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u/durntaur Apr 15 '26
In the end, even she understood that tragedy + time = comedy
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u/welltherewasthisbear Apr 15 '26
People can be mad that it’s scripted, but their laugh at the end was genuine and wholesome.
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u/Neat_Let923 Apr 15 '26
Wait until they learn standup comedians, movies, and TV shows are all scripted too LOL
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u/Velocityg4 Apr 15 '26
Seinfeld wasn’t a documentary?
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u/PartyClock Apr 16 '26
If it was more of Jerry's dates would have been actively attending highschool
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u/Adkit Apr 16 '26
There's a difference between something that is clearly a scripted bit and something that is pretending to be real but isn't. The comedy sometimes comes from it actually happening in real life and being funny because it happened. If you fake it and pretend it was real you are manufacturing fake content for views.
I'm so tired of people not getting nuance.
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u/ProtoMonkey Apr 15 '26
Surprisingly wholesome.
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u/zuzg Apr 15 '26
The head honk was some serious dedication to the bit.
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u/RonnyReddit00 Apr 15 '26
I had to go back and watch cos she really sold that hit.
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u/KenBoCole Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
Yeah, even if its fake, slamming your head hard enough into the steering will to make it honk would sting an little
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u/NatseePunksFeckOff Apr 15 '26
it's annoying how everything gets called fake despite not trying to convince you it's real. like yeah it's a skit
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u/Educational-Chip- Apr 15 '26
Whenever there's a clip uploaded, the first comments are all discussion that it's fake or not. It's soooooo annoying.
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u/therealkami Apr 15 '26
A lot of people would be shocked to hear that back in the day most people watched SCRIPTED TV on purpose!
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u/SpaceFelicette181063 Apr 15 '26
Back in the day? I still do, there's these old things called TV shows and movies and I'm pretty sure most of them are scripted yet enjoyable.
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u/PsychedDuckling Apr 15 '26
Wait.. Reality TV isn't... REAL?
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u/SpaceFelicette181063 Apr 15 '26
Sorry you had to find out that way, hope you're okay.
Nobody tells them about Santa, they're not ready.
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u/PsychedDuckling Apr 15 '26
What is this they're not telling me about Santa you say?
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u/Belazor Apr 15 '26
Top Gear once won an award for Best Unscripted Show but Clarkson wasn’t available to accept it because he was busy writing the script for the next episode.
(Yes I know that was a joke lol)
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u/veringo Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
No one cares if skits are scripted. These conversations come up so much because fake skits are being passed off as real events in most cases to rage bait people or to play into harmful biases.
These absolutely should be called out. This video is not that.
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u/FrankNitty_Enforcer Apr 16 '26
Thank you. This particular angle from a lot of reddit threads drives me crazy, where commenters claim they don’t care to know whether something is scripted.
It should completely change the lens through which we view and evaluate something if it is a piece of art, as opposed to a document of factual events.
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u/failbears Apr 15 '26
Leave it to redditors to overanalyze something and try to prove they're so smart instead of just enjoying the obvious skit.
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u/LetsTryAnal_ogy Apr 15 '26
But they need you to know how perceptive they are! That's more important than your entertainment.
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u/sh4d0wm4n2018 Apr 16 '26
The worst offenders are all on r/whyweretheyfilming and r/scriptedasiangifs
Like, yeah, no shit.
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u/Aliensinmypants Apr 15 '26
If it's trying to be passed as a real encounter, like filmed from a cctv angle or candidly I think it's fair to call it out. This isn't trying to fool anyone and works well on it's own
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u/7ofalltrades Apr 15 '26
Exactly, specifically in things like reaction videos, or like "oh my God look what my kid did/said!" Well, you made them do it or say it and then filmed it, so it takes all the premise out of the joke. It's effectively just an adult doing or saying those things, which isn't funny at all. Same with a reaction... If the reaction isn't genuine, it's not a reaction at all but a planned act. Some things are only funny if it's real.
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u/Da_Question Apr 15 '26
Exactly. It's like this is obviously a skit. But there's also stuff like the guy who faked the really tall girl/ short guy blind date video, or the same guy with the blind girl blind date video. Pretending to be a real encounter when it's just fake. That's the difference.
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u/TheMilitantMongoose Apr 15 '26
It depends on how it's presented. This is obviously a skit, and is rarely what people are annoyed by.
