Wednesday, July 30, 2025

"Beans."

I searched, but I don't think there's a Lego kit numbered 5439, although I like where C'hod's head is at.

Death's Head probably wouldn't really know about Cybertron's lost moon, but if anyone was going to...It's also a callback to ToyFare #8, "Clash of the Titans," where Mego Spidey loses a wrestling match--and subsequently, Twisted Toyfare Theatre--to his Famous Covers counterpart, who is about as funny as an uncut block of cheese.  

Anyway, organ grinders! I suppose they don't have to have monkeys, but that feels like decaf coffee or worse; like missing the whole point of the exercise. This may or may not have come up from Bugs Bunny in Hurdy-Gurdy Hare, or this banger of a B-side from Prince:   

I'm usually more hopeful for Star Wars stuff, and Andor was super-great, and I thought the Acolyte was trying to do something interesting, but really just continued the tradition that apparently most Jedis can block laser shots all the live-long day but are utterly useless against an opponent with a lightsaber. I guess I have more faith in Star Wars than in the resurgence of organ grinders? Which feels damning with faint praise, but...

7 comments:

Mr. Morbid said...

Idk why but the title for today’s skit made me think of the “Pork & Beans” song from Weezer. Good stuff, good times.

5439? Not the way climate change is going so far, although George Carlin seemed to think the planet would be just fine & heal itself, especially once we were gone. Perhaps he had a point, but the way the current administration or rolling back EPA regulations & all that, maybe not.

Honestly given the current state of the Star Wars franchise under Disney, that guesstimation might not be that far off the mark.

CalvinPitt said...

The Permian mass extinction was a loss of like 90% of all existing species, and life rebounded from that. Short of Musk or Bezos building a functional Death Star and blowing up the planet (and note I said "functional", anything those idiots build is more likely to blow and kill them with it) life will persist in some form after humans are gone. it just may look way different.

The "you talk to the monkey" remark makes me think maybe Kurt can't teleport DH's head off, but nothing was said about teleporting something into DH's cranium. Say, a shot glass, a bar stool, Darkhawk's laptop. . .

H said...

I said it before, and I’ll say it again- torso and head Death’s Head would be an interesting idea.

Mr. Morbid said...

Good point. I know theoretically he could teleport objects into body cavities, so this could potentially happen.

Anonymous said...

Isn’t putting stuff into body cavities more of a Kitty Pryde thing though? I don’t mean that in a perverted way- I’m talking about the phasing thing, and I’m positive she’s used it for that before.

Mr. Morbid said...

Maybe? I just thought she was phasing through objects not putting stuff into them

H said...

No, she can definitely carry objects with her when she phases. I’m positive she used that at least once to put something in (probably an explosive) or possibly take something out (maybe a bullet or shrapnel if it was taking it out) of somebody. Can’t remember exactly where but I know I’ve seen her do it.