A Message from Supdawg
So for the most part, we have had a very positive response, but we have also received some hate mail. Some people seem to be very angered by our video, so we want to clarify a few things that were sent in the hate mails.
#1 “why are you trying to start a coast war?”
-We were kidding. We hope you can tell that from the fact that we are rapping about Pooh Bear and painting pottery at Color Me Mine.
#2 "you guys are so lame because you copied the original" or "how could you challenge the SNL video?"
-We LOVE the original video. We are not trying to take away from it. It is the fact that it was so good and original that motivated us the make this one -- for fun.
#3 "you guys are trying to boost your popularity and become famous by riding on the coattails on the SNL video"
-We made this video and sent it to our close friends. From there, they sent it on, other people downloaded it and placed it on iFilm, Revver, blogs, etc. The massive spread of the video was not something we planned on, but we are very happy so many people liked it and passed it on. Or hated it and passed it on. Either way, cool. We didn't do this for notoriety; we just did it for fun.
#3 “you guys should have done your research; Andy Samberg is from the west coast!”
-Guess what? Sam and Mark were both born and raised in New York. The video is a JOKE. Adam is from Florida. We love both coasts.
#4 "why do you think painting pottery is so hard-core? you guys are pussies!"
-Clearly this went right over your head.
#5 "i can't believe you guys printed up t-shirts"
-We didn't. The site is cafepress.com -- great site. They print the shirts to order. And we all made them for ourselves because we thought they were funny.
#6 Finally, we had to post this "fan" letter in its entirety. This guy Keith thought we had too much time on our hands. Well, we don't know how long it took him to draft this letter, but it was a less productive use of time than ours.
From: "keith heisler" <ccheis@hotmail.com>
Date: January 27, 2006 9:04:19 AM PST
To: adam@narniarapbattle.com, mark@narniarapbattle.com
Subject: Narnia Rap Battle
Hey Mark and Adam,
I just watched your Internet video and had a few thoughts. Figured I’d send them along to let you know what I thought.
Where to start? Where to start? Well, to put it nicely, if you think this video even hints at being marginal, then you’re fucking delusional. It’s just patently awful. Your failure to grasp the concept of humor is astounding. You clearly don’t understand people or human nature. This is neither a good spoof, ironic, funny, unintentionally comedic, or remotely pleasant. If your goal was to send out a general feeling of malaise, the likes of which hasn’t been matched since the announcement of AIDS, then consider your goal accomplished. The only thing more annoying than waiting for your video to buffer was the video itself. Not only did you miss “clever” or “original” by a fucking continent or two, but you somehow have stumbled upon the formula for proving that desperation and the lack of understanding human desire is a deadly combination. If you have kids, your video has officially bumped them from “infinitely disappointed” to flat out “suicidal.” That is, if there is a god.
The fact that you jumped up from your couch and announced “I have an idea” was pushing the limits on how much time you should have devoted to this project. Never mind writing down lyrics, shooting a video, getting merchandise, setting up a website, or calling your mom to boast about what you’d “accomplished”. It makes me sick that people like you exist. After watching your catastrophe yesterday, I spent the entire day walking around wanting to spit on everyone I passed, just on the whim that they may think and act the same way you do.
At what point did you think that this was something the world needed or wanted? “I’ve got it! Let’s take an exhausted cliché – the East Coast/West Coast rap battle – and use it to jump on the coattails of the first acceptably average skit that SNL has put out since Scarface took over.” These were the building blocks of your idea for Christ’s sakes! Here’s a little advice: you know you’re on the fast track to abortion when you’re using elements that only the Smother’s brothers would describe as “hip”.
By the way, since you are beyond clueless, I might as well spoil the surprise – if anyone tells you they like this video they are fucking lying. Friends, co-workers, family members – all lying. Even if you have somehow managed to surround yourself with people that are as benightedly Jay Leno-ish as yourselves, they are still lying. Trust me. No possible construction of DNA could find value in what you’ve done.
Oh, and just in case you are wondering what the nadir of this ordure is, it’s the break-dancing scene. No other way to say it – just pure shit. Two white boys badly break-dancing, ha ha ha—FUCK YOU! Which one of you failed to find the cardboard in the back alley so that you could have really put the cherry on the top of that shit sundae?
The only thing worse than that, is that you had the audacity to post your contact info. Which means at some point you said “Hey, we need to have a way for people to contact us because they are gonna wanna talk to their heroes.” All the while, simultaneously thinking “I say “people”, but what I really mean is Lorne Michaels. The very guy who has been on the forefront of comedy for the last ten years, CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! (That’s me wailing away at the sarcasm key on my keyboard) Yeah, he’ll probably want to hire us on SNL after seeing this.”
It took me a little while (given the limitations of the English language and how Earth-shatteringly pathetic you are) but I think I have figured out a way to describe your sensibility: Hypothetically, if the Blue Collar Tour forced itself on Carlos Mencia, resulting in an offspring, and then this rape-baby grew up to run a greenhouse, watering a specific plant every day -- your sense of humor wouldn’t even be close to as funny as a leaf on that plant.
Now that I think about it, maybe I’ve been too harsh. I guess your video wasn’t a complete failure. I was intrigued by trying to figure out how two cultural pace-setters such as yourselves, somehow failed to fit “the Robot” into the carrion. DIE! DIE! DIE!
To summarize: you are two of the biggest assholes ever. You have no concept of humor or the human race. If you have somehow found a way to sleep at night after making this unadulterated piece of shit, then you’re going straight to hell. The fact that you think this video even passes for tawdry Internet entertainment means one thing – you’ve failed at life.
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