sarah jeong: rewatched dr strangelove and cannot stop thinking about the comment “he’s just doing tim robinson” about george c scott

rewatched dr strangelove and cannot stop thinking about the comment “he’s just doing tim robinson” about george c scott

apparently random people have been noticing the resemblance for years but as far as I can tell no one has ever asked tim robinson about it or whether he’s taken any inspiration from scott’s performance or even just “what hell it’s weird right lol”

im gonna lay my claim here and now: it's convergent evolution. both these boys were raised in Detroit by parents that worked for car companies. same brand of white boy, same style of goof.

this is both plausible and an extremely wild outcome given the uncanny similarity

It’s not a typical Scott performance, and the story goes that Kubrick basically tricked Scott into being goofy and over the top by telling him he wouldn’t use these nutty takes — and then he did. I don’t know how true that is, but it suggests GCS⬆️25% = TR

Coming off the same damn assembly line…

I might be able to get him this question!

please

Well my friend that skates with him either ignored my text or rolled his eyes and left me on read sorry guys I tried

omg

If anything Tim's leaning into it more as he ages. Season 3 featured a lot of this head scrunch into his neck move which we didn't see in earlier seasons

“We’re all trying to figure out who started this nuclear war”

omfg elizabeth

FIFTY FIVE NUKES FIFTY FIVE SUBS FIFTY FIVE INFANTRY UNITS FIFTY FIVE BOMBER SQUADRONS

"He'll see the Big Board!"

A doomsday machine that he built himself

We are all looking for the guy who nuked this

Has he ever been asked if he took any inspiration from Scott? The tripping scene seems like something that would absolutely be in ITYSL

the scene where he kind of blubbers his jowls while talking about fighter planes seems extremely ITYSL

Robinson has claimed Hitchcock as more of an influence bsky.app/profile/peri... but now I see what you're getting at and I can't shake it. Really this just means George C Scott should've played more comedy.

Learning that Tim Robinson's favorite film is STRANGERS ON A TRAIN snaps everything into place, because STRANGERS ON A TRAIN is such an I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE scenario played straight.

omg I rewatched it this last month and had the exact same reaction “this… every scene in this is an ITYSL skit”

last time i watched it all i could think of was seeing Tim in a remake lol

before I got to your text I saw the pic and only saw HOLY SHIT HE LOOKS LIKE TIM ROBINSON.

okay fine

fuck

oh my god

George C. Scott underrated as a comic actor in my opinion, but that's probably only because he was so highly rated as a dramatic actor.

Apparently Scott was really angry with Kubrick after he saw the final cut of the film because Kubrick used all his most over-the-top, buffoonish takes.

Shouldn't have done such a good job, then -- but that's the curse of being George C. Scott.

My understanding is that Kubrick actively tricked him by promising that the over-the-top takes were just "practice" and would not be used. Personally, I like to think that Scott didn't even know the camera was running and that it was all just a private joke between friends.

This is the first time I’ve had even an ounce of interest in watching that movie. I can’t tell what that means for me but it’s something.

it is one of those rare films that has been memed to death but is actually still worth watching

This is good to know!

I watch it every time I need to be cheered up by the thought that the world could end quickly and without warning.

I made the mistake of watching it on an overseas flight without knowing anything about it other than it was a 'classic'. Black and white, seemed pretty serious. I embarrassed every single person I was traveling with because I could not, for the life of me, suppress my laughter. It's a masterpiece.

It is absolutely brilliant in so many ways.

It's genuinely great. Like Catch-22, it seems like it gets more relatable every year

The tragedy of Tim Robinson's time on SNL is that you have this mad genius stuck with an executive producer who thinks he invented comedy.

“I can’t know how to hear any more about tables!”

Am I the only one who read this as "Tim Robbins" and still kind of saw it?

We're all trying to find the guy who he's doing!

General Jack D. Ripper: "Water. That's what I'm getting at. Water."

Imagine how much longer it'd take to use modern conspiracy theories to show how melted US generals can get, like Mike Flynn's QAnon beliefs.

It's almost somehow as though the Associated Press published two lengthy articles about his Christian Taliban movement and people still were not quaking in their boots: apnews.com/article/reaw...

Michael Flynn’s ReAwaken roadshow recruits ‘Army of God'apnews.com BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) — By the time the red, white and blue-colored microphone had been switched off, the crowd of 3,000 had listened to hours of invective and grievance.

Being scared of fluoridation is relatively quaint nowadays lol

Yeah basically only Paul Gosar D.D.S. who is a one-man conspiracy machine in the mold of General Jack D. Ripper goes off on fluoride www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Paul Gosar Just Promoted a Conspiracy Theory That He Built His Career Fighting Againstwww.rollingstone.com Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) is promoting a fluoride conspiracy theory he built he worked to combat when he was a dentist.

Didn't hear anything about his beliefs on this before, but I did hear he was cozy with the neonazi "Groyper" followers of Nick Fuentes and spoke at an afpac event.

my husband and i have already discussed this privately as a family

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