There are plenty of other movies about black people helping black people.

Or how about that one where The Fresh Prince helps that white cracker learn how to be cool?

The best part of Fresh Prince of Bel Air was Wil cracking fat jokes at his uncle's expense. I'm sure he would make some kind of cheese shredder joke here.

>> ^Stingray:

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summer, summer, summertime

time to sit back and unwind

Verse One: Fresh Prince

Here it is the groove slightly transformed

just a bit of a break from the norm

just a little somethin' to break the monotony

of all that hardcore dance that has gotten to be

a little bit out of control it's cool to dance

but what about the groove that soothes that moves romance

give me a soft subtle mix

and if ain't broke then don't try to fix it

and think of the summers of the past

adjust the base and let the alpine blast

pop in my CD and let me run a rhyme

and put your car on cruise and lay back cause this is summertime

Chorus

Verse Two: Fresh Prince

school is out and it's a sort of a buzz

a back then I didn't really know what it was

but now I see what have of this

the way that people respond to summer madness

the weather is hot and girls are dressing less

and checking out the fellas to tell 'em who's best

riding around in your jeep or your benzos

or in your Nissan sitting on lorenzos

back in Philly we be out in the park

a place called the plateau is where everybody goes

guys out hunting and girls doing likewise

honking at the honey in front of you with the light eyes

she turn around to see what you beeping at

it's like the summers a natural afradesiac

and with a pen and pad I compose this rhyme

to hit you and get you equipped for the summer time

Chorus

Verse Three: Fresh Prince

it's late in the day and I ain't been on the court yet

hustle to the mall to get me a short set

yeah I got on sneaks but I need a new pair

cause basketball courts in the summer got girls there

the temperature's about 88

hop in the water plug just for old times sake

break to ya crib change your clothes once more

cause you're invited to a barbeque that's starting at 4

sitting with your friends cause y'all remincise

about the days growing up and the first person you kiss

and as I think back makes me wonder how

the smell from a grill could spark up nostalgia

all the kids playing out front

little boys messin round with the girls playing double-dutch

while the DJ's spinning a tune as the old folks dance at your family reunion

then six o'clock rolls around

you just finished wiping your car down

it's time to cruise so you head to the summertime hangout

it looks like a car show

everybody come lookin real fine

fresh from the barber shop or fly from the beauty salon

every moment frontin and maxin

chillin in the car they spent all day waxin

leanin to the side but you can't speed through

Two miles an hour so everybody sees you

there's an air of love and of happiness

and this is the Fresh Prince's new defintion of summer madness

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Like many of you, I've thought that Fallon was a bit of a doofus - however this and his Neil Young impersonation has restored him a bit for me.

Fresh Prince playing Carlton. After university.

@ForgedReality: There's a guy here that was convinced it was fake, and this is VS where people are a little more credulous than Youtube at large. I'm sure the tube is full of people screaming "Hey, everyone, this guy's a great big PHONY."

Okay. I'm convinced.

However, I am also convinced that he has manipulated the sound -- all his other videos (when he is not "doing" McKellan) have much better quality -- no blurring as he moves.

Still, kudos to him for figuring out how to sound like Sir Ian, however mechanically assisted.




>> ^xxovercastxx:

If it was the only one, I'd be more suspicious, but he's got like 10 of these. The Popeye one in particular would be rather odd to have prerecorded.

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I'd bet $5 that is really Sir Ian. Especially if you go to YouTube and look at the original description. Sounds like a lip synch to me.

"well in that case Sir Ian Mckellen must at some point have recorded himself reciting the Fresh Prince theme.
Which is more likely?"
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If it was the only one, I'd be more suspicious, but he's got like 10 of these. The Popeye one in particular would be rather odd to have prerecorded.

>> ^bareboards2:

You don't think Sir Ian has a sense of humor?
I'd bet $5 that is really Sir Ian. Especially if you go to YouTube and look at the original description. Sounds like a lip synch to me.

"well in that case Sir Ian Mckellen must at some point have recorded himself reciting the Fresh Prince theme.
Which is more likely?"

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Kind of a roundabout way of saying a guy doing an impersonation of someone reading/reciting XYZ.

The way it's stated sounds as if they are implying this guy is not using his own voice to create this but lip syncing. If you look at his other videos, he has quite a few and a lot of them are pretty outrageously weird....that I doubt the real McKellen would record and not have the video of him doing so just for the comedic value of watching it.

It's a long the lines of the voice actor who does the Governator and calls into the Howard Stern show to have phone sex with porn stars.

>> ^bareboards2:

From Huffington Post. I don't know where they get their information from. But yeah, I think they are correct.
"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/20/ian-mckellen-does-dramati_n_583815.html
Okay, this is technically a guy doing Ian McKellen doing "The Fresh Prince." Got that? Sorry. We'll clarify. This is a guy doing Sir Ian McKellen doing "The Fresh Prince." There we go. The impression is pretty remarkable. As is the epic pilgrimage to Bel-Air."

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