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In Austin, my coworkers would always stop at lunch and look if Mike Judge was nearby. We were convinced he just followed us around for Office Space and King of
by hindsightbias 8y ago
In Austin, my coworkers would always stop at lunch and look if Mike Judge was nearby. We were convinced he just followed us around for Office Space and King of the Hill material.
- tootie 8y agoMike Judge is just an absolute artistic genius. Even though it's all light-hearted pop culture, the breadth of his work is just so amazing.
- Fricken 8y agoAll of his work is about middle class suburban white people, and their lives. There's nothing wrong with that, 'write what you know', but 'breadth' isn't really the term to describe it.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoBeavis and Butthead?
- jacobush 8y agoHehe
- pimeys 8y agoHis new series Tales From The Tour Bus, telling stories about musicians doing drugs and/or being kind of assholes is absolutely hilarious too. I love all of his stuff, King of the Hill especially.
- freehunter 8y agoRace and class demographics are not the only dimensions to a show. A working class conservative family in the suburbs of Dallas is pretty different from the high tech and high paid world of Silicon Valley is different from uneducated teenage slackers giggling at poop jokes. What Bevis does/thinks/likes versus what Hank does/thinks/likes versus what Richard does/thinks/likes could not be farther from each other. Just because they're all white doesn't mean they're all interchangeable.
- Fricken 8y agoIn office space Peter Gibbons, our white Alpha, and the only guy with any sense, tries to stay sane and hold it together in a world that has gone haywire. In King of the Hill, our white Alpha, Hank Hill, the only guy with any common sense, tries to stay sane and keep it from all falling apart in a world that has gone Haywire. In Idiocracy, our White Alpha, Joe Bauer, the only guy with any sense, tries to stay sane and keep it from falling apart in a world that has gone haywire. In Extract, Joel, our down to earth White Alpha, tries to stay sane and hold it together in a world that has gone haywire. And in Silicon Valley, well- you get the idea. I love Mike Judge films, he is an astute observer and hilarious. but his ouvre is not broad. He's got a formula, and it works, and that's fine.
- freehunter 8y agoYeah it's really easy to overgeneralize if you boil it down to nothing and ignore everything that isn't convenient to your point.
- Fricken 8y agoAnd it's easy to say things like Mike Judge has breadth if you're in a circle jerk thread and oblivious to storytellers who actually exhibit breadth. Judge doesn't have breadth he has bread. White bread. White wonder bread. There's no rye, no baguettes, no sourdough, no pita. Just white bread.
- fromthestart 8y agoThere are more dimensions to life than race and gender in which to find breadth.
- Apocryphon 8y agoHow does Beavis and Butthead fit into your model
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- anon2775 8y agoIdentity politics... smh.