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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna be honest with you, I watched 20 years of Batman reruns and never noticed this once.

CRTs were a whole thing.

It was a genuine Mandela effect moment when I saw clips from a DVD re-release or whatever it was in HD for the first time and went "what is THAT on his face"?

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Simpsons addressed this phenomenon.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 18 points 7 months ago

The amount of Simpsons I haven't seen now dwarfs the pieces I have seen, and I've seen A LOT of The Simpsons.

But yeah, basically. It's why old TV shows often depict injuries by just smearing red paint on someone's face. They knew how to make better makeup, they just didn't have to.

Oh, and why anything written down is in marker and with hilariously huge preschool letters. And why you get all those awkward extreme close up inserts on any object that is plot relevant. The medium is context for the message.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They should've dyed it green instead

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago

I'm colourblind. Looks like a weird second set of lips until I zoomed in.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Omg I needed a laugh today, thanks

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We're all out here scrounging for that genuine laughter and a schmecken (spelling according to wiki) of dopamine these days. Glad to set one off for ya.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can you imagine scrubbing that crap outta your mustache every day

People don’t talk about Romero Joker enough. He influenced joker a lot and you can see a lot of Romero joker come through in performances like Nicholson’s