Video: The worst thing ever recorded in any medium
posted at 7:20 pm on December 3, 2010 by Allahpundit
We got more e-mail tips today about this clip than we did about the new unemployment numbers. With good reason: It’s a 20-megaton schlock warhead, the most devastatingly campy weapon yet devised by man. Our horrible economy will recover someday; after this, our culture never will. In fact, it’s so lethally cheesy that it has the power to turn everything it touches to pure Velveeta. Until today, I loved both the Beatles and the ’80s. No more, my friends. No more.
The good news: Leslie Nielsen appears briefly, and Katarina Witt and the women of “Twin Peaks” have aged well. The bad news: Literally everything else, from the Milli Vanilli/Right Said Fred cameos to Steve Guttenberg’s apparent lack of eyebrows to Philip Michael Thomas playing air guitar decked out in full “Miami Vice” regalia. I’m alarmed to see Jason Alexander dealt from this pack of D-list jokers, too. I know work has been slow after “Seinfeld,” but … dude. Dude.
Two clips here, actually, the second of which doesn’t even boast a good song to partly redeem the horrific concept. If the first is Cheez Whiz, the second is Cheez Whiz gone bad. As for the show the vids are promoting, Mediaite says it’s Norwegian and that it focuses on the ’80s. That’s all I know, and that’s all I want to know. Exit question: Where do we, as a civilization, go from here?
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Wow Katerina Witt is smokin.
DaveO on December 5, 2010 at 12:59 AM
Lol…they disabled commenting on both videos now. It was getting a bit brutal, I’ll admit.
Asher on December 5, 2010 at 2:14 AM
Excuse me I just burned my complete set of Seinfeld DVD’s and this even made me dislike Leslie Neilson and Pam Anderson (ok not really RIP Leslie and still nice rack Pam), but come on, 45 seconds into it were we all not wishing for a giant wave to come crashing in and wash all those fuc**rs away. And now I will be hearing that Let It Be crap in my head and having that image to go with it. I am Norwegian. Norway Sucks.
oped01 on December 5, 2010 at 2:16 AM
OMG what an ego buster for all of the participants. In reality how many of these Holly,Bolli,Follie Wood types relly know each other or care.
I would venture to guess that it was a fast exit from the set to the bank to make sure the check cleared.
I know thing are tough, but it must be far more difficult if the montage of personalities have to stoop this low to hype a show nobody is going to view.
In closing, if this gather believe they are the world,then it is really in sad shape and I would donate not to have these ditties from gaining any more air time.
MSGTAS on December 5, 2010 at 7:35 AM
I wondered where George Wendt!
hawkdriver on December 5, 2010 at 7:50 AM
I like Maggie Reilly. A LOT. It was great to see her in that first clip.
I don’t think it was so cheesy (except for the Philip Michael Thomas air guitar–totally unnecessary). It was just a collection of “embarrassments”.
pacard33 on December 5, 2010 at 8:44 AM
Thanks, Allah, now I have to kill myself…I’d rather have the flu back that I had yesterday.
allstonian on December 5, 2010 at 10:51 AM
Call me crazy, but I want to see more.
steveracer on December 5, 2010 at 10:55 AM
THE!
GREATEST!
VIDEOS!
IN!
THE!
HISTORY!
OF!
THE!
UNIVERSE!
catmman on December 5, 2010 at 10:58 AM
So it’s pretty cheesy. But the “celebs” in the videos might not be complete D-listers in Norway. I recently went to Germany and it amazed me how much airplay “We are the World” still gets. I don’t know who’s popular in Norway and who isn’t.
My only point is that these videos are made for Norwegians by Norwegians (presumably), who probably don’t think they’re that bad.
bigbeas on December 5, 2010 at 11:09 AM
That song and Imagine have been killed by overuse and over-worship. Yuck.
PattyJ on December 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM
Worst thing?
You need to get out more.
Try looking up “Elektronik Supersonik” or Jan Terri’s ripping rendition of “Losing You”. on the youtubes.
