me at the grocery store: ugh I just want to find a brand of chips that doesn't have any wisecracking skeletons in it
the ever dependable québécois tostitos:
Oops!
You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes
F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???
Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖
If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you
Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned
Beauty in monotony will always get to me.
I think that's why I connected with Big Top Burger to begin with, and I can't help but feel that was hammered home beautifully in the finale. I LOVE the choice to reuse the song from the finale of season 1. I can't help but feel that both scenes show the heart of the show - beauty in monotony (Although you could also just say 'humanity' lol)
In the original season 1 finale, we see them taking off their make-up. It is such an intimate and vulnerable feeling scene to me, "Hey, here we are, the real us." The gentleness of the scene gets to me. The way the camera zooms in and lingers on moments of 'nothing in particular' is what I'm getting at. The yawn, taking their hats off, rubbing their eyes, taking off their clown noses and gloves, washing their hands, removing their face paint, and the final glance at each other... and stepping out of the truck. A show about anything else would just cut to them out of make-up, after all the audience can figure out they weren't 'real clowns'.
I mean, come on, that'd be ridiculous, right? Clowns aren't real.
We get to see pictures of everyone in their daily lives; getting drinks with Steve, Penny and her kid, Zomburger going out for drinks (without Cesare! - Coming back to that). Its all very slice of life, nothing like the theatrics of the show where Steve fought an elk, played cards with an elk, sold a burger to Austin Powers, sliced a food truck in half, etc. We finally get a shot of Steve sleeping, which feels as close to him taking off his make-up as we can get.
Before I start comparing all of this to the finale scene of season 3, I wanna point out that even the music feels intimate in the same way. This song and others start with, and or feature string slides prominently, including this one. (In professional music they tell you not to make that noise.) This combined with the overall sound quality gives the OST a very garage band feel, bringing forward that feeling of humanity. (Kind of how like "Undertale" is the most 'human' feeling track in its game. The teeny tiny errors in performances give them their humanity, something that cannot be replicated when making electronic tracks.) (Trying not to sob rn ngl) This "unprofessional" approach can even be heard in the voice recordings. I have a hard time believing Chris Flemming wouldn't be able to stop his mic from peaking... because it is peaking on purpose, further adding to the feeling of humanity breathing through the entire series.
If we look at the s1 and s3 finales next to each other... it is so cute. It starts the same, this time with Zomburger in focus. Their group is the last to leave the underground, and they are the only characters that get speaking lines. They're the only ones we get to watch walk away.
I like to think that the line "I thought you were all genuine clowns" is more significant than I originally thought. I remember being confused by the statement when I first heard it. Like... real clowns? What does he mean by that? Later on, I thought it was a reference to the fact that clowns in this world are actually real. I've since changed my mind again. When I made the video putting the two scenes side by side, I tried to start it exactly when the song starts, them lining up the way they did is purely Worthikids. (I'm likely off by a frame or two.) I feel that the blood coming out while the line is being finished is intentional.
If you change the line to target Zomburger, he might say something like "I thought you were all real, genuine zombies." to which they'd say "Dude. Zombies aren't real. That's wild." Cesare would step out the same way that Steve did, not commenting on the statement, after all he is a real clown zombie. Except that he isn't. He may have believed he was a servant of Caligari, an undead watcher, but not anymore. For the first time in a thousand years, Cesare believed he was alive. He's ready to be human. The joy he felt reuniting with his friends and getting right back to making terrible food. The next decade (I'm hoping that's accurate and not just something he's saying to comfort his friends... but if it is that's really sweet.) will be full of beautiful monotony, from childish rivalry with Bigtop Burger to long drives with Zomburger, he finally gets to be and feel "real".
I feel like I could keep going, but it would inevitably deteriorate into nonsense. I love the monotony of life, and I'm so happy Cesare gets to have 10 more years to feel it without the weight of Caligari on his shoulders. I'm excited for him to actually get drinks with his friends this time. Thank you for this wonderful show that reminds us not to take the little things for granted, because they are what make life worth living.
NOW GO BUY THE OST ITS PHENOMENAL AND ONLY $2!!!!!!!!!
https://worthikids.bandcamp.com/album/bigtop-burger-ost
If this is your first round on the 'US uses blatantly false evidence as an excuse to attack a country for purely selfish reasons' track, then let me save you a lot of future embarrassment:
You don't need to try to become a public expert on Venezuela or Maduro based on reading half the Wikipedia page or scrolling the Bluesky tags. You don't need to state any opinion on the former political situation of Venezuela at all. It's okay for now to admit that you know fuck all about it, or to just not speak on it.
An opinion like 'The US shouldn't use blatantly false evidence as an excuse to attack a country for purely selfish reasons' is a full opinion that doesn't require knowing exactly what was up in the country being attacked.
Don't fall for the temptation of 'the enemy of my enemy must be a friend, so I'm gonna get on their hill and write minimally-informed stuff about how great they are'. Trust me, you're gonna feel very silly about that later.
