As we set the clocks forward one hour.
And you know what that means: Time Travel!
(yes, we know this is about going back an hour, but it still counts. Twice a year we’re going to post this video, no matter what. You can take that to the bank).
[also, Pete & Pete are coming back to the present!]
Filed under Krebstar, Lady Holiday, Nicktoons, Nostalgia Corner
It’s a special 311 Day this year, as it’s 3.11.11, which is very 11. It only comes around once a century, so make sure you make it a good one!
And, boy, do we have a treat for you this 311 Day: A performance of “All Mixed Up” at Springfield, Missouri’s famed Shrine Mosque. 311 have finally hit the big time. Congrats, dudes!
And if you’re in the NYC area take a moment to call 311 and thank them for fielding your housing complaints and reports of disreputable cab drivers. We know they’ll appreciate it.
Filed under Count Bleh, Lady Holiday, Tyranasaurus Sex
Happy Valentine’s Day! As usual, Jumped the Snark is going to live vicariously through Zack and Kelly, a love for the ages. But even though Zack and Kelly eventually ended up together, we always felt that Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Tiffani Thiessen were destined to emulate their on-screen love. If we couldn’t have Thiessen, then the next best thing, really the only other acceptable outcome, would have been Gosselaar winning her. But, alas, they went their separate ways, and found love elsewhere. But there was a brief window at the end of Saved by the Bell when they did date and for that brief time, at least, everything was perfect.
Somehow this YouTube user found photos from Gosselaar’s and Thiessen’s European vacation (we’re going to assume/hope it wasn’t by going through their personal photo albums), and the chemistry between the two is undeniable. While this is a record of a romance that didn’t make it, it’s better to have loved and lost Tiffani Thiessen than to have never loved Tiffani Thiessen at all.
Some things can be too good, and we understand that now.
Filed under Lady Holiday, Saved by the Bell
Listen up, subway platform poster vandals. We have no problem with you scrawling your signature “mustache” mustache on Betty White or Angelina Jolie or that girl from Heavy. But you do not, DO NOT, touch Sue Simmons. The woman is a city treasure and should be treated as such.
Speaking of Sue! It just happens to be the biggest Sue Simmons day of the year! Groundhog Day! Which means that it’s time for her famous groundhog impression! We’ll keep an eye out for her 2011 version, but, for now, here’s last year’s:
Brava, Sue. Brava.
Filed under It's gross., Lady Holiday, Local Flavor, Mustachio'd
We never get tired of this. EVER.
If you had only one day to live over and over again, what would YOU do?
There is a larger, deeper post somewhere in here about the existential subtext to Groundhog Day, but we have to get back to Saved by the Bell. Maybe next year!
Filed under Good Humor, Just because., Lady Holiday, Makes You Think
Did you see SNL this past weekend? It included a sketch starring Kenan Thompson and Jay Pharoah (more on both of those later). Remember the last time two black guys had more than one line in a sketch? Well, here it is:
Vodpod videos no longer available.(we love how Horatio Sanz can’t even deliver three lines with a straight face. Come back Horatio! And bring the 80lbs you lost!)
By the way, what is up with Topher Grace?
Filed under Lady Holiday, Saturday Night Live
Which is the zip code for the Brooklyn neighborhood, the snow-covered part of the borough where Jumped the Snark operates from (thanks to comic genius Mike Still for pointing this out). The area is much maligned for its preponderance of hipsters, but, let’s face it, it offers better bars and better restaurants and better coffee and better pizza than everywhere else. If you don’t live here (or in the 11222), you’re probably just jealous (plus it offers easy access to the Long Island Expressway without having to live in Queens).
In honor of this once in a century occasion, we could have gone with the Hipster Olympics, shot all around 11211, most notably in its McCarren Park, but let’s mark this momentous day with something a little more recent, a little less anti-hipster. We’re speaking, of course, of Brian Williams’ story of the year, a brilliant monologue we’re sure you have seen (we hope!), but absolutely adore. Williams doesn’t name the neighborhood specifically, only utilizing the borough-general term “Brooklyn,” but when he mentions ironic glassframes and artisanal cheeses, you know he’s really talking about Williamsburg.
Need more Williamsburg related content? Here’s a scene from Delocated shot inside Bedford Ave’s Spacecraft.
Make sure to celebrate with some small batch coffee and locally sourced meats!
Filed under Brilliance, Cross Country Hipsters, Lady Holiday, Local Flavor
Brought to you by The Count (not a robot (or is he???)):
Filed under Bert-n-Ernie, Lady Holiday, Muppets, Robots
Except for the way we ring it in. As is our tradition (two years running!), we proudly present “New Years Pete:”
For realies though, this is the year we change the world.
Filed under Krebstar, Lady Holiday, Snick
Merry Happy, Everyone! The clock struck midnight and we’ve arrived at C-Day. Let’s finish off Christmas 2010 with a bang.
First, let’s get the festivities going with a little Full House holiday party. Steve has gone off to Junior College in Florida and DJ is super bummed; meanwhile Danny is carrying on a long-distance relationship with Vicky, Becky misses the snow and no one seems to find it creepy that unmarried, unrelated “Uncle” Joey lives in the house with three young girls. It’s a very Tanner Christmas and DJ is on the rebound. WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
Yayyyy! (Part 1 here)
And it wouldn’t be a Jumped the Snark Christmas without a contribution from Jim Henson. We already covered the basic Muppet Christmas staples, so for Christmas Day we’re going outside the John Denver classics and proudly gift to you the 1986 TV special, Toy Story before there was a Toy Story, The Christmas Toy:
If you’re not watching Community, you’re stupid. If you haven’t seen their Christmas special, you’re silly. If you’ve seen it and weren’t moved to tears, well, then you’re completely dead inside, and we both pity and despise you. But if you’re in one of the first two camps (or just want to relive its greatness), please enjoy “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas,” just the latest example of how Community has been the most inventive, most ambitious, smartest, warmest and just flat-out best show on television this year.
Vodpod videos no longer available.That’s it for us this Christmas (we think)! Hope you got that Magic Bullet you wanted!
(and remember to recycle your wrapping paper. Or reuse!)
XXX
Filed under Good Humor, Lady Holiday, Muppets, Wake Up, SF!, Yankee Swap
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