Let's Watch "Big Bird Brings Spring to Sesame Street"
Brad riffs a Sesame Street cartoon from the 80's.
Make sure both of your speakers are plugged in; the footage could only be downloaded in Mono.
Make sure both of your speakers are plugged in; the footage could only be downloaded in Mono.
Well done, Brad. My favorite part, Big Bird "There's Bert drinking a figgy fiz" Brad " And it's not even noon yet." The thought of Bert hitting the bottle before lunch time for a lost paper clip will keep me laughing all weekend.
And how come they were able to get the voice for Bert but not Ernie. For shame!
Anyway, good job on the riff. I'm looking forward to the next one.
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Way to go Brad, narrating over a cartoon. This is beyond unfunny, this is embarrassing. TGWTG fucking killed you man, what happened to you? What, are you gonna do 5 second movies next? Or, umm, lets play SWAT 4?
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He did riffs before he joined TGWTG, jackass.
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He even did 5 Second Movies before his TGWTG days. Haven't you even been to this website before, Mark?
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Nope. He's one of those little snot-nosed brats who migrated over from whining on the TGWTG videos to impress his ADD-riddled buddies who he's never met because they, like him, are faceless aspies on the intrawebs.
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dude, what the hell.
This was great Brad, don't listen to this guy. I hate TGWTG, but It hasn't changed you.
this guy has no clue what he is talking about.
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It's really kind of you to post troll comments just because Brad says he likes them. Just ignore the mean answers and think of how happy you make Brad.
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I swear its the same guy moaning about "selling out" under different user names.Change the fucking record already.
Sheesh.
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I doubt he would do SWAT 4 though i would enjoy seeing him do a let's play of some horribly obscure eighties video game that hasn't already been done....now if we could actually find it.
As for him selling out? Meh we've been down this road before and it's just boring to rehash it. That and he LOVES you trolls so just keep it up
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Fuck yo couch, man. Do you seriously think he's going to listen to you after your 20th whiny comment? And knowing how he loves trolls...
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... I HAD THIS! I think I still do somewhere. It's on a Video tape with some Terrible Care Bear and Strawberry Shortcake stories.
For some reason they decided it was a good idea to have these "Book like" stories of popular cartoons and well, It looks like they couldn't be bothered to animate it. ;p
Oh man this takes me back to 1989-90, Life was good and I saw the World as a sweet 5 year old.
... Nothing much has changed except adding Nerdy Pervert + Bust.
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Me too!!! I had this tape which also Super Grover. I had another Sesame Street Golden Book video that contained Everyone Makes Mistakes, The City Worm and the Country Worm and Wanted the Great Cookie Thief. I also had a Golden Book video of The Hugga Bunch. Seeing this kind of stuff takes me back to the mid eighties.
What pisses me off about the video adaptations of Golden Books Sesame Street is they'd change character names. It's clear that "Delores," in this video is Maria. They also changed Susan's name to Mrs. Washington in Everyone Makes Mistakes and Slimey to Squigly in The City Worm and the Country Worm.
... yes I am a Sesame Streek geek. It must boggle peoples minds that my two favorite forms of entertainment is horror movies and Sesame Street (minus Elmo, of course.)
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I had that tape! I loved Super Grover and especially the cookie thief one. I know we still have it somewhere.
Oh, my poor damaged childhood.
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That was great Brad. I needed a good laugh after finding out Gary Coleman died. Another 80s icon gone. *sigh*
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I had to put on the Christmas episode of the Simpsons where Gary Coleman played the deranged security guard for the corrupt toy company. He was hilarious in that.
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Was Ernie too good to add his voice to this thing? The narrator just fills in the blanks on what he's doing. Who knew Ernie had such an ego?
Great riff, Brad. I really enjoyed it.
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LOL, yea, same with The Count. He didn't talk, just those annoying bats.
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Seeing as Ernie was Jim Henson himself, he must have been too expensive.
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While I'm not going to be as negative as Mark was, this wasn't a 100 percent perfect riffing. A few of the jokes, IMO, fell kinda flat during the course of this riffing. But in the overall picture it was very funny, and something different (in a good way) from your cinema snob stuff. I too recall having this on tape (if I remember correctly, it was paired with another Sesame Street story called "Everybody Makes Mistakes", which had to do with Big Bird going all emo because he made a small mistake doing something for Maria, and everyone attempting to cheer Big Bird up).
