Has global warming alarmism finally jumped the shark? If so, then perhaps its jump the shark moment can be traced to last Sunday when global warming alarmism was openly mocked in the Zippy the Pinhead comic strip. Posted on 07/15/2008 2:46:22 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Has global warming alarmism finally jumped the shark? If so, then perhaps its jump the shark moment can be traced to last Sunday when global warming alarmism was openly mocked in the Zippy the Pinhead comic strip.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Zipster, here is a brief biography... Zippy was born in a satellite dish outside of Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother is a Las Vegas pizza waitress and his father is a truck driver who works part time as a writer for People Magazine. Zippy's favorite meals often consists of corn nuts and polysorbate 80 followed by a delicious desert of yogurt covered with taco sauce.
Zippy is also the wonderful creation of cartoonist Bill Griffith and is easily the best comic strip out there. A key element in the humor of this comic strip is that Zippy processes all information with equal weight. A chili dog has the same impact on Zippy as a hydrogen bomb explosion.
Many novices to the Zippy the Pinhead comic strip will scratch their heads in puzzlement at first, trying to figure it out. My advice is to give it a couple of weeks and you will probably become a devout acolyte of the Zipster as you learn to appreciate his humor. And the latest in Zippy the Pinhead's humor is this comic strip about global warming. Here are the first couple of panels from that strip:
Read the entire Zippy the Pinhad comic strip here to understand why this just might be global warming alarmism's jump the shark moment. Despite the relentless global warming propaganda by the mainstream media that is about as subtle as being hit over the head by a two by four, it is very hard to survive mockery by Zippy the Pinhead who has achieved cultlike status among his comics readers.
Something similar to this happened in the 1960s. After an initial period of confusion about exactly what the hippies were all about, the media quickly began treating that movement with great respect as if they had something important to say because they had reached a "higher conciousness." In fact, hippies even inspired the popular musical, "Hair," which premiered in October 1967. However, just a few months later, hippies reached their jump the shark moment when Mel Brooks' "The Producers" premiered in March 1968 because featured in that movie was perhaps the greatest comedic moment in cinematic history. It was the moment when Dick Shawn, as Lorenzo St. DuBois (LSD), appeared on the screen as a hippie singing "Love Power." Watch the video and you can see why the hippie movement quickly wilted away under the weight of the satiric mockery.
Will the same thing happen to global warming alarmism? Although the MSM relentlessly attacks global warming skeptics as "global warming deniers," it is hard to see how global warming alarmism can survive being openly mocked by Zippy the Pinhead.
Oh, and if it sounds like your humble correspondent is an overly enthusiastic fan of Zippy the Pinhead, it is because he is. And now to enjoy some yogurt covered with taco sauce.
Zippy is ok but why is this an example of jump the shark? It sounds like every day at the laudromat
I’m keener on Reid Fleming: World’s Toughest Milkman.
PJ, I’ve been a huge Zippy fan for many decades. One of my favorite sayings is:
“It’s a nation of Pinheads.”
Thanks for posting the Zipster.
While I am not a Zippy fan, I am a HUGE fan of “The Producers”. Dick Shawn’s audition song in the movie ends with the immortal line “Hey World! You Stink!” Love it.
You sort of have to know about Zippy. He is on the cultural cutting edge. When the Zipster mocks global warming, it is hard for global warming alarmism to survive.
“Are we having fun yet?”
Err, if I admitted that I love Zippy the Pinhead, my straight as a arrow father knows best persona my children has swallowed hook line and sinker would be completely blown.
Years of hard work explaining the picture of me with a bong, a beer and a six inch afro as a weird teenager joke to my children might be compromised.
So no, I never, never, never liked Zippy!!!
I've never seen “The Producers” and I probably should, but I really dug that scene, man. I liked the Campbell's can around LSD’s neck. Nice touch.
It reminded me of Tom Wolf's “The Painted Word”, which was the literary and cultural equivalent of the emperor’s new clothes.
The movie “Freaks” scared the hell out of me. It could only have been made during the Pre-Production Code era.
Before the release of "The Producers," people actually took the hippies seriously as if they had some sort of great insight to offer the unenlightened world. After "The Producers" hit the screens in early 1968, the hippies became an object of ridicule. South Park mocked hippies in one of its FUnniest episodes but mockery of hippies first began with that Dick Shawn scene in "The Producers." Right after that, the hippie movement took a nosedive. In fact, hippies soon began to HATE being called hippies.
Hahaha, I forgot all about Zippy... I did not even know that was still alive and well. Last time I think I saw a Zippy comic wass in a certain magazine (I’ll pason naming it!) which I use to get back in my ‘79, ‘80, ‘81 high school days.
Personally I liked Bob and the Church of the SubGenius.
Global warming is by definition jumping the shark to the nth power.
Global warming is probably the only thing on earth that has less evidence to support it than evolutionism.
Thurber?
“I thought I told you to shut up.” Is Reid Fleming's catchphrase. I hope nobody thought that I was insulting a FReeper
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