Week In Recap: Suburban Commando

There's been a theme this week: short posts. Turns out I've got this big ass project at work that is draining a lot of my free time. The good news is it finishes on Wednesday, so once that happens I'll be free again. Besides, nothing really happened this week beyond Paris going to jail, and you got two posts on Friday, so you can't really complain.

Onto the recap...

On Monday, I told you how much I hated the lyrics of T-Pain's song "Buy You a Drank" or "Buy you a Draaaaank. Honestly, the third verse of that song is completely based on stealing lines from other songs...


I proposed that Hulk Hogan caused the rise and fall of WWE on Wednesday. Also, it was brought to my attention that I forgot one of Hulk's most ridiculous movies: Suburban Commando.



I gave you two posts on Friday: One with the O Rly Owls and one looking ahead at the show Cavemen.

Have a good week.

Casual Dress Friday: TV Next Year

Its a Casual Dress Friday here at the Skeet Thrower and rather than complain about the lack of TV right now (...except for the excellent Real World/Road Rules Challenge - The Inferno III - that thing is awesome and, coincidentally, the only MTV show I watch anymore), I figured I would look ahead to next year.

Obviously, Lost and 24 (they are re-doing it somehow) will be great. The Office will continue to be funny and several other shows I enjoy will return. However, when I first heard about it, a show that caught my eye was Cavemen. Cavemen is a show based on the GEICO caveman commercials. When I read about the pilot for this show, I thought that it could have been pretty funny...but then I watched this clip.

How does this get on the air? That clip was not funny. Meanwhile, I just finished watching the first season of Arrested Development and I'm still baffled as to how a show that could produce clips like this got taken off of the air.



TV executives are dumb. They cancelled AD and they have David Blaine doing some of the worst NBA commercials ever. If they were gonna use a magician, couldn't they have just used Gob Bluth?

At least they figured out that Lost should follow the 24 style and wait until after football to start the season. But I digress, Cavemen could be funny, but I'd much rather they make a television show out of these guys.



I guess they tried with that Jerry Lambert on the painfully slow Sons & Daughters. I don't know. Whatever they make, I bet that it would be better than Cavemen.

Have a good weekend.

Casual Dress Friday: YouTube = Slow

Its a casual dress Friday here at the Skeet Thrower and apparently YouTube is taking today off. Once it comes back I'll post.

Just an FYI.

In the meantime, enjoy this picture:

I Know Some Guys That Can Lift More Than Kevin Durrant

I have said it repeatedly - TV in the summer sucks (and that sucks for someone who loves TV as much as me). The lack of TV forces me to watch things that I wouldn't normally watch. For instance, last weekend, while there was nothing on TV (or my DVR), I sat through 30 minutes of the Spanish broadcast of WWE Raw. That's how bad its gotten. I'm watching TV I can't even understand. Of course, the story lines of WWE have degraded (well, as much as they could), so perhaps its for the best.

I blame this on the fact that we, collectively as a country, quit faking that wresting was real. Look, we always knew wrestling was fake, but as long as no one said anything we all acted like it was real. Wrestling was like Santa for older kids - everyone knows something isn't right, but as long as we don't really know, they'll enjoy the charade.

Back in the day, wrestling stars became celebrities, even garnering interviews on respected shows such as Arsenio Hall. Here's one featuring the Macho Man where Aresnio's whole interview is wrestling questions (of course, this may be why his talk show failed albeit not as miserably as The Magic Hour featuring Earvin "Magic/HIV" Johnson - no YouTube clips even exist of this show).

I did some research on the issue and I believe I can identify a time when WWE became ridiculous. In fact, we can blame it one one person: Batman (that link is long but really good).

• That may be the worst "trash-talking" interview ever


• What kind of bush league Bat-suit is Batman wearing?


• Why does he bring up Superman and Spiderman?


• Why is that guy's tie so short?


• Since when does Batman use the phrase "naughty, mean person"?

That video was so ridiculously bad that I couldn't even type coherently. I had to switch to bullets. Seriously, when Batman showed up, all "credibility" that WWE/WWF had went out the window.

Of course, the true downfall of WWE is probably due my boy Hulk Hogan. Everyone loved Hulk. Probably too much. And as a result we got shows like Thunder in Paradise and movies like Mr. Nanny. Hulk single-handedly brought wrestling to fame and destroyed it. Want proof? Watch this.



