Yeeeeeehaw!

January 20, 2005 8:07 AM

"Yes, I'm comin' back to serve a second term..." JibJab strikes again (flash).
posted by Robot Johnny (43 comments total)

The first one was funny, the second was bizarre. This one was just lame.

(sorry to be a hater).
posted by Saucy Intruder at 8:23 AM on January 20, 2005

Too true and depressing to be funny.
posted by orange swan at 8:31 AM on January 20, 2005

The real classic was 2000's Election Day rap. It's been a slow downhill slide since then.

This one is particularly dull. Someone told me they liked it more because it wasn't "as mean." I think that's exactly the reason I dislike it: It's a political song with a duller point than Mark Russell's worst.

No slight on the post, by the way: like it or not, I'm glad I know this came out. Thanks.
posted by dougunderscorenelso at 8:32 AM on January 20, 2005

Word on the 2000 piece. These ginger sing-alongs are getting a bit too safe.

But I agree: thanks for the JibJab alert!
posted by scarabic at 8:41 AM on January 20, 2005

sorry... I find the JibJab stuff rather boring... and this does nothing to reverse that trend. They try and stay on both sides of the political issues, which gives it no real meaning or effect. Just pandering to both sides in order to keep up their traffic numbers.
posted by inthe80s at 8:44 AM on January 20, 2005

it's panderrific
posted by wbm$tr at 8:46 AM on January 20, 2005

So this link, it does something?

I wasn't able to get it to load properly in Firefox, but here is a direct link: http://us.i1.yimg.com/advision.webevents.yahoo.com/a/flash/jibjab/JibJab_SecondTerm_2.swf

It's hardly worth the time, though.
posted by bh at 8:54 AM on January 20, 2005

I'm glad everyone is settling for the ole "coming back together" of republicans and democrats. That whole questioning our President thing got way too out of hand.
posted by themadjuggler at 8:54 AM on January 20, 2005

Softball. I'm with dougunderscorenelso, I liked it better when they were "Kickin' dope rhymes in the style of a robot"
posted by Scoo at 9:03 AM on January 20, 2005

watered dow-- err, sponsored by Yahoo!
posted by NationalKato at 9:05 AM on January 20, 2005

Not impressed. It could basically be used as a campaign ad. There isn't a single joke, with the exception of Colin Powell getting yanked off the stage, that's clever or funny.
posted by spicynuts at 9:07 AM on January 20, 2005

What's funny is how JibJab has gone from top-shelf cultural provocateurs to tired, washed-out, irrelevant has-beens in a little over six months. Maybe Andy Warhol was too optimistic - for the future, twelve minutes, tops.
posted by soyjoy at 9:13 AM on January 20, 2005

The important thing is that John Kerry is not President--and never will be.
posted by ParisParamus at 9:25 AM on January 20, 2005

I like to think of JibJab as tired, washed-out, irrelevant never-beens.
posted by emptybowl at 9:26 AM on January 20, 2005

I have to say that their Founding Fathers rap from about 2000 was brilliant.

But the last one had a bunch of sorry "John Edwards is gay" jokes. And I just watched this one with the sound off on my broken Mac, and I'm not inspired to turn it on.

Paris: Why, because he would have replaced the U.S. government with a board of Al Qaeda Communist Comptrollers or something?
posted by inksyndicate at 9:27 AM on January 20, 2005

Because he's a Skull and Bones toady whose interests are not at all aligned with my own.
Oh wait..
posted by sonofsamiam at 9:29 AM on January 20, 2005

ink - don't, don't, don't let's start.
posted by soyjoy at 9:30 AM on January 20, 2005

no, inksyndicate, because after all the Bush jokes are said and done, remembering that is satisfying and reassuring.
posted by ParisParamus at 9:32 AM on January 20, 2005

Paris: Wait, I'm confused about the movie. So the cops knew that internal affairs was setting them up?
posted by gramschmidt at 9:32 AM on January 20, 2005

Someone told me they liked it more because it wasn't "as mean." I think that's exactly the reason I dislike it: It's a political song with a duller point than Mark Russell's worst.