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I kinda sorta agree with the jokes being a bit flat at times. Felt like the magnificent Cinema Snob had one of his "GOTTA POST SOMETHING!" moments to stir the fires of creativity within to true greatness once more. Good work though and the erection bit with Cookie Monster was..subliminal.
Rest in peace Mr.Coleman and journey well on your new adventure.
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For some reason, the audio from the show is coming out of one speaker and your voice from the other. It is pretty hard to listen to. Does anyone know why this is?
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The show footage was in mono, and that generally either plays in one speaker or plays the exact same audio in both, making it sound like the sound is coming from somewhere between the two speakers. I think the Riff audio track actually played through both.
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It bugs me that the only thing they actually ANIMATED was Big Bird walking through suspiciously squishy snow. The rest was just flashing still pictures on the screen. Urgh.
Anyway, I thought it was hilarious. XD Keep up the good work!
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Totally out of the blue. Really funny bit; I didn't think I'd laugh out loud as many times as I did.
Great "new" way to commentate. Definitely looking forward to any future Let's Watch videos.
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Long time watcher Brad and I think you are a natural at this. Out of all the amateur riffs i've watched i enjoyed this one the most. Hope you do some more riffing down the line.
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Great video. I didn't even know what it was going to be, but it was funny. It's not as good as The Cinema Snob, because that is based on exploitation, so that just writes itself. Honestly, do you really even have to say anything about ET the porno? Still, good video.
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I like the little singing bit you did in it. ^_^
It's so odd to suddenly see Sesame Street on here where I'm used to having to look at black bars.
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When they mentioned Grover & the blue pansy, I thought some jokes just write themselves! After watching this & some of Spoony's Riff videos I thought it would be great if the two of you could do one together.
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Great Riff Brad but you should have taken a shot at the poor animation and the double cut scenes hell that video had more double shots in it then in one of MY Videos LOL 5 Star Keep Them Coming
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From now on im only giving the homeless flowers! LOL
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Admit it, you got married purely for the wife jokes!
Awesome video!
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Why didn't you just copy mono audio into both channels? What program are you editing with?
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The weird part is he's already over-laying his voice. So regardless of the program, he should be able to rip the audio from the video, switch the audio to a stereo track, and overlay that too.
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Excellent, btw. "So, stick it in a gloryhole" HA!
Please do more cutesy stuff like this. Your dry, caustic, sarcasm makes for a great contrast.
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I have liked everything you have done. This is tooo much. Hating on Sesame Street? You went there? You are 100% better than this video.
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I used to own this cartoon on VHS and watch it constantly.
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You're my new favourite internet personality. This video pushed you over the edge ;D
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I really liked this video. It's not Brad's best work, but it did have some good laughs, and it was nice to see him do something different.
That animation is going to give me nightmares, though. The look on Ernie's face when he was drinking... I didn't know whether he was going to kill someone or rape them.
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I had the book version of this story as a kid. I don't know if you have improved this story for me, or given me the urge to kill you for raping my childhood memories.
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Why didn't Ernie get even one line? Did his voice actor hear the idea for this and hang himself?
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Oh, wow, only you could get me to laugh so hard at a Sesame Street cartoon. Please tell me there's more in the future.
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Nostalgia Critic is jelous because of you acting superiorit, Brad.
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I'm not a big fan of TGTWG at all, and I still love Brad with a burning passion after finding his reviews.
This isn't bad at all, but it leaves me with a weird taste. Like these sort of cartoons are really harmless, so on one hand I feel they're too easy to riff. But on the other hand I think that could just be me having childhood nostalgia about Sesame Street and not wanting it to be made fun of.
Goddamnit now I feel bad. Brad clearly takes criticism to heart and I didn't really have a criticism for him. Just some mushmouthed blabbering about Sesame Street. I apologize to anyone who read this comment. I owe you a coke.
