Posts tagged ‘Iron Man’

June 9, 2011

Iron Man, Rusty Venture, Dr Huxtable, Professors explain why Anthony Weiner, Politicians love sex

by Jamie Insalaco

CreativeJamie.com is dedicated to understanding the fundamental truths of the universe and disseminating the information to you in a clear and concise way – however, there is one problem:  I don’t have any scientific knowledge or ability.  But fear not!  I had assembled a scientific round table consisting of the best fictional minds available!  Today, CreativeJamie.com is proud to present to you the minds that will explain what it is about being a politician that makes your junk jump out of your pants.  Truth bombs are about to be dropped by:

  • Roy Hinkley, M.A., B.S., Ph.D., aka “The Professor” (Gilligan’s Island)
  • Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, aka “The Professor” (Futurama)
  • Tony Stark, aka “Iron Man” (Marvel Comics)
  • Dr. Thaddeus “Rusty” Venture, aka “Doc” (The Venture Bros)
  • Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable, aka “Cliff,” aka “Fat Albert” (The Cosby Show)

the-professor-farnsworth-iron-man-dr-venture-heathcliff-huxtable

ME:  Welcome, gentlemen!  Sorry it’s such a sausage fest.

THE PROFESSOR:  The fictional world is a misogynistic place, Jamie.

TONY:  I know, right?  It’s totally awesome!  All the chicks are top shelf and I’m a fabulously wealthy super hero…  [sips martini]  so I do pretty well.

DR. VENTURE:  [whispers to me, gestures toward Tony]  I fucking hate this guy.

DR. HUXTABLE:  I think [pause] that we’re all here [pause] to discuss the cause of the bipping and the bopping–

PROF. FARNSWORTH:  Oh my, yes!  Elected officials have enjoyed promiscuous sex or other lewd activities for hundreds of years!  My only regret is that so little of it has been archived.

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ME: You call that a bulge?

ME:  Too true, Professor!  In the past – sorry, I mean my past, not yours, Professor Farnsworth – if one were to show a subject the words ‘sex’ and ‘politician’ they would, without hesitation, refer to the alleged affair between President John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe.

TONY:  Ha!  Alleged!

President-John-F-Kennedy-and-Marilyn-Monroe

Tony has a point...

ME:  Although JFK was hardly the first, it was easily the most famous incident.  These days, however, when subjects are given the same cues, they rattle off a long list of politicians names, from Bill Clinton to Newt Gingrich to Anthony Weiner.

[Everyone laughs]

ME:  No, seriously – there really is a congressmen named Weiner.

your-testicles-and-you-johnny-dangerously Congressmen Weiner

Congressmen Weiner

TONY:  That’s the greatest thing I’ve ever heard.  Reality is totally unreal.

ME:  Agreed.  But, it begs the question:  are we better informed now, or are politicians more promiscuous than ever?

PROF. FARNSWORTH:  Water samples indicates that current water treatment methods are not able to filter out chemicals from pharmaceuticals ingested orally, passed through the body and discharged as a waste product.

DR. VENTURE: Can somebody tell me what the human prune just said?

TONY:  He said that when you’re peeing out your Viagra -

DR. VENTURE: I don’t take Viagra, your self indulgent prick!

TONY:  – it’s finding it’s way back into the water supply – and then Anthony Weiner drinks tap water -

DR. HUXTABLE:  And it makes the penis long and hard like the frozen Jello pudding pops!

PROF. FARNSWORTH:  Precisely!

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DR. HUXTABLE: Money is AWESOME!

ME:  However, I do think it is worth noting that Gail Collins has written a book, Scorpion Tongues, which details elected officials -

DR. HUXTABLE:  Bipping and a Bopping until they don’t know [pause] what the jazz [pause] is all about!  You see, my father was a great jazz musician -

ME:  Anyway, Scorpion Tongues covers politicians as far back as Thomas Jefferson misbehaving, and there was no Viagra back then. Professor Farnsworth?

PROF. FARNSWORTH:  Fascinating.  Perhaps there is something in the human condition of those who choose to enter public service that -

DR. HUXTABLE:  Makes them photograph the genitalia with the Kodak film?

PROF. FARNSWORTH:  Kodak film?  Wait, what year is this?  Where am I?  Who’s there?  What’s this in my pocket?  Why am I carrying around a kidney in here?

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DR. HUXTABLE: With Colorwatch System!

ME:  So yes, the weird pictures of politicians that they’ve sending all over the place is… just weird.

TONY:  It’s impossible to be anonymous in the twenty-first century.  If you’re famous for any reason and you put something on Twitter or CraigsList or Facebook or anywhere, it’s going to come out. Only a crazy person would dispute this.  There is no off limits and there is no ‘get out of jail free’ card for your reputation.

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ME: He's rich AND a super hero, so... you know, one chick for each?

ME:  So what can we do about this?  How do we keep politicians from taking their junk out when they’re not supposed to?  Professor?

