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The Rubber Chicken Podcast: Podisode #8: It’s About Bloody Time

Alastair Craig — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:44:40 +0000

The comedy of errors that is Finishing Season Two approaches its climax. Here’s what you can look forward to when we get back from our various honeymoons and tropical vacations. We are PUMPED. Are YOU?

Compiled by Alastair Craig

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Everybody Loves Shredder – The Ninja Turtles Sitcom (Pilot)

Tim Morrison — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:54:57 +0000

We at The Rubber Chicken have long considered the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon a few edits and a laugh track away from being the perfect sitcom. Even the voice actors openly recognise villains Krang and Shredder as the classic bickering married couple. Now if only somebody would get rid of those pesky turtles, we could finally enjoy TMNT as the romantic adventure-comedy it was clearly destined to be.

We have the technology.

If you enjoyed this video, be sure to check out some of our previous TMNT posts, including an illustrated tribute to Krang, the Turtles’ victory over Global Warming, or a warts-and-all look at their scandallous private lives.

Based on “Plan 6 From Outer Space” (Season 4, Episode 1)
Written by David Wise
Directed by Mike Stuart

Edited by
Tim Morrison

Concept and planning by
Ben K
Tim Morrison
Alastair Craig

“At Home in the Technodrome”
Performed by Fiona Revill
Written by Alastair Craig (with apologies to Fiona Revill)

I cry inside every time you mock me
When the turtles pull our plans apart
You might be a talking brain
But I’ll never stop searching for a heart.

Scheming in the Technodrome
We’re a family bound together
It’s not a house but it feels like home
When Everybody Loves Shredder.

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Has Anyone Seen My Tamborine?

Alastair Craig — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:56:06 +0000

This accidentally reversed portion of Podcast 207: Mister Podcast’s Neighborhood* chills me to the bone. On this hallowed eve, I entrust it to you. God bless.

*”Soon”.

SpamArt II: The Quest for Peace

Paul Matijevic — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:37:39 +0000

More postcards inspired by spam subject headings:

SpamArt: Postcards From The Internet

Paul Matijevic — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:57:59 +0000

FACT: In his daily tech support work for The Man, Tim encounters a huge volume of unintentionally hilarious spam subject headings.

FACT: The world has been a slightly less awesome place since Spamusement.com stopped posting its priceless visual interpretations of such spam titles, and will remain slightly less awesome until somebody picks up where it left off.

FACT: Paul “Ettin” Matijevic can sketch a mean stick figure.

CONCLUSION:

And there’s plenty more to come, I’m afraid.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game – Xbox 360 Review

Mister Bung — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:43:47 +0000

Proton pack is strapped.
Busting makes me feel good like
’80s Sig Weaver.

Great Scott! (Sorry, sorry.)

Scott McQuaig — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:47:28 +0000

Alastair: During his brief but bright tenure as Rubber Chicken cartoonist in 2003-4, Scott McQuaig gave us a memorable visual personality that lingers to this day. (I could have used a fart metaphor there, but no, I’m better than that.) Even now, many of his creations peer out from the left hand side of this website, each a glorious gaseous tendril of nostalgia.

Scott has recently thawed from creative hibernation – some call it “business school” – to deliver this hand-crafted rendition of “popular” podcast “personality” Sir Nigel Haversmith IV. See it. Smell it. Savour it. And if you would like to see more of our audio-only characters brought to life, please share your suggestions below. Scott’s return to artistry is a self-admittedly tentative one, and with this public call-out, I hope to lure him back with guilt.

Oh, and registration is no longer required to post a comment, so a big “hello” to our new spambot readership!

The Rubber Chicken Podcast: Podisode #7: Virgil and Grimm

Andrey Summers — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:26:47 +0000

Andrey and Mike expound absolutely all their energy and talent, to bring you the most tightly-compacted shot of fantasy and myth-related puns IMAGINABLE. So potent, you won’t have time to laugh at a single one of them.

Written and performed by
Andrey Summers
Michael Cope

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A Heart Worth Breaking: Online Remediation As Art In The Postmodern Musical Landscape

Alastair Craig — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:52:48 +0000

Internet, let’s make YouTube’s vile comments section a better place. Follow a video of your choosing with a bizarre comment – not negative, nor offensive, but simply designed to make a stranger’s day that little bit more surreal – and share your contribution with us. For example:

Review etiquette states one shouldn’t judge outtakes as harshly as proper cinematic output. To that notion I say “balderdash”, for as this short piece of improvisational theatre proves, unscripted material can represent the purest of unfiltered artistic visions in the right hands. And the hands of YouTube user “LalaaLou” prove very right indeed.

Following the groundbreaking double-punch of crowd pleaser Birthdayy and the introspective Tom and Katy 2, one could be forgiven for expecting this young up-and-coming auteur to scout for further untapped potential in the documentary sphere. But LalaaLou, long perceived in the YouTube community as a daring visual pioneer, is as always keen to corageously explore and map entirely new artistic landscapes.

Under this Spielbergesque directional gusto, the ensemble cast acts flawlessly as a single entity; so perfect a muse that the original vision and performance are inseparable. One must gaze beneath the surface; beyond petty technical issues of timing and choreography, to find the poetry in this very discordance; beauty in the eye of the storm; the calm, if you will, in the chaos. Only then does one discover the rich emotional subtext: it is not about the end product, but the journey.

Future generations might very well admire – nay, worship – this 0.38 minute manifesto as the definitive template, if not the outright final word, on Chad Kroeger commentary. I laughed. I cried. YouTube video designate elv4kGQv8EI works on every possible level, and then some more. The best independent film ever made? Quite probably.

Comment on a YouTube video and report back to us below in our own, less vile comments section.
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Celebrating The Original Mooon People

Alastair Craig — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:01:14 +0000

In light of recent news, let us set aside our silly podcasts and Ninja Turtle appraisal and take a moment to celebrate the human spirit. Let’s not delude ourselves with nihilistic doomsday predictions, humanity: we are pretty darn-tootin’ great.

And for only $10.99, this greatness can be yours to cherish forever! From the Earth to the Moon, Tom Hanks’ brilliant 12-part love letter to the Apollo missions, is now sickeningly cheap on Amazon.com. If you’ve ever found yourself staring wistfully at the full moon, marvelling, as the honking drivers behind you shout “GREEN LIGHT, MORON”, that our little species could get so far, you owe it to yourself to watch this uplifting, heartbreaking and occasionally hilarious series. My friends assure me it is officially on the list of Pop-Culture Moments In Which A Grown Man Is Permitted To Cry, right between The Time Traveller’s Wife and the ending of Terminator 2.

We now return to our regularly scheduled discussion topic: donatello from tmnt or the professor from honey i shrunk the kids who is the better mechanic??? Please leave your replies below.

Neil, Buzz, Michael, if any of you choose to celebrate your accomplishment with a quiet night indoors reading an obscure Australian/Canadian comedy page: we salute you.