Channel Frederator Blog

After yesterday’s Ninja Turtles post, I thought I’d follow up with a Turtles post of my own.

This clip is one of millions (I’m guessing) of clips on youTube and other places on the web that are known as overdubs. Basically, you get the footage from a tv show, movie, game, etc, and then replace the audio from that footage with the audio of something else. Usually, the more successful edits combine two things you wouldn’t expect, like the Ninja Turtles and The Big Lebowski.

Some of these overdubs have found quite an audience. One of the more successful overdubs is actually a series of overdubs based on the PSAs that ran at the end of the GI Joe cartoon in the 80’s.

The GI Joe parodies were created by Eric Fensler of Fensler Film and were quite popular on the web. In September of 2004, Fensler received a cease and desist letter from Hasbro who said his distribution of the films violates their G.I. Joe trademarks and copyrights.

The power of funny won out though, and the GI Joe PSAs are now all over the internet.

-Floyd Bishop