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For those who crave a good review from a moderately successful YouTuber that hasn't been caught up in any illegal shit. <Knocks on wood>

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If this blog posts regularly then what's your take on the serpent (Li Ping)? What headcannons do you have about him?

OK, "regularly" might be too generous (especially since I don't get normal alerts for the account). I can at least give this a shot:

Before earning his title, the boy who would become The Serpent was given a disparaging name by Cassandra while under her "care"

Li had once stumbled across the rest of the MacAdams family during a business meeting, but he was glared away by Cassandra.

Priscilla is a rescue pet that Li manages to pass off to his subordinates as an exotic capture.

As a part of MWF, he's studied genetics up to a college graduate level.

The blue streak is much more prominent than shown visually due to him selectively dying most of it and leaving the sliver.

Li first learned about his fish allergy when he had a sit-down dinner with Cassandra who immediately got him help, the one time he felt genuine sympathy from her.

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Hot take that no one can challenge me on because no one fucking watched the show: Detentionaire has better mysteries, set-ups, and pay-offs than Gravity Falls. Want a kids mystery show you haven't watched yet? Watch Detentionaire. It's all up on youtube, captioned and for free, with the creators' blessing.

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But to adhere to canon, Lynch has stated that he used Finnwich’s magic, his own expertise as a plastic surgeon, and an indiscriminate amount of cash to make himself look younger. Still does nothing for his arthritis though.

Hi. I would like to remind you that this man is old and I mean like *really* old

So I did the math, the show takes place in 2012 and according to lynch Webber’s ID, He was born in 1934 which means he’s 78 years old in the show. (Lee really wasn’t kidding, he did the math.) and because I was curious, I wanted to see how old he’d be today, he’d be 90 years old!

But you probably knew that already I just wanted to share <:]

(But like seriously, how is this man even ALIVE????????????)

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My take on the Detentionaire boys hehe

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I’m sorry for spamming your notifications

I just discovered detentionaire

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I feel like this fits them KIND OF

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I hope you guys don't compare these types of shitposts to those the loud house "memes" on deviantart. These genuinely make me giggle 😭/lh

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One of my hottest takes is that I think the mystery and more specifically the transition from a casual mystery show to a more thrilling and serious one was done much better in Detentionaire compared to Mystery Incorporated

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I'm not sure how to feel about this outside of being glad to know that Tan's still getting work. But man, nearly everyone involved in this show has gotten into the edutainment game.

Billy from Barney's World shares a voice actor with Lee Ping from Detentionaire.

Voiced by Jonathan Tan

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im very quickly becoming crazy about shows that you only see in those “Remember This Childhood Classic???” youtube videos

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This blog still alive? If so what are your lee ping headcanons?

I apologize for the inaction; much IRL stuff has forced me to reprioritize things. I still love the show, but my drive isn't like it used to be.

As far as Lee Ping headcanons:

Lee had developed PTSD throughout the show's events, especially after that asphyxiation stunt Finnwich pulled

Lee has been bullied for his hair in some of his earlier classes

He already had "daddy issues" that were exacerbated by secrets that were kept by Dr. Ping

Lee's fencing/swordsmanship is one of many hidden fighting styles that his dad taught him "as play" akin to the flashback in "The Curse of Earl Nigma"

His unique hair color comes from his mother's side of the family

Had he been abducted as a baby like his brother, his training would've been put into more power-based martial arts to counterpart Li's finesse. They would end up becoming a duo known as The Serpent & The Dragon.

Lee's hypnotism immunity can extend to other means of mind manipulation (think neuralyzers from Men In Black, the memory gun from Gravity Falls, mind wipes a.k.a. "resets" from Glitch Tech gauntlets)

And that's the most I can think up at the moment.

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YEAAA DETENTIONAIRE YEAAAA

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Went on a bit of a Brandy/Lee rant on twitter and wanted to translate it over to tumblr so I can keep it in my Detentionaire tag:

It started with me stating that their relationship obviously doesn’t start out great, with Brandy blackmailing Lee into dating her, but also Lee kind of leads Brandy on and is shitty to her in other ways, but both characters grow a lot throughout the series and end up having one of my favourite platonic relationships by the end. While I love their platonic relationship I absolutely would have loved to see a second chance romance between them (even though I adore Cam and Brandy but also this just illustrates why I’m writing a polyamorous college fic for this series)

Then I decided I wanted to talk a little more about Lee and Brandy, specifically how there’s always so much focus on Brandy being the “bad” one in the relationship (blackmailing Lee into dating her, for example) but how she really highlights how Lee interacts negatively with a lot of the people in his life.

