Mike Judge is Doing to the Dick Joke What the Forward Pass Did to Football

For those that aren't watching HBO's Silicon Valley, I have to ask you a question. Why? It's the best live-action comedy on television right now. Every single episode delivers. The best part is that those who are being punked, don't even get it.

Nothing made me happier than finding out that Elon Musk thinks that the caricature of himself is wrong. You have to love the arrogance of seeing himself on film and going, "Nah, I don't believe it."

Today's discussion however centers on what Mike Judge is leaving the world, the tasteful dick joke. For far too long the dick joke has been marginalized with such titles as "juvenile", "cheap", "rude", "tasteless", etc. Well, not on Mike's watch, no more. Where's that misplaced and overproduced PSA, NFL?

First Mr. Judge explored one of life's great mysteries, how long would it take to jerk off a room of 800 guys, using the scientific method. What started as nothing more than an attempt to laugh at The Big Bang Theory became in this blogger's humble opinion, the funniest scene that television has given us.

The scene is truly perfect because it fully encompasses guys in the most absurd yet honest fashion possible. If you leave us alone with beer inevitably an argument and dick talk will break out. That's just science.

In season two, Mr. Judge chose to explore a new horizon in the dick joke. What starts off as a scene that seems better suited for a segment on 60 Minutes, quickly turns into another side splitting joke.

What makes the scene so perfect is that it pokes fun at everything that is awful about this world. Yes, you are creating amazing technology and your heart is in the right place, but don't preach to me about how much better you are because you can make something that will inevitably be used for someone else's self gratification satisfaction.

Which brings us to the scene from Sunday night's episode, entitled "Two in the Box" (See what they did there?).

The producers would like to assure us all that yes, that is the real deal there.

“There’s no CG,” assures Silicon executive producer Mike Judge, who directed the episode. “That’s actually horses having sex. There might be some [compositing of images] and recycling of footage, but yeah, that’s pretty much the real deal there. It’s real porn.”

Sunday night was the night I realized that not only do we not deserve Mike Judge's brain but also we don't appreciate what he's attempting to do for society. Far too often the dick joke is categorized as lazy. Well, that's the beauty of Mike Judge. One man's trash is his treasure. He thrives on making fun of what you think that he can't make fun of. 

"No way you can make the white board scenes of Big Bang Theory actually funny, Mike."

"Wanna bet?"

"Ok, but there's no way you can make a monkey losing its arms because of a landmine funny."

"That's barely even a challenge, but here goes."

"Ok, well, rich white guys are like the most boring group on the planet."

"That's too easy, but I'll push myself on this one."

Mike Judge isn't inventing the dick joke, but he's changing the way that we think about it. He's doing to dick humor what the forward pass did to football. He's the Walter Camp of the dick joke.