A Crunchy New Force At Breakfast

I know they always tasted terrible, but I really miss Whatever's Popular At The Moment tie-in breakfast cereals.

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Xtranormal = Fun

Okay, I didn't find this one and it wasn't shown to me by someone else. I made it.



I'm kind of proud of it. I don't know why. I'm also proud of my soccer one:



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Dueling Fudge Filled Cookies

Which would you rather eat:
Keebler Magic Middles...



or Sunshine Chippy Chews?


I wish I had a package of each right now. For studious comparative reasons. (Sure.)
I have a stronger nostalgic reaction to the Chippy Chews commercial (the baker and the kids bouncing on the giant cookie and the Candy Man based jingle; for years I thought the commercial was first and to this day my brain still sings that song as "The Sunshine Bakerman can") but a few years ago I ran across a Magic Middles print ad in an old National Geographic and that one knocked me straight back to being seven. I think one of the girls in my Girl Scout troop might have brought them for snack.
The only reason I stayed in Girl Scouts for as long as I did was for the snack. The novelty of eating a treat from somewhere other than my own home does not wear off, apparently.

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Please Don't Eat All The Morsels

This was one of my favorite commercials when I was a kid. I couldn't sing my way through the jingle without cracking up. Nothing is funnier than bald cookies when you're seven.

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Dr. Tran Doles Out The Harshness!

I went to culinary school in San Francisco. I moved there the week of Halloween. On Halloween night my roommate and I went to Spike And Mike's Sick And Twisted Festival Of Animation, most of which I didn't enjoy. You see, most forms of animation give me the fucking creeps. I was raised on a Disney diet and I have a hard time straying away from very mainstream looking animation. So I wasn't a huge fan of the festival (actually, the most traumatizing cartoon began with a baby getting shot and actually got worse from there) but there was one cartoon, and one cartoon alone, that I loved enough to go to the festival a second time with Shelby and Kristin.
Ladies and gentlemen: Here Comes Dr. Tran!



Since then about a million Dr. Tran cartoons have been made. I'm too lazy to follow them on Youtube, but I hope they put out another DVD collection someday (maybe they already did; I don't know) so I can watch them that way. I did watch the first Dr. Tran sequel before I got overwhelmed and gave up, and it still makes me laugh even harder than the original.
Ladies and gentlemen: Roybertito's!



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Then I Don't Need A Jacket

Why does this video crack me up?
I think it's the pause before the laugh.

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Where Did The Groove Go?

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Banana Clowns and Hamburger Dads

The following videos I share not because I really like them, but because I like the ideas of them.

The Plight Of Clownana





Hamburger Dad



The ideas behind them appeal to my absurd sense of humor (kid's dad is hamburger; banana vs. penis dance contest) even if I feel like they kind of fell down in the execution. I just love that these are there. I love that people came up with these ideas and cared enough about them to actually turn them into movies. Everyone should have that kind of passion about their silly ideas.

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THIS IS (from) AL TV!!!

It's not from one of the Al TVs I grew up with, though (we had two or three on tape, which I watched like crazy). I guess my mom had stopped religiously taping MTV by the time this one aired and my brother and I had not yet begun religiously taping MTV. (Now nobody religiously tapes MTV 'cause they don't play music anymore.)
It is, however, hilarious. I haven't bothered to check Youtube for the Al-narrated videos from the Al TVs I did grow up with. ... I'll check now!
Here's one!



Can't find his commentary on Stay The Night by Chicago, though. Dang.

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This Is One Of Those Things That's Only Funny To, Like, Three People

And I am one of them.

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Canada's Number One!

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Robyenne Was Right

This song is amazing!



I'm pretty sure they fall into the "Everything On BBC 4" category, but I'd like to name drop some of my favorite BBC shows that I didn't hear in the song:

The Prisoner (It's been pointed out to me that this one possibly isn't a BBC show. But I'm a stupid American who doesn't know any better and it's my favorite TV show, so I'm a-keepin' it on the list.)
The IT Crowd
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Coupling
Snuff Box
Blackpool (...Okay, I never actually saw this one. I saw a commercial for it once on BBC America and I desperately want to see it but it's not out on DVD. At least, not in this country.)

Thank you.

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I Love Crispin Glover's Crazy

And his nose. Crispin Glover has a great nose.

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Oh Hell Yes, Giant Flan!

My favorite is the guy who seems to be cheating on his girlfriend with the Giga Pudding.

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It Was Not Your Fault But Mine

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Absomoosely Sugarlicious

The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals!

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Other Causes I Support

As long as we're on the subject of "Thing's I'm Pro-"; I'm pro-Conan O'Brien.



So looking forward to his new show.

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It's Okay To Be Gay

I've been hearing a lot of horrible stories lately about gay kids killing themselves because people are inhumanly cruel to them about their sexuality. I can't fathom how or why shit like that could be happening.
So, I'm taking this opportunity to say: There is nothing wrong with homosexuality, bisexuality or transgenderism (or whatever the word for that is). I support everybody's everything.
And I've been wanting an excuse to share this ad:



This was a pro-gay marriage / anti-Proposition Eight ad from the election a few years ago. It still makes me cry. It's the most brilliantly made political advertisement in the history of time, and I defy anybody to find me a better one. (That one of the little girl picking daisies from the '60s? Dishwater compared to this one.)
Another really well done, pro-gay (but non-political) ad is this French one for McDonalds:



And, because I can't leave here without a little humor (and I can't deny I'm a sucker for campiness and drag queens) I'll leave you with Tomboy and their blog-titling message that It Is, in fact, Okay To Be Gay.



