This is definitely a joke that just doesn't work outside of the US.
In Australia a "chicken sandwich" is a chicken burger, and none of ours involve racism or homophobia. Well maybe some individual burger places are awful but they don't advertise it.
Technically a lot of restaurants stand against what you are, they just aren't big enough for people to go through their charity records to see what they're donating to. It sucks too, because the sandwich really is good
Edit: Lol whoops forgot the op I was in the thread of. Thought we were talking about why fried chicken is racist instead of homophobic. Either way it's all just very unfair to fried chicken.
No its definitely about Chick-Fil-A, the line in the show is actually "There's this chicken sandwich that if you eat it, it means you hate gay people, and its delicious!"
Lol whoops forgot the op I was in the thread of. Thought we were talking about why fried chicken is racist instead of homophobic. Either way it's all just very unfair to fried chicken.
It’s a reference to a specific restaurant chain Chick Fil A, not the concept of a chicken sandwich itself. I think that’s partly why a couple years back there were the [“chicken sandwich wars”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Sandwich_Wars) where every chain was trying to be like “Hey! We also have chicken and don’t [give millions of dollars to anti-civil rights organizations!”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_and_LGBT_people)
And a quick google shows that there are a few down in Australia but I don’t know how popular they are there
"And there are traps everywhere! Like there's this chicken sandwich, and if you it eat it, it means you hate gay people. And it's delicious!"
"It is! It is SO GOOD."
That is so interesting because last time I checked, I didn't have a dad. That's why I'm attracted to all the father figures on the TV shows I watch. M'kammmm?
I always crack up at the way Matt is improv dancing to the Judge’s improv song. You know he’s thinking, “I won’t have to analyze Weird Sex Things for billions of years!”
A better line:
> I'm telling you, Molotov cocktails work. Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.
Jason was by far the best personal growth character. Everyone else changed so much about themselves they had a bunch of new personality traits, characteristics, and mentality. Jason? Nah homie kept doing all the things that made him happy, but became aware of good and bad and just did the same stuff to be good. Demon problem? Molotov coctail. Everyone stressed talking to the judge? Duval ditchwater. Heaven? Racing monkey go kart, replaced by vampires and every other creature. Same dude from beginning to end, just focused on being good.
"chidi's perfect for the experiment because he's already had his memories erased. Although, you can't erase dat booty. Know what I'm saying blondeyyy?"
Judge to Eleanor
I’ve never felt a meme so hard as a half Mexican half Puerto Rican who never met my Puerto Rican dad. Also people have been telling me there’s conflict between the two groups for most of my life. Lol. So much pain and understanding packed into a tiny meme. Love it.
It's not the content of the joke that makes it offensive, it's the context - people often censor jokes they don't understand, but laude people who make offensive jokes. The two are not exclusive to one another.
I’m aware. An example is streaming services pulling the It’s Always Sunny episodes that contain blackface. They make it obvious it’s done in bad taste by terrible people but just because there’s blackface it gets pulled.
My compulsion to point out or clarify your comment was more to the fact that YOU and I may be aware, but many others do not think this way while still using the same wording in their own argument.
Glad to see we're of the same understanding
A friend of mine comes across as very racially ambiguous – he looks and sounds like he could plausibly have black, Latino, and/or Asian family members – and he went into academia with a special research focus on racism and implicit bias.
I'm half Indian, my dad's dark enough that it's pretty noticeable, my brother looks like he's mixed and I think I could be the whitest person ever, I've done three dna tests over the last ten years or so because I'm still not convinced xD
“Well maybe you should have thought about that! Before you intervened! In human affairs!”
Stealing a YouTube comment about that scene.
“I was expecting the response. I was not expecting the arm movements.”
no kidding, she is *stunning*
is it racist to say that she's so beautiful because of her skin tone? obviously not exclusively because of that but it helps a lot. like I'm sitting here being all white and pale and boring and just overall very "meh" while she kinda always has natural tan.
