# The Dodgeball Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dodgeball-thread/251242>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 19, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dodgeball-thread/251242 "2004-06-19T23:19:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dodgeball-thread/251242/21 "2004-07-05T06:03:42Z")

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Oh man, there is nothing I love more than a pseudo-pirate. Comedy gold!

I went to see it, and I loved it. Absurd, silly humour. Sublime.

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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dodgeball-thread/251242/22 "2004-07-05T13:40:45Z")

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Something I loved about the movie, which may or may not have been intentional, as the following:  
The “good guys” and the “bad guys” face off in the final match. What’s the name of the good guys? Average Joes. The bad guys? Purple Cobras. Their simplified names? Joes and Cobras. Yes, my friends, the Joes beat the Cobras.

In case you still don’t get it, the G.I.Joe cartoon (and toys, and comics, etc…) had G.I.Joe (the Joes) beat Cobra.

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**Author:** ![xvxdarkknightxvx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/34f0e0/32.png) [@xvxdarkknightxvx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xvxdarkknightxvx)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dodgeball-thread/251242/23 "2004-07-05T17:28:47Z")

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> [@AwSnappity](#):
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> I thought it was tripe. And I wasn’t expecting much. At all. I loved Zoolander, but Zoolander this wasn’t.
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> It certainly had the _potential_ to be funny. But most of the “jokes” just had me shaking my head and saying, “What?” They were either so cliched that I saw them coming from a mile away, or else they were too off-the-wall and made no sense at all. Either way, I didn’t laugh.
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> The funny parts:  
> “Deus ex machina” written on the treasure chest  
> Chuck Norris  
> David Hasselhoff
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> A very forgettable movie in my opinion. I hope next time Ben Stiller can do better (at least he isn’t to blame for the terrible script).

That was my problem, too. How could you _not_ predict nearly every single joke? This goes along with why I hated **Scary Movie 3**. Maybe if I comedically thought slower, I could like it.

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dodgeball-thread/251242/24 "2004-07-05T18:18:32Z")

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> [@bouv](#):
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> Something I loved about the movie, which may or may not have been intentional, as the following:  
> The “good guys” and the “bad guys” face off in the final match. What’s the name of the good guys? Average Joes. The bad guys? Purple Cobras. Their simplified names? Joes and Cobras. Yes, my friends, the Joes beat the Cobras.
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> In case you still don’t get it, the G.I.Joe cartoon (and toys, and comics, etc…) had G.I.Joe (the Joes) beat Cobra.

There you have it. _Dodgeball_ is Proustian in its complexity.

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**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dodgeball-thread/251242/25 "2004-07-05T21:14:31Z")

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I noticed that as well!!!

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**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dodgeball-thread/251242/26 "2004-08-15T00:19:04Z")

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I was too busy chuckling at the Purple Cobra name basically being a nob gag.

Overall I enjoyed it.

The submissive gag was funny.

I found it odd that only myself and one other person in the theatre laughed at the King Midas’s silver gag.  
It’s a funny gag - isn’t it?

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