Thunder(LOL)Cats

[Video Link]. From the Cartoon Network show MAD (via @evanatwired/@waxpancake).

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http://twitter.com/walterdavis walter davis

so weird that internet culture has so thoroughly pervaded mainstream culture. then again, the two are becoming congruous
semiotix

Heh heh…

…samoflange.
racerabbit

Oh yes, that made my day.
Evil Paul

Wow, that was about 100 times better than I was expecting.
Chevan

Sorry, purely referential humor does nothing for me.

Don’t just regurgitate memes at me, do something NEW with them. Referencing as many memes as you can doesn’t make it funny, it just means you don’t have an actual joke.

If I wanted lolcat jokes and reaction images, I have folders and folders of them I could browse through. Watching that was like listening to someone describe image macros they saw on tumblr.
- Cornan_KotW
  
  The joke was the juxtaposition of internet memes (specifically lolcats) with the old Thundercats cartoon (or the newer reboot). THAT’S the joke. The individual references were the carrying out of that joke.
  
  It’s fine if you didn’t find it funny but to say that there’s no joke there is just missing the point completely.
  - Chevan
    
    “The individual references were the carrying out of that joke.”
    
    Sorry, not convinced. The video was just throwing memes at the wall to see what stuck. If they had put actual effort to incorporating the memes into the video, I would agree with you with respect to the juxtaposition.
    
    But as it stands, the memes are so divorced from the rest of the video you could cut them out and not notice. They had musical stings announcing a caption. The entire action of a scene paused so a Creeper could reference a tired Minecraft meme.
    
    If juxtaposition is the entire joke, that’s a terrible joke.
    - blueelm
      
      I’d think you’d relate to Claudus more.
    - http://www.facebook.com/nickgold2012 Nick Gold
      
      You’re riot at parties, aintcha?
http://egypt.urnash.com Egypt Urnash

In 2041, this is going to be just as delightfully meaningless as Bugs Bunny cartoons are now.
bcsizemo

Wow I don’t think the phrase laughing out loud as been more exact then at this moment…
gwailo_joe

Ahh I needed that. Narwhals….is there anything they can’t do??

(ok…walk) Still,

Love love love ‘em.
http://imcravingpresidency.tumblr.com/ SedanChair

To hell with this
http://transelectronic.net/ tron 2147

Bugs Bunny is still funny.
10xor01

Teh Thundercats r kewl…but needz more Snarf!
http://twitter.com/iheartbeijing Elyse Ribbons 柳素英

@google-4dd129042e4d55a5ce1fd7a935bca886:disqus thats because Bugs Bunny is genius.
http://twitter.com/Skyhawk1 skyhawk1

I needed a good chuckle. Nice work.
AsteriskCGY

Well I liked it.
noah django

How did I know Nyan Cat would save the day? It may have been a substitute for actually writing OC, but I admit I lol’d.

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