[Cross-posted on the Bad Movie Night Facebook page.]
Our Monday evening was started off with a pre-show: the incomparable "Jingle Cats." Torn directly from the Christmas (and possibly LSD)-influenced mind of a crazy cat lady and featuring the most high-tech effects available in 1995 that you could find in someone's basement, this masterpiece features garland and Santa hat adorned cats singing all your favorite Christmas carols in ear-splitting meows. It somehow manages to be awful but also utterly mesmerizing. Once you get past the initial annoyance of the meowing and the trippy effects, you find yourself slipping into a complacency as you slowly descend into insanity. It's the perfect thing to play on repeat to drive someone to gnawing off their own limbs. We only managed to get through 15 minutes of the full half hour production before we all agreed that we had the gist and could stop.
Our Monday evening was started off with a pre-show: the incomparable "Jingle Cats." Torn directly from the Christmas (and possibly LSD)-influenced mind of a crazy cat lady and featuring the most high-tech effects available in 1995 that you could find in someone's basement, this masterpiece features garland and Santa hat adorned cats singing all your favorite Christmas carols in ear-splitting meows. It somehow manages to be awful but also utterly mesmerizing. Once you get past the initial annoyance of the meowing and the trippy effects, you find yourself slipping into a complacency as you slowly descend into insanity. It's the perfect thing to play on repeat to drive someone to gnawing off their own limbs. We only managed to get through 15 minutes of the full half hour production before we all agreed that we had the gist and could stop.
Then, after we realized that Keith had never heard of the internet's plethora of 10 hour challenges, we followed that up with some much shorter installments of "Nyan Cat", "Leek Spin", "The Mango Song", "The Badger Song", "Narwhals" and "Amazing Horse" to remind us how far internet videos have come and we voted on which were the most tolerable ("Narwhals" and "Amazing Horse") and which were the least ("Nyan Cat" hands down).
Either way, "Jingle Cats" is a piece of history that should be seen by every connoisseur of the internet age.
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