[ SECRET POST #3353 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3353 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Beverly Hills Cop 3]


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03.
[New Tricks]


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04.
[Lord of the Rings]


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05.
[Splatoon]


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06.
[Tessa Stone/Not Drunk Enough/Hanna is not a Boy's Name]


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07.
[Actor Frank Kelly, playing Father Jack Hackett in Father Ted]


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08.
[Frasier]


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09.
[Jem and the Holograms comic]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 022 secrets from Secret Submission Post #479.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think not showing Maris allowed the character to be a good running joke, though. Actually showing her as a character would've been less funny.

[(Anonymous)]

da

I kind of agree. Not showing her made her work better as an object of dread and ridicule. If they had shown her, there would've been an actual person there, which would have made her automatically more sympathetic than she was as an invisible presence.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT - It's been a looong time since I've seen Frasier, but I remember Janice on Friends being more sympathetic (at least in my view), whereas the characters so dreaded her very existence. In her case she needed to be seen, but maybe Maris would've had that same effect - meant to be unsympathetic, but because you see her and her intentions, she's not.

Then again, plenty of shows have significant others and exes who manage to be unbearable even when we see them, like Tammy 2 on Parks and Recreation.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the difference there is how heavily they lay on the "s/he's horrible" before the character appears. Maris was the butt of so much ridicule that if she'd actually been a real presence, it probably would have fallen flat and looked retroactively incredibly mean-spirited and petty.

(Which I always thought was actually part of the point with Janice on Friends - yeah, she was really annoying, but the way the characters treated her also showcased what assholes they were.)

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. It gave the show room to be as absurd in their descriptions of her as they wanted. I think it would've been near impossible after a while to find someone who could even slightly fit whatever bizarre image of her we all had in our heads anyway :p.

[(Anonymous)]

It's like Peggy's mother in Married with Children and some other running joke characters. They'd never find anyone pale/skinny/fat enough to not make those previous jokes fall flat, so they are best left unseen.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT I actually agree with you. I did say 'irrationally'. Even ten year old me got the running joke. ;)

[nightscale]

Definitely agreed.

She worked best as being left up to our imagination.