TV for Toddlers who take Acid

Holy crap.

Nickelodeon has introduced a new show called Yo! Gabba Gabba and I must say again: "holy crap."

Take 80's rap beats and video game references, a bunch of colorful and creepy puppet-people, celebrity cameos (see the 2nd clip), an emcee named DJ Lance and put it all at an ADD-inducing editing speed and you've got Yo! Gabba Gabba.

I can only imagine how absolutely hilarious this show would be under the influence of any number of substances. Actually, I'm glad my kid likes it because I get a chance to watch it guilt-free... and it's totally cracking me up.

There's a Party in my Tummy"


Elijah Wood does the Puppet Master


The show's intro

Some Lightness For Your Weekend: "Speaking Of Music..."

Speaking of music...

Once again, I'm catching the tailwind of internet fads/memes, but for those of you not blessed to experience this, here we go.

It's called "Chocolate Rain" - but I think you'll pick up on that after hearing him say it 4,000 times. Watching this creates the strangest internal dialog that is some combination of the following:

-"this is funny"
-"this is sad"
-"what the eff is this?"
-"whoa, this is kinda catchy"
-"how is that voice coming from that head"
-"is that James Earl Jones?"
-"is that Janet Jackson?"
-"what the hell is chocolate rain?"
-"i think he's singing about something serious"
-"isn't that the MegaMan theme song on the keyboard?"
-"why can't I stop watching this?"
-"why can't I sleep at night without this song invading my brain"
-"please, God, make it stop"

Watch it. I dare you to go the whole 5 minutes.



And then, to make things more funny, endless people have done parodies:

In Case You Missed It...

1.) Well, it's all over the internets this week, but just in case you've missed it, here is

..."the best five second clip on the internet" - Dramatic Chipmunk (though it's really a Prairie Dog). By the way, the key to the humor here is watching it multiple times in a row:



2.) On a side note, remember when I posted Will Ferrell's clip THE LANDLORD, featuring the potty-mouthed little girl? Well, she's back for one final performance (the language, by the way, is NSFW) :

Crazy 8 Meme

Every once in a while a blog virus spreads. Consider me the vaccination, baby. I'll post my Crazy 8 alright, but I will not spread this infectious disease to any more innocent and unsuspecting bloggers. May those of you who have already been infected (like you, you, and you) find peace in your horrible affliction.

And now, without further ado, here are my 8 random facts:

1.) I've mentioned this before, but I have a precise and exact pattern for toweling my entire body off every day after the shower. The only time this fails is when I think about it and try to remember the order, in which instance the whole sequence crumbles.

2.) Very little irks me more than the 10 minutes of lights-down, have-to-watch commercials - before the movie trailers - before theater movies.

3.) One of the main things from parenthood that I've always wanted to do (and now have done many times) is carry a sleeping kid in from the car.

4.) Besides short flights to San Diego, Oakland and Seattle, I've never been to (or driven through) any of the other many states west of Missouri.

5.) I once had a job in the outdoor/landscaping area of a department store and had to answer the phone: "Pet and Garden this is Trevor Harden" - which rhymed and made me feel like an ass.

6.) In high school, my friends and I shot hundreds of hours of "home videos" (as we always called them) featuring tape after tape of short skits and filmed shenanigans and was always our first choice for recreational activity.

7.) Coffee, beer and chocolate: in each category, the darker the better.

8.) As I was pulling into the bank yesterday (which is a mere block from my home), a cop told me the bank was closed and to move along. Here's why.

How NOT to navigate the Music Business

Check out these hilarious music manager WOES from "The Turtles." (the "So Happy Together" guys) Thanks to TOMMY for the link!

Your Daddy's WHAT?

A couple weeks ago, our daughter's day care provider pulled me aside and very blushingly said, "I don't want to embarrass you, but I did want to let you know that Kalli was talking about her daddy's pee-wee today."

I busted into laughter.

Rrrrrrrrr-------- (rewind!)

The truth of the matter is Kalli had grown quite fond of my DVD copy of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - which she knows is MINE - thereby: "daddy's Pee-Wee."

Upon hearing the truth of the situation, the babysitter totally cracked up. Between chuckles she admitted, "I even told her that was something we probably shouldn't talk about. And then this other boy start talking about HIS daddy's butt..."

So, so much is lost in translation.

(By the way, since that day I've told Kalli that the DVD is now hers. She can talk about her own Pee-Wee all she wants.)

Some Humor for Your Weekend

Let's start your weekend off right with a good laugh. Enjoy this - one of the funniest videos on the web right now...

Kassie's take on Monsters

I know I've not blogged much lately, and every time I do it's rather shallow and pointless, but you've really got to see this. Every time I watch it it gets funnier (especially the sentence she says at the :15 second mark).

Silly

I've been wanting to make this graphic for a few weeks now - so I just threw it together. Anyone have a guess what this is? (I'm such a dork.)

What American Accent Do You Have?

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
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