Weezer’s Pork & Beans: Meme Breakdown

May 28th, 2008

According to Dan I’m the “only person” who’s incessantly watching Weezer‘s Pork And Beans video to see how many new YouTube memes I can pick out. I haven’t come across any other posts outlining each meme that’s in the video one by one, so here you go. The definitive list. As far as I can tell, K-Fed and the Evolution Of Dance dude are the only two that were digitally added in – everyone else that ‘stars’ in the video was actually at the video shoot. Oh, and here’s an interview that Wired magazine did with director Matthew Cullen that explains a little more!

0:04 One Man Band
(watch)

0:18, 2:55 Dramatic Gopher
(watch)

0:21 The Origins of Dramatic Gopher (Asian pigtailed girls standing around table)
(watch)

0:22, 0:56 Afro Ninja w/ Nunchucks
(watch)

0:31 (and throughout) Diet Coke + Mentos Experiment
(watch)

0:38 “Gay” G.I. Joe PSA (he’s got a unicorn tattoo instead of a globe in the Weezer vid)
watch)

0:47, 1:57 Guinness Book – Most T-Shirts Worn At Once
(watch)

0:59 Chris Crocker/”Leave Britney Alone!”
(watch)

1:03 All Your Base Are Belong To Us
(watch)

1:10 Miss South Carolina – Miss Teen USA Pageant/Star Wars Kid
(watch)

1:16 Numa Numa
(watch)

1:22 White Soulja Boy Dance
(watch)

1:26 Evolution Of Dance
(watch)

1:29 Tay Zonday/Chocolate Rain
(watch)

1:38 K-Fed’s Popozao video
(watch)

1:47, 2:24 Daft Hands
(watch)

1:51 Daft Dancers
(watch)

2:06 Kicesie’s Sex Ed
(watch)

2:28 OMG Shoes
(watch)

2:38 – Animated aliens + duck dancing (I don’t know who this is – anyone?)

2:38 Sneezing Panda
(watch)

2:43 The banana from “It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time”
(watch)

2:45 Ryan vs. Dorkman (light sabers)
(watch)

2:51 Rubik’s Cube
(watch)

2:53 Will It Blend (as shown by Miss South Carolina)
(watch)

2:57 Charlie The Unicorn
(watch)

Phew. In the final scene there are about 2000 things happening at once (reminiscent of the meme battle in that South Park episode) so rounding out the list required a few pause ‘n plays, but I think I caught them all!

Posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 at 5:15 pm by Kat and is filed under Music & Videos.