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Happy Halloween, you guys. It’s your holiday!
After the jump, the five Highest Rated comments, as voted on by you, the Lowest Rated comment, the winner of this week’s Antoine Dogson Caption Contest, and the Editor’s Choice:
This Week’s Highest Rated Comments
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critter | Oct 26th | Score:93 |
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Gotta love the flashbacks from TWO YEARS ago. |
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| Posted in: Justin Bieber’s Never Say Never 3D Trailer, You Guys | |||
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Baby Friday | Oct 27th | Score:95 |
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Better Off Dead: The Jennifer Lynn Petkov story |
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| Posted in: Best New Party Game 36: Mistaken Synopses | |||
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R2D2, Esq. | Oct 27th | Score:99 |
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“…at the slightest sound, the kittens respond by collapsing and falling into a rigid paralysis which lasts about a minute before they return to normal.” Maybe they should be taken to a home where there isn’t constant piano music? |
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| Posted in: Fainting Goat Kittens Are Cute, Depressing | |||
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shellbomber | Oct 27th | Score:132 |
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Avatar: Teen goes insane after his mother takes away his World of Warcraft game, sodomizes entire town with a remote control. (Adult situations, language) |
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| Posted in: Best New Party Game 36: Mistaken Synopses | |||
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explainer guy | Oct 27th | Score:160 |
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Wet Hot American Summer: Spike Lee’s examination of the U.S. government’s role and its response to Hurricane Katrina. |
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| Posted in: Best New Party Game 36: Mistaken Synopses | |||
[Ed. note: Whoa. I don't know if anyone noticed, but you guys were ON FIRE this week. What happened? You know what? Don't tell me. I don't want to know. It will ruin the magic. But whatever you guys are doing, KEEP IT UP!]
This Week’s Lowest Rated Comment
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LL Bein | Oct 26th | Score:-21 |
| Doggone It, everything could have been handled by Michael Vick. | |||
| Posted in: The Videogum Why Don’t YOU Caption It? Contest: Antoine Dogson | |||
[Ed. note: If this is the lowest rated comment then it really WAS a stand-out week, because this comment is not a big deal. Not even sure why it got so many downvotes. Is it because you guys are all Michael Vick heads and are working hard to change the public's perception of him using the democratic up/down system of blog comment thread voting systems? Good luck!]
This Week’s Caption Contest Winner
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my ironic mustache | Oct 26th | Score:84 | |
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you can run and fetch that. |
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| Posted in: The Videogum Why Don’t YOU Caption It? Contest: Antoine Dogson | |||
[Ed. note: Congratulations, my ironic mustache! You earned it.]
This Week’s Editor’s Choice
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Ian | Oct 26th | Score:20 | |
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The day Birdie started following me on twitter was the greatest day of my life, I’m sure if/when I get married and have kids that will be great too but the bar is set pretty high |
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| Posted in: @birdiepup | |||
[Ed. note: Follow Birdie on Twitter! She is a dog.]
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Happy Halloween Everybody!
Okay, I’ve been waiting to post this gif all day. Happy Halloween everyone!
did you go to rifftrax live last night, teacherman? cause it was THE BEST.
Haha, oh man! I’d forgotten about this movie!
Yay! I’m going to the Ball!
Blingee Friday, y’all:
http://bit.ly/dvBt0K
Dangit! So close.
Not sure how to do this.
is this right?
needs more hearts.
Dammit!
Love the Spanish, Polterjane!
http://tinyurl.com/3ygwlq2
Oh no!
my name got cut off
<img alt="Sexcii" border="0" height="358" src="http://image.blingee.com
Let’s try this again. Glitter Graphics
Oh, the hell with it.
Keep trying bluestockings! Make sure it starts with http and ends in .gif.
Yay, my house doesn’t look so bad now that it’s blingeefied!
Don’t need Blingee to be scary:
Frank Lloyd Wrong is Watching You!
This is hilarious and terrifying at the same time.
No doubt. Who needs scary movies with this gif?
Oh. Yikes.
So is Jack.
Thanks for the Shining gif, mouesh! Now that I won’t need to sleep ever again I’ll probably get a lot of grading done!
This goes above and beyond the call of duty right here.
I just got done watching this and thanks but NO THANKS!
Congrats, BF! I just want to take this chance to say that our riffing on the WMOAT thread this week was the most fun I’ve had on Videogum (to date. I fully expect increasing fun levels in the future).
