Bless you, Prelinger Archives and your fruitful ground of deliciously grainy stock footagery. Without the many amazing stock footage sources and sites on the internet, we'd be sad chickens.
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Surfing Dog
Schadenfraude.
8.
Lucy 107 Topical
RIP, Lucy DOTD. Jon Benjamin's vibrato could conquer small townships.
7.
Flaming Meatwad
In 2005, a fan sent this pinata to Williams Street and crammed a "wad" (har har) of old-people candy, gas station prophos, and other odd trinkets in it (and if I remember correctly, something that was leaking). It hung in one of the hallways for about a year, but it never received the proper attention it deserved: burning wildly for the televised masses. One cool spring morning, Pete and Matt Maiellaro hauled it to Kim's backyard, set it ablaze and shot this little number with Matt's HD camera. Glorious.
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It Is What It Is
Here's something to see.
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Adult Swim Sings
Pete paid to do these one-of-a-kind Adult Swim jingles for both comedy and anime. Though many of the shows mentioned in this series of spots aren't on Adult Swim often (or at all) anymore, they live on in our hearts. Here's one!
4.
44 Nights of Orel - Cancelled for the Whole Family
Last year, we flew Moral Orel creator Dino Stamatopolous and writer Scott Adsit into Atlanta for a little green-screen gem we call "44 Nights of Orel." Dino and Scott aired their grievances about the cancellation of the show while America drank it in. We're pretty sure America wasn't the only one drinking. I really enjoyed getting to work on this project last year, if only to hear Dino tell the makeup artist "I just wanna look s*****. Can you do that?"
3.
French Squid
Which is the natural habitat for the squid: underwater or the Appalachian mountains? Translating any dialogue into French automatically makes it sound: 1) educational 2) artistic 3) legitimate
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Adult Swim Love
Pete bought these amazing stock footage DVDs from a group called Rocketclips. I'm convinced that Rocketclips hasn't output any new material since 1996, but they still make you think everything is fresh. If you need an operator standing by, they've got that. If you need a couple dispassionately canoodling, they've got that. If you need two turtles enjoying each others company...check the internet. ALT: Adult Swim: we made turtle humping cool before anyone else.
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Moral Christmas Ep
Ah, Moral Orel: a show whose Christmas episode ranks as one of the most disturbing holiday treats in the history of television. With that in mind, Pete and Mike wanted to make this episode sound like a accharinely-sweet, heart-warming nugget of family joy, in turn setting the tone for the rest of the Orel promos. I wonder how many people watched this show because they thought it would teach important moral lessons...
