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RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#1: Apr 19th 2011 at 4:00:39 AM

I found this example in the Western Animation section of the Social Services Does Not Exist page, but there's nothing in it (potholed or otherwise) to indicate what work the example comes from.

•So, imagine this scenario: three single men are living together. One of them is a well-known petty criminal who, on one occasion, accidentally put someone in a coma in the course of trying to commit another crime. Another is barely coherent because of his impressive intake of painkillers. The third has ghosts living in his head. They do not get along particularly well. Their home is a battered music studio between a mad-cow-disease-infected landfill and a zombie-filled graveyard. They find an eight-year-old girl in a shipping crate on their doorstep. The child has total amnesia and speaks only one word of English. Sure they can keep her, what could possibly go wrong? (Surprisingly little until "El Manana", actually.) In the same world, the punishment for running someone over and putting them in a coma is apparently to be forced to look after them while they are in the coma. Hands up all those who think this is a good idea? And then there's everything Murdoc went through ...

This ringing any bells for anybody?

Nyarly Das kann doch nicht sein! from Saksa Since: Feb, 2012
Das kann doch nicht sein!
#2: Apr 19th 2011 at 4:03:49 AM

Searching for "El Manana" and "Murdoc", I only get Gorillaz.

People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.
Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
I see the Awesomeness.
#3: Apr 19th 2011 at 5:05:37 AM

Nope, shove it onto the discussion page.

Fight smart, not fair.
Nyarly Das kann doch nicht sein! from Saksa Since: Feb, 2012
Das kann doch nicht sein!
#4: Apr 19th 2011 at 5:11:41 AM

But the sentence "Sure they can keep her, what could possibly go wrong?" is actually potholed to Gorillaz, so I'm pretty sure that it's... well, Gorillaz. But it really needs to be rewritten.

[up] Well, and this.

People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.
MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN
#5: Apr 19th 2011 at 7:26:15 PM

That's definitely Gorillaz.

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