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"content": "\u003cp>It has been 50 years since Sheila Frazier made her big-screen debut as Georgia, girlfriend to wily drug dealer Youngblood Priest, in the blaxploitation film classic \u003cem>Super Fly\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Frazier estimates there hasn’t been a week in her life that has passed since the premiere without someone mentioning the movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does surprise me that it’s been 50 years and people are still talking about it,” says Frazier, who initially took the job thinking it would be great to act in a movie with Ron O’Neal, who played Priest. “Maybe it still reflects what some of our communities are dealing with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even people who haven’t seen \u003cem>Super Fly\u003c/em> recognize its theme song: A grooving, funky hit written by R&B star Curtis Mayfield, which became one of the most successful movie themes of the blaxploitation era. The soundtrack helped turn the film into one of the most profitable movies of its time, \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=W7-SAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=super+fly+top+box+office+1972&source=bl&ots=Sut5yvyp9d&sig=ACfU3U2UgN-S7BCj5E5dC4rUYLt3MgbHOg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi1z4u_2qn5AhXdtoQIHQAcAR4Q6AF6BAg5EAM#v=onepage&q=super%20fly%20top%20box%20office%201972&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earning millions\u003c/a> while briefly dethroning \u003cem>The Godfather\u003c/em> as the top film of 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cmo6MRYf5g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the movie’s gritty, authentic depiction of street life and its flamboyant lead character—a sharp dressing, karate-kicking drug dealer looking for one last, big score before leaving the game—helped create archetypes that have inspired legions of future storytellers and musicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider Wesley Snipes’ flashy gangster Nino Brown from the 1991 film \u003cem>New Jack City\u003c/em>. Or Idris Elba’s ruthless drug kingpin Stringer Bell, who wants to leave the criminal life and convert his ill-gotten wealth into a legitimate business on HBO’s series \u003cem>The Wire\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_104214']Even Prince’s soft spoken, inscrutable performance as The Kid in \u003cem>Purple Rain\u003c/em> feels like it owes some kind of debt to O’Neal’s intense, enigmatic take on Priest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In music, everything from Mary J. Blige’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJh983xluiY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>I’m the Only Woman\u003c/em>\u003c/a> to Fishbone’s version of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFrz7sBWbyw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Freddie’s Dead\u003c/em> \u003c/a>either samples or outright copies the legendary hits Mayfield created to amplify the film’s story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A film inspired by the streets of Harlem\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, there is a lot some people don’t know about the film \u003cem>Super Fly\u003c/em>, including the meaning of the title—which describes the high quality of cocaine Priest puts on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fly was the term at the time,” says Philip Fenty, who wrote the script for \u003cem>Super Fly\u003c/em>. “I just put super to it and made Super Fly… I could have heard it someplace and it stuck because it’s cool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, Fenty was aware of the success of \u003cem>Shaft—\u003c/em>another blaxploitation classic released just a year earlier—and inspired by a burgeoning, Black-centered independent film and theater movement in New York. As an executive at a Black-owned advertising agency, Fenty wanted to use skills he’d developed making commercials to write his own film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917112\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13917112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/gettyimages-1137180750_custom-8462b68ce756c6a047e6a8564eeff7662c3162ce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/gettyimages-1137180750_custom-8462b68ce756c6a047e6a8564eeff7662c3162ce.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/gettyimages-1137180750_custom-8462b68ce756c6a047e6a8564eeff7662c3162ce-160x243.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Super Fly’ poster, Ron O’Neal, 1972. \u003ccite>(LMPC via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He saw a 1971 cover story in \u003cem>New York\u003c/em> magazine about a rising Black drug dealer called \u003cem>The Man With the Golden Nose\u003c/em>. And then a friend brought a drug dealer to Fenty’s home in New York, with a warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Boy don’t you square up on me,'” Fenty says, using a slang term for acting too straitlaced, which eventually wound up in the film. “It was, truly, one of the most incredible evenings I’ve ever spent in my entire life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That friend who brought over the drug dealer was Nate Adams, who grew up with Fenty in Cleveland. According to Adams, when Fenty originally suggested they develop a film together, he had a curt reply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Excuse my French, I said ‘N—-s ain’t doing no movies,'” Adams notes, laughing. “We ain’t got no shot at doing a movie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Adams eventually went along, developing the signature look of the characters by digging up the clothing himself: flashy trenchcoats and bold hats for Priest, plush fur coats for Georgia. Adams found the tricked-out car Priest drives—a Cadillac Eldorado with a custom Rolls Royce-style grill and special headlights—driven by a guy at a local shoeshine parlor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fenty teamed with producer Sig Shore, who helped dig up funding; the writer says he had three credit cards and Shore had two. He says they also got money from two Black dentists and the director, Gordon Parks Jr., eventually had to ask his famous father—legendary photographer/director Gordon Parks, who directed \u003cem>Shaft—\u003c/em>for funds. Adams said the lack of permits and money meant they were often running around New York City, dodging the Teamsters Union and police, like guerilla filmmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Money always was an issue, all the way through shooting,” says Adams. “We’d be out in the street at