Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Comedy Team Alignments
Just for fun, and to get distance from my last fairly heavy post (and also it’s a game night), here’s the Muppet alignment chart. Do you agree with them?
What about some other comedy classic teams?
Three Stooges:
Moe: Lawful/Neutral – clearly Moe believes in order from chaos. He’s willing to strike out with righteous anger at the first sign of nonsense. He still wallows in his own greed and selfishness from time to time.
Larry: Neutral – Larry seems to be caught in the middle philosophically. He often finds great amusement in the antics of Curly, but also has only a certain amount of patience for it. He will generally just try to stay out of Moe’s way to avoid a stray tolchok or eye poke. He’s happy to let Curly take the brunt of it. Ultimately, he finds that both law and chaos have a place in the universe.
Curly: Chaotic/Neutral – almost a force of nature, the Bald One surely means no harm in his chaos. But freedom of will, and to destroy pricey furnishings, shall be the whole of the law.
The Marx Bros.
Groucho: Chaotic/Good – Groucho often attains a place of leadership, but he finds he cannot help but fall into the madness that his brothers share. The joke is everything, but in the end Groucho has a kind heart and is helpful to those in need. When the chips are down he can step up and lead the masses from the valley of true evil.
Chico: Chaotic/Neutral – Concerned only with his own needs (first you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women). A fast buck and a hard fuck are the meat and potatoes of this scammer.
Harpo: Chatoic/Evil – lewd and rapacious, Harpo would knock you out and rape your wife and daughters if given half a chance. He gives in entirely to his base needs and instincts. No one who crosses his path is safe. Bar your doors!
The Rat Pack
Frank: lawful/neutral – although a party god and user of mind altering substances, Frank rules his kingdom with clearly lawful tactics. He calls the shots, and serves as the brain of the brain trust.
Deeno: Neutral – a basic sycophantic drone, to please Frank he at least pretends to be a drunk, plays the part of the king’s patsy, even going so far as to take part in the constant skewering of the king’s fool. To keep his place as second in the pecking order, Deeno does what he feels he must to maintain his status quo.
Sammy: Lawful/Good – the king’s fool wants nothing more than to perform and bring happiness to the attending court. He wants to make people smile, even if he must force his own smile in the wake of abuse and derision from his king and the king’s royal knight.
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The muppet poster looks just right. Well done!
ReplyDeleteHonestly, it's been so long since I've seen either a Marx Brothers or Three Stooges film that I get them all mixed up in my head. Seriously, like over 20 years.
Thanks to this, now I feel like looking up some of them to re-watch.
Lord G: TBS or something does a couple hours of Stooges in the morning, and that happens to be when I'm kicking back on some TV. Been watching a lot lately. Lot of nuances in there, I'm serious. Their rolls are well defined. There is this one trippy ass episode from this last weekend where they become Hitleresque dictators and seemed murderous and even genocidale. Evil all the way. That was really weird.
ReplyDeleteI think Moe could be defined as evil to some degree. At least half of the potent blows and sucker punches he delivers out of nowhere don't seem all that called for.
Interesting but I think you are wrong on Harpo and Chico. I would say Chico's selfish scamming would make him an ultimate true neutral and while destructive Harpo really doesn't have a mean bone in his body so I'd say he was CN - a true avatar of chaos just like Curly. And what of Shemp, I'd say his good natured inepetitude would place him in the NG category.
ReplyDeleteLige: hmmm. Whereas the Stooges for the most part seem to become bashful and boyish around the dames, the Marx boys all seem to become overly aggresive (especially for the time period) to women. Groucho seems the least threatening,though still jumping into laps and getting touchy feely. Chico seems to get a nasty leering sneer around women, and moves into their personal space in kind of a threatening way. His face seems to be saying "I'ma gonna fucka yor eyesa out!"
ReplyDeleteBut Harpo, well, you never see him actually catch one of those women his is chasing. He seems like Conan on that snowy hill chasing the ice princess. He knows what he's going to do when he catches her, whether she likes it or not.
You can never go wrong when you include Muppets.
ReplyDeleteThe Muppet Poster is neat. Unfortunately it pops up a bit small on my screen.
ReplyDeleteI was going to use something similar on my site for my March Muppet Madness Month.
http://barkingalien.blogspot.com/2011/03/inspirational-celebrational.html
I'll think of something else...Maybe...yes...Muhuwahaha!
Unfortunately for me, Hello-vision cable in Busan doesn't carry TBS.
ReplyDeleteBark: just google muppet alignment and you'll get a ton of versions of it (a lot of which my computer blocks for some reason).
ReplyDeleteLord: I'm thinking of Netfixing some Stooge material. Make a study of them this summer the way I did The Sopranos last year.
Great poster, thanks!
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