Biting Elbows - ‘BAD MOTHERFUCKER’ Official Music Video
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It gets more and more badass as it progresses. I always have to watch it at least twice when it comes around.
Almost through Season 5 of Hey Arnold! and I’ve come to realize some more things:
- It’s a huge bummer that they took away Stinky’s spiky bracelets and big vocabulary pretty early on…he became more of a straight-up simpleton, and it makes me sad.
- Food gets mentioned all the fucking time, so I’m…
That’s not even the saddest part. Arnold is suppose to be a dreamer, yet he becomes less so very quickly. Or, at least, it’s shown less often that he is. He becomes more of… an idealist, or as Gerald says, an optimist.
That’s true, I did notice that the earlier seasons had far more dream and daydream scenes for Arnold. Very whimsical ones, at that!
Also, these later episodes have gone to some weird places.
In this episode, “Married,” Helga dreams of her ideal future: becoming President of the United States, marrying Arnold, and rescuing Arnold from the crazed Lila.
(Strangely, this episode doesn’t show up on the IMDB episode listings)
Almost through Season 5 of Hey Arnold! and I’ve come to realize some more things:
- It’s a huge bummer that they took away Stinky’s spiky bracelets and big vocabulary pretty early on…he became more of a straight-up simpleton, and it makes me sad.
- Food gets mentioned all the fucking time, so I’m always hungry when I marathon more episodes.
- People with anger issues usually have a thick uni-brow.
- Pretty much everyone has stayed at the boarding house at some point. I think it may be the only one in the whole city or something…
- I’m not into “shipping,” but damn I can’t help but admire the effort Helga puts into shipping herself with Arnold. It’s gone from a used-gum statue of Arnold to a shamanistic religion.
I still love the show, but it definitely started to show some wear by the end. At least Grandpa Phil still has all the best lines and moments.
But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.
We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.
May 20, 1990: Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson’s remarkable Kenyon College commencement address on creative integrity.
