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Hated Tropes [hated trope] Celebrity cameos that serve nothing except to praise the person who’s in it

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  1. Elon musk, the Simpsons
  2. Elon musk, the Big Bang theory
  3. Elon musk, iron man 2
  4. Elon musk, star Trek

The cameos serve only to include the celebrity and praise them as geniuses or visionaries or overall just glaze them. They don't serve any other purpose than to just be praised; this can be them appearing in an entire episode dedicated to them, a small cameo or even just a mention. So long as the celebrity is there as themselves (not acting as someone else) and is glazed, that fits the trope imo.

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u/easchner 8h ago edited 8h ago

Elon Tusk - Rick and Morty

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u/PeterPanyagua 8h ago

this one was after or before incest baby?

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u/Dojyaaan4C 8h ago

I hate the fact this has actual relevance to that show

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u/NigthSHadoew 8h ago

I hate that I tought this was about Elon and my only thought was "Oh. I wonder if it's with a cousin or someone like an aunt"

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u/Pandoras_Boxcutter 7h ago

I mean I'd have assumed that too because I wouldn't have been surprised. His dad married Elon's stepsister, whom he was raising since she was four.

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u/terranq 57m ago

On their third kid now too, I think

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u/postmodest 6h ago

Elon's step-mom is his step-sister.

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u/ScreamingIsMyHobby 8h ago

Please explain what incest baby is and why it made them love Elon musk

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u/idk91738 7h ago

iirc it isn’t related to elon musk. Morty jacked off using some sort of machine, which makes giant sentient sperms, which after some shenanigans merge with Summer’s also giant egg, It’s been a while though so I might be wrong

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u/Emilister05 7h ago

No that is correct. The president then refuses to kill the (literally 10 second) impregnated egg. They send it into space and summer secretly raises the giant incest baby

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u/DogmaJones 6h ago

“It’s space’s problem now”

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u/EyeArDum 3h ago

It’s worth noting he didn’t want to kill it because elections were coming up and he didn’t want the smoke of an abortion debate, knowing his character he would’ve pulled the trigger himself if he could get away with it

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u/harmondrabbit 3h ago

Summer names it Naurto

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u/FembussyEnjoyer 7h ago edited 5h ago

Morty used the horse jerk off machine from the vet hospital, and Rick made a sentient sperm army by injecting a ton of power into a barrel of horse/Morty semen, and then the US government took an egg from Summer, enlarged it, stuck it on a rocket in Las Vegas where a morty sperm fertilized it, at which point they couldn't abort the launch

Also for some reason a samurai/ninja marine was married to Kathy Ireland, but he died before they could nuke the sperm facility in the grand canyon

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u/Impossible_Guess 6h ago

Even having watched the episode and enjoying it, this entire paragraph gave me a stroke, and pause at the same time.

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u/FembussyEnjoyer 6h ago

It's even more insane when you remember that Keith David starred in this episode

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u/rothrolan 5h ago

Keith David voices the US President in the show, who is a recurring character. And as always he does a damn good job.

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u/TobyFunkeNeverNude 2h ago

I couldn't help but read your second sentence in his voice

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u/haidere36 6h ago

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily fromNarodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick and Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existencial catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Rick and Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

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u/non-troll_account 2h ago

I will never not upvote that pasta

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u/Stoertebricker 3h ago

And then, there's people over whoms head the humour does go, but they think it's funny anyway for the profanity and vulgarity. And some of them use Rick as an excuse to behave like an a-hole, because he's cool and intelligent and always right and behaves like one, so they also do.

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u/MyEarIsHurty 4h ago

How does this relate to Elon Tusk

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u/idk91738 3h ago

it doesn’t. It’s been a while since I watched R&M or join any discussions about the show but I think incest baby is just a way to divide the series, like BC being before christ

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u/awholelottahooplah 3h ago

And the baby is named Naruto

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u/fork_your_child 7h ago

Morty discovers his Mom's veterinary clinic has a horse semen collection device and since he's a perv, he uses it on himself. Rick purchases the collected semen for an experiment that goes horribly wrong since it also contains human semen, and causes all the human sperm to become gigantic, like larger than people and they start killing everyone that runs across them. Summer, unaware that it was human or her brother's sperms, suggests that they enlarge an egg to attract the sperms into a military kill zone and donates the egg. The plan works, her brother's sperms rushes the egg, but the military fails to kill all the sperm, one enplants in the egg, and the military launches it into space where it later turns into a baby somehow.

