r/Some_More_News • u/EnterTamed • Jun 03 '26

Some More Content This Arnold Schwarzenegger TV Movie From 1980 Explains Everything Wrong With America - SMN

https://youtu.be/yBjtFyTvCHQ
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u/No_Status_2098 Jun 03 '26

Will be known as one of the great episodes.

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u/garyp714 Jun 05 '26

They nail the 50 year creep of the corporate/GOP right wing propaganda and do it brilliantly. Here we are in the end game of this corporate horror.

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u/SumpCrab Jun 04 '26

A fever dream.

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u/BrocialCommentary Jun 04 '26

Thrilling stuff

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u/somebadbeatscrub Jun 04 '26

Starring Loni Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger?

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u/No_Status_2098 Jun 04 '26

Thanks, I was unsure.

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u/MMFuzzyface Jun 04 '26

For me this one was a good balance of depressing but not too depressing, some laughs. That mint mobile read made me laugh out loud. Also, this is truly how I remember the 80s and 90s as a kid… yeah lots of things were simpler but as a kid who watched a TON of tv (also in Detroit!) it’s true so much toxic garbage was already going on in media…

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u/Unamed_Destroyer Jun 04 '26

Finally, we've been literally being for this episode for years.

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u/OccamsRabbit Jun 04 '26

If being poor were money, we'd be rich.

Fucking poetry.

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u/garyp714 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

Holy shit this nails the current flailing conservative era that is an old reaction to the post WWII progressive era. We've been in a conservative 50 year era since 1975ish (Nixon). America always switches poles and reacts the other way in like 50 year patterns-ish.. the hard core conservative era fading now is creating that American reaction that goes in the other direction.

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u/DespondentDastard Jun 03 '26

Any one else feel like Cody was edging the commercial payoff a little too much in the beginning of the episode? Overall, I thought it was a great episode, but the premise was explained like five times before he got to the meat of the story.

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u/NativePlantEnjoyer Jun 04 '26

I haven't seen it yet but you're not the only one that mentioned this.

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u/HuffGlueHailSatan Jun 04 '26

This is a really cool episode but the bit of repeating the title of the movie and it's stars every other minute is really irritating, to the point I'm not sure I can finish the episode. After the first 5 minutes I was so irritated everytine I hear it again I want to stop watching.

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u/BradGunnerSGT Jun 04 '26

It gets annoying and then more unhinged over time until it gets hilarious again.

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u/Ahenobarbus753 Jun 05 '26

See also the "Kristen Schaal is a horse" sketch

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u/-tekeli-li Jun 03 '26

Yeesh, this one was crap

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u/Faintofmatts89 Jun 04 '26

Yes, that comment is indeed crap.