9 February 2013

Bob


Bob by Weird Al' Yankovic is one of those songs which can be incredibly irritating as, ostensibly, it means very little. The fact it’s clever (one could even say pallin-dramatic!) might not endear it any further to some but it certainly grabbed the attention of Oliver Smith. He was looking for a song which contained as many potential fake film titles as possible.

He managed to find 38 in total – all of which could, at one level or another, be given to a movie as its title. The result is something quite ingenious. My own favorite comes early in with a possible Gene Wilder movie To Hot to Hoot. You will see many major movie stars and a number of famous studios and director name checked in the next few minutes…