{"id":2833,"date":"2016-12-18T14:16:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T19:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2016-12-22T14:17:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:17:42","slug":"ze-brain-on-ze-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/ze-brain-on-ze-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Ze Brain On Ze Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;re a neophyte to\u00a0this website and its redundant obsessions, 2009 saw the release of the hysterically divisive toy movie\u00a0<em>Revenge of the Fallen.\u00a0<\/em>To be kind, I reference this beloved turkey\u00a0<em>a lot.\u00a0<\/em>So often, in fact, that I&#8217;ve tried in recent months to\u00a0<em>avoid<\/em> referencing it, to keep from wearing it out.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2485\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/thrills2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2485\" data-attachment-id=\"2485\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/thrills-a-retrospective\/thrills2-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/thrills2.jpg?fit=498%2C750&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"498,750\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"thrills2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;So much for that.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/thrills2.jpg?fit=498%2C750&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-2485 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/thrills2-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/thrills2.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/thrills2.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/thrills2.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">So much for that.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I bring it up almost as frequently as I do my time in jail. It even showed on the giant TV in stir- and the other inmates had seen it so many times they were\u00a0<em>sick of it.\u00a0<\/em>It was like hanging out with a hundred friends in a warehouse, bickering\u00a0over what to watch.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m gonna discuss\u00a0<em>Revenge of the Fallen<\/em> as though you&#8217;re relatively familiar with it. It&#8217;s easier at this point to have seen the film than to have not.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s this little Decepticon drone, a doctor, named Scalpel. He gets the funniest lines in the entire movie, not long after major events happen. First, he and a squad of Constructicons encounter the dead body of leader Megatron, in the second-deepest part of the ocean. Scalpel inspects the corpse, and declares:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Need parts. KILL ZE LITTLE ONE!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_2836\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ze2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2836\" data-attachment-id=\"2836\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/ze-brain-on-ze-table\/ze2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ze2.jpg?fit=400%2C167&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,167\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ze2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Father! Give me legs!&amp;#8221;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ze2.jpg?fit=400%2C167&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2836\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ze2.jpg?resize=400%2C167\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ze2.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ze2.jpg?resize=300%2C125&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Father! Give me legs!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Immediately<\/em> the Constructicons turn on one of their group, who appears to be\u00a0<em>twice their size,<\/em>\u00a0and rip him to pieces.<em>\u00a0<\/em>Constructicons are\u00a0<em>ruthless.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scalpel touches Megatron with the magical doo-dad fragment, and he springs to life, now augmented by unwillingly donated parts. He bursts out of the ocean, transforms, and flies directly to a moon of Saturn, where the Fallen is recuperating\u00a0and talks like Candyman. This is\u00a0<em>awesome.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also awesome is the &#8220;Forest Fight&#8221;, which comes not long afterward, and oh hell I&#8217;ll just link to it. Even people who hate it are impressed by it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DgQHgy7Nmkk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Call the movie stupid, insulting to your intelligence, whatever. That scene is <i>hot shit<\/i>, as are several others. I&#8217;ve watched it a hundred times and it just blows my mind that it even <em>happened<\/em>. This is my handicap; I simply cannot shut up about these movies, and I&#8217;d be a fool if I didn&#8217;t at least\u00a0<em>try<\/em> to be productive with it.