I tried to make a comic in 10 minutes. It shows.
I thought, “Wait! That’s a lie!” I just realized the joke after my third time seeing it....
To spell Panda you just need P and A
and that is why it is the superior adaptation,,, staying true to the books and ALSO giving us some content that works perfectly through the medium of film..... 👀
Love how the 1995 adaption of Pride and Prejudice remained accurate to the book in almost every way but then just went: let’s add Colin Firth taking a bath, Colin Firth fencing, Colin Firth jumping into a lake, Colin Firth walking across a field in a wet shirt
Favourite narrative tropes:
“That was ONE time!”
“Due to an administrative error”, or any major plot point which is caused almost entirely by bureaucratic fuckups
“Contrary to popular belief” appended to something that’s either really obvious or completely subjective
A character makes an assertion, then cut to the narrator contradicting it (‘“Everything’s fine!” Everything was not fine.’)
First-person narrators who call a specific character by a series of increasingly convoluted nicknames
Unusual narrative euphemisms. I still hold that describing around a curse word is almost always funnier than just using the word.
Establishing character moments which subvert your expectations right from the get-go. The best example is in the Brooklyn Nine Nine pilot, where Jake’s fooling around at the crime scene before revealing that he’s already solved the case.
Montages. Just montages of any kind, for any reason, anytime. I actually think they work better in text form because you can do so many creative things with them.
Side characters with a level of fourth-wall awareness / quasi-supernatural ability which is never quite certain, like the janitor in Scrubs.
Double meanings in narration that take a while to make themselves clear.
Really, really specific similes.
Pleated-Jeans assembled a collection of 28 photos of wonderfully funny, strange or otherwise unexpected signs found posted at zoos. These are our favorites. Click here to view them all.
And please, help the fish finally quit smoking:
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