“All this daddy talk is deliberate. Trump’s supporters have adopted “Daddy Trump” as a key talking point, and they are using this paternal label to send a message. Critics decry the daddy talk as creepy, weird, and paternalistic – and it is all of those things. But something much deeper is going on here, and it explains Republican politics in a nutshell.”
This is the best scene in the entirety of IZ imo it’s literally perfect
according to the staff commentary for this episode, the script actually called for heavy traffic to be rushing past Dib and Zim in this scene, which is why they’re shouting at each other, and you can even still sort of hear the sound effects
but then, for whatever reason, in the finished episode they just
forgot the cars
@arr-jim-lad I’m CRYING is that actually a thing that happened, I can’t believe I’ve never heard this
YES
I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS AS A LITTLE KID AND THINKING IT WAS SO FUCKING FUNNY, ME AND MY BROTHER WERE DYING.
Another for the lost in translation category.
The original request from the writing team to the animation team was simply: “Rhys flips off the monitors as he runs by.” The intent was to have Rhys simply turn off the monitors in an act of defiance, but instead, the animation team interpreted it to mean that Rhys performs a crude gesture.
Apparently, creative director Nick Herman found the mistake to be too hilarious to not use, and so they wound up shipping it.
