• Polydextrous@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wow. What a blast from the past. Middle school/early high school gold right here. Unironically a fuckin bop though. And an honest-to-god decent punk song. Like…way moreso than a lot of things at the time that called themselves “punk.”

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      Two sock puppets with a cable-access show on a super-late-night slot notorious for catering to stoners and other malcontents is punk as fuck? I’d disbelieve, but I’d be lying with every syllable. Fuck yeah! Sifl & Olly forever!

      edit: I was stoned most of the mid-90s onward, so I could’ve sworn it was “Ollie”, not “Olly”. My bad, fam.

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        I was one of those malcontented stoners, and I remember the looks you’d get telling people about Sifl and Olly. Then they’d watch it and come back to tell you how wrong they were to doubt you.

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      Was in high school when this came out and it was inescapable. Good song.

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        It’s so emblematic of the comedy of the early 2000s. I don’t know how to describe it, but the skinny, white, nerdy guy being “too cool” was like the running joke. That’s not even it, but man, what a time to be a skinny, white guy, huh? You had all the heroes

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            1 year ago

            I dunno. For me it was the early 2000s that this was going around my friend group. And, in my opinion, it very well represents what the comedy tastes were at the time

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              1 year ago

              The entire grunge scene was “skinny white guy cool” and that was prior to Y2K. I mean, FFS, Cobain was dead by '94, but even non-grunge skinny-white-guy-cool was firmly 90s. Smashing Pumpkins peaked in '95, JNCO was bankrupt by '94, Trainspotting released in '96, etc. Sifl & Olly was cancelled in '99. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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                I meant more in comedy. It was skinny nerdy less attractive white guys with glasses.

                I mean, let’s be real, there’s never been a bad time to be a white guy, I just meant in comedy the unspoken thru joke underneath so many comedies was skinny white guy “unexpectedly” wins

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      1 year ago

      Blast from the past indeed. I’ve never heard this song with it not being part of an anime music video.

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        Interesting. I don’t know the anime video part. My past this fits into was around 2003 when it came out. Was there a renaissance for the song in anime form later on? Or was his around the same time