Mitch4: I would actually say it’s the opposite. “Oh those kids today” is about how the kids today are into silly fads. An alien monolith would legitimately be a very big deal, and someone who lumped it in with other things “kids today” liked, would have a badly skewed perspective.
Winter Wallaby. But that’s the point. It’s not the kids into silly fads that’s the joke; its the grups who dismiss everything as just kids into silly fads.
@chipchristian: Just as well, not many of us would recognize Clarke or Kubrick. Just their work. However, your revelation does lend the comic an additional layer of confusing.
I like chipchristian’s idea, but neither of the characters drawn here looks anything like any photo of Clark or Kubrick that I could find. It would have been a superb addition to the humor.
P.S. Near the end of the first “Incredibles” movie, there is a gag with two men commenting about “old school (action)”, but it’s actually a deferential nod to a pair of classic animators, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of Disney’s “Nine Old Men”, who provided their own voices for the cameo.
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This one is a repeat from March.
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Did we solve it then? I think the 24 hour project would be fair game to repost ones that never got solved…
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@ larK – I thought the previous solution was sufficient, but I’m not qualified to be an impartial judge. ;-)
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Isn’t it basically “Oh those kids today!” — just as the dialog has it?
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Mitch4: I would actually say it’s the opposite. “Oh those kids today” is about how the kids today are into silly fads. An alien monolith would legitimately be a very big deal, and someone who lumped it in with other things “kids today” liked, would have a badly skewed perspective.
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Winter Wallaby. But that’s the point. It’s not the kids into silly fads that’s the joke; its the grups who dismiss everything as just kids into silly fads.
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They are drawn very distinctly, but not recognizably as Clarke and Kubrick.
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That monolith is so over evolution. Last time it was here their ancestors worshipped it. Now it’s just a minor curiosity.
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@chipchristian: Just as well, not many of us would recognize Clarke or Kubrick. Just their work. However, your revelation does lend the comic an additional layer of confusing.
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Perhaps the kids are supposed to remind you of the apes in the movie.
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I like chipchristian’s idea, but neither of the characters drawn here looks anything like any photo of Clark or Kubrick that I could find. It would have been a superb addition to the humor.
P.S. Near the end of the first “Incredibles” movie, there is a gag with two men commenting about “old school (action)”, but it’s actually a deferential nod to a pair of classic animators, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of Disney’s “Nine Old Men”, who provided their own voices for the cameo.
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