also i had a fucking fight-or-flight response to the shutter noise in the beginning of Texas Chain Saw Massacre

i think it was in a trailer or something that I heard when I was a kid and i think it fucking scared the shit out of me then, so now, hearing it again for the first time since, triggered some serious childhood terror

athelind:

rockformed:

why does this scene from a 1950s rumplestiltkin short make me laugh so hard

@rockformed tagged:

#because it’s meta humor from the 50s and we don’t really expect that

Kids, Grandpa Athelind is here to tell you: if you don’t expect metahumor from this era, you are in for a treat.

This is one of the Fractured Fairy Tales segments from Rocky & Bullwinkle, a show that ran on 50% metahumor, 50% terrible, terrible puns, and 50% sheer audacity, and do not quibble with my math.

In the main R&B segments, the protagonists would regularly argue with the narrator, insult the cheap animation, and refuse to say lines with some of the very worst puns.

It aired from 1959 to 1964 across a network hop and a title change, and I think it’s fair to describe it as a five-year shitpost.