What’s your latest YouTube obsession? Thanks to the Mamma Mia! trailer, and the fact that I saw the Broadway show for the first time recently, I’m all about ABBA videos at the moment.
My favorite clip (because this one of "Honey Honey" is not embeddable) could be "Take a Chance on Me." Every moment is awesomely bad.
After the jump, a few more of the contenders…
"Knowing Me, Knowing You"… Knowing a giant Slinky?
"Does Your Mother Know" … That you stand that way, Agnetha?
"Waterloo": Now that’s a production number.
"The Winner Takes It All" … Including some blue eye shadow!
"Chiquitita": I’m sure there was a reason for them to be singing in front of a large snowman.
ABBA, Olivia Newton-John, and Andy Gibb covering the Beach Boys? Why not?
abba is awesome- always has been- always will be.
I skipped the PBS version of Mansfield Park when it aired because I am not a fan of Billie Piper. But the DVD was available at the library one day so I watched it and, what do you know, there is Malachi from BBC’s Hex (playing Mr. Crawford). Which led me to Amazon to see if Hex S2 is available on DVD (no) which led me to YouTube where I now stop daily for a Hex fanvid or episode viewing. How did we ever do without it?
This is a great Abba vid too:
My sister turned me onto “The Count Song” from Sesame Street with the word “count” bleeped as if it were a dirty word. Pure comic gold!
Search ‘powerthirst’ on youtube. It’s seriously an addiction. After you watch the first one, watch the second. They’re both equally amazing.
Lately, I have been recalling my childhood of the 1970s by watching YouTube videos of things like vintage Sesame Street, TV commercial ads, TV promo ads for the ABC Sunday Night Movie, the 4:30 Movie and the like. Fun stuff!
episodes of cute with chris (also at cutewithchris.com) and the “what am i? what am i?” video. hilarious.
Sesame Street clips are definitely my obsession. I recently rediscovered Momix’s same/different clip – it is absolutely hilarious!
The ‘mind sticker’ TAB commercial – from the early 70s I’d guess by the clothes. I play it at least once a day and I still giggle long after it’s over.
Opening credits from old TV shows. I could watch these all day. I wish more shows still had theme songs!
Credits & theme songs from bad cartoons I used to watch as a kid. Birdman, Rocket Robin Hood, Scooby-Doo Where Are You, and Josie and The Pussycats among others.
(Aw hell. I just dated myself again)
I have a nasty obsession of watching songs I like on YouTube, whether it be the music video, live performance, or a Heroes-liked video of it.
Current YouTube obsession: watching old Electric Company videos with my daughter while waiting to get the DVDs from Netflix.
Liking the ABBA videos too, especially since I finally caught Mamma Mia on Broadway last month. If you like Abba songs and snow, check out this wicked awesome French & Saunders parody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eidyrlSdKcE
Funny you should mention it because I just finished watching my two youtube obsessions: EJami and Liason clips (that’s EJ and Sami and Liz and Jason for the uninitiated). I miss my soaps during the day and, frankly, they suck for the most part. But there are others like myself who would like to fast forward through all the scenes that have nothting to do with their couples and watch the juicy stuff. Today I got a heartbreaking good-bye kiss from Liason on General Hospital (bring those two back together NOW!!!!) and the steamiest love scene on daytime EVA!!! (You go, Days of Our Lives.)
LOVE LOVE LOVE Abba. Some of the best pop bubble gum music EVER. I challenge you to listen and not dance around your living room. Whenever I am blue- I pop in ABBA GOLD and I instantly feel better.