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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
oneuglybunny
Since: Nov, 2012

A comparatively short work for television, about 15 to 22 minutes. It depicts an Orwellian future with people living in sterile compartments with a huge viewscreen on one wall. The screen always has this looming image of this Supreme Overseer. One factory worker returns home, and goes into this Jim Varney goofball routine until the Overseer suddenly goes online and roars at him to "cut that out!" Ultimately, the Overseer grows disgusted with the goofball and the screen goes blank. Then the goofball goes all serious, puts on glasses and writes in a journal: "A man is not free until he can laugh at his oppressor. Today, I laughed at my oppressor." Anybody remember this one? Ideally, this would make a nice example for a YKTTW proto-trope.