#mr bobo

[felix-lupin]

In Coraline, there’s a recurring theme with names and identity, and I personally don't think it's talked about enough. 

(As a note, this is dealing largely with the book, not the movie, although there are some hints of this theme in the movie as well)

Coraline’s neighbors constantly get her name wrong, calling her “Caroline” and not “Coraline”, to which she persistently corrects them. Despite her attempts, they never get it right, until chapter 10, in which Mr Bobo (Mr Bobinsky) finally gets it right.

"It's Coraline, Mister Bobo," said Coraline. "Not Caroline. Coraline." "Coraline," said Mr Bobo, repeating her name to himself with wonderment and respect. "Very good, Coraline."

It should be noted that, until this chapter, Coraline did not know Mr Bobo’s name either. In fact, it had never even occurred to her that he had a name. Up until then, she had just been thinking of him as “the crazy old man upstairs”, not as a person with a name. This moment, with her learning his name and him getting her name right, is a moment of genuine understanding and connection between the two, humanizing them both to each other.

Coraline’s other neighbors get her name wrong, which is representative of them not listening when she says anything, really, such as her telling Miss Spink and Forcible that her parents are missing and them literally not even acknowledging it at all??

"How are your dear mother and father?" asked Miss Spink. "Missing," said Coraline. "I haven't seen either of them since yesterday. I'm on my own. I think I've probably become a single child family." "Tell your mother that we found the Glasgow Empire press clippings we were telling her about. She seemed very interested when Miriam mentioned them to her." "She's vanished under mysterious circumstances," said Coraline, "and I believe my father has as well." "I'm afraid we'll be out all day tomorrow, Caroline lovely," said Miss Forcible. "We'll be staying with April's niece in Royal Tunbridge Wells."

Mr Bobo gets her name right after being corrected (only after being corrected alongside her using his name, mind you, showcasing her making an effort to listen to and understand him as well), which is representative of him actually making an attempt to listen and understand her. This point is further illustrated by a conversation Coraline had with the Other Mr Bobo in chapter 10.

As Coraline entered he began to talk. "Nothing's changed, little girl," he said, his voice sounding like the noise dry leaves make as they rustle across a pavement. "And what if you do everything you swore you would? What then? Nothing's changed. You'll go home. You'll be bored. You'll be ignored. No one will listen to you, not really listen to you. You're too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don't even get your name right."

He equates those in the real world not getting Coraline’s name right with them not listening to her, and fundamentally not understanding who she is. So, somebody getting her name right, then, shows them actually listening to her, and being willing to understand who she is.

The mice in the real world know more than they should be able to know, and they also get Coraline’s name right.

"The message is this. Don't go through the door." He paused. "Does that mean anything to you?" "No," said Coraline. The old man shrugged. "They are funny, the mice. They get things wrong. They got your name wrong, you know. They kept saying Coraline. Not Caroline. Not Caroline at all."

They seem to know about the other world, somehow, on some level, and the dangers it presents. Them getting her name right represents them knowing more than they should know, more than they are told. Animals in general seem to have this type of quality in Coraline, actually.

The cat does not have a name. It says so in chapter 4, that cats do not need names. It says that this is because cats know who they are. But humans need names, because they do not.

"Please. What's your name?" Coraline asked the cat. "Look, I'm Coraline. OK?" The cat yawned softly, carefully, revealing a mouth and tongue of astounding pinkness. "Cats don't have names," it said. "No?" said Coraline. "No," said the cat. "Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."

The cat shook its head. "No," it said. "I'm not the other anything. I'm me." It tipped its head on one side; green eyes glinted. "You people are spread all over the place. Cats, on the other hand, keep ourselves together. If you see what I mean."

This shows that, in humans, names are connected to our identities and who we are. Names are used to individualize and distinguish ourselves from each other. But cats do not need names to recognize each other, or be recognized.

"Oh. It's you," she said to the black cat. "See?" said the cat. "It wasn't so hard recognising me, was it? Even without names."

With or without names, it is still the same cat.

During the Other Miss Spink and Forcible’s performance, in chapter 4, they begin quoting Shakespeare. The specific quotes that they use are interesting to me when looked at under this lens of the importance of names, especially Miss Forcible’s.

"What's in a name?" asked Miss Forcible. "That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

"I know not how to tell thee who I am," said Miss Spink to Miss Forcible.

Now, of course, this is just them quoting Shakespeare. But. Why these quotes specifically? They’re at the very least notable when discussing Coraline’s recurring theme of names. Especially the quote about the rose. It makes me think of what the cat said earlier, about how cats are sure of who they are so they don’t need names, about how Coraline didn’t need the cat’s name to be able to recognize it for who/what it was.

But, of course, this does not apply for humans. We need our names to be able to know ourselves, to be able to tell others who they are.