<\/p>\n<p>Scalpel gets his final scene just prior to the &#8220;Forest Fight&#8221;, when Megatron uses him to interrogate Shia LeBeouf. There&#8217;s a bad cut that undermines the tension of the scene (perhaps intentionally, as it&#8217;s\u00a0technically a depiction of torture), that goes from a panicked Megan Fox with tears streaming down her face, to Shia with crossed eyes and a metal thing stuck up his nose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gridbug2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2651\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/gridbug-chasers\/gridbug2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gridbug2.jpg?fit=350%2C148&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"350,148\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"gridbug2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Scalpel and Shia, from &lt;i&gt;Revenge of the Fallen&lt;\/i&gt; (2009). Ironically, fast-forwarding to get this screenshot was a huge pain in the ass.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gridbug2.jpg?fit=350%2C148&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2651 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gridbug2.jpg?resize=350%2C148\" width=\"350\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gridbug2.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gridbug2.jpg?resize=300%2C127&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shia spits and dribbles, but not as much as in\u00a0<em>Dark of the Moon.\u00a0<\/em>Again, to be nice about a dumb movie I love, someone should&#8217;ve taken LeBeouf aside and told him about process and aesthetic distance. Don&#8217;t blame the script; how much did you care about scripting in Romero&#8217;s zombie movies? Almost everything in those films is down to how well the cast can pretend, on camera. (Think about the original <em>Star Trek<\/em> show, and how the actors would portray inertia.)\u00a0Shia starts screaming and frothing\u00a0<em>way too quickly.\u00a0<\/em>It can pull you out of the movie if you let it, and it&#8217;s convenient ammo for haters.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the\u00a0<em>enabler<\/em> in me will also tell you that LeBeouf&#8217;s character of Sam Witwicky was directed to act like &#8220;Marty McFly on crack&#8221; (ugh), which he definitely does. Plus, in every Michael Bay\u00a0<em>Transformers<\/em>, someone screams something three times. It was\u00a0<strong>&#8220;LEFT CHEEK!&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>in the first one, and Sam&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>&#8220;WHOOOOAAAAA!!!&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>in the third. That&#8217;s technically a running bit. I can validate just about anything in context. I&#8217;m a fucking fantasy writer, I mean, come on. Use your head.<\/p>\n<p>I apologize, I&#8217;m off-topic as usual. Back to Scalpel.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Witwicky has the MacGuffin inside his mind, and Megatron wants it. Robots have a very cavalier attitude about human anatomy; they think it&#8217;s plug-and-play. After molesting Sam&#8217;s sinus, Dr. Scalpel makes a command decision. It&#8217;s his best dialogue, and it&#8217;s a great tension breaker.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;VE MUST HAVE ZE BRAIN ON ZE TABLE! <em>CHOP-CHOP!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Sam gibbers in protest, Scalpel produces a rotary saw, and he&#8217;s about to give Sam&#8217;s head a sunroof when Optimus Prime drops in from above to save the day.<\/p>\n<p>Scalpel&#8217;s voice, like many voices in the\u00a0<em>Transformers<\/em> movies, is referential to popular culture; I have no doubt that he&#8217;s a vague allusion to Peter Sellers as Doctor Strangelove.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2788\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gingerbread8.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2788\" data-attachment-id=\"2788\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/the-necco-betrayal\/gingerbread8\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gingerbread8.jpg?fit=350%2C197&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"350,197\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"gingerbread8\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8221; I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious&amp;#8230;service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.&amp;#8221;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gingerbread8.jpg?fit=350%2C197&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2788\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gingerbread8.jpg?resize=350%2C197\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gingerbread8.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gingerbread8.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#8217;m gettin&#8217; a lot of reuse out of pictures for this article.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sadistic Teuton accent, in a pitch\u00a0like Michu. Germans do not become offended when you mimic or mock their accent. They literally do not care. You can&#8217;t even\u00a0<em>make<\/em> them care, and Russians are the same way. Thus, Scalpel&#8217;s voice was a safer bet than, say, Skids and Mudflap&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The key to the comic German accent is\u00a0<strong>&#8220;ze&#8221;,\u00a0<\/strong>in place of &#8220;the&#8221;. It sounds natural because of the way\u00a0Germans ask if you can speak their language:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Sprechen Sie Deutsch?