Years ago there wasn't much in the way of humor that really made me laugh. Maybe some low brow humor, but not much and then came along Mystery Science Theater 3000. It was a show where they watch new and old cheesy movies and make off beat comments whether it was about the stars or about the weirdness of the scenes. This was not a show that had high ratings. It was a niche show that only appealed to certain kinds of people. Most people didn't find the humor in it. They totally missed it. It went over their heads. Admittedly some of the humor went over my head, too, at times, but then they'd do some oddball short comments or noises or whatever that fit into the scene in such a way that cracked me up and if anyone were to see me laugh at it, they wouldn't get it.
And don't get me started on nerd humor that's more prevalent today, such as some of the things on Attack of the Show. Some of it is also low brow and then there's some tech humor that goes over non-nerds' heads. Science and tech and all that kind of humor. It gets the ratings more, now. More people admit to being nerds or geeks at heart and so now these shows get their rightful place on tv.
Now there's Sunday night Cartoon Network Adult Swim with Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which is just a really weird bizarre kind of humor that man y people would just assume forget about. People would be "What is this weird sh**?" "Turn it off." They don't get it. And that is the kind of humor that gets me. It's weird it's obscure. Some of it's low brow. Some of it even goes over other viewers heads. And What about Robot Chicken? That's a lot of nerd humor all packed into one show. So many Star Wars skits. So many about GI Joe, which us kids of the 80s loved. He-Man. Transformers. This is some major geekery that all us geeks loved from when we were kids and just to see the humor in the show, a lot of people would just assume forget it, but man oh man. It's great stuff. I'm a geek. I love oddball humor. I admit it. And I'm proud!
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