So aside from Geekiness, the 80's, and portable games I've come to the conclusion that the other thing that I tend to obsess about is Parodies. Weird Al Yankovic, for instance, was a god for parodying 80's music during the 80's. His album parodying Nirvana's "Smells like teen spirit" outsold the original, and then Kurt snuffed it. He owned an accordian and used it with extreme prejudice.
Since the 80's the accordian-toting parody torch has been passed to They Might Be Giants, who have recently done a bunch of backup numbers for Homestarrunner.com, and it looks like they might get married. Homestar sells over a million T-shirts a year parodying the 80's, from atari games to anime to GI Joe to Breakfast Cereal.
Flipsiders are portable games which parody audiocassetes, the choice media for pervaying music in the 80's.
So what could be a geekier parody from the 80's than this?
That's right folks, it's a music video parody of 1980's rock group Twisted Sister, played on geeky 1980's math-skit-parody show Square One TV. I think that RegE Cathy does a wonderful job sounding like Christopher Judge for no apparent reason in this one. Why can't any of the seven get acting work any more? Cripes.
Oh, and as an afterthought I've underlines all the appropriate adjectives in this post so that they don't go unnoticed, thanks. :)
Posted by jesse at June 5, 2004 12:11 AMYou know, I've read this post before, and never say that last sentence: "I've underlines all the appropriate adjectives in this post so that they don't go unnoticed, thanks." I was really starting to wonder why the hell everything was underlined. Freak ;-).
Posted by: Jake Ortman at June 8, 2004 09:30 AMStop! Don't you see a pattern here? Look for a pattern here.. look for a pattern! :)