marqueemoon
Have you seen this? It really bothers me that this is someone's idea of humor.
Cyclist gets doored in "Pink Panther" movie commercial.
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Treespeed
But were they riding in the door zone? HH would say they doored themselves.
mrkott3r
linky?
lyledriver
Oh man, it made me so angry in Waynes World, when that girl endo'ed over the hood of the car!
It really bothers me that that was someones idea of humour.
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Lighten up?
It really bothers me that that was someones idea of humour.
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Lighten up?
Markio
Does this seriously bother you?
Like, seriously?
I'm all for cycling safety, but watching someone get doored is hilarious. Especially in a comedy.
Like, seriously?
I'm all for cycling safety, but watching someone get doored is hilarious. Especially in a comedy.
velonomad
I'm still pissed that Team Cinzano stuck a pump in Dave's front wheel
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RegularGuy
Mel Brooks said, "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die."
In other words, humor is subjective.
When Curly gets an anvil dropped on his head in a Three Stooges short, we laugh because we know it isn't real. Curly didn't get hurt. It's slapstick.
When someone gets hit with an anvil in real life, it hurts. It kills them. Nobody laughs. Well, maybe a few extreme sadists laugh, but they are sick people.
When the girl in Wayne's World goes over the hood of the car, or when Inspector Clouseau gets doored, most people laugh. They know that the actors didn't get hurt. It's slapstick.
Some cyclists don't see the humor in these situations because, frankly, we're too close to it. It could happen to us and it would hurt if it did.
Except for a very few extreme sadists and road raging morons, no one laughs when these things happen in real life and real people get hurt.
In other words, humor is subjective.
When Curly gets an anvil dropped on his head in a Three Stooges short, we laugh because we know it isn't real. Curly didn't get hurt. It's slapstick.
When someone gets hit with an anvil in real life, it hurts. It kills them. Nobody laughs. Well, maybe a few extreme sadists laugh, but they are sick people.
When the girl in Wayne's World goes over the hood of the car, or when Inspector Clouseau gets doored, most people laugh. They know that the actors didn't get hurt. It's slapstick.
Some cyclists don't see the humor in these situations because, frankly, we're too close to it. It could happen to us and it would hurt if it did.
Except for a very few extreme sadists and road raging morons, no one laughs when these things happen in real life and real people get hurt.
AndyGrow
It's called HUMOR.
You can find it at your local Toys 'R Us. Heck, I think even WalMart has it now. Go check it out...
You can find it at your local Toys 'R Us. Heck, I think even WalMart has it now. Go check it out...
NM-NewRoadie
I agree, your REALLY offended by this? someone needs to get a since of humor.
GGDub
I was always deeply offended when the roadrunner was able to go right through the painted on tunnel while Wil-E-Coyote would smack right into it.
Meep Meep!
Meep Meep!
Treespeed
A since of humor? Is this how long someone has gone without laughing?
Keith99
I in some ways side with teh original poster. There seems to me to be far too much of this kind of 'humor' where there is NOTHING besides someone getting 'hurt'.
But only somewhat. If I remember the wayns world bit there was more, if just face and clothes. If it has something more, be it the bad guy gets his just deserts or it is just one more thing for the clutzy hero (yea so until I see the new version of the Pink Panther I will assume it works in that film) or it is set up well or even if it is just so absurd that you can not take it seriously, then it is likely funny.
On the other hand if the poster finds it not funny just because it is cycling and finds the same thing funny if it is not cycling I have to disagree. The same rules apply. In fact I would say it is perhaps a bit more funny to me when things like this involve things I actually do. It is good to laugh at yourself.
But only somewhat. If I remember the wayns world bit there was more, if just face and clothes. If it has something more, be it the bad guy gets his just deserts or it is just one more thing for the clutzy hero (yea so until I see the new version of the Pink Panther I will assume it works in that film) or it is set up well or even if it is just so absurd that you can not take it seriously, then it is likely funny.
On the other hand if the poster finds it not funny just because it is cycling and finds the same thing funny if it is not cycling I have to disagree. The same rules apply. In fact I would say it is perhaps a bit more funny to me when things like this involve things I actually do. It is good to laugh at yourself.
marqueemoon
Does this seriously bother you?
Like, seriously?
I'm all for cycling safety, but watching someone get doored is hilarious. Especially in a comedy.
