It took me long enough, but I finally realized that the "Destroyer" nickname was actually a years-long inside joke that referred to how Opie could kill the flow of anything funny on the show. Opie is still oblivious to this.
37 2015-05-08 by ryanasimov
Ed Asner was a master of subtlety so it flew over Opie's head, and Joe Rogan masterfully spun it so Opie thought it was a compliment. I can imagine Opie looking in his bathroom mirror later in the day, squinting his eyes and slowly nodding his head as he mouths, "The Destroyer... hell yeah."
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49 VladiRad 2015-05-08
You guys are basically writing Opie fan fiction at this point.
13 Drunken_Wizard23 2015-05-08
Fuck off. Other than the morning jam with jim and sam this is all I've got left.
2 jhohcable 2015-05-08
https://youtu.be/uNhbrIYGetc
4 boydave777 2015-05-08
OPIE FAN FICTION….ok pests, get at it! start writing your best fan fiction and send it to TACS!
3 RearNakedGrope 2015-05-08
Yuck, as if.
6 rahtin 2015-05-08
Totally groady!
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4 YouAintGotToLieCraig 2015-05-08
http://www.reddit.com/r/opieandanthony/comments/2nd447/opie_and_anthony_show_transcript_1125/
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Oh my god this is the greatest idea ever
12 regis69 2015-05-08
He's a "destroyer" in the sense that he's the opposite of creative. Jim and Anthony could actually create comedy. All Opie was ever able to do was literally break things and be rude without any clever element whatsoever.
11 LithiumAM 2015-05-08
Exactly. I hate when people point to the Poker Chip incident as proof that Opie is funny. He just threw something and it was mean...in a funny way, but there's no comedic talent there. Same thing with hanging up on people or putting baby shit over his mouth. It's just "shocking" things that have no substance behind them...
6 NoremacMartin 2015-05-08
I hate Opie, but the talent is that it takes some modicum of balls to do that/sociopathy, and Ant/ Jim weren't going to do that. It was honestly the one thing he added to the show that was good.
11 CookieHaid 2015-05-08
What Ed said: [calmly] "You are a destroyer."
What only Opie heard: [loudly and with reverence] "You are The Destroyer!".
8 xxcandybuttsxx 2015-05-08
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
6 fawkkyall 2015-05-08
that clip is an example of opie working, his asshole-ishness kind of smashes the social norms, i'll give him that, you see kids, you have to give credit when its due
4 Genericscreen 2015-05-08
Throughout today's nopie show it became very apparent that the chip chipperson character is heavily influenced by Opie.
6 RahnBayngtin 2015-05-08
Chip is: every person on this site or any fan who approaches Jimmy and thinks they are funny.
We are Chip. The sooner you realize that the better off you will be.
4 jhohcable 2015-05-08
Not to defend Opie too much but Ed Asner is a cunt. He's always been a cunt, and he'll always be a cunt, and the only thing that's going to change is that he'll become an even bigger cunt.
8 jags85 2015-05-08
On the day he was born, a person walked past his mother in labour and said "hey look, there's some cunt coming out of some cunts cunt"
2 Hummingbird_Pate 2015-05-08
I love Hudson in Gargoyles, and him playing that old fuck in Up. It makes it sadder to see how much of a delusional asshole fuck Ed Asner is.
1 jhohcable 2015-05-08
I did like Up, that was a good movie (and depressing) but I'm just glad he didn't talk much in it.
3 -Palaver 2015-05-08
He's a black ninja, fuckface!
0 michaeIcolestie 2015-05-08
You hear that, Bubba?!
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