Comments on: Remixed G.I. Joe PSAs.

Remixed G.I. Joe PSAs.

staggernation — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:51:28 -0800

Chicago filmmaker Eric Fensler has taken the "Knowing Is Half the Battle" PSAs that accompanied the 1980s G.I. Joe cartoon series and replaced the audio tracks with his own. The results are utterly hilarious. (Audio NSFW.) This site only has four, but there are more out there (details inside).

By: staggernation

staggernation — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:53:00 -0800

Apparently, he's done about 25 PSAs. There's a single Quicktime file floating around that has six of them, two of which also appear on the main link. Out of respect for some unsuspecting guy's bandwidth, I don't want to link directly to a copy, but the filename is "gijoe_psa.mov". There's a high-resolution set of four cartoons, two of which also appear on the main link and one of which is included in the aforementioned QuickTime file. iFilm has a streaming version, and Illegal Art has a 111Mb MPEG-2 file (note that many media players can't play this format without an additional component). If anyone knows where any more of these can be found online, please post them here.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:07:44 -0800

These are just fucking wonderful. Thank you!

By: woil

woil — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:13:56 -0800

Love the body massage one.

By: almostcool

almostcool — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:15:43 -0800

They're so absurd and weird. Absolutely hilarious. The cool thing is that they managed to match up the animation with the new audio pretty well, so part of the joy is just seeing the originals butchered into something so bizarre. JOY!

By: gramcracker

gramcracker — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:19:12 -0800

Found these awhile ago. Yes, if anyone has more, please put'em up on BitTorrent or something. I was so disspointed when I found out there were only four.

By: damclean2

damclean2 — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:25:36 -0800

Speaking of GI Joe (Bush)...

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:39:30 -0800

"Speaking of GI Joe (Bush)..." Hey, that would make a good triple front page post

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:00:01 -0800

Pork chop sandwiches... Or perhaps plo chop sandwiches...

By: xmutex

xmutex — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:09:02 -0800

good christ that ice skating one is funny.

By: Espoo2

Espoo2 — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:16:08 -0800

Yeah, we found these about a week ago and were in tears....

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:19:48 -0800

I mirrored "gijoe_psa.mov" here so feel free to hit it at will. This contains some of the ones mentioned above and three new ones. Truly hilarious.

By: adamrice

adamrice — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:22:58 -0800

Reminds me of the Barbie Liberation Organization. Math is hard!

By: freakystyley

freakystyley — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:29:34 -0800

This is freakin' GOLD. When I was a kid, I wondered what the other half of the battle was. Now that I'm older and wiser, I know it's KILLING. kyuk kyuk kyuk.

By: Be'lal

Be'lal — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:35:57 -0800

Wow, great post and good timing as well. The first post over at PenIsMightier just hosted 11 of the episodes. More GI Joe goodness. The Body Massage one is my favorite because I can still remember the actual GI Joe PSA about downed power lines.

By: wsg

wsg — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:59:27 -0800

The audio has a terrible echo and is unintelligible when I try to play one. I've got a wrong setting somewhere? Any ideas?

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:15:57 -0800

wsg- P2P is a fantastic resource for codecs, but be super careful. the windows codecs are sometimes bundled with viruses- working codecs, however. Check your running processes carefully if you go that route.

By: almostcool

almostcool — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:24:16 -0800

I haven't had any luck with the above-linked AVI's. I've got the most recent version of Windows Media (yeah yeah, I should know better), but all I'm getting is audio out of them and no video (and hey! that's only half the battle, dammit!).

By: Dr_Octavius

Dr_Octavius — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:34:36 -0800

I just downloaded the most recent DIVx bundle from download.com and that seemed to do the trick when trying to run the .avi files.

By: bucko

bucko — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:37:42 -0800

Yawn.

By: a3matrix

a3matrix — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:00:06 -0800

HAHAHAHAHAHA I love the skiing one. Too funny.

By: turacma

turacma — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:05:02 -0800

Porkchop sandwiches!

By: dammitjim

dammitjim — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:38:16 -0800

You know, I'm a member of the target audience for these, having watched GI Joe a lot when I was younger, but I didn't find them funny at all. It's no Sealab 2021, that's for sure.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:40:15 -0800

Go get some sleep Bucko. You look tired.

By: cobra libre

cobra libre — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:21:26 -0800

I think the audio syncing might actually be superior to the orginal PSAs!

By: tcaleb

tcaleb — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:27:55 -0800

Seconded dammitjim. Sealab is the bong.

By: rudyfink

rudyfink — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:00:48 -0800

/agree dammitjim.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:49:36 -0800

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!! holy ever-loving Jesus H Christ on a popsicle stick...

By: bargle

bargle — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:20:43 -0800

What the hell does the guy say in the carnival one after the "me me me me me" part?

By: lotsofno

lotsofno — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:00:28 -0800

"Naw, I'm just kiddin' with ya."

By: LimePi

LimePi — Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:07:03 -0800

I found Fensler's work through a zine I picked up at Tower Records, Select-Media. Some of Fensler's other projects are on the DVD included with the 10-ish dollar magazine, but only the GI Joe PSAs caused me to laugh so hard that I fell off the sofa. MetaPorkChopSandwiches: Holy fuck!

By: wantwit

wantwit — Wed, 13 Aug 2003 06:18:42 -0800

yes