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Uh, have you guys seen this video of Victoria Jackson showing off the bumper sticker she designed? It’s a good video because it’s a GREAT bumper sticker. (If you do not want to have to look at Victoria Jackson’s face or hear her voice, she basically made a bumper sticker about how Barack Obama is a communist and how there are secret codes in his campaign logo, which a) oh brother and b) she makes the Hitler comparison again, if you can even believe it because it IS 2012 the last time I checked, but her comparison is particularly hilarious because she says “Hitler used propaganda,” which, I mean, that’s true, but also EVERYONE USED PROPAGANDA YOU FUCKING IDIOT. We continue to use propoganda to this day, you crazy crazy dumb dumb. See, for example, the new advertisement for the Marines shot in IMAX, Act of Valor. Sorry, I just really felt the need to get the word out that Victoria Jackson is a lunatic because I feel like no one knows because she keeps it such a well-guarded secret. Hey, you know what, enough of this, YOU HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND, YOU GUYS!
After the jump, the five Highest Rated comments, as voted on by you, the Lowest Rated comment, the winner of the Uggie Hanging Out With Oscar The Grouch Caption Contest, and the Editor’s and Associate Editor’s Choice.
This Week’s Highest Rated Comments
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tom allen | Feb 28th | Score:47 |
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Who does Mark Wahlberg think he is? I AM! |
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| Posted in: BREAKING WAHLBERG NEWS: Wahlberg Claimed To Know Oscar Results Before The Rest Of Us | |||
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hotspur | Feb 27th | Score:48 |
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It gets burger. |
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| Posted in: You Guys Want To Have Sex With A Cheeseburger? | |||
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KajusX & Chainsaws | Mar 1st | Score:51 |
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Hey, that’s Val Kilmer. Do all Bat-people look the same to tacofaces? |
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| Posted in: George Clooney Doesn’t Care About Homophobic People | |||
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huckabeast | Feb 27th | Score:53 |
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I have the weirdest burger right now. |
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| Posted in: You Guys Want To Have Sex With A Cheeseburger? | |||
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Jeb | Feb 27th | Score:66 |
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Upton is the opposite of Downton. |
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| Posted in: You Guys Want To Have Sex With A Cheeseburger? | |||
[Assoc. Ed. Note: Wow! These are all so similar! This is remarkable! Everybody was VERY into short little quippy jokes this week! God job, guys. I'm very proud of your brevity.]
This Week’s Lowest Rated Comment
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facetaco | Mar 1st | Score:-17 |
| I don’t believe he actually means this. If he did, he wouldn’t be doing so much to encourage the rumors about him being a homosexual:
http://www.virginmedia.com/images/batman-and-robin-sequels-431.jpg |
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| Posted in: George Clooney Doesn’t Care About Homophobic People | |||
[Assoc. Ed. Note: I think the thing here is that you posted a picture of batman and batman wasn't George Clooney? Or something? Listen, facetaco, I'm not going to try to make sense of why you got the lowest rated comment this week. I'm sure you deserved it. Congratulations.]
This Week’s Caption Contest Winner
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lawblog | Feb 28th | Score:33 | |
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“Not to brag or anything, but I have a google alert for ‘trash’.” |
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| Posted in: The Videogum Why Don’t YOU Caption It? Contest: Uggie Hanging Out With Oscar The Grouch | |||
[Ed. Note: Congratulations, lawblog! You earned it.]
This Week’s Associate Editor’s Choice
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heisenberg | 12:42pm | Score:5 | |
| Posted in: Watch This Gross Bug Video, It’s Important | |||
[Assoc. Ed. Note: So, ok, I know that first of all this is an image, which is already kind of cheating, and that second of all it is just a meme image or whatever that people post on tumblr all the time or whatever and who cares, but when I saw it in the bug comments thread it made me laugh IRL. A genuine LOL, and then I laughed again when I looked at it here, in Monsters' Ball. So who can put a cost on real laughter, with the state of the world today? Right? Laughter is the best medicine. Congratulations to Stephanie Tanner and heisenberg.]