It was awesome! This was a great week to be a Monster.
This Blingee is YOUR nightmare!
Or my fondest dream! #creepygum
Love the fireworks!
These are all so great. A little BlingSting?
Yea, Saturday night!
Woah 2nd Editor’s Choice, I’m so happy I can dance
monsters <3 puns
Fancy Lady
LOL, that is the most miserable looking Scarlette I’ve ever seen! Even when she was hungry back at Tara!
I am saving this to my computer to look at in times of stress. Thank you.
beyond creepy
My commenting dropped off so much this week (I am having too much fun chatting, you guys!). No worries, though, I will be back next week stronger than ever!
Congrats, Ball Winners! (With a special shout-out to my sister wife Baby Friday!)
Hooray! Also, never forget:
Time to dance?
This is the GREATEST and BEST! Now I’m going to be like hiccup girl, but with laughing. And less murder.
Love it.
Looks like a young Corey Feldman.
As a newb, this means a lot ! Now how do I explain this to all my real-life friends…
You can try, but you’ll probably just get a lot looks like this
you’re right. I just spent 10 minutes trying to explain to my bf only to be met with an even blanker stare. He didn’t even know “congratulations” was the correct response. Much love to you all.
Congratulations! Here’s a victory dance for you!
^ truth.
No worries, Critter, we all understand your joy. You are one of us now.
one of us.
YOU KILLED MARCO!
In this scenario, Critter is Jason Patrick, drinking our wine-blood. We monsters are Keifer Sutherland, cheering him/her on. Critter’s bf is the girl in the shawl, backing away slowly, with a concerned, scared look on his face.
I’D LIKE to leave a shoutout TO EVERYONE who helped or WAS INVOLVED in Bookgum. IT WAS great! AND IF YOU didn’t get a chance to GET INVOLVED THIS time or found THE BOOK TO violent, be sure TO JUMP ON IT this month with Never Let Me Go.
AND A big thanks TO GABE FOR all the Retweets that MUST HAVE gotten annoying AS FUCK. SO both a sorry and A THANKS! Also, aren’t Shellbomber, Hotspur, Mans, and Dr. Girlfriend THE BEST, y’all?
It is AnAmPat who is the best, and sincerest congratulations to you, sir, on the successful launch of your new hit blog-web.
With thanks also to Gabe for making the videogum so awesome that monsters be monstering all over the place now. A real community has come to exist, and I am happy to participate in my own typo-ridden, embarrassingly inconsistent way. True story.
Oooo. I should join. Not sure if that is an Ishiguru I already own though, and I can’t be buying books right now. When does it start? I will raid the box of books in the basement and see if I have it.
librarians can help you!
I read a whole lot better when I am scrawling all over the book I’m reading. I love me the library for huge, expensive books though.
SCARY GIFS
Werttrew, you wrong for that.
Oh, jesus god no.
NONONONONO
nope. no. not a chance. never. no. never again.
Well, so much for ever living a normal life. I’m gonna go take a whole bunch of Valium and sit in a corner.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space! I wanna downvote your GIF because holy crap thats creepy.
Or maybe IT?
sorry, chris. but that makes me want to die.
It’s ok, Kiss & make up?
He’s pretty.
sorry if it’s too big.
Ouch… I have the weirdest inverted boner right now.
That sucks cos usually inverted boners are not weird at all.
One of these things is not like the other…
Oh you.
KILL IT WITH FIRE
this is my first ever monsters ball, you guys.
Hey y’all, DSN here.
I wanted to do one of those touching “thanks for being my internet friends” posts, but I won’t gush, so I’ll do what my dad does: put as little emotion into what you’re saying, while really meaning the most extreme of that emotion.
Thanks for making my workdays go by faster, and an excuse to get a Twitter.
Cheers!
But…. but…..
Hmmm I see.
Clearly, someone (Gabe) didn’t major in arithmetic.
His abacus must be on the fritz
there’s some secret cut off time… and it’s super sad because some of the best comments are friday comments.
Occasionally, Friday comments make it into the following week’s Ball. Most recently, Patrick M did I think.
Oh! I just thought I didn’t know what a “week” was. Your explanation makes more sense.
I think I’ll let Bob Dylan explain this one
What a wonderful week to be in the Ball. It was this time last year when I came out of the shadows as a lurker to comment for the first time, on the Pumpkinhead Dancing Man video. Seems like just yesterday.
