One of my favorite websites to go is called "Funny or Die", and one of the funny clips from that is called "The Landlord Lady." Will Ferrell is the big star in it, and he plays a person that's struggling to keep up with his rent. His landlord lady is a toddler, and their dialogue with one another is what makes this clip funny. The toddler's half of the dialogue has vulgar, and she tells her reason why she wants her rent money. She wants her rent money, because she states it is to get her drink on. It shows her standing, and holding a wine bottle when Will Ferrell opens the door.
As we watch this clip we are laughing at a toddler using vulgar, and plans on getting drunk. The joke of the clip is the landlord lady being played by a toddler, but we are more laughing at the toddler's half of the dialogue. The fact that the landlord lady is played by a toddler is funny enough, so why does the creator of this clip feel that having a toddler using a vulgar and wanting to get drunk needs to be added into the clip? The answer for that is maybe to reflect an actual landlord lady, and her half of the dialogue reflects that. That's where we the audience find the most humor in that, but is it really that funny?
Again watching that clip again give me thoughts of society to state comments about it, and it is not funny like the clip. In fact it is sad, and thinking of these things does not make the clip that funny anymore. The funny parts of clips is a reflection on what we think's funny, and basically what it is is a toddler being poorly influence by the creators of the clip to get laughs from us. We are laughing at a toddler using vulgar, and it's desire to get drunk. Now the toddler has no idea it is being badly influence for our amusement, and that's what actually makes that clip more sad than funny. It's just that we do not know that, because today's humor does not consider virtue.
Now I do understand that people can joke about anything they want, because of the first amendment. There's no denying this, but still decision that's made does have consequences. Now the toddler's guardian maybe ok with their toddler holding a wine bottle, and repeating half of a dialogue about getting drunk for the clips sake. They have that right, because no one should tell them how to raise its child unless decisions they make for it violates its right to life. Now they may see their toddler being perfectly safe around booze, because it is not drinking it. The toddler not drinking booze does not mean they are protecting from its potential harm, because being around it constantly increases it chances of being an alcoholic. Her being around that at an early age increases that more, and who knows where that leads? I hope it does not end in physical harm that results in death, and would we still think this clip's funny if that did happen?
Watching "The Landlord Lady" shows where we find amusement in our world, because we operate more on emotional side of the brain than the logic side of it. Also our environment thinks more relative, than absolutes. That toddler has not developed its cognitive senses yet, and her learning to think for herself is very slim with her environment. When will we think more about what we amuse ourselves with, and that's a question that believers need to ask themselves as well.
Believers are as guilty in that, and that's just as sad as the joke of that clip. 60% of this nation's population claim to be Christians, so than why do most of that population support that? It's obvious it does support that clip, because of its high number of views. Its high number of views makes it marketable for companies to give it more money, so they can make more clips like that. That justifies people more to make clips like "The Landlord Lady."
Believers claim to know truth, but they do not apply it in their lives. Them that do not apply it in their lives will add darkness in an already dark world, and it makes it harder for nonbelievers to come to the light. Nonbelievers are more skeptic today, and part of that reason is that they see Christians living like them. That makes Christianity a joke to them, and believers through its worldly lifestyle muddies the truth more so than nonbelievers.
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