night shooting and they were tapping electricity from the lampposts, from the street (lights), to get this thing done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams says he and Fenty just walked around their Harlem neighborhood to soak up the atmosphere of pimps, drug dealers and sex workers in the street life. And they cast another friend from Cleveland, up-and-coming stage actor O’Neal, as Priest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYZUWzv_FaY\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Super Fly emerges at a pivotal time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Super Fly\u003c/em> came along at a crucial moment for the film world; Mafia movie classic \u003cem>The Godfather\u003c/em>, released a few months earlier, proved there was a market for antiheroes rooted in authentic ethnic cultures (As did Black-centered films like Shaft and Melvin Van Peebles’ \u003cem>Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song\u003c/em>). And Black consumers were eager to see films starring the kind of people they recognized: hip, streetwise characters who could beat “the man” (the white establishment) at their own game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Priest, who eventually outsmarts corrupt police to get out of the life—tooling around in a distinctive car that was a bit like his Batmobile—seemed an superstar antihero for the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was one of the rare times that someone from the inner city won, against all the people in politics that helped set these things up in our communities,” Frazier says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, another reason the film hit big was Mayfield’s soundtrack, featuring hits like \u003cem>Freddie’s Dead \u003c/em>and the film’s theme song. Todd Mayfield, Curtis’ son, said his father began writing songs almost immediately after Fenty and Shore gave him a script—empathizing with one of Priest’s hapless dealers, Fat Freddie, who is hit by a car and killed while running from police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were more Freddies around than there were Priests,” says Todd Mayfield, who fondly remembered seeing his father work on a Fender Rhodes keyboard sitting next to a video machine. “One of the first songs that he wrote was \u003cem>Freddie’s Dead\u003c/em>. Some of the same folks who lived in the Bronx and Harlem and different parts of New York are the same kind of folks you would see here in Chicago on the West Side and parts of the South Side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9nwcpGZE6A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curtis Mayfield’s hits were an important part of marketing the film, spreading word and heightening the movie’s cool factor. Todd Mayfield notes the songs also told stories which added to the film’s narrative, criticizing the drug trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The soundtrack made these characters more than one dimensional,” he adds. “It gave them some depth. And it made you sometimes think about them in a little bit of different way than the face value you were seeing early in the film.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A drug-dealing antihero produces backlash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But not everyone loved seeing Black drug dealers and the street life humanized. Groups including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People criticized films like \u003cem>Super Fly\u003c/em> for their violence and depictions of drug use, accusing them of glorifying terrible people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junius Griffin, then president of the NAACP’s Beverly Hills-Hollywood branch, is credited with coining the term “blaxploitation” shortly after \u003cem>Super Fly\u003c/em>‘s release, saying such films exploit Black people while encouraging them to embrace destructive ideals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word “blaxploitation” has \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaxploitation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">since expanded \u003c/a>to describe an entire genre of films which flourished in the 1970s, featuring Black characters as heroes, often in urban settings. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Even Prince’s soft spoken, inscrutable performance as The Kid in \u003cem>Purple Rain\u003c/em> feels like it owes some kind of debt to O’Neal’s intense, enigmatic take on Priest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In music, everything from Mary J. 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As an executive at a Black-owned advertising agency, Fenty wanted to use skills he’d developed making commercials to write his own film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917112\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13917112\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/gettyimages-1137180750_custom-8462b68ce756c6a047e6a8564eeff7662c3162ce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/gettyimages-1137180750_custom-8462b68ce756c6a047e6a8564eeff7662c3162ce.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/gettyimages-1137180750_custom-8462b68ce756c6a047e6a8564eeff7662c3162ce-160x243.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Super Fly’ poster, Ron O’Neal, 1972. \u003ccite>(LMPC via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He saw a 1971 cover story in \u003cem>New York\u003c/em> magazine about a rising Black drug dealer called \u003cem>The Man With the Golden Nose\u003c/em>. 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Adams found the tricked-out car Priest drives—a Cadillac Eldorado with a custom Rolls Royce-style grill and special headlights—driven by a guy at a local shoeshine parlor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fenty teamed with producer Sig Shore, who helped dig up funding; the writer says he had three credit cards and Shore had two. He says they also got money from two Black dentists and the director, Gordon Parks Jr., eventually had to ask his famous father—legendary photographer/director Gordon Parks, who directed \u003cem>Shaft—\u003c/em>for funds. Adams said the lack of permits and money meant they were often running around New York City, dodging the Teamsters Union and police, like guerilla filmmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Money always was an issue, all the way through shooting,” says Adams. “We’d be out in the street at night shooting and they were tapping electricity from the lampposts, from the street (lights), to get this thing done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams says he and Fenty just walked around their Harlem neighborhood to soak up the atmosphere of pimps, drug dealers and sex workers in the street life. And they cast another friend from Cleveland, up-and-coming stage actor O’Neal, as Priest.