THE PROFESSOR:  We can construct a crude elctro-magnetic device from leftover radio parts and a coconut -

DR. VENTURE: Who let this guy in here?  We’d be better off with Ginger – at least she’s easy on the eyes.

TONY:  What are you going to do with Ginger?  Fetch her a drink and by the time you get back she’s in the passenger seat of my Lamborghini -

DR. VENTURE:  I so can’t wait until The Hulk kicks your ass in The Avengers movie.

ME:  Other suggestions?  Professor Farnsworth?

PROF. FARNSWORTH:  [snoring]

DR. VENTURE: Look, it’s inevitable.  People like to bang and when it comes to the sort of ego maniacal rich people who want to be politicians, it’s even more true.

TONY:  I’ve got it – ban marriage.

ME:  Sorry?

THE PROFESSOR:  Come again?

TONY:  You’re not my type.  But we should ban politicians from getting married.  Think about it – conservatives are always trying to block gays from getting married, so why not ban members of the house from matrimony?  Then when they get caught -

DR. VENTURE: They at least have the excuse that they’re lonely.

TONY:  …right.

ME:  Pretty sure that not only violates civil liberties, but it also won’t decrease pictures of elected cock on the internet, which is my primary goal.

[the room is quiet]

TONY:  I’ve got it!  It’s so simple and yet so genius – it’s really the sort of idea that only my mind could generate, it’s -

DR. VENTURE: Will you shut up and tell us already?!?

TONY:  Legalize prostitution and pass federal legislation that prohibits visiting a prostitute as grounds for a divorce or adultery.

DR. VENTURE:  I’ve misjudged you.

TONY:  Want to hit Vegas, drink some martinis?

DR. VENTURE:  Now you’re talking!

[Dr. Farnsworth falls out of his chair and onto the floor, still snoring.]

There you have it, folks.  Whether it’s a chemically induced element or personality aspect drives our politicians to adultery or lewd photography can’t yet be understood by scientists, one thing is for sure:  the only way to keep it off the front page is to legalize prostitution…  says the alcoholic in the flying body armor.

A quick word on Anthony Weiner and any politician who’s ever done anything similar:  If you’ve cheated, that’s one thing – it shows a lack of commitment and self control, which brings your character into question, so it’s hard (the jokes write themselves!) for the public to have faith in you as their representative.  When you take it to the next level and take the photographs yourself, you should not only resign, but you should be banned from voting forever because clearly, you’re an idiot.  How crazy must you be to think you can get away with something like that int he 21st century?  I don’t have a moral problem with what you did because frankly, I don’t think it’s any of my business, but, the incident proves one thing:  you are too stupid to hold office.

May 18, 2011

Pirates Are Bad For You

by Jamie Insalaco

If you frequent the blog enough, you know that my girlfriend and I are fond of vacationing at Walt Disney World.  The last time we went, she pointed out a child to me on the other side of the thoroughfare.

“He looks just like your boy,” she said.

“I didn’t see him.”

“He really looked like him.  He could have been his kid.”

“Huh – well, the ladies do love it.”

“There goes another one!”

“Another kid that looks like him?”

She looked around, horrified at my buddy’s apparently high fertility powers and rate of casual encounters in the Orlando area.  “They’re everywhere!”

It turns out, my girlfriend just associates my buddy with a five o’clock shadow, and all of these little boys had five o’clock shadows…  or so it appeared.  Upon closer examination, they also had scars, do-rags and a certain disregard for the rules.  But why, do you ask?  Simple:  they had just been given a pirate make over.

disney world pirate

"Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr we going to have chicken nuggets for dinner?"

jonni depp Pirates of the Caribbean

"I'm a good pirate, so it's OK."

I can easily understand how little girls show up at Disney World, see Cinderella’s Castle and start fidgeting for a princess make over – society has been pouring this princess nonsense down the throats of the innocents forever – but where did the pirate thing come from?  Little boys are supposed to have fantasies about fighting pirates, not being one!  And why might that be?  You need seek your answer no farther than Pirates of the Caribbean.  The ride – not the movies…  well, maybe the movies, too, but let’s take a look at the ride first.

Aside from the somewhat recently added animatronic Johnny Depp, the Pirates of the Caribbean ride features pirates blowing each other up, chasing women, selling women, burning towns, killing civilians and of course, they remind us that dead men tell no tales.  The “pirate’s life” doesn’t sound like much fun:  brutal discipline, dangerous conditions (to put it mildly) and, at least as sea, no women.  Not my idea of a good time, but there it is.  I made it all the way through the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie without falling asleep, and I consider that a victory.  Aside from Johnny Depp, the movie is boring as hell.  I’ve tried to take a look at some of the other flicks, but I just can’t get into it… mostly because the films want me to sympathize with pirates, and that’s pretty hard to do.  If you plan on making, “But there are good pirates,” argument, don’t bother – I’ve never heard of a good pirate before (Ann from House of Mystery excluded, of course – and she’s not really good, she’s just likable) or since this movie serial, and I never expect to… because they’re pirates.  Doesn’t anybody know what a pirate is?!?

