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American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
So blogger friend Buck noticed a Hitler video that struck his funny bone just the right way…and embedded it, although the “Hitler Learns” meme, in his words, “gets old after a bit.” I’ve noticed this about the rare occasions on which Mr. Portales and I disagree on something: More often than not, the undertone that creates the divide has something to do with variety. It’s in our human makeup that we want some and crave some.
But the “Hitler Learns” theme, I maintain, doesn’t really work this way. Yes, there is a parabola. I suppose everything has that parabola; even when Ian Fleming wrote about James Bond’s testicles being whacked with a carpet beater, he described explicitly the “parabola of pain,” in which one loses one’s sensitivities after crossing the zenith. Humor is certainly that way.
But to lots of folk out there, “Hitler Learns” just gets funnier and funnier. It must be the case at least some of the time, right? The goddamn things are multiplying like tribbles.
My collection follows. I make no claim to have the longest list, it seems I’ve just barely scratched the surface. And I can’t even claim to have watched past the 0:30 mark on most of them, because who in the world has that much time? The point is, as you skim over some of these titles, you can’t help but wonder what’s going on behind that link. Most people will eventually click something. There aren’t too many things more worthy of parody, at the moment, than the next man’s obsession with whatever.
Hitler Learns of the Dragonball-Z Movie
Hitler Gets Deleted From Facebook
Hitler Learns the Avatar Trailer Sucks
Hitler Learns of TO Going to the Buffalo Bills
Hitler Learns There’s No Camera in the iPod Touch
Hitler Gets Banned from XBox Live
Hitler Gets Banned from Runescape
Hitler’s Reaction to the Plaxico Shooting
Hitler Reacts to McCain’s VP Pick – reminds me of more than a few people I know, not all of them Nazis or registered dems
Hitler Learns That Palin Resigns – ditto
Hitler Learns of the Detroit Lions’ Loss
Hitler Learns of Leno Moving to Late Night
Hitler Learns He’s Not Really Hitler
Hitler Learns Texas Longhorns Not in BCS Title Game
Hitler Learns the Halloween Phish Album for Festival 8
Hitler Learns Balloon Boy was a Hoax
Hitler Learns That Kanye West Dissed Taylor Swift
Hitler Learns that Star Trek Online Closed Beta
Hitler’s Reaction to the 2 Girls 1 Cup Video
Hitler Hates Lifetime Subscriptions
Hitler’s Mother is Coming to Visit
Hitler Reacts to the New Star Trek Movie
Hitler Finds Out He’s Really Dead
Hitler Cannot Turn Off the Subtitles
Hitler Learns Megan Fox Has Rejected Him
Hitler Rants About George W. Bush
Hitler Learns His Torrent Hasn’t Finished
Hitler Learns There’s No Such Thing as Santa Claus
Hitler Breaks His TV With the Wii Remote
Hitler Learns the Gays Are Getting Married
Hitler Learns Barack Obama is Not a US Citizen
Hitler Reacts to Michael Jackson’s Death
Hitler Reacts to Twilight the Movie
Which brings us to…oh, don’t look at me like you didn’t know this was coming…
Hitler Rants About the Hitler Parodies
Yeah. Uh huh, there’s a post I’ll never have to update again. Riiiiight…
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You left out the Beemer one. 😉
Thanks for the link.
- bpenni | 01/21/2010 @ 09:37And you left out the Banned from LGF one, too.
- jewel | 01/21/2010 @ 10:28[…] Read it. […]
- DYSPEPSIA GENERATION » Blog Archive » Hitler Learns Things | 01/21/2010 @ 20:56Hitler learns that there are waaaaaaaaaaay more Hitler Learns parodies than he ever imagined. Wow. 😉
Yeah. Some of these are very funny.
And on the non-variety repetition thing… hey, it’s like Teletubies for adults.
Each of them is different but with an undercurrent of predictability that’s just … well … funny. You know what kind of reaction is coming next, but it’s the creativity of the words that makes it amusing.
- philmon | 01/21/2010 @ 21:19Phil, it’s the writing every time.
- Daphne | 01/22/2010 @ 15:26