I was on Wikipedia and got stuck in
what I call a “Wikihole.” I forget where I started but I ended up
on a list of weird deaths throughout history. I read about a guy that
died laughing. There have been a few of these but they were hundreds
of years ago so there is not video of it...yet. I read about this 50
year old dude named Alex Mitchell that could not stop laughing while
watching an episode of the show The Goodies. Specifically an episode
known as Kung Fu Kapers and Ecky Thump. They had parts of it on
Youtube but Daily Motion has the entire episode to watch. I streamed
it through my Chromecast (best $30 ever spent) and prepared for my
possible hilarious demise. I've never watched this show and do not
plan on watching again so I don't care about these guys names.
One dude is teaching another kung fu
and a third guy shows up telling them how he has a far more effective
method. He refuses to teach them and they egg him on with insults
until he relents the next day. They attack him with kung fu which
does not work. Dressing in blackface with an afro and everything with
does not work. A french getup with bread, random Asian sound effects, a Scottish dude. Nothing
works. He just bonks them with black pudding and wins. They
eventually put robotics into black pudding and attack the guy with
remote control black pudding which pretty much looks like a bunch of
dicks attacking them from the skies.
I didn't laugh once. No, I did laugh. I
laughed at stuff I was saying during the show. Seriously. It looked
like dude was knocking people unconscious with big, black dicks. I
wasn't mad about the blackface stuff because this shit came out years
before I was born. Its always silly to me when people get offended by
old shit. They bring their present day anger to the past which is a
great way to live a miserable life. I like stuff like Monty Python
and other random thing B&H have shown me. But this show is not for me.
And as you can tell by the fact that I am posting this, I did not die
laughing.
I FUCKING LOVE The Goodies. My kid was weaned on them. Although it is my understanding they were terribly sexist, as were the Python gang.
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