Category Archives: 80’s

Total Eclipse of the Original

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I don’t know what it is about this song, but it seems to inspire the greatest living sardonicists to greater achievements in sheer over-the-topitude than have ever been seen this side of Kadath Through The Looking-Glass.

First there was Kiki and Herb‘s heartrending story of transgendered love gone awry and tragic loss.

Now, there is dascottjr‘s Literal Version. Post-Post-Postmodern and deeply Eighties, it takes you behind the scenes, behind the hair gel and makeup, behind the blank expressions of the born-to-sing-not-act star and shows you the true meaning of this, perhaps the most iconic of all music videos.

Dancing Fonzie zombies FTW!

via azahar

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Fabio Unicorn Chaser

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Fabio was in a pirate movie? How did I not know this?

Love the fact that on YouTube this is tagged “Porn for secretaries.”

Star Trek A Team

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Star Trek is, as it always has been, one series and one series only: the one called Star Trek. The Alpha series.

It doesn’t need any dangling modifiers; doesn’t need any TLA’s. It’s Star Trek, bitches, the one and only.

The A Team.

And this is the video that proves it:

I pity the fool that talks illogical!

Happy Anniversary, Motown!

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Motown records brought black music by black musicians into the mainstream, and changed American culture forever.  If you’d like a serious analysis of that, please go here. You know I ain’t got time for that shit.

Instead, I’d like to present two videos choreographed by very, very white people, and mashed up with some very, very black (although not Motown, it must be said, and indeed it WOULD have been said, had I not just said it myself, thus inocculating this blog against those so-called sayers and their nastily truthful accusations, now where was I?) music.

Bob Fosse‘s Mexican Breakfast featuring Gwen Verdon: original here. Unaccredited, vulgar ripoff by Beyonce here. More amusing version of same here. Walk It Out, Fosse version below:

And here is something that could only be made even whiter by the addition of Soulja Boy: Tappercize!

mashup from EverythingIsTerrible

Kung Poo Hustle

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It’s true what they say (and don’t ask me who they are. How would I know? I’m an innocent blogger, not an investigative journalist, dammit Jim!).

And what do they say? They say this:

That it is a fact universally acknowledged that a Kung Fu master in action looks uncommonly like he’s trying to pass a truly recalcitrant turd.

Check it out:

via BestWeekEver