The Ending to Every 1980's Movie in Four Minutes (with bonus footnotes)

80's Ending
It's funny, because I think I might actually have greater awareness of the clichés demonstrated in this clip because of videos like this one that rip on these clichés.* Not that I haven't seen my fair share of 80s teen comedies and the like ("Revenge of the Nerds", "Just One of the Guys"... ah... when did "If Looks Could Kill" come out?)**, but I was too young to see these movies when they were coming out, and by the time I was a teenager all I could see was the stuff they lampoon here.*** Now I'm actually a little scared at the thought that in ten years someone will dissect "American Pie", "Never Been Kissed", and "She's All That" and all of the teen comedies that came out in my formative years and point out how ridiculous they were, even if they tried to jump the gun on that sort of thing with that "(Fill in the Blank) Movie" spoof they did about a decade ago (which would probably be included in the dissection anyway).****

* Like South Park's "Asspen", which introduced me to the 'regular guy competing against arrogant jock and winning the heart of the dorky-but-hot-girl'.
** Just remembered "Say Anything" and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", but they weren't that bad.
*** Being a teenager in the savvy and cynical late-90s, early-00s, as I was.
**** This film being a reflection of my generation's savviness and cynicism toward the genre, because, really we all knew how lousy these movies were as they were coming out but went to see them anyway.

Food For Thought

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”
- John F. Kennedy

"“Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.”
- Joseph Heller

"Well yeah, and I'm sad, but at the same time I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like, it makes me feel alive, you know? It makes me feel human. And the only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt somethin' really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good, so I guess what I'm feelin' is like a beautiful sadness."
- Butters Stotch

Here's Another One...

Here's a funny video, via the Onion.



And here's another bit of commentary on the subject from South Park, which, unfortunately, because I live in Canada, I cannot embed because I'm unable to access clips from the Comedy Central site and the Comedy Network website doesn't do embeddable clips.

Check the clip out here if you want to.

It's finally nice to see people dawn onto what happens to these young popstars forced into the spotlight and to perform and all that, and what happens when they start to burn out. Not that I expect this to change anytime soon or anything, but it's still refreshing to see folks point it out and all that.

Not Really Feeling Much Better...

But here are a few Youtube videos I've come across in the last little while:












And here's one that I thought was pretty funny, but none of my friends did:


Hope I'm feeling better sometime so I have something more interesting to say next time. Sorry.

Happy Holidays!

Hope everyone has a pleasant holiday season. I've got the latest Looney Tunes Golden Collection volume from my brother and a San Diego Comicon Grundy figure I ordered to give to myself, so I'm happy. Best of the season to you and yours.

Here's a little something keeping with the spirit of the season: