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M-O-O-N THAT SPELLS SWINE FLU

CDC Pandemic PSA Is So Scary!


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]


2:35 PM on Mon April 27 2009
By Ken Layne
1318 Views

  1. you cannot be serious says at 2:38 pm, April 27th, 2009

    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.

  2. Custerwolf says at 2:40 pm, April 27th, 2009

    I thought The Stand was a comedy?

  3. Crank Tango says at 2:41 pm, April 27th, 2009

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

  4. Custerwolf says at 2:41 pm, April 27th, 2009

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

  5. Mr Blifil says at 2:44 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Transmaniacon…EMCEE!!!

  6. Mr Blifil says at 2:44 pm, April 27th, 2009
  7. S.Luggo says at 2:44 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Mmmmm. That’s coffee!

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

    Caption:

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

  9. Nerdalicious says at 2:49 pm, April 27th, 2009

    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!

  10. ohiolobbyist says at 2:50 pm, April 27th, 2009

    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?

  11. Nerdalicious says at 2:52 pm, April 27th, 2009

    S.Luggo:
    Brought to you by the same war criminals that were against HEALTH INSURANCE FOR SICK CHILDREN!

  12. proudgrampa says at 2:58 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Crank Tango: “I got me a fever. And the only cure is MORE COWBELL!!”

  13. bitchincamaro says at 3:02 pm, April 27th, 2009

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

  14. Hooray For Anything says at 3:04 pm, April 27th, 2009

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

  15. Johnny Zhivago says at 3:05 pm, April 27th, 2009

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

  16. trondant says at 3:06 pm, April 27th, 2009

    BOC!

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

  17. Johnny Zhivago says at 3:07 pm, April 27th, 2009

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

  18. proudgrampa says at 3:10 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Hooray For Anything: And with the earthquake in Acapulco, He must have it in for the Mexicans, too. Also.

  19. TaxWallStreet says at 3:13 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Johnny Zhivago

    Way ahead of you, man.

  20. proudgrampa says at 3:16 pm, April 27th, 2009

    bitchincamaro: That’s not the Census Bureau you work in, is it?

  21. Monsieur Grumpe says at 3:18 pm, April 27th, 2009

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

  22. qwerty42 says at 3:19 pm, April 27th, 2009

    you cannot be serious: 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.

  23. Crank Tango says at 3:23 pm, April 27th, 2009

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

  24. randomsausage says at 3:26 pm, April 27th, 2009

    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.

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

  26. jasper-f-krone says at 3:27 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Call in the Tamiflu Tigers!

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

    proudgrampa: 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?

  28. Blow Up Speaker Doll says at 3:35 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Blue Oyster Culy, baby!

  29. ProfessorJukes says at 3:36 pm, April 27th, 2009

    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.

    qwerty42: Ken is definitely Randall Flagg.

  30. choinski says at 3:41 pm, April 27th, 2009

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

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

    Too much cow bell?

  32. I fuckin love you guys.

  33. ProfessorJukes says at 3:46 pm, April 27th, 2009

    PS - I think Sara is Mother Abagail

  34. Custerwolf says at 3:50 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Hooray For Anything: Provide cheap and easy divorces?

  35. qwerty42 says at 3:54 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Custerwolf: I thought The Stand was a comedy?
    Maybe it will be more like Survivor.

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

    ProfessorJukes: Let it be said that the one good thing about the Bush years is that they made the 80s look good in comparison.

  37. SnarkNotFark says at 3:59 pm, April 27th, 2009

    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.

  38. KristaJulieva says at 4:02 pm, April 27th, 2009

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

  39. mookworthjwilson says at 4:04 pm, April 27th, 2009

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

  40. Hooray For Anything says at 4:32 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Custerwolf: 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.

  41. El Pinche says at 10:17 pm, April 27th, 2009

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

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

  43. Mr Blifil says at 12:23 am, April 28th, 2009

    Nerdalicious: 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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