Videogum Home - designed by Guilherme Rosa

 

July 28, 2009

The Greatest Fight Scene Of All Time

thumbnail icon: The Greatest Fight Scene Of All Time

The only thing to really do with this is set it up: the following is a scene from ABC Family's new gymnastics-themed show, Make It Or Break It, which based on this scene appears to be a documentary about what life is really like on the streets. The main characters were minding their own business in a gas station parking lot when they were accosted by a gang of thugs. At first, it seems like these "defenseless" young women are in trouble. They're outnumbered and physically outclassed by this swarthy (neck tattoo!) gang of amoral troublemakers. But the girls know how to defend themselves.

Kind of.

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Such a waste of pretty face but hanging in your noone's face
I wish that you would take a look and really stop that
Top that, stop that
I don't really give a about tryin to top that
Top that, stop that
I wish you finally take a real look and really stop that
Whats this, stop that
What gives, stop that
I don't really give a about tryin to top that
Top that, big deal
Top that, unreal
You can try until you're blue
I will make a fool of you
TOP THAT

(Via WarmingGlow.)

Posted by Gabe at 3:30 PM in
Tags:  |  |  |  |  |




51 Comments

You know, I was taught to cartwheel away from danger. I never knew street tuffs were intimidated by tumbling exercises!

Posted by: kiss the pan profile link at 07/28/09 3:38 PM  | Reply
Score = 17 Vote up Vote down

That was some superhero action YO!

Posted by: don at 07/28/09 3:38 PM  | Reply
Score = 3 Vote up Vote down

Dignityrape.

Posted by: Eagle Hat at 07/28/09 3:39 PM  | Reply
Score = -4 Vote up Vote down

Dignityrape.

Posted by: Eagle Hat at 07/28/09 3:39 PM  | Reply
Score = -11 Vote up Vote down

intimidating "scary" men at the gas station with crazy gymnastic moves? that happens to me ALL THE TIME.

Posted by: Udolpho profile link at 07/28/09 3:41 PM  | Reply
Score = 2 Vote up Vote down

Wait. Wait wait wait. WAIT.

I was under the impression that all conflicts of this nature were to be solved by super-choreographed breakdancing and possibly breakdance fighting. How come nobody told me we had moved onto aggressive front flips and cartwheels? I'll need to learn a whole new routine now!

Posted by: Girl Friday profile link at 07/28/09 3:42 PM  | Reply
Score = 27 Vote up Vote down

They should retool the show to focus on that gang trying to threaten people, only to be frightened off again and again. They could run away from by kids blowing bubbles, the handicapped doing spins in power wheelchairs, etc. Best show ever.

Posted by: Friendly Giant profile link at 07/28/09 3:43 PM  | Reply
Score = 41 Vote up Vote down

Truly a brilliant idea, but if you watch the entire episode of "Make it or Break it," you'll see that the gang gets wise pretty quickly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMM03fv3p5U

Posted by: whoa! profile link  in reply to  Friendly Giant's comment at 07/28/09 4:35 PM  | Reply
Score = -5 Vote up Vote down

This had so much potential for the gang to rip off their street clothes to reveal gymnastics leotards underneath. At that point, the show writes itself.

Posted by: Sharky profile link at 07/28/09 3:43 PM  | Reply
Score = 16 Vote up Vote down

"I'm sick of taking people's crap".

))>((.

So am I.

Posted by: tiredandwired profile link at 07/28/09 3:44 PM  | Reply
Score = 6 Vote up Vote down

ohhh come on writers... we all know "Let's get ready to tumble!!" > "Follow me"

Posted by: bingo gas station profile link at 07/28/09 3:45 PM  | Reply
Score = 6 Vote up Vote down

Somehow I just don't believe her when she says she's sick of taking people's crap.

Posted by: Weeam profile link at 07/28/09 3:47 PM  | Reply
Score = 3 Vote up Vote down

sorry, but this is horribly unrealistic. when someone cartwheels at me out in the streetz i usually just kick them in the mouth.

Posted by: chris profile link at 07/28/09 3:48 PM  | Reply
Score = 7 Vote up Vote down

This is why I travel everywhere with my bodyguards, Shawn Johnson and Kerri Strug.

Posted by: booferama profile link at 07/28/09 3:49 PM  | Reply
Score = 28 Vote up Vote down

whoever they are

Posted by: wrj89 profile link  in reply to  booferama's comment at 07/28/09 3:56 PM  | Reply
Score = -6 Vote up Vote down

Be Agressive, B-E Agressive

Posted by: j0shsm1th profile link at 07/28/09 3:49 PM  | Reply
Score = 15 Vote up Vote down

You've never seen "Gymkata," the gymnastics martial arts movie that was made on the quick after the success of the U.S. Gymnastics team at the 1984 games? Want to know what happens when a U.S. gymnast is attacked by an angry crowd of Kazakhstanis from "Borat" -- but wait, there just happens to be a POMMEL HORSE in the middle of the village? Click here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gTkUcXGF_Q

Posted by: mp at 07/28/09 3:49 PM  | Reply
Score = 12 Vote up Vote down

I can't upvote this enough.

