As long as we’re posting funny videos we just discovered, here’s a parody commercial for “Spider-Man 3″ action figures that perfectly summarizes all the things that were wrong with that movie.
This has been posted a few places around the Internet over the past year, but it was only yesterday that I stumbled across it. Further research determined its source.
It’s from “The Beatrice Arthur Special,” which aired Jan. 19, 1980, on CBS. The clip features Rock Hudson and Bea Arthur singing about how nowadays everybody does drugs, whereas in the good ol’ days, all you needed were cigarettes and alcohol to feel good.
It’s hard to tell whether the song is endorsing drug use or discouraging it, especially since the song’s only real gripe with drugs is that the terminology used to describe them is hard for middle-aged people to grasp.
Regardless of its message, I love this song!