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made one of these. i have p normie dudebro taste w a soft spot for obnoxious comedies + a fondness for my childhood favs so im curious how ppl will do

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Harpo!! I’ve been waiting to pull out the big guns. The Marx Bros might just be the scrungliest humans to ever have existed, and Harpo was the scrungliest of the bunch. I had a Marx Bros hyperfixation a few years back, so allow me to go a little bit bonkers. 

First thing’s first: a picspam. Look at this guy.

He was unbelievably scrungly. Here’s him in action, in some of my fav comedy bits:

He eats flowers, then horse food, then unzips a banana and eats it, then harasses a cop recreationally. In that order. All in a day's work.

This scene's iconic, and it's been parodied quite a few times, including on Futurama. His blank stare always cracks me up.

This is my all-time favorite Marx Bros scene, it kills me every time. Just pure anarchy and joy.

And this isn't from one of their films, but I think it's one of their all-time greatest bits. Harpo milks a rubber glove into his hat and then drinks it. Surrealism at its best.

And some gifs, too:

He was a cutie pie too, look at him. I adore this little lad

The Harpo Character also had some kind of gender going on, a la Wakko Werner or Gonzo, in that he’s so kooky he kind of transcends gender, which makes my nonbinary heart happy :)) Here’s something I made during my fixation related to that, lol: 

That’s all the character, but Harpo the real person was also scrungly in his own right. Some fun anecdotes off the top of my head: his beef with Rachminoff, and that time Salvadore Dalí got obsessed with him, made him his muse, and wrote the Marx Bros a surrealist screenplay (with Harpo as the star) which Groucho rejected for being unfunny and bizarre. Here’s an excellent article about their friendship.

And on a more genuine note, not only was Harpo a comedic genius, he was also an absolutely wonderful human. I’ve researched the Marx Bros very extensively and literally couldn’t find a bad word about Harpo; everyone adored him. He was an absolute sweetheart, and everyone who knew him said he was just as angelic as his cherubic appearance implied. I couldn’t tell you another celebrity that was quite as beloved by their circle of friends, family, and industry acquaintances as Harpo. He was, by all accounts, absolutely delightful, and despite the gleeful malevolent energy of his character in the films, like the person who submitted him said, he was the heart of the films. All of the gentle sweet moments are Harpo, because that was his nature. He’s one of my all-time favorite famous humans, easily one of my ‘if you could have lunch with anyone, living or dead’ choices. A scrungly with a heart of gold! Satirist Allan Sherman wrote a lovely tribute to him which you can read at the bottom of this page; it beautifully summarizes Harpo's character, and always makes me teary. I also highly recommend Harpo's autobiography Harpo Speaks; it’s one of my favorites I own.

Lastly, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention his harp playing. It’s made me cry before. Here’s one of my favorite performances; from 1:30 to 2:00 always gives me goosebumps.

Thank you for reading. Vote Harpo Marx!!

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Harpo Marx (Night at the Opera, Night in Casablanca, Duck Soup)—While Groucho is better-known, Harpo's physical comedy is SECOND-TO-NONE. The man is a strange mime trapped in the paradigm of early 20th century movies. Every move is a symphony and simultaneously a colony of rats in a human skin suit. LISTEN. You MUST see this man in motion. Every still photo of him looks like a combination of a sad clown and a different, sadder clown, but it's only because he put so much joy in every motion.

Peter Falk (The Great Race, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World)—JUST A SILLY MAN!! Sabotages four different cars (including his own, oopsie daisy) in the film The Great Race. Not film but TV, however, he is also known as the lovably silly little man Detective Columbo. Nobody knows what he's doing or where he's going at any time (even him).

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He's like if a clown was a hobo was also somehow a classically trained harpist, his face is always in some kind of contorted silly shape, feral curly haired ninnymuggins always doing weird things to people

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Harpo is mute in all of the Marx Bros movies and so his body language and facial expressions are SO over the top but he's also got fewer braincells than a goldfish while often being the emotional heart of the Marx Bros and he's just A Guy!!

