History Quotes / TheLoad

->''"When it comes to helping his own side, Stanley is somewhere between [[GilligansIsland Gilligan]] and [[{{Transformers}} Star]][[TheStarscream scream]]."''

->''"First they ran out of {{Redshirt}}s, and now the writers of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' are fresh out of Convenient Burdens, too. Don't mistake the two: Red Shirts are entirely different from Convenient Burdens. Red Shirts are just disposable cannon fodder, while Convenient Burdens usually aren't even killed -- they're just perpetually on the verge of it. And they make for bad storytelling because they're usually painfully transparent: The Convenient Burdens only exist as easy plot devices to put the group in trouble when shit gets boring."''

Unfortunately, that's exactly how they got used in terms of Peri, who is the first companion since Victoria to be designed entirely and exclusively as [[DistressedDamsel a peril monkey]]. By all appearances [[IWasJustJoking they took Terrence Dicks at face value]] when he joked about creating Jo because the Doctor needed a dumb companion who would get rescued a lot. Almost all Peri gets to do is scream and be rescued."''
-->--'''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2012/06/i-was-beginning-to-fear-you-had-lost.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS23E1TheMysteriousPlanet}} "The Mysterious Planet"]]

->''"Why the {{WWF}} thought he was qualified to be a color commentator is anybody’s guess, but then again, this is the company that put Wrestling/JimRoss out to pasture, while Todd Grisham still reports to the makeup chair every Monday afternoon... Folks, I could go on and on about how Art’s knowledge of the product was less-than-nil. I could belabor how his “[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Grampa Simpson]]” style of delivery piped up with some bit of nonsense just often enough to [[TheGarfunkel remind you he was there]], while at the same time, chasing all other cohesive thoughts from your mind. I could raise the concern that his repeated inquiries of “Did dat really hurt ‘im?” [[{{Kayfabe}} didn’t do any favors]] for us on the suspension-of-disbelief front. Or I could just point to the below example that every time the camera showed Art, he just generally looked befuddled as hell."''
-->--'''''{{Website/Wrestlecrap}}''''', [[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/classic-induction-art-donovan-man-of-a-thousand-questions-and-they-were-all-how-much-does-this-guy-weigh/ "Art Donovan]] - Man of a Thousand Questions. And They Were all, "How Must Does This Guy Weigh?""

->''"The problem, at its core, is that Peri is clearly conceived of purely in terms of 'let's go back to the good old-fashioned girl companion.' Her only character trait that goes beyond '[[TheGenericGuy generic girl]]' is that she's American, and [[FakeAmerican they didn't actually bother to cast someone American]] for her. The problem is that the generic girl companion, as we observed back with Tegan, [[{{Flanderization}} is largely an invention]]. At this point there had been exactly two solo Earth girls to travel with the Doctor -- Jo and Sarah Jane...The last thing they could reasonably be taken for being were generic paradigms of [[TheWatson the companion]] role.\\\

->''Take a load off Annie, take a load for free;\\

you can put the load right on me''

->'''David:''' I really hope they do a future-of-Smallville Superman comic at some point, where Clark is just a completely incompetent asshole with terrible advice who repeatedly gets dismissed by the rest of the [[JusticeLeague League]] because all of his ideas are terrible.\\
'''Chris''': Here’s the thing: The ring was meant to take Doomsday into the future, so clearly that’s what it does to Lois. She ends up in 3009, dropped right into the middle of a bunch of [[LegionOfSuperheroes Legionnaires]] who are waiting to destroy the ultimate killing machine as soon as it comes through the time portal. There’s a part of me that wants Lois to have been [[NoKillLikeOverkill set on fire, electrocuted, mind-blasted, karate chopped, brained with a chunk of iron and turned to stone]] [[DeaderThanDead that was then eaten]] just because Clark couldn’t be bothered to keep his super-hero stuff off the top of his desk at work. That’ll learn him.
-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-8-22-doomsday/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Doomsday")

->''"I think this episode helped me identify yet another one of my problems with Smallville: Most of Clark’s problems are entirely of his own making. There are government officials who know who he is and literally want to murder him. Why wouldn’t he at least [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink glance at the card attached to the bottle of champagne]] before boozing it up with his bros?"''
-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-10-15-fortune/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Roulette")

-->'''Damian:''' Uh, I know I shouldn't say this...
-->'''Su-In Cha:''' Yeah, my stupid brother is the burden of this group...

->''"On their own, the giant infant scientists survived another minute, and then crashed."''
-->-- ''MST3K'', episode #816: ''PrinceOfSpace''

->Take a load off Annie, take a load for free;\\

you can put the load right on me.

