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Post by japaneseteeth on Jul 3, 2014 20:04:01 GMT
Yeah, he dies in the first episode and gets brought back as a hologram. You should really look up some episodes. I've been watching Red Dwarf since I was five JT! I phrased that question badly; what I should have asked was, because Chris Barrie was leaving the show, wasn't Rimmer 'dying' again, by which I mean the hologram was turned off? Not exactly. In the second episode of season 7 (i.e. the last episode of the show before the quality did a dropoff, though later episodes have their moments, like the song), the holo-Rimmer left the crew to become the new Ace Rimmer. The song is from an episode or two later when Lister starts to miss Rimmer, prompting Kryten to create "The Rimmer Experience." Which results in Lister not really missing Rimmer any more.
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Post by Applelight Limited on Jul 3, 2014 20:30:53 GMT
Now it's coming back to me! Thanks JT!
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Post by japaneseteeth on Jul 4, 2014 1:12:00 GMT
She’s Sunset, Sunset, Sunset Shimmer. Without her life would be much grimmer. She’s pretty, trim, and no-one slimmer. She will never need a zimmer.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jul 8, 2014 0:16:44 GMT
This wasn't an intentional comedy. Ella Fitzgerald decided to cover "Mack the Knife" and she debuted it at a live show in Berlin. But a few verses in, something happened...
If you haven't listened to the link: Ella completely forgets the lyrics after the third verse, so she improvises new lyrics, commenting on the song itself and mocking herself for messing it up. ("You won't recognize it! It's a surprise hit!") And she briefly imitates Louis Armstrong.
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Post by Sydxelia on Jul 8, 2014 23:08:19 GMT
Have some "Smut," courtesy of the Other Half. I think this is from 1981.
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Post by Sydxelia on Jul 8, 2014 23:24:34 GMT
This wasn't an intentional comedy. Ella Fitzgerald decided to cover "Mack the Knife" and she debuted it at a live show in Berlin. But a few verses in, something happened... A similar thing happened to Harry Belafonte and his backup singers when they tackled "Old King Cole" back in 1960. There's a miscue in the middle which they get past, but then it completely falls apart at the end.
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Post by japaneseteeth on Jul 17, 2014 2:42:06 GMT
So, Weird Al has a new album out and he's releasing a music video of each song every day this week. Here's the one for today:
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jul 18, 2014 2:41:12 GMT
Daniel Amos are a Christian rock band who, through the decades, have frequently used satire to call attention to shortcomings in the church. "New Car!", which skewers the "name it and claim it" movement, is one of their most overtly comedic songs.
And their side project, the Swirling Eddies, was them being complete clowns. Sometimes they wrote nonsense, sometimes they took a serious subject and dressed it up as a joke. And sometimes, just to really throw people off, they were completely sincere. "Hide the Beer, the Pastor's Here" is their ode to hypocrisy.
There's a long list of seminaries and Bible colleges at the end of the song. Story goes that this led to the Eddies getting a bunch of letters from officials who were angry that their college got named in the song... as well as a bunch of letters from other officials who were disappointed that their college wasn't named.
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Post by japaneseteeth on Jul 18, 2014 13:15:31 GMT
Huh, I'll have to look into that.
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Post by Applelight Limited on Jul 19, 2014 23:02:01 GMT
So, Weird Al has a new album out and he's releasing a music video of each song every day this week. Here's the one for today: More Weird Al gold. Always good to see and hear. Daniel Amos are a Christian rock band who, through the decades, have frequently used satire to call attention to shortcomings in the church. "New Car!", which skewers the "name it and claim it" movement, is one of their most overtly comedic songs. This was really really catchy. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jul 19, 2014 23:17:32 GMT
Man, I never cared for the original version of "Royals". Weird Al's take is much more entertaining.
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Post by Applelight Limited on Jul 19, 2014 23:26:00 GMT
I haven't even heard it. I should go look it up.
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Post by japaneseteeth on Jul 20, 2014 0:42:12 GMT
Man, I never cared for the original version of "Royals". Weird Al's take is much more entertaining. That's true of about 90% of Weird Al's parodies. Such as this:
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Post by Sydxelia on Aug 1, 2014 18:14:17 GMT
Postmodern Jukebox's cover of "Blurred Lines," done bluegrass-style.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Aug 12, 2014 3:18:39 GMT
That works shockingly well. I'm listening to Mouth Sounds right now. It's a mashup mixtape by Niel Cicierega (the guy behind "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny", Lemon Demon, Potter Puppet Pals, Brodyquest, Animutation, and I'm sure there's some other stuff I'm forgetting). It's equal parts amusing and unsettling. It's the music you play at your 90s nostalgia-themed party when you want your guests to leave already, dammit. It's the music from that fever dream about Mike Meyers you had that one time. It's ... well ... Smash Mouth actually sounds pretty good mashed up with Daft Punk, and I don't know what to believe in anymore. www.neilcic.com/mouthsounds/
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