Question #23

January 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized

In his book Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs, Chuck Klosterman has twenty-three questions he asks “everybody I meet in order to decide if I can really love them.”

Some of the questions are very funny, some are very dumb. I like them all and want to know your answer; mine are in the comments section. So here they are, one at time (in reverse order).

23. Consider this possibility:

a. Think about deceased TV star John Ritter.

b. Now, pretend Ritter had never become famous. Pretend he was never affected by the trappings of fame, and try to imagine what his personality would have been like.

c. Now, imagine that this person—the unfamous John Ritter—is a character in a situation comedy.

d. Now, you are also a character in this sitcom, and the unfamous John Ritter character is your sitcom father.

e. However, this sitcom is actually your real life. In other words, you are living inside a sitcom: Everything about our life is a construction, featuring the unfamous John Ritter playing himself (in the role of your TV father). But this is not a sitcom. This is your real life.

How would you feel about this?

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  • http://ridingabuttertub.com fro

    My take:
    First of all, what the f**k.

    Second, John Ritter was rad; what was that movie he was in where he somehow got into the television shows he was watching? I remember that being a good show.

    Remember how he died the same day as Johnny Cash (and if you don’t remember it is o.k., you probably aren’t as dorky as me). Anyway, John Ritter was a fairly famous guy and his death would have been a bigger deal had he not died on the same day as an American Icon. He was underrated even on the day he died.

    Back to the question – if this was happening to me, I would definitely need to be institutionalized, but probably wouldn’t realize it. If I know that my life is a sitcom in which an unfamous incarnation of a dead person is playing my father, it is time to get on some medication. It is likely that someone else would realize that I am completely crazy and lead me to the help I need. But before I got the help I need it would be pretty cool having John Ritter as my sitcom father.

    Your take?

    fro’s last blog post..Question #23

  • http://ridingabuttertub.com fro

    My take:
    First of all, what the f**k.

    Second, John Ritter was rad; what was that movie he was in where he somehow got into the television shows he was watching? I remember that being a good show.

    Remember how he died the same day as Johnny Cash (and if you don’t remember it is o.k., you probably aren’t as dorky as me). Anyway, John Ritter was a fairly famous guy and his death would have been a bigger deal had he not died on the same day as an American Icon. He was underrated even on the day he died.

    Back to the question – if this was happening to me, I would definitely need to be institutionalized, but probably wouldn’t realize it. If I know that my life is a sitcom in which an unfamous incarnation of a dead person is playing my father, it is time to get on some medication. It is likely that someone else would realize that I am completely crazy and lead me to the help I need. But before I got the help I need it would be pretty cool having John Ritter as my sitcom father.

    Your take?

    fro’s last blog post..Question #23

  • http://tillo13.com andy

    Yea, I gonna have to go with, eh, Ritter was “alright” in 3′s company, but I’ve gotta step back and realize that he NEVER lived with 2 chicks and that he’s a regular guy, and my father on a sitcom. Hell, I guess I’d be fine with it because the rest of my world would be fake and I’m all-in-all a pretty easy going guy. So yea, hook me up with the undead-fake-Ritter as my sitcom dad, I’m down.

    andy’s last blog post..Driving back from Montana in 2005

  • http://tillo13.com andy

    Yea, I gonna have to go with, eh, Ritter was “alright” in 3′s company, but I’ve gotta step back and realize that he NEVER lived with 2 chicks and that he’s a regular guy, and my father on a sitcom. Hell, I guess I’d be fine with it because the rest of my world would be fake and I’m all-in-all a pretty easy going guy. So yea, hook me up with the undead-fake-Ritter as my sitcom dad, I’m down.

    andy’s last blog post..Driving back from Montana in 2005

  • http://thefourthring.blogspot.com Matt

    I don’t even know what he’s asking….am I stupid?

    Matt’s last blog post..The 7 new laws of the universe

  • http://thefourthring.blogspot.com Matt

    I don’t even know what he’s asking….am I stupid?

    Matt’s last blog post..The 7 new laws of the universe

  • http://ridingabuttertub.com RaBT

    @Matt – I hear you – I mostly just guessed what he was asking. I think that means we wouldn’t be that guys friend.

    RaBT’s last blog post..IMG_1730_ Maui, Hawaii, Hana Backside

  • http://ridingabuttertub.com RaBT

    @Matt – I hear you – I mostly just guessed what he was asking. I think that means we wouldn’t be that guys friend.

    RaBT’s last blog post..IMG_1730_ Maui, Hawaii, Hana Backside