I have a new YouTube phenomenon that I’d like to describe:
You watch a viral video and it’s funny. However, since you watch like 50 videos a day, you really forget about how funny it is. Months later, you see the video again and are reminded by how absolutely awesome it is! That happened with me in this faux-commercial about an Energy drink called Powerthirst. This ficticious energy drink is advertised much like a monster truck rally commercial, yet more hilarious.
Rather than bore you of my analysis of why this video is so great, I think I would be better off just displaying quotes and features of Powerthirst:
Gratuitious Amounts of Energy
SHOCKOLATE – Chocolate energy. It’s like adding chocolate to an electrical storm!
Sound the alarm, you’re going to be uncomfortably energetic
What’s that, you want Strawberry? Well, how about RAWBERRY. Made with lighning. Real lightning.
Sports, you’ll be good at them. It’s an energy drink for men. MENERGY!
These aren’t your dads puns. Turbopuns!
You’ll have so much energy. Just running ALL THE TIME. Power running, power lifting, power sleeping, power dating, power eating, power spotting, BABIES
You’ll have so many BABIES. 400 babies. Give shockolate to your babies and they will be good at sports.
They will run as fast as Kenyans
Ok, I give up. Transcribing this video is giving me an ANEURISM.
This might be a classic to end all classics. I first saw this in 2000 while in the college dorms, and have been quoting it with my friends ever since. It’s one of the greatest accomplishments in Ben Stiller’s career. Doesn’t get much better than Tom Crooze. Thanks to Aziz for posting this on his blog and reminding me of the hilarity.
There are three distinct lines that I can quote at any time of day and make my college buddies laugh out loud. This sketch has truly withstood the test of time. It’s actually much better than Mission Impossible II! My favorite quotes:
“Let’s call it Kickin’ Impossible?”
Stiller: “We even finish each others sentences”
Cruise: “I don’t think we finis….”
Stiller: “Finish each others sentences!”
“What if when Tom jumps off the bike… and when they are both coming at each other… if right before, he turns to the camera and says ‘this mission… it just got a hell of a lot more impossibler.”
Came across this today and I laughed out loud. I have seen the commercial for the “Snuggie” blanket several times and every time I see it I get pissed off at this stupid ass product. It is like a open ended muu-muu for morbidly obese and/or extremely lazy people.
The block colors of gross red, ugly blue and hideous light blue make this thing extremely unflattering. It’s basically a back-less wizard robe. Only if it were worn by the worst wizard in the history of wizardry. Or the gayest. I wouldn’t even be afraid of this wizard. I’d taunt him with Hogwart’s jokes and then sneak attack him from the wide open back part of his stupid snuggie dress. Then I would belittle him for wearing a snuggie!
Even better is the fact that my friend Lashara actually bought a pair of Snuggies for her and my girlfriend as a joke. Great joke Lashara! Glad that your purchasing kept on funding these retarded commercials! Your two snuggie purchases lead to 2-4 more crappy commercial viewings that made me want to wash my eyes out with bleach.
Fortunately for us, someone in YouTube land created a video making fun of this retarded product, and I was compelled to post. Enjoy!
My favorite line:
“Well Morons, now there’s hope with the new ‘What the Fuck Blanket’ “
Most of you have seen this one before, but I thought I would post it as part of a new ongoing segment where I highlight Viral Videos that I have enjoyed immensely over the years. It doesn’t get much better than this one; the quintessential WOO WOO You Tube video.
For those of you who don’t know, the premise behind the video is a local Oakland news station doing a story about the hottest (and stupidest) trend in car modification; whistle tips. When cars start off down the street, tips attached to the car muffler make a whistling noise as they speed off. I’m assuming it’s pretty annoying, and I can understand the premise behind the story. The funny part is the interviews that they do with the proponents of Whistle Tip; Namely Bubb Rubb and his little sister (aptly named lil sis).
During the interview, Bubb is very candid in his advocacy of the whistle tips trend. The humor comes during his demonstration of how the whistle tips sound.
My Favorite Line:
That’s only in the morning. You supposed to be up cookin breakfast or something… whoo wooo!!
My friend Stephanie sent this to me today and I thought it was post worthy. Not sure if this is meant to be a real commercial or if it’s a joke, but it’s pretty funny!
Mr. Jones is a man who has a lot of space available for storage. Unlike U-Haul or an easy storage place, this guy will store it for you… and he’ll only charge you $10.99. He even has a web site, which I am happy to link to: Jones Big Ass Truck Rental and Storage. He is also drunk! I probably would not trust him to store anything that I own… with the exception of my VHS tape collection. They are just collecting dust right now.
My buddy Tones sent this to me and I had to post it. Scarlett is a BBPaC woman (Beautiful Black Precious and Complicated), and in this video she is serenading the camera with some wonderful song (I can’t tell what she’s singing, so leave a comment if you do know).
Rather than sing in front of her computer or on a tape like a normal person would do, Scarlet decides to do a wide-angle view of her basement and sing her song seductively from her coffee table.
Now let me tell you a little bit about Scarlet. She is not a small woman. She is the opposite of that. She has a front butt. The fact that her coffee table is able to support her for even a few seconds is remarkable to me. The fact that she makes it more than 30 seconds is a testament to the craftsmanship of said coffee table.
Anyway, as you can tell from the title of this post, all good things must come to and end… and Scarlet eventually must take a tumble. Call me sick or insensitive, but I love it when people fall down on video. The bigger, the better. In fact, I just registered a domain name: Fat People Falling Down. I tried to get fatpeoplefalling.com, but it was already taken!
I used to hate drinking games. I always thought they were a waste of time, and kept you from the real task of getting drunk as quickly as possible. The century club with shots of beer? Not my style… If you are gonna play, it better be with whiskey. President and Asshole- sign me up to be asshole, its the only way you really get to drink. Drinking to a television program? I’m not going let how many times some actor says this or that determine how much I can drink in a half hour. That said, it looks like these guys came up with an extreme drinking game anybody can get “behind”…
I was sent this video by some old broad who said “Jeff, you may be too young to remember this video”. WRONG!
I do remember this video, and I love the literal meaning of it. Any time I get emailed a link to an a-ha video, I feel compelled to post it. Perhaps this literal video thing could be a trend on FVS.com. I definitely think that I will be posting more of these videos, as well as misheard lyrics videos.
My favorite line:
“Oh watch out for them. They’re gonna beat you up with that pipe wrench. Climb through this hole. Show this guy. Now cut back to these two” (you really just need to watch to understand)
