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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago

United Healthcare --> Luigi's Mansion

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You might like Edgar Wrights movies then

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Corn Goal O times 3? What?

[–] lemonmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months 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 11 months ago
[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 39 points 11 months 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 20 points 11 months ago

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

[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Username does not checkout.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago

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

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

The guy is a target

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 5 points 11 months ago

Is this loss