[Ed. note: due to a Netflix Error, the Hunt is postponed for a week. Boo hoo, I'm sure. We're all devastated.]

On a day like today, with Couples Retreat making headlines as the number one movie in the country and reminding us that there’s nothing America loves better than Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau organizing a paid vacation to the Bahamas for themselves, it is hard to remember that there are even things to like in this world. Everything is so hatable! Jon Gosselin is claiming that he’s half-Jewish? Shut up, Jon Gosselin. Shut your mouth. Roland Emmerich is making a movie about Shakespeare? Alas, poor Yorick! He blew his brains out, Horatio. So when you do find something that you like, HOLD ON TO THAT THING. Grip it tight, Of Mice and Men style, and try not to crush it in your soft-brained hands, but hug it and love it and keep it forever.

Today, we have two classic entries in this on-going search for elusive Human Happiness:

Maybe what you love is showing off your collection of NeoGeo games without a shirt on, while the Pet Shop Boys play in the background. Go for it! If you really love a particular game, make a blowjob handsign (?) or grab your nipple. It’s the ’90s!

That guy is amazing. One of the best guys. He loves his games, and he loves dancing. What do you love? Nothing, probably.

But maybe showing off out-dated videogame system game collections with no shirt on and late ’80s britpop playing in the background is not what you love. Perhaps what you love is dressing up like a clown and performing aggro-carnival songs about Luna Bars in your clowncore band. Do it! Don’t let anyone tell you not to do it.

Admittedly, that last one is less of a strange fetish and more of a clever parody of unbearable contemporary music trends, but it’s still funny, and I like to imagine that it is real. I do what I want. You should also! (Both videos via BuzzFeed.)

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Comments (43)
  1. Napoleon Complex  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    Y’all think that clowncore video is a parody? Go talk to a teenager.
    I offer you an UGH on behalf of my generation.

    • sarcasticmeow  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

      I offer you two UGHS on behalf of my generation that started this mess.

  2. bingo gas station  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    Moonmaster?

  3. werttrew  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    Wow Insane Clown Posse has really let themselves go.

    • werttrew  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

      Oh snaps! After I posted this I thought of a better joke!

      You?ve got to give Insane Clown Posse props, though, for their brave new lo-fi approach and aural experimentation. They?re basically Animal Collective in clown masks now.

      • werttrew  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

        I certainly hope I’ve learned my lesson.

        • Godsauce  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

          I haven’t learned from your mistake. One day, I’m going to keep trying new variations until I post the perfect joke, and, even if all the monsters downvote me, I’ll know that it was worth it for that one transcendent moment of extreme joy before I catch my typo and end up double-posting.

        • apesofmath  |   Posted on Oct 13th, 2009

          You were probably upvoted 10 times by vidgum readers and then news spread to stereogum that someone was defiling the name of animal collective and they downvoted you twelve times.

      • IkilledMichael  |   Posted on Oct 13th, 2009

        I upvoted both of those jokes.
        The first because it was funny.
        The second because you went for a difficult maneuver and bobbled on the landing. But you went for it, sometimes that’s the most important part.
        The more we know…………

  4. Adam  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    Well you guys, I’m off to buy some faygo and prepare for the next Gathering, because I guess I’m a juggalo now, is how much I enjoyed that clown-core.

  5. hello my name is RAWR!  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    I’m not down with this Melodic Clowncore subgenre.

  6. Bubbles  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    Neo-Geo you’re the one
    who makes dancing topless
    so much fun

  7. tiredandwired  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    There is nothing heavier than a Casio keyboard. Well, except for covering The Postal Service, OBVS.

  8. Marcus  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    “On Christmas, I’ll see my kids during the day for a couple of hours.”
    -Jon Gosselin

  9. That One  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    I love how “Netflix error” is a perfectly acceptable reason for not watching a movie, as if there are no other alternatives to exchanging currency for temporary possession of a DVD. My theory is that the shame caused by that embarrassing checkout process where the sexy, film-literate clerk looks at your selection, and then at you, and then at the floor as she shakes her head in a nonverbal judgment of your entire worth of a human being was too much for Gabe to bear.

    I feel ya, though. I once rented Marley and Me at my local video store and haven’t been back since. Because shame.

    • hello my name is RAWR!  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

      That’s why you just check it out at the same time as, like, Eraserhead.

    • kiss the pan  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

      There are video stores still?!

    • Elliot  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

      I used to get dvd’s from the library until one day i lost the DVD for Alfie starring Jude Law.
      Took me about two years to work up the nerve to go back and pay for that DVD.