I’d just like to let everyone know that I have come around to Community and watched it last night as a show of support, I wasn’t disappointed. I rescind any previous negative comments I made about the show. Thank you, and Happy Halloween.
Me too!
Hey guys, it’s been a great week. Happy Halloween and GOD SAYS HI!!!
Happy Hallowe’en everybody! My daughter is excited. She’s dressing up as notsewfast:
Go, Monsters, go!
Videogum is the turbo boost for my week. Observe!
HOLY SHIT #1!!!!!!!! thanks guys! but, gotta be honest, this is the third best thing to happen to me today.
1) came back from a late lunch to a surprise office booze party
2) on my lunch break, saw a black guy in a tricked out Nissan ROCKING OUT to ’1,000 miles’ by Vanessa Carlton
3) first place in the ball.
ANY OTHER FRIDAY and this would make my month. seriously an honor….but you just can’t beat a free afternoon of boozing and a black dude dancing his ass off in earnest to the whitest of white girl music.
happy halloween. may we all have yogurt cups on our heads come monday.
Oh my, what a waste of seeds! You gotta save those, people!
Remember a few months ago when there was the Videogum reset button? What was the idea behind that? I was just thinking about that today. Did it accomplish what it was supposed to accomplish?
I think some people were being mean? But who cares Gabe got Birdie and everything went back to normal.
One question, how has Gabe not done an article about this whole Randy Quaid thing yet?
Gosh, he must be part of the Malignant Tumor of Star Whackers. He’s pretending like it doesn’t exist!
I never thought of that. Thank you for uncovering the conspiracy, give yourself a high five.
I’ve already had three glasses of wine. Navigating this thread is like a waking nightmare. Hoooooly shit with the GIFs, you guys. Very good/bad. Happy Halloween. Fuck.
Have one on me.
Seriously yo, fuck these spider gifs. I’m only afraid of two things in this world, spiders and great white sharks and now I’m gonna have nightmares for three days.
I agree with you 110%, holy smokes, which is more than anyone can agree with anything. I don’t need spiders when I’m trying to get my Friday on. I mean, it’s IN my NAME.
It’s only because I’ve had a few drinks and a great night that I have the courage to face my paralytic fear of all things arachnoid and be an asshole to you all.
You guys, thisisliterallymynightmare:
There were no survivors.
I can’t stop watching this and laughing/shuddering. It hits his face and he just flees the room!
If there was a spider that big on your ceiling, you’d have to do something. But I think this went wrong early, in the planning stage.
Does the bowl chop it in half?? That’s what it looks like, and I can’t stop watching to try to verify. Truly, I am in hell.
um, funtastik, i love you. happy times, happy wine.
I love you, too, bird. If only because we each have things coming out of our make-believe heads.
I try and wait as looooooong as I can to read the week’s best comments, to savor them.
Like today, I usually last less than 10 minutes.
That’s What I Said. LADIES.
OK OK OK- can someone help me out? How do you veteran folks on here actually post a photo or gif…?
I’m not embarrassed of my limited tech knowledge (OK, I am), but the only way I’ll learn is through you guys! I’m clearly lacking real life friends and on the hunt for some in internet land.
Thanks
http://werttrew.tumblr.com/post/320807705/images-in-the-comments-a-guide-for-videogum
Monster Werttrew posted this to his tumblr a while back and it is a pretty helpful guide for posting images. HTH!
ooooOOOooooh thanks!
I only just figured out how to do this today! So I will share my limited wisdom with you:
1) Find an awesome jpeg or gif.
2) Find a link to its source (the link should end in .jpeg or .gif).
3) Post it here.
4) Redeem any resulting upvotes for feelings of warmth and fuzziness.
Oops, too late.
Have a great Halloweekend everybody!
This is very cool, you guys. I’ve only been commenting here a few weeks and I made Monster’s Ball! Thanks for the upvotes, everyone!
Happy Halloween, and stay safe!
I agree with Gabe, the Monsters were on fire this week. I was particularly proud of our work on the literary puns. Can we rename this nerdgum and get it over with?
those were THE BEST.
Damnit!
I don’t like to switch my avatar around too much on here, and the color scheme of my Adam West Batman with a chainsaw standing in front of a bright yellow piece of cheese on a bright turquoise background is easy enough to spot as I scroll down a comments page, but I couldn’t resist making a more subdued avatar after I watched last night’s SNL. The bumper photo of Jon Hamm in Psycho was too good to pass up.