[ SECRET POST #2563 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2563 ⌋

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

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02.
[ao no exorcist]


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03.
[Leverage]


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04.
[Doctor Who, Sherlock]

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05.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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06.
[Frozen]


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07. http://i.imgur.com/NKDHxDP.png?1?4348
[Big Bang Theory; warning for suicide/depression]


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08.
[Amy Poehler]


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09.
[Deep Space Nine/Babylon 5]















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I have clinical depression and suicidal thoughts. I like dark humor. You either laugh or you wind up crying. One's preferable to the other.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. The jokes in question could be funnier or more clever, but I don't have a problem with the fact that they're being made at all. Sometimes dark humor is for a reason.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, it's not really dark humor, which I appreciate sometimes too. It's more like "Hey, look at this loser!" There's ways you can do that where it works, like the episode where he and Raj try to talk to people at the mall. It's over the top and typical sitcom "exaggerate this person's negative traits". But the way they do it where just him dropping in the fact that he's on meds or he's depressed as the whole joke doesn't work for me.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Fair enough. I haven't watched the show since the first season.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

They do the same shit about bullying too, at least they did while I was watching the 1st season. The main characters used to be bullied at school to the point of lifelong trauma for being nerds and it's HILARIOUS.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

dunno. I was bullied when I was a kid, and I got through two years of depression and suicidal thoughts. I love the show and find it hilarious.
I'm not going to let that crap define my identity.
I mean WTF since when is "Bullying Victim" or "Depression Survivor" a thing you print on your T-shirt??

[(Anonymous)]

But the fact that Stewart's the one who brings it up is significant, no? It's not other people going, "Haha, you're clinically depressed and on meds, what a loser!". Stewart is the one who interjects it as his own (admittedly depressing) humorous contribution into whatever conversation is taking place.

[(Anonymous)]

True, but it puts the audience into that role instead of other characters. That's what clinches it for me. YMMV, but I've seen depression treated this way enough in my real life that it feels like this is just affirming it.

[(Anonymous)]

Is this really applicable in this situation though, because this is more audience laughter at the character, not solely the character laughing at his own situation.