If this were any more deadpan, it'd be a murdered skillet

December 3, 2019 7:41 AM

A short video history of developments in the speedrunning strategies for that very famous video game, the intro sequence to American Dad.
posted by cortex (13 comments total)

I regularly watch these videos on speedrunning record minutae and this joke hit me in all the right spots. Great concept, good execution, plus commitment to carry the joke straight through full-length.
posted by GoblinHoney at 7:56 AM on December 3, 2019 [2 favorites]

This is like if Borges were a 2019 shitposter. So good.
posted by hototogisu at 8:00 AM on December 3, 2019 [4 favorites]

I hardly ever watch speedruns but still found this entertaining.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 8:26 AM on December 3, 2019

This is like if Borges were a 2019 shitposter. So good.

If? Ha.
posted by Fizz at 8:26 AM on December 3, 2019 [5 favorites]

All the little details are amazing.
posted by tobascodagama at 8:51 AM on December 3, 2019

I hardly ever watch speedruns but still found this entertaining.

Yeah, I don't know what you call parody so good that you appreciate it even if you don't know the thing being parodied that well, but this is definitely that.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 8:54 AM on December 3, 2019 [5 favorites]

"What happened to Fuck?"
posted by mhoye at 10:36 AM on December 3, 2019 [2 favorites]

MCMikeNamara: "Yeah, I don't know what you call parody so good that you appreciate it even if you don't know the thing being parodied that well, but this is definitely that."

Same. For me, it's a lot like IFC's Documentary Now! where I don't think I've actually seen any of the parodied documentaries all the way through but can identify about 80% of which ones they're parodying.
posted by mhum at 10:54 AM on December 3, 2019 [4 favorites]

As a huge Summoning Salt fan I feel both somewhat offended and sore from laughing so much.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 11:50 AM on December 3, 2019 [4 favorites]

I love these for both the amount of depth and detail they go into creating something that captures the look and feel of a speedrun video and also the strong implication that the best thing to do with American Dad is skip through it as quickly as possible.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 2:25 PM on December 3, 2019 [5 favorites]

I think this might have been inspired by a bit in the first few minutes of episode 413 of the My Brother, My Brother, and Me podcast.
posted by straight at 4:48 PM on December 3, 2019 [1 favorite]

Pfft, not one of these bozos tried it in the notoriously difficult to glitch Italian version!
posted by coolname at 1:56 AM on December 4, 2019

And they followed it up with a second video on the TAS (tool assisted speedrun) history.
posted by NoxAeternum at 5:06 PM on December 4, 2019