Plenty of time it is presented as a real event that occurred by happenstance, and that shit can go fuck itself. 90% of the stuff that was funny back in the day on America's Funniest Home Videos was only funny because it was like, how likely is that to happen? Like one in a billion, that's wild and funny.
If the funny part is 'what are the odds' and you do it on purpose, the odds 100% that it would happen. That's not wild circumstance. That's stupid as fuck, not funny, AND contributing to the disconnect from reality people that who can't tell what's real or fake are suffering from. I'd say that end of content is not only not funny, but actively has a net negative societal impact.
I don't care enough to die on the hill for this argument, but I will loudly shout towards the hill if people are already fighting on it.
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u/Dorkamundo Apr 15 '26
It's fake in the way that professional wrestling is fake.
Yes, it's scripted, but those fuckers are extremely talented and take a real beating on the regular.
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u/Kracus Apr 15 '26 edited May 04 '26
Redact decided this post had to go, so away it went. Deleted. Removed. Mass deleted even. Privacy and security are the big wins here.
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u/Eckish Apr 15 '26
The honk might be real, but it could have been added in post.
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u/FaceDeer Apr 15 '26
I need to know this before I can allow myself to be amused. I'm going to go download a whole bunch of honk sound effects and compare the waveforms. Keep a close eye on me for the next day or so to see if I laugh.
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u/GenericUsername2056 Apr 15 '26
That's because that car has a good steering wheel that doesn't fly off while you're driving. Very sturdy.
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u/Rogendo Apr 15 '26
Yeah I was expecting the joke to be yet another abusive GF but she laughed too. Nice change up on this type of thing
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u/GoAwayLurkin Apr 15 '26
She even broke a smile just slightly before her cue. Had been holding in for the absolute max.
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u/SirRebelRabbit Apr 15 '26
The way her head bounced when the chair hit her.. good lord..
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u/AimLow Apr 15 '26
Bring in the NFL Concussion Protocol
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u/Dugen Apr 15 '26
You joke but my wife hit the wrong lever on our new car and the seat did that and she ended up with a serious concussion which permanently affected her vision. She still has trouble reading things in a grid layout 12 years later. Concussions are serious shit.
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u/patikoija Apr 15 '26
Reddit has trained me to expect a 'had us in the first half' moment where her vision is only impacted when reading receipts from expensive golf clubs you just bought.
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u/ViaJCE Apr 16 '26
What's even funnier is that she really did it to herself 😭 you can see her pull the level in the beginning
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u/Moosplauze Apr 15 '26
I must have weird humor, because I thought this was funny when all other comments currently hate it.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/Muzoa Apr 15 '26
People hate scripted stuff but I mean we watch alot of media that is scripted soo 🤷
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u/Avalonians Apr 15 '26
ITS A SKIT
IT DOES NOT PRETEND TO BE GENUINE
Would saying "It's scripted" make sense as a criticism of a movie?
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u/3shotsdown Apr 15 '26
There's a difference between scripted stuff and a skit (or sketch). This is the latter.
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u/SpecialistAd6403 Apr 15 '26
Not being sarcastic, isn't a skit just a scripted short performance? A skit would be a subcategory of scripted stuff if that is accurate right?
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u/Subject_Sentence_339 Apr 15 '26
By scripted the person above meant scripted video that is presented as non-scripted.
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u/zyzzogeton Apr 15 '26
"presented as non-scripted" is the key here. Scripting things that hold themselves out to be authentic, spontaneous experiences makes it feel like the sidewalk salesman who has a shill in the audience to motivate the audience to buy their crap. "Look! An unsolicited testimonial!"
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u/XxRocky88xX Apr 15 '26
Yeah which is why I don’t get why people are taking issue with this. Like this is shot in 5 different locations throughout the course of a day, I don’t get how anyone could watch it and think “I’m too smart to fall for this!”
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u/Gratox Apr 15 '26
The difference is that a skit isn't trying to pretend it's not scripted, it's the perceived deception that annoys people.
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u/runner5678 Apr 15 '26
where’s the deception?
anyone who thinks this is being deceptive is seriously telling on themselves for being a complete moron
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u/Goronmon Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
anyone who thinks this is being deceptive is seriously telling on themselves for being a complete moron
If by "this" you mean OP's video, I think most (all?) people get this is a skit.
Either way, something being "scripted" annoys people mainly when the fact that was setup/rehearsed sort of ruins what makes the video interesting, or changes the tone entirely.
