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:

The Button – watch more funny videos

11 Comments

  1. 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?

  2. 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.

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