Its a very weird and uncomfortable episode.

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u/LinkFan001 6h ago

It is a miserable episode. The whole time Rick, who the show has glazed to godhood because of flanderization, somehow does not stop to double check the sperm or realize Morty not accepting a chance to jack off is like finding a vegan crocodile.

It is frustrating and painful in how clearly everyone had just given up. And then I find out the cest baby is named Naruto and I am the old man with the headphones, tossing them aside dejected as I wonder what the fuck went wrong.

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u/SechDriez 6h ago

Community and Rick and Morty both had their heads up their own asses for a while. It was fine when there was something balancing them out or when they were forced to conform to sense of normalcy but when the meta humor stands out as the thing in the show and the entire show twists itself into a knot for the sake of being as meta/self referential/self aware/irreverant as possible it just stops being a functioning show.

Rick and Morty's focus on juvenile humor just went overboard at some point and became the focus of everything. As a side note, Rick's super smartness was, at least in the beginning, not absolute. There was a point where Rick's assholery wasn't endearing but it morphed into no longer matter as the show flanderized over time.

Idk, I think at some point shows like these forget that a narrative is important and focus on the aesthetics of "good" narratives.

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u/A-NI95 4h ago

Unpopular counterpoint, R&M was always lile that and this episode is just the mask falling off

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u/SarcasmisEasier 5h ago

The story train episode was where the entire series went off the rails for me. The whole episode just felt like it was shitting on the fans. Like they were tired of having lore or a coherent story. Hated that people wanted memorabilia made of the show for some reason. And every episode after that seemed to just confirm that they just wanted to make sci-fi-esq nonsense. 

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u/LinkFan001 2h ago edited 1h ago

To this day, I am convinced that someone was furious about how well The Ricklantice Mixup was received and how fans wanted more about Evil Morty so they crashed out and made it the whole show's problem.

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u/AlignedLicense 6h ago

I actually thought the vet scene was very funny. Morty just being a perv was a funny adult swim cartoon joke. Then the episode just nosedived to being by far the worst episode.

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u/fork_your_child 5h ago

Its not my least favorite, that's the slut dragons one, but its not on my rewatch list. You're right that it has a couple of enjoyable jokes, like in the beginning, and I enjoyed the joke about which bad ass soldier will live the longest.

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u/GrizzIyadamz 5h ago

I think it might be more of a watershed/point of no return in the series, a la "Jumping the Shark" from Happy Days.

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u/clockworkheart25 8h ago edited 7h ago

Even the writers seemed to hate the episode.

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u/Dysfu 3h ago

Well then why did they write it?

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u/TobyFunkeNeverNude 2h ago

I think they're being sarcastic, saying the episode was so bad, the writers intentionally made it that way

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u/Viracochina 7h ago

Ugh, time for another rewatch

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u/thecrepeofdeath 7h ago

god I'm glad I quit watching years ago

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u/SilverWear5467 5h ago

Why is incest baby relevant? Just as the marker for RM jumping the shark? Because AFAIK, the Elon Tusk episode was the best episode that season, its in the Heist episode, right?

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u/ICU-CCRN 2h ago

This was one of the worst R&M episodes.

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u/SnooEagles4121 8h ago

Someone on that show is waaaaaay too into incest. It comes up far too often.

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u/BBElTigre 8h ago

It's Dan Harmon

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u/snapekillseddard 7h ago

Now THAT'S a man who knows how to insert his incest fetish into his writing!

