Oh boy, ILX! That's where I'm a viking!..?

btw you're just going to have to make a kierkegaardian leap of faith that option A is the correct answer, I'm sorry all will be explained in the afterlife

ok, so not that he can't distinguish -- more that his life is so sad and pathetic that he enjoys sleeping so that he can escape the tiring, failure existence he lives in for just an hour or two so he can dream of being an excellent viking. that he lacks the emotional facilities to realize that dreaming can't be a substitute for life and his escapism can only hinder his ability to succeed in the real world.

ok i'm actually going to leechblock this thread because i caught myself on the verge of talking to my computer. what have i become

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KsNH_ZfGbOs/S6Ewx9tuHEI/AAAAAAAAAN8/mlHPyQQrhJU/s200/hagar_reveur_mini.jpg

I'm assuming The Afterlife is the bar where we are all going to meet up and have drinks and laugh about this whole thread

more that his life is so sad and pathetic that he enjoys being excellent at sleeping so that he can escape the tiring, failure existence he lives in for just an hour or two

this thread what the goddamn hell

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

hagar can't be a viking at sleeping, he's a horrible!!!!

look, so fat bet the man has some sleep apnea

most of us sleep and dream and sometimes our dreams are excellent, but we wouldn't substitute our RL for them. Poor Ralph tho, who fucking eats worms cause he's actually mentally disabled, needs to embrace these dreams. this is the lol -- the sad, heart-breaking lol that Ralph will amount to nothing in life, and he better enjoy the little naptime he has now, because soon he'll be institutionalized, or, at best, be a leech upon his poor father and mother until old age, and then hopefully find some way to enter the American system but more likely always remain at the fringes -- a ghostly figure long after his smarter classmates have moved on to greater success and competence. we laugh at Ralph because if we didn't we'd have to cry.

I mean the way ralph just plumps his head on the desk & dozes off clearly shows he's really excellent at sleeping on command

lol mordy

I don't even get the people who say option A is funnier.

Ralph thinking of sleep as a place where he becomes a viking is way funnier to me than Ralph being proud of being good at sleep

fess up Mordy, you are high right now

lulz

as someone who's been having sleep problems for the past week I envy Ralph for being a viking at sleep

what the fuck, Mordy

you're totally misreading Ralph's character

misunderestimate ralph at your own peril

this is the roach motel of arguments

btw ralph is totally capable at understanding/using metaphors & puns cf. his valentine's day card exchange with lisa

an entire episode based on ralph taking something literally!

ok, so not that he can't distinguish -- more that his life is so sad and pathetic that he enjoys sleeping so that he can escape the tiring, failure existence he lives in for just an hour or two so he can dream of being an excellent viking. that he lacks the emotional facilities to realize that dreaming can't be a substitute for life and his escapism can only hinder his ability to succeed in the real world.

― Mordy, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:48 PM (3 minutes ago)

I'm not a Simpson's completist or anything, but I've seen enough to know that Ralph is too stupid/developmentally disabled to think his life is a failure. WE are supposed to think it, for lolz, but Ralph's just a holy fool who didn't get enough oxygen in the womb.

lol Dan

Ralph choo-choo-choo-chooses to be a Viking

you're right, I swore I wouldn't post in this thread, but DAMMIT

WE'VE GOT ANOTHER ONE

FUCK

LET ME OUTTA HERE

just drink the gatorade and wait for the spaceship to pick you up wmc

keep in mind that said spaceship may or may not be a Predator ship

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005LWKY.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

kinda lolin that j. lo vince vaugn and vincent d'onofrio are sharing the title credits

Good call, WmC: He's not so upset himself. It's more like this is another thrilling chapter in Ralph's life. Like he experiences life as series of vignettes that are totally unrelated to the previous one. I ate a worm. Now that's over, something totally new: Taking a nap! For the teacher, who realizes Ralph is unteachable, the two are clearly related: "Fuck, he ate a worm? Why the fuck would he do that? I can't reach him, I'll just tell him to take a nap." But Ralph is like the guy from Memento, he can't remember anything that happened more than 10 seconds ago, now he's onto something new, taking a nap. And like everything else, he's exuberant: Naps are great. In naps you get to be a viking. (Remarkable that he remembered a time when he dreamt of being a viking, but I guess that's the kind of thing that would make an impression on him -- not like eating a worm which is totally unremarkable in Ralph's life.)

kinda lolin that j. lo vince vaugn and vincent d'onofrio are sharing the title credits

kind lollin' that I saw this in a first-run movie theater

there's probably some dumb recent episode where Ralph says "Miss Hoover my worm went in my mouth again!" and then winks at the camera.

see I get that ralph likes dreaming about being a viking but making the hermeneutic leap that he has trouble distinguishing between dream/reality is where I can't make the leap of faith

http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~aka32/index_files/image004.jpg

Also:

Ralph: "Um, Miss Hoover? There's a dog in the vent."
Miss Hoover: "Ralph, remember the time you said Snagglepuss was outside?"
Ralph: "He was going to the bathroom."

since when are hallucinations = dreams

Who cares? Kid clearly has trouble distinguishing between real/not real.

ralph dreaming that he's a viking = ZzZZzZZzzzZzzzzzZZZ but ralph being proud at being good at sleep = looooool

but it's not ralph dreaming he's a viking in and of itself that's supposed to be funny. it's a)random viking reference mixed with b)dude is excited about getting to be a viking again and prob doesn't even know dreams aren't real.

http://www.amandinealessandra.com/research/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/zhuangzi.jpg

omg the line just isn't that funny either way. probably the unfunniest thing ralph ever said.

He might even know dreams aren't real, but that doesn't matter. He loves them. (See sad lulz above.)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2087/1931470865_52d749c05b.jpg

would love for this thread to take a turn to epistemology

If explaining a joke always makes it much funnier, then arguing about which interpretation of a joke is more lolworthy is clearly the pinnacle of excellence!

i could help with that but i aint coming back

xpost

http://home.wlu.edu/~mahonj/images/Descartes_ontol_pic.gif

I'm not sure how we could bring epistemology into it -- I guess there's how you know what it means, but that's seems like a hermeneutic question, not an epistemological question (beyond the extent to which hermeneutics are a way of creating epistemology?)

butts

buttology

Btw: People bitching about the argument are even more annoying than people stumping for option A imo. How boring to go on an ILX thread like this and make snide remarks about how useless the argument is, or how inane the discussion is. Thanks for the heads up, dude! Can I hire you as an ILX life consultant to tell me which threads are worth spending time on or what discussions are valuable?