This Week’s Editor’s Choice
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mikegentry | Feb 29th | Score:44 | |
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I bet the fucking guy that made the months is pretty embarrassed now. |
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| Posted in: That’s Your Girlfriend: Girl Who Doesn’t “Get” Leap Days | |||
[Ed. Note: No joke. That fucking idiot. Durr, I don't know how to count to 31 so there's 28 but sometimes 29 guhh derrrr I'm a stupid scientist!]
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Have a great weekend, everyone! Time to get our drink on!!!!!!!
Here’s a preview of me later tonight:
Congratulations on the Caption Contest win, Lawblog.
It was an honor just being nominated.And that’s a RAP, folks!
Alright! Let’s dance like we all just got home from the Chiropractor!
If only I knew how to lose my inhibitions completely and let the music own me like these guys.
It’s Friday let’s dance
I think she is practicing for when she gets put in the tube with all the money flying around and she only has 30 seconds to grab as much of it as she can.
Happy weekend everyone!!! Let’s dance and party!!!
IMDB lists Ben Stiller as 5′ 8″ and Emma Stone as 5′ 6″. She must be wearing 7″ heels.
Great week, guys! May all your weekend parties be like whatever Project X is.
Huckabeast OUT.
I’d like to think my “Iman on Fire” submission for the Tyler Perry party game would have gone over better with the proper visual support.
Cause seriously, that would make a great movie. Supermodel Iman has to protect a young girl from assassins, but also she’s on fire. Tyler Perry would make the hell out of that movie.
I’ve spent too much time thinking about this.
Does David Bowie ride a dragon?
Hopefully while wearing his goblin king pants.
It would be a helluva lot better than those ridiculous Nic Cage movies… Ghost Rider on Fire or whatever.
Ghost Rider On Fire should definitely be a movie title.
Ghost Rider Hair on Fire has a nice ring to it, too.
Plus Nicolas Cage is the perfect candidate for setting his hair on fire whilst consuming flaming tacos and screaming into the camera “IS THIS WHAT YOU WAAAANNNNTTTT???”.
Another week closer to the grave and here we stand together on a Friday looking back together as friends here with our end of the week videogum dot com reverse commentator ball re-cap analysis where we check out the top five best blog posts of the week, the worst blog post of the week and the editor choice.
Top five best blog posts of the week:
#5. You guys want to have sex with a cheeseburger
#4. Ready to Rock!
#3. 1988 news report gets serious about computer viruses
#2. walking dead re-cap: two tickets to the knife show
#1. A pretty regular mad parody tribute
[Ed. note - congratulations you earned it. Love stuff like the mad parody thing because its like those weird computer animated cat things, "I-am-a-cat" etc, just weird internet junk. love it.]
Worst blog post of the week – a three way tie:
Natalie Portman marries some guy
[Ed. note - ugh!!!!]
The oscar coverage haters blog post and commentator roundtable of hatred
[Ed. note - Yeesh. I really liked the speeches by the black chick and the old guy who played a gay guy. those were good speeches and the dudes from spinal tap or best in show or whatever, in the black and white test audience screener skit about wizard of oz. that was good. I liked it, didnt love it, didnt hate it, but didnt watch the whole thing. Didnt think it earned all the hate that the internet threw at it, frankly.]
Anne Hathaway stars in the humble brag diaries
[Ed. note - I really dont care for this type of thing, taking some candid remarks a celebrity makes and putting them under some vehement internet microscope for derision and rebuke. First of all she's pretty, so leave her alone; second of all this is blowing things out of proportion. Just let it slide. Same goes for all the hate thrown at poor Jessica Alba when she did that photoshoot where she drooled water out her mouth, probably at the direction of the photographer, or when Charlize Theron made a candid remark about unhappy childhood memories. The internet loves to hate these girls and it gets on my nerves. However I dont mind it at all when this type of thing is applied to douche bags like Mark Wahlberg. Fuck that guy.]
