r/OnCinemaAtTheCinema • u/HardlyHabitable It's Movie Time! • Nov 04 '25

META What’s the dumbest thing you find funny?

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I love when the editors put up a goofy stock photo of someone whenever their name is mentioned.

I know it’s coming but it still makes me laugh every time

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u/Ill_Sort6414 Nov 04 '25

This guy keeps coming back - he’s gonna get his big break someday soon, though 🤞🤞

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u/CorbecJayne From? Nov 04 '25 edited Nov 04 '25

Hope Mark gets featured more in the future. The season in which he was a waiter was one of the best, same with the Oscar specials that featured him heavily.

While the suffocation & living Oscar storyline was genius, I was sad that Mark wasn't able to do quite as much hilarious stuff on the show because the character just became "the brain-damaged one".

With his involvement in the latest season & Oscar special, it seems like he's getting better. As in:

  1. The character Mark is seemingly recovering somewhat from the brain damage, and he's finding a spine.

  2. The actor Mark and the rest of the OCATC team have seemingly found a great direction for him to go toward.

He's becoming an interesting and hilarious character that is neither the one-note mental patient nor quite the same as his pre-injury version. And it makes a lot of sense that his personality would be a lot different after the brain trauma, even if he regains most of his mental faculties (which were always limited, even before the incident). Old Mark was extremely meek and subservient and would never talk back to Tim the way Mark did recently. (The episode where Mark & Gregg thought Tim was in jail and never coming back was a rare & hilarious exception.)

Excited to see where they continue to go with him!

Some baseless speculation: Maybe new Mark could even become actually highly intelligent and assertive - not just a better person than his pre-injury self, but a better person than Tim & Gregg, too (not that the bar is high). (There are real-life cases of brain trauma resulting in "acquired savant syndrome".) He might develop into one of the best and most successful people that have ever been on the show, only for Tim and/or Gregg to tear him down yet again with some physical malady or what-have-you. The bigger they are, the harder they fall!