the funniest part of death note was when light thought, “The police are spying on me through cameras in my room. I need them to think I’m a normal high school boy.” and then he proceeded to read a porn magazine for 5 minutes without cranking his chain. all while laying on his bed like this
The second funniest part of death note was L, the world’s greatest detective, watching Light do this and going “yeah that’s perfectly normal and exactly what you would expect from a young man his age. Nothing even slightly odd here.”
The fact so few people have mentioned the ensuing potato chip scene that followed wherein he was literally doing math homework with one hand, mass murdering with his other, all while eating potato chips in the most serial killer manner possible.
He gives the bag of chips a more lustful stare than the porn.
Which btw he had previously rigged with a portable TV to watch the news for people to murder, a piece of a page from the death note, and a tiny pencil. His entire plot hinged on the fact he’s the only one in the house to like that specific flavor. If anyone grabbed the wrong bag or just poured his chips in a bowl for him before he got home, he would’ve been boned. He throws the incredibly expensive tiny TV in the trash immediately after too btw.
This scene is genuinely probably one of the most popular and heavily memed scenes in the entire series. For good reason. The cinematography. The way he bites into it like a dog ripping the head off a squirrel. The fact he, in the most serious and dramatic inner monologue, says “I’ll take a potato chip…. and EAT IT!!!!” The sparkles. The slo-mo.
Just. Know your history, anime fans. This really shaped a generation and remains the one part of Death Note everyone remembers vividly even if they were never that into it.
Like the fact some of these memes are visibly more recent is horrifying. The impact of this entire episode on society is eternal.
I AM NEVER QUESTIONING MY WRITING SKILLS EVER AGAIN!
I AM NEVER QUESTIONING MY WRITING SKILLS EVER AGAIN!
I AM NEVER QUESTIONING MY WRITING SKILLS EVER AGAIN!
Even better is that his sister is famous here in the UK as well. Victoria Coren-Mitchell could be asked about her brother’s absolute fucking insanity. And she could absolutely say something truly hilarious about what a git he clearly is.
Wait he’s Victoria Coren-Mitchell’s brother?!?? But- but- but she’s so *competent*???
one time, when i worked at the summer camps, this six year old kid came up to me, pulled me aside, and said “i’m scared of sam.” sam was the name of another counselor at our camp, so i take this super seriously, and i ask the kid to tell me what sam did that made him scary and when it happened.
kid looks at me and goes “no not sam from camp. sam the skeleton man. he says you’re not going to have a fun time and then he comes and kills you.”
turns out the kid was afraid that sans undertale was going to be hiding in the bathroom at the park so he wanted me to go with him. i walked him there, of course, but i also reassured him that “sam” lived in a video game and couldn’t hurt him in real life. i think he believed me.
Hello David. You claim to be unwilling to date any girl who uses pronouns. Before you is a middle school English grammar test. You must get full marks, or I will pronouns you dead. You have thirty minutes.
i literally cannot be bothered to even try to come up with any interest whatsoever for a group of fictional characters unless them becoming a found family is endgame like i’m sorry but if you expect me to emotionally invest myself in any of them when there’s no chance of them doing the same then you’re asking too much