Agreed.
posted by rushmc at 9:43 AM on January 20, 2005

ink - don't, don't, don't let's start.

ha! I got that
posted by Hands of Manos at 9:47 AM on January 20, 2005

This is bullsh-t. Jibjab should grow some teeth.
posted by Peter H at 9:53 AM on January 20, 2005

or sing like this
posted by Hands of Manos at 10:00 AM on January 20, 2005

If JibJab didn't amuse the important thing is Paris always does.
posted by juiceCake at 10:02 AM on January 20, 2005

They've definitely gone downhill. And they should really get some therapy regarding their blatant homo-phobia...pure evidence of repressed homosexual tendencies. They should just let it all hang out.
posted by jb_thms at 10:03 AM on January 20, 2005

Hey, Hands of Manos, Thank you! (I'm still soaring)
posted by Peter H at 10:04 AM on January 20, 2005

"...remembering that is satisfying..."

Ah! The glint of honest iron beneath the work-worn fabric of the velvet glove.
posted by atchafalaya at 10:13 AM on January 20, 2005

That satire was about as sharp as a sack of wet mice.

/Foghorn Leghorn
posted by papercake at 10:27 AM on January 20, 2005

The important thing is that John Kerry is not President--and never will be.
Which would been devastating to the field of lame political humor. I mean, we would've had to start taking death and destruction around the world seriously!
posted by wendell at 12:17 PM on January 20, 2005

Wow, I would love to be the kind of person who could sleep better "just knowing Bush was president."
posted by inksyndicate at 12:36 PM on January 20, 2005

#3 Jumped the shark.

::yawn::
posted by friarjohn at 1:06 PM on January 20, 2005

I remember being shocked seeing this on Leno before on JibJab, considering I don't often watch TV. The one time I turn it on, there's this toon running.

Sellouts! \m/
posted by sian at 1:13 PM on January 20, 2005

Coulda been funny. Couldabeen. Or maybe I'm just too damn mad to think it's funny, I dunno. Either way, thanks for the link. Really.
posted by TheStorm at 1:58 PM on January 20, 2005

I'm reading a 0 on the Funnyometer.
posted by TwelveTwo at 2:48 PM on January 20, 2005

If there had been the slightest tinge of anti-Bush sentiment, it would've been uproarious, a work of genius and a credit to the Web. MeFi collectively would've said so.
posted by alumshubby at 2:55 PM on January 20, 2005

Do I smell a million web-hit idea?
posted by Balisong at 3:36 PM on January 20, 2005

That sucked. I tried to think of something more clever to say, but it just sucked. It's like being thrown back 30 years culturally, just by watching that. Where's my variety show with cheap skits and double entendres, only done via the Internet and including some outright foul language, making it cutting edge or somethin'?
posted by raysmj at 3:38 PM on January 20, 2005

alumshubby: There was a slight tinge of anti-Bush sentiment, but it was presented along with pro-Bush sentiment in a transparently pandering manner, designed to offend nobody.
posted by raysmj at 3:41 PM on January 20, 2005

I would love to be the kind of person who could sleep better "just knowing Bush was president."

Easy. Knitting needle, nose, thrust & twirl.
posted by rushmc at 4:35 PM on January 20, 2005

I never thought JibJab was funny to begin with. It's just run of the mill, mass audience, "make everybody happy" humor. If you like Leno or Everybody Loves Raymond, you'll love JibJab!

Call me a snob, but if you're going to have a comedy show, there had better be some rat feces in it.
posted by BloodyWallet at 5:02 PM on January 20, 2005

There was comedy there if only in the way Dick Cheney bobbed his head to the beat like some kooky old grandpa from the mountains playing in a jug band. It's visually very amusing. That and the 'shit creek' joke made it worthwhile.
posted by UseyurBrain at 6:15 PM on January 20, 2005

It sucked.
posted by mooncrow at 11:22 AM on January 21, 2005

Gee-Dubaya-Bee,
I got the family tree,
you know my rhymes are gonna burn it
in the third degree....
Is it germaine,
does it pertain,
if I did cocaine
when I lived my life in the fast lane?
If I refrain,
I abstain
on the campaign.
Daaaaang!
It's insane!
posted by scarabic at 12:00 AM on January 24, 2005