# New favorite YouTube video **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 16, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772 "2007-11-16T22:44:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/201 "2007-12-24T02:26:30Z")
I wish I’d been present when this PowerPoint presentation was given: [Chicken chicken chicken](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk). Make sure you catch the second question during the Q&A. And you can download the actual PowerPoint slides by clicking [here](http://www.cs.washington.edu/orgs/student-affairs/gsc/offices/old/433/PoCSi43302/papers/dougz.ppt). ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/202 "2007-12-24T04:15:54Z")
From the old TNT show _Rudy and Gogo’s World-Famous Cartoon Show_, a surreal precursor to some of the Adult Swim shows: [iGogo para Presidente!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPMRxgnxQhw) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/203 "2007-12-24T04:36:02Z")
William S. Burroughs offers a prayer of Thanks: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7\_MYrVzU-Y&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7_MYrVzU-Y&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/204 "2007-12-24T14:02:08Z")
I haven’t seen this posted yet. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aRqxlGdTEE) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/205 "2007-12-24T17:26:35Z")
[No Cooter for the Scooter.](http://www.mydamnchannel.com/channel.aspx?episode=47) (Dick Cheney sings a salute to his pal, Scooter Libby.) ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/206 "2007-12-25T11:56:22Z")
Stephen Colbert before he was famous: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2R1ClT3Ef_Y/hqdefault.jpg "Stephen Colbert EARLIEST VIDEOS - "How Not to Communicate"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R1ClT3Ef_Y) An F1 car sings God Save the Queen: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MGEqlNU30Tg/hqdefault.jpg "God Save The Queen (on a Renault F1 V10!)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGEqlNU30Tg) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/207 "2007-12-25T14:34:25Z")
For the holiday season I give you: [The 12 Days of Phantom](http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ok-oV3uhdnA) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/208 "2007-12-27T06:21:47Z")
[200 Impressions](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOjmH1N7lZU). Some of them are pretty bad, but most aren’t. From the same guy: [Backwards Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbkNxYaULBw) ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/209 "2008-01-05T08:26:04Z")
[Top gun ventrilo harassment.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbEaqCjrf_A) This video is full of win from start to end. I also recommend the Vader, Nerd Confusion: Awesome, and Key Click ones. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/210 "2008-01-05T16:18:03Z")
Creepy Arnold Laugh. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1S7xyMdS73M/hqdefault.jpg "Arnold Schwarzenegger laughing...") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S7xyMdS73M) ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/211 "2008-01-05T21:41:17Z")
[QUOTE=marshmallow] [Top gun ventrilo harassment.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbEaqCjrf_A) This video is full of win from start to end. I also recommend the Vader, Nerd Confusion: Awesome, and Key Click ones. [/QUOTE] I’m afraid I don’t get it. A couple teenage girls making unimaginative replies to movie dialogue? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/212 "2008-01-05T21:50:02Z")
[QUOTE=Phase42] I’m afraid I don’t get it. A couple teenage girls making unimaginative replies to movie dialogue? [/QUOTE] I agree: astonishingly unfunny. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/213 "2008-01-05T21:59:51Z")
Now this is funny: [sign language explained in English](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvul3DC4l4E). ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/214 "2008-01-05T22:02:09Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] I agree: astonishingly unfunny. [/QUOTE] Maybe it would be funny if I/we had any idea what “ventrilo” is. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/215 "2008-01-06T00:02:55Z")
I admit posting ventrilo humor to a forum where the average user is on the verge of collecting SS may have been foolish on my part. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/216 "2008-01-06T00:19:06Z")
[QUOTE=Phase42] I’m afraid I don’t get it. A couple teenage girls making unimaginative replies to movie dialogue? [/QUOTE] No. The two? girls are voice chatting using Ventrilo and someone breaks in and is only replying in movie clips (ETA: The girls do not seem aware at first that they are only movie clips. They are the butt of the joke, not a party to it.) It’s essentially a crank call, only via computer server. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/217 "2008-01-06T01:34:11Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > It’s essentially a crank call, only via computer server. I think the caller is using a “soundboard” which is basically a Flash file featuring various quotes from a movie or TV show. I have to disagree with all of those who didn’t like it- I thought it was like a “Who’s on First?”- type thing- I could predict (and laughed at) each use of “I’m Maverick” and “That’s classified” and the whole _Highway to the Danger Zone_ “Chad Chad” thing was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/218 "2008-01-06T02:06:01Z")
[QUOTE=jsgoddess] No. The two? girls are voice chatting using Ventrilo and someone breaks in and is only replying in movie clips (ETA: The girls do not seem aware at first that they are only movie clips. They are the butt of the joke, not a party to it.) It’s essentially a crank call, only via computer server. [/QUOTE] Now it starts to make a bit more sense. Is it safe to assume that the original exchange was audio-only, and that somebody has turned it into a video after the fact? (The “subtitles” of the girls’ words would seem to be evidence for this idea.) As presented, it simply looks like a very poorly-edited string of clips from _Top Gun_ interspersed with comments, as if attempting to artificially create a “conversation” out of sound bytes. That would be similar to a comedy bit I heard on the radio way back when I was a pre-teen/early teen. The premise of that bit was that a reporter was attending a national political convention and interviewing attendees; the reporter asked serious questions, and all the replies came in the form of snippets of popular songs. The only part I remember is this: Reporter: “So tell me, which candidate to you support?” Reply: “My mama told me that you better shop around.” (Captain & Tennille clip) > [@marshmallow](#): > > I admit posting ventrilo humor to a forum where the average user is on the verge of collecting SS may have been foolish on my part. Heh. I’ve got a good 25 years to go before I can collect 😛 Your only mistake was in assuming everyone would know what Ventrilo is. I just investigated a bit and found [the Web site](http://www.ventrilo.com/), and now I know that it’s an implementation of Voice over IP. It makes sense that _I_ wouldn’t know about it — I avoid even talking on the telephone as much as I can. But now I at least understand the joke. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/219 "2008-01-06T02:15:29Z")
[QUOTE=Phase42] Is it safe to assume that the original exchange was audio-only, and that somebody has turned it into a video after the fact? [/QUOTE] That’s classified. I mean, you’re right. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/220 "2008-01-06T02:24:34Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] That’s classified. I mean, you’re right. [/QUOTE] Thanks 🙂 I should confess that I didn’t watch the whole thing the first time. I watched a couple minutes and said “WTF?” Once I got an explanation I went back and watched the whole thing, and I’ll admit it was somewhat amusing. I’d compare it to those annoying chatroom spammers back when I used to hang out in the GeoCities chat rooms - the strangers who’d come into the room and fill the screen with ALL CAPS NONSENSE, making actual conversation next to impossible. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772.md?page=12)