That Jeff/Annie parody shipper montage is actually riffing off a specific fan video. The same song, same exact LOLtastic editing style, everything: [link]
That's even better! I will have to go back and rewatch that part now that I have seen the vid.
Am I supposed to be changing my clothes a lot? Is that the helpful thing to do?
Anya ,'Storyteller'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
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Lee - Apr 22, 2011 7:14:25 am PDT #3846 of 8625
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
le nubian - Apr 22, 2011 7:27:05 am PDT #3847 of 8625
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Vonnie,
OMG. thank you for that link. HILARIOUS.
-t - Apr 22, 2011 7:34:05 am PDT #3848 of 8625
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My main takeaway from that Must See TV list is that the author was 13 in 2002, and so 22 now. Not that that invalidates his opinion, but youth has a limited perspective.
Vonnie K - Apr 22, 2011 7:37:17 am PDT #3849 of 8625
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Apparently Dan Harmon tweeted the vidder to let her know what to expect. The complete disappearance of the fourth wall made me laugh and laugh and also facepalm a little. Can you imagine being that vidder? Talk about equal-parts awesomeness and mortification.
As an avid vid-watcher, a part of me reveled in the meta of it all, while another part was all, "OH GOD, there are so much better vids out there; WE ARE NOT ALL THIS EMBARRASSING." (I'm very fond of this Annie-centric vid by sisabet: [link] )
Fred Pete - Apr 22, 2011 7:40:24 am PDT #3850 of 8625
Ann, that's a ferret.
Frasier was great farce. In one Valentine's Day episode, Niles is cooking dinner for a date with a woman with very exacting standards. After everyone else has left the apartment, he notices a tiny flaw in his outfit. From there, things spin further and further (and more and more hilariously) out of control.
10 minutes of classic television. With one character and not one word of dialogue.
erikaj - Apr 22, 2011 7:40:44 am PDT #3851 of 8625
Always Anti-fascist!
It would make him think differently about the shows earlier in the range AND give him true perspective on what's truly terrible. My earliest TV memories include the actual Happy Days shark jump. Maybe that made me kinder to "Good Morning Miami"(which, okay, was nothing special) but it doesn't make me cringe or anything.
DawnK - Apr 22, 2011 7:41:01 am PDT #3852 of 8625
giraffe mode
Community was fabulous last night. A diorama of a diorama! Monkey! Troy and Abed mug (the kids are getting them in their Easter baskets!) My spoon! The monkey hitting Chang on the head over and over, Jeff trying to pull his hair down over his forehead, the tag at the end! My daughter and I cracked up over the Annie/Jeff montage, because she'd just showen me the vid (she's a Annie/Jeff shipper).
erikaj - Apr 22, 2011 7:42:05 am PDT #3853 of 8625
Always Anti-fascist!
Niles is a human laugh-riot, Fred.
§ ita § - Apr 22, 2011 7:56:19 am PDT #3854 of 8625
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, how come Britta kissed Troy last week if she was boinking Jeff the whole time? How am I supposed to reconcile my FEELINGS?
I also love that none of the clips were clips, and I love that they went completely insane with them.
Fred Pete - Apr 22, 2011 7:57:37 am PDT #3855 of 8625
Ann, that's a ferret.
I've now read the article. I can't take the author seriously when he says things like,
The greatest live-action sitcom of all-time, Seinfeld is essentially the reason Must See TV exists.
Really? Not Cosby? Or Cheers? They made NBC kings of Thursday nights. (I preferred Night Court, but I realize that's a minority view.)