Mamma Mia Dearest!
When I was growing up, Showtime showed two movies nonstop: Smokey and the Bandit and Mommie Dearest. Cable television being the best babysitter, I must have seen each about a gazillion times. I think I had every line memorized for both. Plus, I had the benefit of having a paperback of Mommie Dearest, that I read and reread over the course of a summer another gazillion times. (A freshman in high school reads Mommie Dearest a gazillion times and everyone's surprised when he comes out? What the H?) I didn't know then what "camp" was, but clearly I was drawn to its absurdity.
Now that I think about it, there was a boy in my school who was equally engrossed by Mommie Dearest and loved quoting lines from the movie. Wanna bet me a dollar he's a big ol' Mo too.
Any who...enjoy the fun.
Comments
OK... someone got the idea for this at Sidetrack in Chicago... where they have the ORIGINAL version. You should see it... it's amazing. This isn't exactly the same, but the methodology is the same. Even the use of "Momma Mia" is the same.
Posted by: RcktMan | June 10, 2006 08:10 AM
ok, that was fuckin' brilliant. made my day!
Posted by: kyle | June 10, 2006 09:29 AM
I forgot how much I enjoy the slap sequence. And yes, I did see something like this at Sidetrack in Chi-town like a decade ago. But I don't remember the mama mia music.
Posted by: cb | June 12, 2006 07:39 AM
I never tire of this! It's one of my fave movies, even tho it almost ruined a homo-erotic camping trip I once took.
Hey, Rcktman: I love Sidetrack, too! And you get like a kazillion bonus points for NOT calling it "Sidetracks" (note the "s", as I'm sure Paul Lynde would say). I'd like to say that I hate being a stickler about grammar, but that would just be lying for lying's sake.
I can NOT claim to have seen this at Sidetrack. I HAVE, however, seen it both before and better at http://www.danoramaproductions.com
He is one of the original "video re-purposers". Rcktman, check out his site, click on "Club Room" and then click on the "16" spot. Is THAT what you saw at Sidetrack? Because I THINK I remember reading something about Danorama providing Sidetrack with some "original" programming, but that could just be the purple haze inside my mind.
Posted by: ShuShoo | June 13, 2006 04:43 PM