THEY'RE ON A BOAT. IN A PARK. IN THE MIDDLE OF TEXAS.

by Orson on Mar 30, 2009 3:52 PM EDT

Take a picture trick/I am am not on the ballot/You can write me in because I'm so valid.

We've moved into a unique stage in our relationship with Texas A&M's unique football culture. First, a quick toe dip into it seemed fine; then, apprehension as it got stranger, and we found out about the squeeze, the yell leaders, the regimentation of it all; and now, with the introduction of one of the more ineptly conceived and ineptly executed song parodies ever beshat upon the Youtubes? All just to become Yell Leader for A&M's student section?

Oh, now we're totally in love. It's a sign of neglect to just do something shoddily, but putting "On a Boat" on a boombox and then shittily rapping along to it with little planning besides getting a tuxedo, an inflatable dolphin, and letting the sync track blast along audibly in the back? Something this bad almost flirts with genius, and since that's closer than we've ever been, huzzah to you, boys. Reload with Reagan hid behind a fig leaf of competence, but your naked incompetence needs no camouflage.

For letting it all hang in the breeze, ONE HUNDRED COCKTAILS TO YOU, SIRS.

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The minute and a half of blank screen and silence at the end: incompetence or artistic genius? You decide.

by CKGator on Mar 30, 2009 4:22 PM EDT reply actions

Wow, words… they escape me. I was trying to pick my favorite moment in that video, but it is so full of win, that picking one favorite moment does not seem to do it justice, so I picked two…

Number 1, Seeing the reflection of the dude holding, and rocking the camera in the picture of the sail boat is priceless cinematography (or were they rocking the picture, so well done, it is hard to tell), and Number 2 the full minute and a half of black screen following the credits was incredible suspense. I kept waiting on the Ferris Bueller moment, but alas, it never came. Genus, pure genus.

I would like to say that 100 cocktails would only make a relatively small change in what these chaps had consumed prior to making this piece, but they appeared to be dead sober, and not baked at all. Really, not at all.

by skinnyphatman on Mar 30, 2009 4:27 PM EDT reply actions

Those guys NEED to be hired to perform at a Notre Dame tailgate party. Video of some domers dancing to those jams on a parquait floor would be the most awesome thing ever shown on the internet.

by oc phil on Mar 30, 2009 4:37 PM EDT reply actions

I am glad to see “Color Me Badd” making a comeback!

by Touchdown74 on Mar 30, 2009 5:17 PM EDT reply actions

The insanity of Yell Leader campaigns cannot be understated. It really must be seen to be believed. Winning candidates – three seniors and two juniors – vie for majorities in elections with more than 15,000 students voting. The campaigns and their antics – often bizarre and annoying – annually dominate campus life for the week and a half after spring break.

by Keegan on Mar 30, 2009 6:00 PM EDT reply actions

Texas A&M is not a school. It is a cult. Scientologists could learn a lot from them.

by JimHalpert on Mar 30, 2009 6:44 PM EDT reply actions

Aggies make me smile – though usually not on purpose.

by ClemsonHorn on Mar 30, 2009 8:01 PM EDT reply actions

100 cocktails comes pretty easy nowadays.

by drogue on Mar 30, 2009 8:27 PM EDT reply actions

I don’t know about everyone else, but that Reload with Reagan thing was a hundred times worse (and I don’t mean bad-good or bad-funny, just plain old painful) than those fly gangstas on the boat. All Reagan had was seconds long clips and cheesey, elementary school style stunts, gags, and cheeers in no real order. Yeah, On a boat might be terribly executed, but I’m guessing that those gents were trying to make people laugh. I’m surprised no one in the Reagan video stopped to ask if that’s the most competent attempt they could make.

by poop on Mar 30, 2009 8:45 PM EDT reply actions