Have you seen the commercial?
Maybe in the context of the movie it's funnier, but in the commercial it's not funny to me because, unlike you, I don't think a cyclist getting doored has any inherent comedic value. Sorry if that makes me uptight. :rolleyes:
Like, seriously?
I'm all for cycling safety, but watching someone get doored is hilarious. Especially in a comedy.
Have you seen the commercial?
Maybe in the context of the movie it's funnier, but in the commercial it's not funny to me because, unlike you, I don't think a cyclist getting doored has any inherent comedic value. Sorry if that makes me uptight. :rolleyes:
John E
A cyclist getting doored in a commercial or a movie might be good for us, because it would graphically illustrate why we should avoid the door zone. Great training for motorists and for nonvehicular cyclists.
supcom
Have you seen the commercial?
Maybe in the context of the movie it's funnier, but in the commercial it's not funny to me because, unlike you, I don't think a cyclist getting doored has any inherent comedic value. Sorry if that makes me uptight. :rolleyes:
OK, it's not funny to you. I believe you. But it's no big deal and not worthy of outrage.
Almost all humor is making fun of somebody. Cyclists are not exempt from a turn in the barrel.
Maybe in the context of the movie it's funnier, but in the commercial it's not funny to me because, unlike you, I don't think a cyclist getting doored has any inherent comedic value. Sorry if that makes me uptight. :rolleyes:
OK, it's not funny to you. I believe you. But it's no big deal and not worthy of outrage.
Almost all humor is making fun of somebody. Cyclists are not exempt from a turn in the barrel.
marqueemoon
all humor is making fun of somebody. Cyclists are not exempt from a turn in the barrel.
I agree with you completely there, and like John E pointed out, there could be some value in this image in reminding us how unpleasant the real thing is. I hope the stunt rider was paid well for his services :)
I agree with you completely there, and like John E pointed out, there could be some value in this image in reminding us how unpleasant the real thing is. I hope the stunt rider was paid well for his services :)
genec
I agree with you completely there, and like John E pointed out, there could be some value in this image in reminding us how unpleasant the real thing is. I hope the stunt rider was paid well for his services :)
While I tend to agree with you and John E... somehow in the back of my mind I suspect that this will encourage certain juvenile types to try to duplicate the situation from the motorist's perspective... a'la "Jackass" and other stupid human tricks.
While I tend to agree with you and John E... somehow in the back of my mind I suspect that this will encourage certain juvenile types to try to duplicate the situation from the motorist's perspective... a'la "Jackass" and other stupid human tricks.
CommuterRun
Did he, at least, aim for the person getting out of the car?
BeTheChange
When I saw the commercial the person getting doored was on the right side of the car. Unless it was a one-way street they were riding on the sidewalk anyways. That's just what I caught from the comercial. Also dude falls down stairs and through a floor. If it bugs you that much just watch the movie and hope that the good inspector gets hurt, because I believe him getting hurt is the premise of the movie.
PKG
I agree, it is funny. When someone in a film falls down a flight of stairs, do you get angry over that? We all walk. Do the people from "Walking" magazine write letters when someone on film walks into a glass door? I dont think so, lighten up a bit and have a laugh. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
PKG
I'm still pissed that Team Cinzano stuck a pump in Dave's front wheel
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that was a nasty spill...
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that was a nasty spill...
KrisPistofferson
Sorry if that makes me uptight. :rolleyes:It does, though. Reminds me of another thread... (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=120745&highlight=dunkin)
KrisPistofferson
Ha ha, from the other thread, probably ILTB's finest post-
No need to identify yourself when complaining about the DD ad in these emails.
It will be obvious to the recipients that the writer is a clueless, oversensitive yokel without a sense of humor who apparantly reviews commercial/advertisement for "insensitivity" to every dang fool on the block.
Either that or a trial lawyer dreaming up a new business scheme.
No need to identify yourself when complaining about the DD ad in these emails.
It will be obvious to the recipients that the writer is a clueless, oversensitive yokel without a sense of humor who apparantly reviews commercial/advertisement for "insensitivity" to every dang fool on the block.
