Lost: The Animated Series
Ok, it’s actually just an animated picture of the main characters. Cool nonetheless. Via flickr.
South Park Creators React to Death Threats
I’ll try to make this the last South Park related post for a while. The 200th episode of the show last week cause some major controversy. Boing Boing interviewed the creators and brought up some interesting comments regarding censorship and standing up for what you believe in. Worth watching, but be warned, there is some nsfw language.
Kid, You’re Definitely Making it Worse
A professor once asked my class, “what’s the first rule of holes?” No one on in the class was able to give him an answer. His response was, “the first rule of holes is that when you find yourself in one, stop digging.” Sound advice. Unfortunately, no one has ever given this kid any similar advice.
First, some background. South Park has a history of making fun of everything and everyone under the sun. At some point, they decided to make fun of red headed people, also known as “gingers.” Although this was obviously a larger satire of the ridiculousness of baseless hatred towards minority groups in general, some people didn’t get it. This kid is one of those people.
Fast forward to a few months ago. Someone calling himself “CopperCab” posted the following video on YouTube, where it quickly became a viral hit. To date it has over 5.5 million views.
(warning, seriously NSFW language)
A few weeks ago, a new season of South Park aired. This past week’s episode featured violent threats from extremists against the town of South Park. The exact origins of the threats weren’t revealed until the towards the end of the episode. It turns out that these extremists threats were coming from an organized group of violent, angry gingers.
The next morning, CopperCab posted the following video in response to the South Park episode.
(warning, seriously NSFW language)
In promo clips aired on Comedy Central this week, it has been revealed that the next part of the episode will feature a straight up spoof of the original angry ginger YouTube video. So back to beginning. Kid, you’re making it worse. You are in the middle of a giant hole and I suggest you stop digging.
Update: I added the promo video in question.
Watching South Park this season?
Season 14 of South Park premiered a few weeks ago and has been incredible. Last night’s episode, which was the 200th in the series, might have been one of the best ever. Instead of the typical clip show most other series have done for anniversaries, South Park created an episode that rehashed hundreds of classic South Park episodes, but in a good way. If you haven’t caught it yet, you can watch it online for free.
Turns out that Scarface video was fake…kinda
Below is a video interview with the creator of the Scarface with kids video. It turns out it was kinda faked. An important question is raised here. At what point is something fake or real? This was written, directed and filmed like it would have been at a school, but it wasn’t done by amateurs as originally thought. So what do you think? Is this real or fake?
The official video description:
The video was created by director Marc Klasfeld of Rockhard Films, who also directed videos for artists like Beyonce and Eminem, and was made public by Hung Nguyen of Sharethrough.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
In honor of this holiday I present to you this classic video.
Every Single Kramer Entrance
It was only a matter of time before someone created this. Here is every single Kramer entrance in chronological order from Seinfeld.
Map of Every McDonald’s in America
Apparently you are never more than 145 miles from a McDonald’s restaurant. Scary thought. Even scarier is the fact that Subway is ready to pass McDonald’s for the total amount of stores in the world. According to this article McDonald’s has over 32,000 stores and Subway is poised to pass it. Another fun fact, a McDonald’s franchise can generate $2.3 million in revenue on average whereas Subways have an average of about half a million.
Seinfeld Reunion
About six months ago I bought the entire Seinfeld series on DVD. To date I’ve only watched the first three seasons. One day I’ll finish. I thought the series was finished, but it appears it may not be totally done. Curb Your Enthusiasm is bringing back the entire Seinfeld cast for five episodes of season seven. As Jerry puts it, “We are adding another chapter onto the series.” Later he goes on to say, “It’s actually going to have a new ending.” Here’s my question: Is there any reason Seinfeld wouldn’t work as a complete stand alone show again?