For a while, there was an “X, but it’s Y” trend on YouTube, where people would take something familiar and alter it in presumably amusing ways. (I think “every time they say bee it gets faster” is one of the better known examples of the trope.)
The Skinner-Chalmers “Steamed Hams” scene from The Simpsons has been the source of a lot of these videos. Most of them don’t do anything for me, but for some reason, “Steamed Hams, but it’s the French New Wave” tickled my fancy.
Heh. I missed this from last year:
Local shoegaze rockers and engineering hobbyists, Whale Coma, accidentally created the world’s first artificially intelligent band member when their pedalboard became self-aware Sunday night.
Guitarist Connor O’Hoolihan excitedly connected yet another pedal to the now-conscious tangle of cords the band has affectionately dubbed “SkyPed,” a functioning life form of questionable intent and motivation that has begun to formulate rudimentary yet coherent speech through O’Hoolihan’s Electro-Harmony-Vocal Synthesizer Pedal.
“I told him not to add a Rat Stink Fuzzy Big Muff™ when he’s already running two Fat Boy Moose Knuckles™ and a Red Bitch Psycho Trem™,” said Willy Bennett Dyson, the band’s third guitarist. “We’re playing with something we don’t fully understand.”
Is your retroincabulator up to snuff?
This is pretty much pitch-perfect. For the cherry on top, page through the hundreds of comments…
(Hat tip: Instapundit. )