1. "Benjamin Franklin or food?"
3. "People always say that kids with Down Syndrome always super happy...."
4. "The great phone books.... why, yes, I remember them well...."
5. Cursing at the neighbor in Italian....
6. "Stay here with me, an old man..."
7. Nick Cave sings the word "bathtub" 10 times — ranked.
8. So you think your kid will feel the magic of the movie that felt like magic to you when you were a kid?
9. Scott!!
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The great phone books. I too remember them well.
I love your TikToks, and I’m glad that you have added them as a feature to your blog. I’ve never voted yet though… Today I am voting for the white/yellow pages one.
But I have to say, I adore every “Italian husband” video! This one is OK, but my opinion is tinged because my view is that one should only curse in one’s own native language (or risk sounding like a poseur at best, an idiot at worst). By far the best Italian husband video was the one where he was so deeply offended by her choice of coffee in the afternoon – – you could literally see him envisioning himself as a Roman who personally had let a barbarian into the gate!
They were all pretty good except for #6. The last one was hilarious.
I've always thought that a yard work job must be one of the most satisfying jobs because every couple hours you make a place look completely different and better. So I like that one best.
I also especially like phone book guy and Manhattan guy. I first saw Manhattan when I was a teenage girl, and I didn't like it then. I think part of why I didn't like it was that it seemed totally absurd that that teenage girl would like him. Ha! (And now that I'm well into adulthood, I can't think of a quicker legal way for another adult to be totally shunned than to show up at a party with a teenage date. I've never seen it happen. It would be totally outrageous. I do like the movie now though.)
Another teenage happening: I was at a French language immersion summer camp, and I was telling my friends some Italian curse words I'd read in a book. I stupidly thought that our counselor from Paris wouldn't know what I was saying. Oops.
#4. I too remember them well and still get about 4 of them a year, left lying by the mailbox in a plastic bag, rain or shine. I put 4 in the recycle bin Sunday. And then yesterday after reading about shortages coming, beware, beware. I thought hmmm.... phone books, catalogs, newspapers, old privies. Better save those phone books.
1) Phone Book memories is the best.
2) I did enjoy cursing at the neighbor in Italian. Though I am wondering why everyone is so freakin' nasty about July 4th this year. What could it be?
3) Also liked the guy cleaning up a solo corner lot in some city that reminded me of Detroit. So many cities with so many great old neighborhoods sitting in the weeds, literally.
4) Don't know who Nick Cave is, but his bathtubbing is weird and unsettling.
5) The mom loved her son's review of their favorite movie a little too much. Sounds like the son goes to a preppy school and mom is in love with how he's turning out.
6) The rest of them were meh. Woody Allen guy, Scott (featuring yet another fat American), and Franklin or Food. All...meh. Also Down's Syndrome kid. Nothing much.
Lawn care and the phone books
It's hard to be Scott. But I'll choose the mower and the phone book guy.
Nice to see revealed a vacant lot not strewn with trash, paraphernalia or human feces.
That Italian guy cracks me up.
Some pretty bad ones, but the how to say, "I'm an a**hole bitch" in Italian get extra points off because, well, why? What was the point of needlessly being an a**hole bad mouthing bitch?
"Probably the funniest video anyone will ever watch."
Absolutely - not probably - whenever someone posts this about their own video it will be "meh" at most.
The corner lot as it made me wonder hours it took. The riding lawn mower was Zamboni-satisfying. Liked the phone book guy, too. We get a little nostaligic for them and remember how, when in a pinch, they worked great as a booster seat at the table.
Nope. Didn't enjoy any of them except that Italian husband calls his wife amore even when she shocks him. She doesn't deserve him from what you've shown us. Happy for the lawncare guy but it didn't engage me. Mother laughing at son, Downs kid clips were unkind. BF or food, Manhattan guy, Nick Cave, Scott were self indulgent -- look at me though I don't have anything to say. Phone books meh.
I may go back and re-watch the tragic chickadee, my all-time favorite.
The Great Phone Books is one of the best scripted videos you have posted.
My favorites are always the documentary videos like the yardwork, the iron restoration from a few days ago.
As a child, phone books became a very handy step stool to get something off the counter.
Phone book - Yes
Yard guy - empty lot now looks better than neighbors
Down's - Aha moment
Nobody let that Nick Cave "bathtub" kid buy any guns.
Probably don't sell them to Nick Cave either.
Watched about half of them last night. This morning, looked at the comments and watched the rest.
Favorite: cleaning up the corner lot. I actually learned something from it.
Second: Phone books. Mostly for the nostalgia.
Third: Liked the review one - both Mom and son. Probably helps that I had same reaction to Neverending Story although I was an adult when I first saw it.
Fourth: Husband was adorable; wife was a jerk.
Phone books was best, and then swearing in Italian.
The phonebook Baird had a Poultry Feeds hat on.
And beautiful eyes! I felt he was a kindred spirit.
The high pitched noise made watching the working guy kinda difficult, but it was worth it.
"Mother laughing at son, Downs kid clips were unkind."
That account is very positive toward a young man with Down syndrome. The mother isn't laughing at him. I wouldn't have posted it if I thought anyone could see it that way. The kid is great and he has strong self-esteem and a great feeling for humor. Great delivery: taking the glasses off and leaning in.
Best: Lawn clean-up guy.
Next: Phone book
Third: Benjamin Franklin or food
With respect to lawn clean-up guy, here's what I interpret is going on with that man. He obviously knows how to take care of a lawn and has the equipment. But he's a perfectionist and like many perfectionists, he lets a situation go until he feels like he has the time to do it right. But when do we ever find that time? He didn't find it so things got way out of control. He let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Most enjoyed the phone book and lawn clean up videos. (I don’t think the lawn guy let the situation get that way…the city did, and they finally hired him.). I did chuckle out loud at “Scott”. Kudos to. The guy for not getting mad or swearing.
Don’t think the Down Syndrome was unkind at all. People make assumptions they’re just happy all the time…not a lot of personality. That kid had tons of personality. Mom wanted to show that.
Ann replied: "I wouldn't have posted it if I thought anyone could see it that way."
I hope you don't mean that. If one of your readers sees things differently, don't deprive your other readers!
You have a lot more context for these clips than we do.
Your commenters have a lot of influence over getting me to watch the ones I am initially inclined to pass over. I liked the super frustrated final growl of "Scott"...sounded understandably real. If he was in the habit of doing vigorous lawn clean up like the other fellow, he wouldn't be so chubby. Phone book guy has a great voice and a knack for playful word choices. Down's syndrome boy has gorgeous eyes and a good sense of humor.
Phone book!
All the others were silly.
"I hope you don't mean that. If one of your readers sees things differently, don't deprive your other readers!"
It's the kind of thing where I don't want it misunderstood. I don't want anyone to think I put up a video of a kid with Down Syndrome because I wanted him to be laughed at. I put it up because I thought it showed how wonderful a person with Down Syndrome can be and what a specific sense of humor this particular individual has. He was confronting a stereotype — a stereotype that's basically positive (being happy) — and denying it, with style and humor. I thought that was worth sharing, but it's intolerable to me that someone would think the mother put it up because she's laughing at him and Althouse is on the same wavelength. That's just horrible.
These TikTok posts are only for discussing the actual videos. I am not accepting general discussion about the app that is TikTok. That's a different issue, and you can put it in the open thread. I will delete comments like that if they're on the particular-videos posts.
I liked the lawn mowing one. I would have popped that ass in the nose on the Ben Franklin one.
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