Unnecessary Peanut Gallery Comment Game

[qrt]

No idea if this kind of game actually exists (it probably exists in some form in this forum), but if you could make peanut gallery comments to the current part/characters of your comic/novel, what would you say? You can also do it by chapter or by overall story or even by character, or whatever!

Peanut gallery comments as in: Any unnecessary/unasked for advice, commentary or suggestions you'd give to poke fun at yourselves/how the plot/characters are going!

Just get that inner snark and have fun!

For example, I've got three stories and I wanna do this for all of them. I'm gonna put a random peanut gallery comment I have for each one:

• Bro bro bro is it so hard to just beLIEVE the dragon

• It has been literally only one chapter since the werewolf boyfriend has left, and I miss him already RIP

• This is nice and all, but we are 34 chapters into this "Romance" and you haven't even kissed the goddamn robot once, Shinji River

[unknown_user]

Google Translate says that "peanut" is the same as groundnut or earth-nut, i.e. well-known edible plant. So what does "peanut gallery comments" mean?

[qrt]

My apologies! I forgot this isn't a common term. "Peanut gallery comment" in this case is being used as an idiom. How I understand it is 'unasked for advice/commentary/suggestions that's funny because it resolves the situation faster than the actual plot/points out something very obvious the characters don't acknowledge'. I'll edit the title and post a bit so it's not too confusing (thank you for pointing that out!).

Here's the origin from Wikipedia:

A peanut gallery was, in the days of vaudeville, a nickname for the cheapest and ostensibly rowdiest seats in the theater, the occupants of which were often known to heckle the performers.[1] The least expensive snack served at the theatre would often be peanuts, which the patrons would sometimes throw at the performers on stage to convey their disapproval. Phrases such as "no comments from the peanut gallery" or "quiet in the peanut gallery" are extensions of the name.

Looking at the definition, I see there's...more of a negative connotation with the kind of comments you make in a peanut gallery, but I think it can still be used for fun if we're poking fun at ourselves/our characters!

[droidmonkey1]

Like the old guys in the Muppets show.

[Luminosophy]

I love those guys!

[ForLackOfStars]

you haven't even kissed the goddamn robot once, Shinji

^ The Eva spinoff no one expected ^

Ooooh, this is fun.

• You know it's really interesting that the characters all work in a bar together, much of the plot takes place in a bar, and the story is named after said bar, but we never actually see the characters doing their jobs at said bar.

• You're an ex-gang-member werecat with self-worth issues and an implied violent past, stop being cute and endearing. Please.

• Look I know you're sort of desperate for companionship, but maybe DON'T agree to go on a date while you have eighty tons of emotional baggage and are being stalked by an evil demigod?

[qrt]

I can't believe I forgot about these two! Exactly!

[qrt]

Get that snark in! >)

Gosh all your comments are great but one thing I really gotta say is this one?

• Look I know you're sort of desperate for companionship, but maybe DON'T agree to go on a date while you have eighty tons of emotional baggage and are being stalked by an evil demigod?

What's the series this one's from? I wanna subscribe for the shenanigans

[ForLackOfStars]

Aw, thank you!

Nimue's Bar | Tapas

I can't elaborate because of spoilers, but shenanigans are very frequent. The main cast are not great at making healthy or smart decisions, but they try real hard.

[qrt]

"not great at or smart decisions, but they try real hard"
They sound fantastically relatable!

[droidmonkey1]

I think a monkey could do a better job.