Either that or a trial lawyer dreaming up a new business scheme.
cheg
Did you see the part where the guy strapped to the hospital gurney rolls down a flight of stairs, through a window, and flies into the Seine River? That just chaps my hide. It's an insult to French hospital patients and their heroic caregivers.
dobber
Did you see the part where the guy strapped to the hospital gurney rolls down a flight of stairs, through a window, and flies into the Seine River? That just chaps my hide. It's an insult to French hospital patients and their heroic caregivers.
You left out hospital gurneys, you insensitive clod.
You left out hospital gurneys, you insensitive clod.
JohnBrooking
A cyclist getting doored in a commercial or a movie might be good for us, because it would graphically illustrate why we should avoid the door zone. Great training for motorists and for nonvehicular cyclists.
It might also graphically reinforce to non-cyclists that cycling is inherently dangerous and to be avoided. :(
It might also graphically reinforce to non-cyclists that cycling is inherently dangerous and to be avoided. :(
I-Like-To-Bike
It might also graphically reinforce to non-cyclists that cycling is inherently dangerous and to be avoided. :(
And watching comedy movies of old reinforced the idea for non pastry-eaters that pies were inherently a weapon to throw in someone else's face before it was tossed in your own. Lighten up!
And watching comedy movies of old reinforced the idea for non pastry-eaters that pies were inherently a weapon to throw in someone else's face before it was tossed in your own. Lighten up!
JohnBrooking
And watching comedy movies of old reinforced the idea for non pastry-eaters that pies were inherently a weapon to throw in someone else's face before it was tossed in your own. Lighten up!
I was merely playing devil's advocate to John E's suggestion that it might be a "good thing." I realize that his suggestion was rather tongue-in-cheek, and that is how I meant mine. (Although I still insist there might be a grain of truth in it.) I probably should have used a smiley. :)
As to the humor or not of the sequence itself, I have mixed feelings. This is obviously an instance of slapstick, and in a sense we are attempting to answer the general question "Is mildly violent slapstick funny?". I agree with those who say it is a subjective question with a subjective answer. I personally might not think that this sequence is funny, because as someone else observed, it strikes rather close to home for me. On the other hand, if it's done well, I still might not be able to help bursting out laughing in spite of myself. (I should state that I haven't actually seen the commercial, so this is all just speculative.) But in any case, even if I personally don't feel it's funny, I'm not going to extend that to insisting that no one else should find it funny either. Humor by nature is subjective, so I don't think there's a "right" answer here.
By the way, I recently read a mystery short story in which someone dressed as a clown actually died by a pie in the face which turned out to be made of plaster and suffocated him. Not that that's relevant to this discussion, just kind of humorous that you should bring that up so soon after I read that story... :D
I was merely playing devil's advocate to John E's suggestion that it might be a "good thing." I realize that his suggestion was rather tongue-in-cheek, and that is how I meant mine. (Although I still insist there might be a grain of truth in it.) I probably should have used a smiley. :)
As to the humor or not of the sequence itself, I have mixed feelings. This is obviously an instance of slapstick, and in a sense we are attempting to answer the general question "Is mildly violent slapstick funny?". I agree with those who say it is a subjective question with a subjective answer. I personally might not think that this sequence is funny, because as someone else observed, it strikes rather close to home for me. On the other hand, if it's done well, I still might not be able to help bursting out laughing in spite of myself. (I should state that I haven't actually seen the commercial, so this is all just speculative.) But in any case, even if I personally don't feel it's funny, I'm not going to extend that to insisting that no one else should find it funny either. Humor by nature is subjective, so I don't think there's a "right" answer here.
By the way, I recently read a mystery short story in which someone dressed as a clown actually died by a pie in the face which turned out to be made of plaster and suffocated him. Not that that's relevant to this discussion, just kind of humorous that you should bring that up so soon after I read that story... :D
oboeguy
So here's the question, would it be funny if two cars crashed head on?
Didn't think so.
Didn't think so.
I-Like-To-Bike
So here's the question, would it be funny if two cars crashed head on?
I get a good laugh everytimewatching the current Allstate commercial showing all kinds of staged fender benders. Ha, Ha.
Lighten up!
I get a good laugh everytimewatching the current Allstate commercial showing all kinds of staged fender benders. Ha, Ha.
Lighten up!
twahl
So here's the question, would it be funny if two cars crashed head on?
Didn't think so.
Sometimes. refer to the earlier posts about "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "Smokey & The Bandit" in another thread.
Didn't think so.
