What's up with all the Nixon jokes? He left office in 1974 and Futurama debuted in 1999, 5 years after Nixon's death, btw.Did that nigga really live rent free in the showrunners heads for 25+ years?
Nixon is to Boomers what Trump is to Millennials
>>219931009It was just silly
>>219931009Jesus Christ cant you people read a fucking book.
>>219931009they thought the voice was funny. That's all.In futurama all the presidents are preserved as heads, they coulda made jokes about any president they just thought the voice was funny.
>>219931035time circles
>>219931009The tapes of Nixon saying Archie Bunker was glorifying homosexuality were a hoot
>>219931009Zoomers can’t quite understand how little shits all of us gave about politics at any given moment before 2016
>>219931060I am not a book
>>219931009nixon was cool so they joked about himhe's the antithesis of drump
Groening was a portland libtard faggot on the 70s and Nixon was le orange man for them
>>219931060you are on 4chan. what do you expect lol
>>219931009As you point out, Nixon left office in 1974. However, in the early seasons of Saturday Night Live (1976 - 1979, to be exact) Nixon was regularly satirized.Why was Nixon so uniquely picked on by comedians, long after he left office? Lots of reasons. There's the obvious answer of him being more right-wing while the entertainment industry leans more left, but that doesn't fully explain it (we weren't inundated with Bush and Reagan impressions years/decades after they left office). It could be his distinctive voice and mannerisms, but all presidents have distinctive voices and mannerisms. It could be the scandal that clouded his second term, but then why weren't we inundated with Bill Clinton parodies in the 2000s?I really don't know anon, it's odd. I've seen threads discussing this before but no answer is really satisfactory to me
Because it was funny, they could give him a funny voice and make him be an asshole and kids who never heard the real Nixon speak would think it's hilarious since the understand the concept of Nixon
>>219931930>we weren't inundated with Bush and Reagan impressions years/decades after they left officeThey weren't the republican in office during Groening's college-aged years. He was born in 54. This is the real obvious answer.
>>219931060Now I am leaving this thread for no raisin!
there are so many 00s Facebook Glenn Beck and Limbaugh boomers on this site now
>>219932160Have fun being trapped in this dense symbolist website!
>>219931930You're an idiot, but the significance of Watergate had nothing to do with the scandal itself; it was the first time the media exhibited real power predominating the government's. During previous instances of corruption, e.g. Teapot Dome, or the general corruption of republicans - especially Grant - during the gilded age, people would at most be upset enough to effect politicians to hold themselves to a higher standard. Moreover, there have been numerous instances where a strong president would suppress, intimidate or outright jail the media, e.g. Lincoln and FDR. Watergate signified a total flip in the dynamic between government and media; they were able to spin some generic political scheme into the greatest instance of corruption in the history of the world, and effectively force the commander in chief to resign. From that point onward, it became clear that every president would have to toe the line of the media. The perpetual ridicule and satirization of the story serve as a reminder that they now supersede all three branches of government. Not only that, but they have completely tarnished and manipulated Nixon's legacy to the point where people genuinely believe he was some super right-wing nutcase, rather than a pragmatist, who was relatively moderate, if not progressive, and took a realpolitik approach. Retards would have you believe that Nixon sat further right than e.g. Obama or Biden.
>>219932712Controversy sells, but it ain't like death.
>>219932248On retrospect, Bill-O was actually correct about 4chan.
>>219932712Hey fuck you too pal
>>219931060How do I read a book that fucks? Explain this to me. Is it like a popup book?
Futurama Nixon howls because when Billy West watched the Kennedy/Nixon debates as a kid, Nixon's sweaty awkwardness made him think that he was seconds away from turning into a werewolf.
>>219931099If you made a joke about politics before 2016, the President didn’t have a meltdown on Xitter and tell his followers how to respond to it. People were not glued to politics on their phones all day.
>>219931879Republicans weren’t cool back then and they aren’t today either, dork.
>>219932712There’s tape of Nixon saying nigger.
>>219931009because nixon had a cartoon character personality independent of how you felt about him.Same reason Al Gore was briefly in the comedy zeitgeist too.
>>219934823actual answer
>>219934823>Deduce his personality purely from cartoon depictions you've seen.>Conclude that he must have had a cartoon personality.You're a dumbass.
>>219935187>>Deduce his personality purely from cartoon depictionsi wouldn't be calling other people dumb you massive retard
>>219931009https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB28K3nJeCQ
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>>219931035IE: The best President.
>>219931128nice
>>219931009>Boomer traitors put nixon on a show to make fun of him>But he's awesome>Now we love Nixon
>>219931053>>219931831no, they thought he was the most evil person ever that's why they made him that on the show and have Agnew as some sort of Frankenstein monster.
>>219932248>show a video of muslims screaming racist and homophobic slurs and threatening to bomb americans for allah while commiting EBT fraud buying $500 of soda to a lefty>he starts screaming at me that I am racist and tells me I suck glenn becks dick>I lookup who that is
>>219931009The Leftist wankery gets baked into the entertainment of the period.When they talk about this show they'll try to sweep all the Al Gore 'muh Global Warming' bullshit under the rug like 'j/k bro', but for anyone who lived through that shit, you know it was wall-to-wall hyperventilating about polar bears and shit that never happened and was never going to.
It's so fucking funny how boomers thought Watergate was actually something that mattered
Matt Groening was 20 years old when Richard Nixon left office
>>219932248>>219933322this is what sharteens fags believe about 4chan
>>219939262Anons were way more leftist before all the election tourists showed up
>>219939344nerds in general in the 2000's were vaguely in the leftist camp. they still said nigger and were misogynists.
>>219931009I am not a baskin roberts fundie
