Something that just clicked in my head is that part of why homestar runner was so funny is that it felt like they were making a bunch of pop culture references, but to media that didn't actually exist. The whole thing would be a lot less entertaining if their non sequiters were all cribbed from '80s movies, but it only sounds like they are. Or at least, they're all from movies that none of us saw or even heard of.
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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:
pop culture references to media that only exists in the strange alternate universe USA they themselves inhabit
right, over there it just sounds like they're quoting Schwarzenegger movies
Legally distinct pop culture references
all the nostalgic flavor with none of the IP infringement claims!
weirdly this applies to animaniacs as well, only the references are all actually to real things but all those things were things (like, say, films about the effect of cocaine trafficking on the mafia) that the audience had never even heard of
in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:
honestly i think that's why it didn't work for me
it felt like i was out of the loop on every joke and i didn't like that