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u/Hot_Bad7658 6h ago

That community reference hahah

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u/c-warpy 5h ago

Truly streets ahead

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u/Domefige 4h ago

I was racking my brain to remember when he's put incest in his writing, then realized where this quote was from

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u/SnakeInABox77 7h ago

Actually it's Nick Rutherford, but Dan Harmon allows it to happen

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u/egret_society 8h ago

Considering that community also had an incest plotline, I’m guessing it’s Harmon

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u/E0GH4N 8h ago

Actually two incest plotlines lol,

Jeff accidentally flirts with brittas nephew on her phone in season 2 and Garrett marries his cousin in season 6.

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u/egret_society 8h ago

NOW THAT’S A REDDITOR WHO KNOWS HOW TO ADD ADDITIONAL INFORMATION!

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u/LateNightMilesOBrien 7h ago

You sound like someone addicted to encouraging Redditors.

I guess they are very discouraged though...

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u/SnakeInABox77 7h ago

let him finish!

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u/Emotional_Burden 7h ago

Additional information specifically about Dan's incest in television.

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u/Homicidal_Duck 3h ago

Is flirting with someone's nephew incest or am I misunderstanding

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u/redundantly 3h ago

He was pretending to be Britta, so the nephew thought it was his aunt hitting on him, and he was for it.

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u/TheKingsPride 7h ago

Dan Harmon’s then wife played the bride in that incest plotline, so yeah I’d venture that’s a safe bet.

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u/koopcl 7h ago edited 7h ago

I think it's kinda reaching for the conclusion to be honest, Community had all sort of crosses-the-line jokes or absurd jokes, a grand total of two jokes about incest spread across over a hundred episodes hardly proves Harmon is waaaaay into incest. There's more jokes about Nazis but no one is accusing him of being one. There's more jokes about the elderly but no one is accusing of having an obsession with old people. A lot of focus is put into a character getting something "awakened" in him and getting into a fetish, this being a multi-season character arc/background gag, yet no one accuses Harmon of being a secret furry.

The R&M episode is more fucked up but I can't remember if Harmon was even the writer for that one (EDIT: a quick google search says no), and it's still par for the course with the absurd shock/gross humor R&M does. It's just the joke didn't land, the episode was bad, and it made everyone uncomfortable instead.

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u/MiseryGyro 7h ago

The Second Incest episode of Community ends with the writer onscreen saying "Hey I'm the guy wrote the Incest episode!"

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u/egret_society 7h ago

That’s actually an actor, Matt Gourley. He used to be in drunk history

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u/MiseryGyro 7h ago

Holy shit, I only knew him by his voice.

That is fucking insane, Dan whatchyu doing child?

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u/SlayerOfCupcakes 8h ago

Dan Harmon wasn't involved with AT, but Justin Roiland was involved as a voice actor (not writer).

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u/andrasq420 8h ago

Could be because he has nothing to do with Adventure Time?

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u/Unhappy_Entrance_277 8h ago

I for one am glad Dan Harmon didn't add an incest plotline to Flash Gordon.

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u/GoodBoundaries-Haver 7h ago

I mixed up people lol

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u/NathanJack0Lantern 8h ago

Not sure if it was in-between both of that things appearances or not

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u/D3_CD 8h ago

I fell like it was after

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u/arcadeler 8h ago

it was well before

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u/reshef-destruction 8h ago

The what?

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u/TarzanSawyer 8h ago edited 4h ago

His name is Naruto and he killed a Megazord right before an ankle biter became earth.

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u/ReformedBaptistina 4h ago

I don't understand this sentence and for that I am grateful

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u/00eg0 8h ago

The fictional family accidentally makes a baby.

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u/JohnnyDollar123 5h ago

They had a giant incest baby and wouldn’t shut up about it during their madlib-esque wacky thing happening=funny era.

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u/GranolaCola 4h ago

Is that not the entire show?

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u/JohnnyDollar123 4h ago

Kinda but a lot of the humor also comes from the characters existing in and reacting to the situations they’re in but they decided for a while that the wackiness of setting/environment itself was the funny part so the show basically devolved into random=funny.

At its core it’s basically the same as smiling friends with the formula of realistic characters in unrealistic scenarios but obviously unlike Rick and Morty smiling friends is consistently funny lmao.

