https://piefed.social/u/Skavau posted on Feb 28, 2026 20:48
Crash landing on you.
A South Korean CEO of a cosmetics company, while paragliding, gets sucked in a tornado that pushes her far inside the land and lands in North Korea. She meets a military guy and his squad and basically has to go back to South Korea.
It was… quite good actually (if you like K-dramas). But the premise is one of the most absurds I’ve seen in a series.
Child’s Hospital but it’s the intentions to be absurd
*Children’s Hospital
Common Side Effects is such a great satire/critique of the US healthcare industry and a competent breakdown of it’s issues as well as the issues of self-medication and alternative medicines, but the entire plot hinges on something absolutely absurd.
This is revealed early in the first episode, so it’s not a spoiler.
It all hinges on a very specific mushroom that was discovered by one of the main characters, which can heal what seems to be literally anything, from any type of disease to literally being impaled through the chest with a steel pipe. No matter the circumstances, it seems to be able to bring people back from the brink of death to perfect health.
This absurd plot device, however, is extremely well used towards the goals of the show in critiquing both big pharma and alternative medicine without rigorous scientific understanding.
Despite being absurd, one of my favorite recent pieces of media.
Yeah, it was a typo
The Chair Company
No apostrophe, it’s named after its founder, Arthur Childrens.
Oka, I’ll go fucking kill myself then
Love the show but completely agree with you
Jesus Christ, get over it.
You get over it.
I’m not the one who’s upset over being corrected on the shows name which matters because that’s the joke.
You’re annoying though
Good talk.
Congrats on being a really annoying person who has to make someone else feel really bad about being wrong so the can feel better about themselves
Is it, though? Corporations all being weird shell companies where you can’t actually get in touch with anyone and the offices aren’t where they say they are is actually a very real thing. The show takes that premise in absurd directions and the main characters absurd responses to it, but the initial premise of “guy is frustrated with badly designed thing, tries to make a complaint, hits a corporate wall” is deeply normal.
If you feel really bad about being corrected on a comedy shows title where the title is part of the joke, I don’t know what to tell you, it’s really not that big of a deal to be corrected by other people. It’s really not that important, but you’re making a huge bitch fit out of being corrected. Sorry.
It just didn’t seem like it was that big of a deal in the first place, I had the wrong title and yet you knew what I was talking about, my comment isn’t a computer program that has to have the absolute perfect wording in order to be understood by others. And it’s a shitty day today so I’m not in a good mood and didn’t want to hear it. I apologize for getting heated and it’s more just the day than you and I projected so I’m sorry about that, that isn’t fair to you. You aren’t annoying and I see you had good intentions and I just interpreted poorly.
Hey, thanks. I’m sorry I unintentionally made your shitty day worse. I really hope it gets better from here and I really appreciate your kindness and thoughtfulness here. Also, you’re right, people would know what you’re talking about without it being perfect, and I’m sorry I was annoying by caring because the name being odd is part of one of the long-running jokes of the series.
Sure, sorry. I guess I didn’t read the question properly. I didn’t even want to take this class anyway.
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The mighty boosh. Garth Mahrengis Darkplace. The IT crowd. Red Dwarf. What we do in the shadows. Wellington paranormal.
*its
Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Metalocalypse, Star Trek
The movie with the most absurd premise I ever watched was Titanic II:
100 years after the sinking of the Titanic, a new luxury cruise ship is built.
They call it Titanic II.
It sets out on its maiden voyage with lots of rich and important people on board.
When it suddenly encounters a huge iceberg.
I won’t spoil the ending.
Brilliant show
Quantum Leap is the silliest idea imaginable.
Silver goes to an old favorite, a one season wonder called ‘Strange Luck.’
The premise was that the hero had survived a plane crash that killed both his parents. Now, years later, he has completely ridiculous luck. In the pilot episode he’s arrested. Detective interviewing him pulls out his file, which is about 1,000 pages. He’s been arrested for murder over a dozen times, but has letters of commendation from numerous VIPs, including two Presidents and the Pope.
For a series, Pushing Daisies:
A pie-maker can bring dead things, animals and people back to life by touching them.
But he has to touch them again within one minute, killing them permanently, or else something of equal life force in the vicinity will die.
He uses this gift to reduce food waste in his bakery.
When the bakery struggles financially, a friend convinces him to solve murder cases instead, by interrogating the victims.
I feel adult swim shows should be excluded or it would be all them.
It’s difficult to tell if you are role playing a Chair Company character or not here. And I think that proves your point.
Rehearsal
I still don’t know if it’s trying to make fun of the people or truly help them. It’s bonkers and I love it.
I think he may have accidentally helped himself. Part of me feels like the end of season 2 was just him deciding that he’s going to ditch comedy and be a pilot from now on.
I don’t think a TV show has ever left me more surprised than the reveal of the set he created in season 1.
Dead dead demon’s de de de destruction starts with a man waking up in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo after being possessed by an alien for several years. In episode 0, we follow his journey through a devastated landscape of refugee camps, killer robots, and militarized factions before flashing back to spend the rest of the series on the story of how Tokyo ended up like this.
What follows is a horrific and depressing deconstruction of Doraemon.
