this is one of the hackiest, easiest, most overdone jokes in the history of all time.
ILX alone has five thread titles dedicated to this awful jokeWiggins 2: Electric BoogalooThread Connections II: Electric BoogalooUK Watercooler 2: Electric Boogaloocreate a flame war backwards two: electric boogaloo"Our Band Could Be Your Life II: Electric Boogaloo!"
So let's try to find the oldest example of someone doing this.
Also please post instances of this joke's constant reoccuring and recycling, creating the definitive repository of the hackiest "pop culture lol" joke of all time.
1. In the Clerks cartoon, Randal refers to the second part of Dante and Caitlin's relationship as "Dante and Caitlin 2: Electric Boogaloo."
2. Christian ska band Five Iron Frenzy called their 2001 album Five Iron Frenzy 2: Electric Boogaloo
3. Minus the Bear have a song called ""Get Me Naked 2: Electric Boogaloo."
4. In the MST3K episode with Manos: The Hands of Fate, Tom Servo refers to second part of Hired! as "Hired! 2: Electric Boogaloo".
5. In an episode of Mr. Show, a joke is made that a certain director was "the best thing to come out of Hollywood since sliced bread, or its sequel, Sliced Bread II: Electric Boogaloo."
6. The title of the second Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza CD is "Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo".
But this has to go back farther than the late 90s imo
― 91. finest display name bitches (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 5 March 2010 21:40 (fifteen years ago)
Really, this should be polled against "The Quickening"
― Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Friday, 5 March 2010 21:45 (fifteen years ago)
awful thread 2: the search for whiney's gold
― i am under no illusions that my opinions are even that interesting to me (dan m), Friday, 5 March 2010 21:47 (fifteen years ago)
I am almost certain you will not find examples of this from before 1984.
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Friday, 5 March 2010 21:48 (fifteen years ago)
whiney 2: back in the habit
― aarrissi-a-roni, Friday, 5 March 2010 21:48 (fifteen years ago)
hahaha Abbott
― Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Friday, 5 March 2010 21:48 (fifteen years ago)
A Mad TV sketch from 1998 had the joke: "I shall call you Cece 2: Electric Boogaloo" when a woman replaces her pet cat. Don't ask.me why that's been stuck n my head for 12 years.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 5 March 2010 21:50 (fifteen years ago)
i actually know someone who breakdanced in this movie tbh iirc
― 91. finest display name bitches (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 5 March 2010 21:58 (fifteen years ago)
so... not the female lead
― Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Friday, 5 March 2010 21:58 (fifteen years ago)
brokedanced innit?
― El Poopo Loco (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 5 March 2010 21:59 (fifteen years ago)
http://fabulousblueporcupine.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/puppy1.jpg
― iatee, Friday, 5 March 2010 21:59 (fifteen years ago)
y'know, this shit might be played out but that's because it has a degree of irresistableness
― MF Dom (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 March 2010 21:59 (fifteen years ago)
Results 1 - 10 of about 189,000 for "electric boogaloo" -breakin'
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Friday, 5 March 2010 22:12 (fifteen years ago)
hating fun part 2: attack of the clones
― i am under no illusions that my opinions are even that interesting to me (dan m), Friday, 5 March 2010 22:23 (fifteen years ago)
thread of missing Electric Bugaloo
― am0n, Friday, 5 March 2010 22:23 (fifteen years ago)
I'm hoping this will someday be replaced by "Tokyo Drift".
― Ari (whenuweremine), Friday, 5 March 2010 22:31 (fifteen years ago)
Here's the oldest example I can find (from 1993).
― Let "Free Dom" ring (jaymc), Friday, 5 March 2010 22:36 (fifteen years ago)
"Tokyo Drift" was the third film in the series.
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Friday, 5 March 2010 22:44 (fifteen years ago)
Or you could just watch the movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV-Mx-SV4zs
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 March 2010 23:02 (fifteen years ago)
electric boogaloo 2: a tale of 2 kitties
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 5 March 2010 23:03 (fifteen years ago)
u mean a TAIL of 2 kitties
― Let "Free Dom" ring (jaymc), Friday, 5 March 2010 23:10 (fifteen years ago)
u mean, i MEOWNT that
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 5 March 2010 23:13 (fifteen years ago)
Also, dudes who when you ask them if they're solid - meaning "are you okay?" "you got this?" etc. - come back with "Metal Gear Solid II: Sons of Liberty."
― doobieborther, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 11:26 (fifteen years ago)
surely the "verb harder" joke is even more played out than this one?
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 12:14 (fifteen years ago)
also lol at whiney being a humor copyright lawyer
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 12:15 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.nic0lesullivan.org/boogaloo.wav
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 12:21 (fifteen years ago)
As these jokes go, I prefer "[X] 2: The [Blankening]." I can't remember which one, but a blog I used to read memorably referred to the first two American Pie movies as Pie Fucker and Pie Fucker 2: The Fuckening.
― Obama, Wellstone and Darwinfish, Attorneys (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 13:06 (fifteen years ago)
I'm hearing a LOT of "Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire"s out there.
