Ubuntu As TV Character Name
There is a tv show coming out soon, called The Goode Family, from the creators of Beavis and Butt-head. From the wikipedia page, the characters are:
Gerald Goode (Mike Judge) is an administrator at a community college. He comes from a “long line of over educated academic liberals”. Helen Goode (Nancy Walls) is Gerald’s wife, a local activist who someday dreams of becoming an activist. They have an adopted son: Ubuntu (David Herman), who is from Africa. They have a biological daughter named Bliss (Linda Cardellini). She often disagrees with her parents and sometimes pokes some holes in their worldviews. They have a dog named Barlow who is also (forcibly) vegan. He craves meat and often tries to eat neighborhood animals and pets.
Wonder how many tv shows characters names we would associate with well known technology brands.
April 30th, 2009 at 1:52 am
Very often i see the use of “bantu” “buntu” & “ubuntu”
as something from africa
April 30th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Are you sure he is named after a technological project and not named after the very thing that the technological project is named after?
The word ubuntu and its variations (and their meanings) has been around far longer than any version of GNU/Linux.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:50 am
Mike Judge knows his stuff. I assume that this is an intentional homage.
That said, this all sounds dreadfully unfunny. King of the Hill’s humour (at least in the early seasons) came from how subtly (and indeed sympathetically) the setting was examined.
- Chris
May 2nd, 2009 at 2:07 am
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