Line #18 YMMV/Mulberry


1	* AlternativeJokeInterpretation: In "First World Problems," do those who vote for [[spoiler:Adolf Hitler]] to win the Greatest Person Alive Award truly love him, or do they just hope to derive some humor from the award going to someone who doesn't deserve it at all? Mulberry does admit that she should've known either way not to let the online community choose the winner.
2	* AluminumChristmasTrees: Some of the readers felt surprised to learn that ''Ambush Makeover'', which became [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=1&page=8&seriesID=4 spoofed]] in "Mulberry's 2004 Fall TV Preview," actually exists.
3	* {{Anvilicious}}: "[[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=22&page=15 Heiress A Parent]]".
4	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
5	** After Mulberry [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=8&page=7 prevents]] some [[WesternAnimation/CartoonAllStarsToTheRescue cartoon all-stars]] from making Jack endure anti-piracy lectures in "Jack the Ripper," she never mentions meeting them again. WordOfGod says this was originally going to be part of a BrickJoke, with additional cartoon characters appearing later to lecture Jack, but the second scene would have disrupted the flow.
6	** Mulberry does [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=20&page=6 some pretty random things]] after Brittany Murphy's death in "Murphy's Lawn" causes her to think about all the people she took for granted lately.
7	** The [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=24&page=7 two]]-[[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=24&page=8 page]] ''[[Film/TheNeverendingStory Neverending Story]]'' homage in "Mulberry's 2012 Fall TV Preview".
8	* BizarroEpisode: [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=21&pageType=index&seriesID=4 "Mulberry's Epic Yarn"]] starts out as a parody of ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'', then becomes progressively stranger, until they reveal that [[spoiler: Mulberry wrote the issue herself, apparently warping hers and Taffy's reality]].
9	-->'''Mulberry:''' [[GainaxEnding Wait, now I'm even more confused!]]
10	* CrossesTheLineTwice: "Disney Adventures" provides the grim sight of some obscure Creator/{{Disney}} characters locked inside cages in the Disney Vault. Upon reaching this area of the Vault, Taffy exclaims, "It's worse than a Republican summer camp in here!"
11	* GeniusBonus: John K's [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=15&page=18 list of enemies]] in "Artifacting" includes several famous animators and cartoon writers (plus [[http://www.toonzone.net/ ToonZone]] founder Eileen Cruz).
12	* HarsherInHindsight:
13	** "My Fat Lady" ends with the less crude Creator/MelissaMcCarthy helping ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' earn a reception as glowing as that of ''Film/Ghostbusters1984''. The hopes that ''Ghostbusters'' would boast one of [=McCarthy=]'s least crude performances would eventually come true, but it would only earn a SoOkayItsAverage critical reception and box office performance[[note]]a 73% Website/RottenTomatoes score vs. the original's 97%, and a worldwide gross that covered the production budget, but not advertising[[/note]]. As a less significant example, Mulberry's suggestion that Sony cast Creator/AubreyPlaza as Janine feels ironic considering they would end up giving the Ghostbusters a male secretary (played by Creator/ChrisHemsworth), and that he'd prove more {{ditzy\| secretary}} and [[BaseBreakingCharacter base-breaking]] than Janine did.
14	** "My Fat Lady"'s replacement of Leslie Jones with Tracy Morgan might seem at least a little awkward to readers who remember ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' mainly as the catalyst of her receiving abuse and harassment online. For a story trying to predict the worst that could happen with that movie, it doesn't sound possible to get any further off than completely ignoring the cast member who suffered the most afterwards. Peter apparently just forgot Leslie Jones' name while writing "My Fat Lady", and didn't watch enough of her material to realize "Tracy Morgan in drag" could sound like an apt TakeThat of her schtick.
15	* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Before Mulberry goes to help Melissa [=McCarthy=] prepare for ''Ghostbusters'' in "My Fat Lady", she uses a clip of ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' to demonstrate that she was funny before becoming pigeonholed as degrading BigFun and FatBastard characters, then hopes, "The damage is bad, but not irreversible. The funny person has to still be inside her, somewhere." In real life, Paul Feig must have managed to find her without Mulberry's help; while the next two roles [=McCarthy=] would play for him ([[Film/{{Spy}} Susan Cooper]] and the aforementioned Abby Yates) do have moments of social awkwardness and clumsiness, they ultimately seem more defined by their intellect and combat skills than their weight. (After the first ''Ghostbusters'' trailer premiered, Peter [[http://www.toonzone.net/first-full-ghostbusters-trailer-arrived-watch-now/ thanked God]] that it at least didn't contain any fat jokes.) Additionally, a Creator/{{Netflix}} ''Gilmore Girls'' revival, written by the original show's creator (Amy Sherman-Palladino), would give [=McCarthy=] the chance to ''really'' return to her old comedic style.
16	* HilariousInHindsight:
17	** "Faces and Places #1" gives Walt [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=7&page=6 a death]] heavily inspired by [[Franchise/StarWars a certain movie series]] obtained by Creator/{{Disney}} six years later.