― Shannon Whirry and the Bad Brains, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:45 (fifteen years ago)
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:14 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
more like "verb hard with a vengeance."
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:49 (fifteen years ago)
live free or verb hard
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:53 (fifteen years ago)
i saw a movie theater in like denver or something when Ring 2 came out, had "Ring 2: Ring Harder" on the marquee and was prolly the only time the harder joke got an irl lol from me
― morelike safer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:55 (fifteen years ago)
wtf with everyone doing "That's So Raven" jokes all of a sudden. The show's been off the air for three fuccin years and we're just getting around to this now?
― the smh westerns (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 11 April 2010 19:25 (fifteen years ago)
imo that gets funnier the longer the show is off the air; but i guess it's cos zach galigiakijsinas did it on SNL.
ne way
7. How I Met Your Mother. Allusions+ Add AllusionsWhen Ted tells Stella that sleeping with him will be "like your virginity: the sequel," Stella responds, "Virginity 2: Electric Boogaloo?", playing on the name of the Breakin' sequel, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. [edit]
― alpha zingdog (history mayne), Sunday, 11 April 2010 19:30 (fifteen years ago)
i feel like ive been declawed, ive been saying "that's so raven" for stupid shit 4 many years :(
― susan lucci mane (m bison), Sunday, 11 April 2010 21:52 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, i know! i was doing that joke like 6 years ago and shit
― the smh westerns (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 12 April 2010 00:27 (fifteen years ago)
Electric Boogaloo 2: The Legend of Curly's Gold
― biologically wrong (Z S), Monday, 12 April 2010 00:35 (fifteen years ago)
cool story bro
― the smh westerns (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 12 April 2010 00:41 (fifteen years ago)
― the smh westerns (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, April 12, 2010 12:41 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8d0oxAG1d1qajg12o1_500.jpg
― del griffith, Thursday, 9 September 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago)
Real life LOL
― Shock and Awe High School (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 September 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago)
did you have to google that? it doesn't matter.
― peacocks, Thursday, 9 September 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago)
but.. great job!
― the smh westerns (Whiney G. Weingarten)
^^^ pretty much the most April 2010 display name ever
― i sit alone in my three-cornered hat staring at candles (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 9 September 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago)
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, March 5, 2010 1:50 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark
Holy shit I completely remember this too, didn't recall the context, but can totally visualize Nicole Sullivan's dead-eyed mugging and I thought it was stupid even when I was 14
― A solo Beatle--Paul, George, John, Yoko, etc. (Whitey on the Moon), Thursday, 9 September 2010 22:56 (fourteen years ago)
lol at del's revive
― The sulky expression from the hilarious "Aubrey Plaza" persona (history mayne), Thursday, 9 September 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago)
enough with the "Tango & Cash" references, 2010, we get it
― fuck noOoOO (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 06:13 (fourteen years ago)
Whiney's 2,000 examples of a hacky joke 2: Electric Boogaloo
― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:30 (fourteen years ago)
i dont see tango & cash refs everywhere... like how do u mean whinestein
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:00 (fourteen years ago)
Seth Meyers waved a Blockbuster VHS box and said "Well, Blockbuster, it seems our eight year tug-of-war over Tango & Cash has reached its conclusion" when reporting on their bankruptcy on SNL. I laughed, didn't resent the T&C ref.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:03 (fourteen years ago)
It's a pretty funny movie that shouldn't be lost to the sands of time.
T&C.R.E.A.M.
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:04 (fourteen years ago)
"Congress Appropriates $3.17 to Rent 'Tango & Cash'"--The Onion
"Blockbuster Video on Thursday filed for bankruptcy protection. Well, Blockbuster, seems our eight year tug-of-war over Tango and Cash has reached its conclusion." --Seth Meyers, Weekend Update, Saturday Night Live
― jaymc, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:06 (fourteen years ago)
didn't seth meyer do some sort of joke about it on saturday night live?
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:07 (fourteen years ago)
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/97/97awreck.phtml
one of my favorite SNL sketches ever
― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:07 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah yeah, my post was an x-post but I didn't feel like notating it as such.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:12 (fourteen years ago)
never forget
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:13 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnWztCb0mps
love Palance's "RATS IN A MAZE, TRAPPED IN A CAGE" and how the hooting convicts (and Palance) just sort of politely fade into the mist when the guards show up.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:17 (fourteen years ago)
[watching TV footage of Tango in action]Yves Perret: Oh, God. Ray Tango. How he loves to dance. He waltzes in and takes all my drugs, then tangos back out again.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:20 (fourteen years ago)
I believe Yves Perret also notes that Cash is always on the money.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago)
i dont think this "electric boogaloo" level of overdone.
i mean the thing about the B2EB phenomenon is that it's not about the movie at all, it's just about it has a funny name... most b2eb jokesters have probably never even seen it
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:23 (fourteen years ago)
i always mix-up Tango & Cash and Turner & Hooch
― Aqua Buddha (herb albert), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago)
hacky
― conrad, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago)
the weird thing about tango & cash...
