GYMKOMMENTARY #4: Can't Stop the Music

It's fun to listen to:

GYM!

KOM!

MEN!

TARY!

It's fun to listen to:

GYM!

KOM!

MEN!

TARY!

It has everything
That you're meant to enjoy
It's guaranteed not to annoy

And so on. We'll get to the synchronized dancing later.


In the Navy, you can put your mind at ease. In Gymkommentary, you can put your mind in a small box you keep in the back of your closet. You will not be needing it.

The Tale of the Tape
Film: Can't Stop the Music (1980)
Director: Nancy Walker
Runtime: 124 minutes
Genre: Disco Nightmare
Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Valerie Perrine, Bruce Jenner, Village People
Rated: PG for Scenes of Death by Love, Interpretive Box Dancing, and Graphic Manliness
IMDb, The Official Village People's Official Site (Officially)

To get this CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC GYMKOMMENTARY FILE in your iTunes, open iTunes then go "Advanced" to "Subscribe to Podcast" and then enter this link:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/gymkommentary

It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A. but it's even more fun to do it with us. Did you know that Steve Guttenberg created the Village People while wearing painter's overalls? Me neither. But it's true! CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC wouldn't lie. Join Chris and Matt on a heavily mustachioed odyssey through the fascinating history of the greatest band ever.

Gymkommentary 4 is on the way...

It's probably going to take a week or two to get the file cleaned up and uploaded but it's already recorded. Here's your clue:



...and, no, it's not Wayne's World 2.

GYMKOMMENTARY #3.1: Challenge of the Superfriends

The challenge is NOT over!


The Tale of the Tape
Television Show: Challenge of the Super Friends (1978)
Episode: History of Doom
Director: Ray Patterson and Carl Urbano
Runtime: 20 minutes
Genre: Cartoonish Disaster
Stars: Danny Dark, Olan Soule, Casey Kasem
Rated: TV-PG for Graphic Haughty Laughter, Mild Villainous Plotting, and the Utter Destruction of Our Home Planet
IMDb, Wikipedia

To get this CHALLENGE OF THE SUPER FRIENDS GYMKOMMENTARY FILE in your iTunes, open iTunes then go "Advanced" to "Subscribe to Podcast" and then enter this link:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/gymkommentary

We've already got GYMKOMMENTARY #4 picked out but in the meantime, here's a gymkomm' for another installment of the greatest, most emotionally scarring kids' cartoon of all time: Challenge of the Super Friends. Once again, Chris and I recorded this on opposite coasts so the sound isn't perfect, but we've checked it out and it works just fine.

GYMKOMMENTARY #3.0: Challenge of the Superfriends

Banded together from remote galaxies are thirteen of the most sinister villians of all-time: The Legion of Doom! Dedicated to a single objective, the conquest of the universe! Only one group dares to challenge this intergalactic threat... the Gymkommentators! The Gymkommentators versus the Legion of Doom...this is the Challenge of the Gymkommentators!


The Tale of the Tape
Television Show: Challenge of the Super Friends (1978)
Episode: Super Friends: Rest in Peace
Director: Ray Patterson and Carl Urbano
Runtime: 20 minutes
Genre: Superfriendery
Stars: Danny Dark, Olan Soule, Casey Kasem
Rated: TV-PG for Mild Lassoing, Terrible Puns, and Shockingly Graphic Deaths of Beloved Childhood Icons
IMDb, Wikipedia

To get this CHALLENGE OF THE SUPER FRIENDS GYMKOMMENTARY FILE in your iTunes, open iTunes then go "Advanced" to "Subscribe to Podcast" and then enter this link:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/gymkommentary

This Gykommentary was prompted by one our of hosts' shocking rediscovery of the old Super Friends cartoon show and its shocking badness. This is the first of potentially many Super Friends Gymkommentaries. Please to enjoy and apologies for the sound quality; best we can do right now with our hosts on different coasts (hey, that rhymes!). We've listened to it and give it the Good Gymkommentary Seal of Tolerability!(TM)

Gymkommentary 3 is in the works!

I can't say it's coming soon because we haven't recorded yet, but Chris' people and my people are discussing when we might sit down and do this thing. Unfortunately being on opposite coasts of this great land of ours doesn't make it easy.

But the target — or should I say targets — are picked. Here is your clue:

GYMKOMMENTARY #2: Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

When you're going to do a sequel to anything there's only one way to do it right.

With boogie-ing.

ELECTRIC boogie-ing.



The Tale of the Tape
Film: Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)
Director: Sam Firstenberg
Runtime: 94 minutes
Genre: Breakdancing Action
Stars: Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo 'Shabba-Doo' Quinones, Michael 'Boogaloo Shrimp' Chambers
Rated: PG for Suggestive Dancing, Mild Thrusting, Strange Scenes of Adults Telling Kids to "Get Off"
IMDb, Wikipedia

To get this BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO GYMKOMMENTARY FILE in your iTunes, open iTunes then go "Advanced" to "Subscribe to Podcast" and then enter this link:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/gymkommentary

The second ever GYMKOMMENTARY! finds our heroes breaking moves then breaking down before the awesome badness of Miracles, Ice T, and Fred Astaire rip off scenes. Hip hop hooray!

UPDATE: After much hair pulling and a great deal of pinging my feed (heh, sounds dirty) I can say with some assurance that if you are a GYMKOMMENTARY! subscriber then you should be receiving your copy of of our Breakin' 2 track in the very near future, if you haven't already. If there are any additional feed problems, please let me know.

Chris talks Gymkommentary on Crank!

Don't worry, folks, this isn't a drug-fueled rant (I've put that all behind me now...) To hold you all over on some more sweet, sweet Gymkommentary action, check out an appearance I did on fellow comic artist Mike Norton's super-cool podcast, The Crankcast, where I talked quite a bit about th' Gymkomm. We also talked about Superman III, why "Special Edition" DVD's are the "I'm sorry, baby"(s) of cinema, and bad movies in general, giving me some good ideas for future skewerings.

For those of you that miss the Gymkommentary, or the dulcet tones of my velvety voice, check it out: Crankcast, Episode 120-- Moreno A-Go-Go!