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That &#8220;Sie&#8221; in the middle is spoken like &#8220;ze&#8221;. It&#8217;s one of my favorite accents, due to how sinister it can make the most mundane things sound. Technically, it&#8217;s a stereotype; it just doesn&#8217;t get criticized as one, because like I said;\u00a0<em>the Germans don&#8217;t care.\u00a0<\/em>They have\u00a0<em>no earthly idea<\/em> how hilariously ominous their speaking voices come across.<\/p>\n<p>I could go on all day about my fondness for the Germans, but my thrust is thus:\u00a0<strong>&#8220;ze&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>is the hinge-pin of a good German accent. The\u00a0<strong>z<\/strong> is the key. Consider Sgt. Schultz, from TV&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Hogan&#8217;s Heroes.\u00a0<\/em>What was it he knew again?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2834\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ze1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2834\" data-attachment-id=\"2834\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/ze-brain-on-ze-table\/ze1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ze1.jpg?fit=350%2C263&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"350,263\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ze1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ze1.jpg?fit=350%2C263&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-2834 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ze1-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ze1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ze1.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;I KNOW <em>NUZZING! NUZZING!!!&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In some corners, &#8220;ze&#8221; is being pushed as a &#8220;gender-neutral pronoun&#8221;. It&#8217;s even been used in Transformers, briefly in recent comics (which, if I&#8217;m being honest, are the best TF comics published thus far, with awards to back it up). I&#8217;d previously seen &#8220;xe&#8221;, and &#8220;xir&#8221;, and similar science-fiction-looking labels, for analogous\u00a0political agendas.<\/p>\n<p>When I was growing up, something of neutral gender was an &#8220;it&#8221;. This is reflected in a character I created for\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/that-90s-comic-book\/\">Drop Dead<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>in 1993; the utterly alienated &#8220;Non-Human&#8221;, who flatly refused to be classified by\u00a0race or sex, and in fact concealed them for this purpose. Non-Human did this as a protest of society&#8217;s gender prejudices. I know Non-Human quite well, and I can tell you without question, you refer to Non-Human as &#8220;it&#8221;. Or, you don&#8217;t get to talk with Non-Human.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you didn&#8217;t have a mom and a dad, or you had two of one. This is normal, but it&#8217;s also not\u00a0<em>the norm.\u00a0<\/em>Consider the size of populations in China and Africa, and their attitudes towards gender (which vary by region). Campaigning for a\u00a0<em>new pronoun<\/em> means that all those people have to get the memo and mark it as read. In terms of effort versus results, it&#8217;s like putting a rubber on one of the Statue of Liberty&#8217;s spikes to keep teenage girls from getting pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a long way to go to avoid saying &#8220;it&#8221;. Look, if something isn&#8217;t a boy or a girl, odds are it&#8217;s gonna be called an &#8220;it&#8221;, and not out of meanness. Some people freak out if you refer to them as a &#8220;thing&#8221;, for Pete&#8217;s sake.\u00a0<em>We are all\u00a0<strong>living things.\u00a0<\/strong>Chill the fuck out.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Or, just blame ze Germans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;re a neophyte to\u00a0this website and its redundant obsessions, 2009 saw the release of the hysterically divisive toy movie\u00a0Revenge of the Fallen.\u00a0To be kind, I reference this beloved turkey\u00a0a lot.\u00a0So often, in fact, that I&#8217;ve tried in recent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/ze-brain-on-ze-table\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5,8,76,46],"tags":[45,1148,1646,47,2328,56,2327,44,705,2326,2329,2330,929,1483,158,1745,1060,1960,366],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-influences","category-dont-care","category-idiots-delight","category-robot-toy-fetish","category-thousand-listen-club","tag-45","tag-1148","tag-1646","tag-bands-i-useta-like","tag-candyman","tag-corporate-crap","tag-dr-strangelove","tag-drop-dead","tag-germany","tag-hogans-heroes","tag-megan-fox","tag-megatron","tag-optimus-prime","tag-peter-sellers","tag-political-correctness","tag-shia-lebeouf","tag-sjws","tag-star-trek","tag-transformers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53HmY-JH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2866,"url":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/before-it-was-choked-on\/","url_meta":{"origin":2833,"position":0},"title":"Before It Was Choked On","author":"MattyBoy","date":"12\/26\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Look, choking sucks. 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