In order to promote the April 13th episode of How I Met Your Mother, which will concern the Barney/Robin love thing we've all known was coming but chose to ignore this whole season, CBS has put together their own montage of Barney and Robin's relationship through the years, You-Tube style. While the production values are superior, it couldn't be any sappier or groan-worthy if it was actually created on YouTube by a thirteen year old girl:
Wow. The guys at Everything Is Terrible have put together my favorite "supercut" of all time: quick clips of local news reports from all over the country about where we were seeing Jesus (and the Virgin Mary) in 2008, complete with an extremely well-done narrative arc:
"I love Jesus and you know I love cats but I'm not seeing it." That was better than most Daily Show video segments. Great job, internet! (Specifically, everythingisterrible.com.)
Rich Four Four put together a montage of child beauty pageant stage parents based on TLC's recent specials Toddlers And Tiaras and Painted Babies At 17. The parents are ridiculous, so the laughs are guilt-free:
It's a great way of representing the train-wreck spectacle of child beauty pageants that focuses on the borderline abusive parents, not the poor kids. (In other words, thanks to Rich for the excuse to laugh, because the rest was pretty depressing.)
Best Week Ever's Sara Schaefer was watching Kung Fu movies (for some reason: boring!) and discovered that guys in Kung Fu movies often look like they're going to the bathroom. So she did what anyone would do: she made a funny montage and named it "Kung Poo":
Apropos of not much, wouldn't it be funny if the people who made Ex Lax commercials changed their tagline to "Smooth Move, Ex Lax!", like River Phoenix in Explorers? The commercials could be people coming out of the bathroom and saying that to their boxes of Ex Lax. You're welcome, Madison Avenue.
Unless they come out with amazing new technology or employ extremely original new creativity, this is the last montage of Allison the duster huffer from Intervention I'll be posting, I promise. But of all the videos I've seen, this one pleads the strongest case for going back and watching this show so you can understand the Halloween costumes we'll surely be seeing this year:
Via tipster Brandon and Defamer. It can't be long now before our Allison appears on The View, no?
Thanks to Mitchell for tipping us off to his montage of Allison's "best" moments, set to exactly the right song:
Even The New York Times is getting on the Allison-driven new Intervention word-of-mouth bandwagon with a story yesterday admitting "That episode devoted to Allison was one of the most bizarrely mesmerizing on television in who knows how long."
So it's totally okay to have posted that montage. Thanks, New York Times!
This weekend, like a lot of people, I watched all of Mad Men on OnDemand. It's a good show with a lot of potential, but not quite the second coming of The Sopranos it's being made out to be (yet). But there's nothing else on, and the media hype machine abhors a vacuum. One amusing running gag afforded by the show's 1960s setting are the behaviors that would seem completely ridiculous now but were normal then, like smoking in hospitals. The show can't use them for much longer, but they're fun for now. Some lovely person has gone and made a "Top 10 Un-PC Moments On Mad Men" video on YouTube that surprisingly doesn't include the scene where a very pregnant Francine drinks wine while smoking, but provides a nice overview:
I would have placed the dry cleaning bag scene at #1 because it's probably the funniest scene on the show so far.
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