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i just want to take a moment to congratulate the first week of november for somehow being the longest, and most compelling, part of the 500 years that has been 2020. what a ride.

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love how tumblr went from “LETS FUCKING GOOOO” to “this sucks and fuck you for being happy” the second they called it. if ur excited that biden won that doesnt make u stupid or bad or whatever. like yeah hes a pretty standard Old White Guy Politician and hes only gonna take us so far and we absolutely need to keep fighting but this is still a pretty goddamn important step right now and you can be happy about it while still acknowledging that the fight is far from over

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What I wanted from the most recent mbmbam episode: an update on the teeth they're selling

What I got: an hour long discussion of the upcoming film War With Grandpa

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yo FUCK baby yoda we love baby appa in this house

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…your job has so few bennys

you get what? maybe if your lucky–insurance. maybe like a parking space, right? maybe even a company car. but water is a basic human–

IT’S SO SHITTY! THESE COWORKERS ARE COMPLAINING LIKE:

“yeah, we’ve all signed on to work until our bodies die and we’ll be kept at sort of the poverty line the entire time but TOO MUCH FREE WA-WA DON’T YA THINK JEFFY?”

…

iτ’s τhε fυcκiηg–

THE FUCKIN’ GALL

‘"Are you gonna replace that?’"

THE FUCKIN’ GALL OF IT

NO ONE WANTS TO BE HERE!

IT’S

💧WATER 💧

CAN YOU NOT JUST FUCKING CHILL?

GO TO THE SINK–THE SINK WATER’S FUCKING FINE—

WE SHOULD BE IN THE BOSS’S OFFICE 

FUCKING

TEARING THEM LIMB FROM LIMB 

FOR WHAT THEY ARE DOING FOR US

AND THEN WE ARE GOING TO TAKE THIS BUILDING HOSTAGE

AND DISMANTLE THE ENTIRE FUCKING ECONOMY 

BRICK BY BRICK and NAIL BY NAIL

bUT YOU ARE IN HERE LIKE

“too much WATER🚱 DOUGY”

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

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I think part of what makes the McElroys so lovable for millennials and gen z is that they’re a REAL underdog success story. All the ones about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs starting Apple and Microsoft from sheds and Jeff Bezos starting Amazon from a shed are wrong. They all came from well-off backgrounds with upper-class privilege coming out their goddamn ears, but the brothers didn’t.

They really were just three ordinary boys from West Virginia, and if you listen to Griffin’s Florida State lecture (the whole thing’s on youtube) he talks about how rough things were for them when they started their podcast. He mentions how they were in mourning over their mother, fighting all the time, and ready to separate forever, but held on and decided not to abandon each other in the thick of it. And things were still rough, because their father had to work stupid hours at the radio station to support himself, and the brothers were trying to make it in game journalism.

And then they started MBMBaM, a goofy bad advice podcast full of improvised bits and comedy segments, and it blew up. They started TAZ, a fun D&D podcast where they played with their dad, and were able to bond together and let him retire comfortably on the revenue it generated, and now Clint oversees the TAZ graphic novel series that’s still releasing issues and spends boatloads of quality time with his three sons. Monster Factory is just a funny game stream where Justin and Griffin try to destroy character creators as much as possible, but it’s one of their biggest IPs. Their TV show was short-lived but explosively popular among their fanbase.

They sell out entire stadiums and Lin-Manuel Miranda plays them We Didn’t Start the Fire parodies as they walk on and people lose their collective minds. Tom Holland fanboys over them at SDCC. People come from all over the place to hear them perform, and that performance never got less authentic. It’s just three brothers and their dad being goofy together and trying to make each other laugh. And the laughter and love they carried for each other was so contagious that it made an entire world of people love them, too. 

Maybe they’re a bit weird, and their jokes don’t always land, but they’re not always supposed to, because it really is just a tight-knit family living in the moment. And in this world where our two generations may be close to each other but horribly disadvantaged socio-economically, the idea that these three boys carved out a way for themselves through the sheer force of their own happiness out of such a dark place is more hopeful than any “millennials are killing the mayo industry” article ever written.

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I pray to the lord this isn’t an unpopular opinion but Play Along at Home! is one of my favorite mbmbam bits. Travis deadpan doing the bit, Justin going along with it and having fun, seemingly because Griffin is absolutely LOSING his MIND over how much he hates the bit but still plays along too.

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Local West Virginia boys make talented tony/oscar winner talk about how big Nintendo character Mario’s genitals are.

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BABY RACCOONS COVER THEIR EYES WHEN THEY GET SCARED AND OMG I JUST CANT ITS SO PRECIOUS

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“You will pay for this, Karen.”

Via Cats2K

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“She loves to PLAY with (not eat) cherries 🍒”

(Source)

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Love how Aang had to sneak into the Fire Nation on a specific day of the year to get Roku to start talking to him while Kyoshi came back from the Spirit World just to tell a group of villagers “YES I DID kill your ancestor because he was a COLONIZER what are you going to DO about it??” 

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Men sleeping is just so adorable to me, idk why lol. It’s like y'all finally peaceful and not doing no dumb shit, I love it

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in this house we are violently anti sparkling water