A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boys shoulders to let him know the world hadn’t ended
Batman (Bruce Wayne)
But we’ve met before. It was long time ago I was a kid. St Swithins. Used to be funded by the Wayne foundation. An orphanage. My mom died when I was small in a car accident. I don’t remember it. But my dad got shot a couple years later over a gambling debt. And I remember that one just fine. Not a lot of people know what it feels like do they? To be angry in your bones. They understand. The foster parents. Everybody understands for a while. Then they want the angry little kid to do something he knows he cant do. Move on. So after a while they stop understanding. They send the angry kid to a boys home. I figured it out too late. You gotta learn to hide the anger. Practice smiling in a mirror. It’s like putting on a mask. So you showed up this one day in a cool car with a pretty girl on your arm…we were so excited. Bruce Wayne? Billionaire orphan? We used to make up stories about you man. Legends. And you know to the other kids that all it was…just stories. Right when I saw you I knew who you really were. I’d seen that look on your face before. It’s the same one I taught myself. I don’t know why you took the fall for dents murder but I’m still a believe in the Batman even if you’re not.
John Blake (Robin)
Nobody hears me when I explain this, I feel like I’m talking into a paper bag: The phrase “believe in God” is beneath me, that’s how awesome I am.
This is my explanation of my point of view on religion that I’m now pulling out all the time. You can disagree with it but don’t try to tell me it’s not what I think:
If “believing in God” is Coca Cola and “not believing in God” is Pepsi, then the “corn syrup” that unites them, the poison that slips through disguised as dichotomy, is mediocrity. Unremarkability. Inhumanity. That’s what people who “don’t believe in God” and people who “believe in God” have in common. They all think you’re limited, and they’re all inviting you into their limited world where you can realize how limited you are.
Human beings do not come out of the womb having to decide what to think. They come out just thinkin’, the way Rambo comes out killin’, it’s as easy as breathin’.
Dan Harmon
This is the thing that I think is the most important, profound thing. There are disorders, afflictions, whatever you call them…head injuries, that can cause people to like eating poop. There are people who sleep with corpses. There are people who get turned on by women stepping on their face. There are people who wanna fuck teddy bears. There are people who eat dirt. There are people who murder children. There is no such thing, there is no twisting of the mind possible that has ever resulted in any person wanting to be alone.
Dan Harmon
if you google “bump on my neck, cancer” you’re gonna find out the bump on your neck is cancer. Whether it is or it isn’t the internet is real good for that.
Dan Harmon
I would have to be famous for blowing someone to say life is great.
Dan Harmon
If you’re present at the time that something is being created than what you’re seeing is always going to look like a mistake. The definition of making something means that it wasn’t there before. That means that you’re doing something new. Of course, you’re creating something. In the end if what you get looks like just another TV show, good for us. It’s a derivative medium. Every TV show shouldn’t ask the question, “What is TV?” Like we wanna turn off our brains and watch TV. I think the inherit problem with big business television and movies is the executives. I think the problem is that they shouldn’t be anywhere near where things are being made because to them it’s always going to feel dangerous. They’re always going to say “sorry, wait you can’t do that. That doesn’t look like Mickey Mouse what you’re drawing.” Yeah cause I’m not done, dipshit. Of course what does it look like? Looks like 3 circles right now. It’s gonna look like Mickey Mouse in a little bit just shut the fuck up. Go eat a chicken or something.
Dan Harmon
People who watch every single episode three times in a row are right to see all these things that are connected, but they make the mistake of thinking that that means that you have to experience the show that way. Absolutely not. I look at this thing always through the lens of modularity. It’s gotta be crack. One rock has to do the job. You can’t tell somebody when you have an audience this small “oh give it a chance you shoulda been here last week then this would be even funnier!” I try to minimize that stuff. I pride myself on that craftsmanship.
Dan Harmon
