video for Wu-Tang's 'In The Hood'

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i found this on Soulseek last night....its fucking brilliant. all the Wu-Tang members as Sesame's Street style muppets (i.e. Ernie & bert) literally - they got the makers of that show to make special puppets i guess - they're all wonderfully accurate! Ghostface Killah actually looks a lot like the Count - coincidence?!

there's a bug ident for 'Comedy Central' on the video so i'm hoping someone here has seen it and can say 'oh yeh that thing, thats old man' or something. was it made specially for a TV show? which show? surely its not the official video!

Pardon my ignorance but I can't find any info about is using Google. and if you dont know what i'm talking about i can put the video up for download (its just under 70mb but pretty good quality with it)...its a real hoot.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 16 January 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Based on the description, it sounds like it might be related to that shit crank call show "Crank Yankers" though I haven't seen the video.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 16 January 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

yes 'Crank Yankers' was part of the filename...whats that all about then? and if this video is on it then it cannot be shit

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 16 January 2003 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

stevem i'd love to see it if you can put it somewhere

― geeta, Thursday, 16 January 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

It's essentially C-list comedians (Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Kimmel, et al) making unfunny, scatological prank phone calls, which are then acted out by the aforementioned Muppets.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 16 January 2003 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

that does sound bad...but there must be more to it than that as this video does not fit into that context at all. maybe there are other videos with other major artists lovingly recreated in Muppet form?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

i believe there was a tenacious D crank yankers bit, though that may not really count.

― chris smith, Thursday, 16 January 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

i saw that on Soulseek too but it was unavailable

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 16 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

you can watch the video here - its in the Clips list

the playback rate was dire tho. you can download a very good quality version from me on Soulseek (username: blueski) though.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 16 January 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck you for calling Dave Chapelle C-list Nick!!!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 16 January 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Dave Chapelle, but that doesn't change his Official Celebrity Ranking (TM). Look, I have no control over these things.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 16 January 2003 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay. I thought you were passing judgement. I agree with his OCR...

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 16 January 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

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