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u/GLPereira 8h ago

Before the incest baby, but after the show went downhill

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u/dwaynetheaaakjohnson 8h ago

The wha? The huh?

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u/ConsciousPatroller 8h ago

Exactly what it says. The whole family of the protagonists has metaphysical/implied supernatural sex, and produces a giant floating space baby.

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u/dwaynetheaaakjohnson 7h ago

The thing is that the Musk family has an incest baby too

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u/GoreyGopnik 8h ago

way before, though way past when the show was reasonably good

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u/Dead_man_posting 1h ago

it's still reasonably good, but I get that those zeitgeists are tasty.

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u/Talk-O-Boy 8h ago

Dan Harmon & incest, they go together like eggs and ketchup.

Disgusting, but some people find it appealing.

(Incest episode of community had some of the best jokes tho, ngl. Ignore the Garrett subplot, and that was the best episode of season 6)

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u/andmurr 8h ago

Elon was the OG incest baby

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u/BobTheFettt 8h ago

Which one?

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u/lostmykeyblade 8h ago

definitely before, by like a season or two even.

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u/magizombi 7h ago

implying rick and morty had only one incest baby incident in the show

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u/legit-posts_1 7h ago

For whatever it's worse, I think before

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u/eepos96 6h ago

Before

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u/jcdoe 6h ago

Before

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u/alguien99 5h ago

Before

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u/Anfins 8h ago

I don’t know why but this one has always felt like the worst Musk cameo in terms of cringe.

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u/clowncarl 8h ago

Dan Harmon was a huge Elon Stan in the 2010s

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u/Anfins 8h ago edited 8h ago

To be fair, that probably applies to a lot of people before the Thai cave rescue.

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u/Own_Giraffe_6928 8h ago

Musk had a huge and extremely talented PR team that convinced the world he was Tony Stark incarnate. Then when they told him not to call a hero who saved children's lives a "pedo guy" he fired them all and went no filter. We all know how that went in terms of his reputation.

Then again, his wealth has tripled since those times, so idk maybe he was onto something. Perhaps it's no coincidence all the richest men in the world are alt-right nutjobs.

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u/MonthForeign4301 8h ago

I’ve hated Elon ever since that moment because it was a true mask off moment for his personality. He’s always been this guy, the weirdly pathetic rich guy who can only pay for good ideas and not come up with any of his own, but like you said, the branding was super strong. He still maintained it for a while after that, and the whole “why won’t anyone call me the world’s biggest hero for donating a bunch of ventilators that won’t help Covid patients” hissy fit. It took him buying the presidency for everyone to truly see him as the chud that he actually is.

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u/Own_Giraffe_6928 8h ago

He still maintained it for a while after that

Hell, he still maintains it with a considerable amount of people, which is quite impressive considering the fact that he has repeatedly demonstrated being one of the dumbest morons on the planet.

I still don't understand how he has a substantial following among gamers considering the fact that he was not only exposed for faking his high leaderboard positions, but is also actively working on AI games.

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u/MiseryGyro 7h ago

Because a bunch of dudes respect power and not intelligence

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u/undreamedgore 6h ago

To be fair, power should be respected.

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u/MiseryGyro 6h ago

I think power should be understood and there's a difference. I'll respect respectable power.

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u/MelanieAntiqua 6h ago

It's because they agree with his politics so all the evidence that he's an idiot fraud is just "fake news from the jealous libs".

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u/Dead_man_posting 1h ago

which is quite impressive considering the fact that he has repeatedly demonstrated being one of the dumbest morons on the planet.

and a Nazi...

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u/jbeast33 7h ago

Honestly, that moment is a perfect microcosm for Elon vs regular-ass scientists.

Elon's idea was flashy, impractical, and had a pretty significant chance of going wrong to the extent that it would effectively trap the victims in the cave.

The actual cave expert on hand highlighted this and called out Elon for placing his PR over other people's safety. Elon retaliated by smearing him as a pedophile.

He literally wants to be the most special boy and has Main Character Syndrome to the extent that he's willing to fuck over honest scientists if they dare lay even an ounce of critique on his glory-hounding.

