http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy-4wUhIocA
There’s something brilliant about it.
Pssh. That’s an edited clip of a Spanish comedy sketch. The real video is much freakier.
Still, [laugh].
brilliantly creepy. watching that clip without any audio just feels flat out wrong.
It’s the lack of audio that’s key. What are they talking about?What’s the phone call about? Scared me good.
The REAL one. FAR more terrifying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGI52iiIcxg
Just LISTEN to them speak.
Also the low quality made it even more creepy. At first I thought it was stop motion until Marge entered the shot. Then you see their faces and their mouths moving and something just doesn’t seem right.
Kind of reminds me of Lou Reed’s “No Money Down.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMIgZmmO1c4
EDIT: the one with audio is nowhere near as bad. Whenever Marge speaks I think of Beavis and it sort of soothes me.
Kind of reminds me of Lou Reed’s “No Money Down.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMIgZmmO1c4
OH FUCKING WEIRD
[shocked]
Unsettling yes, but it isn’t as wrong as this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6HwSq3sp8o
Subversive brilliance. Watch it more than once for maximum effect.
Unsettling yes, but it isn’t as wrong as this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6HwSq3sp8o
Subversive brilliance. Watch it more than once for maximum effect.
This ‘Bart the General’ series is great. It’s actually a lot smarter than what it might look like. It’s a scathing indictment of modern mediocrity, actually it’s more of a rape of mediocrity. It’s also playing on many fears, esp. fears of a family, with these menacing figures (the brilliant delinquency of Toadfish the Aussie: “best not get on my bad side, mate”) invading the household and non-sensically taking over everything. What better avenue than a Simpsons parody to do this, the archetypal innocuous disfunctional family that no matter what happens they’re always ok in the end. The cheap production allows it a rawness that could not be achieved with a more polished production.
(I love episode 4 at about 02:35 when Homer and Flanders are outside the house beside the car with Toadfish behind the upstairs window when the other character walks by. Perfect.)
Pssh. That’s an edited clip of a Spanish comedy sketch. The real video is much freakier.
Still, [laugh].
I think the eyes are the only thing that makes it creepy, other than that I wasn’t really phased buy it.
Late,
grmpysmrf
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(I love episode 4 at about 02:35 when Homer and Flanders are outside the house beside the car with Toadfish behind the upstairs window when the other character walks by. Perfect.)
“Where I’m going, there’s no coming back from”. I think my favorite is episode 2, with the focus on the Dr. House clown character and the introduction of the STONEFISH character. Fucking classic. Can’t wait to see how this epic saga is going to unfold.