Posted by: sinkfloridasink profile link  in reply to  mp's comment at 07/28/09 6:26 PM  | Reply
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

Okay, fine, gymnastics are fun, we can all agree on that, but why is the school gymnastic team even in these "rough" gang-filled ghettos in the first place? I mean, if you're so sick of "taking people's crap" just stop going to places where crap happens!

Posted by: Aaron profile link at 07/28/09 3:49 PM  | Reply
Score = 7 Vote up Vote down

Now there's no way We Are Heroes can lose.

Posted by: Sebastian profile link at 07/28/09 3:54 PM  | Reply
Score = 1 Vote up Vote down

This would have been funny as a reverse Indiana Jones scene. They do all those cartwheels and flips at the thugs. And then the thugs take out their guns and shoot them.

Posted by: Captain Boring of the S.S. Shut Up profile link at 07/28/09 3:55 PM  | Reply
Score = 15 Vote up Vote down

I was thinking the exact same thing, but instead of a gun, one of the girls just flips into a knife.

Posted by: That One profile link  in reply to  Captain Boring of the S.S. Shut Up's comment at 07/28/09 4:17 PM  | Reply
Score = 11 Vote up Vote down

Your comment just made all of the milk in the world squirt out of my nose.

Posted by: Aaron profile link  in reply to  That One's comment at 07/28/09 6:43 PM  | Reply
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

Bela Caroli has been taking out his enemies like this for years.

Posted by: jmpang profile link at 07/28/09 4:10 PM  | Reply
Score = 2 Vote up Vote down

I'm so glad Becca got in the car!

Posted by: Kelly profile link at 07/28/09 4:15 PM  | Reply
Score = 8 Vote up Vote down

Like the alligator, the common street thug is inept at moving sideways.

Posted by: Guestershire Terrier at 07/28/09 4:17 PM  | Reply
Score = 13 Vote up Vote down

I don't remember these girls from Mortal Kombat,were they in the first or the second one?

Posted by: moonmaster profile link at 07/28/09 4:25 PM  | Reply
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

Backwards hat dude has perfected the look of dumbfoundedness.

Posted by: ber profile link at 07/28/09 4:25 PM  | Reply
Score = 2 Vote up Vote down

As much as I laughed at all the great comments above, I still think this is cool and I wish I could do it.

Posted by: Ashley profile link at 07/28/09 4:31 PM  | Reply
Score = 6 Vote up Vote down

Nice to see Dave Matthews branching out. He looks super tough with the neck tattoo.

Posted by: d-w at 07/28/09 4:32 PM  | Reply
Score = 7 Vote up Vote down

Those thugs have all right to be scared. Those girls can break the sound barrier with their super sweet gymnastics!

Posted by: Robotic Apostle profile link at 07/28/09 4:33 PM  | Reply
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

Those thugs have all right to be scared. Those girls can break the sound barrier with their super sweet gymnastics!

Posted by: Robotic Apostle profile link at 07/28/09 4:34 PM  | Reply
Score = -1 Vote up Vote down

I thought for sure that those street toughs were actually the Hot Cops.

Posted by: dude profile link at 07/28/09 4:44 PM  | Reply
Score = 9 Vote up Vote down

That's some serious United Colors of Benetton shit going on with the gang. They are so afraid of appearing un-p.c. that they've put together the most unlikely group of people....the white dude, the black guy, the south asian, the mexican, the canadian thug, the northern european...

Posted by: She-Ra, P.O.P. profile link at 07/28/09 4:45 PM  | Reply
Score = 19 Vote up Vote down

The Crips, Latin Kings, Yakuza, Aryan Nationalists and IRA will always put aside their differences(?) when they see a group of young gymnasts begging to be gently harassed.

Posted by: moonmaster profile link  in reply to  She-Ra, P.O.P.'s comment at 07/28/09 5:38 PM  | Reply
Score = 23 Vote up Vote down

The quakers, the bakers, the candlestick makers.

Posted by: inglorius basTURD profile link  in reply to  moonmaster's comment at 07/30/09 4:38 PM  | Reply
Score = 2 Vote up Vote down

That's all right, that's okay, you're gonna pump our gas someday!

Posted by: Arielle at 07/28/09 5:19 PM  | Reply
Score = 6 Vote up Vote down

Performing "The Friendship Song" is the only way to end wanksta/gymnast-related violence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DxDLy3B40I

Posted by: Mike at 07/28/09 5:33 PM  | Reply
Score = -1 Vote up Vote down

Whatever. If they really wanted to be threatening, they wouldn't have stepped out of the layout. A stuck landing has much more punch. Not to mention - entering the pass from cartwheel instead of hurdling into a roundoff? That's like, not even scary.

For the record, the most intimidating tumbling pass is punch front, roundoff, whipback, whipback, back handspring, layout with a half turn, punch front, flying side kick. Shut it down.

Posted by: cizmad profile link at 07/28/09 5:38 PM  | Reply
Score = 13 Vote up Vote down

I feel like I just got told.

