Harry/Ron on The Soup!

[emmagrant01]

Last night, cenas_plots posted that she'd seen this, and I flipped channels just in time to record it! It's a clip from the TV show The Soup, which put together a little Harry/Ron vid -- and it's hilarious. God, the porn music in the background had me rolling! No major spoilers for the film, unless you're really anal and haven't even watched trailers.

Check it out! (Link updated 1/11/06)

All right, time to fess up -- which one of y'all works for that TV show and is responsible for this, huh? ;-)

Comments

0_o

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It was just meant to be funny, and not as a social commentary. The segment followed a Michael Jackson joke and a segment comparing Paris Hilton to a raccoon, for fuck's sake. This is The Soup -- not exactly highbrow journalism. It's crack, at best.

And I don't think anyone would truly confuse this video clip parody and a novel-length work of slash fanfic.

Re: 0_o

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

Confuse, no, that's not what I meant... I'm just tired of slashy relationships in canon appearing so often in mainstream media only as cracktastic jokes. Intention or no, what cultures choose as their humor is social commentary.

I'm frustrated and have been for a while by society's general tendency to lump queer subtext in with mocking humor, as something to poke fun at. This sort of humor about any topic has never been something I've been terribly comfortable with, though, and that's totally my own issue.

I'm sorry, I'll go now.

Re: 0_o

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I do understand where you're coming from, but I don't think it's fair to hold up this particular show as representative of the mainstream media's (and larger society's) attitudes about homosexuality. This is the sort of show that makes fun of everyone and everything, sometimes in quite cruel ways, and yet this segment was done with a wink-wink-nudge-nudge sort of flavor.

I disagree that it was mocking homosexuality or the troubles of gay teenagers; moreover, I don't think that was even their intention. I think it was simply a case of the show pointing out the very obvious Harry/Ron subtext of the film, in the way they do best.