I've been watching the Flash Tub at Something Awful for years. It was originally quite good, but the quality always varied, and there hasn't really been anything outstanding or noteworthy there for a while, in my unfair estimation. It's a flash animation weekly feature, often with goofy and/or violent animation and tends to stray into nonsensical self referential territory.
But now and again it proves that it does have a right to exist. For instance, when it does what Something Awful is best at: internet meta-commentary. The preceding sentence is a link to a flash tub cartoon that illustrates exactly what the world would be like if it were like the internet, as imagined by knowing denizens of the internet. When it comes to timely slap-downs of internet memes, social fads, or the type of snobbish commentary on music that Pitchfork simply cannot provide, Something Awful has been everyone's friend since at least 2001 and has doled out mountains of advice to loners, strangers, and goons of various persuasions.
To be honest, the cartoon is sharp as hell. Say what you want about the production (which, statistically, is above and beyond a majority of Flash work on the internet), but the content delivers.
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