this placed #29 in our 100 Comedy Films of All Time poll so its way overrated here for some reason
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 November 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link
I've seen WHAS at least twenty times. :)
― polyphonic, Thursday, 7 November 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
it appears to have taken quite the toll
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 November 2013 23:15 (ten years ago) link
DO SOMETHING!
or get the FUCK off the stage!
― your face comes with coleslaw (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 November 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
You taste like a burger. I don't like you anymore.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 7 November 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
I'm so old that FUCKING JESUS CHRIST was my camp counselah
― your face comes with coleslaw (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 November 2013 23:21 (ten years ago) link
Arts and FARTS and crafts.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 01:28 (ten years ago) link
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
― your face comes with coleslaw (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 November 2013 01:52 (ten years ago) link
this is the greatest movie of all time
― reckless woo (Z S), Friday, 8 November 2013 02:03 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joxz7qTpSfw
― goole, Friday, 8 November 2013 03:39 (ten years ago) link
Never not funny.
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
"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
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
the way Showalter says "Day B' Day" makes me lose my shit everytime
― your face comes with coleslaw (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
I always imagine how much kinkier a night bidet would be.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Friday, 8 November 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
"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
― frogbs, Friday, 8 November 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
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.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Mordy , Friday, 8 November 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
I think they mentioned that in the commentary track; it was an unintended alternate interpretation.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
In this movie, it makes more sense when it doesn't make sense.
ha i always assumed it was the cross too
― da croupier, Friday, 8 November 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
This could easily turn into another "That's where I'm a viking" debate, huh.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
well if someone was actually arguing fact rather than just saying what they assumed
― da croupier, Friday, 8 November 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
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.
― goole, Friday, 8 November 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
that's amazing that they accidentally threw in another "don't forget this is a jewish camp" joke
― da croupier, Friday, 8 November 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
Absurdism, bad taste. Two of my favorite comedic flavor profiles. Good joke.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
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.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Friday, 8 November 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
i guess it's sort of like how one mishears gibberish in songs to fit your personal logic
― da croupier, Friday, 8 November 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
Where does the gay wedding in the river bed fit into the '80s Jewish summer camp experience?
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Mordy , Friday, 8 November 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Friday, 8 November 2013 19:30 (ten years ago) link
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"
― da croupier, Friday, 8 November 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
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.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
Such misunderstandings often arise when a lot of pot is smoked on the set.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Friday, 8 November 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
So what you're saying is that they're lying that the cross wasn't intended to incite mass booing?
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Friday, 8 November 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
Got it. You prefer the "obvious" joke to the one they intended but, apparently, flubbed.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
are you still mad about gravity or something?
― da croupier, Friday, 8 November 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/157/a/8/wet_hot_american_summer_chase_by_chunkysmurf-d3i7z5m.jpg
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
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.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Friday, 8 November 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
― polyphonic, Friday, 8 November 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
that a movie that resonates with people who've gone to jewish sleepaway camp has a moment in that vein that the creators didn't even plan for just makes it all even funnier imo
― da croupier, Friday, 8 November 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
http://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/lisathevegetarian5.png
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
ironically, i prefer the ten because it's even more blatantly just crazy bullshit
― da croupier, Friday, 8 November 2013 20:17 (ten years ago) link
Preferring The Ten is definitely just crazy bullshit.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
The Ten is a grower. I thought it was mostly pretty lame when I first saw it, but I've come around on subsequent viewings.
― little shitty donut anus (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 November 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
if i prefer the ten it's by a small degree - they're both classics imo (and with role models and wanderlust being pretty good, i'd say wain's track record might as good as it gets in comedy these days)
― da croupier, Friday, 8 November 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link