I was watching a favorite show of mine when suddenly it wasn’t funny at all anymore. I’m the kind of person that does not laugh much, if at all. This show used to make me crack up, but now it’s only a small smile here and there for me. So one day I was watching the finale of the show, smiling and laughing a little, then it was revealed that one character seemed like he was going to end his life.
Then another character, making fun of him, fakes shooting himself in the head, his mouth making the noise, not once,
but two times in a row.
I forced back tears as I had just realized the universe gave me two middle fingers.
So much for liking that show.
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:O I can’t believe that is allowed to be aired ANYWHERE
I don’t suppose the show then portrayed the character doing the mocking as an enormous dick? I could sorta accept that. Otherwise.. gah. Stupid show.
Not the universe, just the show. If it helps, I flipped off the show back for you. It probably didn’t see me but I tried.
›:( Fuck producers. Insensitive bitches, or at least whoever put that in was.
That’s the first time I had ever seen it on tv. I mean, people do it around me all of the time, and it still upsets me, but I never expected it to be on a comedy show..
Did you hear about SNL’s skit making fun of Eeyore? They said a new character had been created because Eeyore finally “did it” and showed a picture of his bottom half hanging with a chair below.
I don’t know about anyone else, but that just upsets me.
I agree, that is upsetting. I can’t believe SNL would do that! I liked that show. Anyone have the skit writers phone number? I mean really. Of course why a childrens show has a depressed charactor in the first place I don’t know.
I know exactly the show you are talking about. My husband and I were watching, and it was so painful to see people joke like that given that our son died by suicide. But this stuff is just everywhere. For example, check out P90X and Insanity work out videos–loaded with exercises named “Suicides” and so on. People just don’t get it. A friend came over for dinner the other night and talked about how frustrating an experience with a bakery had been. She looks right at me and says, “I was like suicidal!” Yep, thanks. It’s not been 10 months since I lost my magnificent and–until a few weeks before he died–untroubled kid. I suppose the best thing to do is to let people know–“Hey, that is uncool and this is why,” but it gets old having to do that. For all of you who are contemplating suicide, please know that you will leave your family completely disassembled. I am a prisoner to my life–stuck here because I cannot do the same thing as my son did, but completely heartbroken. It is unbearable to the people who love you. Please don’t do it.
I lost my best friend to suicide less than a few months ago, so I know how completely unbearable it is. I have a hard time functioning without her, and every time I hear a joke about something like that, I have to fight breaking down into tears. I loved her more than anything… And I still want to see her soon.