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/VYZUWzv_FaY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/VYZUWzv_FaY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Super Fly emerges at a pivotal time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Super Fly\u003c/em> came along at a crucial moment for the film world; Mafia movie classic \u003cem>The Godfather\u003c/em>, released a few months earlier, proved there was a market for antiheroes rooted in authentic ethnic cultures (As did Black-centered films like Shaft and Melvin Van Peebles’ \u003cem>Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song\u003c/em>). And Black consumers were eager to see films starring the kind of people they recognized: hip, streetwise characters who could beat “the man” (the white establishment) at their own game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Priest, who eventually outsmarts corrupt police to get out of the life—tooling around in a distinctive car that was a bit like his Batmobile—seemed an superstar antihero for the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was one of the rare times that someone from the inner city won, against all the people in politics that helped set these things up in our communities,” Frazier says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, another reason the film hit big was Mayfield’s soundtrack, featuring hits like \u003cem>Freddie’s Dead \u003c/em>and the film’s theme song. Todd Mayfield, Curtis’ son, said his father began writing songs almost immediately after Fenty and Shore gave him a script—empathizing with one of Priest’s hapless dealers, Fat Freddie, who is hit by a car and killed while running from police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were more Freddies around than there were Priests,” says Todd Mayfield, who fondly remembered seeing his father work on a Fender Rhodes keyboard sitting next to a video machine. “One of the first songs that he wrote was \u003cem>Freddie’s Dead\u003c/em>. Some of the same folks who lived in the Bronx and Harlem and different parts of New York are the same kind of folks you would see here in Chicago on the West Side and parts of the South Side.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Z9nwcpGZE6A'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Z9nwcpGZE6A'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Curtis Mayfield’s hits were an important part of marketing the film, spreading word and heightening the movie’s cool factor. Todd Mayfield notes the songs also told stories which added to the film’s narrative, criticizing the drug trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The soundtrack made these characters more than one dimensional,” he adds. “It gave them some depth. And it made you sometimes think about them in a little bit of different way than the face value you were seeing early in the film.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A drug-dealing antihero produces backlash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But not everyone loved seeing Black drug dealers and the street life humanized. Groups including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People criticized films like \u003cem>Super Fly\u003c/em> for their violence and depictions of drug use, accusing them of glorifying terrible people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junius Griffin, then president of the NAACP’s Beverly Hills-Hollywood branch, is credited with coining the term “blaxploitation” shortly after \u003cem>Super Fly\u003c/em>‘s release, saying such films exploit Black people while encouraging them to embrace destructive ideals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word “blaxploitation” has \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaxploitation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">since expanded \u003c/a>to describe an entire genre of films which flourished in the 1970s, featuring Black characters as heroes, often in urban settings. Fans of the genre, like superstar director Quentin Tarantino, leverage the term as a badge of honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Fenty, Adams and Frazier all say they dislike the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t stand it,” says Frazier. “They didn’t call it white exploitation when we looked at (James) Cagney’s (gangster) films and a lot of the films that dealt with Mafia and bootlegging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd Boyd, a professor at the University of Southern California and a cultural commentator featured in the DVD commentary for \u003cem>Super Fly\u003c/em>, agrees with Frazier. 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Both of those are referenced in the new name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The names of those positions and the balls will remain the same for now, but MLQ notes that both \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlquadball.com/what-is-quadball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">could change at a later date.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first quidditch match took place at Middlebury College in Vermont in 2005, where the game was created by Alex Benepe and Xander Manshel. 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"content": "\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13912098']Over the weekend, a new star outgrew the confines of TikTok and was welcomed with open hearts and minds by the rest of the internet. His name is Emmanuel Todd Lopez, he’s an emu, and—like so many parents at so many dinner tables—he has a raging vendetta against cellphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avid TikTok users have known about Emmanuel’s sparkling personality for weeks now, thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Knuckle Bump Farms’ account\u003c/a> on the app. The South Florida farm’s content—curated by 29-year-old farmer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hiitaylorblake/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Blake\u003c/a>—had primarily revolved around cattle and very sweet miniature cows since joining TikTok. That was until Emmanuel angrily sauntered into the picture in early July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms/video/7118102996201917739\" data-video-id=\"7118102996201917739\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@knucklebumpfarms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@knucklebumpfarms\u003c/a> Not a day goes by that Emanuel doesn’t try my life \u003ca