That was really funny. I saw it when it aired Saturday night.

Hilarious.

I hope I'm not the only person who thought this was terrible and not funny at all, possibly the epitome of everything that is wrong with TV

Nope you are not alone. :sigh:

Yeah, I really didn't find it funny.

Aw come on, it's taking cracks at both Apple and the Iraq War at the same time! What's not to love?

Some parts made me laugh. Mostly thought they were trying too hard. The Internet pwns TV nowadays.

well... if it was only a joke then it was slightly humorous... if that is actually someone trying to get a point across, then not so much.

I don't know. Maybe I'm just sick to bloody death of hearing about how Iraq's one giant cluster****. I know we get it. We ****ed up. Let's move ON!

What he said... That and Mad TV just isnt funny anyway.

I didn't get it until over halfway through. I kept waiting for a boobs punchline. :saddowns:

Also, MadTV is not funny at all.

I thought the Applei jiibes were funny, but the iraq jokes could've been done far more subtly

I enjoyed it <_<

We're sending more troops to Iraq and you want to move on? That's kind of difficult to do.

To be honest, that is news to me. I've not been following news as much as I have of late.

Hey... look at the bright side. Our new democratic congress is working to pass legislation which would pull nearly all troops out of Iraq by the end of the year.

Too bad Bush has already stated he will veto any bill of the sort. Dick.

That it does both badly?

Both "i" jokes and Iraq jokes have been tired for years, the acting and delivery is horrible, and the comparison doesn't even make sense

I thought this was about the other kind of racks $_$

The one part that made me laugh was "The iRack looks like it doesn't even want those things in there."

It had its funny parts, but it was forced.



An example of forcing the metaphor of the iRack as the Iraq War.

They took two unfunny premises and through them together to create a nexus of unfunny.

Wow, MadTV isn't even original anymore.

Oh, great, more political rhetoric. Just what television needed.

Is it just me or has youtube been really slow for the last few weeks? I almost always have to wait for the whole movie to load until I can watch it.

[Edit: Wasn't worth the wait. :(]

Yeah, the mother****er wants servicemembers to be able to sleep at night.

What an *******.

haha me too

So...they can sleep encamped in a hopelessly stupid and malicious war that will never end where soldiers are attacked weekly if not daily...but they can't sleep at home?

Makes sense, I guess.

This is the war that never ends! Some people started fighting it...


Ok, you can slap me now.

I think you missed the point.

That's okay it's kind of hard to explain.

You know... usually... I wouldn't mind an asinine post like that... but the fact of the matter is, 3,100+ american boys, mostly under the age of 20, have lost their lives in this war.

It's okay to joke about certain things. This is not one of them. Shut the **** up.

Huh, that's funny, because I don't think you had a point. At all. I'm willing to listen if I was wrong however.

I just want to end this war. It's destroying our economy, undermining the strength of our army (people are still dying), killing thousands on our side, and hundreds of thousands on the other side, and is just pointless and, like I said, unending.

I did have a point.

I didn't want to go through with explaining it because it isn't a good reason to stay in Iraq. It is, however, something that you have to consider.

A huge amount of Vietnam veterans have nightmares that they feel resulted from the US pulling out of Vietnam.

I have nightmares about going to Iraq often. It's a normal thing. But many servicemembers I talk to (keep in mind, I'm part of the infantry/scout group of yahoos, not admin or logistics) say they are going to have trouble dealing with the emotional upset of seemingly having all their work nullified.

At the start of Gulf War part deux. Gulf War I vets sought counseling in unprecedented numbers. Even though there was a very limited amount of combat, people who did anything stressful (spending two days at MOPP level 4 will fry your brain, I promise Yoshi) had issues afterwards. When the sequel started, many reported feelings of incompetence.

It's strikingly similar to what happened to Vietnam Veterans. It's like premature ejaculation but on a level that undermines your manhood on a WAY deeper level.

Anyway, that was (well, sort of, it's kind of muddled in that explanation) my point. It's not an argument ending point, but it's one I like to point out. People say "pull out right now for the troops" when we are practicing being nice to people while we search them so that they won't hate us and we can stay there.

The US Military is not a group of conscripts. They are (for the most part) professionals who want to be there and do their jobs. And I personally want to go there, and stay there, so that my son or daughter doesn't have to be on the invasion of the NEXT Iraq war.

They may be upset, but they'll have their lives. Christ, everyone knows war creates disorders out the wazoo, but would you rather be a little frazzled, or would you rather be shipped off to your family in a casket with a flag draped over it (or at least what's left of you).

This isn't even touching the political, economical, or any of the other effects this war is having on us.

Guys...this horse is now bones. There is nothing more to beat...

That is a really, really complicated question.



I know. Didn't I say that?

Woah. I read about until the third line of that post.

Check this out: Service members had nightmares about BEING IN VIETNAM... not about pulling out of it. I'm pretty sure about fifty thousand marines had dreams about pulling out of Vietnam.

The fact of the matter is, Gulf War part Deux is now solving nothing... similar to how 'Nam didn't solve anything. All it did was ruin American society by dividing it by opinion; not to mention ruining the national budget.

Believe me, I'm behind "the troops" 100%. I just don't think 3,100 troops should have died so far in an absolutely fruitless war.

When will this war be over? 2008? Most likely. When a democratic president is elected. But by that time, the American troop death toll will probably be around 5-6000... and I find that unaccepatble.

Uh, dude, he's IN the war. No offense, but I'm sure he'd know the aftereffects of what's going on more than we would.

But Spook--granted you're going to have nightmares about the war, no matter what happens. Realize, no matter what your hard work is going to be for naught; it's just whether this comes to life now or ten years from now. Honestly, whether you stay or go, you're going to have bad memories and bad dreams and a lot of psychological problems, but would you rather have them while in harm's way, in danger of death, or in the safety of your own home where you can get some help?

EDIT: And JG, why don't you actually read the context, instead of blindly following everything Jon`C says? Honestly, this isn't at all a topic that's been touched on yet.

Oh, but wait, the fact that you didn't feel it necessary to say anything like this about the video posted in the original topic, makes you a hypocrite. Way to use the deaths of 3100+ American boys as a platform for your self-righteousness. Jerk.

Notice how he doesn't go off on the the joke made by the people he agrees with but does go off on the guy who has a history of disagreeing with him.

Because the video is a satire and isn't making fun of the boys giving it up for...well for those people they're killing and getting killed by over there. The video makes fun of GW for putting them in that position in the first place. Now THIS is a dead horse, so stop going down this path Obi.