July 31, 2017
#1870: Emoji Movie Reviews explain

[Cueball and Megan are walking. Megan is checking her phone.]
Megan: Reviews for The Emoji Movie are… not good.
Cueball: People are just snobs about emoji. I like them! Language is cool and weird.
[Zoom on Megan; Cueball is outside of the frame.]
Megan: It’s apparently 80% product placement.
Cueball (off-screen): Whatever. So was The Lego Movie, and I liked that.
[Zoom out; Cueball looks at Megan’s phone.]
Megan: It features the emoji we all know and love - with a “Meh” emoji in the starring role!
Cueball: Wait… a “Meh” emoji?
Megan: I wondered about that, too; the others are all familiar. Do they mean 😒? Or 😐 or 😕?
Cueball: That’s a little confusing…
[Zoom in on both heads; Megan is looking at her phone.]
Megan: There’s a joke in the movie about the “emoji that no one uses” that includes the eggplant emoji.
Cueball: …was that on purpose? Or did they not run the script by enough people?
[Megan and Cueball continue walking.]
Megan: Here’s a line from the Wikipedia plot summary:
Megan: Gene and Hi-5 come to a piracy app where they meet the hacker emoji Jailbreak, who wants to reach Dropbox so that she can live in the cloud.
Cueball: Okay.
Cueball: It’s possible this movie is bad.