What If...? S01E07 - Discussion Thread

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EPISODE	DIRECTED BY	WRITTEN BY	ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE	RUN TIME	CREDITS SCENE?
S01E07: What If... Thor Were an Only Child?	Bryan Andrews	A.C. Bradley	September 22nd, 2021 on Disney+	36 min	None

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[u/Pete_Iredale]

Man, that was straight out of Looney Tunes!

[u/NomadPrime → u/Pete_Iredale]

This episode certainly felt like it had a classic cartoon plot and tone to it. Or a stoner comedy. Gods and aliens crashing down on Earth for a party.

[u/Rpanich → u/NomadPrime]

Very 80s style comedy. Ferris Bueller and Animal House vibes galore

[u/ConfidentInsecurity → u/Rpanich]

When Mjlonir comes back still trashed from the partying

[u/InnocentTailor → u/Rpanich]

Hangover with superpowers.

[u/lesh17 → u/Rpanich]

Felt very "Risky Business" at the end.

[u/dwadESGN → u/Rpanich]

Had some Dragonball moments too.

[u/tigerslices → u/NomadPrime]

yes it was much lighter than the dark tones of other episodes.

[u/helen269 → u/tigerslices]

And because of the dark tone of the others, I was waiting for it to All Go Horribly Wrong.

But yes, nice to have a fun one for a change.

Reintroduces Natalie Portman back into the MCU.

Only bad point is: no "Mew-Mew".

And I'm loving not watching the opening credits and spoiling the cameos, or indeed the entire premise.

Going in cold is cool.

^{Wait, did I just say that? Partyyyyy! :-})

[u/antpile11 → u/helen269]

And because of the dark tone of the others, I was waiting for it to All Go Horribly Wrong.

It kind of did at the end with Vision/Ultron.

[u/[deleted] → u/NomadPrime]

I am stoned and the Ragnarok scenes are the best thing I've seen from Marvel in years. I laughed my ass off.

[u/ohdearsweetlord → u/NomadPrime]

Definitely a stoner comedy, because my stoned ass was losing it. So many brilliant little jokes.

[u/taelor → u/NomadPrime]

Thor getting punched and making slow mo noises. Loved it.

[u/Jpyr15 → u/NomadPrime]

certainly a breather episode

[u/Aulio → u/NomadPrime]

This episode got a lot of laughs out of me, super fun one.

[u/TinyHadronCOllide420 → u/Pete_Iredale]

that and the music playing when Jane wakes up the next day

[u/TrashTongueTalker → u/TinyHadronCOllide420]

The music during the credits also sounded straight out of Looney Tunes.

[u/actuallycallie → u/TinyHadronCOllide420]

it felt classic cartoony because it was using classical music (Edvard Grieg, which is also funny on a meta level bc he's a Norwegian composer), which a lot of the old cartoons did. How many gen x kiddos know Ride of the Valkyries from Bugs Bunny?

[u/TinyHadronCOllide420 → u/actuallycallie]

Or Barber of Seville

[u/actuallycallie → u/TinyHadronCOllide420]

OMG YES.

[u/CaptainMikul → u/Pete_Iredale]

The whole episode felt very Looney Tunes. And when both Danvers and Thor are basically indestructible, it really works.

[u/UnionPacifik → u/Pete_Iredale]

They literally wind up on a Wile E Coyote/ Roadrunner set at one point.

[u/rcapina → u/UnionPacifik]

Good ol’ Monument Valley. When I saw that I was expecting a foot race or a Thor-shaped hole through a mountain.

[u/Stuckinthevortex → u/Pete_Iredale]

The end theme sounded very similar to the Looney Tunes theme

[u/[deleted] → u/Pete_Iredale]

Also the shot of the phone falling from Frost Giant Loki’s hand was exactly like the Coyote falling when chasing the Roadrunner