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This is it, you guys. On Monday, we will know how it all ends. I’m talking, of course, about the final movie in the Shrek saga series finale of Lost. NOW I KNOW HOW TEENAGERS AND MILDLY LONELY MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN MUST FEEL WHEN THE NEW TWILIGHT COMES OUT. Just kidding. It’s the series finale of an increasingly confusing and outlandish television show that despite its many twists and turns has proved incapable of killing off Kate. Don’t get me wrong, I still am very much looking forward to Sunday night’s epic finale, which I am sure will finally answer all of my questions. And I’ve even got my fingers crossed that Kate will finally EAT IT. I’m just saying that I have this thing pretty well in perspective. And the way that teenagers and mildly lonely middle-aged women feel when the new Twilight comes out remains a mystery. WHAT’S IN THE TEENAGERS AND MILDLY LONELY MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN?! WE’VE GOT TO GO BLAH!

After the jump, the five Highest Rated Comments, the Lowest Rated Comment, the winner of this week’s Roman Polanski T-Shirt caption contest, and the Editor’s Choice.

This Week’s Highest Rated Comments

#5 Notsewfast | May 18th Score:123

The screen printer never lived down their mistake when a translation error ruined the Warsaw city council’s ‘Ski Poland’ ad campaign.

Posted in: The Videogum Why Don’t You Caption It? Contest: Xavier Beauvois’s Cool New T-Shirt
#4 huckabeast | May 18th Score:129

In their defense, all men pointed out that they had pictures of underaged kids in their wallets.

Posted in: The Videogum Why Don’t You Caption It? Contest: Xavier Beauvois’s Cool New T-Shirt
#3 Funkles | May 19th Score:130

Keep decorously fucking that chicken.

Posted in: Nicolas Cage Only Eats Animals That Have “Dignified” Sex, Because Of Course He Does
#1 Jordan Schlansky | May 18th Score:170

A group of Polanski supporters. Not Pictured: Women

Posted in: The Videogum Why Don’t You Caption It? Contest: Xavier Beauvois’s Cool New T-Shirt

Ed. note: As you can see, many entries in this week’s Caption Contest were some of the highest rated comments, so I’m not making a special section this time. It’s good, though, because that Caption Contests are the purest form of Commenter Performance Art, so congratulations to everyone, and especially congratulations to Jordan Schlansky, who I wish so much was the real Jordan Schlansky.

This Week’s Lowest Rated Comment

#1 vaguevoguerogue | May 19th Score:-40
Mmm, this makes me glad I don’t watch lost.

On a lighter note, Glee last night was great. I love Neil Patrick, mainly because I hated ‘doogie houser’ so much in middle school. I look sorta like Neil, everybody called me doogie. I got ‘verclempt’.

I get a little nervous enjoying glee, because my manliness might be jeopardized by musicals. ‘Paint yur wagon’ is the only musical with a real man in it, and you know clint was wondering when the heck he could go back to being a badass.

Posted in: Lost S06E17: Good Luck, Survivors! See You At The Finale!

Ed. note: This is kind of a weird comment. I’m not really sure how not being interested in Lost has anything to do with being into Glee? They are just two very different TV shows. There is certainly room to like both of them. Or neither of them. It’s not a competition. But then on top of that, you kind of get homophobe-y about liking it? Dude, just enjoy yourself! No big whoop! You like what you like. And you clearly don’t like what you don’t like. Which is Lost.

This Week’s Editor’s Choice

This week, a two-way tie:

Ed. note: PUNS! Everybody loves puns! The second one is pretty self-explanatory, but in case the first one makes less sense out of context, it was on the post about a dude shooting a snake in the face with a bazooka, and it was in response to a classic “FAKE!” comment. See? “FAKE”? “SNAKE”? Very good. Very puns.

Comments (134)
  1. Hey guys! We’ll be live-chatting Lost on Sunday for those who want to partake. http://videogum.com/chat/

    also, this is a belated Friday chat announcement! there are still a bunch of us in there now.

  2. There was a name not mentioned n this Monster’s Ball which I think has been mentioned in every Monster’s Ball since I’ve been coming to Videogum.
    It feels like the end of an era…

    • He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

      • The LOST finale will suck and then you will all be sorry for not giving me all the upvotes and – PSYCHE! Just kiddin’! I don’t give a care, friend. See yall on the FLIP side, brohams and brohettes!!!!!!!!