Generally, Lee is seen as the kind of every-man that fits into every clique but actively chooses to join none of them. He’s close with Cam and Holger, he crushes on Tina from a distance, and eventually becomes close with Biffy and Jenny.

And then there’s Brandy.

Lee dismisses Brandy from the get go. Yes, she tells him that they’re dating know because of popularity reasons which is shallow and silly, but other than that he ignores her. Unless he needs something.

Brandy is not worth arguing with or event acknowledging if what she’s doing doesn’t directly affect him.

Whether it’s intentional or not, Lee has this superiority about him that is especially obvious when he interacts with Brandy and Irwin because they actively challenge him. Even with the other cliques we watch him routinely become buddy-buddy with the members in order to get info or get something done, and the he immediately drops them, only interacting with them again to call in a favour here and there. Cam and Holger are the only people we see Lee go out of his way to check on outside of conspiracy things. He often forgets to check in one Tina and we see multiple examples where he only checks on Biffy because he needs Biffy to do something for him. Even in the pilot Lee gets surprisingly upset and frustrated when he thinks Biffy is leading him into a trap or when he thinks Biffy bailed.

Is Lee justified in being paranoid/demanding/stressed since he’s in the middle of/investigating a major conspiracy? I think that allows him some leeway (ha) for sure, but still he’s running the risk of alienating not only the people who care about him but allies who have actively helped him find as much information as he has.

I also don’t think Lee intentionally thinks he’s better than everyone else; he just lacks awareness of other people’s thoughts and feelings. He gets caught up in his own problems and ends up ignoring everyone else.

Brandy actively challenges this behaviour of his. Maybe the relationship started out as shallow, but Double Date is especially effective at showing us that she is actually paying attention, despite her brusque exterior. She respects Lee enough to put some effort in, so it’s only fair that she would expect the same treatment back, but Lee just doesn’t give that.

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Modern satire.

I’ve been watching a show from my childhood recently; Detentionaire. Through my rewatch I’ve noticed a lot of thing, from the overwhelming diversity that would have contemporary conservative commentators frothing at the mouth to the stunning use of visual foreshadowing. More so I’ve noticed the clever and loving use of satire that lends itself to the shows  comedy and how it contrasts with modern, cynical; “meta humour”.

Detentionaire follows Tenth Grader Lee Ping after he is framed for a prank on the first day of school that skyrockets him into the upper echelons of highschool coolness and lands him a year of detention. Through his investigation he uncovers a conspiracy that changes his life and will make any future therapists of his absurdly wealthy. [spoilers start here]

The show uses elements of the spy/action genre as well a sci-fi and mystery. The writing calls attention to the absurdity and cliches that it employs in a   fascinating way; with it being used by characters we’re not supposed to take seriously such as Lynch Webber [ a minor antagonist] when he has Jenny and Tina [Lee’s friend and crush] tied up because he wants to extort Lee for an important item. When jenny and Tina question him on this and point out he could have just taken Lee; “ Hello!. I’m the bad guy, he’s the hero  and you are one of two damsels in distress and I am in the middle of explaining something?”.  It’s also used with characters who have an established interest in this kind of things or who are there mostly for comedy like Brad [another minor antagonist]. As seen in the season 2 episode “School Hard” when he assigns arbitrary roles[Bad boy seeking redemption;Lee] to the students as they try to avoid the schools robot cleaners who are going on a rampage  and are shooting things with crystal guns and continues to rationalise the events through that, even asking for a second take for his “breakdown” when Biffy [One of Lee’s friends who was  assigned  “Muscle with a heart of gold”]  gets crystalised .

This kind of meta humour can only comes from a deep love and respect for the genre that you’re trying to satirise and it’s brilliance has made me examine a lot of modern and cynical satire that’s seems almost embarrassed by the tropes it uses. 

One of the most recent examples is HBO Max’s Velma which pokes fun at the Mystery Gang in a way that falls flat, ignoring years of characterisation for shallow and one note jokes. Detentionaire was able to keep up the meta humour well into it’s fourth season and even have straight goofy sub plots because they contrasted and gave reprieve from the moments where Lee was questioning his own  sanity. Meanwhile Velma seems ashamed and scornful of the characters and genre it’s trying to be.

What is satire without love?. 

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Some Detentionaire Valentine’s in honour of today, featuring some of the Ping Pack!

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