title=\"emu\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emu\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"emusoftiktok\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emusoftiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emusoftiktok\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"farmlife\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/farmlife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#farmlife\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Knuckle Bump Farms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7118102977310690091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – Knuckle Bump Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video quickly garnered millions of views and Emmanuel fans demanded more ornery emu content. Blake happily obliged, providing another clip of the big bird behaving badly. “Emmanuel, don’t do it!” quickly became a universal symbol of the entire world’s work-related frustrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms/video/7118391540732710190\" data-video-id=\"7118391540732710190\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@knucklebumpfarms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@knucklebumpfarms\u003c/a> Another day, another Emmanuel don’t do it🤦🏼♀️its impossible to educate under these hostile work conditions \u003ca title=\"emu\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emu\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"emmanueltheemu\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emmanueltheemu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emmanueltheemu\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"farmlife\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/farmlife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#farmlife\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"choas\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/choas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#choas\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Knuckle Bump Farms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7118391475100044075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – Knuckle Bump Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the inevitable. A request to see what happened when Emmanuel \u003cem>did\u003c/em> do it. Again, Blake happily obliged with a TikTok of Emmanuel angrily knocking Blake’s cell phone to the ground and pecking at it. “Do you feel fulfilled now?” Blake asks him. “Did it give you a rush?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms/video/7118525659487620398\" data-video-id=\"7118525659487620398\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@knucklebumpfarms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@knucklebumpfarms\u003c/a> Reply to @pdtheog is this what you wanted? Bc I have cow shit stuck in my phone speaker now😩 \u003ca title=\"emu\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emu\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"emmanuel\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emmanuel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emmanuel\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"emusoftiktok\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emusoftiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emusoftiktok\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"farmlife\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/farmlife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#farmlife\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Knuckle Bump Farms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7118525653288291118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – Knuckle Bump Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major key in the appeal of the Emmanuel videos is the juxtaposition of his beady-eyed determination and Blake’s exasperated pleas for peace and sanity. This is also something she does with the other animals on the farm, as seen on TikTok. (“Ferdinand, I don’t need it out of you. This is exactly why we moved your mom to the big pasture: because she never shut her mouth.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms/video/7118404457943092522\" data-video-id=\"7118404457943092522\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@knucklebumpfarms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@knucklebumpfarms\u003c/a> I am tired of the verbal abuse I endure at the hooves of these cows \u003ca title=\"cowsoftiktok\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cowsoftiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#cowsoftiktok\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"farmlife\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/farmlife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#farmlife\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"moo\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/moo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#moo\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"stopbullying\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/stopbullying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#stopbullying\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Knuckle Bump Farms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7118404444919728939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – Knuckle Bump Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, after someone made a supercut of Blake’s videos, the cult of Emmanuel spread to Instagram and Twitter, helped in large part by celebrity fans. Including Wonder Woman herself, Lynda Carter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RealLyndaCarter/status/1548697854234984451\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comedian Patton Oswalt posted several of Blake’s videos over the weekend. A favorite: one where she thanks the internet for supporting her and Emmanuel, then promptly gets her cell phone knocked into the dirt for her trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1548718744498671616\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was on Sunday when we finally found out Emmanuel’s “government name”: Emmanuel Todd Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms/video/7121505700672458026\" data-video-id=\"7121505700672458026\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@knucklebumpfarms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@knucklebumpfarms\u003c/a> He knew I meant business when I whipped out his government name 😩🤣 \u003ca