Maybe I’m delusional (or just burdened with an overprotective mother), but I’ve always been under the impression that everyone gets vaccinated. This isn’t 1950; there’s a reason why no one gets the mumps anymore. Which is why you can imagine my surprise when I saw “Baby Be Wise, Immunize,” a video encouraging Penn’s community to get the flu shot.
The video features HUP nurses and doctors snapping, swaying, and crooning fabulous pro-flu-shot lines like “Oh baby baby oh baby, it’s time for each of us to step up and let the world know – it starts with me and you, our fight against the flu.”
That being said, the video is awesome. Maybe my sarcasm-detecting gene is flipped, but I was cracking up the entire time, ferociously texting friends in an attempt to figure out if the video was supposed to be ironic or not. Turns out, we’re pretty sure it’s serious. I almost don’t want to get a flu shot just so that they will make “Baby Be Wise, You Still Have Yet To Immunize.” Watch the clip for yourself, below:
(For the record, it’s not that so many doctors at HUP are suspiciously good singers. According to the DP, the medical staff lip synch to the voices of PennYo, a Chinese a capella group on campus.)
Tae Kim of ShutterButton fame also moonlights as a member of Mask & Wig. In what could be considered an act of shameless self-promotion that we’re instead going to call a special sneak peek, he shares some snapshots from M&W’s musical, which premieres this Thursday.
A new Funny or Die video called “Prop 8 – The Musical” features celebrities like Jack Black (as Jesus Christ), Neil Patrick Harris, Maya Rudolph, John C. Reilly, Andy Richter, Margaret Cho, and others. Check it out below!
To all those who love capitalist serial killers and American musical theatre (because surely there must be dozens of you), the universe has conspired to give you what you want: American Psycho, the Broadway musical!
That’s right, there are plans to get the (anti)hero of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel, and the 2000 film adaptation starring Christian Bale, to swing his chainsaw to the delightful beat of showtunes. ’80s inspired showtunes, no less, since the story follows a Wall Street banker during the “Greed is good” era of the late ’80s. Apparently the combination of Patrick Bateman’s affinity for ’80s bands like Huey Lewis and the News (not for the faint of heart, or people who don’t think they’re hip to be square) and the current upheaval of the economy makes this a good time to watch a guy commit ridiculously gruesome murders. While singing.
Below, a suggestion for a song to include in the American Psycho musical that embodies the desires of someone in love… with murder:
Tiffany “I Think We’re Alone Now”
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