Comments on: Pani Poni Dash! is funny when you actually get it http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2007/12/01/pani-poni-dash-is-funny-when-you-actually-get-it/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:26:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: wildarmsheero http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2007/12/01/pani-poni-dash-is-funny-when-you-actually-get-it/comment-page-1/#comment-21829 wildarmsheero Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:38:26 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2007/12/01/pani-poni-dash-is-funny-when-you-actually-get-it/#comment-21829 That's true. The show has a good amount of character-based humour. That’s true. The show has a good amount of character-based humour.

]]> By: Lupus http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2007/12/01/pani-poni-dash-is-funny-when-you-actually-get-it/comment-page-1/#comment-21828 Lupus Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:37:23 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2007/12/01/pani-poni-dash-is-funny-when-you-actually-get-it/#comment-21828 Maybe I'm weird, but I laughed a lot even at episodes where I hardly got any reference. Its own recurring jokes are enough to keep me satisfied. Maybe I’m weird, but I laughed a lot even at episodes where I hardly got any reference. Its own recurring jokes are enough to keep me satisfied.

]]> By: wildarmsheero http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2007/12/01/pani-poni-dash-is-funny-when-you-actually-get-it/comment-page-1/#comment-21798 wildarmsheero Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:43:17 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2007/12/01/pani-poni-dash-is-funny-when-you-actually-get-it/#comment-21798 Yeah, it's valid criticism. Definitely the show's weak spot, as it makes or breaks whether a person can laugh at it or not. But if you're a total otaku with no life, it's great. When you said "insider" I was more thinking of people on the production staff, or something. I'm sure the show is chock full of jokes between those guys too, but I'm assuming all that is reserved for the blackboard scribbles (which is probably why they are mostly incomprehensible). Yeah, it’s valid criticism. Definitely the show’s weak spot, as it makes or breaks whether a person can laugh at it or not. But if you’re a total otaku with no life, it’s great.

When you said “insider” I was more thinking of people on the production staff, or something. I’m sure the show is chock full of jokes between those guys too, but I’m assuming all that is reserved for the blackboard scribbles (which is probably why they are mostly incomprehensible).

]]> By: harakiri http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2007/12/01/pani-poni-dash-is-funny-when-you-actually-get-it/comment-page-1/#comment-21796 harakiri Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:28:56 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2007/12/01/pani-poni-dash-is-funny-when-you-actually-get-it/#comment-21796 Sorry, I thought the word "insider" describes people who are familiar with something others aren't (since it is English I thought it would be used the same way in English as it is used in German: Insiderwitz = a joke that can only be understood by people with specific topic related knowledge). So "watching a bunch of old shows makes you" able to get the jokes other people aren't getting. And that's how I criticize PPD: Its entertainment value is reduced because the scences don't work on their own. Sorry, I thought the word “insider” describes people who are familiar with something others aren’t (since it is English I thought it would be used the same way in English as it is used in German: Insiderwitz = a joke that can only be understood by people with specific topic related knowledge).

So “watching a bunch of old shows makes you” able to get the jokes other people aren’t getting. And that’s how I criticize PPD: Its entertainment value is reduced because the scences don’t work on their own.

]]> By: wildarmsheero http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2007/12/01/pani-poni-dash-is-funny-when-you-actually-get-it/comment-page-1/#comment-21775 wildarmsheero Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:00:28 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2007/12/01/pani-poni-dash-is-funny-when-you-actually-get-it/#comment-21775 I don't see how watching a bunch of old shows makes you an "insider", whatever that means. I don’t see how watching a bunch of old shows makes you an “insider”, whatever that means.

]]> By: harakiri http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2007/12/01/pani-poni-dash-is-funny-when-you-actually-get-it/comment-page-1/#comment-21767 harakiri Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:24:52 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2007/12/01/pani-poni-dash-is-funny-when-you-actually-get-it/#comment-21767 "I’ve found the hilarity of PPD episodes depends entirely on how much you just get it. " That's the biggest problem about the show. Other parody shows like the great Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi or The Simpsons use a lot of insider jokes but are told in a way that the whole concept even works for outsiders. I think that this is the art of making parodies: having a lot of nods to other shows but still being funny on its own. Unfortunately PPD only works for insiders. “I’ve found the hilarity of PPD episodes depends entirely on how much you just get it. ”

That’s the biggest problem about the show. Other parody shows like the great Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi or The Simpsons use a lot of insider jokes but are told in a way that the whole concept even works for outsiders.
I think that this is the art of making parodies: having a lot of nods to other shows but still being funny on its own.

Unfortunately PPD only works for insiders.

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