The Sinful Dwarf
Time for a little dwarfsploitation.
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Yes!!!! Last Days of Simon made into a review! Thank you good sir!!!!
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Magnavox Odyssey not Phillips
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Wrong. Phillips released their own version. Oops =) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey_Series#Philips_Odyssey_Series
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Hmm, I didn't know there was porn that wasn't meant to be sexually arousing.
Your reaction to the lady asking for "Santa Claus" was hilarious.
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Great review Brad! Did you see that extra on the Severin DVD that interviewed two guys scarred for life by this movie?
Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PQV57S7I-s
LOVE this flick! I try and make copies for everyone I know.
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This movie (not the snob)loses a star for lack of diggy diggy holes... and if you know what i'm talking about then hello fellow yognought.
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That's not a Cumface that a pure as hell Rapeface!
Every one needs a creepy midget in their posse, but he shouldn't be the main character.
For some reason when the old woman's tit was shown it just reminded me of another show you need to Snob so bad, Slammer Girls. Just because it has a woman in it that looks like every cafeteeria lady or fat nursing home nurse you've ever seen and she get's naked at one point.
You also need to do that Terror of Tiny Town just because of the Dwarf connection.
or just a Bridget the Midget film. XD
Well, this could've been a lot lot loooot worst.
Is it just me or does the dwarf guy and his death at the end remind anyone else of the dwarf from The Howling 2!?
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Oompa Loompa Doompa-dee do!
I've got a Cinema Snob just for you!
Oompa Loompa Doompa-dee dee!
If you are wise, you'll watch it with me!
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The Cobweb Hotel reference made my day.
Seriously? Seriously. Dwarfsploitation? What's next? Robot porn?
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Worse: Clown Porn.
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The only thing that might be tolerable for Snobbing would be a Stephen King's IT Porno spoof.
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Even Worse: Goblin Porn
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Torben Bille? Even the sets looked like something out of a Saw movie. And why in God's name did they continue to stay at that hotel in the first place? Can't a TV writer afford better accomodation? And why is he working for "Santa Clause"? And why are they staying at a hotel since Peter is holding down two jobs in the very same city? Both of them must be well-paid, since he writes for TV and runs drugs so...
Oh, fuck it. "Best. Plot. Ever" my ass.
Somehow I knew, just upon reading the title, I knew this would be no "Even Dwarfs Started Small". Somehow, I just knew.
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what Santa isn't real NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Creepy Fact: " He was rumored to be married to fetching blonde Anne Sparrow (his female co-star in "The Sinful Dwarf"), reportedly was the host of a children's TV show prior to working on more down'n'dirty adult-oriented fare, and even had quite the reputation as a ladies' man."
That's a horrorfying thought he was around children at one point and the blonde chick in the film was his wife!!!
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If you are wise, you'll watch it with me!
Hoho
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I DEMAND A REVIEW OF ANAL DWARF!!!
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it would be a short review since the anal dwarf is just a looped clip of a dwarf and woman fucking.
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And apparently it's pretty good, judging by the score.
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Okay so a dwarf movie. That's cool. But you know what would be cooler. A primordial dwarf movie. Maybe a filipino primordial dwarf movie. Maybe a filipino primordial dwarf movie with martial arts.
Like For Your Height Only or the Impossible kid both starring Weng Weng.
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Why was Willow being so mean to those nice ladies?
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Still better than Ralph Bakshi's 'Lord of The Rings'.
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OMG!! I know this movie!!
Try watching this for the first time on Thanksgiving Day!
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BEST.REVIEW.EVER!
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I have a friend who still believes in Santa... She's nearly 20. XP
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Love the "It's Always Sunny" reference near the beginning.
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That dwarf still owes Margaret a phone call after making sweet love to her.
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Have you ever seen/reviewed "Bat Pussy"?
I will say no more.
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Hey!!! they stole my WOW Character!
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Please tell me that pun under the title was intended.
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This is a danish movie, dam did'nt knew we made such shit
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I'm as surprised as you are.
If nothing else, this movie has improved the view I have of my country!
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Ozemaster and TroeLar: as you know Denmark was in the early 70ties a hub for porn, since denmark was i think the first country to legalize porn....
but we made reptilicus, so im not supriced that this movie (DVÆRGEN aka the sinful dwarf) was produced in denmark
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mucky lil bugger
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Midgets actually frighten me. I always think they want to steal my height.
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you know what i miss. brad tries
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"Best. Plot. Ever"? ... Huh, well I guess it's no surprise Comic Book Guy watched this.
