A furious magician
I was reading through some of my favorite websites yesterday when I stumbled across a YouTube link on Metafilter that pretty much screwed up the rest of my day. Jon heard me playing it on my computer and was so disturbed by the sound of it that he walked over and we watched it together, over and over again, and then we spent the next eight hours quoting it to each other and laughing until we cried. And then late last night we both reached the conclusion that this is a pretty good litmus test for relationships, because you're either going to love this video or despise it. And I could see someone going, you know what? I can't believe you think that this piece of crap is funny, and the fact that you do makes everything else you do so much more annoying. Like what? Like how about those gerbil noises you make when you eat Corn Flakes. Or how you clip your toenails IN BED. Also, I hate it when you keep repeating the word pussy when we're having sex. And everything that has ever gone wrong between this someone and their significant other comes right up to the surface, all because these two kids had to go and give the world this present:
"A discussion with Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve."
But what makes this video even more genius to me are the comments left on Metafilter about it, like "I think metafilter just jumped the shark" and "weak and pointless" and "I didn't get it either." And I'm guessing that if I was in a relationship with any of those people and they saw how hard I laughed when I first saw this video that they'd be cursing the fact that we had ever swapped saliva.
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Daddy Scratches said:
Kids nowadays ... Whatever happened to mailbox baseball?
09.17.08 - 02:19 PM / 1Lauren said:
Ha ha! I think it's funny too, Spencer.
09.17.08 - 02:19 PM / 2Anonymous said:
I don't get it?
09.17.08 - 02:22 PM / 3Mrs. X said:
Great now I'm going to have a nightmare about a furious magician with giant teeth feeding applesauce to a baby in a highchair! Creepy, Spencer!
09.17.08 - 02:24 PM / 4Becky said:
At around the 1:20 mark, when he started talking about Spencer's teeth, I died. But I was happy.
This is better than those Twilight books. Fo' sho'.
09.17.08 - 02:24 PM / 5Megan said:
I got Avada Kedavra!
And then pretty much nothing else...
09.17.08 - 02:26 PM / 6Lauren said:
Brilliant!
09.17.08 - 02:28 PM / 7Julia said:
I think (I didn't check and verify, but the names sound very familiar) that these are the same kids who are responsible for Potter Puppet Pals, one of the best things to ever come from Harry Potter.
09.17.08 - 02:28 PM / 8apt said:
I hope you have seen this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfsb5HUFMQ0
Prepare to hum it endlessly.
09.17.08 - 02:32 PM / 9Mrs Smith said:
Hubby is looking over my shoulder and alternately telling me to turn it off and shut the door so the kids can't hear us laughing. Guess I married the right one!
09.17.08 - 02:33 PM / 10Anonymous said:
I couldn't watch it. His teeth almost made me lose my lunch.
09.17.08 - 02:34 PM / 11Amy said:
What makes this brilliant is at minute 2:43 you can see the guy recording the whole thing in the mirror laughing!
09.17.08 - 02:35 PM / 12Sarah said:
I'm sorry to say I don't get it. Is there a reference I'm missing?
09.17.08 - 02:35 PM / 13Curlsz said:
I'm scared, very very scared...hold me.
09.17.08 - 02:36 PM / 14Carolyn Online said:
Uh yeah I didn't really get it either which means I'm either retarded or brilliant.
09.17.08 - 02:36 PM / 15Andrea said:
I couldn't pay attention to what was going on because I had an unrelenting urge to brush that guy's teeth. Ew.
09.17.08 - 02:38 PM / 16KC said:
1) I was really hoping for the first minute or so that he was talking to Spencer Pratt.
2) Totally f-ing hilarious, even though he wasn't.
09.17.08 - 02:40 PM / 17Jane said:
This is not the first time I'm glad we didn't swap spit, but it is the first time I've been glad of that because of one of your video picks.
Emperor's new clothes.
09.17.08 - 02:41 PM / 18Anonymous said:
I don't get it. Seriously, someone enlighten those of us who don't get it.
09.17.08 - 02:42 PM / 19Nicole said:
I don't get it either, but it's edited by the guy that does the Potter Puppet Pals videos. Those I get.
09.17.08 - 02:44 PM / 20Honey said:
I don't get it either. I had two loud outbursts of cackle somewhere in the middle. Now I am going to try my best to repress the lot of it.
09.17.08 - 02:46 PM / 21Jennifer said:
Yeah, I get the feeling if I knew why this was supposed to be Ben Bernanke talking to someone named Spencer, that that the whole thing WOULD be f-ing hilarious, but alas, I too do not get it. Oh, and that dudes mouth could compete with Mick Jagger's, easily!!
09.17.08 - 02:48 PM / 22Anonymous said:
Loved it. Thanks!
For some reason it reminded me of the George Washington song, also super funny.
www.metacafe.com/watch/557695/george_washington/
09.17.08 - 02:48 PM / 23Julianna said:
I just kept hoping that it somehow had something to do with Spencer Pratt. Which makes me all kinds of dumb.
09.17.08 - 02:50 PM / 24Sethonious said:
I need your teeth spencer.
I'm a furious magician!
Instant classic!!!
09.17.08 - 02:50 PM / 25gingela5 said:
I hate it when I'm at work and people post videos that I can't listen to! Although from the looks of it the kid looks creeeepy. Maybe the sound will change my mind.
09.17.08 - 02:52 PM / 26Robin said:
You sexy little rattlesnake, Spencer. You tall drink of water, Spencer.
09.17.08 - 02:54 PM / 27Lisa said:
I kind of want to make out with that kid now. Pretty bad, actually.
09.17.08 - 02:55 PM / 28anna said:
I need you for my Lonely Hearts Club Band, Spencer. LOL
I think you call the appeal of something like this, the Ionesco factor.
09.17.08 - 02:57 PM / 29Anonymous said:
it's okay. I laughed my ass off. and I too will be quoting it for the next eight hours.
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