Some of you have seen the video known as “Powerthirst,” an advertisement for a pretend energy drink. I think this is one of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen, regardless how stupid it is. Why does it make me laugh, though? The reason I find this funny all stems from my friends from home, who are actually who I first watched this with. This video is so energetic and stupid I couldn’t help but laugh. After first seeing it, we spent the next two or three months quoting the video every time we saw each other.
It isn’t just about me watching it with them that makes it humorous to me, and the effects after. The thing that gets me is that I could very easily see this entire video be the brainchild of just and everyday conversation between me and and a few of my friends. It’s nothing special, but I love the fact that I can sit there and think “we could have totally come up with that.” But we didn’t. Regardless though, I love the creativity of it. Who sits around and comes up with the term “shocolates: chocolate added to an electrical storm”...besides us?
It makes me wonder whether or not they sat around and came up with “shocolate” and “rawberry” or if those words and ideas just sort of came to them out of nowhere. I know it’s possible to just think of random things like that off the top of the head, my best friend Stephen and I have done it one day on a car ride down I-16, aka the most boring highway in America. A song came on the radio, Bad Day by Daniel Powter, and Stephen and I spontaneously rewrote the song as it was playing as if Eminem was singing it. I know that sounds retarded and insane, but the things we said, which I can’t even remember, were so funny that I laughed the majority of the time I tried to sing it. Reflecting on that moment in the car as I watch this video makes me love the (possible) spontaneity of it, thus I laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs
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