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Talk about your last acceptable prejudices. This shit is still going on. Exploitation of people with disabilities, genetic mutations and the like should never sit this well with people, but society has deemed it acceptable to this very day to portray little people as nothing more than living props.
I personally can't wait until using little people as living props is seen as being just as cruel and tasteless as using blackface.
I'm surprised at Brad for taking as many shots as he did at the actor who played Olaf, but then again, why should he be any different?
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lol yeah sure. From now on it can only be acceptable if he makes fun of movies starring perfect white people. Brad's made fun of actors and movies of all types from blaxploitation to nunsploitation. I myself am a little person, and as a little person, I'd be more offended if he passed on this movie simply BECAUSE it featured a little actor. And many of Brad's jokes were directed at how creepy the actor look, which would have been the case no matter how tall he was.
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I'm glad you can take it in stride, because it sure as hell makes me uncomfortable.
It honestly doesn't matter to me if you're a member of the exploited group or not. Mocking or exploiting a group of people because of a physical characteristic, genetic mutation or deformity that they were born with has never sat well with me. I think it's cruel, and it bothers me how acceptable it's become with little people and how apathetic people are to it.
Oh, and anyone can claim to be anything they like online. I myself am a 90 pound supermodel from France, and in a few minutes, I'll be Optimus Prime. Come on, man.
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usually when people overreact or feel bad for another person and their possible features or disabilities are often im gonna say racial in their own way to think that said people can not defend themselves. now i have yet to see any movie that treated a little person as a prop, except maybe jackass but in that movie everyone is a prop. the oompah loompas in willy wonka willing did it and had a fairly major role. the little people in the wizard of oz voluntarily did so and were not props but characters. i have yet to see any movie that treats midgets unfairly or as a prop.
you must be guilty of some oppressions on these people if you feel the need to so heroically white knight them event though there was nothing offensive said by brad and especially when the little person in this film himself was a major villain.
now let me say i can be uncomfortable when something does slander a group wholly and unfairly and have often been in places were i have left due to the terrible atmosphere, but that was do to how extremely racist and close minded it was that it made me angry. but when i watch exploitation or horror or film in general im rarely offended since film is subject to a direct and writer who are often born in different times or are trying to create a satire (except for some films out there made to attack), this film was a fun stupid exploitation film which featured a midget as a villain, personally the movie would of sucked either way if it was played by an average height white man.
and lastly yes anyone can claim to be anything on the internet, but generally people dont pretend o be a group that is supposedly victimized its more like, im a doctor with 20 years experience and shit like that. not im a midget and didnt find this offensive, thats just illogical to claim to be a midget unoffended by a review that had nothing offensive in it to just reply to some moron on the web. there is no basis for trolling or trying to seem knowledgeable in this case, you sir are just a bigoted person running away from themselves and are quite idiotic.
and nice review brad looking forward to something else that isnt a porn review.
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-Then you have a much more lax view of their roles than I do. When I say prop, I don't just mean like an object, I mean "a person whose physical features are used in a way solely to garner humor from the audience." Mini-Me, for example. He had no spoken lines. He was portrayed as infantile. He was given no characterization. Like this Olaf character. And yet, little people live productive, normal lives (or at least, try to).
- Comparing "Olaf" to a turd, an animated germ, and generally mocking his appearance would be things I'd say Brad slipped up on, but like I said, it's not surprising, since the film practically wrote those jokes for him.
I find your attempt to paint me as a bigot for standing up for people a bit perplexing, seeing as how you're the one referring to them as "midgets," which I'm fairly certain is considered a slur. You don't even know what a bigot is if that's your definition for it. Bottom line is, I don't like seeing people being exploited because of how they look or where they're sorted in the social filing cabinet, and if I don't agree with something, I'm going to stand up and say something. Nobody else does.
If it bothers you that someone's thinking about the movie from a Conflict Theory perspective, sorry to hear it.
-How you've managed to extrapolate the intent of the writer and director from this movie with no prior insight into their motives is beyond me. I'd say the only context either of us have are from our own perceptions, mine being "this isn't cheesy or tongue-in-cheek, it's degrading and cruel" and yours being little more than an apathetic shrug.
"I'unno."
-People will pretend to be a member of an abused group to either stick up for them, or to douse fires of criticism, mainly to prevent drama. Easy to do this online. Of course, this can have a sinister undertone to it. All too often I've seen youtube accounts of white supremacists posing as black people (or rather caricatures of black people, as they view them) to troll right-minded people, or occasionally to dispel any accusations of racism in a situation where racism clearly exists. It's very convenient for them to make anti-racists look like paranoid fire-starters.
