There are two minutes left in Presidents’ Day. You should spend that time watching this video.

An oldie but a goodie:

Credit to Victoria Dahl for reminding me of its existence on an especially appropriate occasion.

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  1. Charlene says:

    That was…well, I’m not sure what that exactly was.

    OH GOD WHY DON’T THEY DO THINGS LIKE THIS TO STEPHEN HARPER I DO NOT UNDERSTAND

  2. kis says:

    I know, Charlene! They wouldn’t even have to do their own artwork, they could just pull footage from the Yellow Submarine. Because, damn, that Stephen Harper looks like a freakin’ Blue Meanie, don’t he?

  3. Cat Marsters says:

    That was disturbing in like…eight ways.

  4. Brianna says:

    And I thought Friday’s video of Batman was good. I haven’t laughed so much in ages. That was brilliant!

  5. Charlene says:

    that Stephen Harper looks like a freakin’ Blue Meanie

    YES

    YES

  6. AgTigress says:

    That was meant to be funny?

    Hmm.  The humour doesn’t travel.

  7. AgTigress, where are you?

    I was kind of stunned by it the first time until I got to the “He’ll save children, but not the British children,” and then I couldn’t stop laughing. The juxtaposition of this wooden, dignified figure we learned about in school with a psychopathic, mercilesss gangsta nearly gave me a hernia. I’m embarrassed to say I’ve watched it about twenty times.

    Also, I’m a huge admirer of people who can effectively use primitive art. If I drew something like that, it would look like a baaad mistake.

  8. AgTigress says:

    I think I simply don’t ‘get’ the humour.  I also find the drawings perfectly revolting.  To me, they DO look like a very bad mistake!

    I’m in the UK, but I was baffled within the first few seconds, well before the ‘British children’ line, and didn’t in fact watch through to the end.  If I understand you correctly, Victoria, part (or all?) of the humour lies in this grotesque treatment of an iconically heroic figure, so I have tried to think how I would react to a similar treatment of a British ‘hero’.

    Trouble is, we are all too cynical to believe in ‘heroes’ anyway, so I can’t easily envisage the situation.  I think that if I saw this kind of treatment of an historical figure whom I admire, I would find it offensive rather than funny. 

    🙂

  9. Cat Marsters says:

    If I understand you correctly, Victoria, part (or all?) of the humour lies in this grotesque treatment of an iconically heroic figure, so I have tried to think how I would react to a similar treatment of a British ‘hero’

    What, you didn’t see Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves?

  10. Cat Marsters says:

      Hmm, I didn’t close the tag properly, huh?

  11. AgTigress says:

    ‘What, you didn’t see Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves?’

    Nope.  Would it have been funny/boring/enlightening?

  12. Kelly Anne says:

    Oh, God.  I convinced everyone at work to watch this and now we walk around arbitrarily quoting it at one another.

    “He made love like an eagle falling out of the sky” is the greatest thing ever.

    They’ve got one about JFK, too, not as good but also very funny.

  13. My favorite is, “He’ll kick you apaaart. He’ll kick you apaaart!”

    Anyway, AgTigress, for me it’s funny because it’s so absolutely absurd AND because he’s still portrayed as being awesome. It wouldn’t have been as funny to me, for example, if it had been about Jefferson and his slaves.

    Or maybe it would have been.

    Because anything that includes the line “He fucks the shit out of bears,” is right up my alley, unfortunately.

  14. Brianna says:

    Victoria: That line about the bears also cracks me up.

    I heard that motherf*ker had, like, 30 god damn dicks..

  15. Candy says:

    In the time honored tradition of over-explaining why a joke is funny to me and thereby killing pretty much all the remaining humor:

    1. The music is a pretty funny send-up of a certain sort of rap.

    2. It plays on the worship of George Washington as a mythical, flawless figure in American history by conferring on him every possible virtue, up to and including:
    a) Multiple penises and testicles. (“Two sets of testicles so divine” with the accompanying illustration just about kills me, every. Damn. Time.).
    b) Having a brain for a heart.
    c) His utter and implacable relentlessness in destroying his enemies
    d) Superhuman sexual prowess. “Made love like an eagle falling out of the sky.” Oh God. Also: Fucked the shit out of bears.
    e) His height, which keeps growing throughout the song.
    f) Popular with the lay-deeeez.

    3. The drawings are grotesque but hilarious, not unlike the way the Simpsons are grotesque and hilarious, or Beavis and Butthead.

    4. The contrast between the weird high-pitched voice and the deadpan delivery = awesome.

    5. I am a sucker for unholy amalgams of highbrow and lowbrow, and this cartoon is unholy, highbrow and lowbrow.

    Neely isn’t skewering Washington so much as public attitudes towards and conceptions about Washington, which is ultimately what makes it work for me. My appreciation for this sort of satire has actually jumped up since attending law school, given the “What Would the Founding Fathers Do?”

    fanboys

    schools of analyses we have to deal with in classes related to Constitutional Law.

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