"BOOT"

Tip of my hat for your Potter reference.

sadly, that title had already been copyrighted by Drake.

Apparently you have forgotten "Chipmunk Punk", which was a transgressive piece of culture in its own right.

I wold have used "Simpsons Christmas Boogie" as a better example of flogging a dead horse.

I won a media prize pack for this movie which included a VHS copy and a pair of "Blues Bros 2000 edition" Ray-Ban Wayfarers as well as some other stuff. I still wear the glasses, so that's a plus.

I'd watch that.

what?

I voted your comment up only because I hate the goddamned Boondock Saints.

I think they should book the subjects for Hatesong solely on the merits of their eyeglasses.

I have a soft spot for Green Day ever since seeing them as the opening act for Doughboys and Bad Religion. I don't even know if they had been signed yet, and they shredded. They were the highlight. I literally fell asleep during Doughboys. And Bad Religion's PA was set on "smug" all night so we left.

they don't.

This is more of a nod to "Camberwick Green" than to Rankin-Bass, but I am sure few of the Onion's writers would know old Camberwick.

no love for a fiery plane crash?

I just like the idea of a guy named "Gary" fronting a rock band, rather than following his destiny into frame carpentry.

I assumed they were talking about the porn star Belladonna.

The idea of Inadians eating ice cream is a textbook example of hegemony. I mean, you might as well be force-feeding them Big Macs.

This is an aside, but I always liuked the idea that Lowly Worm drove around in an apple - something he eats. It's like me driving around in an A&W chicken burger.

When I see two dumb, argumentative pigs painting a house and bungling the entire thing I know the subtext is that they're Greek; I don't need to be told.

My favourite Richard Scarry story was from "Busy Busy World", about a Japanese cat attempting to take a giant sausage on the crowded Tokyo subway at rush hour, for his dinner.