You think I'm being too PC? That's fine. I love being politically correct. It beats the hell out of the alternative. I don't get how that makes me a bigot, but okay.
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Yeah, I don't need you to stick up for me, thanks. I can take care of myself perfectly fine. And this video was hilarious.
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All right. You're not the only person out there.
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I don't need you to stick up for me either. You're actually offending me more than any potentially offensive joke Brad said (in which there were none). The idea that we are so fragile as a people and so helpless that we need a big strong man like you to stick up for us is incredibly offensive. Also, little actors get great work all of the time. Torben Bille (the actor from this film) was actually a children's entertainer before this film. So he played a villain. You know else play villains in movies? Tall people. Ethic people. White people. Every kind of actor plays villains.
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That's why they call it an exploitation film. And maybe don't come to this site if you want PC humor.
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Oh no, I've brought the dreaded blight of political correctness onto this site. How thoughtless of me.
I fucking love political correctness. Bathe in that stuff, man. Rub it all over my skin, pour it in my cereal. Honestly, it's not deadly at all... to me.
I appreciate that it's an exploitation film. I would have thought Brad would have the tact not to join in with the exploitation.
Plus, I really do hate movies where little people are treated subhuman. I'm sorry, am I triggering your PC phobia by bringing that up?
WHAT CAUSES A MAN TO TURN TO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS? A LUST FOR GOLD? POWER? OR ARE THEY JUST BORN WITH A HEART FILLED WITH POLITICAL CORRECTNESS-NESS?
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the thing is though your not being politically correct, your sub mentally viewing them as people who need defending when 1, they do these movies voluntarily they dont have to do the roles they do, also on mini-me he was infantile but that was the character he played. i guess you never saw tipping toes or any movie with peter dinklage. i've seen a movie were a white man played giant brutish idiot. i've also seen movies were skinny people were treated as bad things (okay just one movie) and i've seen movies were white people as a whole were the bad guys, and another that was the opposite, then i saw a movie that talked about these issues in a mature and thought provoking way.
also racial humor can be bad if done wrong, but a great tool for removing tension and creating stronger bonds IE the greg giraldo segment of the roast of flavor flav, he made racial comments but the african american members in the audience and on stage were laughing.
political correctness is good in doses but if your extremist about it noone will join you and you will seem more ignorant then open minded. i have freinds of many colors and religions and we make fun of each others race in a soft light manner and neither of us get offended or up in arms about it. i dont mind humor towards the my Hispanic heritage cause its a joke nothing to get offended about.
and again on the film, its an exploitation horror film that decided to use a little person (since you assumed a term like midget while acceptable like black as a slur) instead of an average height male to set it apart and to use torben since he already was a fairly large star in denmark being the host of a children's show and being in several films for adults. he 100% decided to do the movie himself he wasnt forced to. he and his wife were both in it. and the guy wasnt treated subhuman he was treated like a deranged psychopath which he was but just a bit different.
and again on mini me he was a clone gone wrong and he did grow to be a bigger character in later austin powers films. but i guess you were to busy being offended by the fact they used a little person to play the role of a clone. but i guess we see movies differently, when you saw mini me doing something funny you were shocked by the fact it was a little person doing these absurd acts and i saw it as what it was just plain stupid humor an actor decided to do.
noone is pc phobic here just pc extremist phobic who decided to take an exploitation movie and review at face value.
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"they dont have to do the roles they do"
They play the roles because that's all anyone ever writes for them. I'm not faulting the actor for choosing the role. I'm saying that the writers and directors should be writing more dignified roles for little people.
"i've seen a movie were a white man played giant brutish idiot. i've also seen movies were skinny people were treated as bad things"
White people and skinny people are part of a preferred social majority. They can stand to take a few hits to the chins because at the end of the day, most people are not going to claim that white people and skinny people are freaks of nature or subhuman.
I'm talking about dehumanization that actually has social impact.
"he was infantile but that was the character he played."
Weak defense, and that's not what I meant by "character." Yeah, that was the character he was given. Why couldn't he been given a speaking role? Something dignified? Your defense is, "well, they should be grateful for what they DO get." Replace "little people" with "Africans" and use that same defense.
I don't buy it.
" but if your extremist about it"
But that's it, dude, I'm not being extreme about it. You're being incredibly apathetic. You don't care about the subject, but instead of saying that, you play the PC card.
" you will seem more ignorant then open minded."
Except I'm not ignorant. The fact that I'm willing to look at this topic at all, rather than ignoring it like you're ding, proves I'm being open-minded and you're not.
