This one is for Journey’s “Separate Ways”
MC Hammer’s video “Too Legit to Quit”
Hall & Oates video for “Man Eater”
Nelson with “After the Rain”
Debbie Gibson’s “Electric Youth” (the full version)
Winger “Seventeen” video
If I find more, I’ll post them too. I also plan to post clips of 25 Lame when I get a chance. It was so awesome that it should be seen by all of humanity!
Way back in 1999, there was a show on MTV called 25 Lame. It featured comedians Jon Stewart, Janeane Garofalo, Denis Leary, and Chris Kattan all sitting on a couch and giving commentary on some of the worst videos ever made. They played Billy Squire’s “Rock Me Tonight”, Aqua’s “Barbie Girl”, Gerardo’s “Rico Suave”, and many more bad video classics. The show became infamous right away because it was also the place where Rob Van Winkle, AKA Vanilla Ice, completely snapped and ended up destroying half the set and nearly clubbing Jon Stewart in the head with a baseball bat after being forced to watch his “Ice Ice Baby” video.
I went through YouTube searching for clips, but I couldn’t find many. What I was dying to see was the videos themselves, uncut and in all their horrible glory. I managed to find the Don Johnson video “Heartbeat”, which was voted the worst video of all time. Enjoy, my friends, enjoy!
Yesterday, the world of bad movies lost a major player when buxom blonde b-movie bombshell Anna Nicole Smith passed away in her hotel room in Florida.
She will be remembered by Trashwire, not only for her performance in bad movie classics like the infamous Skyscraper, but also for her classic trashy reality show The Anna Nicole Show. Her body of work brought us fantastic bad movie quotes like everyone’s favorite line from Skyscraper, “Well excuse me for still believing in Sunday walks in the park and little babies.†Her reality show also introduced us to other pop culture d-list figures like her designer Bobby Trendy or her homely assistant Kimmy. The show even spawned parodies on shows like SNL, which summarized the first episode in an animated “TV Funhouse†clip showing Anna Nicole as Smurfette. Not since Jessica Simpson asked the infamous “Is this chicken or it is fish?†has a blonde from Texas made such a career off being an airhead.
While her acting career might not have been stellar, she certainly brought the people at Trashwire a lot of joy. In fact, I can remember the first time I saw Skyscraper. I was shocked and horrified, but I loved every minute of it. The generic Euro bad guys, the repeated shot of Anna Nicole’s red fingernails gripping the controls on the helicopter, the puppy that appears and disappears with the little boy, the control room set that looked like something left over from a 1970s sci-fi movie… everything in the film was delightfully bad. I believe that there are two films that really capture what we mean when we say “the best of the worst†at Trashwire: Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 classic The Room and Anna Nicole Smith’s Skyscraper. In fact, Tommy Wiseau and Anna Nicole were like prom king and queen of our site because they truly made the best bad movies around.
We’ll certainly all remember Anna Nicole because, unlike Paris Hilton or Tara Reid, she seemed to be in on the joke. As much as people made fun of her, she also made fun of herself. She never seemed to believe she was something she was not, unlike Paris or Tara, and seemed to enjoy her Angeline-like pop culture status.
I’ll leave you now with the YouTube video for the “TV Funhouse†short with Anna Nicole as Smurfette.
Since it’s property of SNL, who knows how long it’ll be available online… check it out while you can.
Can it be? Is our favorite bad movie star really dead?
This just in from CNN:
Anna Nicole Smith dies after collapsing in hotel
CNN) — Reality TV star and former model Anna Nicole Smith was pronounced dead Thursday after being taken to a Florida hospital, a law enforcement source told CNN.
Smith, 39, collapsed at a south Florida hotel, according to news reports.
“I can confirm that she is deceased. It’s as shocking to me as to you guys,” Smith’s attorney, Ronald Rale, told Reuters. “I don’t know anything further. [Her lawyer and husband] Howard [K. Stern], obviously, is speechless and grieving.”
Smith’s nurse called Seminole Hard Rock Hotel workers at 1:38 p.m. and security went to the room, hotel officials said. Fire rescue workers from both the Seminole Indian tribe and from Hollywood Fire-Rescue arrived minutes later and Smith was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood at 2:10 p.m.
Smith was involved in a paternity suit regarding the parentage of her daughter, Danielynn, as well as other disputes, including some regarding a house she stayed at in the Bahamas around the time she gave birth.
Earlier this week, Smith was included in a class-action lawsuit against a company, TrimSpa, for which she had worked as a spokesperson. TrimSpa makes a product it claims leads to substantial weight loss. The lawsuit alleges the marketing of the product, TrimSpa X32, was false or misleading.
Smith’s son, Daniel Wayne Smith, died at age 20 just days after the birth of Smith’s daughter. Pathologist Cyril Wecht said a lethal dose of methadone and antidepressants caused cardiac dysrhythmia, leading to his death.
Reuters contributed to this report.
I can’t be sure about this, because it would be mind-blowingly stupid, but I think I just saw this at TJ Maxx today…
There was an older woman at the counter checking us out and a young girl next to her taking the size labels off the hangers and putting them into little bins.
The girl had a whole stack of hangers with blue “medium” labels on them, meaning they were little Ms. She was taking them off the hangers right-side up so the M looked like an M and not like a W.
She got to one that was upside down and turned to the older woman to ask, “Do the Ws go in here too?”
The older woman stopped in her tracks at the immeasurable stupidity of her young co-worker and then nodded, “Yes, the Ws.” Before finishing up with us.
Could it be real? Is there really someone so dumb that they can’t tell that a blue M label is still a blue M label when it’s upside down?