Okay, so some time ago, Saturday Night Live did a parody of the season finale of the OC in which some guy gets shot and at the moment of the shooting they play this Imogen Heap song over his dramatic and drawn out death scene. In the SNL spoof (which is brilliant) characters repeatedly shoot each other and each time they do, the Imogen Heap song plays.
In fact, why explain? I'm sure most of you have seen this already but for those that haven't, enjoy:
Now this spoof inspired a series of parodies all over YouTube with people using clips from 300, The Departed, Reservoir Dogs, Lord of the Rings all to varying levels of success.
You had to know that somewhere along the line those twin devils of Bad Taste and Poor Judgment would rear their ugly heads. Last night I stumbled upon a *ahem* SEPTEMBER 11TH Dear Sister "parody." This morning I found a VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTING "parody." However, the thing that was even more disturbing were the comments that viewers posted in response. People actually found this amusing!!!
If you go the comments section of the video somebody actually posted this response: "Sorry for the 30 deaths or whatever but this was hilarious."
josh [email] said at 11:20 AM 06-09-2007: ok i wondered what that original snl video was all about... it was mildly funny but i was like "obviously this must be making fun of something i've never seen". now i know.
jake [email] said at 2:25 PM 06-09-2007: People use humor to grapple with topics that are too emotionally difficult to deal with head-on. But that kind of bad taste humor can cue people to just be callous as well.
I don't find that second video funny or even interesting though. Maybe someday the commenter will apply for a job and they'll turn up that comment and skip to the next applicant.
reggie [email] said at 12:23 AM 06-10-2007: If only the world worked that way. Funny thing is, I posted a response on the site and the guy who posted the clip said that he allegedly goes to VaTech and still finds it hilarious. I don't believe that though.