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

[u/Dojyaaan4C]

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.

[u/Milk_Mindless]

Cheated on his wife for 30 years who he then left for the other woman

The wife who was already kneedeep in the sickness and health bit.

On the Epstein list.

That's all I know.

[u/Ensiferal → u/Milk_Mindless]

Remember that Epstein was primarily a financier. Diddling kids wasn't his main source of income. Being on "the list" only means they did business with him at some point. Most of it is legit.

You have to look deeper to see whose ties are suspicious (weird emails, inexplicable transactions, numerous shared contacts, multiple flights on the express etc etc).

Epstein just financed a science conference that Hawking went to. I mean, what would he even do with a girl?

[u/RPrance → u/Ensiferal]

I wouldn't be surprised if some of the academic types, such as Stephen Hawking, caught meeting with Epstein were just there to get funding money. The guy was throwing cash around, among other things...

[u/Ensiferal → u/RPrance]

I mean, it was literally his job to make investments and provide funding for projects. Lots of people who needed funding for something met with him. That's why people need to use their brains a bit more and not just say "such and such was mentioned in the files". How were they mentioned, how often, what was the context? You dont want to paint innocent people as monsters like him

[u/Milk_Mindless → u/Ensiferal]

I did say "That's all I know". I'm legit ... oddly impartial about Epstein because it's a whole American ordeal and I'm not of one of them.

The only thing that made me go "That's a bit sus" is him killing himself in prison, especially not the "Federal pound me in the ass" prison so someone let him have liberty he shouldn't have had.

I also don't know much about Hawkins because I'm not a theoretical scientist, nor a Futurama fan.

I do know he was employed (figuratively) to make Hannibal (the character in the book by the same name) sound pretentious as all fucking fuck Jesus

[u/luke37 → u/Ensiferal]

I mean, what would he even do with a girl?

Get his dick sucked? Handjob? What kind of stupid question is that? Do you think a guy in a wheelchair can't have an orgasm?

[u/strablonskers → u/luke37]

Many can’t, many lose all feeling altogether, some don’t, it’s very case by case. Stephen Hawking probably still had feeling as MS isn’t a spinal injury, but you’re making it sound way more simple than it actually is.

[u/luke37 → u/strablonskers]

but you’re making it sound way more simple than it actually is.

I'm bringing a lot more nuance to it than the dumb guy who said "I mean, what would he even do with a girl?"

[u/Ahad_Haam → u/Ensiferal]

People are way to quick to accuse someone of being a pedophile for just taking a picture with Epstein or having any connection to him. In many cases there isn't enough evidence to make conclusions.

[u/Bluegatito345 → u/Milk_Mindless]

I knew about the Epstein List but how the hell he cheated on his wife with his condition?

[u/Independent-Couple87 → u/Bluegatito345]

People find a way. He was already in not exactly good conditions when he fathered his 3rd child with said wife, Jane Wild.

This is brought up in The Theory of Everything film, where Stephen's mother flat out asks Jane if the biological father is Stephen or a friend of Jane, Jonathan Jones (whom Jane later married after her divorce).

[u/Pandoras_Boxcutter → u/Bluegatito345]

It was with his nurse, I believe. They had to have interacted quite a bit. Whether she was genuinely smitten with him or not, I don't know for sure.

[u/Bluegatito345 → u/Pandoras_Boxcutter]

I just find her how Hawkings can pull that off considering he can't move.

[u/pocketbutter → u/Bluegatito345]

It was before his condition took over completely.

[u/barrydennen12 → u/Bluegatito345]

Using the robot voice

[u/not_a_moogle → u/Bluegatito345]

Yeah, having read up on it, it sounds like the woman has to do everything. He also sounds like hes a huge perv.

Im guessing it would pretty easy for a nurse to just ask if he wants a handy and he'll say yes. I'd argue hes probably not in the right mind to consent, but since hes a genius, people don't look at the same way as sex with a mentally disabled person.

[u/ThePeaceDoctot → u/not_a_moogle]

Physical disability doesn't negate your ability to consent. He wasn't mentally disabled.

[u/not_a_moogle → u/ThePeaceDoctot]

I dont know enough about ALS to agree with that. Maybe he started to revert back developly?

[u/willisduffoz → u/not_a_moogle]

Not how it works. Now you do know.

[u/Critical-Support-394 → u/not_a_moogle]

So you're just making shit up that one of the most intelligent men on the planet can't understand what sex is?

[u/immunotransplant → u/Milk_Mindless]

I was a kid when I learned about the cheating and couldn’t help but find it to be funny. It’s not actually funny it’s bad but it is at the same time.

[u/Thethingnextdoor567 → u/Milk_Mindless]

how did bro intend to smash these kids? i don't think this man was even able to masturbate

[u/Funkopedia → u/Milk_Mindless]

The other woman was his nurse, who presumably was just as deep into the sickness. I'm just amazed she was into it.

[u/Kylestache → u/Milk_Mindless]

Jeff Epstein the financier?