I AM AN EEL. WITH A GUN.

Shrek 2 + favorite pop culture references

Why does this work for this movie where it fails with most others?

Because Shrek is, at its core, a parody.

It isn’t a silly film making pop-culture references. It’s a *parody* film making a *parody* of pop-culture.

Since most of the references are pretty solidly “classic” or at the very least extremely memorable moments in cinema, over multiple decades of time, they resonate really well even with modern audiences.

It also (crucially, at least in my opinion) doesn’t kill the scene if you don’t know what’s being referenced. Puss reaching back for his hat before the door closes is still funny if you haven’t seen Indie do it. Pinocchio using his strings to lower himself carefully downwards that way is genuinely clever regardless of the Mission Impossible parody. The fact that the furniture is dancing with Fairy Godmother serves to further highlight her character and role whether or not you connect it to Beauty and the Beast. The references serve to enhance the scenes they’re in when you recognize, not to leave you behind if you don’t.

So I work in a supermarket that has its own radio station. I’m at work today, and whatever song was playing ends, and the DJ comes on to do the ad reads. It ends with an announcement.

“Here at SUPERMARKET, we’re PROUD to celebrate PRIDE MONTH! This June, we’ll be honouring the LGBT+ community by playing all the PRIDE AND PARTY ANTHEMS, right here on SUPERMARKET RADIO!”

And then they immediately played the Ghostbusters theme

Wanna know what’s scarier than a spooky ghost? Confronting your own bias’ and shit mental hygiene

Out of Touch Ghostbuters Thursday 💚

I just found the single best tweet of my entire life

when there’s trouble, you know who to call…

when i was in the 3rd grade we had this weird PE teacher named mr denis (and by that i mean he used to pull up his gym shorts to his waist with a baggy t-shirt tucked in, knee-high socks, full tom selleck mustache, perfect bald head but thick hair on the sides) and almost all the time he’d make us play this game he called ghostbusters dodgeball where he’d BLAST the ghosbusters theme song in the gym so that the whole school could hear it and he’d set up two giant tents at either end of the gym and basically the point was to play normal dodgeball but if you hit someone on the opposite team, that opposite team member had to go be a ghost in the tent and if they wanted to escape they’d either have to slither their hands outside the tent and hope they catch a dodgeball rolling by or sacrifice one of their living team members by snatching their legs/hand/feet and dragging them into the tent in exchange for the ghost to go back onto the court and continue playing

are we not gonna talk about innocent pineapple

no he's innocent

Ghostbusters

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honestly when people were bein like “its not that its all women its just the new ghost busters just looks objectively not good ://///////” im just like who even cares. who. even cares the first ghost busters was objectively not that good fucking let women have shit thats also objectively not that good and still be accepted as a Good Time like i just??? there are so many movies about white men that are objectively terrible that people consider fucking classics but if its about anyone else it has to be like Top Tier 1000% Perfect to be even considered halfway decent and NOT be made into a joke about how you’ve “lost faith in humanity” or “remember when movies were good” or that gif of professor farnsworth saying “i dont want to live on this planet anymore” or some fuck u kno man like fuck