Pedophilia is funny.
Final episode, season 2.
Really?
Really?
The pedo scenes were pretty funny, and showed the pervs in less than a good light. There's is nothing that you can never joke about, it all depends what the joke is and how it's done.
I don't recall there being any mention of this in the final episode of S2.
Man without relatives is man without troubles. Charlie Chan
No offense, but I don't even want to think about what kind of mind finds humor in the molestation of children.
shareI don't recall any children being molested in the series. It was done in a way that the protagonist didn't even realize who they were or what was happening when he was in the snake pit of pedos.
The show also cleverly had fun with animal death and mutilation, nuclear holocaust, plague, bombings, terrorism, poisoning, necrophilia, dictatorships, child neglect, death by erotic asphyxiation etc. etc. etc. all played well humor wise.
As I said, you should be able to joke about anything, as long as it's well constructed and done as a joke with no harm intended.
If you watched the entire series, then one would have to wonder, no offense, what kind of person would watch something with all these other horrors depicted and only take issue with one small part....
Man without relatives is man without troubles. Charlie Chan
The difference is this: the other things were way out there, far removed from reality. The writers made them silly, thus making them humorous. If humor is tragedy plus time, as they say, it's also tragedy plus distance. The farther out something is from its original iteration, the funnier it can be.
I didn't laugh at the dead cat at first, for instance, but then they kept piling on, adding to it and removing it further from reality. The gag became much more than just a dead cat, which, in and of itself, isn't all that funny. But it also revealed Todd Margaret's mindset, which was funny too. Again, more than a dead cat.
Nuclear holocaust, dictatorships, poisonings, necrophilia - these things are all really out there, too, or at least the show presented them that way, thus rendering them fair game.
Now, let's consider the pedophilia bit. There's a guy in a prison cell - a convicted pedophile - masturbating while he's having Todd describe what he looked like as a young boy.
Jesus. Honestly, Cobram, did you find that funny? Really?
You see, the distance was missing. That was too close to reality to be funny. Now, in the writers' defense, it might well be that you can't get far enough away from pedophilia to make it funny. I don't know. I'll allow that it's possible, but these guys sure didn't get there. And if you can't get there, it's probably best to just leave it alone.
I see your point, but the pedo scene(s) also spoke more to Todd's mindset the same way you pointed out that it did to make the cat sequence of events work comically.
Todd's callowness was the focus of those scenes, and his characters incapacity to interpret reality did have it's humorous side.
We'll just agree to disagree. The absurdity of the scene is something that English comedy does well and often with touchy subjects (no pun intended.)
Man without relatives is man without troubles. Charlie Chan
Yeah. Nuclear Weapons and dictatorships are so out there.
In the Middle East. Where people live under the constant threat of annihilation with far more problems than your cushy, western, armchair sweat-inducing dream life. Or in Japan, where the effects of millions dying of cancer are still felt and whole families being vaporized from history by a bomb.
How selfish of you to take offense at something just because it hit close to your jammy bottoms. You latent or what?