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Yea, you guys keep sucking Brad's cock. It's not like someone is going to admit that this "thing," was dull, unfunny and felt forced. Why do riffs out of nowhere? They never were funny, it's just some guy attempting to be entertaining, where technically all he does is speaking over a lame cartoon or a movie. That's pretty much as low as you can go. Pre TGWTG Brad wouldn't do this shit, he would know that he'd lose viewers, because first of all this "entertainment," it isn't free, we do bring you money after all, maybe you should remove those damn ads then, and second, I bet my ass this trend with Channel Awesomish shit videos will continue now that his has a couple of hundreds of fucking tools as his fans that will swallow and praise any shit that he throws at them.
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No one was saying this was free were they? And why does it matter that he has ad's up that pay his bills? That gives him more time to actually do these videos and the fact of the matter is he does a video near every day. Some of them are not amazing and it's clear he just can't think of a great topic for the day, but he still does some kind of video. And PRE-TGWTG Brad did a Rifftrax sort of thing on a car special with Pat Boone if I'm not mistaken. I forget when he posted that.
But Brad said he wanted to do multiple shows on his site so the Cinema Snob wouldn't be his only thing and it wouldn't get old, I think that's respectable and I don't know why it matters that he does multiple sorts of videos. Like I'm not a huge fan of Kung Tai Ted, but there's plenty other things I can watch that Brad does. And maybe Brad will do more videos like this, who knows? I would argue the more he does them them better he'll get but I really don't know.
Wait, why do you want him to remove the ad's again? What would that prove? That he'll do this shit for free and have some job that consumes the rest of his time?
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Except no money leaves your pocket and you don't have to subject yourself to more ads than a YouTube video. Goddamn ads, I could have used those twenty seconds to waste more time on the Internet! Stop whining for something this minor, for most people this is a complete non-issue.
And pre-TGWTG Brad did a riff ("What's New Chevrolet?"), so basically you don't know what the hell you're talking about (probably not even a fan, just a troll). I mean, he didn't lose viewers because of that video, he did it because he loves rifftraxs and not because of him "selling out". And who the hell are you to judge those who discovered Brad with Channel Awesome, or people who still love him even if he "sold out"? Yeah, an anonymous Internet poster, that carries a lot of weight.
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You say Brad will lose fans over this. Who will stop watching CS videos solely because of this riff? Will you stop watching? I really doubt it.
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Except that pre-TGWTG Brad DID do riffs. Have you ever been to this site before? He performed a riff on an old Chevrolet ad well before he was picked up by TGWTG.
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Never takes long for the morons to say "WE PAY YOU BAWWWWW". You don't pay him a cent, you mouthy little toadstool.
Good to see you just discovered the internet and experienced advertisements for the first time; now go back to whatever you were doing beforehand.
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Sure, it's pretty obvious that Brad as a guy who evidently owns Mystery Science Theater 3000 on DVD got his idea for riffing on something from TGWTG. Thanks for figuring that out for us. Idiot.
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Brad- Ha! I think you've just made your first "wife" joke. Now a whole universe of Rodney Dangerfield/Don Rickels jokes about spouses had just opened up to you. "Some day Alice....Some day....To the Moon...."
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BTW, Brad- I love the "Rollerball" reference when we flashed to the defoliated tree. The original RB was awesome (as opposed to the atrocity make just a few years ago). That movie really had something to say. It took me YEARS to really understand what the movie was about. You, me and Paul Verhoeven should all get together and talk about that movie some day. I'd love for you to do a Review of it. Not a Snob, of course, but kind of like the Manimal one, even thought RB it late-70's, but it's philosophy about corporatism did pervade 80's thinking of the Regan Administration that we'd be -oh so much better off, if we gave up freedom and democracy and let the oil companies run the world. The Roman orgy like party (where they blew up the tree) was so much like the Less Than Zero ultra-excess of the 80's. In this world people gave up freedom for materialistic comfort (that the bread) and Rollerball entertainment (the circuses). Now of course we are at the other end. We can see the corporations (which have ruled us for 30 years through their lobbyist firms and puppet politicians) with their short-term profit motivation have been very incompetent shadow rulers. I should see if I could find the original book of short stories RollerBall Murder that was the basis for the movie. I read it as a kid. I wonder if it would stand up today. Also, have you ever read Mack Reynolds. He sci-fi in the 70's was so much like Rollerball. I remember reading him as a kid. He predicted plastic money, cell phones, and a Second Great American Depression. Yes...I know...I'm an old windbag when it comes to SciFi....Ha....