In chapter 6, Coraline wakes up and is disoriented. This disorientation is compared to the feeling one might experience upon being suddenly pulled out of a daydream. In this comparison, forgetting one’s name is equated with forgetting who one is and where one is.

Sometimes Coraline would forget who she was while she was daydreaming that she was exploring the Arctic, or the Amazon rainforest, or darkest Africa, and it was not until someone tapped her on the shoulder or said her name that Coraline would come back from a million miles away with a start, and all in the fraction of a second have to remember who she was, and what her name was, and that she was even there at all. Now there was the sun on her face, and she was Coraline Jones. Yes.

The ghost children have also forgotten their names, and with it most of who they were. In chapter 7, when Coraline is locked behind the mirror in the Other World, one of the ghost children says that names are the first things that one forgets after death.

"Who are you?" whispered Coraline. "Names, names, names," said another voice, all faraway and lost. "The names are the first thing to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names. I still keep pictures in my mind of my governess on some May morning, carrying my hoop and stick, and the morning sun behind her, and all the tulips bobbing in the breeze. But I have forgotten the name of my governess, and of the tulips too." "I don't think tulips have names," said Coraline. "They're just tulips." "Perhaps," said the voice sadly. "But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange-and-red, and red-and-orange-and-yellow, like the embers in the nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them."

The ghost children may have their memories, but they have largely forgotten who they were. They may remember their tulips, and certain strong memories, but there is very, very little left of them, and they have forgotten who they once were, they have forgotten their names.

"That is why we could not leave here, when we died. She kept us, and she fed on us, until now we're nothing left of ourselves, only snakeskins and spider-husks. Find our secret hearts, young mistress."

"She will take your life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll awake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten."

The Other Mother stole their hearts and their souls and their selves. She stole who they were away from them, their identities and names and the names of those they loved, leaving nothing in her wake.

The same ghost that talked about the tulips and the names of the tulips struggles to answer when Coraline asks their gender, as well, and when they do eventually give an answer they seem somewhat unsure of it, as shown by the word choice of “perhaps” and “I believe”

"A boy, perhaps, then," continued the one whose hand she was holding. "I believe I was once a boy." And it glowed a little more brightly in the darkness of the room behind the mirror.

(I personally take this quote, specifically it "glow[ing] a little more brightly" after coming to this conclusion, to mean either that the ghost is happy at realizing that he was once a boy, or even to mean that he has become somewhat more tangible upon this realization; upon remembering something about his self, and his identity.)

As an aside, it's noteworthy to me that we never learn the Other Mother’s true name. She is simply “The Other Mother” and “The Beldam.” Never is an actual name applied to her, only titles. We do not truly know who, or what, she is. Beings without names are shrouded in mystery (or should i say mist-ery). The ghost children are benevolent mysterious beings, the cat is an ambivalent-leaning-helpful mysterious being, and the other mother is a distinctly malevolent mysterious being.

"Who are you?" asked Coraline. "I'm your other mother," said the woman.

"She?" "The one who says she's your other mother," said the cat. "What is she?" asked Coraline. The cat did not answer, just padded through the pale mist beside Coraline.

But in conclusion, names in Coraline are extremely important. I’m sure there’s probably more that I'm missing, and feel free to add onto this, but basically—

People need names to know and remember who they are, and forgetting one’s name is the first step to losing the rest of who one is. Names humanize a person; with a name, they are less shrouded in mystery, more clear.

Knowing somebody's name helps one connect to and better understand that person; it is the first step in getting to know them and see them as a full person, the transition from “the crazy man upstairs” to “Mr Bobo”. Names, to people at least, are one of the fundamental building blocks of who we are.

#felix's posts #felixlupin.txt #coraline #neil gaiman #coraline jones #the other mother #the beldam #other mother #coraline 2002 #coraline book #books #novels #writing #essay #long post #the ghost children #mr bobo #mr bobinsky #the cat coraline #the cat #felix luquin #lmao i spent like 3 hours writing this wtf why did i do this #it was 5 pages long on google docs😭😭 #i wrote this at 3am #and then put it in the queue #as an aside #perhaps its worth mentioning that in the movie wybie says that thing thats something along the lines of #'an ordinary name like caroline can lead to people having ordinary expectations about a person' #just thought that was interesting to mention even if it didnt fit in the body of the post #names and identity and expectations...

