History Quotes / TookALevelINJerkass

->''"They’ve taken a charming, roguish character from ''Series/DoctorWho'' and turned him into an arrogant, one dimensional bully. I’d hardly say that is a step in the right direction.... Rule one – when the shit hits the fan you need to try and whip your team into as effective a unit as possible to deal with the crisis and not [[BreakingSpeech prey on their insecurities]] and [[TheNeidermeyer start pointing the finger]]. To top off this glorious example of retarded middle management Jack declares that he cannot stop this threat and publicly humiliates Owen in front of all of his colleagues. Is Jack going for the ‘[[MeanBoss boss of the year]]’ award? ...All the in-fighting comes to a head when the Mickey Mouse Torchwood team are sick of Jack standing around posturing impotently and decide to take matters into their own hands. They have basically come to the same conclusion as me that he is a terrible boss and needs to be put down like Old Yeller. When he can’t get his own way he pulls a gun on his staff and threatens to murder them all and starts dissecting all their personality faults. As you do... Jack has been [[CharacterDerailment so neutered and perverted as a character]] it was going to take a massive intervention to try and get him back on track again, so the final scene where we hear the TARDIS materialising nearby (tying in with the series three episode [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E11Utopia}} Utopia]]) it offers a glimmer of hope for the guy."''

->''"They’ve taken a charming, roguish character from ''Series/DoctorWho'' and turned him into an arrogant, one dimensional bully. I’d hardly say that is a step in the right direction.... Rule one – when the shit hits the fan you need to try and whip your team into as effective a unit as possible to deal with the crisis and not [[BreakingSpeech prey on their insecurities]] and [[NeverMyFault start pointing the finger]]. To top off this glorious example of retarded middle management Jack declares that [[FailureHero he cannot stop this threat]] and publicly humiliates Owen in front of all of his colleagues. Is Jack going for the ‘[[MeanBoss boss of the year]]’ award? ...All the in-fighting comes to a head when the Mickey Mouse Torchwood team are sick of Jack standing around posturing impotently and decide to take matters into their own hands. They have basically come to the same conclusion as me that he is a terrible boss and needs to be put down like OldYeller. When he can’t get his own way he pulls a gun on his staff and threatens to murder them all and starts dissecting all their personality faults. As you do. In hysterical Torchwood fashion Jack finally steps into action by [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory kneeling before the Abaddon like Jesus before the Devil and pours a white light into his ass and kills him]]... Jack has been so neutered and perverted as a character it was going to take a massive intervention to try and get him back on track again, so the final scene where we hear the TARDIS materialising nearby (tying in with the series three episode [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E11Utopia}} Utopia]]) it offers a glimmer of hope for the guy."''

->'''David''': Important College Scout About the Future is visiting town to watch Clark be a football star and presumably [[SuperDickery cheat a number of hardworking human athletes]] out of glory and recognition they would get were it not for the gloryhounding alien.\\
'''Chris''': I keep trying to think of something to add, but you basically nailed it. My pal Chad once summed up Franchise/{{Superman}}’s morality by saying that he’s a guy with XRayVision who never uses it to look at girls, but with the ''Smallville'' version, [[PowerPerversionPotential who knows]]? I’m willing to bet that there’s an entire episode where Clark does just that, shortly before [[WalkingDisasterArea melting the wall of the girls’ locker room]] with his heat vision.

-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' [[http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/Tribute_to_Burt_Reynolds_Hal_Needham.aspx?Page=3 on]] ''Film/SmokeyandtheBandit II''

-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''', [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-4-6-transference/ on]] the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Transference"

->'''David''': ...we get a short piece of exposition showing that an Important College Scout About the Future is visiting town to watch Clark be a football star and presumably [[SuperDickery cheat a number of hardworking human athletes]] out of glory and recognition they would get were it not for the gloryhounding alien.\\

->''"They’ve taken a charming, rougish character from ''Series/DoctorWho'' and turned him into an arrogant, one dimensional bully. I’d hardly say that is a step in the right direction.... Rule one – when the shit hits the fan you need to try and whip your team into as effective a unit as possible to deal with the crisis and not [[BreakingSpeech prey on their insecurities]] and [[NeverMyFault start pointing the finger]]. To top off this glorious example of retarded middle management Jack declares that [[FailureHero he cannot stop this threat]] and publicly humiliates Owen in front of all of his colleagues. Is Jack going for the ‘[[MeanBoss boss of the year]]’ award? ...All the in-fighting comes to a head when the Mickey Mouse Torchwood team are sick of Jack standing around posturing impotently and decide to take matters into their own hands. They have basically come to the same conclusion as me that he is a terrible boss and needs to be put down like OldYeller. When he can’t get his own way he pulls a gun on his staff and threatens to murder them all and starts dissecting all their personality faults. As you do. In hysterical Torchwood fashion Jack finally steps into action by [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory kneeling before the Abaddon like Jesus before the Devil and pours a white light into his ass and kills him]]... Jack has been so neutered and perverted as a character it was going to take a massive intervention to try and get him back on track again, so the final scene where we hear the TARDIS materialising nearby (tying in with the series three episode [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E11Utopia}} Utopia]]) it offers a glimmer of hope for the guy."''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2011/10/torchwood.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', "[[{{Recap/TorchwoodS1E12CaptainJackHarkness}} Captain Jack Harkness]]"

