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Weekend Discussion Thread: Your Favorite “Dark” RiffsWe discussed “Johnny at the Fair” this week, featuring plenty of what Joel calls “dark” riffs. You know what he means. So many to pick from. I’m going with this from What to Do on a Date: “Kay’s worked the kill floor. She knows where to deliver the blow.” So what’s your favorite? 109 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Your Favorite “Dark” Riffs”Commenting at Satellite News
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“Johnny at the Fair” seems to have an abundance of dark riffing.
Another…
“A whiskery man hands him a small package; the first one’s free, he says.”
Realistically, one could easily find a handful of humorously dark/quasi-dark riffs in just about any episode …funny, too, ’cause I tend to throw a disc or two in nearly every night, and since this topic has been up over the past few days, I’ve caught a handful. Stranded In Space, and Riding With Death, are two I’ve watched recently (mind you I’ve seen all of these gazillions of times) RWD especially has some inadvertently comical innuendo due to the fact that when it was made, certain sexual slang hadn’t gained cultural prominence, hence the whole ‘sleazy rider,’ riding up on your backdoor, and then the “mudflaps” response from Jim___whateverhisname is.
Wow. I’m amazed, no references to “The Days of Our Years” yet. That whole short was one long, loving look at trauma and death, and Mike and the Bots responded by going to black comedy pretty much in self-defense.
Here’s one of my favorites from “Stranded In Space”:
“If you have a husband in space, press one. If you have a dead husband in space, press two.”
I think this was also from SIS: “Remember how he was alive? Well, that didn’t last.”
Shots ring out but the people of Bosnia still go on with their peep shows
You see, son, we all die alone and afraid.
Super Freak Out by Four Dead in Ohio Arts
Visions of the Mekong Delta flash before Johnny’s eyes. also any Vietnam War joke seems dark.
From ARE YOU READY FOR MARRIAGE?: “(sound of machine guns) Marines, we are LEAVING!!… Sorry, I was back in DaNang for a second.”
Or something to that effect.
There’s also the line from Uncle Jim’s Dairy Farm: “We’ll send you that arm if we find it!”
I also remember there being a spate of German air show jokes, in reaction to plane crashes or something similar, during season 2.