Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27785593-20170904230920/@comment-28396600-20180207060030

GizmotheMogwai17 wrote: I'm just curious about something. I was watching Robot Chicken earlier today and one of my friends started acting somewhat offended by this skit right here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hQK4pqzPCY What could possibly be offensive about that!? Keep in mind that this same friend has watched pretty much every other episode of RC with me and has seen plenty of stuff 100 times worse than this and barely ever flinched. Are they making light of some tragedy I'm not aware of? Are there some offensive undertones to it that I'm not picking up? I'm just wondering as to how this skit could upset an avid Robot Chicken watcher in the slightest. The only people I can think of that this skit could possibly offend are people that REALLY like Ratatouille.......and I mean like to an almost obsession-y level like what the Sonic and Cuphead fandoms are infamous for. Which honestly, I can kind of understand feeling that way to an extent. In a somewhat similar situation, I used to be bothered by their skit making fun of The Neverending Story, not because it was a precious childhood memory or anything but rather because the movie they were mocking was quite the tear jerker for me in the past. I didn't want to have anything to do with the movie in question whatsoever because of how it emotionally scarred me and parodies were no exception. The MAD parody of Coraline did a similar thing to me. Coraline was probably the first film that ever legit scared me and seeing a show I like reference it wasn't something I really enjoyed to say the least.

Ok, I asked him what was going on and he said that the episode wasn't offensive but rather repetetive. He felt that too many of the skits ended in death and caused him to get bored from seeing the same punchline over and over again.