Sunday, May 19, 2013

It's Party Time!

This is the only video that popped up when I searched "party time dog" in YouTube, but then again it's got those algorithms customized based on prior searches so maybe it's still out there somewhere. I've just search for a lot of Adventure Time, so...

   Anyway, if you've been on the internet, you've probably seen it. The one with Fritz the rapping dog, rapping about how it's party time? On the Titanic? Yeah. I did a little digging on that (short of finding the actual video of it,) and was blown away by what I found.

   The guy who played the cart driver in Ladyhawke, the guy who was both a chief writer for, and the voice of Scott in, Robotech, that's the voice of Fritz the rapping dog, and that's the guy who raps this rap. Let me repeat that. Scott Bernard. is. Fritz the rapping dog. Oh, Gregory Snegoff, how thou art fallen! Or elevated into cheesy meme immortality. Whichever way you decide to look at it.

   He was also in both of the other direct-to-video Titanic cartoons. So, he was in all three of them. Three of the objectively worst movies of all time (each has a 1.4-1.5 out of 10 rating on IMDb, and I'm even afraid to go near Rotten Tomatoes on this one), he was in each of them. But looking further into their IMDb pages, some of the "goofs" are just plain surreal. Did you know? The two halves of the Titanic were never sealed back together. Neither was the entire ship relocated from the bottom of the Atlantic to the shore of a secret island. No, IMDb. I did not know that.

   The rap itself was written by Matt McGuire, who aside from playing baseball or whatever also is probably best known for being the composer for that short-lived Sabrina the Teenage Witch animated series, as well as composing the music for a few episodes of Sonic X. Just, you know, so these guys get their due.

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