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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

United Healthcare --> Luigi's Mansion

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You might like Edgar Wrights movies then

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month 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.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Corn Goal O times 3? What?

[–] lemonmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago
[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 40 points 1 month 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

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 month ago

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

[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Username does not checkout.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

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

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

The guy is a target

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 5 points 1 month ago

Is this loss