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  • jake44np
    Post Like a Champion!
    • Jul 2002
    • 9563

    #46
    Re: Onion Sportsdome

    Originally posted by Wyatt965
    Sometimes you just have to lighten up.

    My grandma has cancer. It's a terrible disease and no one should ever have to go through it. However, if you can find humor in something, why not use it? A young patient was perfect for that sketch. It was a perfect parody of the Make A Wish foundation.

    That's exactly what the show was. A parody.
    Totally hated the cancer bit, turned the channel and will never watch this show again.
    And dont tell us to lighten up, if it doesnt bother you and you think it is funny so be it.
    But having lost my grandpa (who raised me) and two uncles to cancer in the last 5 years, I find nothing at all funny when it comes to any kind of cancer.
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    • daflyboys
      Banned
      • May 2003
      • 18238

      #47
      Re: Onion Sportsdome

      Originally posted by Wyatt965
      Sometimes you just have to lighten up.

      My grandma has cancer. It's a terrible disease and no one should ever have to go through it. However, if you can find humor in something, why not use it? A young patient was perfect for that sketch. It was a perfect parody of the Make A Wish foundation.

      That's exactly what the show was. A parody.
      It's funny. We have one NBA player saying to another that he looks like a cancer patient.... and because of our "constantly in touch everyone is up everyone else's butt facebook/twitter" culture we are shocked and outraged by the reference. But, hey, this is comedy and comedy often gets a pass.

      After all, it's "art".

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      • rspencer86
        MIB Crew
        • Sep 2004
        • 8807

        #48
        Re: Onion Sportsdome

        Originally posted by daflyboys
        It's funny. We have one NBA player saying to another that he looks like a cancer patient.... and because of our "constantly in touch everyone is up everyone else's butt facebook/twitter" culture we are shocked and outraged by the reference. But, hey, this is comedy and comedy often gets a pass.

        After all, it's "art".
        The Villanueva thing was hurtful because it was using cancer patients as a derogatory term.

        The Sportsdome thing wasn't making a joke at cancer patients' expense or anything like that. It was just exploring the idea of, "say, what if instead of meeting their favorite athelete or whatever, if one of the kids featured in the touching 'Make a Wish' segments just really, really wanted to heckle their most hated player?".

        It's definitely humor involving a touchy subject, but I didn't personally think it was disrespectful. I could see people who have had close friends/family fight with cancer having a problem with it though.
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        • The GIGGAS
          Timbers - Jags - Hokies
          • Mar 2003
          • 28474

          #49
          Re: Onion Sportsdome

          Originally posted by rspencer86
          The Villanueva thing was hurtful because it was using cancer patients as a derogatory term.

          The Sportsdome thing wasn't making a joke at cancer patients' expense or anything like that. It was just exploring the idea of, "say, what if instead of meeting their favorite athelete or whatever, if one of the kids featured in the touching 'Make a Wish' segments just really, really wanted to heckle their most hated player?".

          It's definitely humor involving a touchy subject, but I didn't personally think it was disrespectful. I could see people who have had close friends/family fight with cancer having a problem with it though.
          I think that's what they were going for.

          This wasn't nearly as bad as the Family Guy episode where Peter acted as though Chris had that disease and conned the Make-A-Wish foundation to get Gumbel 2 Gumbel back on the air.

          I enjoyed it. I'll continue to watch the SportsDome. It's delightfully quirky. It can be really spot on to SportsCenter, and then it just goes off the wall (Toad).
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          • daflyboys
            Banned
            • May 2003
            • 18238

            #50
            Re: Onion Sportsdome

            Originally posted by rspencer86
            The Villanueva thing was hurtful because it was using cancer patients as a derogatory term.

            The Sportsdome thing wasn't making a joke at cancer patients' expense or anything like that. It was just exploring the idea of, "say, what if instead of meeting their favorite athelete or whatever, if one of the kids featured in the touching 'Make a Wish' segments just really, really wanted to heckle their most hated player?".

            It's definitely humor involving a touchy subject, but I didn't personally think it was disrespectful. I could see people who have had close friends/family fight with cancer having a problem with it though.
            I think I could have swallowed that for the most part, except for one of the last lines where she was wishing he would contract cancer. Justify it as you will, but it's crossing a line. Then it's a matter of whether crossing that line is considered unscrupulous or not.

            Wanda "I ain't really all that funny, but I'm sass-ayyy" Sykes anyone?

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            • Watson
              Burrow Club
              • Jul 2008
              • 27013

              #51
              Yea, no more QVC ****
              And may thy spirit live in us, Forever LSU

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              • WyxHarmon
                #nouss
                • Aug 2010
                • 2693

                #52
                Re: Onion Sportsdome

                This episode is a dud so far.

                Only thing I half way chuckled at was the OSN Mid Season Action.
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                • Bellsprout
                  Hard Times.
                  • Oct 2009
                  • 25652

                  #53
                  Re: Onion Sportsdome

                  That midseason NBA commercial was magic. Loved it.
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                  A lot of you guys seem pretty cool, but you have wieners.

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                  • Watson
                    Burrow Club
                    • Jul 2008
                    • 27013

                    #54
                    Lmao. Documentary about a football documentary.
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                    • WyxHarmon
                      #nouss
                      • Aug 2010
                      • 2693

                      #55
                      Re: Onion Sportsdome

                      Yeah.



                      This is just flat out painful to watch. Not funny at all this week.
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                      • Watson
                        Burrow Club
                        • Jul 2008
                        • 27013

                        #56
                        Originally posted by Wyatt965
                        Yeah.



                        This is just flat out painful to watch. Not funny at all this week.
                        They were clearly mocking FNL (the movie)/Roughnecks
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                        • Bellsprout
                          Hard Times.
                          • Oct 2009
                          • 25652

                          #57
                          Re: Onion Sportsdome

                          It's Murray!!!!

                          I miss Who Would You Kill?
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                          Originally posted by l3ulvl
                          A lot of you guys seem pretty cool, but you have wieners.

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                          • Watson
                            Burrow Club
                            • Jul 2008
                            • 27013

                            #58
                            "YOU GOT PINSTRIPES ON YOU UNDERSTAND."


                            The show is the definition of hit or miss, but they "do" chaos well.
                            And may thy spirit live in us, Forever LSU

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                            • NC State-31 UNC-27
                              MVP
                              • Nov 2007
                              • 1525

                              #59
                              Re: Onion Sportsdome

                              LMAO I caught the second half of the episode and thought everything was hilarious. I was in a good mood though and willing to laugh.

                              Football documentary about a football documentary (or whatever it was) slayed me. The line about the basketball team having some racial issues, LOL

                              and the dead boxer LMAO

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                              • Watson
                                Burrow Club
                                • Jul 2008
                                • 27013

                                #60
                                It did fail me. I was expecting a pulp fiction tie in with the dead boxer.
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                                @AdamdotH

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