"Wet Hot American Summer"

you are wrong in so many specific ways!

1. This is not the Anchorman thread.

I look forward to your opinions on Stepbrothers, a movie about stepbrothers.

whas is a seriously unfunny collection of shitty sketches

anchorman is very funny indeed and is a real proper movie with scenes and shit

idk why you'd even bring anchorman up on the whas thread unless u especially hated whas and needed to bring anchorman up just to make the former look even shittier than it is (which is really shitty)

I stand by my posts in this thread.

I have softened a bit on Michael Showalter over the years, that dude is funny.

i don't remember anything about this movie except hating it... wonder if i've even ever seen the whole thing

xp Michael Ian Black's Twitter is always good for some A+ trollery.

this placed #29 in our 100 Comedy Films of All Time poll so its way overrated here for some reason

I've seen WHAS at least twenty times. :)

it appears to have taken quite the toll

DO SOMETHING!

or get the FUCK off the stage!

You taste like a burger. I don't like you anymore.

I'm so old that FUCKING JESUS CHRIST was my camp counselah

Arts and FARTS and crafts.

actually the best bit is when Joe Lo Truglio briefly, for all of three seconds, has an insane mullet haircut, and then the camera cuts away and back and his hair is normal again

this is the greatest movie of all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joxz7qTpSfw

Never not funny.

"Day by daaaaaay, day by daaaaaay, oh dear Lord, three things I praaaaaaay."

*enthusiastic clapping*

[song ends]

*silence*

"BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiBi0xMF9UY

the way Showalter says "Day B' Day" makes me lose my shit everytime

I always imagine how much kinkier a night bidet would be.

Like let's not even think of a title for this movie let's just call it "Anchorman".

There is a classic comedy set on an airplane called "Airplane!" so who fucking cares about something like this.

"Day by daaaaaay, day by daaaaaay, oh dear Lord, three things I praaaaaaay."

*enthusiastic clapping*

[song ends]

*silence*

"BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

I love this scene especially since it's a microcosm of the movie as a whole. In addition to all the continuity errors detailed in that link it seems like every character's personality changes from scene to scene

I was loving the movie just fine up to that specific point, but it was when that booing started that I knew it was all-time on my wavelength.

i always thought they started booing bc of the cross. it has been my experience that jews who would boo at a cross would happily sing along to day by day.

I think they mentioned that in the commentary track; it was an unintended alternate interpretation.

In this movie, it makes more sense when it doesn't make sense.

ha i always assumed it was the cross too

This could easily turn into another "That's where I'm a viking" debate, huh.

well if someone was actually arguing fact rather than just saying what they assumed

lol i just looked this up cos i'm totally unfamiliar w/ the musical

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspell

In the film Wet Hot American Summer, "Day by Day" is performed at the camp talent show. At first, the other campers enjoy the performance, but at the end of the song, booing ensues when an image of the cross appears behind the performers. In the DVD commentary for the film, director David Wain noted that the booing was not directed at the cross but rather at the performance itself.

that's amazing that they accidentally threw in another "don't forget this is a jewish camp" joke

Absurdism, bad taste. Two of my favorite comedic flavor profiles. Good joke.

Always assumed the cross was thrown in at the end to show just how insanely professional and amazing their performance was supposed to be for a camp talent show, thus making the sudden shift to "OMG, you guys suck so bad!" all the more surprising.

iirc i think that was my assumption initially, but that my wife (a vet of jewish summer camps) gave me the alternate explanation, which fit with the roll call scene and others

i guess it's sort of like how one mishears gibberish in songs to fit your personal logic

Where does the gay wedding in the river bed fit into the '80s Jewish summer camp experience?

i didn't attend jewish summer camp in the 80s (i did in the 90s) but fake weddings were not an unknown thing (tho iirc mostly among younger campers), and nascent support for gay relationships was also presence. ymmv, take w/ grain of salt, it probably has nothing to do w/ the '80s jewish summer camp experience, etc.

it's just a great example of the audience finding a fairly logical reason for a moment that was apparently designed to be illogical - and makes me wonder how much the other jewish summer camp bits were an afterthought to the basic "parody of summer camp" movies premise, if they missed that context clue here

i mean believable as it is, it's notable if they could have a jewish summer camp audience boo upon seeing a cross, and say "oh we just had them boo because wacky wow whodathunkit, missed that we put a dramatic signifier of Christianity on the stage"

Maybe. The "joke" of Janeane Garofalo's roll call of jewy-sounding names always seemed, to me, that she was clearly making names up for kids that didn't exist.

Such misunderstandings often arise when a lot of pot is smoked on the set.

while i myself haven't had any experience with jewish kids summer camps, i know enough people who have that i don't balk at the possibility that a movie written by two jewish guys about summer camp happens to have elements that play to jewish kid summer camp experience

So what you're saying is that they're lying that the cross wasn't intended to incite mass booing?

I'm sorry if you're genuinely confused. As I've said repeatedly, I believe them. It's ironic they missed the obvious joke (David Wain always calls Camp Modin, where he went, a "jewish" summer camp in interviews about the movie, so I don't believe all Jewish summer camp references in the film are accidental), but not implausible.

Got it. You prefer the "obvious" joke to the one they intended but, apparently, flubbed.

are you still mad about gravity or something?

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/157/a/8/wet_hot_american_summer_chase_by_chunkysmurf-d3i7z5m.jpg

Different strokes for different folks, obv, but jewish kids booing a cross isn't as funny to me as kids booing a spectacular musical performance because it sucks.

i don't see where i said one joke was better than the other. i said i had one interpretation (yours) initially, then heard and believed another based on an element i'd be less likely to catch than they were. which is why i found it ironic to learn the first one was what they were going for.