->''"Sure, in the beginning, [[{{Series/Seinfeld}} Jerry]] was the likeable struggling comedian -- the underdog, if you will -- and his love of Superman conveyed a sense of innocence and whimsy. But when you spend as long a time with a character as we spent with Jerry, you get to know what he's really like. Simply put, Jerry was a jerk. He was smug, petty, lazy, dishonest, picky, and he generally did not like people unless they were [[YesMan laughing at his jokes]]. Which is why the series ended with him in jail, and everyone [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing was mostly okay with that.]]"''
-->--'''''Topless Robot''''', [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/2012/11/10_tv_geeks_that_give_geeks_a_bad_name.php "10 TV Geeks That Give Geeks a Bad Name"]]

->''"The most toe-curlingly awful moments of [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster}} The Time Monster]] are where Ruth is made a feminist to make her [[StrawFeminist comically annoying]]. But that's nothing compared to this story, which contrives to have the Doctor [[StayInTheKitchen be a sexist ass]] to Sarah just so she can complain about it. The problem here should be obvious - the show goes out of its way to make a major character sexist just so it can get in a line complaining about sexism. In other words, the show's reaction to feminism is actually to [[NotHelpingYourCase make its major characters more sexist]]."''
-->--'''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/09/why-not-make-some-coffee-time-warrior.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior}} "The Time Warrior"]]

->''"Tuvok’s dressing gown makes him look like some [[TheCaligula camp Vulcan dictator]] so obviously the designer had read the script thoroughly and saw that was precisely how he was characterised this week."''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2012/03/voyager-seasn-two.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Resolutions"

->''"Sure, in the beginning, [[{{Series/Seinfeld}} Jerry]] was the likeable struggling comedian -- the underdog, if you will -- and his love of Superman conveyed a sense of innocence and whimsy. But when you spend as long a time with a character as we spent with Jerry, you get to know what he's really like. Simply put, Jerry was a jerk. He was smug, petty, lazy, dishonest, picky, and he generally did not like people unless they were [[YesMan laughing at his jokes]]. Which is why the series ended with him in jail, and everyone [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing was mostly okay with that.]]"''
-->--'''''Topless Robot''''', [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/2012/11/10_tv_geeks_that_give_geeks_a_bad_name.php "10 TV Geeks That Give Geeks a Bad Name"]]

->'''David''': ...we get a short piece of exposition showing that an Important College Scout About the Future is visiting town to watch Clark be a football star and presumably [[InferredHolocaust cheat a number of hardworking human athletes]] out of glory and recognition they would get were it not for the gloryhounding alien.\\

->''"The most toe-curlingly awful moments of [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster}} The Time Monster]] are where Ruth is made a feminist to make her [[StrawFeminist comically annoying]]. But that's nothing compared to this story, which contrives to have the Doctor be a sexist ass to Sarah just so she can complain about it. The problem here should be obvious - the show goes out of its way to make a major character sexist just so it can get in a line complaining about sexism. In other words, the show's reaction to feminism is actually to [[NotHelpingYourCase make its major characters more sexist]]."''

->''"Sure, in the beginning, [[{{Series/Seinfeld}} Jerry]] was the likeable struggling comedian -- the underdog, if you will -- and his love of Superman conveyed a sense of innocence and whimsy. But when you spend as long a time with a character as we spent with Jerry, you get to know what he's really like. Simply put, Jerry was a jerk. He was smug, petty, lazy, dishonest, picky, and he generally did not like people unless they were laughing at his jokes. Which is why the series ended with him in jail, and everyone [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing was mostly okay with that.]]"''

-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''', [[http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/Tribute_to_Burt_Reynolds_Hal_Needham.aspx?Page=3 "How to Sink a Career in Six Easy Steps: A Tribute to the Films of Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham"]]

->''"Suddenly there's no center to the narrative. The Doctor should be the force of chaos that makes those other characters work... Instead, he's a brilliant man [[SurroundedByIdiots surrounded by stupid apes]] that he grudgingly saves. And that's not who he is. It's who he complains about being when he's in a bad mood sometimes, but if the Doctor is just humoring our stupidity 24/7, that's not being a good guy. At the end of the day, the Doctor is supposed to like people."''
-->--'''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/07/he-was-friend-at-first-terror-of-autons_25.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'' ([[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons}} "Terror of the Autons"]])