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I've Got To Get These Guys' Album

The guys who did that kickass Mega Man 2 rap did a lot of other kickass raps, too. I'm fond of their Mario Bros. ones, Tetris (of course; I have a soft spot for Tetris, seeing as I rock at it and all) and, my new favorite, Mike Tyson's Punch Out:



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When You Say Emahtskcblvdt Boy You've Said A Lot

There was one December where Amazon.Com put out a series of ads featuring a choir of men in sweaters singing about various products on Amazon.Com. This one is probably the most famous.



The problem is, I've found pretty much every single one of these ads on Youtube except, of course, for the only one I really remember from that season and the one that is by far still my favorite. The lyrics were:

"Amazon Dot Com has tons of toys
Every ton weighs two thousand pounds
That's a lot of toys!"

If anybody has a copy of that commercial, will you please post in on Youtube for me? I'll favorite it and post it on this blog and be ever so happy.

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Sadly, The Old Spice Guy Isn't Grover

I love the Old Spice Guy.



He appeals to my love of absurdity, non sequitors and uber sequitors (stating the very obvious).



Apparently the actor's name is Isaiah Mustafa.



He's done what seem to be hundreds of Twitter response videos as the Old Spice Guy.



And it turns out he's from near where I live. Weird.



Awesome as the Old Spice Guy is, though, he's no furry blue monster.



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Blue Hair? What A Freak! ... Oh My God, It's Marge!

Today I went to the wedding of my friends Megan McDonough and Jim Byrnes. It was the perfect ceremony for the people involved; there were noisemakers and flags and audience participation and coffee and ice cream sandwiches and Jason Narvy and box lunches. Jim worked quotes from The Simpsons into his vows.
It was a grand wedding and I'm in a good mood. So, to combine the feelings of happiness, love, sugary snacks and Simpsons references, I give you Lesley Gore's Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows.



As the flags say, YAY!

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That Number Is So Odd

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I Still Need You But I Don't Want You Now

I think I'm going to have to rule this as one of those songs where I don't necessarily trust people who don't like it. It's so dang catchy! And the video's got a bear playing the trumpet!

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Listen Up Straight, Y'all Biscuitheads

I'm a huge Homestar Runner fan. It's exactly the absurd kind of humor that I love best. I assume by now most people have at least a small knowledge of the website (Trogdor, anyone?) but the in-show universe is deceptively large and complicated. Almost every minor character who's ever been briefly mentioned tends to get at least one or two cartoons all to themselves. (For instance Crack Stuntman and the Blubb-Os whale, two of my favorites.)
For some reason, I have a soft spot for the rapper known as Peacey P. Check out his dope rhymes. He's so smooth he orders breakfast in the middle of other people's rap songs.



He's so fly he'll even record songs with death metal bands like it's 1991:



That's what happens when you're down with the Trudgemank.
But that's not to say Crack Stuntman didn't have his share of sweet rapping gigs.



And it's a very important message for today's disenchanted youth. Or something like that.

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Oh, Obsession; You're So Life Consuming

In the same vein of yesterday's post: Here's another Inception trailer mash up.



Leverage: Is there anything it can't do?

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When The East Wind Blows And The Fog Rolls In

I could watch genre-switching movie trailers all day. I love this stuff (as long as it's done well).
I'm not going to post Shining because everybody's seen it and, honestly, my hatred of that movie is so strong it spills into parody videos as well. The only The Shining-related thing I like is The Shinning from The Simpsons.
Instead I will post a few of my favorites, such as Scary Poppins:



West Side Zombies:



Saw-medy (I don't like the narration bit, but the choice of music is perfect):



When Harry Killed Sally:



And, my very favorite, The Wacky Wicker Man:



In a similar vein we have House Of 1000 Muppets:



and Toy Story Inception:



And, because I can't do anything lately without it tying in with Leverage, here's the opening credits to the Friends version of Leverage:



I may rail against technology at almost every turn, but I do love me the internet.

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Why Be Realistic?

We Live In A Dump is one of my favorite They Might Be Giants songs.



This isn't the video I would have made, but I'm not a filmmaker so I don't get a say in matters. And it is a good video.

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Billy Mays Can Help

I never liked admitting it, but I always rather enjoyed Billy Mays commercials. Sure, he shouted all the time, but it was happy, insincere shouting. I kind of like that, as long as the shouting is coming from a person in my television and not actually in the room with me.
Anyway, the internet has decided to turn his commercials into songs. There's a ballad:



and, of course, a rap song:



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I *Told* You He Was The Punjabi Captain Planet

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Nightengale From Moogle?

Is that what he's saying?



Either the Autotune made him impossible to understand or I know less about World Of Warcraft than I thought.

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Little Mac Comes Out Of Retirement

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She Makes A Persuasive Argument

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Danny Kaye Is A Hero

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For When You Need To Psyche Yourself Up

All right, now I'm pumped! Time to take on the entire world!

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