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

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Apeman42reply
lemmy.world

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

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IninewCrowreply
lemmy.ca

The originator of the format

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

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Cervantes or Shakespeare with "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (Falstaff and Slender). It's possible both were using an even older trope though.

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FollyDollyreply
lemmy.world

Oh god this show was REAL!? I watched it once when I was really sick and thought it was a fever dream.

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Rivenreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

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

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Kowowowreply
lemmy.ca

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

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Sounds about right, I watched it in Spanish so it would have had a different name.

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SuckMyWangreply
lemmy.world

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

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

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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...

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lemmy.world

I realize this is a joke but there's something real here about contrast making your characters more memorable or something

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lemmy.world

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

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sebinspacereply
lemmy.world

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

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This may be the only true fact on the internet

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

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when kids think they were the first to discover something

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