And no, I won’t provide the eye bleach afterward.
UncleOlaf on December 5, 2010 at 12:36 PM
Those are pretty cheesy choices, Uncle Olaf, but for my money (and the guy from Blaze’s), the tops is Champagne Dream.
Adjoran on December 5, 2010 at 1:14 PM
Is Norway where they’re nuts about Jerry Lewis?
Akzed on December 5, 2010 at 1:14 PM
Palate cleanser.
Yer welcome.
Akzed on December 5, 2010 at 1:23 PM
Wow, those are pretty bad. Makes the Iron Eagle movies look intellectually weighty by comparison.
J.E. Dyer on December 5, 2010 at 1:45 PM
Elektronik Supersonik was a gag. “Losing you”…yeah, that’s terrible. But I remember at least getting a laugh out of that one.
Asher on December 5, 2010 at 2:24 PM
No. Just… no.
No.
Also, no.
Merovign on December 5, 2010 at 3:32 PM
There was something really fishy & unnatural in the relationship Lionel had with that furball thing.
Some interspecies thing going on methinks.
Badger40 on December 5, 2010 at 4:23 PM
SMOKIN’ HOT!! Oh yeah…
Makes me want to defect to East Germany…
Khun Joe on December 5, 2010 at 5:12 PM
Where in Norway are you from? Just curious
Norwegian on December 5, 2010 at 6:12 PM
Awww. I think it was sentimental and cute.
Not really cheesy…and I don’t even like the 80′s that much.
Sweet. Can’t be mean about it. They were able to keep the mood light and not cheesy.
And I am NOT into Norwegians in the slightest.
Gob on December 5, 2010 at 9:08 PM
The first video is marked as private now so I can’t watch it here (I’ll live). :) Katarina Witt might have aged well, but from what I remember from seeing this the other day, she looks ridiculous. Someone tell her to please stop trying to “dance”. Or whatever it is she’s attempting. And putting Tonya Harding in anything at all… Really? O_O
Some of the second video is kind of cute, they’re obviously just playing around (Lou Gossett as the drill sergeant, Larry Hagman in the funny hat)- but it just can’t overcome the serious cheese. Much better with the sound turned down. lol
SouthernPatriot on December 6, 2010 at 12:21 AM
oh sweet baby Jesus and the donkey…BAWHAHAHA those are priceless..
let it be..let it be…pity they didnt take their own advice…
irishguy on December 6, 2010 at 6:29 AM
You can still find it on YouTube by searching on ‘Gylne Tider Let it Be’. Just don’t try to thank me afterwards. Right Said Fred, really? That’s about all you need to know. There’s a reason the 50′s, 60′s and 70′s are still popular nostalgia, and a reason that the 80′s are not. That was 6 minutes of proof. Also, celebrating 80′s “stars” with a song from 1970? Didn’t Berlin, or Katrina and the Waves, or any of the other One Hit Wonders cameo’d have something to offer from their own decade of fame?
Freelancer on December 6, 2010 at 6:53 AM
>>Wow Katerina Witt is smokin.
She can still land some jumps too…
Glenside on December 6, 2010 at 9:12 AM
Sooooo funny!! The first one was actually removed from YouTube!
BoSox_or_Bust on December 6, 2010 at 10:47 AM
But you can’t lip-synch spoken word versions with singing versions!
James on December 6, 2010 at 10:53 AM
I’ve enjoyed watching Roy Marsden in the P.D. James novels’ TV adaptations, and John Nettles in “Midsomer Murders” and “Enemy at the Door,” but would have been glad to go through the rest of my life without seeing them “sing” in this awful thing.
I wasn’t aware that they had Scandinavian connections — will have to look up the info.
Instead of “Let It Be,” maybe this group could lip-sync to “Honey” — “see the tree, how big it’s grown….And Honey, I miss you, and I’m being good….”
Aaaarrrggghh!!!
KyMouse on December 6, 2010 at 1:07 PM
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