What's your favorite video so far? (ALL 8 VIDEOS)

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What's your favorite video so far?

Tacky
6
12%
Word Crimes
5
10%
Foil
21
42%
Handy
0
No votes
Sports Song
0
No votes
First World Problems
8
16%
Lame Claim to Fame
7
14%
Mission Statement
3
6%
 
Total votes: 50

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"Foil" is still my absolute favorite. It still cracks me up no matter how many times I watch it.
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I'll have to go with the overall opinion here. "Foil" is simply divine! It harkens back to early-Al while being clever and original enough to set it among his most recent brilliant achievements.
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I was pretty Meh about First World Problems, but the video elevated the song for me to the 100th power.
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Reading all of this stuff is really making me want to make a fan version of Mission Statement.
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AlejandraDD wrote:I was pretty Meh about First World Problems, but the video elevated the song for me to the 100th power.
The very same happened with me.

As for my overall favorite, Foil wins out. Tacky was pretty close, though.
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Tacky

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Unrelated directly to this topic, but going off of a past discussion that was sparked in the previous video thread...
Skippy wrote:
drewdy9999 wrote: In these cases, there's not usually many hints regarding said character is aware they're singing a parody - Achy Breaky Song may be the closest I could think of.
I think "Achy Breaky Song" could be considered Al himself, singing about the original song but not necessarily aware that he is singing a parody. I know that sounds a little weird, but I think it's different from the interpretation of "Handy" as a handyman who is parodying "Fancy" for an ad or the "Foil" Al, who is aware he is singing a food parody before he decides to go off on a conspiracy rant.
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This video from Comic-Con recently surfaced (Thanks, louietheweaselfaceddogboy!) and it offers some interesting (and humorous) incite as to what perspective "Achy Breaky Song" is being sung from.
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Post by Sailor-Polka-Moon »

I HAD to vote for Tacky, 'cause it's been my addiction since day one. *u*


But Foil is ALL KINDS OF BRILLIANT AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH. <3 wah. Impossible decision!
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To be honest it depends how you ask the question for me lol... because my favorite video, only based on the qualities of the video and not taking the song into account, would have to be "Tacky"; I just love one-shot videos and it's done so well (appropriately enough, the original music video for the song "Tacky" is a parody of was also one-shot). But if you're asking about the whole video + song package, I'd have to go with "Mission Statement." The music, lyrics, and animated whiteboard drawing just go so well together.

Based on song only, "Tacky" is my favorite parody on the album and "Mission Statement" is my favorite original.

"Foil" gets honorable mention though for both the song and video. I honestly didn't see the "twist" coming lol... up to about the 1 minute mark I was thinking "yeah this is OK, but this isn't really that inspired..." then it took a completely different turn which redeemed the whole thing.
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Post by terpsichore »

Tacky! it's such a fun video (and i love seeing a bunch of people shamelessly rocking outfits that look like the things i wear everyday :P )

it was too hard to pick just one...it's really a tie between Tacky and First World Problems.
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