Another using audio from the CBS Morning Show finds host Bryant Gumbel repeatedly attempting suicide while banal nattering with the latest contestant booted off Survivor drones on. One has President Bush giving speeches in outfits that change according to the subject starting with his now-infamous flight suit and progressing a Buster Brown outfit (with giant lollypop) for an education talk a gorilla suit while addressing Africans and dressed as Mr. My favorite recurring bit has been Fun with Real Audio segments in which actual sound from speeches or interviews is portrayed in increasingly surreal fashion. When the X-Presidents - former Presidents Bush (41), Reagan, Carter and Ford who are superhero team - play a song at the end of their adventures, who will recognize the aping of the band style from The Archie & Jughead Show who isn't hovering around the four decade old mark? One cartoon, Shazzang, is a take of an actual Sixties cartoon that I've never heard of and wouldn't have known was real if not for the commentary. If there's a problem with some of these parodies, it would be that I wonder if younger viewers will appreciate some of the particulars of these cartoons. T (Tracy Morgan) is portrayed as a gruff man seeking work - these were done before his current reality show - and he punctuates every other sentence with barked admonitions to stay in school and drink your milk (as he really did in the Eighties) until they pile up in a riff saying, "If you believe in yourself, drink in school, stay in drugs, and don't do milk, you can get work." (In this case, a role in Ibsen's The Dollhouse.) imageUrl=http%3A%2F%%2Fdvd%2Fimage%2Farticle%2F741%2F741196%2Fsaturday-night-live-the-best-of-tv-funhouse-20061023031331858-000.jpg&caption= Terminal train wreck Anna Nicole Smith's E! show gets recast as Smurfette, with the blue girl of Peyo's creation made into a fat, drowsy, horny mess. Animated in the same stop-motion style of its source, it would be liable for a lawsuit if parody wasn't protected under the First Amendment. Another scarily precise send-up is of the Rankin-Bass classic The Year Without a Santa Claus which is mutated into The Narrator Who Ruined Christmas in which Frosty the Snowman refuses to tell the story because he's lacking the Christmas spirit after 9/11. Joe-esque Saddam and Osama which includes a live-action commercial for Rocks!, which adds cheerful decals and a peppy jingle to the weapon of choice for Middle Eastern youths seeking to bean soldiers and tanks. This stylistic mimicry continues into the G.I.
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