Tag: Dick in a Box

Jizz in My Pants

by 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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