Weekly Mail's You Tube Hall of Fame
As Bill Simmons wrote (and I can definitely attest) You Tube is a treasure trove of entertainment for short attention span folks of all ages. Here are 10 more classics I found on You Tube.
1) Last Thursday night, I found myself watching the Hulk Hogan-Andre the Giant match at Wrestlemaina III. I was 13 years old when that match took place. I'm nearly 33 now. Its a show, its completely fake. Yet there I was glued to the screen, as Gorilla Monsoon and Jesse (The Body) Ventura called the action. Rick Derringer's "I Am A Real American blasted out from the speakers at the Pontiac Silverdome in front of 93,000 people, while Hogan marched into the ring. It didn't get any better than that did it?
And I remember that next day how we analyzed that match as if it was Ali-Frazier. Did Andre have Hogan down for a three count in the beginning? Why didn't Andre smash Hogan after he threw him into the turn-buckle? So many what if's, for a match that had been scripted and no doubt choreographed and rehearsed.
Nowadays, wrestling is more like a soap-opera, as much about Vince McMahon and his crazy family as it is about the action in the ring. This was probably the zenith of the WWF. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOCqV23VkXU
2) You also have your choice of classic Beavis and Butt-Head. On Mary McGarvey's 22nd birthday at the Dublin Pub, I was telling Ray that my favorite Beavis and Butt-Head had been on earlier that week. Ray's girlfriend at the time looked at him like "You hang out with people that watch Beavis and Butt Head?" Well, despite that fact, she married him anyway, and 10 years later they are still going strong. And although I can't say that I converted Maureen to Beavis and Butthead, at least I'd like to think she sees the appeal.
Here is the episode in question: Can't Find Video
3) I've called it the greatest halftime show in the history of sports. To be honest I'm no expert at halftime shows because I feel that halftime is bathroom/refill time, but this one kept me glued to the TV. It was U2's halftime performace during Super Bowl XXXVI, the first one after September 11th. They perfomed Beautiful Day and with the names of those who died scrolling up, Where the Streets Have no Name. Try watching these without the hair on your arm standing up.
Beautiful Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYYpTh8K48E
Where the Streets....: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f1sHk1Kttw&feature=related
4) The greatest sports memory of my lifetime needs no introduction: just watch and enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4I9CG3_0RA&search=1994%20Rangers%20Stanley%20Cup%20
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENJMGC2-fmY&search=rangers%20win%20stanley%20cup
5) Here is Weird Al Yankovic's take on news item's from 1993-94, including the Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding fiasco. Performed to the Crash Test Dummies forgettable Mmmm.mmm.mmm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU95v23MQ4c
6) Here is my all time favorite Budweiser commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObTCcW89lIw
Actually.....THIS is now my all time favorite Budweiser commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUrf6Qg4T4E
7) I've written a few times about my two ski trips to Canada with the Cooper Union Pioneers. The year I went with Karl the Ace Ludwig, we were usually too hungover to ski. So we spent most of the morning watching Sportscentre on TSN (Canada's version of ESPN) and when we got tired of that, we watched Sesame Street.
This was a game show we saw when we were up there. You can watch this with your kids.
Guy Smiley is your host. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_F6mglu9y0
8) A sluggish economy. High gas prices. A spirit of moral depression. Many people blame the Bush administration. I say all this would have been avioded had Woody just gone straight to the police.... can't find this video
9) If you grew up in the 80's and watched cartoons on Channel 5 and Channel 11 after school, you saw this commercial 10,000 times.
(Note to fellow Posties: The coffee pot sounds alot like Mike Hechtman doesn't it?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFHjqbXyQxw
10) Here are the Beatles in the movie "Let it Be" performing Two of Us. I don't remember seeing this on any of the Anthology videos, though it may have made it to the DVD. They were at each others throats during most of this time, but they when they put their differences aside they could still get it done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77qqqFZmJK8
1) Last Thursday night, I found myself watching the Hulk Hogan-Andre the Giant match at Wrestlemaina III. I was 13 years old when that match took place. I'm nearly 33 now. Its a show, its completely fake. Yet there I was glued to the screen, as Gorilla Monsoon and Jesse (The Body) Ventura called the action. Rick Derringer's "I Am A Real American blasted out from the speakers at the Pontiac Silverdome in front of 93,000 people, while Hogan marched into the ring. It didn't get any better than that did it?
And I remember that next day how we analyzed that match as if it was Ali-Frazier. Did Andre have Hogan down for a three count in the beginning? Why didn't Andre smash Hogan after he threw him into the turn-buckle? So many what if's, for a match that had been scripted and no doubt choreographed and rehearsed.
Nowadays, wrestling is more like a soap-opera, as much about Vince McMahon and his crazy family as it is about the action in the ring. This was probably the zenith of the WWF. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOCqV23VkXU
2) You also have your choice of classic Beavis and Butt-Head. On Mary McGarvey's 22nd birthday at the Dublin Pub, I was telling Ray that my favorite Beavis and Butt-Head had been on earlier that week. Ray's girlfriend at the time looked at him like "You hang out with people that watch Beavis and Butt Head?" Well, despite that fact, she married him anyway, and 10 years later they are still going strong. And although I can't say that I converted Maureen to Beavis and Butthead, at least I'd like to think she sees the appeal.
Here is the episode in question: Can't Find Video
3) I've called it the greatest halftime show in the history of sports. To be honest I'm no expert at halftime shows because I feel that halftime is bathroom/refill time, but this one kept me glued to the TV. It was U2's halftime performace during Super Bowl XXXVI, the first one after September 11th. They perfomed Beautiful Day and with the names of those who died scrolling up, Where the Streets Have no Name. Try watching these without the hair on your arm standing up.
Beautiful Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYYpTh8K48E
Where the Streets....: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f1sHk1Kttw&feature=related
4) The greatest sports memory of my lifetime needs no introduction: just watch and enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4I9CG3_0RA&search=1994%20Rangers%20Stanley%20Cup%20
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENJMGC2-fmY&search=rangers%20win%20stanley%20cup
5) Here is Weird Al Yankovic's take on news item's from 1993-94, including the Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding fiasco. Performed to the Crash Test Dummies forgettable Mmmm.mmm.mmm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU95v23MQ4c
6) Here is my all time favorite Budweiser commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObTCcW89lIw
Actually.....THIS is now my all time favorite Budweiser commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUrf6Qg4T4E
7) I've written a few times about my two ski trips to Canada with the Cooper Union Pioneers. The year I went with Karl the Ace Ludwig, we were usually too hungover to ski. So we spent most of the morning watching Sportscentre on TSN (Canada's version of ESPN) and when we got tired of that, we watched Sesame Street.
This was a game show we saw when we were up there. You can watch this with your kids.
Guy Smiley is your host. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_F6mglu9y0
8) A sluggish economy. High gas prices. A spirit of moral depression. Many people blame the Bush administration. I say all this would have been avioded had Woody just gone straight to the police.... can't find this video
9) If you grew up in the 80's and watched cartoons on Channel 5 and Channel 11 after school, you saw this commercial 10,000 times.
(Note to fellow Posties: The coffee pot sounds alot like Mike Hechtman doesn't it?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFHjqbXyQxw
10) Here are the Beatles in the movie "Let it Be" performing Two of Us. I don't remember seeing this on any of the Anthology videos, though it may have made it to the DVD. They were at each others throats during most of this time, but they when they put their differences aside they could still get it done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77qqqFZmJK8
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