Whattaya doin'? Go turn on my tree!

December 16, 2006 5:56 PM

It's all about the tree. (YouTube)
posted by exlotuseater (21 comments total)

yeah 3 minutes you would have used diggin' around in your ear waiting for a hot pocket to cook.
posted by nola at 6:24 PM on December 16, 2006 [4 favorites]

Dear Lord. It's like looking in a mirror. That my mom is looking in. To see the tree.

The horror.
posted by steef at 6:28 PM on December 16, 2006 [2 favorites]

You should be fucking smacked for posting such shit.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:32 PM on December 16, 2006 [1 favorite]

That is my stepmother. Exactly. Well, replace the red hair with blonde and the northeastern accent with one from Baltimore, hun, and he has captured her exactly. God, I fucking love that woman.
posted by LeeJay at 6:47 PM on December 16, 2006

Joyfully that isn't my stepmother, and it was rather lame. The character was mildly interesting, but the story/plot/? was painfully bad.

[And fandango_matt, say hey to Avocado Tom for me.]
posted by Sir BoBoMonkey Pooflinger Esquire III at 6:50 PM on December 16, 2006

Oh God, and the Baileys...the Baileys! I am homesick for the home sick!
posted by LeeJay at 6:50 PM on December 16, 2006

Sir BoBoMonkey Pooflinger Esquire III, I submit that you do not truly know joy at all until you spend a Christmas Eve around my stepmother's tree, drunk on Baileys and admiring her collection of holiday-themed sweaters. The best part? Drink enough Irish Cream and the sweaters actually become admirable.
posted by LeeJay at 6:52 PM on December 16, 2006

Is there some level that the video is funny on that I'm missing?
posted by Hactar at 6:53 PM on December 16, 2006

LeeJay, you are correct. I do not truly know joy. I'll trade you that Bailey's and a holiday-themed sweater for a Bud Light, green bean casserole, and a drunkle's racist jokes though.
posted by Sir BoBoMonkey Pooflinger Esquire III at 6:59 PM on December 16, 2006

SBBMPFE, III - why trade when you can have it all? Christmas at stepmom's house, y'all!
posted by LeeJay at 7:00 PM on December 16, 2006

It would have been better if they'd never shown the tree, or if they'd "acquired" the tree in some interesting way, or if they'd had an entire family of "Stepmothers", or if they'd shortened it by 75%, or if they'd have put more thought into it and developed it beyond the man in drag with the day in the life of a Christmas tree.
posted by Sir BoBoMonkey Pooflinger Esquire III at 7:03 PM on December 16, 2006

LeeJay, I understand you darling. I lost it on the Baileys line, too.

It's about the editing, people. That was post-Thanksgiving right up until about December 26 distilled into three minutes of bad wig glory and speaking as a woman adrift from many friends and family this holiday season I, for one, am grateful for this post.

Now pick that shit up!
posted by melissa may at 7:08 PM on December 16, 2006 [1 favorite]

Hactar, I think the level you might be missing is not having grown up with an entire army of this woman.
posted by oflinkey at 8:10 PM on December 16, 2006

I was hoping that the tree would end up being made out of severed arms, or something interesting like that. But it wasn't.

That is all I have to say about this video.
posted by A Thousand Baited Hooks at 8:17 PM on December 16, 2006

that was my wife...

(loads gun)
posted by slickvaguely at 9:56 PM on December 16, 2006

You have to understand, this is lame unless this is your mother. Then it is brilliant, brilliant and relieving because you finally know that you are not alone.

You are not alone.
posted by Anonymous at 9:57 PM on December 16, 2006

That was Carrot Top, right?
posted by nj_subgenius at 10:06 PM on December 16, 2006

holy crap! There are other people out there like my mother????

schroedinger is right. If this is your mother, watching that video is more valuable than therapy.
posted by jeanmari at 10:18 PM on December 16, 2006

I wish I had a den. Why don't we have dens in the UK?

What is a den anyway?
posted by PeterMcDermott at 1:50 AM on December 17, 2006

While we are posting awful youtube videos, here is the Star Spangled Banner played on an unorthodox 'instrument'.
posted by A Thousand Baited Hooks at 4:20 AM on December 17, 2006

um...I guess i'm in the minority here, but I thought this was awesome. the voice was perfect. the timing was perfect. the lines were perfect. not epic, but short, sweet, and well put together. thanks exlotuseater.
posted by es_de_bah at 6:16 PM on December 17, 2006