18	** In "Mulberry's Epic Yarn", Mulberry [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=21&page=10 shoots]] [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Willow Rosenberg]] with her FingerGun, then proclaims, "That's official canon, by the way." Later, ''Webcomic/FreeSpirit2014'' would allow Jessie Harper, another TV character portrayed by Willow's actress, to become a key part of the Platypus Comix oeuvre.
19	** From "My Fat Lady":
20	*** Mulberry's ImagineSpot about tasteless fat jokes ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' could make includes one where Melissa [=McCarthy=] loudly eats a sandwich during an investigation. Swap [=McCarthy=] with Creator/KateMcKinnon, and replace the sandwich with Pringles, and this would perfectly match an actual gag in the movie.
21	*** Kate [=McKinnon=]'s absence from Mulberry's list of alternate female Ghostbusters seems to suggest that [[ItWillNeverCatchOn she doubts McKinnon's potential to become one of her time's greatest comediennes]], which might sound ironic to readers who now [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail consider her the funniest star]] of ''Ghostbusters (2016)''. [=McKinnon=] stealing [=McCarthy=]'s chances of becoming the most-beloved Ghostbuster of this movie can make this whole story either Hilarious or Harsher in Hindsight, depending on which actress the reader usually prefers.[[note]]Peter actually didn't watch any of Kate [=McKinnon=]'s material before writing this story.[[/note]]
22	*** [[spoiler:For readers who didn't like the thought of another all-male Ghostbusters team, its cancellation adds this tone to the last page's lack of support for the idea. Additionally, Peter correctly predicted Chris Pratt getting signed on to the reboot, although none of the other hypothetical men he listed did -- including the one he dreaded would get top billing, Seth Rogen. (Some 2012 rumors listed him as a potential new Ghostbuster, but top billing for this film would have apparently instead gone to Chaning Tatum, whom this comic doesn't name-drop.)]]
23	*** As an example that doesn't concern ''Ghostbusters'', ''Batman vs. Batman'' seems to unintentionally reflect future complaints that ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' makes Batman's and Superman's philosophies too similar, compared to the comics.
24	* MorePopularSpinoff: The Platypus Comix website has a healthy archive of ''Mulberry'' comics, but none for ''Marin Meadow'', the comic where Mulberry Sharona and Jack first appeared.
25	* NauseaFuel:
26	** Readers of "Obamadramarama" see [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton]]-possessed Mulberry as [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=16&page=14&seriesID=4 an old woman wearing a Mulberry wig and outfit]].
27	** In "Mulberry's Wraparounds", the last commercial that Mulberry and her friends endure promotes Skittles with the tagline, "Vomit the rainbow! Taste the rainbow!" WordOfGod says the visuals, which the readers fortunately don't see, involve people barfing Skittles into each other's mouths.
28	* NightmareFuel: See NightmareFuel.PlatypusComix
29	* ShallowParody: "Outtatime" replaces the holographic ''JustForFun/{{Jaws 19}}'' ad with a giant Creator/MelissaMcCarthy hologram, who chomps Marty to promote the comedy ''Unsubtle''. While this provides a slam at movies wasting [=McCarthy=] as FatComicRelief, her filmography for 2015 doesn't contain any movies making jokes about her overeating--just the espionage spoof ''Film/{{Spy}}'', in which she played an adorkable yet genuinely witty and resourceful CIA agent.[[note]]The closest thing ''Spy'' has to a joke about Melissa [=McCarthy=] overeating involves her character [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTqtVnXQwxQ eating a hand towel]] while in a fancy restaurant, instead of using it to wipe her hands. However, this functions more as a contrast between her naivete and typical movie spies' sophisticated personas (the size and folding of the towel caused her to mistake it for a fancy appetizer, and it doesn't help that a later scene reveals that some restaurants really ''do'' serve appetizers in that shape), than a jab at her eating habits.[[/note]]
30	* {{Squick}}: "Murphy's Lawn" has Creator/BrittanyMurphy get [[spoiler: [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/mulberry/index.php?issue=20&page=19 raped by a unicorn]] and left to eventually give birth to a HalfHumanHybrid "Human-Corn"]] at the end of her last movie. Fortunately, the readers don't get to see the disgusting parts.
31	* TakeThatScrappy: From "Disney Adventures":
32	** [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Alpha-5]] laments that he can't help the non-''Power Rangers'' characters who want to escape the Disney Vault:
33	--->...I can't rescue them, because I'm Alpha-5 and I suck!
34	** During a delivery of Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox-owned characters to the Vault, Disney personnel tries to shove WesternAnimation/AllenGregory back to the Fox delivery man, but he refuses to take him back.
35	** Mulberry and her friends eventually go so deep into the Vault, that they meet a crowd whom the most PC readers might consider {{Ethnic Scrapp\|y}}ies, including [[WesternAnimation/TheAristocats Shun Gon]], [[WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies Little Hiawatha]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Sunflower]], [[Film/SongOfTheSouth Uncle Remus]], and [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Apu]].

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