Posted by: .bryan. profile link  in reply to  cizmad's comment at 07/29/09 1:23 AM  | Reply
Score = 2 Vote up Vote down

Why is nobody else acknowledging the perfectly random but amazing placement of the entire Teen Witch rap? Has that stone been squeezed dry and bloodless already? Is it because it's not Kenneth?

Sad day for Teen Witches everywhere.

Posted by: Roosevelt Franklin profile link at 07/28/09 6:50 PM  | Reply
Score = 6 Vote up Vote down

yea, that was EASILY the most amazing part of this post.

*grabs ancestral amulet and fake raps outta here*

Posted by: Becca profile link  in reply to  Roosevelt Franklin's comment at 07/28/09 7:29 PM  | Reply
Score = 3 Vote up Vote down

Perfectly random? The blocking was almost exactly the same except without bicycles and "Oh, there's Rhett! Look at how FUNKY he is!"

Posted by: The Handshake profile link  in reply to  Roosevelt Franklin's comment at 07/29/09 1:34 PM  | Reply
Score = 2 Vote up Vote down

This is not funny, guys. The Ukranians have been training these super soldiers for years! They will pummel horse your faces so bad.

Posted by: Lulubelle profile link at 07/28/09 8:40 PM  | Reply
Score = 2 Vote up Vote down

Maybe you could start jeteing and stop je-terrorizing me.

Posted by: rk profile link at 07/28/09 8:53 PM  | Reply
Score = 6 Vote up Vote down

This is not gym-NICE-tics!

Posted by: lengli profile link at 07/28/09 10:04 PM  | Reply
Score = 6 Vote up Vote down

when videogum and i first met i had a Top That icon so it really warms my heart when it's referenced from time to time here.

Posted by: Mandy profile link at 07/29/09 1:46 AM  | Reply
Score = 1 Vote up Vote down

rather than going into how AMAZING the whole gymnastofightying(?) was i have two questions. why the hell did they tape this scene in the holland tunnel? and why aren't more abc family shows made there, the sound is BOMB, literally(?)

Posted by: Saad profile link at 07/29/09 2:05 AM  | Reply
Score = 3 Vote up Vote down

Didn't everyone know gymnastics was the way to get things sorted. That needless little girl in The Lost World owns that velociraptor with a bit of bar action. And to think, Geoff never went to see her do.

Posted by: Copperfeel-d at 07/29/09 5:57 AM  | Reply
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

I will watch this, but if they don't have a dog named Dozer with a mohawk, I will only watch it reluctantly.

Posted by: Patrick M profile link at 07/29/09 8:32 AM  | Reply
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

I have a sneaking suspicion that McG is somehow involved with this show.

Posted by: phoenix dark profile link at 07/31/09 3:38 PM  | Reply
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

Leave a comment


Staff

  • Founder/Editor-In-Chief: Scott Lapatine
  • Senior Editor: Gabe Delahaye
  • Executive Editor: Amrit Singh

Info

Contact

You Can Make It Up logo
Gabe loves fan fiction. You Can Make It Up features his own personal alternate adventures starring some of our favorite characters.

You Can Make It Up: People Tell Carrie Prejean What An Asshole She Is

Carrie Prejean turned the video camera off, put on some clothes, and stepped out of her house. It was a beautiful day outside. The air smelled like apples, and the late morning light hit the world in just such a...

MORE »

The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time logo
After watching Death Sentence, a terrible movie starring Kevin Bacon as a father in search of vigilante justice directed by Saw's James Wan, Gabe embarked on The Hunt For The Worst Movie of All Time. This is his sad journey.

The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: In The Land Of The Women

If you are a sassy and sarcastic young man in an American sitcom who represents the sitcom writer's desire that a nerdy Jewish teenager can somehow be the desirable romantic hero in this world, then eventually you will get a...

MORE »

Monsters' Ball logo
This week's five highest rated comments as voted on by you, the lowest rated comment as voted on by you, and the editor's choice.

Monsters' Ball: The Week's Best Comments

I shouldn't even be here right now. I SHOULD BE GETTING INTO MY COSTUME! If I don't hurry, my facepaint won't be dry before I get to the MOONVIE theater, and everyone will be like "hahah, you look like you're...

MORE »

Double Dog logo
Blogging about TV and movies isn't all fun and videogames. Every week, Lindsay or Gabe will be presented with a physical or mental challenge that tests their bravery,patience, and taste.

Double Dog: I Took A TV Bus Tour Alone In A "Just Jack" Tshirt

The Challenge: I had to go on a 3.5 hour bus tour of totally random TV and film locations in New York City. Alone, and wearing a specific ridiculous tshirt. And I had to find someone to take my picture...

MORE »

Videogum Movie Club logo
Let's all go to the movies, and let's all see the same movie, and let's discuss it here.

The Videogum Movie Club: 2012

Uh. OK. Well, first let's address what this movie did well, like the disappointed parents we are (or at least that I am), recognizing that the negative feedback won't be useful or constructive if it isn't preceded by something positive....

MORE »