Harder than it looks…

by · December 20, 2011

Tod Kelly

Tod is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. He is also serves as Executive Producer and host of both the 7 Deadly Sins Show at Portland's historic Mission Theatre and 7DS: Pants On Fire! at the White Eagle Hotel & Saloon. He is  a regular inactive for Marie Claire International and the Daily Beast, and is currently writing a book on the sudden rise of exorcisms in the United States. Follow him on Twitter.

Related Post Roulette

14 Responses

  1. Patrick Cahalan says:
    December 20, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    You beat me to fixing your link.Report

  2. Burt Likko says:
    December 20, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    If that doesn’t work, try this link. I did… not so well as Tod.Report

  3. Plinko says:
    December 20, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    I got 80%, mainly because I recognized most of the scenarios from various movies or Newt-hatin’ blog posts.Report

  4. Christopher Carr says:
    December 20, 2011 at 6:22 pm

    I started out strong, but finished with only 50% correct.Report

  5. Murali says:
    December 21, 2011 at 6:36 am

    I got 50% as well.

    To be honest, while funny, some of the things that are attributed to Newt are exaggerations. Ther are ways to put things I have said together in such a way that make me sound like a supervillain. Also, given that hollywood can be distinctively left of center, its villains are going to correspondingly sound right of center. The left wing dominance of the entertainment industry has the power to shape the opinion of the impressionable young in ways that can be out of proportion to the merit of its ideas.Report

    • Tod Kelly in reply to Murali says:
      December 21, 2011 at 8:48 am

      That there were exegerations in the setups is undeniably true. But I disagree with your larger point. For me what that quiz showed wasn’t a liberal bias toward villainy; rather, it made fun of the sheer cartoon-like scope of Newt’s ideas. When faced with a social problem, if your solution is Let’s Build a Giant X it isn’t a question of liberal or conservative; it’s the wanting to build a Giant X that’s funny. In fact, as I was taking this quiz I was wondering how long it will be before there is a Newt or Wile E. Coyote quiz.Report

      • Plinko in reply to Tod Kelly says:
        December 21, 2011 at 10:42 am

        +1. Newt is certainly exceptional among conservatives in this regard. There’s really no way you could do this quiz with any other prominent Republican in recent memory. Proposing massive complex solutions to problems is the stereotype generally applied to Democrats.Report

    • Christopher Carr in reply to Murali says:
      December 21, 2011 at 10:33 am

      To me, the defining mark of a Hollywood supervillain is that they’re almost always technology bulls while heroes are endowed with some natural or spiritual power (Batman is a notable exception to this trend). And Newt is definitely a tech bull.Report

    • wardsmith in reply to Murali says:
      December 21, 2011 at 5:53 pm

      Murali, you mean to tell me you’re not a supervillain? But your avatar?Report

  6. Katherine says:
    December 21, 2011 at 1:19 pm

    I got 40%!  Could’ve done better by flipping a coin.  Harder than it looks, indeed.Report

TEN SECOND BUZZ

A Message From Devcat

Devcat image

Devcat is watching over, but if you notice any problems contact the editors and Devcat will be notified and deployed immediately.

HELP ORDINARY TIMES

Recent Comments

Comics