What you're saying is the exact opposite of what is happening.
"instead of an average height male"
It all comes down to who is ostracized in our society and who isn't. Average-sized people are not ridiculed for their size. They are not dehumanized for being average.
"he 100% decided to do the movie himself he wasnt forced to."
Back in the early part of the 1900's, African American actors were only able to perform on stage in what was called Blackface. It was humiliating and dehumanizing, meant to reinforce the cultural acceptability of racial discrimination.
Those were literally the only reasonable, paying roles available to black people at the time.
They were adults, too, but it's not that simple.
There are few truly dignified roles for little people in film. It's either that or you go hungry. Some choice.
"but i guess you were to busy being offended by the fact they used a little person to play the role of a clone."
And I guess you were too thick and selfish to think about it from Vince's perspective, or anyone else's but your own. You labor under the delusion that Vince had much of a choice at all in the characters he played.
I guess seeing things from a cultural, or an empathetic point of view makes me an extremist in this society. I'd rather be that then be just another lazy, selfish asshole.
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Come on guys, he makes a great point. This is the very first time I've ever made fun of an actor in one of these videos.
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Nonsense, there was the one video . . . .
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How dare the director of this movie give a little person a job! Doesn't he know how easy it is to find careers in all fields for people that size?
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Brad is a leprechaun anyway so it's cool.
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Exactly!
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What sort of leprechaun? Will you grant me wishes if I find your pot of gold or will you kill me?
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This video says it all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaLrM6Pch64
I'm getting my stick ready!
Oh, Oswalt you know what's best!
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Skit to 2:50 and 6:30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz_CsXzx8Jc
thinking like people are being exploited in films like this is just not correct. They get paid a lot of money and they are highly respected in their chosen fields for doing what they do.
The guy in this movie was a celebrity because of this not a prop!
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Hehe, nice to see you do some Scandinavian exploitation. This is one of the films that everyone around here have heard of, but not many have seen. I remember hearing the title of this movie way back in grade school days, and it's a title that is kinda hard to forget. Only watched it recently though, and I'm glad to hear you reference Bloodsucking Freaks through the review... because I was sure as hell reminded of it watching this. Kind of a light version of Bloodsucking Freaks with a groovier soundtrack and artsy cinematography. The opening looks like something out of an Argento movie! And well... the dialogue is what it is. Not as awful and funny as the Swedish-English in Breaking Point though!
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The Quote: "BEST. PLOT. EVER."
The Real Quote: BEST thing I can say about this film is the PLOT is easily the most screwed up thing involving a dwarf I've EVER seen."
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Was that a Red Dwarf reference at the six-minute mark!? (sucking out brains with a straw)
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No, it was a 'Bloodsucking Freaks' reference. Though good on you for recognising the parallel.
When I read this title my mind immediately added 'Of Saint Valentine' to the end. That'd be a cult classic, mixing nun/dwarfsploitation
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Is this one of those films you made Jake watch that enraged him?!
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Of course not. It's my movie
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"He looks kind of like when those cold and flu commercials animate germs".
Brilliant, simply brilliant LMFAO!
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.... MANIMAL!!!
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This brought Black Devil Doll From Hell to mind... are you sure Chester Novel Turner wasn't involved?
I'm surprised you didn't make any Tattoo or Troll 2/Ator references! This movie was begging for them! Maybe even a crack about the Napoleon from Daring Dragoon!
If I had a life, I'd be dangerous...
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Time for a LITTLE dwarfsploitation? I see what you did there.
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Sinful Dwarf: The Tyrion Lannister story.
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you really remind me of Louis C.K. just wanted to tell you.
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Reptilicus was Danish? That...actually makes perfect sense now that I think about it.
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I know you're not the one to blame, but it's tedious to not be able to watch your episodes on 3.1 Moto Xoom. Blip.tv is perhaps the problem, it seems to be the only service which doesn't work (atleast for me). I would welcome the possibility to watch your show on mobile environment.
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If I want to see sociopathic dwarves, I'll stick with Dwarf Fortress, thank you very much.
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Wait, so the critic's highly regarded movies include The Thin Man? That movie's plot makes no sense! I expected more from the fictional Cinema Snob.
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The Thin Man is looking at a remake starring Johnny Depp and who cares.
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You should totally review For Y'ur Height Only.
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Please review The Anal Dwarf! This review was too funny!
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He did, in the "Bat Pussy" episode.
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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. ~Dante Alighieri, Inferno
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Boy, I almost forgot how great this review is. Olaf looking like an animated germ is probably my single favourite Snob analogy.
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