->''"Another sign this is a [[Comicbook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage comics adaptation]] rather than a [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 cartoon]] one is that Casey’s mask comes off pretty much immediately. Also, he’s not a sociopath."''
-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''Matt Wilson''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-reviews-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1990-part-one/ on]] ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''

->''"Suddenly there's no center to the narrative. The Doctor should be the force of chaos that makes those other characters work... Instead, he's a brilliant man [[SurroundedByIdiots surrounded by stupid apes]] that he grudgingly saves. And that's not who he is. It's who he complains about being when he's in a bad mood sometimes, but if the Doctor is just humoring our stupidity 24/7, that's not being a good guy. At the end of the day, the Doctor is supposed to like people.\\\
...It's not entirely clear that this is a healthy position for the series to be in. It's suddenly flipped to where the major engine of interest and excitement in the show is the villain, while the Doctor is, absent the villain, kind of a pompous bore. The villain makes everything a lush, thrilling carnival of scares. The hero [[UpperClassTwit plays bridge with rich people]] and [[KickTheDog yells at the tea lady.]] It works. It's even very very good. But as ''Doctor Who'', it seems to be [[InNameOnly stretching the concept to its breaking point.]]"''

->''"Jerkass [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer]] is the one who, in “Maximum Homerdrive”, is so boastful of his stomach capacity that he gets into an eating contest with a perfect stranger, accidentally kills him, takes over his trucking route, and acts like such an asshole that the other truckers try to kill him before the end of the episode. Jerkass Homer [[IronButtMonkey is invincible]] and [[KarmaHoudini totally self confident,]] the evil doppelganger of the Homer that had originally been on the show. Jerkass Homer does ugly things like use the sleeper hold he learned in bodyguard training on Marge and Lisa. Jerkass Homer screams and cries and runs away from home, beats up the Emperor of Japan, feels entitled to hang out with A-list celebrities, and goes on wild benders in Las Vegas to show Ned Flanders how to be exciting."''

->''"If the entire legacy or canon of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' didn't exist -- and just these two movies existed -- Kirk would hate Spock. And Uhura would have no reason to fall in love Spock. Spock is a big asshole in this movie, and Kirk is a [[LeeroyJenkins hothead]]-[[BigManOnCampus college]]-[[JerkJock jock]] guy who runs around screaming, and everyone's yelling. And those two would not be best friends."''
-->--'''''HalfInTheBag''''' on ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''

->''"On the trip, we get a good sense of just how egotistical Bandit has become, as he drones on about how everyone knows him and {{blah blah blah}}. Sure, the average ''[Burt]'' Reynolds character has a pretty big ego, but generally it’s tempered by... Well, [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk something!]] It’s about here that Reynolds stops being likable and is just a bore, for the rest of this film and the next three I’ll be covering."''
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''', [[http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/Tribute_to_Burt_Reynolds_Hal_Needham.aspx?Page=2 "How to Sink a Career in Six Easy Steps: A Tribute to the Films of Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham"]]

->''"Sure, in the beginning, [[{{Seineld}} Jerry]] was the likeable struggling comedian -- the underdog, if you will -- and his love of Superman conveyed a sense of innocence and whimsy. But when you spend as long a time with a character as we spent with Jerry, you get to know what he's really like. Simply put, Jerry was a jerk. He was smug, petty, lazy, dishonest, picky, and he generally did not like people unless they were laughing at his jokes. Which is why the series ended with him in jail, and everyone [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing was mostly okay with that.]]"''

->''"Sure, in the beginning, [[{{Seineld}} Jerry]] was the likeable struggling comedian -- the underdog, if you will -- and his love of Superman conveyed a sense of innocence and whimsy. But when you spend as long a time with a character as we spent with Jerry, you get to know what he's really like. Simply put, Jerry was a jerk. He was smug, petty, lazy, dishonest, picky, and he generally did not like people unless they were laughing at his jokes. Which is why the series ended with him in jail, and everyone was mostly okay with that."''

->''"On the trip, we get a good sense of just how egotistical Bandit has become, as he drones on about how everyone knows him and {{blah blah blah}}. Sure, the average ''[Burt]'' Reynolds character has a pretty big ego, but generally it’s tempered by... Well, something! It’s about here that Reynolds stops being likable and is just a bore, for the rest of this film and the next three I’ll be covering."''

->''"Sure, in the beginning, [[{{Seineld}} Jerry] was the likeable struggling comedian -- the underdog, if you will -- and his love of Superman conveyed a sense of innocence and whimsy. But when you spend as long a time with a character as we spent with Jerry, you get to know what he's really like. Simply put, Jerry was a jerk. He was smug, petty, lazy, dishonest, picky, and he generally did not like people unless they were laughing at his jokes. Which is why the series ended with him in jail, and everyone was mostly okay with that."''

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-->-- '''Discord,''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic,'' "The Return of Harmony, Part 1"

->"Oh, for goodness' sake! You've been kind for far too long, my dear! Time to be cruel! ''Arrivederci!''"