A few nights ago, Sparky and I wanted to show a friend “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” because she was somehow unaware of this pop culture phenomenon. However, just finding the original was an amazing experience.
So then I thought, “Maybe I should do a post about this?” Allow me to provide a script for the rest of that train of thought. Think of it like A Beautiful Mind.*
*Mind involved not beautiful
Good Juice: A post would be fun!
Evil Juice: You cannot do a post on PBJT. It would be lazy and unoriginal.
GJ: And awesome!
EJ: It’s annoying, played out, and not up to the standards of Culturegeist.
GJ: EJ, you crazy! This blog started with posts about library head and potty-mouthed presidential candidates! Surely PBJT is better than that!
EJ: You are going to hell.
So, ladies and gentleman, children of appropriate ages, pimps, pedophiles, and ministers prime, I present to you, the original PBJT here with subsequent goodness after the jump!
Clearly, despite this awesomeness, it needed to be improved. But how does one improve upon a dancing banana singing about PB&J? Who or what could possibly be as awesome as that?
Luckily, Family Guy came swooping in to say, “We are that awesome. Brian is that awesome. Fear our overwhelming awesomeness.”
Heard and noted, spooky random Family Guy voice. Enjoy the Family Guy adaptation
But then someone said, “Why do you hate Mexicans? Juan McCain would not have discriminated against us so!” And those voices were heard and the concerns were addressed in this gem:
And then masses cried out for a sequel. Sometimes a sequel just must be provided. You know, like Speed 2: Cruise Control or Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. Eventually, the unwashed masses’ demands were met, only barely avoiding riots at anime conventions and Magic: The Gathering tournaments everywhere:
Family Guy did its part. It revived this meme, but where to go from here? There is only reasonable answer: Peanut Butter Federline!
But… what if we had a fat kid involved? Well, then I guess this would happen…
After all of this, who could possibly have anything to add? What on earth might we be missing? Who could possibly help us in our time of need?
Might I suggest a stormtrooper for the job?
Thank you, American Pop Culture… I will now drown myself in a vat of peanut butter and jelly (and maybe vodka).
UPDATE: The AMT has brought this glaring omission to my attention. I apologize to dancing bananas everywhere…
The AMT
Juice
2 July 2008 at 9:04 am |
My soul hurts. And you didn’t even post this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzohGDtJnjw.
Now my soul is crying. Like a small school girl after the bully tore the heads off her Barbies and splashed mud on her dress. And it has no one to blame but itself.
2 July 2008 at 10:54 am |
Sparky approves of her blog debut.
2 July 2008 at 10:55 am |
Bad: Though I have heard of this “PBJT,” I had never seen the video until today. Worse: I watched every one of these videos, laughing out loud, before I even checked CNN or the Post this morning. Worst: I then looked up PBJT on Wikipedia. Oh, yes I did.
3 July 2008 at 11:32 am |
What’s a meme?
3 July 2008 at 12:38 pm |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
It’s one of those things that people know about, often all of a sudden… like PBJT, or the diet coke and mentos thing, or the Soulja Boy dance. It doesn’t have to be an internet thing, but the term is used often for viral internet whatnot.
3 July 2008 at 11:03 pm |
I am actually just commenting to correct Brook. She has, in fact, seen the original PBJT, because she watched it in her office at the Princeton Review in BR with Juice and I.
It was just before Danielle said she was going to “resurrect” the chairs.
And then they made me put on that jacket….
4 July 2008 at 3:42 am |
Ah, yes. I stand corrected. I did tell Juice that I thought I knew the song from somewhere, and that I had a random memory of that “somewhere” being you singing it. For what that’s worth.
6 July 2008 at 3:26 pm |
True story, they played this over the in-store radio at Wal-Mart a couple weeks ago. Muncie > you.