# Goon, you're free! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [November 29, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240 "2025-11-29T22:12:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/141 "2025-12-04T21:34:28Z")
I’ve seen it (edit: meaning kpop etc) four times (I have an 11 year old and a 15 year old in the house, what can I say), and the animation is _highly stylized_ but far from crude and cheap. And yeah, the songs stick to your brain like Velcro. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/142 "2025-12-04T21:41:09Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > the animation is _highly stylized_ but far from crude and cheap. It is off-putting enough for me that that alone makes me disinterested in watching it. (I have similar reaction to some other animation, for instance I’m never going to watch _Archer_ because it is like fingernails on the chalkboard for the eyes.) ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/143 "2025-12-04T21:45:25Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > It is off-putting enough for me that that alone makes me disinterested in watching it. You don’t have to like it, but it’s hardly “crude and cheap”. I haven’t seen anything in that exact style before either, so “outdated” feels pretty odd too. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/144 "2025-12-04T21:49:29Z")
_K-pop Demon Hunters_ deliberately uses a lower frame rate than most Western animation, which gives it a “choppy” look à la Studio Ghibli and the _Spider-Verse_ films. I can only assume they were going for a nostalgic, otherworldly effect that would set it apart from standard-issue contemporary CGI animation. (As for _Archer_, I still think of it as “_Johnny Quest_ with actual good writing.”) ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/145 "2025-12-04T21:51:49Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > _K-pop Demon Hunters_ deliberatly uses a lower frame rate than most Western animation, which gives it a “choppy” look à la Studio Ghibli and the _Spider-Verse_ films. Oh, I haven’t seen Into the Spiderverse, but that movie also had a “3d CGI with tricks to make it look 2d-ish” thing going on, no? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/146 "2025-12-04T21:55:04Z")
Yes - or if you will, a “kinetic comic book” thing. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/147 "2025-12-04T21:57:02Z")
Whelp, that trailer barely sustained my attention for three minutes, and my son’s attention span is significantly worse. So I could definitely put this on for 10 minutes to be the Cool Mom and then turn it off when he loses interest. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/148 "2025-12-04T22:11:11Z")
If I hadn’t been reading this thread already, I would have learned about “gooning” from this video that came through my subscription feed today. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1ErRyahZr5E/maxresdefault.jpg "What if you never stopped masturbating?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ErRyahZr5E) The thumbnail currently includes the word “Gooning” which the creators might swap out at any time. Many youtubers frequently change their video titles and thumbnails to try to get the algorithm to bring them views. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/149 "2025-12-04T23:59:51Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > (As for _Archer_, I still think of it as “_Johnny Quest_ with actual good writing.”) Hehe, I love Archer, but that description is more appropriate for to The Venture Brothers. There’s even a grown Johnny Quest analogue in Action Johnny. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/egDuuFTSqUc/hqdefault.jpg "Dr. Z | The Venture Bros. | Adult Swim") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egDuuFTSqUc) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/APVn8lNcuAg/hqdefault.jpg "It Never Ends | The Venture Bros. | Adult Swim") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APVn8lNcuAg) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/150 "2025-12-05T00:28:50Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Or are just giggling and pointing at “Hurr hurr they made a double entendre they didn’t intend”. Mostly. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/151 "2025-12-05T01:12:48Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Or are just giggling and pointing at “Hurr hurr they made a double entendre they didn’t intend”. Some of us - and I include myself in this - are developmentally stuck in junior high, when dick jokes were the height of hilarity. You may look down your nose at us, but did you laugh when Archer cried, “phrasing!”?? Be honest. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/152 "2025-12-05T02:06:48Z")
Oh, I’m certainly a fan of junior high humor. I don’t do it much on here, but IRL fart jokes are still plenty funny. I don’t know what Archer is. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/153 "2025-12-05T02:34:33Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#): > > The thumbnail currently includes the word “Gooning” which the creators might swap out at any time. Many youtubers frequently change their video titles and thumbnails to try to get the algorithm to bring them views. I doubt it, as it’s literally the first word of the video, as the primary subject. It’s also the only term I know for this phenomenon. If people were doing it before the term, it didn’t seem to have a specific name. I’m actually surprised the video is that new, as I was seeing psych YouTube discussing it at least a year ago, which means it must be even older than that. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a pandemic reaction thing, as it let people stay home for extended periods. I was sure it was a video I’d already seen, but I guess I conflated the memory of this particular YouTuber and the actual video I did see. I think it may have been Psych2Go’s video on it that I saw. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/154 "2025-12-05T06:33:18Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > It’s also the only term I know for this phenomenon. If people were doing it before the term, it didn’t seem to have a specific name. This 62 year-old knows it as “edging” or “surfing”. The practice isn’t new to me, just the pointless repurposing of a great word for thuggish enforcers. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/155 "2025-12-05T08:03:37Z")
I don’t know the word surfing, but edging is not the same thing. Edging is the process of suppressing orgasm, getting as close as you can without going over. Gooning generally involves edging, but you have to do it for so long that you start to reach a sort of high from it. You reach a meditative state where you lose track of time. (That’s why it can last hours and days.) It’s a mental practice, and is about extending and increasing pleasure. I looked up surfing on Urban Dictionary, and it appears to be a joint activity involving rubbing each others genitals but avoiding penetration. While I could consider that a form of edging, it’s not gooning. Gooning is primarily a solo activity, and is very much self-focused. Some things you probably won’t hear about in the articles: gooners often are very self-deprecating, as part of a subby humiliation kink. They may talk about themselves being losers and being ruined for regular sex. And this is often treated as a feature, not a bug. Gooning is an entire online subculture. One I am familiar with as a domme and former moderator of an online kink community. It’s not just edging. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/156 "2025-12-05T20:31:26Z")
Note that Expedition Unknown just did another show based upon the “Goonies”. (a great film). Like it or not, that film has more cultural awareness than any slang term. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/157 "2025-12-05T20:37:49Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Note that Expedition Unknown just did another show based upon the “Goonies”. (a great film). Like it or not, that film has more cultural awareness than any slang term You may or may not be correct about which of the two has more cultural relevance, but “Discovery Channel made a shitty reality show episode about the movie” is not particularly strong evidence for cultural relevance. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/158 "2025-12-05T20:50:16Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Discovery Channel made a shitty reality show episode about the movie” i They made two and they are quite entertaining, and if you Google “Goonies” at least the first five pages are about that film. It also is 71% on Rotten Tomatoes with a 91% popcornmeter. It is widely popular. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/159 "2025-12-05T20:50:53Z")
Only checked a few pages, but the earliest definition on Urbandictionary of “gooning” with the definition you’ve been discussing goes back to 2006, and reference as being a word used in certain sexual subcultures. It’s clearly expanded well beyond that now. I saw a few others in the early 2010s, as well. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240/160 "2025-12-05T22:27:29Z")
I mean, you guys can lecture the person with the actual lived experiences who didn’t need to read the Urban Dictionary definition, if you want to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goon-youre-free/1025240.md?page=9)