That's Your Boyfriend: Nick
It's not unusual in a relationship for one person in the relationship to not get along with the other's friends as much as the other person in the relationship might like. And sure, it can be difficult to inherit a group of strangers and be expected to immediately form a meaningful bond with them based solely on the fact that you have a meaningful bond with someone that they know. But you must at least recognize, as a caring participant in a meaningful relationship, how important these friends are to your loved one, and how your effort to get along with his or her friends is actually a demonstration of your effort in the relationship. And if you still find yourself having trouble establishing a relationship with your boyfriend's or girlfriend's friends, then find a quiet, subtle way to excuse yourself from uncomfortable situations. What you should NOT do is constantly make fun of them for being a machine and insisting it's not even possible to be friends with a machine anyway when clearly it IS possible since some of us are friends with him and maybe even best friends. And don't roll your stupid eyes, or make snide remarks about the machine's weight as if that is any of your business, and definitely don't break them completely by tampering with their voltage regulator override circuit buttons on the back of their heads. Now your boyfriend's or girlfriend's friends don't even remember how to BE friends, much less any of their nice songs about God. Thanks a lot, Nick. Maybe you should spend a little less time on stiltedly ruining everything, and a little more time focusing on building that giant pile of broken wood (?).
What do you even see in him? Besides the hair?
P.S. Flippy and Floppy are also your boyfriends.
Posted by Gabe at 9:30 AM in That's Your Boyfriend
Tags: Computers | Jerks
Nick is giving me a splitting data-ache. And no matter how many tylenol-prayers I take, it's not going away.
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It's like Mississippi Burning...but with computers.
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Actually, it's a Boards of Canada album with dialog.
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Nick's dad is Biff Tannen
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'I don't understand, we prayed for Colby and he's still not all better', if hyper-Christian kids are already doubting religion, what hope does this show have of convincing us liberal, lefty, commie types of the credibility of Christianity?
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But if we had listened to skeptics like Nick, perhaps we wouldn't be in Iraq today! Think about it.
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Nick, don't interrupt!
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I bet Nick wouldn't like it if someone messed with his girlfriend's voltage regulator override circuit
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I think Nick would have warmed up to Colby if he was a vampire instead of a robot.
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This video broke me.
(I wish I had this on Friday night!!!)
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Buzz, your boyfriend. WOOF!
Also, that part at the end with the children as the choir and with the hands will forever haunt my nightmares.
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I bet he can't whistle.
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I almost forgot. Nick has the hots for Condoleezza Rice
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If your girl pulls out a copy of the New Testament from her back pocket, you hold on to that girl. FOREVER.
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This video reinforces my position that the editing done by EverythingisTerrible makes everything much more terrible. In a good way. Kinda like how MJ made all things "bad" good.
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Some of the editing choices were brilliant, like the buildup to the first song. The second song (with the tap-dancing? was it tap-dancing?) sucked. The final song with the hands was demonic and amazing.
Flip and Flop reminded me of a terrible version of Wee Sing in Sillyville. That movie was the best...remember? I'll just sit here waiting impatiently for some kind of Sillyville-related pic.
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I believe the parts of Flippy and Floppy are played by Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd from The Flaming Lips.
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Did people actually dress like that at some point in history, or all they all just in weird suspender'd costumes?
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That's why Nick's so angry. He wanted suspenders too, but all he got was perfectly sculpted Zachary Ty Bryan hair.
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So, let me get this straight, the 'boyfriend' you are talking about is that lesbian Nic? 'Cause seriously, that's my girl friend's girlfriend.
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I think there needed to be more communication between the writers and the costume designers.
Or maybe the buttons on the back of Colby's head were all in his mind; kind of like ye ol' "gotchyernose" trick
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This movie would be much better if my boyfriend Nick had spitefully touched the centers of flippy and floppy to RUIN THEM FOREVER.
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Also the whole robot sequence was probably the worst (and most accurate) advertisement for evangelical Christianity!
