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For those confused:
While grateful for the explanation, I find myself no less confused.
I guess if I have to explain the joke, I have no one to blame but myself. <sigh>
The redhead in armor is Chappell Roan at this year’s VMAs, and the blonde is Sabrina Carpenter from a performance on SNL. The original photo in the post was making fun of noticing the superficial resemblance of a shot from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to those two looks.
Damn it’s weird being old enough to have been a fan of Buffy, but still knowing and liking new pop music.
I think the problem is taking two separate photos from two different events on different days and thinking people would put them together.
I bet you could find all sorts of separate photos of musicians from different events where one has armor and another has a red cape.
Okay, this pretty much helps, but now I don't know what a VMA or an SNL is.
I'm going to go with "Viking Marauder Awards", a yearly event where people re-enact the sacking of the Lindesfarne Monastery etc, via the medium of song and dance (and pyrotechnics).
and "Sitting Near Larry", a weekly TV programme where a bloke called Larry sits down somewhere, and then semi-famous people come and sit near him and perform things. Larry has never heard of any of them, so gives them well-meaning but slightly patronising advice. Larry is just off-screen in the image shown above.
If "Sitting Near Larry" was a genuine and honest show, I'd watch the hell out of it.
Nailed it! <fist bump>
Thanks. That helps. I still have no idea who those Chapel and Sabrina are, but I now know they are supposed singers and that this is about they being similar.
I guess people that don't know Buffy at least could identify one of them as the one in How I Met your Mother or from American Pie movies and the other having a cameo appearence in Big Bang Theory.
I agree you are in a weird position knowing something so old and something so new at the same time 😅
I'm old enough to have been a fan of Buffy, but didn't watch TV back then. I also enjoy some modern pop music but, in the vast majority of cases, have never seen the artists. I'm also terminally bad at faces even if I have seen them (I've had to ask my wife whether a picture of her was her; she took it well).
I did actually recognize Alyson Hanigan, since she has a few distinctive expressions and features, but had no idea of the rest.
All that said to say: thanks for the explanation; me not getting the joke or reference doesn't mean it was a bad one.
I understood SNL
Explanation is the death of comedy.
If explaining a joke makes it not funny, it was never funny in the first place. It was either just referential or based on shock value.
Oh I know - as soon as I find a shovel, we’ll complete the funeral service and then it’s time for the wake :)
Same. No idea what any of the images are aboot.