Editor Choice:
Walking dead re-cap: two tickets to the knife show
[Ed. note - I cant praise these re-caps highly enough. When I watch walking dead I turn off my brain and hate it without understanding why it sucks so bad. The re-caps really get in to it and analyze things that I just didnt even notice, like the whole thing about needing to drive 18 miles as being an actual thing. Or the whole expository discussions of what the characters are in the act of doing. I dont even notice why I hate these shows, so the re-caps help to redeem my suffering so it is not in vain. For that I am grateful]
Have the best weekend you ever had and I’ll see all yall next week. Bye.
Steve, I’m really glad I greenlit this idea of yours, as it really adds a layer to the Monster’s Ball thread that I enjoy immensely.
On an unrelated note, I went and watched the Star Wars prequels so I could then watch the Red Letter Media reviews you recommend. Man, did those things suck! I had to stop the last movie near the end with the lava fight. it was just so boring. I saw a link on the internet somewhere suggesting you watch the prequels after the second movie and before the third. Don’t. They add nothing to the original trilogy. I recently watched the originals for the first time ever and I probably would’ve hated the whole thing if i’d watched the prequels in between.
Also, I love the reviews, except for the tangent about serial killing and such. I recommend that you watch The Red letter Media Reviews and skip over them. See you next week.
Chris, let me get this straight- Did you go out of your way to watch the prequels so you could watch the Red Letter Media reviews? If so, I feel so conflicted in that, if you weren’t ever planning on seeing the prequels because you could taker or leave Star Wars, then the reviews still don’t make the films worth watching!
But if you were planning on getting around to watching the prequels because it was just on a meandering list of things you might get around to doing, and the reviews perked your interest, then I understand.
One thing about the serial killer stuff– it was very uncomfortable! I liked that this guy presented himself as a crazy person within the narrative of his review (thereby absolving himself of any sort of accountability in case people want to argue against his case), and I do believe he injected his psycho persona segments with certain allegorical points he was making as they pertained to the films and their narrative structure, but yeah, still very uncomfortable!
And finally, I was watching some video someone linked to on facebook of a guy talking about “What they should have done with Episode I,” where he takes the film and basically runs down the whole plot of the film, trimming perplexing narrative threads, rewriting roles/motivations/actions, and generally doing a lot of tightening up. Real cut and dry, Duh Aficionado stuff (Darth Maul should have been the Vader-esque villain to the Emperor throughout all three films! The prequels should have been Obi Wan’s story, just like Eps 4-6 were Luke’s, with the overarching plot being Anakin’s rise and fall!). It all made sense and was put together and presented well.
But my issue is this. People need to get over Star Wars SO BAD. Just stop talking about the movies. Let it go. it was a piece of entertainment. It was not good. Vote with your dollar and it will stop. It won’t ever stop. The fanbase is too big. But I’m just saying what is the use of putting forth SO MUCH ENERGY on Star Wars?
While I appreciate the time/passion/analysis/love/sweat/tears/understanding/and viewpoints put into things like the Red Letter Media reviews, the video I mentioned about replotting the film, or people physically making new cuts of the film such as ‘The Phantom Edit,’ etc., in the end it’s still the disappointing Star Wars Prequels. The fans are never going to get the movie they wanted.
So to them I say just keep on keeping on. Let it go. Check out Firefly maybe? Star Trek. Read some books. Warhammer. Whatever. There’s so much more out there. Maybe even make something of your own!
I liked the old trilogy. Even though the first movie is horribly directed, the two other movies make up for it and make the first movie make sense. I watched the prequels so I could watch something that Steve said was on par with Gabe’s recaps, and for the most part they were.
From my limited understanding of Star Wars fandom, i think it’s pretty close to being a Cleveland Browns fan. You treasure the magical moments of old and keep going to the games hoping they turn around, but knowing that it’s going to be another letdown. You call radio stations (i’m not actually a Browns fan) to say what they should or should’ve done but at the end of the day it’s out of your control.
Yeah, I ain’t care for they shoul’ves or should’n't’ves but it’s fun to point out flaws on such terribly movies. Specially the prequels, because Lucas could’ve paid the best screen writers and directors and would’ve had a set of great movies. Instead he focused the money on special effects that will date themselves in a few years.
I actually agree with Winwood in the Anne Hathaway post, weird.
I left my comments about it in that post so I won’t rehash them here, except that I found it sexist and it sucked.