Sometimes. refer to the earlier posts about "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "Smokey & The Bandit" in another thread.
vleett
I wonder how much they paid that person to get doored in the commercial...haha..
I have not seen it personally, but was the cyclist wearing a helmet?
I have not seen it personally, but was the cyclist wearing a helmet?
closetbiker
The biggest concern I had when I saw it was that the movie is going to be lame.
I mean, after "Son of the Pink Panther" the franchise is on shaky ground. That "bike being doored" shtick is pretty well done (as in, not fresh) and if that's one of the "good" jokes they're using to lure people into theatres, I'll have to take a moment and grieve for Peter Sellers.
I mean, after "Son of the Pink Panther" the franchise is on shaky ground. That "bike being doored" shtick is pretty well done (as in, not fresh) and if that's one of the "good" jokes they're using to lure people into theatres, I'll have to take a moment and grieve for Peter Sellers.
brokenrobot
Haven't seen the ad... but everyone knows the movie is slapstick, about a detective who pays his assistant to try to kill him so that he's always "on his toes", yes?
Brian Ratliff
Inspector Cluso also falls from a second floor into a lobby after soaking the floor and somehow gets right up and makes a cute comment about needing some towels, or something.
It's all slapstick. You have to admit, on some level, as long is no one is hurt, certain types of bike accidents look kind of funny. I one time took an ender because I was trying to lift my front wheel over a curb and timed it wrong. Over the handlebars I went, right in front of half a dozen people.
At some point, we've got to laugh it off.
It's all slapstick. You have to admit, on some level, as long is no one is hurt, certain types of bike accidents look kind of funny. I one time took an ender because I was trying to lift my front wheel over a curb and timed it wrong. Over the handlebars I went, right in front of half a dozen people.
At some point, we've got to laugh it off.
thebankman
I can just see bratty American kids opening the doors to their SUVs to try and hit cyclists after watching this movie, "cuz it's funnay mommy!" Damn kids and their funny...
webist
America's Funniest Home Videos is nearly all about pratfalls, accidents and mishaps of one kind or another. Some look as though an ambulance should have been called right after the clip was filmed. Yet - My wife and I laugh all the way through it. The film is a comedy and marketed as such. It would be different if it was billed as, "Come witness dramatic cycling deaths and injuries!" or "Enjoy and uninterupted hour of fun as cyclists are taken out by motorists."
This needs some perspective. I LMAO at my only tipover incident while clipped into my pedals. It hurt but it was also rediculously funny.
This needs some perspective. I LMAO at my only tipover incident while clipped into my pedals. It hurt but it was also rediculously funny.
chocula
The dooring scene is not in the trailer http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/thepinkpanther/ ), but it does feature a scene in which a bunch of bicycle racers crash after a large globe, accidentally knocked off its pedestal by the inspector, rolls into their path. So there may be more than one bicycle gag in the picture.
closetbiker
From,
How to write humor, by Jim Foreman
So what is humor?
Humor is the product of a surprise ending applied to a normal situation, and the more unusual the surprise ending, the more intense will be the humor. Charlie Chaplin best described what was funny. "You take a woman walking down the sidewalk. Show the audience a banana peel in front of her. Everyone knows that she is going to step on the banana peel and do a pratfall. At the last instant, she sees the banana peel, steps over it and falls into an open manhole that neither she nor the audience knew was there."
To me, the old "dooring of a bike" is just too predictable and old, and unless this is shown in a new way, just indicates a desecration of the great, old Pink Panther series for a quick buck by lame hacks. (please Mr. Martin, don't blow it)
How to write humor, by Jim Foreman
So what is humor?
Humor is the product of a surprise ending applied to a normal situation, and the more unusual the surprise ending, the more intense will be the humor. Charlie Chaplin best described what was funny. "You take a woman walking down the sidewalk. Show the audience a banana peel in front of her. Everyone knows that she is going to step on the banana peel and do a pratfall. At the last instant, she sees the banana peel, steps over it and falls into an open manhole that neither she nor the audience knew was there."
To me, the old "dooring of a bike" is just too predictable and old, and unless this is shown in a new way, just indicates a desecration of the great, old Pink Panther series for a quick buck by lame hacks. (please Mr. Martin, don't blow it)
budster
The biggest concern I had when I saw it was that the movie is going to be lame.