[cosmicwhoresimpingismyliving]

Why does the depiction of Mr. Bobinsky in the book strike more fear into me than the movie Mr. Bobinsky😭😂😩😖

Correction; Mr Bobo is the book name and Mr. Bobinsky is the movie name

#coraline the movie #coraline book #neil gaiman #current read #currently reading #coraline #horror? #booklr #mr bobo #mr bobinsky

[ibetmyalbinoface]

#The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists #aardman #band of misfits #Charles Darwin #mr bobo #meme #shitpost #bonnie and clyde #history #history meme #fake history

[excitementshewrote]

#the simpsons #gif #mr burns #bobo #grotesque

[primordialscream]

happy 60th birthday, bobert bobo jimothy robert john "bob" odenkirk! (10.22.1962)

#gonna take a break from tumblr probably cause i need to prioritize my mental health but hey!!!!!! have some free bobo first!!!! #bob odenkirk #the ben stiller show #mr. show #tim and eric #better call saul #nobody (2021) #edit #gifs

[atomic-bobo]

Gonna spice things up with a take from another fandom: Eric should have died at the end of Time Force.

He got shot right as the man he’d done everything to impress walks right past him and, once again, gives Wes for free what Eric has worked his entire life for: acceptance. Love.

The way Mr Collins hugs Wes while Eric stands beside them, unnoticed, is just like a big fat confirmation of what he said to Wes hours before: that Wes will never understand him, because Wes has had everything while Eric has had to live with nothing. Then when Eric takes that shot to save them both THATS when Mr Collins finally pays attention to him; his one service in death rather than the 1,000 services in life. That sort of tragedy should end in death.

#i just think it would narratively make so much sense #and i know that they wanted to kill him off but didnt in the end #i just really wish they had #i feel like it would be the perfect end to Eric’s story #YEAH im doing analysis on power rangers what of it 🙄 #i love Eric’s character so fucking much hes so scrungly #he mirrors the exact thread of hate that drives Ransik theyre the same!!! theyre the same except Eric needs the acceptance too badly #and Ransik gave up on it long ago #HE SHOULD HAVE DIED OKAY Mr Collins and Wes should have had to mourne him AND the rangers #doomed from the start etc #power rangers #time force #eric myers #bobo’s post

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[krissiefox]

Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog - Honey, I shrunk the hedgehog (Screenshots & Review)

Well, well, well, I'm back again for more Sonic! I'd recently tried to order a DVD set of the complete series, only for an empty opened amazon bag to arrive in my mailbox. Thanks a pant-load to whoever stole my DVD box! At-least I got my money back...erf. Thankfully, I still have YouTube, so I'm able to do more reviews!

The episode starts with scratch and Grounder assembling a new machine for Robotnik. Scratch seems extra stupid in this episode, as the first thing he does is mistake Grounder’s head for a battery, even with it still attached to his body! After lots of lots of bumbling, Grounder finally gets his head back and the actual battery is installed onto the machine, making it ready for use. Robotnik excitedly explains that is a shrink ray, and he's going to use it to consolidate areas of Mobius rich in resources into a tiny dome, along with shrunken Mobians he is kidnapping to perform slave labor.

Poor Scratch seems rather sad in this episode...

As he gets ready to power the machine up, we see that Sonic and Tails are helping out at a coal mine somewhere (Mystic cave one, maybe?). Sonic is giving the workers a pep talk, and he gifts them all a pair of power sneakers and spiky blue helmets (egotistical much, Sonic?) which helps them all work much more quickly. I'm not sure if this is implying that Sonic shoes are giving him his power, or if the moles were already really fast but afraid of burning their tootsies. Suddenly, the mountain the mine is located on is shrunken down and lifted into the air! They've been relocated by Robotnik into his little dome, so he can force the miners to provide him with coal. Robotnik isn't ware yet that he's accidentally also captured Sonic and Tails, giving them the opportunity to sneakily work together with the miners to break out the side of the dome. As our heroes observe their surroundings, they see that Robotnik’s shrink ray is super far across the room.

It’s so cute when Tails carries Sonic!

Tails first tries to fly Sonic across, but manages to get them caught in a spider web and Tails isn't able to fly because his Tails are left sticky from it. To make matters worse, this is around the time Robotnik notices them scurrying around on the floor and gives chase! Scratch and Grounder also try to help, with Grounder sending his pet lizard after the two. Eventually Sonic and Tails get sucked up into a vacuum cleaner by Robotnik, and to em the thought of being stuck in there with all that dust sounds like no fun! Even worse than my summer allergies!

We learn that Grounder has a pet lizard! I wonder what its name is, and if scratch has any pets too?

Just looking at this makes me want to sneeze. Also, I didn’t notice til I was typing this that there are literal dust bunnies inside the vacuum bag. cute. :)

Sonic and Tails escape the vacuum bag and get up onto the shrink ray machine, but Robotnik then threatens to hurt the people in the glass dome so Sonic surrenders. The two are then trapped inside a bottle but Sonic eventually tricks Scratch into letting him and Tails out of it. (Scratch seems really sad about it when he realizes it too, I feel kinda bad for Scratch in this episode). Sonic and Tails then climb inside of Scratch and Grounder and find that that they have mind control override switches built into them, because Robotnik is a horrible person. Sonic and Tails themselves then take control of Scratch and Grounder and use their bodies to beat up Robotnik before hopping out and returning themselves to normal size, sending the the miners back home, and then shrinking Robotnik, who gets chased by....wait, is that Mr. Bobo? !You'd think he'd be happy to see his old friend again! Maybe it's just a guy who looks like Mr. Bobo and I'm being racist against bugs. Sorry, Bobo.