OTHER THAN THAT, I’m fine, let’s have a good weekend, everymonster!
Yeah, that wasn’t the best post.
Wow, #4??
You like me! You really like me! (Oscar reference, you guys.)
Have a dangtastic weekend, all!
Kelly! Not only were the comments short and quippy, but they were all food related, and four of them were hamburger-related (either dealing with Kate Upton’s sandwich commercial or Mark Wahlburger saying things)!
Food = Funny, I guess?
HUMMUS!
GARBANZO!!
PEPPERCORNS?!
that is a funny word for a bean
CAKE!
Am I doing this right?
YES
DUCK L’ORANGE!
OMELTTE DU FROMAGE!
OMELTTE DU FROMAGE!
OMELTTE DU FROMAGE!
With cake you can never go wrong. Unless it’s with carrots.
I like to think of Carrot Cake as above-average bread.
That is actually *exactly* why I like it. Zucchini bread as well.
(Plus cream cheese frosting is the best frosting, regardless of cakes.)
Wow, no one ever talks about Zucchini bread. But I grew up on that stuff because my mom and neighbor grew those things in their gardens.
Although I prefer my cream cheese frosting on top of red velvet, thanks.
Guys, come on, PUMPERNICKEL.
BRAUNSCHWEIGER
RAZZMATAZZ
I just read the Caption Contest thread, then wiki’d Uggie, so I’m in a great mood. Here’s my favorite true quote from Uggie’s Wikipedia page:
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has already responded: “Regretfully, we must advise that as he is not a human being and as his unique motivation as an actor was sausages, Uggie is not qualified to compete for the Bafta in this category.” This was after a number of members had contacted BAFTA to enquire if they were allowed to vote for Uggie for Best Actor.
I would argue that by the promise of sausages is not a particularly unique motivation for most of Hollywood.
i just want to tell everyone about my dream last night: i got to play with baby tigers! it was the best dream ever. My only goal for this weekend is to have another dream where i get to play with baby tigers. Low expectations!
I am very jealous, b/c my IRL dream is to play with baby tigers. It is the only thing on my bucket list.
That sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
“I’m gonna go play with those tigers!”
Dead.
a friend of my roommate just got a job at a zoo. “Can she introduce me to the baby tigers”- my exact words.
I had a dream that I made out with Dave from Happy Endings.
Last night was a good night for dreams.
I had a dream that I was escaping from some weird hospital with Daenerys and Khal Drogo. It was the best dream EVER.
Have a good wevoteforobamaekend everyone!
Propaganda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fondue cheddar, have you been Hitler all along?
I just went into my time machine and killed him for good measure
Typing in heaven is much easier; and there are no downvotes.
Have a good weekend, Monsters. I can honestly say I’m glad I started commenting again. And be safe everyone. It’s snowing poopballs in the Midwest, der hey.
I was away last weekend, so I really dropped the ball on my self-instituted THREAD OF THE WEEK, and while next week’s is probably today’s “Pointing out people in a snapshot image from a movie trailer” thread, last week’s was this one where we learn that The Whatever loooooooooves John Cusack and dresses like Han Solo, and jokes ensue for most of the rest of the week.
I have no idea where this gif is from, but it is sheer perfection.
This gif is great. Based on her earring, I think it’s from Jem.
Have a good weekend, you guys. Keep it sexy.
Since I achieved my ‘True EGOT’ with last week’s Ball (any Top 5 spot, Caption Contest, Editor’s Choice & Lowest Voted), obviously my sights were then set on achieving my FULL EGOT (same as a True EGOT but with ALL TOP 5 SPOTS ACHIEVED *GASP!*).
After last week, there were only two Top 5 spots I have not yet placed in– one of which being the #3!
So thanks, everybody, for upvoting me to the middle of the pack this week!
Just one more spot, my preciousssssss…
Facetaco’s lowest-rated comment is probably the only lowest-rated that I’ve upvoted, and for sure the only one that I’ve gone back to upvote, because who cares if he got the Batman wrong, it’s still funny.
I’m assuming he was downvoted because he sounded like Senor Chang shouting “Gaaaay!” from the back of the class.