I mean, after "Son of the Pink Panther" the franchise is on shaky ground. That "bike being doored" shtick is pretty well done (as in, not fresh) and if that's one of the "good" jokes they're using to lure people into theatres, I'll have to take a moment and grieve for Peter Sellers.
+1
I mean, after "Son of the Pink Panther" the franchise is on shaky ground. That "bike being doored" shtick is pretty well done (as in, not fresh) and if that's one of the "good" jokes they're using to lure people into theatres, I'll have to take a moment and grieve for Peter Sellers.
+1
marqueemoon
I wonder how much they paid that person to get doored in the commercial...haha..
I have not seen it personally, but was the cyclist wearing a helmet?
Yes. The cyclist is wearing a helmet.
I have not seen it personally, but was the cyclist wearing a helmet?
Yes. The cyclist is wearing a helmet.
sbhikes
Have you seen the insurance commercial where a car gets doored by another car?
webist
Have you seen the insurance commercial where a car gets doored by another car?
Indeed. Laughed at it too.
Indeed. Laughed at it too.
velonomad
personally I am pissed at Geico Insurance, They kept showing that commercial with those two squirrels playing chicken with a car and causing the poor motorist to have an accident! The two a-hole squirrels then laugh and high-five! :mad:
so what has happened now? every damn squirrel in the country must have saw that commercial because nearly every time I'm in my car one of them little SOB's runs out onto the roadway trying to wreck me, But hah! I fixed their furry azzes! I don't swerve anymore HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
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so what has happened now? every damn squirrel in the country must have saw that commercial because nearly every time I'm in my car one of them little SOB's runs out onto the roadway trying to wreck me, But hah! I fixed their furry azzes! I don't swerve anymore HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
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JASON R. TOMSIC
It just goes to show- You just can't beat "A Shot In The Dark."... when Elke get's those goose bumps... now that's funny!
I-Like-To-Bike
It just goes to show- You just can't beat "A Shot In The Dark."... when Elke get's those goose bumps... now that's funny!
I don't know for 60 seconds of TV entertainment it is hard to beat the Miller Lite ad of abouttwo years ago shown during football season featuring the Cat Fight. The 60 second version was shown only on cable T (ESPN)V, the 30 second spot on broadcast TV. The difference: the great ending imagined by one one of the spacey dudes and acted upon by the fighting ladies. If you saw it you'd remember it. Search for it on the Internet if not.
I don't know for 60 seconds of TV entertainment it is hard to beat the Miller Lite ad of abouttwo years ago shown during football season featuring the Cat Fight. The 60 second version was shown only on cable T (ESPN)V, the 30 second spot on broadcast TV. The difference: the great ending imagined by one one of the spacey dudes and acted upon by the fighting ladies. If you saw it you'd remember it. Search for it on the Internet if not.
closetbiker
Well, it's out and it sucks.
Rotten tomatoes dot com gives it a 25%.
Ebert says, "it's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf...I hadn't realized how thoroughly Sellers and Edwards had colonized my memory. Despite Sean Connery I was able to accept the other James Bonds, just as I understand that different actors might play Hamlet. But there is only one Clouseau, and zat ees zat."
Rotten tomatoes dot com gives it a 25%.
Ebert says, "it's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf...I hadn't realized how thoroughly Sellers and Edwards had colonized my memory. Despite Sean Connery I was able to accept the other James Bonds, just as I understand that different actors might play Hamlet. But there is only one Clouseau, and zat ees zat."
pharnabazos
So here's the question, would it be funny if two cars crashed head on?
Didn't think so.
This is kinda funny....
Didn't think so.
This is kinda funny....
Keith99
So here's the question, would it be funny if two cars crashed head on?
Didn't think so.
No car crashes are only funny if they side swipe like in "The Karate Kid" or if they roll over and a fat cop or bad guy gets out of one cursing (or as close to cursing as they can come and keep their rating).
Didn't think so.
No car crashes are only funny if they side swipe like in "The Karate Kid" or if they roll over and a fat cop or bad guy gets out of one cursing (or as close to cursing as they can come and keep their rating).
nicomachus
A cyclist gets rammed in this Degree deodorant commercial, which aired during the Superbowl to millions of viewers worldwide.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2460944945363859076
Maybe we should all boycott Degree :rolleyes:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2460944945363859076
Maybe we should all boycott Degree :rolleyes:
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