Jizz in My Pants
by kwongfucius on Feb.25, 2009, under Internet, Rant, Tech, Television
From the SNL comic duo Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg that brought you Lazy Sunday and Dick in a Box comes Jizz in My Pants.
This song parody …songody? …parodong? This parodong aired on December 6, 2008 and although as funny if not more than the other two shorts, Jizz in My Pants still has not gained enough traction to receive the title of “viral”. I would argue that this has to do with Hulu’s clamping down on their videos being distributed through YouTube. Lazy Sunday and Dick in a Box did so much to bring buzz back to the long stale Saturday Night Live that if the execs over at NBC took their heads out of their asses for one minute, they’d realize that YouTube does more help than harm. I’m not even sure the above Hulu embed will still work by the time you guys are reading this. Hulu has been so inconsistent with their video libraries it’s ridiculous, one week a clip is up the other week it’s gone. Now they’ve even pulled out from Boxee.
The whole viral phenonmenon will not work if viewers feel like they are being tricked by NBC into being pawns for NBC’s overall marketing strategy. There is a certain unspoken trust between sender and receiver; and as alruistic web denizens, we would rather not pass along unwanted advertizing to friends who trust us to not litter their inboxes with spam.
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February 25th, 2009 on 3:13 pm
I would argue that this song is not really a parody. It doesn’t take a popular song and change it words to make it funny like Weird Al or that Britney parody on MadTV. You might be able to say it’s a parody on a particular genre of music but I must say that these guys write original music with funny lyrics. So I think it’s more of a musical comedy sketch than a parody.
Either way it’s pretty damn funny. Don’t watch videos on Hulu. They are run by aliens that want to eat your brains.
February 27th, 2009 on 4:59 pm
T would argue that it’s parodying a genre, like LMFAO “I’m in LA Trick” and not a specific song.
…or it could just be comedy music.