        • you know what, this goes out to all the HATERS, I love what Steve brings. Steven, I know you wont appreciate this because you are a Nihilist, but your Yang to the usual Yin makes this psuedo-community bearable. Everyone else talks about monsters and dogs and YUK, and while all that is great in doses, I’m glad there is someone in here to call people out for their god forsaken AFFABILITY

  3. REMEMBER WHEN WE HAD THAT AWESOME BUFFY THREAD IN THE GLEE POST AND EVERYONE WAS YELLING BECAUSE BUFFY IS CRAMAZING?

  4. Woohoo, Its the weekend! Let’s grease up those kitchen floors!

  5. WHOA! This just made my day!

    Thanks guys. Now time to get drunk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  6. I felt like everyone’s comments were on fire this week! good hustle all around.

  7. Man, I feel bad for actually going to work and doing things with my life, because I can’t get on here at work. Seriously bummersville, guys. Not being snide whatsoever. Good job, y’all!

  8. I’m calling it now: Everyone goes to see Driveshaft play at the Widmore house party and, halfway through “You All Everybody”, Lapidus busts down the doors and belts out a sax solo. Check and mate.

    • Is this the part of the blog where we share our predictions for the LOST finale? Here is mine, friend:

      Kate will be pretty, as will Claire and that Michelle Rodriguez girl if she is allowed to be in it. Hurley will provide the fat guy comic relief cliches. At the concert deal they will all have this moment where they realize that the alt reality island universe is ending in some island sinking cataclysm and they won by getting out to the new and improved alternate universe.

      There will be no references to Walt, how his comic book that he was reading in the first or second season tied in to the polar bear thing, nor any references to all the extras who were also plane crash survivors in the first few episodes but who were never big enough to be given anything more to do then weave and beat baskets on the beach in the background. The end. Sleep tight.

    • Is he wearing sunglasses?

      Who am I kidding, OF COURSE he is wearing sunglasses.

      • There is a fancy restaurant in my town called “Spagio” and every time I pass it I say SPAGIO in a SERGIO like fashion. True story.

  9. I had to sit most of the week out because I’ve been busy with intercession classes (I know, so sad). But congrats to all and thank you for those hi-larious posts. You kept the LOLs rolling for us in the trenches.


  10. OK, so I meet a lot of lurkers in chat (cuz I live there) who want to comment but feel that they are not “funny enough”.
    I am hereby dedicating my post for lurkers to sign in and say hi to the VG community. Just say hi, introduce yourselves, maybe post your pet’s picture and see you at the monster meet-ups.

    • As I lurk in the site of the yogurt cups
      I take a look at my life and I ask wassup
      Since I’ve been lurking and smirking so long
      That even my mama thinks that my mind is gone

    • I’m a bit of a lurker, but I don’t even really go to chat. I just lurk in general, except for the most recent Best New Part Game. I don;t have any pets, and I live in Honduras, so I guess I can’t make an monster meet-ups. But here I am!

    • Seconded! You don’t have to earn a million upvotes, just play! In communist Videogum, everyone gets a tiny “participation” trophy and there’s no mean Alec Baldwin swim coach to berate you for trying.

      Also, I miss chat. Hi, everyone in chat!

      • why don’t you chat? you are missed in chat. (i’m not there now. i’m ‘doing stuff.’ but you should chat again.) i feel like i’m saying ‘chat’ a lot. am i saying chat a lot? chat. chaaaaaaaat. chat.

        • My computer is still in the shop. I spilled coffee on the keyboard, and the replacement keyboard was delayed in shipping because of the volcano! And whatever’s been to the computer I’ve been borrowing–to anti-virus it up or something, I don’t know–it doesn’t let me chat, browser regardless. IT IS SO ANNOYING I MISS YOU GUYS TOO.

    • Hi! Opabinia is my favorite Cambrian fossil. My favorite Cam’ron line is “You got pets? Me too, mines are dead.”

    • I like the challenge of trying to be humorous when surrounded by other funnies. Sometimes, though, I feel myself begin to base a bit of my self-value on petty things like upvotes… But that’s when I remember that I’m a really good kisser, and the world seems right again.

    • At this point in time, I might as well be a lurker.

      I SHALL RETURN. FOR REAL, THIS TIME.

    • I’ve been lurking here for a while now, prowling through the bushes peering in through the windows. But, like the majestic walrus, even I need to come up out of the bushes for air. That’s how science works.

      On an unrelated note (I’m not sure what would be related to a stalker-walrus) even though I don’t watch Lost, the recaps and comments have been highly entertaining.

    • I feel like a semi-lurker. For some reason, I start commenting on things and then I go away for long periods of time. I think it’s because I’ve become so lazy this summer that I’m not willing to copy and paste my password every time I log in. Or maybe it’s just because that is SO ANNOYING.

