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this is the stupidest fucking idea i’ve ever had

original meme

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When the world feels cruel and dark, what gives you hope?

JF: can I say wine?

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It is like I’m really here. … I’m right here, in front of this box. I opened it the right way.

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I think that this is the funniest edition of TMBG's 2007 "Phone Calls From The Dead" segment that I have ever heard in which Linnell takes a "phone call" from Flansburgh pretending to be a dead person, who has retreated to backstage/offstage.

There are several other performances on YouTube that you could check out if you're unfamiliar. I will go into detail about this one after the cut, which exists so that you can listen to the recording before continuing. You should do that 🙌

Usually the "caller" is a celebrity, and this time Flans has chosen "Vince", who is apparently "buried under a giant rock at the center of town". The funniest part about the bit is the appearance that who was going to call in was not discussed beforehand, resulting in Linnell mostly having no idea what to say to this crazy helpless hippie-sounding sad sack. 😂

Flans is referring to an actual Asheville monument but it's Vance, not Vince (and nobody was ever buried there). The Vance Monument was a 75 foot tall obelisk that was completed in 1898 memorializing Zebulon Vance, a late nineteenth century governor of North Carolina and former Confederate soldier.

The monument was removed in 2021 in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and the BLM movement, due to Vance's connections to slavery and racist attitudes.

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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS!!!!! 🪗🎸

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you got the words and you got some moves in there, too.

JL: a few moves. a few- a few little moves.

it worked out.

JL: not as many as.. as Destiny's Child.

well, that's.. that's a high bar.

JL: I studied the video, and I was- at first thought: could we do that? ... no.

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the tmbg theme classics:

i'm fine. i'm FINE

a bad experience is sort of like a car crash

my job BLOWS

I'm injured, which is kind of a downer

you ever been to new york? it's cooooool

song that doesn't really have a narrative but is an exercise in fun writing/wordplay instead, like the musical equivalent of the quote "english is difficult but can be understood through tough thorough thought though"

there's a horrible little man

like above, but this:

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Because of this clip I'm forever completely unable to listen to this song without also hearing john linnell saying "here it comes..it's jim van morrissey...and his Smiiiiiiths" in my mind

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me watching myself hit replay on "canajoharie"

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JF: I was actually having a nightmare, uh, this morning, that I was- I was trapped inside a tiny box. and then I w- I started actually, like, screaming in my sleep, and then I woke up and I was trapped inside a tiny box. [audience laughter] 'cause I was in the bunk on the- on the bus. which is a little bit, uh. frightening.

are you okay!?

JF: I'm fine!

ayy! good.

JL: (laughing) then it's Okay! (JF laughing)

then it's all- everybody's alright! um-

JF: "he's Just trapped inside a--

JF & JL together: --tiny box." [laughter]

JL: "nothing to worry about!"

that box is in your dashboard, and you're driving down the road right now.

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Day 253

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positive thoughts when you feel sad: at least I'm not the protagonist of a they might be giants song

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went to read a tmbg article that was behind a subscription, and when I clicked "no" after being prompted to sign up, it cut off the remainder with a fade into an apology message and this ominous picture of linnell