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Never thought I'd hear that song again

First off, are Power Rangers really saluting under a swastika?

And second, the Charlie Brown theme song to the Mortal Kombat guys was perfect!

Totally stupid... and I still laughed my ass off.

Off-topic - when are people going to stop using the dumbass interference screen as a transition. Everything is digital now, when was the last time you changed the channel and had a blank channel with interference noise in between? That test pattern is almost as dumb. Why not go for the trifecta and use the video countdown clip from 10 to 1 that every video noob uses to look "authentic".

Man that was some fine ass song choices, some of those really aren't that great without the accompanying song but as a whole, a work of comedic gold.

Comedy timing > Arbitrary contemporisation


The moment of static (esp the hiss sound) creates a naturalistic feeling pause/reset between each unrelated snippet of humour. A "comedy beat" if you will.

If this video was edited with the smooth silent transition one gets with modern digital broadcast it would detract significantly from the overall effect i.e. beat, reset, beat, reset, beat etc.....

Analogue static does this job beautifully and despite being dated is still almost universally understood/recognised by viewers. Perhaps another less anachronistic technique might have worked (with "boop" noises or something) but the fact remains that this whole static thing does the job wonderfully (for most of us anyway).

It's not "dumbass" when it works this well and the last 70-80 years of visual media didn't just disappear from the cultural memory when digital came along.

If you think you can do better then be my guest, maybe you might find a way that's even funnier and changes peoples attitude. Until then the artistic choices of others stand on their own merits and personally I can't think of an editing technique that would fit this style of vid better.


In summary, it's comedy not a documentary and out of place anachronism is a well practised and successful comedy technique (i.e. the very fact its so out of place is part of the reason its so funny). Why does that bother you so much???