Friday, August 08, 2008

Movin' on up

Okay, I know this is sick. But it's pretty damn funny. And it's why we need TV themes back.

24 comments :

Anonymous said...

Okay, so you gave me the funniest thing I saw, and the funniest thing I read. What can I say, but thanks?

Anonymous said...

ok that's wrong on so many levels.

but very funny, too.

did you see that smug of self-satisfaction on his face on 1:34?? it was disgusting.

hilarious, but still, only time allows us to laugh at something like this.

great song and editing, too. i think i'm gonna watch it again.

Anonymous said...

I don't think I've every seen anything that was at once so wrong AND so right at the same time.

I am mind-boggled.

Thanks for sharing.

Anonymous said...

Theme songs are as outdated as "Back to You". Let them go.

Anonymous said...

I don't find the phrase "We're sorry, this video is no longer available." funny at all, I guess the Hitler Curse strikes again.

I'm serious, everybody who had something to do with Hitler has died.

rob! said...
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rob! said...

you figure there had to be at least one person in that crowd that was secretly thinking to themselves, "Wow, this is seriously f**ked up."

Anonymous said...

Working now... weird.

I've often wondered why there hasn't been a prequel to Triumph Of The Will showing a young Hitler before he became the monster he did during his time in power.

They did it for Darth Vader.

Trust me, every other fucking allegory for Germany during WWII has been made in the Star Wars films - why not get to the source?

Anonymous said...

So that’s what started the damn war. What’s on the east side of Germany? Poland and Czechoslovakia. That's what.

You don’t have to be Hitler to milk this bit. Now try it with impressions. Speak the lyrics Steve Allen-like with great seriousness and passion in the voices of Cary Grant, Sly Stallone, Baba Wawa, Sean Connery, Bobcat Goldthwait, Bette Davis, David Caruso, Christopher Walken, Jackie Mason, Robert DeNiro, Jack Nicholson. And because no set would be complete without them for those of us of a certain vintage – and only those of us of a certain vintage – Walter Brennan and Broderick Crawford alternating verses.. (That’s right, all the usual suspects any bum on the street can do without enrolling in the Frank Caliendo Learning Annex. course.

Had a hellova run with this ditty in the semblance of a nascent act 30 years ago, after the NYT reported former President Richard and Pat Nixon had been rejected by a seven-member NY co-op board in their quest to purchase a penthouse on Madison Avenue. The ostensible reason the blue-blooded board gave for blackballing the disgraced former chief executive and returning the Nixon deposit was concern over “building security” and that the “ambiance” of the prestigeous location would be affected. I waited for one of them to say that it was nothing personal. Some of their best friends were nearly-impeached CEOs who hung with gangs that broke into office buildings and psychiatrists’ offices. (Nixons finally found a place on E. 65th St.)

The Former Presidant: "Sure Pat, I know you had your heart set on that place on Madison Avenue, and now you’ve got the blues. But think about me, still dealing with another bunch of old farts that don’t recognize executive privilege. Well, they’re not going to have the Nixons to kick around anymore. We don’t need them Pat. Once again you and I, why we’ll have the last laugh, because:

We're movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up….."

The “fish don’t fry in the kitchen” verse worked especially well in Nixonese.
Try it. Thank me later

♪ Fish don't fry in the kitchen; ♫
Beans don't burn on the grill.
Took a whole lotta tryin'
♪ Just to get up that hill.
Now we're up in the big leagues
Gettin' our turn at bat.
As long as we live, it's you and me baby
There ain't nothin wrong with that.
Well we're movin on up, ♪ ♫ ♪♪

I apologize for the musical disorientation. Still trying to get over the teams from Haiti Tajikistan, Bhutan, The Central African Republic, Nauru and Nanu all marching into that Bird’s Nest to the pipes of “Scotland the Brave.” You could even see the 90,000 Chinese mouthing WTF?

Anonymous said...

TV themes are gone for good, soon to be completely jettisoned are opening and end credits. Networks want to minimize the time between one show starting and the next beginning to zero.

Anonymous said...

so wrong... so funny!!!

I, for one, miss theme songs. They set the tone for the show and they make for great trivia mind benders 30 years later.
(I know allll the lyrics to Mr. Ed. ... and almost all they lyrics to "It's About Time" and countless others. It's a sickness)

Anonymous said...

heh, "to the east side". nice

and I bet he won't have any problems moving on to the west side either, am I rite Ken? (LOL FRANCE)

Unknown said...

Wow, that was a masterful piece of sadistic editing. Extremely funny in a sick,sad, world kind of way.

You just made my day.

Justin Kownacki said...

Funny AND well-edited, and also makes me uneasy for being amused. I wonder what the mathematical distance is between tragedy and comedy...

@sephim Actually, the film "Max" with John Cusack does a decent job of illustrating Hitler as a struggling artist, prior to his rise to fame as... well...

Mary Stella said...

I want to meet the person who sat up one day and said, "What if I edit together a Hitler speech and the theme to The Jeffersons."

There's something so hot about a twisted, comic mind.

Anonymous said...

sephim wrote...

I've often wondered why there hasn't been a prequel to Triumph Of The Will showing a young Hitler before he became the monster he did during his time in power.

Well, there was Robert Zemeckis' Back to the Fuhrer.

Anonymous said...

hynkel...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VruioFzIwg

Anonymous said...

Sephim, perhaps you are not aware of the film Max, which came out a few years ago.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290210/

Anonymous said...

Still trying to get over the teams from Haiti Tajikistan, Bhutan, The Central African Republic, Nauru and Nanu all marching into that Bird’s Nest to the pipes of “Scotland the Brave.” You could even see the 90,000 Chinese mouthing WTF?

They had a band from each of the five continents playing its particular music. So you heard mariachi (Americas), bagpipes (Europe), African drums, Chinese music, etc.

Anonymous said...

Mel Brooks would approve

Five Pound Bag said...

There are probably dozens of alternate subtitlings to Hitler's bunker rant from the movie "Downfall". Here's a new one about Hitler's reaction to the endless Brett Favre saga:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk7lFGuW7_s

and to who's going to Burning Man this year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV4i7dWeu0c

Anonymous said...

haha. this is so funny

Anonymous said...

Also hilarious:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-twitter/

Anonymous said...

hahaha. so funny