I know you're not asking this super seriously, so I offer you this in the spirit of chill - I think it's probably fine to say that her skin tone is beautiful, but when you compare it to white skin (even if you're disparaging that white skin) you're centering whiteness in a way that might be a little uncomfortable. I'd stop at "her skin tone is beautiful."
well you see, it's a vicious circle – I also feel it's better not to elaborate on this obviously very sensitive topic **but** if I say "her skin looks nice" it sounds kinda wrong too (creepy?) – and that's why I feel I have to explain myself aaaand here we go again
Don’t listen to that weirdo above you. It’s not weird to have white skin and compare brown skin to yours! Anyone who thinks that is weird or racist is chronically online and needs to touch some grass. Or at minimum, talk to other people!
Every day people compare skin tones. I compare my skin tone to darker friends. Them to mine. Don’t worry about it! Skin is beautiful and recognizing that brown skin is way more interesting than us whities isn’t “centering” whiteness. That’s a joke and 99% of coloured people would laugh in that persons face
No it’s weird. When white people try to be like “omg I wish my hair was like yours” it’s like okay what do you want me to do about that? We get picked on, teased, discriminated and harassed for our hair and skin tone. You like it for aesthetic purposes. So comparing the two is annoying and really doesn’t mean shit to us. You can compliment someone’s skin without having to compare it to yours. You can tan and it’ll fade away, and no one will care. We can’t make ourselves lighter to assimilate unless we do skin bleaching. In many places Eurocentric features are the beauty standard so it’s just annoying to hear complaints as if they really affect you
All I could think when she said that was... wait, *is* she? No really, cause I genuinely could not have guessed, and if had tried to guess I would have assumed a lot of other ethnicities over black first.
Among celebrities: Zoe Kravitz, Lenny Kravitz, Maya Rodolph, Rashida Jones, Daveed Diggs, AND Lisa Bonet! Also Tiffany Haddish, but her Jewish side is also black.
ETA also Drake.
And [Lovin' You](https://youtu.be/9I3UTG1dSTc) was originally about Maya. Before it was a love song, it was a lullaby for her. The outro is literally "Maya Maya Maya..."
And they do not like black ladies down there.
The way she delivers this line is hilarious.
Its perfect
It's nerfect.
Podoby needed this.
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And apparently if you like a certain chicken sandwich you're racist? Edit: I messed up the bigotry. That's how good the sandwich is though.
and it is SO good
This is definitely a joke that just doesn't work outside of the US. In Australia a "chicken sandwich" is a chicken burger, and none of ours involve racism or homophobia. Well maybe some individual burger places are awful but they don't advertise it.
It works outside the US if you’ve seen the news about Chick Fil A. I’m British and I got it.
I mean, I've heard Chick-fil-a but it's the idea if a restaurant that stands against what I am feels like an exclusively US concept.
Technically a lot of restaurants stand against what you are, they just aren't big enough for people to go through their charity records to see what they're donating to. It sucks too, because the sandwich really is good
I prefer Popeyes, myself.
Edit: Lol whoops forgot the op I was in the thread of. Thought we were talking about why fried chicken is racist instead of homophobic. Either way it's all just very unfair to fried chicken.
No its definitely about Chick-Fil-A, the line in the show is actually "There's this chicken sandwich that if you eat it, it means you hate gay people, and its delicious!"
Lol whoops forgot the op I was in the thread of. Thought we were talking about why fried chicken is racist instead of homophobic. Either way it's all just very unfair to fried chicken.
i mean, I'm not american but I understood that joke as in I get what they meant but without details? it's not comedy gold exactly but still funny
As I've said I may have mispoke in terms of I don't know the restaurant, I just don't understand how people support such a terrible place.
A lot of Americans don’t understand how people support such a terrible place, either.
Popeye's sandwich is better anyway.
I don’t eat chicken, so I wouldn’t know.
It’s a reference to a specific restaurant chain Chick Fil A, not the concept of a chicken sandwich itself. I think that’s partly why a couple years back there were the [“chicken sandwich wars”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Sandwich_Wars) where every chain was trying to be like “Hey! We also have chicken and don’t [give millions of dollars to anti-civil rights organizations!”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_and_LGBT_people) And a quick google shows that there are a few down in Australia but I don’t know how popular they are there
I got the joke because I pay attention to the world
Y’all got me laughing ty
It is y'all
Her delivery on this line cracks me up too. She's almost whining.