    • arthur great  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

      I live with my parents (way cool to start with!), but I was telling my mom that she should check out the local video store because there’s a section for all her stupid British romcoms. Instead she gave me a list.

      I had to go up to cute punky clerk girl and ask, “Do you have Fever Pitch, the one with Colin Firth?”

      I could rent every Agnes Varda movie in the store and never win back her heart…

    • Silvio  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

      We had the same Netflix error Gabe had today. It’s called Columbus Day.. no mail.

      • That One  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

        Jesus, you’re right! I have a carrier who only picks up my mail if he feels up to it, and I figured that was why the rent, three bills, and a birthday card for my dad are still in the mailbox.

        When the power’s shut off, I’m evicted, and my dad won’t return my calls, I’m still gonna blame it on that motherfucker.

        • Silvio  |   Posted on Oct 13th, 2009

          Maybe he’s too busy writing poetry about sexual romps and trips to the horse track.

  10. Lord Growing  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    Reserve your Ed Hardy kippah now, kids. It’s gonna be all the rage.

  11. bingo gas station  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    Seriously… Am I the only one who watched until 1:23 in the first video?

    • Zingers  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

      No, I think everyone watched past the 1:23 mark but is still more shocked and appalled by everything Jon Gosselin said in that interview

    • sorryicecream  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

      no, :(

    • lemonne  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

      I watched until the butt crack, which is basically my universal cutoff point for all YouTube videos.

    • you got me so confused  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

      I made it to 55seconds, did i miss something?

  12. aniktwo  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    That first guy reminds me of my ex-husband, neo-geo and all. :(

  13. aniktwo  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    Also, there is no way that Jon Gosselin uttered the words “Everyone in my life is Jewish now, my attorney.” Right? RIGHT?!

  14. sorryicecream  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    those clown core kids are just trying to spread awareness. my (male) friend ate a luna bar once and still gets called lunaboobs.

  15. gilsemple  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    We Should All Be So Lucky As To Find Something In This World That Makes Us Happy, Parts Four-A And Four-B - That's Your Boyfriend - Videogum - Mozilla Firefox 10122009 70530 PM
    HOW COULD KATE GOSSELIN LEAVE THAT?

    • dumb  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

      Oh man, I so win the dirt-digging game with this video of Jerry from accounting. I knew he was hiding something!

  16. Deezey  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    Oh, I get it. Because Luna bars are specially formulated for women. Men can’t eat them, their dicks will fall off. Men can only eat Clif bars. I’ve been so tempted, those S’mores look pretty good, but I like my dick.

    • inko8  |   Posted on Oct 13th, 2009

      well how d’ya feel about “nuts over chocolate?”

  17. Jon  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    I have found human happiness, and it is glorious.

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

  18. Cap'n Jack  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    “I’m now half Jewish and half Korean.”
    Because that is totally how cultural heritage/religion works.

  19. Godsauce  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    I don’t know if it’s love, but I am digging that cover of “Where the Streets Have No Name”.

  20. creamofthecrop  |   Posted on Oct 13th, 2009

    the best part of all this is your link to that belle and sebastian song. i’ve always imagined Gabe as a twee boy. NOW I KNOW

  21. worker3116  |   Posted on Oct 13th, 2009

    Hello. Remember me?

  22. worker3116  |   Posted on Oct 13th, 2009

    Girl at the Bar: Hey, haven?t I seen you around? Weren?t you at that party when?
    Worker #3116: Fuck you!

    Or:

    Boss: Hey, Worker, do you think you could finish this project before?
    Worker #3116: Fuck you!

    Here is the new Worker #3116, easing into his new neighborhood:

    Guy Working at the Gym: Welcome to the Gym. How are you today?
    Worker #3116: I JUST MOVED HERE A WEEK AGO. OH, WERE YOU LOOKING AT THIS BOX? IT?S FULL OF PROTEIN BARS.
    Guy Working at the Gym: ?
    Worker #3116: HAHAHA. SO, YEAH, I JUST MOVED HERE.
    Guy Working at the Gym: ?
    Worker #3116: WELL, IT WAS REALLY GREAT TO MEET YOU. I?M SURE I WILL SEE YOU AROUND NOW THAT I LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. MY NAME IS WORKER #3116. IT WAS NICE TO MEET YOU.

  23. PerhapsAnAtticShallISeek  |   Posted on Oct 13th, 2009

    Clowncore may be the worst, but this is the no contest the worsest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TH5ibABP4U

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