      • I do the same thing, though I haven’t commented in a while because I am a lazy American, too gorged on double downs and episodes of Two and a Half Men to log in.

        But I love you guys! So much! Like maybe even too much!

    • I’m not at all funny and I post all the time! Color me crazy!

    • Does it count as lurking if I didn’t have an official profile until a couple of days ago?

      “Yes.” — Everyone

      I do not have a pet but I do have a real-life baby and she is basically like a pet! Yay? Also, unless you have International Monster Meet-Ups, I will never see you as I am a lazy Canadian.

      Anyway, you all do such a wonderful job in the comments that I have nothing to contribute, and besides I often read the posts two days later (snooze/lose etc).

      Bye!

  11. Good night Monsters! I’m going to see MacGruber and then I’m going to bed!

  12. Actually I think he got downvoted because he did not like Doogie Howser.

  13. Killing both the “cute animal gifs” and “representation of how I feel after missing out on MB for yet another week” birds with one stone:

  14. I apologize for being a “takes things too seriously” asshole. I don’t know how to say this in a “not taking things too seriously” way.

    The nakedpainter thing kinda threw me for a loop and showed me that some things that happen on this site are serious. I deal with things by distancing myself from them and thinking about them and figuring out a way to approach these serious things and then dealing with them as best I can.

    But that is not the Videogum way, and I’m glad it’s not. The best way in that case was just to throw yourself in there and do your best, as Mans showed us all.

    In real life, I’ve been told that I’m a void and that I have no feelings to be hurt, in several ways, several times. That’s not true, because I am a human being with a full command of the language of you other human beings, so one would ASSUME that I also feel as you do. Since others don’t make that assumption as often as I’d like, I gravitate towards message boards like this one, where I can prove that really, I do feel, or if I can’t prove that, at least that I’m not a fucking void.

    Wow, I sound like a psycho. So be it.

    But I’m done with this message board. Partly because I am so goddamn sick of Steve Winwood – which is funny since I joined this board for the sole purpose of defending him – but… seriously. Shit.

    I can’t even justify or rationalize my turn-around on the subject of Steve Winwood, but… holy fucking shit. Compared to some of the other stuff that goes on on this site, he is just so fucking boring.

    AHA! This allows me to make things circular, to bring things home, because I said at the beginning that the nakedpainter thing made me look at things differently. This community is capable of so much good. I feel like I can’t be a part of that much good. I am just not very good. But I’m also not quite as much a knee-jerk contrarian asshole as Steve Winwood. Seriously, Steve, use your imagination. You don’t have to drag everything down to the dumbest, most stupid level to feel kinship. Also, fuck you. (Meow?)

    So I’m out, and here’s another clip of the French girl dancing. This one is not for Steve Winwood. It’s for everyone who is not Steve Winwood. If Steve Winwood takes any enjoyment from this, I have signed documents from the Heavenly Beaucracy that such enjoyment shall be subtracted from his eternity.

    Happy Weekend and Happy Everything, Monsters.

    • Heavenly Bureaucracy, not Heavenly Beaucracy. I’ve been informed by agents in their employ that my enjoyment of the afterlife will be significantly lessened due to this lapse. More raisins, less grapes. More withered prostitutes, less nubile barely eighteens. More porridge, less bran flakes (at my age, bran is important). More empty boxed wonder, less song.

      • Though I am still giddy from being invited to the Monster’s Ball this weekend (I feel pretty!), I can’t let this one go. I just want us to be the best monsters we can be.

        FEWER grapes, FEWER nubile barely eighteens. Easy way to remember – if you can count the noun, Fewer. If you can’t count it, Less. (Fewer cars, less traffic.)

        I know I know, relax technogumlover. But this Red Panda still says no. Just as we all hate to hear that KIWS is bailing on vgum b/c of SW, le’ts not let “Less” unceremoniously take over the grammar board.

    • I don’t know what I could say to convince you, but… don’t go? I’m not sure how simultaneously feeling not good enough and not bad enough for Videogum is a reason to leave. Your posts demonstrate that you are a very articulate and thoughtful person, which are fantastic qualities that are well appreciated by many of the people here.

      For what it’s worth, I can relate to you in that I also have also received real-life criticisms of being too rational and too emotionally detached. I’m not quite sure I grasp how that is related to your decision to leave, but rest assured that you’re not the only person who senses that they aren’t feeling enough. In my case, at least, I guess it comes with the territory of being an over-educated, media-literate, hyper-critical cynic. Maybe you are some of those things and maybe not, but they are not things you must prove against and they are not reasons to leave.

      Please stick around? You are making this kitten sad.

