babe,

why is this actually one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen .

this 7 second video has no business being this funny

okay but why was he summoning pterodactyls?

You spark joy!

This feels like a threat

Spark joy

Princess Azula in The Day of Black Sun

Fire Lady Katara. Arguably the fairest, definitely the kindest, and undeniably the strongest Fire Lady. WIP. 

Evening dress ca. 1860’s

From the Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil de Terrassa

i love that everyone who absorbs any and all mcelroy content starts to talk like That

This is so unnervingly accurate tho. Like my boyfriend has only been on the periphery of my mcelroy obsession and the other night at the bar he referred to our bartender as “that good juicy boy”

Yhall know that that’s how the Appalachian dialect works, right?  The overly-flowery descriptors, the pausing in the middle of a sentence and everyone knowing that you’re trying to think of the rest of your sick burn, the specific word-choice, etc.

Like one of the reasons I like this show is because I use this dialect, I was raised in it, and I very rarely see it in media, even in media that is decidedly “redneck”, because if you go into media you’re specifically instructe not to speak like that because it makes you look stupid.  I’ve made a lot of posts on this topic, but a big reason that mainstream America finds this dialect funny even when it’s not being played by the people for laughs is because it’s usually paired with the accent.  The McElroy boys seem to go out of their way to control their accents- but it does come out if they get tickled or don’t pay very close attention.  But literally everyone in Appalachia uses the same exact dialect, turn-of-phrase, and word choice that they use on this show, and it’s really refreshing to me to see it.

So it just kind of bothers me that this is being passed off as a McElroy thing, as if they invented it.  Because what that does is just further the divide.  It’s not intelligent when /I/ do it, or anyone else who’s still told that speaking like that makes them look so dumb they should take voice lessons to prevent it, that flowery language is time consuming, that constant puns are annoying, that often forgetting simple words and replacing them with polysylabic ones makes people hate you by default, etc.  We’re literally trained out of this, because it’s impossible to get the rest of the culture to take you seriously, even as a comedian.  They’ve broken through that, and I’m glad.  But please, please achnowlege that this is a real dialect that real people speak and that is not normally valued, and that it’s fine for you to emulate it, because comedy IS a big part of it, but remember that there’s a difficult to distinguish line between ‘talking like That’ and ‘making fun of a culture that is already shit on for ignorance’.

Them McElroy’s are good ol’ boys.  They were raised in West Virginia.  That’s the beginning. middle, and end of why they talk like That.

Quite frakly, the reason that their goofs are funny is because of that cultural connection.  I don’t really understand how people outside of Appalachia are conneting so hard, but I’m glad.  Like…  outside the region they won’t have the commercials that they’re paroding for Tit Liquid, for example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKuEtAyTPtg

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