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Penny Arcade - Comic - The Judycial System
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Penny Arcade - Comic - The Judycial System
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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But Mike.Mike. MIKE. In all recent episodes of Judge Judy, she's wearing a pony tail! Did you just draw her in the 'classic' way in case someone wouldn't recognize her with the pony tail?
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I honestly had no idea she has. Haven't seen the show in years.
I watch her show a lot. But only on Youtube, because JJ doesn't do streaming, for some reason, and I don't watch regular TV.
Anyway, behold her pony tailed glory:
Considering my mom has kept a similar hairstyle as classic Judy for all 42 years that I've known her, I wonder what made Judge Judy change her hair. It's got to be a comfort thing.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
The last panel is one of the more honest depictions of her that I've seen in media.
But problematic or not, seeing Sheindlin tear a dumbass streamer a new one would be a joy to behold.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I thought that was the cringiest 'TV show tries to get gamer culture' moment I'd seen in a while, up there with the Second Life episode of CSI New York and that Godawful CSI Cyber episode about gun smuggling through Blacklight Retribution. But this real life streamer sounds like it might top even them.
Are there any clips online?
I don't keep up with Judge Judy at all, so I would have pictured her with the hair that Mike drew. However, I think I would have recognized her even in ponytail form simply by the white collar on her robe. lol
-Tycho Brahe
At least he got the mouth right.
There was a clip online. Then as soon as I finished watching it and sent it to a friend it got taken down. I haven't been able to find another yet.
Ya'know, I do have to take one issue w/ the article. This line:
I'm sure Sheindlin was a terrible real-court judge and am glad she's just an entertainer now and not destroying real people. I mean, the people on her show are real, yes, and some of them are vulnerable, but she doesn't have the ability to make an actual court judgement against a poor person such that they have to pay anyone any money - the producers pay all the judgments.
Beyond that, I actually don't enjoy it when she's reaming someone for being on disability or some other benefit. I'm usually yelling at the screen saying "You're wrong!" or similar. The thing that makes Judge Judy enjoyable - and probably what has Mike's interest, though of course that's only a guess - is when she has someone who's clearly trying to exploit the other person in court, and Judge Judy reams the exploiter. So for example, a classic episode was about an ebay auction. One woman bought a used phone, the other woman sent her a picture of a phone thinking herself a clever scammer. Judge Judy heard the cased, yelled at the scammer, and the woman who was scammed got her money back. That's your typical enjoyable Judge Judy episode - shitty people get yelled at, exploited people get their money back.
Other particularly satisfying episodes of her show revolve around an obviously abused offspring getting to hear Judy yell at their abusive parents, or an exploited tenant having Judy yell at their exploitative landlord.
Does she yell at people that they should have used contraception instead of having a bunch of kids before they turned 21? Yes she does this, and I never considered it as disdain for the poor. Mostly because I didn't grow up poor but the idea of me having any children before I turned 21 (or ever) sends shivers up my spine, and I know I could have turned out that way because my parents didn't believe in contraception. Thank god I was so sexually unappealing before the age of 30! I feel like it's kind of helpful to have an wizened old conservative on TV every afternoon telling kids they should use condoms, though. It normalizes what should be normal and non-controversial.
I didn't really want to make some sort of apologia for Judge Judy, I know she's horrible about a lot of things. But the idea that people only watch her show to laugh at the poor rankled a bit. That's not why I watch her show, and I don't think it would be as popular is it is if that's all she did - or rather, it would only be as popular as someone like Sean Hannity, rather than the more universal popularity that she enjoys. A shitty exploitative streamer is a perfect example of the kind of defendant that makes her show really enjoyable, and I think she's lucky to have a good set of producers who know what kind of litigants to give her to bring out her most amusing side instead of her most nasty one.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I've seen this movie and completely forgot that scene. Unfortunately, horror films have to work pretty hard to frighten or disgust me. I'm from the internet.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Same.
No, the bear scene in Annihilation didn't make me curl up and die, why do you ask?