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I saw this in the mid-late eighties. It gave me nightmares. We also had Psalty the Singing Songbook on cassette (what is that? i’m so old!) and one of my sisters kept checking out this tape about a singing donut from the church library? Boy, I’m glad they got away from anthropomorphic Christian children’s characters. They were creepy as fuck.
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I remember Psalty. Official Mascot of Vacation Bible School 1986.
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yeah. i owned and watched this regularly in the mid eighties (what are those? you can look it up!) too.
which explains both why nick is my boyfriend and why i have no girlfriend.
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The joke is on Colby because God doesn't allow gay robots in heaven.
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So.... if you believe in Jesus and recite Bible verses, you're a robot... and if you're a skeptic, you retain your humanity and identity. Got it!
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Whoaaa! Nothing like a blindside of nostalgia to start off my day. Let's get one thing clear, growing up in a conservative christian family, deprived of normal media, we ate this shit up. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles??? Pffft tooo violent! THEY DON'T EVEN WEAR ROLLER SKATES! actually i think i just liked it because i thought those dancing suspendered boys were HOT (whoops)
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I for one welcome our new robot best friends.
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If you guys wanna go get some LUUUUUuuuunch. Stupid LUNCH. Ugh.
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I watched this without the sound on, so I'm not sure, but Flippy and Floppy touched everyone in their bad place, right? Also: leopard print suspenders.
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Flippy and floppy were Michael bay's inspiration for those jive talking Chevys in transformers 2. Annnnd I'm pretty sure Colby was the inspiration for that whole 'robot heaven' scene.
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Sometimes my boyfriend gets really upset when I don't do his laundry. He says, "How am I supposed to be an attractive, fashionable person if I can't match my neon socks to my neon shirts? HOW?" We can all try harder for our boyfriends.
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here's what I don't understand - why does religion need to be marketed? If it's god's word (via a chubby, gay computer) - won't it just find its way?
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You're thinking of Life (J-Park, Dr. Ian Malcolm).
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These Eric Wareheim music videos just keep getting weirder and weirder!
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Unfortunately, praying for Colby won't do much good. Beacuse he is a robot and has no soul.
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I was unaware that all male children in the 80's were gay. I guess I was gay as well.
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Oh. My. Fucking. God. You guys, I'm kind of ashamed to admit this, but my school put on this play when I was in 3rd grade. We watched this exact video for "inspiration". We also learned that the Grand Canyon was formed by Noah's flood. It took me years to unlearn all that shit, and now these old wounds are open and gushing blood. I feel like Alex in Clockwork Orange hearing Beethoven's Ninth. Luckily, I'm on a ground floor right now.
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More like That's Your Nightmare.
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It's getting to the point where I can't watch these Everything Is Terrible videos alone.
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What a bunch of disks.
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"When you built your clubhouse, you nailed it to make it strong. It is the same way with friends: you have to nail them to make your friendships strong.
Also, God's love." -Colby
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Brilliant. I just needed you to know that.
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When I was a child attending a very small Montessori school, instead of getting summer vacations, we put on elaborate musicals. Most years they were legit, like a child's version of The Pirates of Penzance or The Frog Prince, &c., but one year our teachers decided to write a play themselves, about some kids sitting on a stoop (of course, being residents of a little town in California, we and had no concept of a "stoop") who told stories and illustrated those stories with songs from classic musicals. The theme was "Let Me Entertain You," the theme song from Gypsy. We all "got" to "design" our own costumes that year, too. In retrospect, the school must've been really broke. This horror show brings me right back to that summer, all stilted, shouting line delivery and insane "eclectic" clothing.
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Jesus I didn't know Seth MacFarlane did voice work way back in the 80's.
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Chris Andersen really did have a traumatizing childhood.
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but i don't wanna be a pirate!
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whoa all those kids are expert hands on the hips actors.
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Sorry I'm late, guys. "Nick" is obviously an allegorical character who represents big-moneyed kids' entertainment network "Nickelodeon," constantly sabotaging Colby's (TBN's) efforts to enter the clubhouse (the market) by singing Bible-based songs (Bible-based songs).
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