Every scene with Harpo Marx is a treat! Just like watching a seagull steal a stranger's hotdog at the beach, it is a joy to watch him frustrate the hell out of all the other films' characters! Harpo Marx is the zenith of unhinged in all of his appearances, making any other funny man a straight man by comparison. (A fantastic feat considering he starred in films with his brothers Grouch and Harpo, who sported a shoe polish mustache and questionable Italian accent, respectively). The scrungliness of the little guys he plays come from his guileless, wide-eyed expression, curly blond wig, and the extreme ability to annoy others, despite never saying a word. Is he malicious? Most definitely, but hard to tell because he has a dopey grin on his face most of the time. Communicating through other sounds like honking horns and whistling, he is a force of chaos in every Marx brothers film! Also an accomplished harp player, the beautiful calm moments where Harpo plays juxtapose the zany, making him all the more scrungly. His visual style of comedy is timeless; Duck Soup had me rolling with laughter as a six year old and is still just as funny today.

In my opinion Harpo is the funniest of the Marx brothers because he is so good at slapstick comedy. Since he never speaks in his film appearances his performances are very physical, which contributes a lot to his scrungliness. He was fully committed to being wacky at all times. All of his hilarity is based on him being weird.

He's just a weird little guy who causes chaos everywhere he goes, and then sits down and plays a beautiful harp solo! He steals the show from his very chatty brothers without saying a word, and was surprisingly ripped under that old raincoat

All of the Marx Brothers are Scrungly to a degree, but Harpo is the scrungliest! His outfits are so big he gets lost in them, his pockets are full of everything, and because he never speaks, he always uses physical comedy. Also he's an incredible musician.

Peter Falk:

He's a man who looks unshaven even when he's shaven. His soul is unshaven. The perpetual squint, the way his eyes don't always go in the same direction due to one being glass, the disheveled hair... I can only hope to look as scrungly as him someday.

Just look at him. Seriously. Just look at him. He's the scrungliest little guy. He out-scrungles them all.

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The only great party is a boy and a girl and a whole cheesecake.

Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx (October 2, 1890 - August 19, 1977

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m*a*s*h season 2 episode 5 and mr. robot season 3 episode 7

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owen harper and ianto jones + season 1

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People keep mentioning that Lee Majdoub is the CEO of Stobotnik and an all-around great guy. So nobody has to touch Twitter for proof, have a compilation of his Stobotnik and great-guyness tweets.

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Lee Majdoub for GR8T Magazine, Dec 2024 (Article)

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some notable burn stories from this year 2/2

bonus (cuz it made me giggle):

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some notable burn stories from this year 1/2

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chico ❤️

Chico Marx (Duck Soup, Animal Crackers, The Big Store)— A true pinnacle of scrungly guy, both on and off screen. On screen in movies with his brothers, he is frequently in scenes with his brother Groucho negotiating and sparring in wordplay, and when he is in scenes with mute brother Harpo he is translating for a third party. Never the love interest in the movies like Zeppo sometimes is, not even as a joke the way Groucho is or chasing girls the way Harpo does, Chico is just the guy that's kind of around and that's partially what makes him so scrungly is that he stands out from his brothers. By himself he is a weird little man that plays the piano and gambles. He has a unique way of playing piano that was largely self taught, his signature move is making his hand into a gun shape and "shooting" the keys.

Lon Chaney Sr. (The Phantom of the Opera)—ray bradbury worshipped this guy and I can see why. a horror icon known as "the man of a thousand faces," he was a master of using makeup and prosthetics to conjure characters who look nothing like each other. his erik is TRULY fucked up [photos under the cut], to circle back to bradbury, i think he says it best: "He somehow got into the shadows inside our bodies; he was able to nail down some of our secret fears and put them on-screen. The history of Lon Chaney is the history of unrequited loves. He brings that part of you out into the open, because you fear that you are not loved, you fear that you never will be loved, you fear there is some part of you that's grotesque, that the world will turn away from." Some of his work has not aged well, but much of it is still found in the way we depict horror, the strange, and the uncanny in cinema.

