Comments on: Bigger and Russianer

Bigger and Russianer

mock — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:08:34 -0800

Gorbachov the music video, contains basically everything I've ever wanted in a music video.

By: Bixby23

Bixby23 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:19:07 -0800

Nifty. Watching that without sound, it could almost be an alternative take on Black Hole Sun . . . I miss Soundgarden . . .

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:21:20 -0800

That was, indeed, the best music video ever made.

By: beaucoupkevin

beaucoupkevin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:25:03 -0800

Russia, I love you.

By: The Straightener

The Straightener — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:25:24 -0800

I swear to God I was just about to post this.

By: aftermarketradio

aftermarketradio — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:27:46 -0800

Such unbridled awesomeness. I'm so glad I'm a human being. A damn moose would never be able to appreciate this video. Silly moose.

By: Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese

Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:42:25 -0800

I am a moose and I didn't really like this video.

By: arcanecrowbar

arcanecrowbar — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:47:51 -0800

Thank you, that was epic.

By: Durn Bronzefist

Durn Bronzefist — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:52:50 -0800

That was excellent. Though I was expecting this. (alas, could not find the video)

By: MaryDellamorte

MaryDellamorte — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:53:48 -0800

Truly amazing!

By: serazin

serazin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:00:53 -0800

Wow.

By: lalochezia

lalochezia — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:08:17 -0800

He should friggin' direct Barack Obama's commercials. Landslide.

By: dersins

dersins — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:09:34 -0800

So, you people are being sarcastic, right? Or maybe I clicked on the wrong link?

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:10:19 -0800

Wow, That Was Awful.

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:17:17 -0800

All Soviet worker in Motherland chicks with big breast!

By: furtive

furtive — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:17:53 -0800

Sickle.

By: Stunt

Stunt — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:21:51 -0800

That...that was the most awesomest thing I have ever seen. I'm pretty sure I'm be stupider now, but I think it was worth it.

By: the cuban

the cuban — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:25:51 -0800

alot of pish

By: lattiboy

lattiboy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:27:14 -0800

Yeah, the music was pretty horrible, but a big titted Russian woman cleaning, being eaten by military zombies, and then eating a twinkie which cums in her mouth has it's place on the internet. And by that I mean it is the essence of the internet.....

By: Caduceus

Caduceus — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:43:56 -0800

Lattiboy speaks the truth. That was the reason the internet exists.

By: Schlimmbesserung

Schlimmbesserung — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:58:19 -0800

If 4chan had a major-league budget, this is what MTV would look like.

By: Rich Smorgasbord

Rich Smorgasbord — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:09:50 -0800

Absolutely top-notch. Stunning compositions even for fleeting scenes and background details. We may have the new Michel Gondry here.

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:19:21 -0800

Twinkie bukkake?

By: flashboy

flashboy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:50:01 -0800

That was wonderful in ways I did not know things could be wonderful

By: DU

DU — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:23:33 -0800

1) I was going to suggest that my Russian coworkers could translate when I realized that at least part of it it really is in English. 2) Hot Russian chicks? </pre-cold war comedy> 3) Really no different than this.

By: fungible

fungible — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:54:55 -0800

But where's the American side? Would he really have had those powers if Reagan had not said "Mr. Gorbachev, eye-laser these zombies"?

By: DU

DU — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:00:35 -0800

Reagan won the cold war by outspending the USSR on MTV funding.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:23:11 -0800

I wouldn't call it the best music video ever made, but it was fun. A couple of points: I was going to suggest that my Russian coworkers could translate when I realized that at least part of it it really is in English. The whole thing is in English. Even the Cyrillic slogans are English in Cyrillic letters (at least the ones I had enough time to focus on). Listen harder, comrade! And from the text on the linked page: Mikael Gorbachov (that's how the Russians spell it) Well, no, it's not. To be tiresomely pedantic, they spell it Михаил Горбачёв (the dots on the ё are optional), which can be transliterated as Mikhail Gorbachev (or Gorbachëv) and is pronounced /miχa'il garba'chof/.

By: availablelight

availablelight — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:44:03 -0800

THIS is what the internet is for. Spacibo bolshovo.

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:04:35 -0800

It really is 1998 all over again. But if my job is paying me five times what I should really be making, I'm going to be pissed.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:29:40 -0800

Even the Cyrillic slogans are English in Cyrillic letters (at least the ones I had enough time to focus on). I didn't look at the slogans, but the grain silos have CCCP on them. Listen harder, comrade! The visuals are too overpoweringly awesome to do something as mundane as mere listening. Mikael Gorbachov (that's how the Russians spell it) Well, no, it's not. To be tiresomely pedantic, they spell it Михаил Горбачёв Sure, in Russian. But maybe "that's how the Russians spell it" means "that's how the Russians (who are in this video) spell(ed) it (when they told me what to do)".

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:30:21 -0800

languagehat, I think of you as tirelessly pedantic.

By: Ber

Ber — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:48:56 -0800

This has officially replace Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah" as my favorite video. The only way this could be more awesome is if it had ninjas. Or monkeys.

By: Mikey-San

Mikey-San — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:11:34 -0800

I think languagehat is a spy.

By: aldus_manutius

aldus_manutius — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:31:57 -0800

Sheesh ... watched this yesterday, without the audio. No point watching it again with the audio after reading here ... I feel a Leonard Cohen quote coming on ...

By: cashman

cashman — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:42:40 -0800

In Mother Russia, Pedant tirelessly Languagehats y... ah fuck it.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:48:28 -0800

I didn't look at the slogans, but the grain silos have CCCP on them. Yes, and that's the one bit of Russian in Cyrillic a foreigner would be expected to recognize. But maybe "that's how the Russians spell it" means "that's how the Russians (who are in this video) spell(ed) it (when they told me what to do)". I suspect you're right.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:46:28 -0800

I am curious yellow.

By: tkchrist

tkchrist — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:50:20 -0800

That was way too subtle. Can they do a more graphic over the top version so I can understand it better?

By: Vindaloo

Vindaloo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:25:09 -0800

That was fun.

By: churl

churl — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:36:42 -0800

> 3) Really no different than this. It's sort of like a combination of that and this.