This is what a pirate is:  a  person  who robs  or  commits  illegal  violence  at  sea  or  on  the shores  of  the  sea.

jake and the neverland pirates

"This is totally appropriate for children!"

That doesn’t sound like a good person to me.  But if that’s too vague for you, how about this, or this?  Let’s just leave it at pirates do bad things and dressing kids up like them is beyond messed up.  To further this argument, here comes the fourth movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, On Stranger Tides.  I know so many folks must love this series, because if people didn’t keep watching them, Disney would stop making them, but there’s a much bigger problem, and it’s called Jake and the Never Land Pirates.  The Pirates movies are live action, clearly containing pirates and full of action packed violence – so if parents let their young children watch the movies, that’s their choice.    But when it comes to Jake, one might see the title and guess that Jake goes around outwitting pirates, but this is not the case – he is a pirate – not to be confused with the live action a-holes who are also pirates and speaking directly to your kids.  To make matters worse, Jake is one of those shows where the characters break the fourth wall and speak to directly to the kids and ask them for their help – you know, when they’re standing in a field that is fifty percent grass and fifty percent sun flowers and then look (with a straight face) directly into the virtual camera and ask, “Can you help me find the sunflowers?”

[long pause]

“You can?”

ME:  “I didn’t say I’d help you with shiz–”

“Great!  Is the sunflower already in my hand?”

ME:  “What the hell is wrong with you?  It’s not going to be in your hand until you pick one up-”

“No?  Then where is it?”

ME:  “They’re everywhere, you swashbuckling stink pile!  …  On second thought, seeing as you’re a pirate, this is probably a trick, so I’m out of here.”

This goes on for another ten minutes.  (Twenty if it’s Agent Oso)

Jake and the Never Land Pirates takes the inappropriateness to a whole new level because the show is directly marketed at children, specifically little children on Disney Junior and Jake is a pirate.  It’s supposed to be OK because Jake is a good pirate as opposed to Captain Hook, who is a bad pirate – you’re heard of that, right?  It’s kinda like saying it’s OK for Dominique Strauss-Kahn to be sex offender because he’s tried to do some good for France – as in, “he’s a good politician but a bad person,” or, “Arnold Schwarzenegger is a good Terminator but a bad husband for hiding a love child from his wife for a decade.”  I can appreciate how those are separate issues, but it still makes both guys total scum bags rather than fifty percent scum bags.  Maybe we can create a show for children that takes place 10 years ago in the Schwarzenegger’s mansion; he can look directly into the camera and ask, “Hey kids, there are two women in the house – which one should I have sex with?  This one?”  (Points to the maid.)

the terminator

Terminated.

ME:  “No!”

“No?”

ME:  “No!”

“This one?”  (Points to Maria Shriver.)

ME:  “Yes!”

Hmm… this is not setting a a good example for the kids, so that’s probably not going to work.  I guess I could have come up with a show that was worse for kids… you know, one where they idealize pirates.

I can’t understand why Disney would spend all of this treasure and energy on pirates given the state of modern piracy.  I also don’t understand why they offer these absurd pirate make overs, particularly since they’ve acquired Marvel and have a ton of movies out this year and more planned for years to come.  Sure, you could argue that dressing the kids up like Iron Man – the alcoholic, womanizing alter ego of Tony Stark – is problematic, but at least Iron Man is a hero, a guy who realized he’d spent his life doing things the wrong way and is trying to turn his life around and protect the innocent instead of being a shizzing pirate!  Or they could dress the kids up like Thor at EPCOT or Captain America at Hollywood Studios, or any of the dozens of other properties they own that don’t require dressing little boys up as a  person  who robs  or  commits  illegal  violence  at  sea  or  on  the shores  of  the  sea.

July 31, 2010

Avengers TV show trailer

by Jamie Insalaco

After watching the Avengers TV show trailer, I don’t think this is going to work.  I’m sure it’ll be better than Marvel Superhero Squad, but will not be able to reach the bar set by Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.  The fundamental problem might be that the show is being produced for Disney XD, which makes sense as Disney now owns Marvel.  Here are some issues I’m seeing:

The animation isn’t looking so good.  Did you see Captain America’s shield spinning?  It looks… weird.  I guess it’s rotating too slow for how fast its moving.  It’s not just that, though… there’s something a bit off.

The theme song is TERRIBLE.  Take a page from Justice League’s book and go with an instrumental.  This song rocks.

Just the little bit of dialogue I heard was HORRENDOUS.

However, they’re going with a strong, traditional line up:

Iron Man

Captain America

Ant Man/Giant Man

The Wasp

The Hulk

Hawkeye

The lineup pose at the end of the commercial seems to imply that Iron Man is leading the team, which isn’t especially traditional, but whatever.

I’m not willing to kill the show yet – I’ll give it a chance, but I’m setting my expectations low, and I advise everyone else does the same.

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