So, if you smell what I'm cooking, here's how we fix this thing - we need to go back to the roots.
Step one - get some over-the-top (that's not a must watch, but its damn close) wrestlers that scare the hell out of you.
Step two - get rid of all the ludicrous (more Serena!) extra stuff - just get back to wrestling.
Step three - keep the chicks, but only as managers.
Step four - don't be gay (not that there's anything wrong with that).

Let's get wrestling back on track. I need something to watch...if only for the summer.

***The title is talking about future #2 pick in the NBA draft, Kevin Durrant's poor showing at the completely irrelevant NBA combine.***

Buy You A Draaaaank

Before I get going today, as a followup to Friday's post, I saw Knocked Up (that clip is hilarious - a true must watch - but has some NSFW language) this weekend. Genius (except for the birthing scene at the end of the movie - I cannot recommend strongly enought that you look away during that part).

Anyway, you prolly didn't know since you don't live with me, but my wife was out-of-town this whole weekend. This led to me doing ridiculous things like going to Denny's at 1 am. This is not what I want to talk about. What do I want to talk about? Music.

So my wife comes back and tells me that my old roommate and my brother-in-law love the song "Buy You A Drank" by T-Pain. Let's be honest. That song is atrocious. Just awful. The lyrics are listed in the info on the side of that YouTube.com video, but in case you can't understand them, I'll allow this guy to spell them out for you.



Ya, them's the lyrics. I want to shoot myself in the face. At least the last time I bitched about lyrics I could stand the song - this song is a failure. I immediately change the channel when I hear this song. On a side note, that Chris guy seems pretty funny, at least when he recites lyrics.

Anyway, for some reason I feel this is all my fault. I lived with these guys and tried to pass along my taste in music. I'm not saying I have the best taste in music all of the time, but, in general, I don't like bush league music like that.

I don't want to make these guys feel/look liketools, though. Its not their fault. We all need to work together to get this fixed. How can we get music like this off of the air? No clue. But if it doesn't happen soon, I might start to freak out.

Week In Recap: Wheezy's Birfday Birthday

I'm OK with the Facebook.com. I don't really check it that often, but there is one thing that I pretty much couldn't live without: the birthday reminders. I'm usually pretty good about remembering birthdays but every once in a while I would miss one. Now that doesn't happen.

One birthday I wouldn't miss? My boy Wheezy's birthday. Hope you have a good one, brother. To celebrate, here's a ridiculous birthday song for you.



On to the recap...

On Monday, we celebrated Memorial Day by taking a look at National Anthem Disasters.

Wednesday we looked at a different disaster, the Miss Universe 2007 competition.

The first post of June was Friday and we took a look at some funny-ass videos from Michael Cera. The second video in that post is a spoof of a ridiculous video that someone attached to their resume. If you haven't seen it before (or in the last week or so), I recommend that you watch it.



Have a good week.

Casual Dress Friday: Who's Knocked Up

Its a Casual Dress Friday here at the Skeet Thrower and I'm shooting for a quick post today as I've got too much stuff to do.

I realized in April sometime that there are a lot of movies coming out this summer that I want to see. I've made it to Spiderman and that's it, meaning I've already missed Shrek 3 and Pirates 3.

This weekend Judd Apatow, Update: the director/producer/something of 40-Year-Old Virgin (on a side-note, the "Como se llama?" drop in that clip has surpassed the "Kelly Clarkson" line) is dropping a movie this weekend called Knocked Up Update 2: Sorry - this is what happens when I write a post at 2 am. I won't bore you with info about the movie because I'm sure you've seen all of the previews (or else you have been living under a rock).

What you may not have seen is this clip of Michael Cera also known as George Michael Bluth from Arrested Development (that show gets funnier and funnier the more clips I watch) playing Seth Rogan's part.



After seeing that clip, I have no fear that Knocked Up will be ridiculously funny. More importantly, it reinforces the fact that Michael Cera is funny. So funny in fact, that I am going to give you a clip featuring just Michael Cera.



That clip makes me wish I had consistently watched him on Arrested Development. In any case, I plan on seeting Knocked Up on Sunday night when my wife gets back in town. I'll let you know how it goes. In the meantime, try to have a better weekend then the guy in the suit in the back.



Final Update: Sorry if this keeps reappearing in your readers...damn typos

Have a good weekend.