Bad Things Happen To You When You Use Our Product
1) Depict usage of product in TV commercial. 2) Show bad things happening to people using the product. 3) ??? 4) Profit!
Irony on Overthinking It
Steel Panther: The “Starship Troopers” of Heavy Metal?
Steel Panther: brilliant metal parody, or just exploitation artists? Either way, they sure do rock.
Paul Verhoeven and the Aesthetics of Awfulness
I’m so excited! I’m so excited! I’m so – so – excited that it’s Paul Verhoeven week here on Overthinkingit.com!
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Super Smash Bible
Can Nintendo characters make EVERYTHING more fun?
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Isn’t It Antitypical? Beyond Morissettian Irony
Stringer Bell on The Office, plus the past week’s less ironic events
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When is a rogue not a rogue? When he’s Jack Bauer.
Breaking the rules in a methodical and systematic sort of way.
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Isn’t it Quixotic? Dontcha think?
A little TOO quixotic. And yeah, I really do think.
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The Musical Talmud: Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
A study on Christmas Earony.
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The Hipster and the Hippocampus
Why the reason you like your Thundercats shirt now is fundamentally different from why you liked your Thundercats shirt in 2002. Plus: Why ’90s techno will never die.
Reclaiming Miyagi: The most unjustly hated man in movies
Mr. Miyagi, considered solely as he appears in The Karate Kid, is not nearly so offensive as you imagine.