SOUNDTRACK: FAMILY GUY-“Everything is Better with a Bag of Weed” (2009).
I recently posted about the song “Me Ol’ Bamboo” from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. When I was looking it up, I discovered that Family Guy had created a song called “Everything is Better with a Bag of Weed” that is sung to the tune of “Me Ol’ Bamboo.” And holy crap I nearly busted a gut laughing when I watched it.
Of all the weird songs to parody, this was a brilliant choice. The song is catchy and fast paced and absurd and just adding these new lyrics has made it funnier and more absurd. There’s even the same odd instrumental break which they animate as playing glass bottle with drumsticks and as far as I can tell that’s really what it is.
My o my, this is very funny indeed.
I can’t seem to embed the video here which is a shame, but by all means check it out here.
[READ: April 9, 2013] Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People
I have read most of Douglas Coupland’s work and I like him quite a bit. But I have discovered from re-reading his books recently that he’s not exactly the author I thought he was. And one thing is that he’s really not very funny. Existential? Yes. Comically absurd? Yes. Funny? Not so much. So I was surprised to see that he made this book with the rather funny title.
I assume this book is supposed to be funny since the inside flap says “Seven pants-peeingly funny stories featuring seven evil characters you can’t help but love.” And indeed, the premise is funny, the title is funny. But the stories are really not funny at all. Here’s the list of the seven stories: Donald the Incredibly Hostile Juice Box; Sandra, the Truly Dreadful Babysitter; Hans, the Weird Exchange Student; Brandon, the Action Figure with Issues; Cindy, the Terrible Role Model; Kevin, the Hobo Minivan with Extremely Low Morals; Mr. Fraser, the Undead Substitute Teacher. Judging from the titles of the tales you may think there’s humor in them…a juice box as a main character? But there’s something about them that falls flat. (more…)
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