I'm honestly surprised when I see On Cinema references in the wild, mainly because I'm still amazed that they survived cancellation by Adult Swim only to create their own hyper-niche streaming service that has survived for going on three years.
The title is there to get you to click, there's not much need to analyze it. The article has little to do with it.
This reminds me of On Cinema At the Cinema when Gregg Turkington, as a parody of the film critic persona, often bases his critical opinion of the films based on what he thinks of the title and runtime.
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heidecker has been honing this persona for years now in the On Cinema universe. looking forward to this quite a bit
Context: https://www.vulture.com/article/tim-heidecker-and-gregg-turkington-on-cinema-guide.html
I'm honestly surprised when I see On Cinema references in the wild, mainly because I'm still amazed that they survived cancellation by Adult Swim only to create their own hyper-niche streaming service that has survived for going on three years.
The title is there to get you to click, there's not much need to analyze it. The article has little to do with it.
This reminds me of On Cinema At the Cinema when Gregg Turkington, as a parody of the film critic persona, often bases his critical opinion of the films based on what he thinks of the title and runtime.