Comments on: "Half-Baked Theories and Misguided Essays!"

"Half-Baked Theories and Misguided Essays!"

amyms — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:58:24 -0800

The Journal of Cartoon Over-analyzations. For all your cartoon-related, obsessive and critical-thinking needs. Recent over-analyzations include Bestial Sexuality in He-Man and She-Ra, Evil Mickey Mouse and A Freudian Analysis of Beavis and Butthead. For quick fixes, check out the Mini-Analyzations.[Via].

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:32:59 -0800

Oh, poo. I have this site open in another tab right now all ready to post... eventually. If this site did a complex cartoon-based over-analyzation of my psyche right at this moment, it would reveal... the shameful truth.

By: anifinder

anifinder — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:50:15 -0800

I just regurgitated in my plate of beans.

By: nasreddin

nasreddin — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:49:36 -0800

This kind of sucks, because none of the "theoretical frameworks" they use are applied correctly or apparently even understood at all. If you want to overthink things, do a good job, dammit!

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:17:00 -0800

I'm troubled by the word analyzation.

By: The Card Cheat

The Card Cheat — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:31:23 -0800

It's film school all over again, except instead of skipping class I'm not clicking on the links!

By: stammer

stammer — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:43:23 -0800

Here's a pretty entertaining Lacanian reading of Beavis and Butthead.

The single most jaw-dropping moment for the psychoanalytically informed viewer in all the Beavis and Butthead episodes comes in the episode entitled "Steamroller." Our heroes are watching a music video by the eccentric Scandinavian singer Bjork when Beavis blurts out: "I heard Bjork has a schlong." Butthead stammers, and asks where Beavis heard this. Beavis claims it was "the guy in the bathroom." After a few more questions, it becomes clear to everyone except Beavis that "the guy in the bathroom" is Beavis' own reflection.

By: nasreddin

nasreddin — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:56:22 -0800

Here's a pretty entertaining Lacanian reading of Beavis and Butthead. Amazing! Especially the bit about the "casual sadism of patriarchy" at the end.

By: nosila

nosila — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:08:41 -0800

"My Stuart does not have diarrhea! I'm his mooother. I would knooow." That is all.

By: jonp72

jonp72 — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:06:32 -0800

How can you not apply a Freudian reading to Beavis & Butthead?

By: kozad

kozad — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:22:32 -0800

Yep, "analyzation" is a word I've corrected on a hundred high school papers, and doesn't make me too excited about the content.

By: demiurge

demiurge — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:54:04 -0800

What's wrong with analyzation?

By: rokusan

rokusan — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:15:27 -0800

I'm troubled by the word analyzation. What's your difficultity with that?

By: empath

empath — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:17:27 -0800

That essay on Beavis and Butthead was brilliant. I really wonder how deeply Mike Judge thought about the show and how much was pure free association.

By: empath

empath — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:18:07 -0800

(to clarify, the one in the comments, not the one in the fpp)

By: yhbc

yhbc — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:03:00 -0800

These guys are doing it on purpose, and are trying (too hard) to be funny. For honest, unadulterated cartoon over-analyzation that doesn't know it's going over the top you want the wikipedia article on Magical Trevor. In the scene where Trevor is performing for the cows, the lyrics talk about how well-liked he is, but the cows go from indifferent to angry, and Trevor goes from a childish eagerness to a nervous desire to appease the cows. Then, after Trevor has failed to make any impression on his audience, the cow that he used in his trick is given a full press conference. Through these aspects of the story, the cartoon skillfully develops Magical Trevor's character, and makes him likable to boot. Strangely, the animal involved is a cow, rather than a bull, but the narration refers to him as "he" rather than "she".

By: Dr. Wu

Dr. Wu — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:28:30 -0800

This kind of sucks, because none of the "theoretical frameworks" they use are applied correctly or apparently even understood at all. If you want to overthink things, do a good job, dammit! Agree x 9,000,000,000. This is very poorly done.

By: Coaticass

Coaticass — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:32:57 -0800

Analyzation seems a cromulent word! It sounds like a Bush-ism.

By: numinous

numinous — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:15:57 -0800

I am with psmealey. Please refrain from using the word "analyzation" in any place that it is possible to use the word "analysis" (unless this was an intentional ploy to inspire the over-analysis of your word usage, in which case kudos!).

By: vitia

vitia — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:18:54 -0800

"Analyzation" is a needless nominalization. The word "analysis" is a perfectly serviceable noun form of the verb "analyze."

By: vitia

vitia — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:19:17 -0800

Oops. Beat me to it.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:02:33 -0800

I am with psmealey. Please refrain from using the word "analyzation" in any place that it is possible to use the word "analysis" Exceptions granted if you are verbally disorientated.

By: recoveringsophist

recoveringsophist — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:39:56 -0800

I took a gander at the He-man bestiality essay, which seemed a bit too much like something found in a highschool or college freshman paper. You know, sophomoric, pointless, and fueled by a combination of Mountain Dew, pop psychology, and maybe a touch of the ganja.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:04:25 -0800

I so want to cite an article from J. Cart. Overanal. in a paper I'm writing.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:05:51 -0800

I don't want to make this an lolfeminist thread, but I must give a shout-out to quantum feminism.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:34:03 -0800

Analysis: yes. Analyzation: maybe, if you're weird. Analyzations: hell no. Still, a website about over-analysis whose name invites over-analysis gets a firm thumbs-up from me.