    • Krakatoa, I will be disappointed if you stop posting because I like your posts. They are thoughtful, which I like, and really long, which I also like.

      I think was makes Videogum such a great place is that the posts and comments are both funny and thoughtful, that we recognize the humor of in the world but don’t forget the seriousness too. I think you contribute alot to that. We are all different kind of folks and I think we have good conversations. I hope you’ll reconsider.

      (There was a long pause in writing the two parts of this comment. The gif put me in a trance. Why does the back of her outfit look like a little sailor suit? Is she wearing high heeled sock? Why are both of her guitarists left handed? I thought France ran out the lefties in 1367.)

    • Do we upvote to encourage, or downvote to disagree with the plan of action?
      (The Chicago Manual of Style is weirdly quiet on this subject.)

    • Hey, i will be the first one to admit I have let that one dude get to me more than he should, but honestly, at this point he’s just not worth it, you know? It’s the whole, we should all find something in this world that makes us happy, and acting like a monosyllabic asshole on videogum makes SW happy, Let’s just leave him in the corner giggling at his own “jokes” and deal with the monster party that is happening in the middle of the room, ok?

      So, if you honestly are leaving because of that jerkoff, come on, you are better than that. And I don’t know what this nonsense is about not being able to be a part of something good. You are obviously a self-reflective person since you are even considering your place in this community. That’s good enough for me. Can you offer intelligent and witty comments to contribute to the conversation? Well, then you fit right in.

      I hope you’ll reconsider this and frankly, just chill out a little. It’s videogum, Krakatoa, jump into videogum. :)

    • don’t go. we like you. AT LEAST stick around for more of your insightful Lost comments….and then we’ll find something else that will get you to stay. What are your thoughts on True Blood? True Blood is coming back soon. Do you like True Blood?

      Also: Stay.

      • I can’t wait for some TrueBlood. I have the thirst and need an O+ fix right now. Seriously has anyone watched the minisodes? I didn’t think any of them were good, but that trailer has me in a tizzie. Where’s Bill? And Who is that guys Tara is talking to? And more Jason Stackhouse.

        P.S. In a perfect world Jason Stackhouse would be dating Brittany from Glee.

    • I don’t know if this will mean anything to you, but for some reason in spite of ALL of the things in life that have brought me down and withered my soul to the point where I wanted to end it all, Steve Winwood has never bothered me. I don’t know if it’s because of my particular perspective on life (the depression, the anxiety, the panic attacks, the suicide attempts, the hospitalizations, the shock treaments, the medications… and on and on and on), he of all things is so petty and small to me, that he is not even a rock in my shoe. Skip him. He’s not worth it.

      I have had so many people beg me to reconsider (on this very site!) to not end my life. Well, I ask you to not end your friendship with us. We want you here much more than Steve and you have so very much to add to this community, words cannot even express.

      Besides, do you really want to leave us without YOUR posts, and leave us with Steve’s? I guess I’m being selfish here, but I don’t think THAT’S fair. Personally, I want (is “need” too strong a word?) your posts. They light up my day…. and some of my days can be pretty dark without you and so very many commenters on this site.

      With Love and Strong Hugs,
      NP

    • Seriously don’t go dude (Or dudette…. It turns out I am frequently wrong when it comes to the sexes of monstahs) I enjoy your presence and your postings. The Length is always a refresh from turds like me with their one liners and re re re re recycling of old memes and in jokes.
      You keep it fresh, honest, and insightful.
      This community is what it is because of all of us, and you allowing Winwood to do that goes back to what I was trying to say earlier – We shouldn’t allow a soulless automaton force our commenting hands. So please Stay.

    • You see KIWS, Monsters are a lot like People; some of them act badly because they’ve had a bad life or they have been mistreated. But, like people; some of them are just jerks.

      What I’m getting to is VG is the nicest online community I know of. I, like you, was a Winwood defender. Mainly because I was fascinated by his obvious sociopathic tendencies. As the premier Winwood scholar I can tell you that he did not start out being a troll, but he became one once he became felt that he was being attacked. At first he was funny because he, much like Michael Scott, Leslie Knopp, Tracy Jordan and Chevy Chase, is completely self-unaware. However the nice monsters pointed this out to him and he only became more trollish (and funnier IMO). The sad thing is that while I do think he is funny at this point he is just hell-bent on offending or annoying people that his shtick has become stale.

      The NP thing(which happened while Winwood was away from Texas on a family reunion in Alabama) made a lot of us realize that even tough we are Monsters, we are also real people. I think we all have problems (except Mans) in some level. SW, NP, you and me are a great example. However NP, You and I can admit our problems instead of blaming others for it. As a licensed phrenologist I can assure you that Winwood cannot own up to his troubling troubles. I think that is the general consensus and we all mostly agree to ignore him.