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Stupid Big Bird can't see the awesomeness of Winter. Pure white snow is very pretty. Snowstorms cancel school. And there aren't as many nasty insects buzzing about!
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I agree that TGWTG as a whole, swallows but this was a pretty funny riff.
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If instead of relying on ad revenue, he would build his internet career around donations, he would publish less utter shit and more good material. Just saying.
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You're right. The donation option is right up there at the top, go drop $20 in for him...or did you just mean the money that other people already donate, and not yourself?
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Some people are either trolling or are seriously butthurt about silly things like this. Either way, both are kind of sad lives to lead.
To trolls: Seriously? This is what entertains you? Being an anonymous douche? My god that's pathetic.
To those actually crying about "selling out": Walk outside, I assure you the sky isn't falling. If his reviews aren't your thing anymore then it's simple...stop watching. It's fine to voice your dislike first, but to act as if him and/or TGWTG.com raped your mother and stole your lunch money while overreacting with harsh unnecessary insults is just a bit much isn't it?
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I'm not sure about the rape, but my lunch money was stolen from me and I'm pretty sure TGWTG, Brad and some girl named Lindsay did it. It was a drive-by robbery. One whacked me over the head while the other took my money. Oh, and Lindsay kicked me in the nuts before they sped away. Now all my Troll friends are laughing at me. Even my brothers Ulik and Olik.....the Nine Worlds are so cruel.
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Damn dirty Trolls.
I'm not a big fan of riffs (MTV kids with ADD don't like long videos) or Sesame Street (my childhood was sad), but...actually no but. Its just not the kind of thing I expect from Brad and I rather watch him test some awful drink or learn more about the great work of the late Bruno Mattei or some obscure, disgusting movies (I like torture as much as every Austrian. Just ask the children in my basement.) than Big Bird, Ernie and the Cookie Monster.
Just not my taste, but I'm sure Brad would never hurt a Troll (or Goblins or plants...maybe puppies. Please hurt some puppies. I hate them!).
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I'm not one of those retards that bitch about people selling out any time someone becomes more popular. But I did find this particular video kind of unfunny. For one, making fun of sesame street is really hard, it's like trying to prosecute a puppy. The show at it's heart is kind of beloved by anyone who had a childhood and making fun of it, especially when it's pretty common for it to make fun of itself, just comes off as forced. The only way the nostalgia critic managed to swing it is by just going at it from the angle that it is indeed almost impossible to hate.
Aside from the material you chose, your jokes and style don't seem to fit. You're wit ranges from very dry, to convincingly pissed off. With this being a childs cartoon being sarcastic and pissed off doesn't work. The Nostalgia Critic by contrast is nearly a cartoon character with his persona, and it fits with the material he uses. I'm not saying you can't review this sort of thing, but you kind of need to keep in mind that you need to adapt, this goes for more than just this particular episode. For instance, when you were writing dialogue for the cinemax show your fiance hosted, it sounded like the snob in drag. You have to write in the voice of your characters. The snob you have down to a science, and Vic from big box is notably different, so I know you can write more than one character. You just need to keep in mind that different content can strike different tones. In particular, the obscure references to exploitation films is just distracting when it's not being done by the snob. It makes sense with that character, but it doesn't in a riff video of Sesame Street.
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for some reason i cant hear what the movie is saying though i hear brad just fine dose anyone know why
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5/29/2010 3:42 AM Dude wrote: BAWWWWWWW
Suck it up, child.
Brad, as other people have said, ignore this guy, as well as "Mark." I will agree that a couple of the jokes sounded a little strange, but overall, I enjoyed this video, right down to those stupid squelch sounds that the snow makes for some reason.
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"If you weren't so stupid, I'd call you a smartass."
LOL!
About the comments here: I've never heard anyone diss TGWTG until I visited this particular comment board.
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I think some Trolls in the recesses of Spoony's website diss TGWTG occasionally, but then again, it can get pretty ugly in there.
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I have to agree with all the people bashing the trolls. The only reason that the trolls even know about Brad is probably because he joined TGWTG. Also for someone that's "sold out" he's really only been in Kickassia, and done a few cameos. I would say that Angry Joe cameos just as much as he does.
