@Seinfeld2000
@Seinfeld2000, AKA “Seinfeld Current Day”, is a portrait of an unhinged Seinfeld obsessive who wants us all to “imagen Seinfeld still on air today”. With its bizarre speculation about the potential future escapades of “Jery, Elane, Gerge and Kram” – comingled with slams on other inferior sitcoms and tributes to the perfection of Bee Movie – it combines satire on fandom, surrealist reimagination of sitcom tropes, and shameless silliness. The account changed the vernacular of social media and led to countless imitators, including Australia’s own @Rudd2000. Note: not to be confused with the vastly inferior @SeinfeldToday, which is a procession of insipid gags about George becoming an Uber driver.
The Peel
If you’re familiar with the slam poetry scene, The Peel will be hauntingly familiar. If you’re not familiar with the slam poetry scene, it will just be really, really funny. The Peel is a “live storytelling and poetry” video series from the world’s funniest website, Clickhole. Using the rhythms and stereotypes of spoken-word performance to create miniature comedic masterpieces out of one person and a microphone, it’s a treasure trove of bizarre gems like “A Mother’s Love”, the tale of a poor but happy childhood spent inside a giant snake.
@NotTildaSwinton
If @Seinfeld2000 is the king of parody twitter, @NotTildaSwinton – sadly no longer an active account – is the queen. Less a parody of the great actress than a fantasia of a demented philosopher-goddess whose grandiose nonsense feels, somehow Tilda-ish. Dispensing timeless wisdom like “After giving up both of my thumbs, I realized I never needed them to begin with” and “Only in the beginning did I feel strange having a wounded crow heal inside one of my lungs”, it is one of history’s strangest and most beautiful celebrity tributes.
Garfield Minus Garfield
Garlfield comic strips with the title character removed. That’s it. In another sense, it’s deeply complex. Without seeing the site, how can you convey the haunting depictions of existential angst in the life of Jon Arbuckle without his familiar feline companion? There is no way to properly make one understand the inexplicable hilarity of these strips. There’ll come a day when the site is viewed as one of the pinnacles of modern art, and Jim Davis’s creation as simply the raw material from which this marvel was wrought.
Source: garfieldminusgarfield.net
Punkee’s Bachelor Recaps
It’s no big reveal that recaps of reality TV are frequently more entertaining than the show they’re recapping. One of the most reliable sources of reality-snark is Punkee and its recaps of The Bachelor. Detailing the episode’s most important moments, frequently echoing the average viewer’s own internal monologue, and providing healthy lashings of sarcasm and sharply captioned screenshots, it’s a far more succinct and amusing experience than actually watching The Bachelor.
A Very Special Episode
Funny Or Die’s Dashiell Driscoll takes aim at one of tabloid TV’s sappiest trends: the very special episode. From The Family Ties Where Tom Hanks Was A Raging Alcoholic, to The Full House When DJ Almost Starved Herself To Death, to – good lord – The Mr Belvedere When That Kid Got AIDS, and more, it’s a dizzying array of cloying sentiment, hamfisted moralising, and wildly inappropriate laugh tracks.
Full House Reviewed
From 1987 to 1995, the sitcom Full House, following the zany adventures of a single dad, his three daughters, his sexy brother-in-law, and some guy who was just sort of there, enjoyed increasingly baffling popularity. In 2010, interest in the show was revived when one brave man decided that he would watch and review every single episode. His hatred for the show breathes and pulses in every line of this epic monument to hate-watching: brilliantly vicious, extremely funny, and bitterly honest about his resentment of the show, the writers, the cast, the universe, and himself for deciding to accept this challenge.
