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Scott Pilgrim is great, even sans Scott Pilgrim.
It still blows my mind that in the original "YMCA" video, they do not do the dance. It's just the Village People singing on the streets of New York in a "we didn't get a location permit" sort of way and doing generic disco dancing. There's a part where you think they're going to do it, they put their arms up on "Y"... and then clap. Mindblowing.
It's also 0% a secret how gay this is. I mean, they're singing outside the Ramrod. And... look at them. This was not some esoteric code that people in the 70s were too naive to decipher.
Anyway, shout out to whatever camp counselor, in both senses of the word, made this into a cute letter-arms dance for kids. You definitely knew what you were doing.
did a few seconds of research and the official story is that the dance originated on "American Bandstand" where the audience spontaneously started doing the arm letters
also I don't think I realized that none of the Village People played an instrument. and there's only one guy who sings lead on every song. the other six spend most of their time just kinda trying to look busy.
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I received this strange mess with a kind of wide-eyed Jake English wonder, and I soon settled into that approach for the new series as well. Part of the pleasure of it is precisely that it's cheaply produced, hammily acted, clumsily scripted, often shot in a fairly utilitarian way, with cgi that looks like a ps2 game. This is an exhilarating contrast to the "good-core" monotony of contemporary television, which all seems to be Prestige, and is consequently shot, acted, animated, scripted, and grotesquely under-lit the same way. Contemporary television feels over-determined, aggro in its need to make sure that at all times we understand how to feel, even aggro about making sure we know we're supposed to feel ambiguous. This is despite the fact that it often has no actual idea what it's saying or why. It's kind of a relief to experience, in contrast, a show that often is gleefully open about the fact that it doesn't really know what it's doing besides "having fun with it." It's in this spirit that I present my own recommendations.