Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness: I Would Marry Any Girl Who Does 'Squirrel Girl' Cosplay

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

I Would Marry Any Girl Who Does 'Squirrel Girl' Cosplay

12 comments:

mercurius said...: I guess that makes you a Britta Perry fan. (more than Annie Edison); July 26, 2011 at 7:08 PM
Kal said...: Who are they?; July 26, 2011 at 7:26 PM
Anonymous said...: Is that Squirrel Girl from The Tick? The one whose battle cry is "I like squirrels"...?; July 26, 2011 at 7:26 PM
Kal said...: Okay. Now I see. I love me some Britta. Annie is just nuts. Britta is hard done by. Her spirit was broken a long time ago by all the self centered people she surrounds herself with. She is the most loyal and the most easily hurt. Team Britta all the way.; July 26, 2011 at 7:29 PM
Kal said...: She was a marvel character Erik. You have to see her to fully appreciate her look. She's like a furry or that squirrel girl on 'Sponge Bob'.; July 26, 2011 at 7:29 PM
mercurius said...: Weird, I guess b/c you've posted a pic of Alison Brie before I assumed you'd seen the show. On NBC's Community, Gillian Jacobs plays Britta, a disenchanted thirtysomething who goes back to school for a college degree, and the adorable yet unexpectedly raunchy Alison Brie plays Annie Edison, an perky 18 yr old Jewish-American Princess overachiever who had a mental breakdown from a pill addiction and is now also in community college b/c she went to rehab instead of Ivy League. They're part of an eclectic study group convened by Jeff Winger (played by Joel McHale), a roguishly charming and overconfident trial attorney who is there b/c the Colorado Bar Association suspended his license when they found out his college degree was forged in South America.

It is easily the best comedy on TV right now and regularly attacks TV/movie archetypes/tropes with relish. In season 1, there was an episode that ends with a soaring musical mash-up between a Celtic bagpipe band named Green Day and a bromantic duet of "Somewhere Out There" from American Tail. Another season 1 ep, titled "Contemporary American Poultry", is a loving homage to Goodfellas where the study group becomes a power hungry cartel that controls the cafeteria's short supply of delicious chicken fingers. Most fans generally place the high point as the paintball episode, where a schoolwide paintball battle royale reduces the campus to a lawless postapocalyptic wasteland. That episode was a concise send-up of every 80s/90s action movie cliche in the book, running the gamut of John Woo, Rambo, Predator, Die Hard....

Season 2 went even wilder w/ genre homages. The Halloween episode was a zombie infestation, also incorporating some of the best xenomorph and Ripley-in-power-lifter-suit cosplay in network TV. The season also had 2 amazing bottle episodes. The more notable is one where it's just the gang sitting around a table playing Dungeons & Dragons. But the adventure in their minds is vividly interpreted thru not only their conversation but thru an exhilarating Lord of the Rings-style orchestral score and expertly Foleyed sound effects, such as the whistle of arrows through the air and the ponderous beats of a dragon's wings. And due to popular demand after Season 1's success w/ the concept,. Season 2 upped the ante by ending the year with a 2-part paintball action extravaganza. Part 1 of the finale was an homage to the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, and Part 2 suddenly switched gears to Star Wars, complete with Han Solo/Princess Leia flirting and a Darth Vader helmet open reveal.

These are just a fraction of the amazing things that make me love Community and I'm solidly sure that if you gave it a chance, it would blow your socks off.; July 26, 2011 at 7:52 PM
Kal said...: Where did you find that. Email me about you mercurius. What is your story? That is twice that you were a research machine. Need to know more now if you are going to be my go to research person. I need to make rings like the 'Shadow'.; July 26, 2011 at 7:56 PM
mercurius said...: *chuckle* You know, I WOULD e-mail you, Cal, but I can never seem to find the mailto: link on your page. That leaves me on the sidelines, dropping the occasional comment thread info bomb.

But that whole thing up there, that was all me, writing from memory, out of my own love for the show.

And you say this is twice now... so what was the other info bomb I'd previously dropped?; July 26, 2011 at 8:06 PM
Debra She Who Seeks said...: I will forego the obvious jokes about Squirrel Girl and nuts.; July 26, 2011 at 8:10 PM
Kal said...: I made a 'nuts' joke with Selena the other day that went over like a lead fart.

heightonc@yahoo.com - no excuses now merurius; July 26, 2011 at 8:13 PM
Erik Johnson Illustrator said...: Believe it or not I actually dated a girl who did Squirrel Girl cosplay once.

I'd post the photo, except that it would mean breaking confidences.

What I'd really like to know is who this other "Erik" posting here, is and why he thinks he can steal my thunder and my "K"?!; July 26, 2011 at 8:19 PM
Kal said...: That other Erik/Eric must be just as pithy as you are Erik. I appreciate you both. No favorites here among my Eric/Eriks.; July 26, 2011 at 8:46 PM

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