Orange v. Banana
Hahahahah!
Same in the UK if you take sunak and Boris, and India with modi and gandhi :)
Cervantes did it first:
Idk who this Cervantes guy is, but I suspect Misters Hanna and Barbera would like a word with him:
Final Boss of Soul Blade
The originator of the format
Everyone should have a Sancho because we're all tilting at windmills.
Cervantes or Shakespeare with "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (Falstaff and Slender). It's possible both were using an even older trope though.
Do I look cool naow?
Man, they look so... human. You don't see that in film anymore.
yeah it's a holdover from the early days of movies and vaudeville... think Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Spanky and Alfalfa, the list goes on and on...
That one didn't work out so well.
Yeah one of them was a bit murdery.
I realize this is a joke but there's something real here about contrast making your characters more memorable or something
Silhouettes are important in character design after all
the show is "katjakaj och bentebent"
The sidekick trope has been a prime mover since vaudeville, maybe before
The word “prime mover” being used outside of the train community brings a smile to my face :3
Toot toot
Troy and Abed in the fruiiiitboooowl
This may be the only true fact on the internet
Sheldon and Leonard in Big Bang Theory.
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Just jumping in to say that c/lemmytellyousomething should definitely be the name of an advice / self-help community on here
Larry and Bob in Veggie Tales
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_act
Because someone has to be pedantic here!
Abbot & Costello, 1935-1957
when kids think they were the first to discover something
Key and peele
I'm definitely an orange.
Drake and Josh
