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Transcript: scene from Inception, with captions.
Panel 1: Cobb says urgently to Fischer, "We need to go deeper." (If I remember the movie correctly, this was actually said, as part of the constant and ongoing discussion of dreams that is central to the whole movie.)
Panel 2: Fischer replies, "That's what she said."
Panel 3: Cobb has no productive reply (and an expression that doesn't quite fit, because the person doing this had to pick from what was actually filmed and "stymied" is not an emotion that Cobb displays in this movie).
End.
I don't know who Michael Scott (referenced in the title is), and I don't care. The point I think is reinforced by this graphic is that cheap-shot hurr-hurr-hurr jokes completely derail whatever is actually going on. Yes, they defuse tension, but they defuse tension by changing the subject to a very generic topic that is usually irrelevant to the conversation at hand.
Sometimes I want to go back in time and smack 16-year-old me for firmly living by Tom Lehrer's lyric "When correctly viewed, everything is lewd" and sharing those views with those around me. More often, though, I want to smack 30-year-olds who are bound and determined to interrupt interesting conversations with "Your mom [verb phrase picked at random from recent conversation]!"
Transcript: scene from Inception, with captions.
Panel 1: Cobb says urgently to Fischer, "We need to go deeper." (If I remember the movie correctly, this was actually said, as part of the constant and ongoing discussion of dreams that is central to the whole movie.)
Panel 2: Fischer replies, "That's what she said."
Panel 3: Cobb has no productive reply (and an expression that doesn't quite fit, because the person doing this had to pick from what was actually filmed and "stymied" is not an emotion that Cobb displays in this movie).
End.
I don't know who Michael Scott (referenced in the title is), and I don't care. The point I think is reinforced by this graphic is that cheap-shot hurr-hurr-hurr jokes completely derail whatever is actually going on. Yes, they defuse tension, but they defuse tension by changing the subject to a very generic topic that is usually irrelevant to the conversation at hand.
Sometimes I want to go back in time and smack 16-year-old me for firmly living by Tom Lehrer's lyric "When correctly viewed, everything is lewd" and sharing those views with those around me. More often, though, I want to smack 30-year-olds who are bound and determined to interrupt interesting conversations with "Your mom [verb phrase picked at random from recent conversation]!"