#thank u so much for the ask!! ❤️ srry it took a while 😵‍💫

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can u elaborate on the Goes To Hell commentary on audience feedback? those r some of my fav eps and i never caught that

yes! i won’t lie this is gonna be a little vague because this is just my interpretation of the scene… but this interpretation started with my most recent rewatch of Goes to Hell from a few months ago.

and also Charlie Day talking on one of the podcasts about how he doesn’t really believe in explaining art. He likes the approach of putting something out there and never looking at the feedback or explaining your art. So I was thinking about that when I watched the scene where Charlie realizes the ship isn’t moving and they’re trapped— “I mean, it used to be I would never even leave Philly! But then you drag me into this and you drag me into that…” basically coming from Charlie wanting the show to stay grounded in reality in some way, then we move onto the discussion of how much noise the boat is making— this is where my interpretation of this convo having a subtext about audience feedback comes in.

They start debating how much noise a boat should make, when Dennis ends the conversation by saying “no, you’re all wrong. Boats are mostly computerized these days. They make a fake noise to make people feel better, but it’s not real.” and I took this to be about how audience feedback is much more easily collected due to social media. Esp bc around s11 is when Sunny started to have a social media presence, which is how a lot of audience feedback and data is collected nowadays rather than doing things like focus groups.

And in s11 there was already some discussion about ‘modern media’ practices, the subtext of Charlie Catches a Leprechaun is all about streaming! So a lot of that sounds vague, tbh my best advice is to rewatch the episode for yourself with this in mind and see if anything stands out, I’m kind of lost in the sauce so I barely trust my own judgement anymore for this show lol.