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[-] distantsounds@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago
[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 4 points 1 year ago

Same in the UK if you take sunak and Boris, and India with modi and gandhi :)

[-] garfaagel@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 year ago
[-] Apeman42@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

Idk who this Cervantes guy is, but I suspect Misters Hanna and Barbera would like a word with him:

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Final Boss of Soul Blade

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

The originator of the format

Everyone should have a Sancho because we're all tilting at windmills.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Cervantes or Shakespeare with "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (Falstaff and Slender). It's possible both were using an even older trope though.

[-] Downcount@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago
[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Do I look cool naow?

[-] danekrae@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago
[-] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

Oh god this show was REAL!? I watched it once when I was really sick and thought it was a fever dream.

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs!

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

They cannot be bargained with. They cannot be reasoned with.

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They can't feel pity, or remorse, or fear.

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

Do you remember the show about the clown girl and the big red(?) couch?

[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

The big comfy couch? There's a cat called snicklefrits

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[-] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Luna and Molly, a clown and her dolly.

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 35 points 1 year ago
[-] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

yeah it's a holdover from the early days of movies and vaudeville... think Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Spanky and Alfalfa, the list goes on and on...

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago
[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Man, they look so... human. You don't see that in film anymore.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago
[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

That one didn't work out so well.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah one of them was a bit murdery.

[-] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 year ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago
[-] Glifted@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I realize this is a joke but there's something real here about contrast making your characters more memorable or something

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Silhouettes are important in character design after all

[-] XPost3000@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago
[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

The sidekick trope has been a prime mover since vaudeville, maybe before

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The word “prime mover” being used outside of the train community brings a smile to my face :3

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] xwolpertinger@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Troy and Abed in the fruiiiitboooowl

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

the show is "katjakaj och bentebent"

[-] MacStache@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

Sheldon and Leonard in Big Bang Theory.

[-] JoMomma@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

This may be the only true fact on the internet

[-] FrankLaskey@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Just jumping in to say that c/lemmytellyousomething should definitely be the name of an advice / self-help community on here

[-] Maultasche@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

A Bit of Fry and Laurie

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Larry and Bob in Veggie Tales

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_act

Because someone has to be pedantic here!

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Fades@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

when kids think they were the first to discover something

[-] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

Key and peele

[-] BassaForte@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Drake and Josh

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago
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