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July 08, 2007
Oh Dear God
What are they doing to Alvin and the Chipmunks!?
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That is just like Poochie, only worse.
No imagination whatsoever.
Posted by: quiddity | Jul 8, 2007 4:36:39 PM
Oh dear God.
This is a dead, dead culture. It's the fall of Rome.
Posted by: Freddie | Jul 8, 2007 4:51:02 PM
First the Thundercats going into production.
Then Underdog.
Now the Chipmunks.
I wonder if I can divorce myself from society before the damage pulls me down with it.
Unless, of course, it also brings about a full revival of The Cure, KMFDM, and Siouxsie And The Banshees. Then society might have some saving grace.
Posted by: Off Colfax | Jul 8, 2007 5:26:42 PM
aren't you switching the blog to the la weekly?
Posted by: zubin | Jul 8, 2007 5:40:31 PM
So Scientology really DOESN'T work, does it? I think Jason Lee is one of them... and Theodore, too.
Posted by: norbizness | Jul 8, 2007 6:41:12 PM
So, who is controlling the estate of the late Ross Bagdasarian (David Seville) these days? Soul-dead sellers of licenses to anyone with a dollar?
Posted by: Zeno | Jul 8, 2007 6:57:44 PM
This is the worst thing Jason Lee has ever done.
Off-topic, but anyone whose touchstones are the Cure ('76-), KMFDM ('84-), and Siouxsie ('76-), instead of bands with a clue is.. er..
Look, Jason Lee!
Honestly, how anyone could pick out only those three second-tier has-beens eludes me. Still, I'm listening. Shall I start listing all thirty acts I think light-years better, or stick to the dozen still recording?
Posted by: wcw | Jul 8, 2007 7:03:55 PM
If they had Adias on their feet, Run DMC would sue.
Posted by: Tin foil | Jul 8, 2007 7:28:14 PM
First the Thundercats going into production.
Then Underdog.
Now the Chipmunks.
And yet DangerMouse remains untouched.
Curse American cultural imperialism!
Posted by: Phoenician in a time of Romans | Jul 8, 2007 8:20:32 PM
Still not as bad as "Loonatics Unleashed".
Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Jul 8, 2007 8:25:52 PM
I wanna motherfucking plane that loop da loops
I'll cap your ass if I don't get my hula hoop
Me and my bitches, we can't stand to wait
Punk ass Christmas, don't be fucking late
Posted by: Cain | Jul 8, 2007 11:04:48 PM
Zeno...
the answer to your question is (and has been for quite some time) is Ross Bagdassarian Jr and his wife Janice Karman...
Perhaps you never heard of the Chipettes...
That was back in the early 80's.
This is what happens when your projeny has no talent of its own.
Posted by: grkent | Jul 8, 2007 11:58:32 PM
I'm old enough to remember the original (well, almost) when the Chipmunks were just a tape-recorder trick milked of all novelty and taste. (Well, I guess it never did have any of the latter.) My budding A/V geek friends and I had lots of fun making our own "chipmunk" recordings with an old Wollensak.
I thought that they were reduced to four minutes of yearly fame for The Chipmunk's Christmas Song - like those barking dogs "singing" Jingle Bells.
Truly sad.
Posted by: idlemind | Jul 9, 2007 1:29:17 AM
Maybe Mitt Romney can go out and hunt the varmints!
Posted by: Media Glutton | Jul 9, 2007 4:09:04 AM
Then again, maybe these varmints can go out and hunt Mitt Romney.
Posted by: Media Glutton | Jul 9, 2007 4:11:46 AM
Oh, Ezra, I was ready to cry. And then I realized the jerk on the poster was Jason Lee.
Do I really have to turn in my "I Brake for Chipmunks" bumper sticker? (Of course I'd have to find it first...)
Posted by: Persia | Jul 9, 2007 10:24:41 AM
Confession time: I actually loved the newer-at-the-time Alvin & the Chipmunks TV show, and for several years the Chipmunk movie (where they race the Chipettes in balloons around the world! exchanging dolls... which are a park of a diamond smuggling scheme by Teh Bad Guys, Claus & Claudia... and the Chipettes almost get married to a ten-year-old prince? And have to hypnotize snakes by dancing? And... uh... Theodore is almost made into a human sacrifice? And... wow that movie made no sense at ALL. I should go check it out again).
This? This makes me weep.
Posted by: Isabel | Jul 9, 2007 12:44:35 PM
I didn't pick up on the gangsta look right away.
When I first glanced at the poster, I thought Alvin looked like the Unabomber!
Posted by: Rick | Jul 9, 2007 2:42:43 PM
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