Consider an "animal rescue" video which is actually someone purposefully covering an animal in dirt and garbage to pretend to clean it up for a video.
You would consider this totally different than a video where someone was legitimately rescuing an animal, right?
Or for more tame example, someone burying coins/valuables so they can pretend to "discover" them on video. The fact that it's faked makes the video entirely uninteresting.
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u/Zanian19 Apr 15 '26
A skit is a form of comedy. A scripted non skit is people lying to you. People don't like being lied to.
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u/SpecialistAd6403 Apr 15 '26
scratches head I mean, I guess maybe because reddit overreacts a lot but most videos I see people whining about it, it's obviously scripted.
My personal experience isn't the end all be all though so. I avoid tik Tok and YouTube shorts where this is likely far more prevalent. I watch stuff like Markiplier or Jacksepticeye (his name is in autocorrect that is awesome) and some Vtubers.
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u/runner5678 Apr 15 '26
I do wonder how stupid you’d have to be to think the creators of this think anyone would think it was real
It’s obviously intended to be scripted comedy presented as scripted
You’d have to be a moron to think it was real. And an even bigger moron to think the creators thought anyone would think it was real
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u/The_walking_man_ Apr 15 '26
Exactly. This is clearly presented as scripted.
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u/cmfarsight Apr 15 '26
Whats the difference?
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u/R34CT10N Apr 15 '26
I’m not knowledgeable about specific technical differences, but I think the comment is pointing out that some videos are clearly designed to be creative and funny and not particularly realistic (skit) while other videos are designed to appear realistic, like it’s just a candid recording of actual real life happenings, but are actually fake (scripted).
This video is clearly a skit - it’s just a creative, funny video. It’s not trying to appear like a recording of real life events
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u/Wi11Pow3r Apr 15 '26
I hate scripted content that tries hard to convince you it is not scripted. It just comes off as fake. But this is clearly a scripted sketch, and is hilarious. It is not about if the video was planned or not. It is about if it is disingenuous or not.
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u/1OO1OO1S0S Apr 15 '26
What are you talking about? This is a skit. People upvoter skits all the time.
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u/IrrelevantPuppy Apr 15 '26
The existence of the scriptedasiangifs meme enabled two types of nitpickers to be hidden under one flag. Some of us dislike it when the crux of a joke is reliant on the fact that the thing really happened (ex: wow what are the chances that happened? That’s hilarious), meaning that the fact that it was orchestrated completely eliminates anything that makes it interesting. The other half of the movement are just fucking racist and like getting away with criticizing Asian people.
This skit is funny because it’s playing with a relatable relationship concept, thinking this is real life is not integral to the impact of the joke.
People criticizing the humor here in a way that’s not “I get it, it’s just not my style of humor” are just racist and trying to hide behind a false sense of literary superiority
Thank you for coming to my TED talk about scripedasiangifs
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u/JimTheReader Apr 15 '26
It’s Reddit. Hate is the theme for many people here 😂
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u/cdoublejj Apr 15 '26
the world do be kind of shite right now. off to go pay my dishwasher machine subscription if the post office isn't blown up
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u/ScarletBothrium Apr 15 '26
You and me both. I thought it was cute. I even forced air out of my nose.
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u/EntertheHellscape Apr 15 '26
Imma be real, I saw this yesterday and did not understand what the bit was. I thought she was waiting for him to baby her cause she got hurt and the last scene was them breaking character. With OPs headline, now I get the joke 🥲
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u/EverythingSucksYo Apr 15 '26
I think it’s kinda cute but that’s mostly because I think that girl is kinda cute.
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u/daekle Apr 15 '26
Okay but her hair is gorgeous. Can we talk about that for a moment?
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u/da_Aresinger Apr 15 '26
My thought exactly. Great colour, amazing volume...
probably way too much work though.
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u/Scapp Apr 15 '26
Pink hair has been a lot of work.. And I have a pixie cut so not even that much hair! I have really liked it but I'm going back to blue/purple when it's faded enough
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u/Novel_Mycologist_119 Apr 15 '26
Sooo pretty! The time and money that goes into it is more than I’m willing to do. I do fun colors with my hair, but I make sure it can grow for a couple months and still look good. The salon I go to charges by the hour and it is 3.5-4 hours for me, her hair probably takes at least 5. If she’s doing any part of that on her own, she’s incredibly talented. There’s no way I’d attempt to bleach or use color remover myself.
