To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Hippo Table. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also the hippo's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Hippo Table truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Hippos's existential catchphrase "We Have Nothing To Lose Except The Glass That Binds Us," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons.
I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Mark Stoddart's genius wit unfolds itself in front of their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them.
And yes, by the way, i DO have a Hippo Table tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid
And yes, I did look up this table purely for that second part. This is one of 99, and was a limited edition run done by, you guessed it, Mark Stoddart. The table's actual name is Cheeky Hippo
And yes, by the way, i DO have a Hippo Table tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid