel@sh.itjust.works · 76 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Cervantes did it first:

Apeman42@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Idk who this Cervantes guy is, but I suspect Misters Hanna and Barbera would like a word with him:

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

Final Boss of Soul Blade

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The originator of the format

Everyone should have a Sancho because we're all tilting at windmills.

CitizenKong@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Cervantes or Shakespeare with "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (Falstaff and Slender). It's possible both were using an even older trope though.

Downcount@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Do I look cool naow?

danekrae@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 2y (9 replies)

bananas in pyjamas

FollyDolly@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 2y (8 replies)

Oh god this show was REAL!? I watched it once when I was really sick and thought it was a fever dream.

garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs!

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

They cannot be bargained with. They cannot be reasoned with.

scutiger@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

They can't feel pity, or remorse, or fear.

Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Do you remember the show about the clown girl and the big red(?) couch?

Kowowow@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The big comfy couch? There's a cat called snicklefrits

Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y

Sounds about right, I watched it in Spanish so it would have had a different name.

FollyDolly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Yes! She had a doll too.

Soggy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Luna and Molly, a clown and her dolly.

stembolts@programming.dev · 34 pts · 2y (4 replies)

SuckMyWang@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Weird looking dick and balls. Why is there no hair growing out of the knob?

brown567@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

They prolly shaved

SuckMyWang@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Right, I’ll shave mine too

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Be careful!

samus12345@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

Man, they look so... human. You don't see that in film anymore.

tipicaldik@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 2y

yeah it's a holdover from the early days of movies and vaudeville... think Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Spanky and Alfalfa, the list goes on and on...

No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y

jballs@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 2y (2 replies)

samus12345@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

That one didn't work out so well.

jballs@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y

Yeah one of them was a bit murdery.

plactagonic@sopuli.xyz · 26 pts · 2y

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 24 pts · 2y

HexesofVexes@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y

Image of Laurel and Hardy, Laurel looking at Hardy while Hardy gazes wistfully into the distance.

Glifted@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I realize this is a joke but there's something real here about contrast making your characters more memorable or something

yamanii@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

Silhouettes are important in character design after all

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 2y

the show is "katjakaj och bentebent"

XPost3000@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 2y

1000021439

xwolpertinger@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

Troy and Abed in the fruiiiitboooowl

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y (3 replies)

The sidekick trope has been a prime mover since vaudeville, maybe before

nnrx@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
sebinspace@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The word “prime mover” being used outside of the train community brings a smile to my face :3

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Toot toot

JoMomma@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y

This may be the only true fact on the internet

MacStache@programming.dev · 9 pts · 2y

Sheldon and Leonard in Big Bang Theory.

FrankLaskey@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y

Just jumping in to say that c/lemmytellyousomething should definitely be the name of an advice / self-help community on here

Maultasche@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

A Bit of Fry and Laurie

Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_act

Because someone has to be pedantic here!

brown567@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2y

Larry and Bob in Veggie Tales

Deconceptualist@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y

Abbot & Costello, 1935-1957

Fades@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

when kids think they were the first to discover something

iiGxC@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 2y

Key and peele

Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

I'm definitely an orange.

BassaForte@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Drake and Josh

Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y