Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 88 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT The Privilege of Irony
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.05.2014
And so on. The meanest burn -- relating as it does to postmodern retardedness and the retardedness of the show Glee, itself -- is when he screams about how she "believes karaoke is a 21st-century art." Which is a righteously mean thing to say, and manages to take down the entire stupid discipline of pop culture academia and Generation X's hilariously wrong-footed response to new media, all at the same time.
KANE TESTIMONY
Counsel: "Mr. Kane, what was the intent of your song?"
Kane: "To make money?"
Counsel: "Who is this woman in low-income housing who still has money for weaves?"
Kane: "Just like, an imaginary racist caricature?"
Counsel: "Are you debunking her existence, or attacking her directly?"
Kane: "Are you asking if this is satirical? Are you seriously asking me this fucking question?"
Counsel: "Yeah."
Kane: "You think that welfare queens and fat hoes are so unremarkably part of my everyday life that I would put pen to paper in order to express my frustration with them? The video for 'Baby Got Back' had the guy literally dancing on a giant butt. Did you just think that was common to the black experience in America? Giant butt-dancing?"
Counsel: "So is this not what being black is all about? Have we been lied to all this time?"
Kane: "No, you just sit around telling each other what being black is. And then we make fun of you. No man worthy of the word thinks of women this way."
Counsel: "Back up. Black men don't hate black women for existing? I've seen a commercial for a Tyler Perry movie, I think I know what's going on here."
Kane: "I know. It's hilarious, in a horrible way."
Counsel: "So we're saying that Coulton was satirizing something that is already satirized in your song? You weren't just reporting your life?"
Kane: "You dicks probably think Girls is a romantic comedy, too."
Counsel: "If black people and women become capable of irony, this whole thing's going straight to hell. This is like the Singularity right now. Next you'll be telling me gay people don't exist solely to care about straight people's love lives."
IL GOV
Eli: "Have you noticed that your bad news poker face and your good news poker face are the same face? As well as your other faces?"
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