Friday, June 15, 2007

I Like This Meme

I just noticed that in the YouTube comments for the Freakazoid! cartoon "Candle Jack" (Paul Rugg at his craziest as a performer and writer), there's a months-old meme where commenters discover that Candle Jack is real and are cut off in mid-word.

You know: "I'm tired of this Candle Jack meme, I said Candle Jack and nothing hap"... That kind of thing. Nice to see that a quickly-cancelled cult cartoon can inspire a pointless comments-section game.




5 comments:

Sterfish said...

Oh, it's more than a comment meme. Some image/message boards that deal with cartoons frequently have that meme too. You can't type Candle Jack witho-

Anonymous said...

Well, I guess it's obvious that Candle Jack was the inspiration behind the Sopranos fina-

Anonymous said...

Ah, classic. That show loved its stock footage!

Still, though, that backstage Hollywood joke and the Sinbad riff... pretty awful. But the rest of it - classic!

cgeye said...

Too reminiscent of that urban legend movie by Clive Barker, for my sweet-tooth taste....

Mattieshoe said...

sterfish:

You did it wrong. If candlejack really got you, you wouldn't be able to type your da