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After the jump, I have posted a video made by Southwest Airlines in 1986. It’s called “The Just Plane Fun Shuffle,” and it’s terrible. For one thing, it is over nine minutes long. Ugh. The only reason Southwest Airlines put it on-line is in an attempt to capture some of that “viral videos heat.” NOTE TO GIANT CORPORATIONS: if you are going to make hackneyed attempts to appeal to “the kids,” at least do your research. “Viral videos” should be 2-5 minutes long AT MOST. Nine minutes. Ridiculous. And Southwest Airlines has had 24 years to EDIT THIS DOWN. Second of all, when I buy a plane ticket, I buy it based on cost and convenience, not who has the best vintage ironic parody of a thing that was stupid to begin with. No, this whole thing is a FAIL (the CEO of Southwest Airlines can have his great-grandchild SEXT him the definition). But I am posting it here, because I like to imagine Kevin Smith seeing this video and just getting so mad. In his jorts.
Choke on it, Kevin Smith!
The funny thing is that this is still funnier, more relevant, and better executed than Kevin Smith’s movies. (Thanks for the tip, D’Anne.)
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Hey! It’s Friday!
Let’s chat! http://videogum.com/chat/
You’ll be all like:
and I’ll be all like
This is funny because they’re both “chat”s. Bilingual puns!!
I cannot abide by any of these negative remarks about my beloved 85 Bears, nor their Shuffling.
(True Story – My mom got me an autograph of Payton’s. As he’s handing it to her, he hits on my mom. She’s all, “Well I’m married so I don’t think my Husband would be a big fan of that,” to which sweetness replied, “Well what he doesn’t know won’t hurt him.”
My mom relayed the story the next day as she handed me my foam orange and black (reuters sponsored) Walter Payton SIGNED football. I asked her why she didn’t, cuz Walter Payton.
That’s it.
Damn – I forgot my ONE rule
Always
Be
Closin (parentheses)
Stop telling this story or I will punch you in the face on the El.
white people are still trying to recover from the damage done by this video
The People Department: That’s your department.
“The funny thing is that this is still funnier, more relevant, and better executed than Kevin Smith’s movies.”
spot-on.
Kevin Smith would be more apt to do the truffle shuffle though, right?
If this is an 80′s video with white people trying to rap, why has no one done the arms-crossed Run DMC pose? Oh, wait, there we are. Thanks, Marketing/Sales!
in their defense, you’d be surprised how fast 9 minutes go by when you add a lot of cocaine to the mix.
This is only the second longest video posted today! Hey Gabe it’s FRIDAY, not LONG VIDEO DAY. You must be feeling extra patient or lethargic…
24 years ago… I hope everyone involved with this is long dead. And died a horrible death.
So…many…departments…
I need to go re-watch the doggie dance party at the end of the Marmaduke trailer and APPRECIATE it more, because this just recalibrated my Terribleness Scale.
There is absolutely no reason this video had to be 9 and a half minutes long. Also, I think you guys are piling on Kevin Smith with a little bandwagon hate. Fuck Cop Out but he has made a few good movies.
Clerks 2? Jersey Girl? Zack and Miri?
Clerks had Jesus Lizard on the soundtrack. That alone to me gives Kevin Smith a lifetime pass whenever he makes a shitty movie. Two of which you just mentioned but I liked Zach And Miri.
No Kevin Smith is the worst. I walked out on Chasing Amy. Had to fast forward through the one with Chris Rock and Salma Hayek. Terrible film maker.
This easily beats the Oscars’ Best Original Score interpretive dances.
Not like that’s a compliment or anything.
Ha, all the women look like Jennifer from Family Ties.
NO DISRESPECT.
I prefer Amtrak’s “the drunk next to me threw up on my dining car hot dog made from the innards of the last person this train hit” two-step.
so. many. khaki. shorts.
Is this a deleted scene from Stop Making Sense?
MOTHER, DOES KEVIN SMITH GET PERIODS?
I hope there is a videogum-esque site in 2034, for all the people who survive the apocalypse, that posts informational films about sexting and myspace
I like to imagine this video producer has gone on to even longer and much crazier ad campaigns…
This may just be the proudest moment of my life. Which would make it also the saddest.
At 9 minutes the least this video could give us is a drum solo.
Also, sweet sassy molassy Southwest has a lot of departments. Too bad they don’t have a rhythm department. Right? RIGHT?!?!