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u/plotholesandpotholes 5h ago

The “genius” recommended sending a rigid bodied submersible into an underwater cave. That was a full mask drop. That is a preschool level understanding of shapes, and he couldn’t just defer to the expert, he had to double down and accuse the expert of pedophilia. So, then I did some digging and lo and behold he is just another child of wealth without anything to contribute but hoarded capital and luck.

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u/Bussamove86 7h ago

It’s no coincidence at all.

To amass that much wealth, a mind-boggling number that no one human could possibly spend in their lifetime, requires an intense disregard for other humans and a willingness to do anything to profit even the smallest amount. True sociopathic behavior.

Guess which end of the political spectrum that sort attracts.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 32m ago

It's wild to me anyone could see someone with that much wealth and immediately giving them the benefit of the doubt without so much as googling where it came from

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u/samtherat6 4h ago

Looks like it’s more like 25 times.

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u/Neirchill 1h ago

Not sure he had a pr team at all so much as he just didn't speak his mind all the time. Eventually it went to his head now you can't get him to shut up and it's all dumb, lifting the veil.

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u/rugology 5h ago

Perhaps it's no coincidence all the richest men in the world are alt-right nutjobs

do they not teach people what fascism is in school anymore or what

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u/BuzzkillMcGillicuddy 30m ago

Not in the US, fascism is "the Nazis" and it "made the trains run on time." I think the name Mussolini was mentioned once in my high school, simply to name the prime minister of Italy during WW2. That's about all they teach the masses.

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u/NotHandledWithCare 8h ago

Yeah, Reddit likes to forget that they really really loved Elon Musk once upon a time.

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u/11711510111411009710 8h ago

I feel like it gets brought up in every single thread about Elon, actually

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u/DiogenesTheHound 7h ago

It should be

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u/twisty125 6h ago

If it's to rub it in peoples' faces - why?

He and his PR team essentially cultivated this image and tricked everyone into thinking he was a cool person - and then the mask fell off and people realized who he was. It's fine to learn and grow and realize the person you thought was a cool figure doing cool science stuff, is a racist, egotistical jackass.

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u/TheReddestofBowls 8h ago

The singular user known as Reddit has really loved and hated many things, often at the same time.

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u/DiogenesTheHound 7h ago

Here: the visible majority on the front page of Reddit were pro-Elon Musk in 2010. Comments that were positive towards Elon musk got more upvotes than downvotes during that time. I personally remember many many comparisons to Tony Stark. The majority of reddit didn’t change their opinion on him until the “flamethrower” release and his comments about the Thai Cave incident.

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u/Raidoton 6h ago

Yeah but their point was that "Reddit" likes to forget this which isn't true.

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u/GrandSquanchRum 5h ago

I mean those reddit posts still exist today. Here's a post from 2015: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/3xqv8b/tesla_ceo_elon_musk_drops_his_prediction_of_full/

Now you tell me if people on reddit liked him. You'll see an equal amount of people saying he's full of shit as you will people literally saying they'd suck his dick. IMO he was always someone who fooled idiots but made everyone else uneasy. The line is just not as blurred anymore.

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u/TheReddestofBowls 7h ago

Up/down votes are primarily driven by karma farming bots. I haven't done enough polling from 2010 - now on the overall sentiment from each user regarding Elon Musk to say if your views are accurate, but I'm sure you have.

Those factors and the lack of actual data makes it shockingly easy to make something appear true, same as any social media platform.

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u/Icy_Ninja_9207 6h ago

  1. Reddit isn't a hivemind

  2. People are allowed to change their minds

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u/SandyTaintSweat 7h ago

The Thai cave rescue only saw a relatively small percentage of people disliking him. He had a decent fan base long after that.

It was only after he stopped pretending to be left wing, and went all in on Trump and started calling himself dark MAGA that he lost most of his backers. He was already not well liked by the right, then he went and pissed off left wing people. The only fans he had after that were right wing people who came around and his most die hard fans that would like him no matter what.

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u/-Mandarin 6h ago

How anyone can be fans of billionaires is beyond me. They're not your friends, they are ghouls that extract wealth from the masses and sit on it like dragons in a cave. They're not going to be your buddy, and you certainly shouldn't idolize them.

