The Best Musicals are Fake Musicals

Musicals. If you stop and think about it, it's bizarrely amazing that musicals continue to exist. The fact that they make up a whole genre of theater and film is stranger still. People just start singing, for no reason, or for contrived reasons. They dance around, in the middle of the day. Don't get me wrong, musicals take a lot of skill to write, score, direct, and act in. But let's face it - if there were no such thing as musicals, and you had never heard of The Sound of Music, or Grease, or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and someone tried to explain the concept to you, the only possible response would be, "WTF?" Which is why I have developed a theory: the best musicals are the ones that make fun of musicals, or at the very least point out the absurdity of the whole business. Here is empirical, scientific proof. The ten best musicals that make fun of musicals: 1. Cannibal, the Musical [youtube]ACklTprCjd4&NR[/youtube] 2. Musicals interrupt class [youtube]7cXoh62rNE8[/youtube] 3. From The State: Porcupine Racetrack [youtube]0OI5s2szhyo[/youtube] 4. Buffy - They got the Mustard Out [youtube]YCs3uAYNBiE[/youtube] 5. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut medley [youtube]tHDH2IyKqMY[/youtube] 6. It's Springtime for Hitler [youtube]TYyX3PjJ710[/youtube] 7. Waiting for Guffman - if only I could find a clip of "Nothing Ever Happens on Mars" [youtube]r6oCLPBW41Y[/youtube] 8. The Simpsons - Planet of the Apes [youtube]WAxkNbyqxD8[/youtube] 9. Of course, the Internet is for Porn [youtube]ZWEsbjUPmCs[/youtube] 10. And now for the big finale: [youtube]SFIHYlgxK5g[/youtube]

  1. What about Jeepers Creepers Semi-Star. One of JAck Black’s fibest performances. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrwSMzUMOrU

    D Wallz
    January 22nd, 2007 at 12:33 am

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