Here are some of the other switches Robotnik put inside of Scratch. I guess he sometimes wants to force Scratch to make chicken jokes and cook horrible food?

Mr. Bobo? Is that you?!

In The Sonic Says segment, Sonic teaches the miners the importance of cleaning up debris and recycling materials at the end of a work day. This feels like it might be the first Sonic Says that's more geared towards adults, though kids certainly do make messes too.

This episode was pretty fun! Characters turning tiny is often a fun concept because it’s interesting to think about just how drastically different ones perception of the world can be simply based on their size compared to  everything else. There's plenty of slapstick and action, though I do feel bad for Scratch in this episode as it eels like he gets picked on and hurt more than usual.  Mind control stuff is always kinda messed up in how lightly its taken, but at-least in this case its being done in self defense and ti also does also seem like poetic justice that Robotnik ends up getting beaten up by Scratch and Grounder because he designed them to be able to mind controlled in the first place. Til next time, stay cool!

#aosth #adventures of sonic the hedgehog #Sonic #sonic the hedgehog #tails #miles prower #robotnik #dr. robotnik #scratch #aosth scratch #grounder #mr. bobo #lizard #reptile #GETTIN' SMALL #honey i shrunk the hedgehog

[waitinginthecorner]

I love when he sleeps at the foot of my bed during the day. I'm convinced that one day he's gonna sleep in my bed WITH me instead of making me sit as far away from him as possible lol. Thats okay though I love him so much I'd still be happy having him around even if he never let me pet him and I could only look on with admiration

#rambling #hes such a pretty boy #mr bobo binky #sir bobinski fredrick jones

[sacredprayerdean]

it’s amazing. you did amazing. YOU’RE amazing

#don’t worry mr bobo i know what you were going for #i see it with my third eye #ana’s silly little thoughts

[abowlofsourcream]

🐴Why the long face?🐴

#bojack horseman #bojack fanart #mr peanutbutter #diane nyugen #princess caroline #I like bobo the ansty zebra

[cosmicwhoresimpingismyliving]

Wait what😭😂

Mr Bobinsky isn’t the name of Coraline’s attic neighbour 😭😩 it’s Mr Bobo I’m finding out a hell of a lot of things from the book that was changed in the film👀

#i just discovered this #forgive me I’m dumb #i’m a dumbass #coraline book #coraline the movie #coraline #neil gaiman #currently reading #booklr #mr bobo #mr Bobinsky #finished reading #finished

[vozchik]

Intro to Monster Garden

#monster garden #mr. bobo #dialogue #intro #indie game #void #his voice is both awesome and awful to me #i wish the steam achievements worked so it’d be higher on my play list

[excitementshewrote]

#the simpsons #gif #mr burns #maggie simpson #bobo

[primordialscream]

this is even funnier when you think that

1. tragic character jimmy mcgill sings twice in scenes that are poignant and melancholic and still he does it with this voice

2. this book is written by bob's wife naomi

#bobo i love your nonexistent singing skills #you're doing amazing sweetie #blorbest blorbo of all blorbos #bob odenkirk #jimmy mcgill #naomi odenkirk #mr. show #better call saul

[laylanatorseventeen]

This may be just me, but I'm rewatching the Coraline movie. And in the book Coraline seemed much younger, like maybe six or seven, whereas in the movie she's like 12 or 13. And while I understand making her older for plot/dialogue reasons in my opinion it also makes her seem. ......really dumb lmao.

Like in the book Coraline did things like write her little story with real bad spelling and report her parents being trapped in a mirror TO THE COPS. so being younger makes her rampant naivety about a magic door and a creepy copy of her parents much more understandable and excusable.

But her being like 12 just makes me be like girl!!!!! Are you dumb!!!!!

"there's just one thing we need to do if you want to stay here :)" -woman who, like literally everyone else in this world, has buttons for eyes

Coraline: "oooh, I WONDER WHAT COULD BE IN THE PACKAGE"

#also making it the ghosts eyes instead of their souls is dumb......what the fuck was wrong with souls. #why didn't Coraline have to find two eyes for each of them then? #also why they gotta do mr bobo like that #i do like the addition of the doll tho. v creepy #not a terrible movie but you know i can never stop comparing it to the book #bc the books a masterpiece love the book