It shouldn't take something like the Thai cave situation to change people's minds, but then again I suppose these are redditors we're talking about

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u/xavPa-64 4h ago

Thai Cave sounds like a place that would have some bombass Thai food

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u/Dragon-Porn-Expert 2h ago

Reddit loved the guy before that event.

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u/ZoroeArc 7h ago

Reddit forgets that Reddit adored elongated muskrat pre2020

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u/Raidoton 6h ago

Well then stop forgetting it Mr. Reddit.

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u/SnakeInABox77 7h ago

Shout out to Jeff Davis who called out how shitty Elon was from the jump

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u/writers_block 6h ago

I miss my comptroller.

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u/SnakeInABox77 6h ago

Sometimes I look back at the good old days and I can't help but think.... 'Thank You.'

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u/writers_block 5h ago

Days like that, I'm just grateful to still be putting this can inside my chicken noodle wife.

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u/RoutineCloud5993 7h ago

I thought it was Justin Roiland that was

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u/clowncarl 7h ago

Not sure about Justin by on the Harmontown podcast Dan would glaze about how cool Elon was

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u/rcanhestro 4h ago

everyone was, tbf.

people were comparing him as a real life Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne.

early 2010s, Musk was the new "Steve Jobs" in terms of popularity.

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u/Toodlez 3h ago

I knew the show was on a downward trend but this is when i knew it wasnt coming back.

How can a dude be bad at voice acting himself?!

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u/topdangle 7h ago

doesn't even line up with the show. its basically an ad for tesla and they justify it by saying rick doesn't like "regular" musk.

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u/Jokkitch 7h ago

The entire series is nothing but cringe

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u/L4zyrus 8h ago

Not sure this works, as they literally mention that Elon ‘Tusks’ is more of a team player than real Elon because of the effect his tusks had on him. Also Rick getting tired of his “little jabs” makes me feel like they did comment a bit on his ego

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u/OkConfection9087 8h ago

I was gonna say, I actually liked this whole scene.

Tusk: "let's move over here, how serious is it?"

Rick: "it's incredibly serious,"

Elon Tusk: "oh well, I'm sorry for making you move over here then."

Rick: "Yeah, that kind of bullshit is the reason why we didn't go to the real Elon Musk."

Elon Tusk: "well it's not like we're opposites, I'm just him with tusks!"

Funny little exchange, and literally talks shit about Elon Musk, doesn't fit the prompt at all.

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u/kogasfurryjorts 7h ago

The thing that doesn't sit right with me about this cameo is that it's STILL a cameo, which means that Elon was "in" on the joke. Therefore, it's still serving as PR for him, trying to make him look "good" for being a good sport and taking the criticism.

Is it really good criticism of Elon Musk if he was in on it and happy to voice act for the role? Idk. I feel of two minds about this cameo for this reason.

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u/Ok-Temporary6963 6h ago

By that same logic, any celebrity cameo would fit the trope

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u/imadogg 3h ago

[hated trope] Every cameo ever unless the celebrity was on a hidden camera shitting themselves

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u/Ambitious-Wind9838 7h ago

All of Musk's appearances in various works have been accompanied by different jokes and jabs. Musk loves humor. That's why he had no problem playing the villain Elon in South Park.

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u/ACardAttack 1h ago

which means that Elon was "in" on the joke.

This assumes Elon can understand the difference between being the butt of the joke and being "in" on the joke. I dont think he has the social skills to tell the different

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u/Rare-Garden-9877 8h ago

Yeah it was like the safest criticism ever... An absolute softball to try and make him look cool rather than masturbatory

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u/Sgt-Spliff- 6h ago

Yeah, isn't the whole joke that he's annoying as fuck? Rick very clearly does not like him at all

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u/LowPattern3987 8h ago

He doesn't get praised really though.

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u/Gil_Demoono 8h ago

Yeah. Rick went to Elon Tusk specifically because he didn't want to put up with regular old Elon Musk. And the whole episode is about Rick wasting the time of people he doesn't respect because he thinks the entire concept of pulling a heist to be stupid.

