Happy New Year, Japanese Thriller-Style
Happy New Year to you, Topless Roboteers! I’m ending my last half-assed day of the half-assed work week (result as previously mentioned in the comments: quarter-assed) with this spectacular video, which should disturb you as much as little Skip’s advances have seemed to disturb young Peter Parker below. It is a rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” and if you think it’s going to be odd because the girl is played by one of those Japanese anime girl humping-pillows, that…that’s not even going to make the Top 10 of weird, horrifying, brain-liquefying things that are wrong in this video. It is technically Safe For Work, but I warn you that any boss with any kind of sense of morality would fire you if he/she caught you watching this video. For those who survive–my utmost apologies, and I’ll see you in ’09–January 5th at 9am EST sharp. Be there and be square, baby.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.