The Ginger Ninja just sent me a link to this article about Jewno, which parodies Juno by filtering it through a Jewish lens with high-larious results. The video gets bonus points for getting J.K. Simmons, who played Juno’s dad in the real movie, to reprise his role, but this time with a Crown Heights accent. [...]
Category Archives: Pop Culture
“Archie” Comics Meet Pulp’s “Common People”
March 16, 2008 – 11:40 am
Image from Chris’ Invincible Super-BlogClick the image to see it on its original page.
Back in the mid- to late nineties, one track you couldn’t avoid on alt-rock radio was Pulp’s Common People (from their excellent album, Different Class), a song that pokes fun at the genteel faux-poverty of kids from rich families at art school. [...]
2008 Batman, Meet 1966 Batman
January 4, 2008 – 12:01 pm
In case you haven’t seen it, here’s the latest trailer for The Dark Knight, the upcoming Batman movie with Christian Bale in the title role and Heath Ledger as the Joker:
Better still, here’s a trailer that mashes up the audio from the trailer above with scenes from the 1966 Batman movie, in which Adam West [...]
You are the 9th Most Loathsome Person in America
December 26, 2007 – 12:56 pm
…well, according to The Beast’s list of the 50 most loathsome people in America for 2007, anyway. (And yes, we’ve got loathsome types of this sort in Canada as well.)
You
Charges
You believe in freedom of speech, until someone says something that offends you. You suddenly give a damn about border integrity, because the automated voice system [...]
Well Put, McFly.
December 19, 2007 – 12:35 pm
The current issue of Esquire features a cool “What I’ve Learned” interview with Alex P. Keaton/Marty McFly himself, Michael J. Fox.
A couple of excerpts:
People said, “Does it bother you that girls want to sleep with you because you’re famous?” “That’s a tough one. Lemme think about that. No.“
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my [...]
The Lost Whisper at the End of “Lost in Translation”
December 18, 2007 – 6:32 pm
I was always under the impression that whatever Bill Murray whispered into Scarlett Johansson’s ear at the end of Lost in Translation was not actual dialogue, but something for the view to fill in with his or her own imagination.
Vid22.com, the creators of the video below, don’t believe that to be true. Using digital [...]
Homer Simpson’s Life Flashing Before His Eyes [Updated]
December 17, 2007 – 4:31 pm
View it before FOX’s copyright cops take it down — it’s the “Homer’s life flashing before his eyes” sequence from last night’s episode of The Simpsons:
Update: The YouTube video got taken down, but you can watch the video at JibJab.com.
Click here to see the video on JibJab.com.
Watching that sequence, a couple of things came to [...]
Comedy Family Tree
December 16, 2007 – 1:05 pm
Here’s a comedy family tree that shows all the spiritual descendants of two British comedy television shows: At Last the 1948 Show (whose cast included John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman) and Do Not Adjust Your Set (whose cast included Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle) .Their influences can be traced from these [...]
More on the Family Guy “Where’s My Money?” Scene
November 14, 2007 – 10:54 pm
Why Did Stewie Beat Up Brian?
In the previous post, I included a YouTube video of the infamous “Where’s my money?” scene from Family Guy in which Stewie beats up Brian for not paying back a debt.
Maria, in a comment, asked:
So where was Stewie’s money? Why did Brian owe him money?
The scene is from the episode [...]
Karl Rove: In Touch with the Kids (in 1972)
August 21, 2007 – 9:57 am
Back in July, I pointed to a YouTube video of an NBC Nightly News broadcast from July 4, 1972. Here’s another one, found via Boing Boing, featuring a young Karl Rove in his role in the Young Republicans as the “GOP College Director”. Then-reporter “Gunga Dan” Rather describes Rove’s group in a voice-over as “an [...]
Every Goth Dance Bar Needs One of These
July 10, 2007 – 11:24 am
Click to see the picture at full size.Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
“Squeal Like a CGI Pig, Boy!”
July 9, 2007 – 2:08 pm
The movie Deliverance has so infused its way into North American pop culture that most people are aware of its “Squeal like a pig!” scene. Back when I played background music for improv comedy shows here in Accordion City, I’d play the opening notes from Dueling Banjos whenever an actor would make some reference to [...]
Looking for the “First Corinthians” Tramp Stamp?
July 6, 2007 – 7:29 am
I know from checking the server logs that my switching blogging tools and domains (from “accordionguy.blogware.com” to “joeydevilla.com”) has thrown off a lot of people searching for specific images from this blog. It’s going to take some time for Google and the other search engines to re-index the blog, but eventually the search engine results [...]
The “South Park” Characters, Reinterpreted
June 30, 2007 – 2:40 pm
[via Reddit] I rather like these interpretations of the characters from South Park…
Click the picture to see it at full size.
And Finally, the News…
June 27, 2007 – 3:54 pm
It may not be the Howard Beale “Mad as Hell” meltdown scene from the movie Network, but I’ll take it for now: here’s MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski refusing to cover the Paris Hilton non-story despite the prodding of her co-anchors and producer. Really, people, of all the things with which we should concern ourselves, that [...]
