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April 1, 2023 10:55 AM Subscribe
All you need are some quality mind altering chemicals and 90 minutes of time for the Adult Swim: Special Broadcast 2023 to completely reshape your reality. Enjoy!
This is likely an April Fool's Day joke, but it exists, and it is the thing that it is!
This is likely an April Fool's Day joke, but it exists, and it is the thing that it is!
The pharma commercial is Unedited Footage of a Bear, released about ten years ago and truly a classic.
posted by kaibutsu at 12:42 PM on April 1, 2023 [4 favorites]
posted by kaibutsu at 12:42 PM on April 1, 2023 [4 favorites]
I was impressed more by Unedited Footage of a Bear than I was Too Many Cooks and it's my favorite of those fake ads. I think it's pretty much flawless.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 12:58 PM on April 1, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 12:58 PM on April 1, 2023 [2 favorites]
Unedited Footage of a Bear
WTAMFF??????????? did I just watch?
posted by supermedusa at 1:51 PM on April 1, 2023 [6 favorites]
WTAMFF??????????? did I just watch?
posted by supermedusa at 1:51 PM on April 1, 2023 [6 favorites]
I was reminded of those Adult Swim short films recently when I looked up the two Oscar winning directors for "Everything Everywhere All At Once". Turns out they directed one of them.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 2:39 PM on April 1, 2023 [8 favorites]
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 2:39 PM on April 1, 2023 [8 favorites]
from the comments on UFoaB:
Damn, that was stressful.
I'm gonna need some claridryl to calm down
posted by lalochezia at 3:24 PM on April 1, 2023 [4 favorites]
Damn, that was stressful.
I'm gonna need some claridryl to calm down
posted by lalochezia at 3:24 PM on April 1, 2023 [4 favorites]
My problem is AS cartoon are so wacky anyway I don't know how much wackier this shit is.
posted by hypnogogue at 8:30 PM on April 1, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by hypnogogue at 8:30 PM on April 1, 2023 [3 favorites]
I guess I'm old now, I didn't get much out of this. But I did like that Space Ghost Coast To Coast was in the midst of all of that.
Maybe someday they'll show that Venture Bros. movie we were promised.
posted by JHarris at 9:22 PM on April 1, 2023 [1 favorite]
Maybe someday they'll show that Venture Bros. movie we were promised.
posted by JHarris at 9:22 PM on April 1, 2023 [1 favorite]
Gimme Aeon Flux (oh, yeh never mind) or Hi Dad - Im in Jail - YouTube. It was better before.
posted by zengargoyle at 9:38 PM on April 1, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by zengargoyle at 9:38 PM on April 1, 2023 [1 favorite]
Oh, Hi Dad, I'm In Jail is by Steven Jesse Bernstein! I have his one full album, Prison, that this track is from, and it's one of the more interesting things in my music library. Not to everyone's taste, that's for certain.
posted by hippybear at 8:45 AM on April 2, 2023
posted by hippybear at 8:45 AM on April 2, 2023
"Dad I'm In Jail" was written and performed by Don and David Was, aka Was (Not Was), although you'd be forgiven for confusing its hectoring style with SJB. It's found on their 1988 album, What Up, Dog?, better known for containing "Walk the Dinosaur." Steven Jesse Bernstein's Prison was arranged and produced by PNW indie superproducer Steve Fisk from pre-recorded readings by Bernstein, and it is a masterpiece. RIP SJB.
posted by mykescipark at 11:14 AM on April 2, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by mykescipark at 11:14 AM on April 2, 2023 [1 favorite]
“I guess I'm old now, I didn't get much out of this.”
Dude, you're eight years younger than me.
“'Dad I'm In Jail' was written and performed by Don and David Was, aka Was (Not Was), although you'd be forgiven for confusing its hectoring style with SJB. It's found on their 1988 album, What Up, Dog?, better known for containing 'Walk the Dinosaur'.”
‘Dad I'm in Jail’ is a great song and more representative of Was (Not Was) than ‘Walk the Dinosaur’, though they did record a banger now and then that made it onto the radio. But there's a bunch of delightfully weird shit on their albums. I bought 1983's Born to Laugh at Tornadoes when it was released, prompted by a postive review in Playboy. That was a long time ago!
Dad I'm in Jail was on the mixtape my ex-wife gave me when we first met in 1989, along with "Shoehorn with Teeth" by TMBG. I knew she was a keeper. (But, uh, only for a while, I guess.)
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 3:41 PM on April 2, 2023 [1 favorite]
Dude, you're eight years younger than me.
“'Dad I'm In Jail' was written and performed by Don and David Was, aka Was (Not Was), although you'd be forgiven for confusing its hectoring style with SJB. It's found on their 1988 album, What Up, Dog?, better known for containing 'Walk the Dinosaur'.”
‘Dad I'm in Jail’ is a great song and more representative of Was (Not Was) than ‘Walk the Dinosaur’, though they did record a banger now and then that made it onto the radio. But there's a bunch of delightfully weird shit on their albums. I bought 1983's Born to Laugh at Tornadoes when it was released, prompted by a postive review in Playboy. That was a long time ago!
Dad I'm in Jail was on the mixtape my ex-wife gave me when we first met in 1989, along with "Shoehorn with Teeth" by TMBG. I knew she was a keeper. (But, uh, only for a while, I guess.)
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 3:41 PM on April 2, 2023 [1 favorite]
That's so strange that my brain put that track on the wrong album. Of course I know Was (Not Was) and that album.
Getting older can be an awkward process.
posted by hippybear at 3:54 PM on April 2, 2023 [1 favorite]
Getting older can be an awkward process.
posted by hippybear at 3:54 PM on April 2, 2023 [1 favorite]
That train video at the end was amazing. Now I've fallen down the YouTube CABVIEW rabbit hole.
posted by slogger at 9:16 AM on April 3, 2023
posted by slogger at 9:16 AM on April 3, 2023
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