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

[lauriegilbert.livejournal.com]

Downloaded, and thank you for getting it - I've been hoping that someone would get it online for us!!

[tarie.livejournal.com]

AHAHAH.

Oh lord. Thank you for this. Am uploading and sharing with my flisters that may not have you friended. *dies*

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

*boggles*

*blinks some more*

*boggles some more*

[chickadilly.livejournal.com]

OMG. *dies* Thank you for that! Hilarious!!!

[angelbabe_cj]

You will be the death of me Emma, this is so funny.

*continues inane giggling*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

So funny! :-D

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Share the love!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I just love the fact that the slashiness was so obvious that people outside of fandom even noticed!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

So funny! :-D

[lauriegilbert.livejournal.com]

Maybe sometime soon the world will accept things the way they really are. . Harry IS gay, and he can't decide between Ron or Draco.

Oh dear, that's brilliant

[cheshyre]

The bwam-chicka music and breathy narration ("The Goblet of... Fire)is a particularly nice touch..

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I love the fact that this wasn't even a fandom thing!

Re: Oh dear, that's brilliant

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

LOL, yes! Bau-chicka-bau-bau...

[majilique.livejournal.com]

OMG that was great!

Someone on their staff is a closet slasher.

That was jkust too perfect!!!

[countryapple1x2.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness that is Hystarical! Time to have another apartment party where I show everyone a random clip off the internet >.

[clevermomi.livejournal.com]

omg!!!!!!!!!!!
I so needed that right now.

"You're fraternizing with the enemy."
"No I didn't enter."

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wearethestars.livejournal.com]

OMG... that's hilarious. OMGOMGOMG. "I gotta start reading those books!" HAHAHAH. Thanks for sharing it!

[magicicada.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! That's the greatest thing ever. Both the music and the cheesy narration cracked me up.

[phemie.livejournal.com]

That's insanely hilarious :D The music's just perfect too :D

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

The more I think about this, the unsettled and possibly angry I'm getting.

My initial reaction was whoa, that's really blatant and kind of heavyhanded if it was made by a slasher. Interesting, but I got a sinking feeling deep in my gut watching it. Thinking about it more, I think I've figured out why I had that reaction, what my gut is trying to bring to my attention.

This vid is shown on regular TV as a ha-ha isn't this funny parody. Gay is OK as long as everyone gets a big commercialized laugh out of it. As long as everyone laughs, oh heavens how over the top and shock-value and amusing it all is.

Of course no actual teens could ever be going through near-suicidal crises over things like this. Of course angst about coming out to those you care about is something to be laughed about in a studio audience where the bright lights wash all sense of reality away. Of course no one would ever really be disowned or beaten by their homophobic fathers because they'd do anything for their best friend and have begun having sexual feelings for them. And of course no parent watching the show would ever have a gay or transgendered child.

And fanfic authors are only acceptable to that same commercialized segment of society as long as we're writing parodies. Anything beyond that is a squick and a weirdness and asocial maladjusted fanatical behavior, something nice normal people would never do.

Maybe it's just my headache this morning, and I fully admit that I'm not feeling well partially because there were drunken morons waking me up at all hours... but this is really sticking in my craw.

Ugh.

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.

[julie.livejournal.com]

OMG! That's hysterical!

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.

[cenas-plots.livejournal.com]

Thanks Emma! I will be downloading as soon as my cable is back up. :x

Stupid Roadrunner.

[sesptwd.livejournal.com]

THANK you for that, Emma!
TOOO FUUNY