      I’m pretty sure I’m insulting sometimes(and don’t hesitate to tell me if I do something assholish to any of you; I don’t get insulted back very easily). We should be careful of insulting people, but we have to remember to not take things too seriously. We all need to just peep the giraffe once in a while. VG is where I peep the giraffe and I’m not going to let a single commenter take that away from me.

      Yours In obsessiveness,
      -Chris Trash

    • Krakatov watching silently is like “I apologize for being a “takes things too seriously” asshole.”

      And then I’m all like “Apology ACCEPTED Captain Needa.”

    • I remember the first time the comment section got all meta at the monster’s ball, and I was a big part of it. It was really a turning point. A lot of commenters were upset and I just discarded them as haters and vlogged about them. But it turns out they were right. I kind of hate this place. And I’m one of the people that wrecked it, so sorry everybody.

  15. You guys, I’m pretty sure I can’t actually participate in this community for a while. New internship presents me with zero opportunity to check in and post without feeling 10 million years behind.

    Makes me a sad panda. :(

  16. Whoo-hooo!

    I got worst comment!

    Probly take me awhile to get into the running for best comments.
    Funckles #3 is the funnest to me. Whenever I get boring, I’ll
    Remember to just keep(deliriously) fucking that chicken.

    VVG

    • Oh, umm

      I ain’t homophobic, pretty much. I always say ‘don’t knock it if ya ain’t tried it’.
      I would probably be the kinda guy that would put a picture of a homophobe in my wallet,
      to prove I don’t hate homophobes.

      Pretty much a lesbian trapped in a mans body, but I like the way I am, so there!

      heh

      • VVG, Do you ever read any other comments before you post?

        • Sometimes, mostly. I scan them. Don’t read all of them, just the ones that catch my eye.
          Reading all of them start to finish is difficult for me, I am dyslexic, also, very short attention span(sorta). I rarely read something and comprehend it without some ‘digestion’.
          Especially the posts that are really good. Short posts are good, but I love long ones too.

          Here:

          construction
          or
          fabrication
          is
          telling
          a
          story
          in
          ink
          graphite
          steel
          aluminum
          carbon
          zink
          gold
          copper
          silver
          paste
          and
          mortar
          wire
          frames
          and
          tape

          Hope that helps little.
          I believe everyone has a story or two. Some are long, some are short.
          I love hearing tales.

          VVG

      • I thought your comment was funny and tongue in cheek and it was very lame for Gabe to think it homophobic.

        A man questioning his masculinity cos he likes musicals is homophobic? Insecurity is clearly the new homophobia, fluffy animals, diss Steve Winwood and all that jazz…

        • Thanks Steve!

          I’m absolutely willing to question my masculinity.
          It’s from not having gotten laid in a long fucking time.
          Makes a person willing to fucking question anything.

          I’ll keep a picture of an insecure person in my wallet?
          (Am I doing this right?)

  17. Man, I can’t wait for tonight! I just need to go for a run then Lost finale. Oh, wait I also have something else to do:

    • A Chris Trash Open Letter to Lost

      Dear Lost:

      Today seems like the SuperBow… I mean the big game to me. Congratulations, ahead of time on getting most of America to watch you on a Sunday(sorry Mcgruver). Regardless of how you end I am satisfied. I only became a fan during the season with the writers’ strike because the season moved faster than usual. However, thanks in part to Gabe’s recap, I have now become a full fledged fan.
      Now this is the championship so i know you must be anxious. That is good, anxiety can be helpful if you know how to use it. You have played some great games(insert favorite episodes here) and some not so great (insert growing up Jacob episode). I can’t expect you to give me another season 4 finale, but I do expect you to give me your best. Now I won’t be mad if you choke, it happens to the best of them, but listen, Lost;
      You’re 5 foot nothin’, 100 and nothin’, and you have barely a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in there with the best TV Shows of all time for 6 years. And you’re gonna walk outta here with a degree from the University of Nerd Dame. In this life, you don’t have to prove nothin’ to nobody but yourself. And after what you’ve gone through, if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen. Now go on and take it to da house:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPwICxjNvY4

  18. The only true way to prepare for tonight: Lost re-enacted by cats.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-DShnvNNv0&feature=player_embedded

  19. hoot sjdsfjhg

  20. OMG.
    Or as the gossip girls like to say, OMFG.
    So back 5 years ago on the abc boards, there were all these purgatory theorists. And everyone told them to stfu. AND NOW THEY ARE VINDICATED.

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