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[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 105 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago
[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] garfaagel@sh.itjust.works 76 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Final Boss of Soul Blade

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The originator of the format

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

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[–] Downcount@lemmy.world 70 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Do I look cool naow?

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs!

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Luna and Molly, a clown and her dolly.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

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

[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

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...

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That one didn't work out so well.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah one of them was a bit murdery.

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 26 points 2 years ago
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago
[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 points 2 years ago

Silhouettes are important in character design after all

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago

the show is "katjakaj och bentebent"

[–] XPost3000@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] xwolpertinger@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Troy and Abed in the fruiiiitboooowl

[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

This may be the only true fact on the internet

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

A Bit of Fry and Laurie

[–] MacStache@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

Sheldon and Leonard in Big Bang Theory.

[–] FrankLaskey@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

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

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

Larry and Bob in Veggie Tales

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

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

Because someone has to be pedantic here!

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago
[–] Fades@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

when kids think they were the first to discover something

[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago

Key and peele

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I'm definitely an orange.

[–] BassaForte@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Drake and Josh

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