Funniest Video I’ve Seen In a While: The Button
Saw this from Ace. It’s a parody of that upcoming movie The Box which has a premise that seems more suited for a half-hour Twilight Zone episode rather than a whole movie. Why don’t we have any half-hour dramas anymore? When did it become the law that all dramas must be an hour long? And why can’t sitcoms be longer than a half-hour? If they want an hour, they have to be at least a dramedy, which means having serious plot development along with the jokes and no laugh track. Not that I like a laugh track. It just seems snobbish that you can’t have a laugh track and be filmed in front of live studio audience and be a regular hour long show.
What was I talking about? See, this is why dramas should try being half-hour long because people don’t have long attention spans anymore.
Oh yeah, this is funny:
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October 27th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
It Was a Twilight Zone episode! Or maybe it was Tales From the Dark-side, or Tales From the Crypt, or The Outer Limits … Anyway it was the one with the clever twist ending and a sort of moral. First?
October 27th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Funny! People are funny! Ha! Funny!
October 27th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Where’s my box.
I want a box too.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Yeah Frank, that was entertaining, but even more so is:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f7a26d7505/making-of-buzz-aldrin-s-rocket-experience-w-snoop-dogg-and-talib-kweli
From the moon to hip hop and back to the moon, Buzz Aldrin.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
It was a Twilight Zone episode for sure, further proof that liberals are incapable of original thought.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
“Click on the play button of this video…”
“CLICK!!!”
“Wait, I didn’t finish,
you will save yourself $8.50 and two hours of boredom.”
“CLICK!!!” “CLICK!!!” “CLICK!!!”
October 28th, 2009 at 9:49 am
A few random thoughts of my own:
1. This video is Teh Funny, but you have to be of a certain age and pick up certain cultural references to “get” it.
2. This “Box” movie is clearly a remake of the “Twilight Zone” episode “The Button”. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)) (That would be the 1980s Twilight Zone, not the classic ’60s version).
3. How they could stretch this story out to two hours or so is beyond me; when I first saw this episode back in the ’80s, I thought 30 minutes was stretching it.
4. Did I mention, this satire video is Teh Funny.
5. Hollywood is, once and for all, for the very last time, truly out of freakin’ ideas.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Actually it was an old black and white Twilight Zone episode
October 30th, 2009 at 12:02 am
Actually, it’s based off a short story called “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson.
October 30th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
?Really?
It seems like every other movie is based on a story by Richard Matheson.
November 1st, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Your mom’s box.. Do you know anything about the story??? They kill a stranger that kills a family member accidently during their death!