->''"All he does is follow Quaid around and be... funny? I think this is supposed to be funny."''
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''', on the Monk character in ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}''

->''"First they ran out of Red Shirts, and now the writers of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' are fresh out of Convenient Burdens, too. Don't mistake the two: Red Shirts are entirely different from Convenient Burdens. Red Shirts are just disposable cannon fodder, while Convenient Burdens usually aren't even killed -- they're just perpetually on the verge of it. And they make for bad storytelling because they're usually painfully transparent: The Convenient Burdens only exist as easy plot devices to put the group in trouble when shit gets boring."''
-->-- ''Website/{{Cracked}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-the-walking-dead-has-to-get-better_p2/ "5 Reasons 'The Walking Dead' Has to Get Better"]]

->''"Why the {{WWF}} thought he was qualified to be a color commentator is anybody’s guess, but then again, this is the company that put Wrestling/JimRoss out to pasture, while Todd Grisham still reports to the makeup chair every Monday afternoon... Folks, I could go on and on about how Art’s knowledge of the product was less-than-nil. I could belabor how his “[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Grampa Simpson]]” style of delivery piped up with some bit of nonsense just often enough to [[TheGarfunkel remind you he was there]], while at the same time, chasing all other cohesive thoughts from your mind. I could raise the concern that his repeated inquiries of “Did dat really hurt ‘im?” [[{{Kayfabe}} didn’t do any favors]] for us on the suspension-of-disbelief front. Or I could just point to the below example that every time the camera showed Art, he just generally looked befuddled as hell."''
-->--'''''{{Website/Wrestlecrap}}''''', [[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/classic-induction-art-donovan-man-of-a-thousand-questions-and-they-were-all-how-much-does-this-guy-weigh/ "Art Donovan]] - Man of a Thousand Questions. And They Were all, "How Must Does This Guy Weigh?""

->''"First they ran out of Red Shirts, and now the writers of ''TheWalkingDead'' are fresh out of Convenient Burdens, too. Don't mistake the two: Red Shirts are entirely different from Convenient Burdens. Red Shirts are just disposable cannon fodder, while Convenient Burdens usually aren't even killed -- they're just perpetually on the verge of it. And they make for bad storytelling because they're usually painfully transparent: The Convenient Burdens only exist as easy plot devices to put the group in trouble when shit gets boring."''

->''"I tend to see Elan more as an obstacle that this team overcomes on a regular basis. Traveling with Elan is kind of like, say, adventuring with syphilis. It ''can'' be done, for a while, but it's not easy and it's not pretty."''
-->-- '''Roy Greenhilt''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''

->''"First they ran out of Red Shirts, and now the writers of ''TheWalkingDead'' are fresh out of Convenient Burdens, too. Don't mistake the two: Red Shirts are entirely different from Convenient Burdens. Red Shirts are just disposable cannon fodder, while Convenient Burdens usually aren't even killed -- they're just perpetually on the verge of it. And they make for bad storytelling because they're usually painfully transparent: The Convenient Burdens only exist as easy plot devices to put the group in trouble when shit gets boring."''
-->-- ''Website/{{Cracked}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-the-walking-dead-has-to-get-better_p2/ "5 Reasons 'The Walking Dead' Has to Get Better"]]

->-- The Band, ''The Weight''

-->-- WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick, on the Monk character in ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}''

->"On their own, the giant infant scientists survived another minute, and then crashed."

->Take a load off Annie, take a load for free; \\
Take a load off Annie, And (and) (and) \\

->- The Band, ''The Weight''


->"All he does is follow Quaid around and be... funny? I think this is supposed to be funny."
-->-- TheNostalgiaChick, on the Monk character in ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}''

->First they ran out of Red Shirts, and now the writers of ''TheWalkingDead'' are fresh out of Convenient Burdens, too. Don't mistake the two: Red Shirts are entirely different from Convenient Burdens. Red Shirts are just disposable cannon fodder, while Convenient Burdens usually aren't even killed -- they're just perpetually on the verge of it. And they make for bad storytelling because they're usually painfully transparent: The Convenient Burdens only exist as easy plot devices to put the group in trouble when shit gets boring.
-->--{{Cracked}}, ''[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-the-walking-dead-has-to-get-better_p2/ 5 Reasons 'The Walking Dead' Has to Get Better]]''

-->-- ''{{MST3K}}'', episode #816: ''PrinceOfSpace''

-->-- TheNostalgiaChick, on the Monk character in ''{{Dragonheart}}''

-->-- ''{{MST3K}}'', episode #816: ''{{Prince of Space}}''

-->-- '''Roy Greenhilt''', ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick''

-->-- '''Roy Greenhilt''', ''{{The Order of the Stick}}''