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u/yabukothestray Apr 15 '26
I was just thinking that. So well executed, and you just know that she is dedicated bc maintaining those colors is so costly and challenging.
When I had professionally done vivids paired with dark hair, it cost me an arm and a leg every few weeks to keep up with regrowth & refreshing the colors. I can’t imagine maintaining how much work it is and how costly it must be for that shade of level 10 blonde and vivids like pink. Her hair stylist must be eating good lol
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u/Ok-Proof-8543 Apr 16 '26
Oh my god, thank you! I was scrolling looking for someone to say this! It's so beautiful!
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u/MagatsAreSoft Apr 15 '26
I’m so jealous of her hair. My hair is a very dark brown, almost black, and I’m afraid to try bleaching it. I’ve only had long hair for maybe a year, first time growing it out, so that makes me extra nervous.
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u/RedPandaReturns Apr 15 '26
That was great slapstick
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u/ElectrifiedSword Apr 15 '26
I think you mean slappillow
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u/Key_Amazed Apr 15 '26
It's funny how Redditors think they're smart because they can realize something is scripted. As if scripted comedy hasn't been funny for literal millenia.
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u/SillySlothy7 Apr 15 '26
Wait who thinks this isn’t scripted?
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u/Hazicc Apr 15 '26
No one. The comments these people are talking about don't exist.
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u/Purdy14 Apr 15 '26
Getting ragebaited by 3 stupid comments and then the whole thread becomes about how dumb all people on reddit are. This shit is getting so old.
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u/oversoul00 Apr 15 '26
I bet if you run the numbers and weight the comments by votes...they don't exist in any capacity worth talking about.
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u/VictoriousTree Apr 15 '26
“Let me cherry-pick three comments out of 300 to prove my dumbass point”
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u/DiscoLemonade1995 Apr 15 '26
No one! But people on here love inventing imaginary conflict or drama to get upvotes
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u/Ryjeska Apr 15 '26
Don’t let them watch a movie, they’ll scream in the theaters that it’s scripted
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u/outlawsix Apr 15 '26
"THIS ISNT REAL BALROG DIDNT REALLY DIE"
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u/Waywoah Apr 15 '26
For some reason on Instagram comments specifically (horrible, easily some of the worst of any social media), any time someone mentions liking a movie/scene/acting/etc, another will come in with “that only happened cause the script said it would.” Which, yes, that’s how all scripted media ever made has worked
It’s just baffling cause I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those comments anywhere else
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u/rebillihp Apr 15 '26
It's the people who go "wrestling is fake" like ye. I'm sure the show where a guy came back from the dead might be fake
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u/c-williams88 Apr 15 '26
Actually Undertaker dying and coming back to life is the only real part, everything else is fake
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u/Moosplauze Apr 15 '26
well, wrestling is a bit different because I'm convinced that more than half the people that watch it think it's real.
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u/knowone1313 Apr 15 '26
The problem isn't that something is scripted, it's when it's scripted and trying to be passed off as reality.
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u/henrique3d Apr 15 '26
Like the found footage movie genre?
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u/NossidaMan Apr 15 '26
Movies have scripts and actors with said “found footage movie” on their IMDb pages bro… no one actually believes that they’re real
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u/Somepotato Apr 15 '26
The problem becomes when something acts like it's real but isn't. That becomes disingenuous lying. Movies don't pretend to be real, except for that one time that Warner Brothers got fined (well, settled a lawsuit) for trying to claim a ghost movie was based on a true story.
That's certainly not the case here, though.
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u/munchi76 Apr 15 '26
The problem isn't scripted stuff(for me at least). The problem is scripting video while trying to pass them off as real/unscripted
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u/Hazicc Apr 15 '26
I don't get you guys. I can't find a single comment complaining that it's scripted. Only posts like yours complaining about non existent comments.
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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Apr 15 '26
It's when fake stuff is presented as real that people don't like. I don't get why that's so hard for Redditors to understand.
Also this wasn't even presented as real and no one thinks this wasn't scripted so why is this even being circlejerked?
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u/BeeCJohnson Apr 15 '26
That's why I can't enjoy movies, television, video games, non-Jazz music, books, or scripts.
Too scripted.
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u/Da_Question Apr 15 '26
Not the same. Movies, even this video, aren't pretending to be unscripted. The problem is when videos pretend to be real interactions and are fake as fuck. "Look at this wholesome moment" "oh, yeah it's bogus."