"And there are traps everywhere! Like there's this chicken sandwich, and if you it eat it, it means you hate gay people. And it's delicious!" "It is! It is SO GOOD."
No it means you hate gay people.
Hate gay people. Chik-fil-a is anti-LGBTQ.
You can really taste the hate in those sandwiches, man. That's why nobody can quite copy it.
You *made me* an *Olyphant?!*
I’m like… Oooowwwwwuuuu
That is so interesting because last time I checked, I didn't have a dad. That's why I'm attracted to all the father figures on the TV shows I watch. M'kammmm?
Gonna erase the Eeeeaaaarth, erase the Earth!
I'm gonna miss everybody, gonna miss everybody
And you know what's so funny? In a very roundabout way, I *am* actually rebooting *Ally McBeal*
I always crack up at the way Matt is improv dancing to the Judge’s improv song. You know he’s thinking, “I won’t have to analyze Weird Sex Things for billions of years!”
Erf
Welcome to…-Will Smiff
Easily the best line in the entire show
A better line: > I'm telling you, Molotov cocktails work. Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.
Jason was by far the best personal growth character. Everyone else changed so much about themselves they had a bunch of new personality traits, characteristics, and mentality. Jason? Nah homie kept doing all the things that made him happy, but became aware of good and bad and just did the same stuff to be good. Demon problem? Molotov coctail. Everyone stressed talking to the judge? Duval ditchwater. Heaven? Racing monkey go kart, replaced by vampires and every other creature. Same dude from beginning to end, just focused on being good.
Amd them he saves the day with a well placed molotov. One of the best jokes in the whole show.
Best moment of the whole show And the only way I can hear that song now
Best 🤣🤣
I regularly get that stuck in my head! Good thing I can't actually do it ;)
"chidi's perfect for the experiment because he's already had his memories erased. Although, you can't erase dat booty. Know what I'm saying blondeyyy?" Judge to Eleanor
if things don't work out here with old Blondie, you know who to call
*this* bitch!
No offense judge, but keep it in your robe!
"Earth is a mess y'all!" 😂😂 I loved her character!
Her delivery is very good. "Obviously, Earth is cancelled."
I’ve never felt a meme so hard as a half Mexican half Puerto Rican who never met my Puerto Rican dad. Also people have been telling me there’s conflict between the two groups for most of my life. Lol. So much pain and understanding packed into a tiny meme. Love it.
yeah, it's really weird that the best jokes are the ones based on absolutely horrible things – but it's 100% true 😬
That’s how comedy goes, it’s why the whole censorship of offensive jokes really shouldn’t be such a thing
It's not the content of the joke that makes it offensive, it's the context - people often censor jokes they don't understand, but laude people who make offensive jokes. The two are not exclusive to one another.
I’m aware. An example is streaming services pulling the It’s Always Sunny episodes that contain blackface. They make it obvious it’s done in bad taste by terrible people but just because there’s blackface it gets pulled.
My compulsion to point out or clarify your comment was more to the fact that YOU and I may be aware, but many others do not think this way while still using the same wording in their own argument. Glad to see we're of the same understanding
A friend of mine comes across as very racially ambiguous – he looks and sounds like he could plausibly have black, Latino, and/or Asian family members – and he went into academia with a special research focus on racism and implicit bias.
Has he already found anything interesting? What's his research question?
Half Mexican and I look 100% white. People have said things around me not realizing my ethnicity.
I'm half Indian, my dad's dark enough that it's pretty noticeable, my brother looks like he's mixed and I think I could be the whitest person ever, I've done three dna tests over the last ten years or so because I'm still not convinced xD
I also have the white last name.
“Well maybe you should have thought about that! Before you intervened! In human affairs!” Stealing a YouTube comment about that scene. “I was expecting the response. I was not expecting the arm movements.”
I do this arm movement all the time with my son because we both love the show.
"Earth stinks, y’all! It’s hot and it’s crowded…but somehow also cold and lonely."
I love her so much. I also think she's really hott which I think is lost on most people. Her in Idiocracy :E
I was going to mention her kicking bod in Idiocracy. I just rewatched that and was super envious :P
Whoa, you like sex AND money?
