• February 15, 2012


Oh ha ha, we are just joshing, this is really from some teevee version of Stephen King’s history of the 1976 Swine Flu Outbreak, The Stand. BOC! [YouTube]

{ 43 comments }

you cannot be serious April 27, 2009 at 2:38 pm

Who is Randall Flagg in this scenario? If you cast it right, I’ll be the virgin chick who’s supposed to have his baby.

Custerwolf April 27, 2009 at 2:40 pm

I thought The Stand was a comedy?

Crank Tango April 27, 2009 at 2:41 pm

so are we to believe that the only prescription for swine flu is “more cowbell”?

Custerwolf April 27, 2009 at 2:41 pm

I believe Gary Sinese was still fuckable in this movie – yes?

Mr Blifil April 27, 2009 at 2:44 pm

Transmaniacon…EMCEE!!!

Mr Blifil April 27, 2009 at 2:44 pm

[re=300715]Crank Tango[/re]: +1

S.Luggo April 27, 2009 at 2:44 pm

Mmmmm. That’s coffee!

S.Luggo April 27, 2009 at 2:45 pm

Caption:

“GOP Fought Pandemic Preparedness”
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/430261/print?rel=nofollow

Nerdalicious April 27, 2009 at 2:49 pm

Thank yer lucky stars that we are not experiencing M. Night Shyamalan’s horrible vision of the Wind/Air/Oxygen Pandemic in “The Happening”, that makes people stab themselves in the neck with knitting needles… Whew!

ohiolobbyist April 27, 2009 at 2:50 pm

Rob Lowe and W.G. Snuffy Walden, in their first project together, with additions of Molly Ringwald and Gary Sinise…. how many fucking Oscars did this win? 34?

Nerdalicious April 27, 2009 at 2:52 pm

[re=300721]S.Luggo[/re]:
Brought to you by the same war criminals that were against HEALTH INSURANCE FOR SICK CHILDREN!

proudgrampa April 27, 2009 at 2:58 pm

[re=300715]Crank Tango[/re]: “I got me a fever. And the only cure is MORE COWBELL!!”

bitchincamaro April 27, 2009 at 3:02 pm

Jesus. That’s what it looks like in my office on a good day.

Hooray For Anything April 27, 2009 at 3:04 pm

[re=300721]S.Luggo[/re]: Between this, the volcano explosion, and the mormon crickets, I’m beginning to think God really has it in for the Republicans.

Johnny Zhivago April 27, 2009 at 3:05 pm

This wouldn’t be happening if we had built that giant plexiglass dome around the United States.

trondant April 27, 2009 at 3:06 pm

BOC!

This is swine flu, not chicken flu – try to keep up. Also.

Johnny Zhivago April 27, 2009 at 3:07 pm

Wouldn’t the best way to get ahead of this crisis be to just start burning Mexicans?

proudgrampa April 27, 2009 at 3:10 pm

[re=300738]Hooray For Anything[/re]: And with the earthquake in Acapulco, He must have it in for the Mexicans, too. Also.

TaxWallStreet April 27, 2009 at 3:13 pm

Johnny Zhivago

Way ahead of you, man.

proudgrampa April 27, 2009 at 3:16 pm

[re=300735]bitchincamaro[/re]: That’s not the Census Bureau you work in, is it?

Monsieur Grumpe April 27, 2009 at 3:18 pm

M. O. O. N. that spells kiss your ass goodbye.

qwerty42 April 27, 2009 at 3:19 pm

[re=300713]you cannot be serious[/re]: Who is Randall Flagg in this scenario?…
I’m starting to think it will be Ken … he is holed up in his rancho in the Mojave eating home made rattlesnake jerky. Jim and Sara and Intern Juli are trapped on the east coast.

Crank Tango April 27, 2009 at 3:23 pm

Now I am wondering about the prophesy regarding solid gold diapers. Will we all be wearing them?

randomsausage April 27, 2009 at 3:26 pm

Fuck me, I’ve got a bit of a sniffle and I really fancy a bbq-pork burrito. Think I’ve got the Meshican Swine flu.

Min April 27, 2009 at 3:26 pm

I’m still profoundly traumatized by the casting in this movie. Why did you have resurrect that memory, Wonkette? Why?

jasper-f-krone April 27, 2009 at 3:27 pm

Call in the Tamiflu Tigers!

Hooray For Anything April 27, 2009 at 3:29 pm

[re=300750]proudgrampa[/re]: Oh yeah, totally. Thanks to Mexico, we have burritos, places to go for spring break, and cheap weed– what did Mexicans do to deserve any of this?

Blow Up Speaker Doll April 27, 2009 at 3:35 pm

Blue Oyster Culy, baby!

ProfessorJukes April 27, 2009 at 3:36 pm

ooooh… B-O-C, *and* a Molly Ringwald reference. (Also Matt “Max Headroom” Frewer.) And I thought those brain cells had been killed by the after-effects of the first Swine Flu vaccine.

[re=300762]qwerty42[/re]: Ken is definitely Randall Flagg.

choinski April 27, 2009 at 3:41 pm

See, even flu corpses have ‘Kathy’ cartoons in their cubicles.

Lionel Hutz Esq. April 27, 2009 at 3:42 pm

Too much cow bell?

Hound April 27, 2009 at 3:45 pm

I fuckin love you guys.

ProfessorJukes April 27, 2009 at 3:46 pm

PS – I think Sara is Mother Abagail

Custerwolf April 27, 2009 at 3:50 pm

[re=300781]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Provide cheap and easy divorces?

qwerty42 April 27, 2009 at 3:54 pm

[re=300714]Custerwolf[/re]: I thought The Stand was a comedy?
Maybe it will be more like Survivor.

Lionel Hutz Esq. April 27, 2009 at 3:55 pm

[re=300791]ProfessorJukes[/re]: Let it be said that the one good thing about the Bush years is that they made the 80s look good in comparison.

SnarkNotFark April 27, 2009 at 3:59 pm

Ray Walston, we hardly knew ye. Seriously though, what The Stand taught me was that when (not if) my immune system beats and I am still around, its off to the abandoned Ferrari dealership. Also I learnt about buttsecks. But that was in pretty much every Stephen King novel.

KristaJulieva April 27, 2009 at 4:02 pm

That would be an epitaph, by the way–”He died, as he lived; playing ping-pong.”

mookworthjwilson April 27, 2009 at 4:04 pm

So sad…Bruno Kirby was just about to get what he wanted from that vending machine…

Hooray For Anything April 27, 2009 at 4:32 pm

[re=300837]Custerwolf[/re]: Don’t forget donkey shows, although whether that’s a plus or a minus in Mexico’s favor depends on how drunk of a frat guy you were.

El Pinche April 27, 2009 at 10:17 pm

Boards of Canada did the soundtrack to The Stand? wierd.

Bruno April 27, 2009 at 10:45 pm

I think the Swine flu epidemic would be a lot funnier if it turned people into pigs before they died.

Mr Blifil April 28, 2009 at 12:23 am

[re=300724]Nerdalicious[/re]: She had to stab herself with knitting needles. She realized too late that she was in a M. Night Shyamalan movie.

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