it was directed by andrey konchalovsky, who made some of the most powerful and sophisticated soviet films of the 1960s and 1970s, including two of my absolute favorites the story of asya klyachina and the first teacher. these films are about as far away from tango & cash as you can get. i discovered this because, wondering about konchalovsky's american work, i finally rented (yes, rented!) t&c last year and watched it. aside from the general over-the-top aspect and the inherent pleasure in watching kurt russell, there was almost nothing to redeem it (even the konchalovsky cameo is horrifying).
konchalovsky made a new film in russia last year, with a rural setting: the postman's white nights. i've been told it's a return to form, and reminds people of his earliest (and best IMO) films.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 9 January 2015 23:54 (ten years ago)
btw he is actually andrei mikhalkov-konchalovsky, brother of nikita mikhalkov and something like soviet royalty. he shed the first part of his family name in part b/c he didn't want to be seen as riding the coattails of his father.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 9 January 2015 23:56 (ten years ago)
lost a bet to the Russian mob maybe
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 January 2015 00:15 (ten years ago)
he'd done like five other hollywood movies, including Runaway Train before t&c so it's not like sly was like "bring me the director of The Story Of Asya Klyachina". probably.
― da croupier, Saturday, 10 January 2015 00:23 (ten years ago)
runaway train is great
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Saturday, 10 January 2015 00:25 (ten years ago)
from wikipedia
The production was beset with problems from its very inception. Firstly, Patrick Swayze who was originally cast as Cash dropped out and went to star in Road House (1989), then principal photography began without a completed script. Sylvester Stallone, infamous for his bad ego, had the original director of photography Barry Sonnenfeld fired because Stallone felt he wasn't being lit to satisfaction. Donald E. Thorin, who shot Stallone's earlier movie that year, Lock Up (1989), was Sonnenfeld's replacement. Then after nearly three months of filming director Andrei Konchalovsky was fired by producer Jon Peters in a dispute over the movie's ending, and was replaced with Albert Magnoli who filmed all the chase and fight scenes in the ending. In his book of memoirs, Konchalovsky says that the reason he was fired was because he wanted to give the film a more serious tone than the producers wanted, and as such, his relationship with Peters became untenable. Konchalovsky however had nothing but praise for Sylvester Stallone, who he states was a constant voice of reason on the set. Production sources said that Konchalovsky had been given impossible scheduling demands and was then made the scapegoat when he fell behind.
― da croupier, Saturday, 10 January 2015 00:26 (ten years ago)
i'm a little dubious on sly being "the constant voice of reason" though i guess when you have him stand next to jon peters it's possible
― da croupier, Saturday, 10 January 2015 00:27 (ten years ago)
Stallone once complained about the way he was being lit to the DP on a Rambo film -- who was Jack Cardiff, yeah the guy who photographed The Red Shoes etc. He got read the riot act by Cardiff.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 January 2015 00:30 (ten years ago)
*bump*
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Friday, 29 May 2020 19:21 (five years ago)
This is the worst and hackiest example but to be fair all sequel title jokes of this ilk are hacky and bad it’s not like ___ 2: the ___ening doesn’t suck shit, or ___ 2: ___er, or ___ vs predator or the secret of the ooze or the legend of curly’s gold. What are you gonna do, people who can’t be funny sometimes need recourse to something that connotes “humour” and there’s prob value in that
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Friday, 29 May 2020 19:28 (five years ago)
(I don’t know why this was bumped, if trump or someone made this joke I retract my halfhearted defence)
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Friday, 29 May 2020 19:30 (five years ago)
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-what-you-think/
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 May 2020 19:32 (five years ago)
counterpoint: "the legend of curly's gold" and "the squeakquel" are both great
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Friday, 29 May 2020 19:33 (five years ago)
see alt-right thread as well wins, it has been co-opted by contemporary US neo-fascists as a meme and code-word
― calzino, Friday, 29 May 2020 19:37 (five years ago)
lmao they can keep it
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Friday, 29 May 2020 19:39 (five years ago)
We can blow their minds with the much superior 2whatever2bullshit, after 2003’s popular cars sequel
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Friday, 29 May 2020 19:41 (five years ago)
Controp: I love all of these hacky sequel-name jokes and the repetition and banality makes them funnier.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 29 May 2020 19:52 (five years ago)
Ok but this is like rending garment cause you caught nazis saying I can haz cheeseburger
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Friday, 29 May 2020 20:02 (five years ago)
I think the comedy sequels meta has moved to where I now see 2 _____ 2 Furious more than Electric Boogaloo.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 29 May 2020 20:09 (five years ago)
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkyb9b/far-right-extremists-are-hoping-to-turn-the-george-floyd-protests-into-a-new-civil-war
Far-Right Extremists Are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests Into a New Civil WarArmed extremists are showing up to protests and urging a “boogaloo” — code for civil war — online.
Armed extremists are showing up to protests and urging a “boogaloo” — code for civil war — online.
just throwing this in there
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 31 May 2020 04:15 (four years ago)