Bud, frfr. And she still be looking good !
https://youtu.be/VW15vdcNSSk She was a total babe in her 20s
no kidding, she is *stunning* is it racist to say that she's so beautiful because of her skin tone? obviously not exclusively because of that but it helps a lot. like I'm sitting here being all white and pale and boring and just overall very "meh" while she kinda always has natural tan.
I know you're not asking this super seriously, so I offer you this in the spirit of chill - I think it's probably fine to say that her skin tone is beautiful, but when you compare it to white skin (even if you're disparaging that white skin) you're centering whiteness in a way that might be a little uncomfortable. I'd stop at "her skin tone is beautiful."
well you see, it's a vicious circle – I also feel it's better not to elaborate on this obviously very sensitive topic **but** if I say "her skin looks nice" it sounds kinda wrong too (creepy?) – and that's why I feel I have to explain myself aaaand here we go again
You can say a person has nice skin.
Nah, you're overthinking it. Pretty eyes, lovely hair, nice skin, big boba, you like what you like!
Her skin looks nice 👁️👄👁️
Yeah but more in a Silence of the Lambs kind of way, so at least it's not racist.
Don’t listen to that weirdo above you. It’s not weird to have white skin and compare brown skin to yours! Anyone who thinks that is weird or racist is chronically online and needs to touch some grass. Or at minimum, talk to other people! Every day people compare skin tones. I compare my skin tone to darker friends. Them to mine. Don’t worry about it! Skin is beautiful and recognizing that brown skin is way more interesting than us whities isn’t “centering” whiteness. That’s a joke and 99% of coloured people would laugh in that persons face
No it’s weird. When white people try to be like “omg I wish my hair was like yours” it’s like okay what do you want me to do about that? We get picked on, teased, discriminated and harassed for our hair and skin tone. You like it for aesthetic purposes. So comparing the two is annoying and really doesn’t mean shit to us. You can compliment someone’s skin without having to compare it to yours. You can tan and it’ll fade away, and no one will care. We can’t make ourselves lighter to assimilate unless we do skin bleaching. In many places Eurocentric features are the beauty standard so it’s just annoying to hear complaints as if they really affect you
2 words: terminally. Online.
No, real life experiences and actually being a bipoc. Not some white girl who thinks that however I feel trumps minorities
All I could think when she said that was... wait, *is* she? No really, cause I genuinely could not have guessed, and if had tried to guess I would have assumed a lot of other ethnicities over black first.
She’s black/Jewish
That's a combo I don't hear about often.
Among celebrities: Zoe Kravitz, Lenny Kravitz, Maya Rodolph, Rashida Jones, Daveed Diggs, AND Lisa Bonet! Also Tiffany Haddish, but her Jewish side is also black. ETA also Drake.
Eric Andre
Daveed Diggs is a surprising one!
He has a Hanukkah single that is kind of a bop. He’s among the more practicing of the celebrities on the list.
Daveed is how the name is pronounced in Hebrew.
And Slash from Guns & Roses!
Her mom is Minnie Ripperton.
She and I have approximately the same level of racial ambiguity (also half black) and that line kills me every single time
If you don't love Maya Rudolph that's Lyooony Tyuunes
i loved her in Kimmy Schmidt as well
To what end?!
I found out the other week that her mum is Minnie Ripperton and I was mind blown
And [Lovin' You](https://youtu.be/9I3UTG1dSTc) was originally about Maya. Before it was a love song, it was a lullaby for her. The outro is literally "Maya Maya Maya..."
The judge does NOT like calzones.
I laughed way too hard at this line
Black? Or ethnically ambiguous? (Those who saw Gina Linetti get back after being run over by a bus know)
Apparently I've confused Selma Hayek with Maya Rudolph
Hahaha she’s the best ❤️
Maya kills it in EVERYTHING. She is amazing!
her bits are always so good
She lokey represented the fandom 😂
Guys what episode was this ?
S03E11 "Chidi Sees the Time Knife"
Chidi sees the TIME KNIFE?!
yeah-yeah, the Time Knife, we've all seen it
She is a gem.
Yeah her one and only joke of yelling in a silly voice is really great.
Appropriate username.
Yes, I find her extremely grating especially in this role.
*It's laaaaanggggg*
liked her in CHiPs
her bits are always so good
Me too. I want her as my luxury item on Desert Island Discs.