![]() Principally it was the definitive bookend to the animation renaissance of the 80’s and 90’s a loving, well-executed parting gift to the generation of people who grew up during the Silver Age of cartoons. Overlooked by detractors though were a number of commendable attributes that were overshadowed by its hit-and-miss over-the-top character. The mid-aughts series Drawn Together wore “offensive humor” armor like a Trojan horse, only to disseminate an unusually progressive point-of-view.ĭrawn Together was generally regarded by critics as irredeemable for being grosser than any other gross-out comedy yet. One show, however, completely subverted that trend. The “political correctness backlash” that’s informed public media and private conversation alike over the last couple of decades has been well recognized, not the least by habitual overthinkers of pop culture. “Edgy humor” is often designed specifically to reassure an audience of heterosexual white men of the validity of their superior social status in a time where the significance of that status rapidly seems to be eroding under the attacks of a growing, strengthening population of “others”.īut you knew that. Despite the description, the transgressive nature of this comedy is never directly insulting to the audience that primarily seeks it. That tradition has been eclipsed by the recent trend of ostensible “offensive humor”. A cake in the face of a man wearing a business suit and an Ivy League demeanor reveals the illusory nature of status positions by immediately dissolving his pretensions. The traditional aim of comedy is to reveal truths in a surprising way, classically centering on demystifying social hierarchies for a mass audience. “The cake gag is only funny when the sap’s got dignity!” – Krusty the Clown
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