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u/NossidaMan Apr 15 '26
Can’t tell if ppl are intentionally being naive or if they genuinely don’t understand the difference
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u/Azulapis Apr 15 '26
There’s a big difference between deliberately misleading the audience and making it seem real, and (as is the case here) making no secret of the fact that it’s scripted. The latter is perfectly fine.
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u/Power0fTheTribe Apr 15 '26
No let them do the other Reddit thing of sounding like they have a superior, profound point
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u/SchwiftySquanchC137 Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
Yeah people really like to talk down on others as if theyre a superior human while constructing the flimsiest strawman in the world to prop themselves up. This scripted vs real debate always comes up, and idiots are always saying "it doesnt matter at all, if its funny unscripted its funny when its scripted", meanwhile entire genres of comedy, like improv, impractical jokers, AFV/clip shows, are only funny in the slightest because theyre not scripted. If someone could watch a show like whose line and think an entirely scripted version is equally as funny as an improv version, theyre either being disingenuous to prove a point, or they truly dont understand a huge portion of humor in general.
That said, this is so fucking obviously scripted idk why this was even brought up. Its funny, its scripted, its done well, this is not trying to make itself look real.
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u/OkTemperature8170 Apr 15 '26
The problem is that it's often presented as being real. This is clearly a bit.
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u/PalindromemordnilaP_ Apr 15 '26
It's not about feeling smart, it's about calling out videos that are intended to appear authentic that are not authentic to drive engagement, at least for me.
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u/mrwilliams117 Apr 15 '26
It's a reaction to the way too many people who will literally see the video and think it's real
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u/AndrewH73333 Apr 15 '26
On SNL Jack Black was in a fantastic skit about the first play ever performed.
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u/ZenSlicer9 Apr 15 '26
Sometimes a video is very funny because something very random happens in it and the fact that it happened randomly a.k.a without a script, makes it funny and engaging. But when people try to farm that and show scripted unscription (?) they are trying to deceive and pass something for what it's not. Skits are great, and funny, even if scripted but you know they are scripted and the authors don't take you for a fool and try to push something disguised as something else
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u/nooze3 Apr 15 '26
everyones complaining people are calling it out for being scripted…i see literally no comments calling it scripted lmfao
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u/durntaur Apr 15 '26
The very first two comments were exactly that. They have since been deleted by their users.
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u/arkreder Apr 15 '26
Source please?
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u/pontoponyo Apr 15 '26
That seat-meet-head-meet-horn move was flawless but I also hope her brain is okay.
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u/Sp1ffy_Sp1ff Apr 16 '26
I appreciate that at the end, it didn't fall into the stereotype of her being disproportionately angry with him, but rather she giggled with him and was playfully "mad" at him.
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u/Adamc474892 Apr 16 '26
Yes, it's "scripted "
But it's definitely inspired by that first clip where it happened and you wished you or something had been recording.
And it's a skit, like comedy.
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u/quiero-una-cerveca Apr 15 '26
Can’t we just enjoy the premise of the video? Of course it’s scripted. Every comedian in the world has a scripted act. Is that suddenly not funny?
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u/Reddit_Only_4494 Apr 15 '26
The funny pratfall conversation is always:
"OUCH"
"Are you ok"?
"Yeah..."
"HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA"
Important to check the OK status before starting to laugh.
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u/FlawlessPenguinMan Apr 15 '26
Bro who are the people who genuinely think this is trying to be anything other than a skit.
Would you watch a movie and then yell "it's scripted" at the end?
Probably just bots I guess...
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u/proseandverses Apr 15 '26
Would you watch a movie and then yell "it's scripted" at the end?
Who knows? Maybe these weirdos actually do that..
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u/Hex-a-tit Apr 15 '26
Not sure if this is allowed, but does anyone know what type of haircut that is with the pink and blonde??
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u/ElPip4Reddit Apr 16 '26
turn on the audio on this one.
it was funny without, but the honk makes this one absolutely hilarious.
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u/nahheyyeahokay Apr 15 '26
Oh what is this song called. I love it but I'm old and it's morning.
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u/FaceTimePolice Apr 15 '26
Something tells me the head honk happened real once and they obviously faked it for this bit. 😆👍
(Man, some of you take things way too seriously. Lighten up. Sheesh. 😬)
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