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Sort of cross-posted from https://sh.itjust.works/post/35988607

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 48 minutes ago

Keep the AI boys safe 👀

[–] [email protected] 32 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Now I am wondering if that was a thing in churches of the Idiocracy universe. Just dippin' babies in Brawndo.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago

“What if we just baptized the babies in water?”

“Water? Like from the toilet?”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago

Jesus says BATHE in the electrolytes! FEEL the electrolytic solution give your skin what it CRAVES!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago

I guarantee it!

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"It's got electrolytes. It's got what plants and Catholics need!"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I should hit you in the balls for that mistake. 😜

Crave. "It's got what plants and Catholics crave!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah man. I need to give this a rewatch and see if it holds up.

Thinking back, I bet it will? The biggest issue with these older comedies is usually the racism/ sexism/ homophobia. I can't really recall (too) much of that in the happy madision productions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

IMO, the holy trinity of The Water Boy, Billy Madison, and Happy Gilmore all hold up pretty well. They're all "misfit gets the girl" stories, which could be super out of touch (especially with 90s and 00s humor), but I don't recall tooooo much, if any with those three. Less confident in other Sandler like Little Nicky

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Little Nicky got shit on when it was new, but I put it right next to the other three mentioned. The one that I'm kinda on the fence with is Punch Drunk Love. I didn't care for it when it was new, except for the bathroom scene, but it's also not his normal kind of humor; it's drier and more dramatic. I might like it more now, or I could like it less. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Everything AFTER PDL other than Anger Management, tho, has been pure garbage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Somehow I forgot Little Nicky was a Sandler movie given that I don't really like him. Now you've got me wondering if it holds up because it was supposed to be more vulgar in the first place. I probably conflate it with Dogma, too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I've never seen Dogma but I'm thrilled for its re-release this summer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

I wasn't aware! I saw Dogma many years ago along with half of Clerks 1 and half of Jay and Silent Bob. However, I watched through the entire Askewniverse over the last 3 years. Dogma is my favorite. George Carlin as a priest? Fuck yeah. Alan Rickman with Ken doll crotch? Why not! I thought it was the most clever of the bunch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah I don't even think I saw little Nicky. I was mostly thinking the early stuff. Its funny what holds up and what doesn't..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

Follow-Up News:

AI Priest fired for Gatorade-Gate Hired By Church of the Broken God - Maxwellist congregation rejoices.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Reverend Lionel Preacherbot is appealing the decision.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

BEEP. ENTER NUMBER OF SINS. DISPENSING HOLY WATER AT 50 GALLONS PER SECOND.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

That will be $180

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

This is what happens when ~~all~~ some of the pedophiles get removed from the priesthood.