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Kenzodielocke

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Oct 25, 2017
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Dan Harmon has taken himself off Twitter following the resurfacing of a video he made which features a scene depicting the rape of a baby doll. The video, a five-minute comedy pilot titled "Daryl," was posted in 2009 on Channel 101.

"Daryl" spoofs Showtime's serial killer drama "Dexter." The scene features Harmon's character climbing through a window, pulling down his pants, and rubbing his genitals on a baby doll lying on a couch. In the introduction to the video, Harmon appears on camera warning viewers the pilot is "controversial."

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Harmon's video resurfaced online during Comic-Con weekend, in which he was attending the event with his fellow "Rick and Morty" co-creator Justin Roiland. The video earned backlash on social media for making light of child rape. Harmon has not commented on the video in a statement but he did delete his Twitter account. IndieWire has reached out to Harmon's representatives for further comment.

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/07/d...tter-account-fake-baby-rape-video-1201987089/

lock if old.
 

Rvaan

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Oct 25, 2017
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Everyone once in a while you see a story about something that get filmed and you wonder "How did no one high up say no?" This is one of those stories.
 

Deleted member 21380

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Oct 28, 2017
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Like I said before and before and before, no single comedian or comedy writer that was born before the zero years will ever pass any purity test.

Lame joke, maybe disgusting joke, but NOTHING MORE than a joke.
 

CallMeShaft

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
3,385
Kinda fucked up and not my type of humor, but he was obviously doing it for shock laughs years ago. This is just the alt-right assholes trying to tarnish another reputation of a liberal with a check mark. Don't give them an inch, let the past be.
 

Twiz

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
1,478
Wonder how the Morty fanbase will react? Rationally and composed right?
 

baggage

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Oct 25, 2017
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It's ..pretty tame for a Channel 101 pilot.

But it's Channel 101. It's about the same as "The real adventures of doc and mharti" overall.
 

ElephantShell

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Oct 25, 2017
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Dan Harmon is one weird dude. The original pilot or concept video for Rick and Morty was also pretty fucked up.

Edit nevermind the Rick and Morty thing was strictly a Roiland joint.

He's weird too.
 

Deleted member 835

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Oct 25, 2017
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Like I said before and before and before, no single comedian or comedy writer that was born before the zero years will ever pass any purity test.

Lame joke, maybe disgusting joke, but NOTHING MORE than a joke.
If you think faking raping a baby is a joke than I guess you are right...

I don't see stuff like this as jokes myself
 

Sain

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Nov 13, 2017
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It is sad to say, but literally every person with anything to lose should get their ass off of social media as fast as possible. Intent be damned, someone will try to weaponize anything you say or do to bring you down.
 

marrec

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Oct 26, 2017
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I mean, the original pilot for Rick and Morty was replete with this kind of humor. EDIT: Oops that was Roiland

Who would expect anything else from this dude? It's a good thing he makes a show for Adult Swim and not the Protestant Church

Most importantly, it's a fuckin joke
 

daboynem

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Oct 28, 2017
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If you think faking raping a baby is a joke than I guess you are right...

I don't see stuff like this as jokes myself
K bro keep going after jokes and the only people wellw have left is people like cernovich lmao. Next it'll be retweeting dark jokes or parody accounts and you're done
 
Oct 26, 2017
10,499
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Alt-right is weaponizing "outrage culture".

Clever girl.

This has always been the case... Weaponized outrage culture has always been a tool of the Christian right around the world for hundreds of years. Think of legitimate cases of leftists trying to weaponize outrage culture or successfully doing it and you'll struggle. The right get outraged at peaceful protests, outraged at women in gaming, outraged at movie directors for making jokes they'd defend as free speech if they made them, outraged at political/religious satire, the list goes on and on.

The only thing that's clever about the alt-right is labelling outrage as a leftist thing when it never has been. The same thing can be said, in large, in regards to purity testing which isn't much of an issue outside of tumblr/twitter for the left.
 

KtotheRoc

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Oct 27, 2017
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The worst thing about this whole situation is that it has emboldened some truly terrible people.
 

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That's a pretty great picture of Harmon lol.

I think I saw that back in the 101 days. It's a dumb shock jock type joke. Why would anyone care.
 

Capra

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Oct 25, 2017
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"Li-li-li-lick my baaaaalls, Mharty!!"

Also this is a good time to remember that the Right is more often than not the ones complaining about "snowflakes" killing comedy.
 

LifeLine

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Oct 25, 2017
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Rick and Morty was pitched with a pilot depicting sexual assault of a minor for laughs.


I doubt they'll cancel over this.
 
Oct 25, 2017
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It's probably a good idea to just purge all your social media accounts every year or two anyhow. It's mostly just junk data sitting around that only benefits creeps and privacy invading data sniffers.
 

DigitalOp

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Nov 16, 2017
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Why is fucking with kids a JOKE to y'all?

Look in the mirror and ask the question.


Comedy is comedy but from where I'm from, that shit won't get you laughs..... Just some questionable looks
 

Shroki

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Oct 27, 2017
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Alt-right is weaponizing "outrage culture".

Clever girl.

Yup.

And if they weren't gross monsters trying to "get" their political enemies, they'd have a pretty good point about the language and joke policing going on with some of the most ridiculous people on the left.
 

platocplx

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Oct 30, 2017
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Humanity is really taking a long long look at itself based on social media and there being no ability to forget anything done anymore.

The only problem is are we going to hold everyone accountable or will there just be one side that doesnt care how they are judged socially.
 

Doc Kelso

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Oct 25, 2017
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If you think faking raping a baby is a joke than I guess you are right...

I don't see stuff like this as jokes myself
Shit was wild 10 years ago. I foresee a lot of higher profile comedians and "controversial" actors popping off of Twitter sooner rather than later. The purity test is real.
 

zeuanimals

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Nov 23, 2017
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I mean, the original pilot for Rick and Morty was replete with this kind of humor.

Who would expect anything else from this dude? It's a good thing he makes a show for Adult Swim and not the Protestant Church

Most importantly, it's a fuckin joke

He didn't make the Doc and Mahrty sketch, that was Justin Roiland.

Everyone once in a while you see a story about something that get filmed and you wonder "How did no one high up say no?" This is one of those stories.

Wasn't Harmon one of the higher ups with Channel 101?
 

Kinthey

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Oct 27, 2017
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Harmon has been sick of Twitter for quite a while now. Him deleting it has been a long time coming
 

samoyed

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Oct 26, 2017
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If I were to be optimistic, I'd say this might have the unintended consequence of killing this type of "humor", which I always found distasteful, for good.

And really, a mass exodus of talent from social media is socially a good thing. Twitter is compromised, Facebook is compromised, Reddit is compromised, YouTube is algorithmically compromised.
 

Volimar

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Oct 25, 2017
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Guys. Watch the Hilarity for Charity special on Netflix. The Rick and Morty people made a special animated short for the special.

It's...something.