Our favorites from YouTube
Issue date: 2/7/08 Section: Features
While working at the other job one day, my colleagues and I were looking up David Hasselhoff music videos on YouTube to pass time. Hilarity ensued, as is usually the case when YouTube surfing.
Then one of said colleagues told me to search for the Jaleel White Christmas Special from the early 1990's. You know, the special when we finally saw Jaleel out of his Urkel get-up.
Imagine our dismay when we found out it wasn't on YouTube.
"What? Something isn't on YouTube? I thought everything was on this site."
Then I thought, "Wow. Has our generation become that jaded? Do we honestly expect everything that has ever existed in motion picture to also exist in the realm of the InterWebz?!1!"
Yes, yes and yes again. We are that spoiled. And we don't care.
And why should we? YouTube might be, and many scholars will argue this, the greatest contribution to society since instant pudding.
Alas, it was inevitable that we here at the Chanticleer would converge our boredom and time-wasting with something useful for the paper.
And here it is — a list of but a few of our favorite YouTube vids. Let this list drive coffee-table and water-cooler conversations and debates across the greater Jacksonville metropolitan area for all time.
Bloodah
If I perfect the freezing of time to make something stay cute forever, I would kidnap this kid. No — I'd get a puppy. Anyway, this little tyke accidentally hits his little brother and makes him bleed. Then he exclaims his fright over the sight of "BLOOD" to his laughing, video-taping father. Then he tells him over and over that it's "Not funny." Adorable, trust me. There's a longer version, too.
Just like a mini-mall
Alabama entrepreneur Sammy Stephens won our hearts with his role in this commercial for Flea Market Montgomery, with the store owner rapping about merchandise while movin' and groovin' to a funky beat. Many parody videos followed, but none could touch the magic of the original.
Kitty cat dance
Nothing makes me happier than sitting alone at my house on a Saturday night watching YouTube with my cats. Seriously, I don't need to go out. Not when I can make my cats do the kitty cat dance with me. Who needs friends or social interaction? Not me. I mean, I could go out if I wanted to. It's not like I'm lonely or anything.
Unforgivable #1
The Unforgivable series of videos on YouTube is a social commentary of your average, everyday hustla and the trials and tribulations he encounters in his life. He discusses his relationships with himself and his women, and reminds us all the frailty of life and how and average man like himself overcomes these tragedies.
Brandon's drawing on World News Now
My favorite YouTube video is, without a doubt, one I was in. In July, 2007, I sent a drawing of the cast of ABC World News Now to ABC News. They showed it on WNN, and Chris put it up on YouTube the next day. It rocked.
Then one of said colleagues told me to search for the Jaleel White Christmas Special from the early 1990's. You know, the special when we finally saw Jaleel out of his Urkel get-up.
Imagine our dismay when we found out it wasn't on YouTube.
"What? Something isn't on YouTube? I thought everything was on this site."
Then I thought, "Wow. Has our generation become that jaded? Do we honestly expect everything that has ever existed in motion picture to also exist in the realm of the InterWebz?!1!"
Yes, yes and yes again. We are that spoiled. And we don't care.
And why should we? YouTube might be, and many scholars will argue this, the greatest contribution to society since instant pudding.
Alas, it was inevitable that we here at the Chanticleer would converge our boredom and time-wasting with something useful for the paper.
And here it is — a list of but a few of our favorite YouTube vids. Let this list drive coffee-table and water-cooler conversations and debates across the greater Jacksonville metropolitan area for all time.
— Kevin Jeffers
Bloodah
If I perfect the freezing of time to make something stay cute forever, I would kidnap this kid. No — I'd get a puppy. Anyway, this little tyke accidentally hits his little brother and makes him bleed. Then he exclaims his fright over the sight of "BLOOD" to his laughing, video-taping father. Then he tells him over and over that it's "Not funny." Adorable, trust me. There's a longer version, too.
— Kevin Jeffers
Just like a mini-mall
Alabama entrepreneur Sammy Stephens won our hearts with his role in this commercial for Flea Market Montgomery, with the store owner rapping about merchandise while movin' and groovin' to a funky beat. Many parody videos followed, but none could touch the magic of the original.
— Chris Pittman
Kitty cat dance
Nothing makes me happier than sitting alone at my house on a Saturday night watching YouTube with my cats. Seriously, I don't need to go out. Not when I can make my cats do the kitty cat dance with me. Who needs friends or social interaction? Not me. I mean, I could go out if I wanted to. It's not like I'm lonely or anything.
— Natalie Dempster
Unforgivable #1
The Unforgivable series of videos on YouTube is a social commentary of your average, everyday hustla and the trials and tribulations he encounters in his life. He discusses his relationships with himself and his women, and reminds us all the frailty of life and how and average man like himself overcomes these tragedies.
— Corey Martin
Brandon's drawing on World News Now
My favorite YouTube video is, without a doubt, one I was in. In July, 2007, I sent a drawing of the cast of ABC World News Now to ABC News. They showed it on WNN, and Chris put it up on YouTube the next day. It rocked.
— Brandon Hollingsworth
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