title=\"emmanueltheemu\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emmanueltheemu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emmanueltheemu\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"emmanueldontdoit\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emmanueldontdoit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emmanueldontdoit\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"emmanuel\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emmanuel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emmanuel\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"emu\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emu\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"animalsagainsteducation\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/animalsagainsteducation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#animalsagainsteducation\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Knuckle Bump Farms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7121505683312282411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – Knuckle Bump Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, the internet was very excited about this important development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/mspears96/status/1548902042604896256\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/riverag3000/status/1548833955062747136\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/genwilliams/status/1548853201235058691\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No word yet on how the other emus at Knuckle Bump Farms—Regina and Ellen—are reacting to their friend’s newfound stardom. 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Now that it’s about to end, it’s fun to look back at exactly how the character and story of Saul were crafted from the original seeds sown on \u003cem>Breaking Bad\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_7467']\u003cem>Breaking Bad\u003c/em> creator Vince Gilligan is behind \u003cem>Better Call Saul\u003c/em>, too, along with co-creator Peter Gould. With that previous series, Gilligan knew the journey he wanted his main character to take: Walter White, played brilliantly by Bryan Cranston, would go from meek high-school science teacher to murderous meth-manufacturing drug lord. But the path to get from that Point A to Point B was wide open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003cem>Better Call Saul,\u003c/em> it’s different. Some short, intermittent snippets are set in the future after \u003cem>Breaking Bad,\u003c/em> but most of the series is an origin story, following the character of shifty lawyer Saul Goodman, whom we first met in season 2 of \u003cem>Breaking Bad. \u003c/em>Saul, played by comedian Bob Odenkirk, was and is the type of lawyer who talks loudly and carries a heavy shtick—especially in local TV spots advertising his services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gould wrote the episode of \u003cem>Breaking Bad \u003c/em>that introduced Goodman, and when it came time to make a series out of \u003cem>Better Call Saul, \u003c/em>the writing staff took its inspiration from ideas and lines of dialogue that Gould had intended as throwaways. For example, the series \u003cem>Better Call Saul\u003c/em> presented Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill, a low-rent lawyer who would take several seasons to adopt the persona of Saul Goodman. But the seeds were laid in the \u003cem>Breaking Bad \u003c/em>episode where Odenkirk’s character meets Walter and admits that he assumed the Jewish-sounding name because he thought it would be good for business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqMq6jLUcg8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The part of the spinoff series that was set in the past was all about Jimmy, and two other prominent characters—neither of whom had appeared in \u003cem>Breaking Bad\u003c/em> at all. One was Jimmy’s girlfriend, Kim Wexler, a fellow lawyer—and, eventually, fellow con artist—played so mysteriously by Rhea Seehorn. The other was Jimmy’s older brother Chuck, played by Michael McKean, whose character was a much more successful and respected attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were great new additions. Kim, like Jimmy and Walter, was a character we got to watch breaking bad over a very slow and sad downward spiral. And the sibling rivalry between Jimmy and Chuck was as wonderful to watch as the one between Frasier and his brother Niles on the sitcom \u003cem>Frasier\u003c/em>, which was a spinoff from another fabulous sitcom, \u003cem>Cheers\u003c/em>. Both those brothers, Niles and Chuck, were created for their respective spinoffs, and \u003cem>Better Call Saul \u003c/em>benefited just as greatly from the addition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_109545']But Gilligan and Gould weren’t done pulling inspiration from \u003cem>Breaking Bad. \u003c/em>The short black-and-white scenes showing Saul’s current fate have the character adopting yet another name, and about to return to Albuquerque after hiding undercover in Nebraska. That may seem random, but in Saul’s last conversation with Walter on \u003cem>Breaking Bad,\u003c/em> Saul rejected Walter’s demand to continue working as his lawyer by saying his goal was to become “Mr. Low Profile,” who, in the “best case scenario,” might wind up managing a Cinnabon in Omaha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing from \u003cem>Breaking Bad, \u003c/em>though, is as surprisingly precise as an early indicator of what \u003cem>Better Call Saul \u003c/em>would become as another scene from the episode introducing Saul. Walter and his meth-producing partner, Jesse (Aaron Paul), are upset that Saul won’t do what they’ve asked him to do. So they dig a grave-sized hole in the desert, put on ski masks and abduct Saul, covering his head with a hood. As they tie his hands behind his back, drive him to the desert and drop him to his knees at gunpoint, Saul assumes they’ve been sent by someone named Lalo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the only mention of Lalo in \u003cem>Breaking Bad,\u003c/em> but clearly, from Saul’s perspective, he’s someone really to be feared. That’s why it’s so astounding that, in the most recent episodes of \u003cem>Better Call Saul, \u003c/em>the most menacing and deadly character has been none other than that same Lalo, played by Tony Dalton. The most recent episode of \u003cem>Better Call Saul, \u003c/em>back in May, had Lalo kill a major character so brutally and shockingly that I still haven’t forgotten it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz3u06eXf0E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens now? I have no idea, and AMC sent out no episodes to preview. We do know that, for these final episodes, Carol Burnett appears as a newly introduced character, which is really intriguing. 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