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Pat, after Woolie's attempted explanation: "You completely lost me. Like 100%. You 100% completely lost me."
I agree, Pat. I agree. (For reference.)
No, Woolie, the Qui-Gon Jinn/Quan Chi thing was not funny due to being an intentional "bit," or whatever the fuck, because it wasn't an intentional "bit." It was funny because it was a completely unintended brainfart on Pat's part that caught both Pat and Matt by surprise. Most of the best humor of SBFP, at least for me, was when they were spontaneously reacting to things happening unexpectedly, not the intentional "bits" that they always ended up beating into powder, not unlike a horse skeleton, long after whatever infinitesimal amount of "comedy" already had been extracted fully from it. Like Pat said, the "Obi-wan and Quan Chi" thing was completely out of nowhere, not intended, and completely lacking any kind of "set up." Because, again, it wasn't an intentional "joke" or "bit," even though Woolie is going all "that's it!" as if he gets it. "I don't know if you even..." Because, Pat, no, Woolie doesn't even. He doesn't even, at all. Woolie is completely misunderstanding the whole thing and why it was funny. "It's the same thing over and over," says Woolie, as if he's making a point, when his bad example here of "Hey, it's Qui-gon! Hey, it's Quan Chi! Hello, Qui-gon from Star Wars and Quan Chi from Mortal Kombat!" only ever happened that one time, and never again, and it wasn't an intentional "Ha ha I'm making a joke here on purpose! Isn't it so funny?!" thing at all, the way Woolie seems to think it was. No, it was Pat and Matt trying to make yet another forced Star Wars reference (which wasn't all that funny to begin with) and then Pat accidentally saying "Quan Chi" instead of "Qui-gon" and then him and Matt both completely losing the entirety of their shit over it. Pat mistakenly saying "Quan Chi" wasn't even the funny part for me. It was their complete inability to retain their shit afterward that I found hilarious. YMMV.
On the other end of the spectrum, the actually intentional "bits," like, indeed, the whole "Wakka is a Ku Klux Klan member" "bit" that Woolie and Matt did for most of the SBFP Final Fantasy X Let's Play, got incredibly tiresome after the first five minutes, once they started doing the Wakka voices, but they just kept drilling that shit into the ground for the entire rest of the fucking playthrough. It was neither "solid" nor "gold." Not even a little. It was "liquid" and "shit." Seriously, if you watch that compilation video there, you'll fully get the "point" within the first 2 minutes, because it's just that same goddamn thing, "over and over," for the remaining 49 minutes. Woolie trying to explain it in the above embedded CSB clip just makes it seem all the more asinine, honestly, in my not so humble opinion. I never really cared much for the overextended "bits" that they kept trying to force through their LPs. Fortunately, it wasn't even remotely as prevalent as Woolie is trying to make it seem here. But in the cases where what he's talking about was there, though, it invariably became trite, tedious dogshit.
