NO I SAID WHO'S ON FIRST

I DON'T KNOW

THIRD BASE!

what's on second

I dunno

Third base!

So Who throws the ball to What, What throws it to I dunno, I dunno throws it to Tomorrow; Triple Play! ump calls! Why? I don't give a darn!

say again?

I said I don't give a darn!

Oh, that's our shortstop!

Doh!

I'LL BREAK YOUR ARM if you say Who's on first!

"I'm a baaaad P-Body..."

I remember hearing p-body is actually a female personality core. But yer totally reminds me of them.

Nope, P-Body is quite obviously a repurposed turret. =)

No no I know p-body was repurposed but the intial core for her ai is female read it off a valve wiki thing.

Ish?

http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/ATLAS_and_P-body

Yer that one

They were intentionally based on squat-and-short and tall-and-thin duos like Abbott and Costello -- and especially R2D2 and C3P0.

THE MUSTARD GOES WITH THE PORTAL

I told you to play the coop game as Abbott and Costello. :p I'm infecting your mind,Ish.

Not bad likenesses of Bud Abbot and Lou Costello -- I recognized them, which is most of the battle. Being a life-long pedant, though, I have to point out that "This is another fine mess you've gotten us into," is actually a catch phrase of Laurel & Hardy. Hardy, the fat one, would say in a very dignified and offended tone, "Well, THIS is another FINE mess you've gotten us into, I MUST say." And usually Stan would cry and answer "I"m sorry Ollie." It was also usually Hardy's fault, not Stan's, who was more likely confused by it all.

3CPO and RTD2 are merely inferior imitations of Laurel & Hardy, Abbot & Costello, Mutt & Jeff, and a tradition of short and fat, tall and thin stage clowns going back to the 19th. century stage. It isn't that the two "droids" had to be inferior, but with one of them only being able to whistle, it wasn't possible to have the clever dialogs that made Vaudevilian comedians famous.

I don't recognize the doo-dads with the red beams, though, or what Bud and Lou are holding.

Hahha. Talk about the forest for the trees! Not to take so much delight in your confusion, but it is comical. Your deficit is such that given your over- examining in the first post, I'd presumed this to be sarcasm.

Proceeding on the assumption that it's not -

This is not 3PO or R2, but ATLAS and P-body, the two co-op bots from Portal 2 multi-player. They are also holding the titular "Portal" guns. In the background is a mass of Turret bots.

You mentioned Atlas and P-Boby but I had no idea what or who they were from the first. Nor have I ever heard of Portal 2 multi-player. I have plug-in gams of any sort for TV or computer and have paid little attention to the fashions as they come and go. For all I knew, nothing had happened yet after Halo and Warhammer.

... ... really... unable to tell... if trolling.


... but seriously. It was the title of the submission.

I knew it must mean *something,* but had no idea what. Like I said -- I've never heard of the game, so would be unlikely to know the names of characters or situations in it.

I'm with you on the Laurel and Hardy thing, was the first duo I thought of when I read the quote. And that he got the wrong duo for that particular quote.

It must be generational. In my day we'd never mix up Laural & Hardy up with Abbott & Costello, but I'd be all too likely to mistake Digimon for Pokemon.

I admit to bein' only 29, but I grew up watchin' Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, the Three Stooges, and most films from the 20-50s, and I find them much more entertainin' than modern stuff. A lot of mah childhood was filled by their crazy antics. You can see the care and attention (and the sufferin') that went into craftin' acts like that, while most modern stuff has the feelin' of a moron in charge of a mold, and a box of randomly assigned colour paints.
Sorry for the wierd "typos", mah accent slips into mah text...

A lot of those old comedy acts -- for all that they may seem juvenile and corny -- were very conscientiously performed. Some Laurel & Hardy even created new cinematic techniques -- the cut from a scene with an actor loaded down with ladder, paint buckets, and rolls of wall paper just about the go down stairs, to another scene in which the other actor simply hears the load clatter and crash as the first guy falls down them, seems to have been something L&H came up with, and hadn't been done before them. In earlier film, the actual fall would be filmed, rather than implied.

http://images.wikia.com/half-life/e.....dy_infobox.jpg

The two I based this on XD Atlas, the short blue one and P-body, the tall orange one.

The things in the background are these: http://media.techeblog.com/images/portagun.jpg

little automated gun turrets with laser-sight-tracking-vision thingies XD

Vaughn Bode used to have "characters" something like these in his early stores -- "panzerpunks" I think he called them. They might be any sort of robot/weapon combination, actually, that popped up out of the ground or wheeled around like a unicycle. Like all his "male" characters they were stupid and ugly and prone to senseless violence.

I can just imagine those two being previous employees of Aperture Science during its mandatory Staff test involvement, and being the basis of both the the Personalities of P-Body and Atlas after being gunned down by those turrets.

first human rendition that makes sense and is quite humorous :D

You could have gone 'Laurel and Hardy' on it too!

I'm sure it would have worked

Isnt P-Body supposed to be a female?

no it's supposed to be a turret

Fascinating. So in essence, all the players on this team have names that are either responses to questions, or pronouns.... that could easily be...... CONSTRUED..... as actual responses to questions, or pronouns.

EXPLAINING JOKES MAKES THEM FUNNIER, RIGHT??

Well, that's just great, Seymour. We've been out here six seconds and you've already managed to blow the routine!

Just...astronomical amounts of win.

I'm not sure since I haven't really watched much Abbot and Costello, but I think their personalities might be more fitting if it were reversed. P-body is supposed to be more reserved and thoughtful while Atlas is supposed to be more brash and brave. Though obviously shape and size wise this is perfectly fitting and I suppose really their personalities depend on who's playing them. X3

Hmm maybe I'm wrong. Again I never really watched Abbot and Costello, but maybe the personalities is right, since P-Body is sort of the smarter one. o3o I dunno.

I don't care that P-Body is supposed to be female, now I'm gonna be stuck thinking of those two as these two for forever. And I'm totally okay with that.

First thing to go through my mind was Simon and Lewis of the Yogscast.

Ha ha! Awesome.

HEY ABBOTT!!

That is one of the best pics I've seen in a long time =3