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September 23, 2015 1:55 PM

We Are Jam

From the amazing Trash Night Video purveyors of such fine films as Voyage of the Rock Aliens, Advanced Pokémon Trading Manuvers, and the Bass Bros.

posted by Potomac Avenue (32 comments total)

Slide into your front page like
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:57 PM on September 23, 2015 [3 favorites]

Paul Weller looks really different.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 2:00 PM on September 23, 2015 [2 favorites]

In other words, Everything really is Terrible.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 2:00 PM on September 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

Contemporaneous review.
posted by Mothlight at 2:10 PM on September 23, 2015 [5 favorites]

Did Tim & Eric produce this?.
posted by ardgedee at 2:18 PM on September 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

So Canadian
posted by destro at 2:19 PM on September 23, 2015

Tough crowd.
posted by shenkerism at 2:25 PM on September 23, 2015 [5 favorites]

I was hoping this would be something rediscovered from early period KLF when they were known as the "Justified Ancients of Mu Mu" (the JAMs).
posted by mr.ersatz at 2:33 PM on September 23, 2015 [2 favorites]

I assumed this was going to be something like Too Many Cooks and kept waiting for it to slide off the rails into madness.

I guess it sort of did...
posted by Naberius at 2:36 PM on September 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

I thought it was gonna be a sequel to I Am Bread.
posted by The otter lady at 2:37 PM on September 23, 2015

For child performers, which side of the border between creepy and okay one lands on is due entirely to production values.
posted by msbutah at 2:45 PM on September 23, 2015 [4 favorites]

It's kind of like a live action Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode in a way.
posted by sideshow at 2:57 PM on September 23, 2015

I know it’s uncharitably edited, but I’m still astonished that this is real, or that any of the parts that were removed from this video can even begin to atone for what was left in.

Those children are being taught at a very early age about how to feel embarrassment on another person’s behalf.
posted by savetheclocktower at 3:10 PM on September 23, 2015 [10 favorites]

I want my 2 minutes 24 seconds back.
posted by Monkeymoo at 3:19 PM on September 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

I was hoping the chap with the beard would be the evil one. But he seemed nice enough.
posted by pipeski at 3:22 PM on September 23, 2015

Uhh he was the evil one did we watch the same video?
posted by Potomac Avenue at 3:30 PM on September 23, 2015

This is what the whole world would be like if the Wiggles had won the war.
posted by delfin at 3:39 PM on September 23, 2015 [8 favorites]

Disappointed the video titled "3, 2, 1, let's jam" did not lead to the theme from Cowboy Bebop. But I guess I can play that anytime.
posted by Coaticass at 4:55 PM on September 23, 2015 [5 favorites]

So many of those kids are showing the look of: "you are stealing my childhood away from me by subjecting me to this. I will never get this time back."
posted by Nanukthedog at 5:07 PM on September 23, 2015 [2 favorites]

This was the actual first thing I watched after the latest Rick & Morty and I thought "Oh wow they've started using live action for those alternate reality shows how appropriately weird" but then
posted by an animate objects at 5:29 PM on September 23, 2015

I'm pretty sure this is a scene from The King in Yellow.

Thanks, MetaFilter.
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:55 PM on September 23, 2015 [3 favorites]

What the fuck did I just watch.
posted by Annika Cicada at 6:11 PM on September 23, 2015 [4 favorites]

So Canadian

Still not as embarrassing as kideo
posted by Hoopo at 6:16 PM on September 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

3, 2, 1, Let's Jam!
And yet they managed not to. That was exquisite. I felt embarrassed for everyone involved. Two thumbs up.

Advanced Pokeymans Thingy
My wee baby brother is only thirty-three, but I have no doubt whatever that he will find this useful.

...the Bass Bros...
Was there some hidden gem of amusement there that I missed, or are folks around these parts just unfamiliar with hunting and fishing shows?
posted by Trinity-Gehenna at 6:23 PM on September 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

Hoopo: "Still not as embarrassing as kideo"

As saccharine Canadian children’s entertainers go, these fuckers aren’t worthy even to lick the boots of Sharon, Lois & Bram.
posted by savetheclocktower at 9:12 PM on September 23, 2015

Well this should take that taste out of your mouth The Lollypop Tree!
posted by boilermonster at 11:19 PM on September 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

And this will put it back Gigglesnort Hotel. I ran across this gem in the 80's when I was stationed at Loring AFB.
posted by boilermonster at 11:23 PM on September 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

The gigglesnort hotel was sublime genius.
posted by Annika Cicada at 6:48 AM on September 24, 2015

"What is your name?"
"WE ARE JAM"
"Are you a life form?"
"WE ARE JAM"
"Are you going to hurt us?"
"WE ARE JAM"
posted by ignignokt at 7:43 AM on September 24, 2015

And yes, Trash Night knows how to find 'em! Register your Webkinz today :-)
posted by ignignokt at 7:44 AM on September 24, 2015 [1 favorite]

Voyage of the Rock Aliens is actually an amazing movie and I take offense to anyone that would say otherwise. It is even better than The Apple, believe it or not.
posted by wyndham at 10:52 AM on September 24, 2015 [1 favorite]

This is what the whole world would be like if the Wiggles had won the war.

If they had waited 20 years they might have been the Wiggles.
posted by Mezentian at 9:38 AM on September 25, 2015