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Chico Marx:

Lon Chaney Sr.:

Oh my God. Let me just focus on Erik for a sec (like i don't do that every day of my life). Pug nose, crooked tooth little mess man. He put on his big cunty feathered hat for the ball but underneath it he's got that stupid, stupid hair. The evening suit that kinda doesn't fit. In what way is Lon Chaney--in this role specifically-- not the ultimate scrungo? Granted, they edited out his very scrungliest of moments (WE WERE ROBBED) but WE HAVE THE STILLS!!!

This man played depressed outsiders, sometimes depressed clowns, the most pathetic losers ever (affectionately) and his faces and gestures always were so funny!

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bob and bing!! the road to movies are quintessential polyamory films to me, in the same vein as singin in the rain. i didn't grow up with them but i did grow up with road to el dorado, and i always adored miguel and tulio's relationship but especially their snark and their quarrelling - and that's these two's whole shtick! they're soo mean to each other (bing's character would literally sell bob's character to satan for one corn chip. like it's a literal occasional plot point in the films that he'll sell him to the highest bidder) but they also can't live without each other and they sleep in the same bed sometimes and kiss in two of the films. they may not be as hot as tierney and price but i think they're very handsome and very married and i love them <3

Bob Hope and Bing Crosby (Road to Rio, Road to Morocco, Road to Zanzibar)—Look, the movie was never over until they were together again. They took care of each other (however reluctant they might have seemed).

Vincent Price and Gene Tierney (Dragonwyck, Laura)—no propaganda submitted [pictures under the cut]

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No additional propaganda submitted for Hope and Crosby

Tierney and Price:

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dino n jerry 💕

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (Scared Stiff, Living It Up)—goofy weirdo yaoi

William Powell and Myrna Loy (The Thin Man films)—i know they will have been submitted already but What If They Haven't Been!!!! the screen couple so hot together that people assumed they were married in real life! they match each others snark and dry deliveries SO well, theyre so married i still keep them tucked away in my mind as The Bar of established couples for movies. its also THEIR season rn new years is THE season for the thin man so a vote for loy-powell is a vote for love

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Loy and Powell:

William Powell and Myrna Loy from The Thin Man series. Glamorous and witty, with the banter of a will they or won't they couple combined with the mischievous affection of the happily married. And they're detectives!

They're ridiculously in love with each other, genuinely enjoy spending time together, respect each other, and just look at them:

He's dapper! She's gorgeous! Asta is adorable! They're simply the best!

Nick & Nora Charles, my pre-Code LOVES. Wikipedia describes them in one line as a couple who enjoy “copious drinking and flirtatious banter,” and they’re right for that.

Myrna Loy and William Powell, their delight in each other on screen makes me deliriously happy every time I watch them. I’ll even watch the later Thin Man movies, even if they aren’t great, just for those two flirting and smirking knowingly at each other. Watching them as Nick and Nora, you just know those characters really enjoy being with each other more than anyone else.

They had sizzling chemistry, and their real life friendship meant that they actually enjoyed being around each other, and it showed on screen.

I know I'm probably not the only one suggesting them, but I HAVE to nominate my favorite on-screen duo: Myrna Loy and William Powell. The chemistry between them has rarely been equaled; they're like the fun, cool couple that's clearly in love without ever being obnoxious about it. I love all of their movies so much, but my favorites are the Thin Man Series, Libeled Lady, Love Crazy, and I Love You Again. Obviously, I'm not alone, seeing as they had 13 movies together. Also, them+Asta? True double income, no kids goals.

(I know other people will be saying this but One Must Be Sure). MYRNA LOY and WILLIAM POWELL. From The Thin Man (1934), After the Thin Man (1936), and all the other Thin Man movies etc. They're just so into each other in such an equitable way, they push each others buttons and tease each other while drinking like fishes and solving mysteries and it's REALLY HOT. They both always had a twinkle in their eyes and adorably wrinkled their noses at each other.

Myrna Loy and William Powell, who are both life goals and wife goals simultaneously. The ultimate gender envy couple.

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As of today, my father's legacy is dead and we will never speak his name again. From this point on, I am a Gigante, and this is a new Family now.

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CRISTIN MILIOTI as SOFIA FALCONE The Penguin (2024) | 1.05 Homecoming

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