Videos That You Should See

I was going to do an NBA second round preview today (yes, I know the 2nd round started Saturday, but I had to wait until all the second round match-ups were decided), but there's something more pressing - a bunch of funny videos. There are 3 videos to be exact that have been (or will be) popping up all over and are worth watching.

The first is from Conan - it's his version of GTA IV. If you've ever played (or seen) GTA, you'll like it.



The second part to that video can be viewed here.

The next video is an "unaired" clip from SNL featuring Shaq and Will Ferrell. I put the quotes around unaired because I've seen this clip before and spent countless hours searching for it (for instance, I spent 30 minutes searching for it for my first NBA Playoff Preview Post). Anyway, now that I've found it, I couldn't resist posting it (it's from Funny or Die, so you'll probably have to click through to the post to see it if you're using a reader).



The last video is one of the new Marvel Vs. DC Mac/PC Parody videos. This ones pretty good and topical considering the release of Iron Man (side note, I'll have a summer movie post coming soon as well).



Have a good week.

Attack of the Parade Floats

I love the Internets. As I was writing a post for yesterday, I stumbled across the most ridiculous set of videos: Marvel's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade floats. I'll let the videos speak for themselves in a minute, but I ask you - when was the last time you watched a Thanksgiving Day parade. These things were like tv monsters 10-20 years ago and then all-of-a-sudden - nothing. I know they're still on TV but now the floats suck and the no one watches. Maybe its because we're over our obsession with giant balloons or maybe we just got tired of things like this.



That is one of the most ridiculous floats ever. Why is the Back to the Future music playing in the background? Thank god its hosted by Willard Scott lest that presentation degrade into mayhem. I think there was some actual skeet throwing on that float. Unprecedented. That float may have single-handedly killed the comic book industry in the late 80's/early 90's. Not to be outdone (by themselves apparently), Marvel had another float in 1989.



Apparently the parade hosts remembered that Willard Scott did these creepy McDonald's commercials and decided to give him an unenthusiastic co-host. At least Marvel decided to add the timeless Melba Moore to the float to beef up the music. Wait a second...did they just turn this into a musical? My goodness. I can only assume that the Joker parade scene in the first Batman movie was making fun of these ridiculous things.

All things considered, I'm not sure that Batman had room to talk.



Maybe it was all just a bad dream.

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.***