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“Middlebrow” is the perfect level of brow for a movie to be. if you want smarter read a book if you want dumber read some posts
Jeremy Aber 🍉
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That's that good sugary trash like a big boy likes. Former Kansan, current Tennessean. Another chump in higher ed. Proud union member.
![Comic #1: Everett True - a stout, bald man with a near-permanent grimace - is stood between two people having a conversation. To the left is a man with a moustache, who is labelled as an "Italian trying very hard to tell something in English". To the right is a man in a bowler cap, who is giggling: "Tee-Hee!". In the second panel, Everett suddenly turns to the man in a bowler cap and curtly asks "CAN YOU TALK ITALIAN?", to which the man responds "No". In the third panel, the man's bowler cap has crumpled over his eyes, and he is shuddering as if he were hit on the head. Everett bellows: "WELL I CAN'T SEE WHAT YOU'VE GOT ON THIS FELLOW THEN!!!" [originally published: 1916]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pvmrpwsnl5bjhgxqawgbcgpv/bafkreie23rdj54r3jlzvsrvzullwxtyd6xvtfjowu6mfdpu6wii4h6fvqi)
![Comic #2: a man with bushy hair is sat in the cinema next to Everett True. In the first panel, the bushy-haired man turns to Everett and remarks: "This is another swell picture. The girl's lover is killed in a railway accident - it ends up so pathetic--". In the second panel, Everett suddenly snaps and reaches out to accost him with both arms, screaming: "SO WILL YOU END UP PATHETIC, YOU BONE-HEAD, IF YOU DON'T QUIT TELLING ME THE PLOT OF EVERY FILM!!". [originally published: 1912]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pvmrpwsnl5bjhgxqawgbcgpv/bafkreift24t6l775yxqsqspbxdix6ckmlkfiga7adimzppdi4b3tpgvchm)
![Comic #3: Everett True is walking down the street while wearing a face mask. An onlooker with a mischievious grin spots him, and remarks: "Haw-haw! 'fraid of the "flu", Everett?". The second panel hard cuts to the man walking through the door of his home with his head covered in bandages, clearly dazed. His wife exclaims: "JOHN!!". [originally published: 1918]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pvmrpwsnl5bjhgxqawgbcgpv/bafkreig6e2mcwdnxyos2wu7pz2tr4i42xhl64bzm3qbid2pci5bkgt4nlu)