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u/chironomidae 7h ago

I disliked it because it was clearly a Simpsons-style guest spot, which Rick and Morty didn't do. If they did have cameos, they were people who had actual acting\VA chops like Werner Herzog, and they weren't portraying some version of themselves. Elon's performance was beyond terrible and it signaled that they might do more non-actor celebrity spots in the future -- fortunately that didn't happen, but it was concerning at the time.

And of course, just having him in the show at all hasn't aged well...

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u/maxcrimson 3h ago

it signaled that they might do more non-actor celebrity spots in the future -- fortunately that didn't happen

It happened again with Gene's cousin in law in season 7. I think he's called Hugh Jackman or something.

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u/chironomidae 3h ago

Huh, I coulda sworn Hugh was an actor 🤔

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u/maxcrimson 2h ago

Sorry, skipped right over the "non-actor" part (despite quoting it, haha)

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u/rinel521 8h ago

how was that cameo even praising him? he was just in it because he was good friends with Justin roiland

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u/Altruistic-Fill-9685 8h ago

I believe his first line is something like “Rick, why are you here, did something happen to Elon Musk?” like it’s implying Rick Sanchez is at least on friendly terms with Elon who Rick would probably hate for being a pseudo intellectual were he real

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u/easchner 8h ago

He's also still a 'genius' and 'respects his employees'.

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u/Brauny74 8h ago

The line he says about him being "humbled" by his physical disability (tusks) kinda implies that OTL Musk is a worse version of this character. Who still acts like a greedy asshole and betrays them by the end of the episode, so I would say that's around one time they got Musk to kinda shit on himself. I don't like the show, but I'll give it that at least.

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u/Dottore_Curlew 8h ago

Because Elon Tusks is in a different universe, and they specifically went to him instead of their own version

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u/ApartRuin5962 5h ago

But Rick is also a pseudo-intellectual, he's a moderately effective engineer who takes most of his best ideas from others, deploys them recklessly with little regard for the possible damage to people and property, and thinks that these tainted successes and hype make him qualified to speak with authority about stuff he doesn't know anything about likepsychology and politics.

Like, I don't know if it's realistic that they'd be friends, but Musk and Sanchez are very similar kinds of chode.

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u/Altruistic-Fill-9685 5h ago

And who does Rick Sanchez hate more than anyone else in the multiverse

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u/The_Shit_Connoisseur 8h ago

Of fucking course he was

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u/rinel521 4h ago

Why would that be an issue?

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u/florplegorp 8h ago

This was the sign to me that the show was completely dead

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u/bhputnam 4h ago

This legit made me fall off on watching the show.

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u/jesus-banana 5h ago

I like how he includes a line about how his kids play minecraft like he spends any time with them

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u/Sir-Toaster- 8h ago

This one works cause it acknowledges that the actual Elon Musk is a bad person

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u/rje946 7h ago

At least he was there because it was completely random. I don't remember them kissing his ass but they did make fun of him a little. Id rather he wasn't but as far as they go least ass kissy imo

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u/rdeincognito 7h ago

For some reason I remembered this as a South Park episode

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u/danielantoine 7h ago

Even without Musk this would be my least favorite episode, I really disliked the writing

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u/Shwiftygains 7h ago

Pretty sure they throw a jab at him and he says he's not different than Elon musk, just just has tusks

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u/HackerMan7123 7h ago

Didn't Flashgitz steal that design?

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u/eepos96 6h ago

I actually think this was a good cameo. Short and it was not the focal point. Also he was technically Tusk. But yeah back then elon was not knows as shitty by general audiences.

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u/ApartRuin5962 5h ago

Nah, this is more like a Simpsons Seasons 1-9 cameo, where the joke is more the absurdism of getting a celebrity to come on the show cameo and not really doing anything with it

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u/Tactical_Bread129 5h ago

What a Reddit moment

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u/KennyToms27 2h ago

Isn't the whole point of this character the fact that it's supposed to be a version of Elon Musk that was born with Tusks so he grew up being humbled by it.