March 2012
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21 Jump Street and laughter conditioning
21 Jump Street offers a smart meta-commentary on the buddy cop genre and overused Hollywood tropes in general, and also Jonah Hill falls down a lot. Both are funny, but unless you want to be obnoxious you should probably reserve your laughter for no more than two of these tiers of humor found in the movie:
1. Jonah Hill falling down
2. Subversion of Hollywood tropes (expected explosions not...
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“You multiply NASA’s budget a factor of two or three and you give it a grand...”
– I am so down with everything Neil DeGrasse Tyson has ever said, but especially this. And he’s been saying it a lot recently. Like on the Daily Show and Colbert and Bill Maher and here and here and basically everywhere.
Let’s go to Mars! Let’s save the country! Save the world! With...
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