I actually love the idea of this site having multiple shows and ideas. The Cinema Snob is great of course but plenty of his other shows are great as well. And when you experiment with different ideas then your bound to hit a dud. If Brad wants to do more videos then I recommend Vlogs. I don't really know why, and I know I'm in the minority but I love Vlogs. Also to the people complaining that we pay Brad. We really don't, I think he only makes a few dollars off every ad and by clicking them and exiting a window you get rid of them in two seconds. Their annoying, but if it earns the guy a few bucks I can put up with it.
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Personally I think the phrase "selling out" has lost all meaning as a lot of people just use that phrase in an attempt to look hip. At least all this talk about it reminded me of this clip from Wayne's World.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsjU6SUVudw
Also great job on the video Brad. You would have made a great riffer on the Satellite of Love.
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Top notch animation! I loved how all the cartoons talked telepathically haha
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Jeez whats with all the TGWTG hate? Regardless though, love the variety of stuff you have been putting out Brad keeps things good and fresh. And I am Stoked about you being a part of TGWTG and you fit right in to the videos they have used you in.
I think the only really bad thing I can say about this video are the missed jokes, there animation was complete crap and there were voices missing that they had to edit around in very obvious ways that I felt needed a good cracking on.
Keep up the good work!!!
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"'Everything's covered in snow...' Better call John Delorean!"
Just about died laughing at that line. I really loved this video! Fuck the haters.
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I been watching some of your videos at TGWTG. This is my first time going to your site,I admit some jokes here feel flat. But overall I enjoy the riff and keep up the great work.
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I don't know if someone already mentioned this up there or not, but apparently in the second film... they're doing it with 12 people. Huh.
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oops sorry the comment above is for the Human Centipede Review video.
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I actually watched this a second time, and somehow I found it even funnier than the first go through (which already had me rolling). Very impressive. I really hope you'll do more sketches like these. (:
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I still have that tape. I have a few, actually. If I remember correctly, the one with 'Big Bird Brings Spring' also had one with 'Scruffy the Tugboat', a story about an adventurous mouse that I can't remember the name of, and one about a family of bears called "What Was That?".
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I had a VHS "Book" version of ROBOTECH! Oh, yes indeed.
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HAHAHA! I loved this! XD
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I had a VHS "Book" version of ROBOTECH! Oh, yes indeed.
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I don't care much for tgwtg, but Brad is as awesome as always. Can't fuckin' understand why people are complaining. I've been a fan for about 2 years now, and I think his videos just keeps getting better and better, especially Snob and Bruno Mattei Show.
I'm not really into rifftrax and stuff like that, but Brad definitely does a good job with this.
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I don't know why some folks are trolling so hard, I found that the riffs here were excellent. Not all of them hit home, but most do and when they hit they hit hard. Excellent work, I'd love to see more riffs like this in the future.
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This reminds me of my childhood, used to watch this program regularly. thanks for sharing here.
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Your fanbase disappoints me, Brad. Apparently none of them have read Thief of Time.
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holy shit I had this movie as a kid.
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I adore you, Brad. Keep making magic.
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Nice post.Keep it up!
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Can't lie, that was really freaking funny. At the part where big bird has only two flowers left and you said, "At least he can keep his balls warm" I was drinking doctor pepper, and for the first time, almost all of it came out of my nose. Bravo good sir, Bravo indeed.
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this is really a nice video i must say.
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"If you weren't so stupid, I'd call you a smartass."
I am stealing this line when ever someone says something stupid or smartassy from now on
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Good stuff, but Snow Day isn't a Disney flick, it's Nickelodeon. Yeah, I know no one cares, but I'm a Disney fanboy.
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Okay I gotta say something. I've didn't know that this cartoon ever existed but after watching this riff I understand why this was made.
Big Bird in this special was a whiny little bitch. All he did was complained about why he can't ride on his unicycle or play in the sand box because of the snow. WTF?!?
Those kids were nice enoughh to invite him to play snow games and ice skating and sledding but he turned them down because he said that he doesn't want to to things.What the F**K is wrong with him?
I like snow, show is fun, snow is pretty. If someone invited to play in the snow, I would start helpping building a snow fort right away and make snowballs to load up the ammo.
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