Comments on: Have a wine cooler on us!

Have a wine cooler on us!

zardoz — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:20:19 -0800

Your Studio and You. (google video, 14 mins). A short parody of Universal Studios by Matt Parker and Trey Stone in deadpan (and spot-on) 1950s-educational-film style. Very funny cameos by Steven Spielberg, Demi Moore, Tracy Lords, James Cameron, Michael J. Fox, and Sylvester Stallone, among others.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:29:41 -0800

Saw this a few months ago. Very funny stuff. The style is kept up extremely well throughout.

By: amyms

amyms — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:32:30 -0800

Very "authentic"-looking... I LOLed when I saw the "Howard The Duck" poster.

By: Samuel Farrow

Samuel Farrow — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:57:59 -0800

and the porcelin deer...

By: good in a vacuum

good in a vacuum — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:35:17 -0800

Angela Lansbury is still alive!

By: furtive

furtive — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:48:48 -0800

The ending is great.

By: tickingclock

tickingclock — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:04:59 -0800

That's hilarious. Thanks for the post!

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:20:55 -0800

What prompted this, I wonder? Besides a love of wine coolers.

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:38:33 -0800

Matt Parker and Trey Stone?

By: zardoz

zardoz — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:42:22 -0800

Matt Parker and Trey Stone? Oh snap! I've been dyslexic this whole time and didn't know it!. *ahem*, that would be Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

By: antifuse

antifuse — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:48:15 -0800

I like how they keep showing the Jaws shark every time they say "Old and stupid". And the porcelain deer. And all the bits with Sly, especially at the end. "Sure brainiac, have a wine cooler!"

By: Tenuki

Tenuki — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:56:14 -0800

A little more background.

By: unSane

unSane — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:25:13 -0800

It also has a number of executives I've worked with in it, which is why I find it funny. Offscreen they are the alpha male, onscreen they are the ultimate stiffy. They are never happy to discover you have watched it.

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:16:14 -0800

What I also like about this film is that it's a reminder that regardless of opinions of the preachiness of South Park, etc., Parker and Stone are legitimately talented. The irony of their whiny defense of how much "better" they are than Family Guy in last year's episodes is only ironic given how much time they devote to saying how everything else sucks, but when you see stuff like this, you can at least understand some of their viewpoint. They are a lot more than dick and fart jokes, and it's interesting that they had to resort to that for the first season of SP to get it on the air. Especially for cartoons since people often find them instantly low-brow, I love finding old student/pre-fame work from show creators, because it's a great look at how much their success was based on luck or talent.

By: the dief

the dief — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:16:36 -0800

I've never had such a desire for a wine cooler before.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:20:35 -0800

Couldn't help but notice that most of the talent are now has beens (comparitively) but many of the creatives ('cept for Hughes and Singleton) are pretty much still going strong.

By: Hogan

Hogan — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:49:34 -0800

Err... what? Has beens? By any account Demi Moore, Michael J. Fox, and Sylvester Stallone are movie stars.

By: Milkman Dan

Milkman Dan — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:11:34 -0800

I liked to watching that, and it was fun to watched.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:33:35 -0800

Oh man, I posted this to mefi in 1999 or 2000 and the site it was hosted on went down soon after. Every six months or so I look for it, but I can never find it, so thanks for posting it!

By: A189Nut

A189Nut — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:38:13 -0800

Quite Harry Enfield

By: ob

ob — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:44:49 -0800

That was great.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:49:39 -0800

funnier than anything else I've seen from them. thanks!

By: popechunk

popechunk — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:10:05 -0800

This is kinda like going to someone else's company Christmas party. A bunch of lame corporate in-jokes.

By: sen0rjon3s

sen0rjon3s — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:38:54 -0800

I thought is was funny. And I am going to the store to buy some wine-coolers. And porcelain deer.

By: serialcomma

serialcomma — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:48:38 -0800

I first saw the video in June of 1997, when I was training to be a tour guide at Universal Studios. (To be clear--one of the guys in my training cohort had a purloined copy on DVD; it was not an official part of our indoctrination.) Fully immersed in the lore of Universal and oh-so-excited to become a guide, I thought the video was perhaps the funniest thing I'd ever seen. Little did I know that a mere eight weeks later, I'd be wishing that I, too, could refer to Jaws as "old and stupid." And ten years later? Yeah, it still makes me laugh, but that might just be nostalgia.