DO YOURSELF A FAVOR: REVISIT "HOUSE PARTY"

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so i just caught the tail end of this on TBS.. i figured i'd watch it for a little while before bed, good for a few laffs, purely ironic. well, it turned out to be pretty fucking sweet, way better than i remembered, especially for a movie i wrote off in 6th grade. my point is that KID N PLAY are hugely talented performers. which had a really short time in the spotlight, which i realize isn't unusal. i guess this pertains more to the movie itself, as their music hasn't aged nearly as well. these are some observations i made:

1. there is fairly gratuitous profanity, partying, and mischief portrayed in a far more believable, skillful way than what usually passes for teen "comedies" these days. but it's also called "House Party" so i guess that's to be expected. i guess i had categorized it as more of a kid's movie or something.

2. it takes serious balls to try and (sucessfully) pull off one of the most bizarre hairstyles ever. think about it. no one's pulled it off before or since.

3. has the grumpy dad from "Friday" playing a grumpy neighbor.

4. Kid n Play are far better dancers than they are MCs. the dance-off scene at the end is SICK. the KId n Play MC battle is on point too. easily better than 8 mile. electrifying on-screen chemistry.

5. Martin Lawrence at his peak.

6. everyone wears bizarrely wacky, futuristic, colorful outfits. which you'd think would be extremely dated, goofy even. i, however, find them to represent the idealistic pinnacle of 20th century progress. civilization has seriously fucking regressed since that time. i'm not even kidding.

― joey b, Friday, 6 May 2005 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice, Joey B.... we were just watching it in my fraternity house too. Finals week and there was about 10 of us in the living room reading with this shit on the big screen. Absurd movie, totally fun to watch in a moronic way.

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 6 May 2005 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

joey b otm - everything about this movie rules.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 6 May 2005 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

very few celebrity deaths have hit me as hard as robin harris' did.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 6 May 2005 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, that guy playing the neighbour was a scream! Ranting about Public Enema, describing a girl's skirt as "two inches above the thang," calling the po-LICE - everything he did or said was a comedic gem. Kid's pops was great too. Haven't seen that film in a dozen-plus years, but the funniest parts aren't forgotten. "Eraserhead" "Come to bed, Harry," "'Harry?!'" "Get me a pork chop sandwich and a bean pie!" "Sherrane...Sherrane!...Sherrane!!" Grate fun.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 6 May 2005 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched this movie in detox out at Woodhull Hospital, in Bushwick, 11 years ago -- only place in the 5 boroughs that took people with no insurance at all. And man, everyone loved that movie, it was amazing. Never laughed so hard in my life.

Shit, I got all crazy/ heartwarming didn't I? Sorry.

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 6 May 2005 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Word up!

Channel surfed for a while, then came back to find (East Orange's finest, former WFMU neighbors) Naughty by Nature in their prime, tearin up the stage in Ed Lover & Doctor Dre's stoopitly funny WHO'S THE MAN?

Check this cast and cameos: Kid Capri, Flavor Flav, Bernie Mac, Run-DMC, and Kurt Loder

http://www.vh1.com/movies/movie/38717/castcrew.jhtml

Plus as the city pushes forward a plan to surround my house and workspace with dozens of 30-story condo buildings, I was really feeling the developers vs. community barber shop theme.

Mike, I saw Penelope Spheeris' "Beverly Hillbillies" at the 9th Ave clinic in Chelsea. Woodhull's got good doctors, especially the stitchers.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

[[[very few celebrity deaths have hit me as hard as robin harris' did]]]

JB and I are on the same page again today. I'm actually interacting with Michal Williams of the Comedy Act Theatre right now for work, and he setup the venue that launched Robin Harris. I keep asking too many o/t questions regarding him.

Anyway, when Gittin' Funky by Kid n Play hit the streets, that shit was on fire...then they f/u with My Way. Both're classics of the James Brown (et al) sampling school of Hip-Hop post Marl/Eric B/Bomb Squad. It took a while for these songs to wear off only to realize Kid n Play kind of sucked.

I think this thread maybe saying some saw it the other way around...

Anyone remember/know about Fresh Force Crew:

http://www.discogs.com/release/175709
http://www.discogs.com/release/122269
http://www.discogs.com/release/315113

House Party: classic for being a time capsule for the Cross Color clothing line.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

And Kris Kross is in Who's the Man?

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa...looking at these links closer, I see now that Play used to be known as Playboy:

"Rap Written by Kasim, Kid Coolout & Playboy"

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Great film. Not perfect but that's beside the point, when it's on it is ON.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

House Party 3 is my favorite in the series.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that the one with the Pajama Jammy Jam?

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 6 May 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Pajama Jammy Jam and Terry Lewis nightgowns?

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 6 May 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's the one with Bernie Mac (his true star turn), TLC (playing as 'Sex as a Weapon'), Immature and the beautiful Angela Means as Veda.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 6 May 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been wondering for a while now when all those goofy day-glo cross-colours "afrocentric"/weirdly geometric fashions are gonna come back into style. What the world needs is more clothes that are bright pink and yellow and covered in funny parallelograms!

(House Party is great, its true)

― Shakey Mo Coolier, Friday, 6 May 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

for more suspenders, puffy orange hats, and clashing patterns see also: Fresh Prince of Bel Air and A Different World

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 May 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Gordon Gartrelle!

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 6 May 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i've totally been feeling Fresh Prince reruns too. Will Smith is no joke!! plus it seems like they're having a blast taping that show.

― joey b, Friday, 6 May 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Kid and Play were outstanding and those movies rocked beyond belief.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 May 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I need to get it on DVD, haven't seen it in years. It was almost as great as their cartoon.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Friday, 6 May 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm totally watching House Party 3 tonight.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 6 May 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Cliff (in response to Theo buying an expensive shirt): "I don't have a $95 shirt, and I have a JOB."
Cliff (again in response): "No 14-year-old boy should have a $95 shirt unless he's on stage with his 4 brothers."

Denise: "Well, maybe if you tucked it in a little."
Theo (through gritted teeth): "It's tucked into my socks!"

Cliff (straight-faced, after laughing uncontrollably at Theo's shirt): "Yeah, it's a good looking shirt."

Cliff: "It's a one of a kind original design. You make the shirt and burn the pattern."

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 6 May 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

That is seriously one of the greatest episodes of television ever filmed. Theo's anguished "DENISE!!!!!!!!" when he put the shirt on offstage and Denise's pained cringing are just fantastic.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 May 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it available on DVD?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 6 May 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

the shitty Gordon Gartrelle knockoff Denise makes is SOOOOO funny: all wonky, has one sleeve.. omg. Theo/Cockroach episodes are fucking sweeeet!!

― joey b, Friday, 6 May 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I was a Philips Brooks House summer daycamp counselor in the summer of 1987, in charge of 13 teenage kids from the Roosevelt Towers housing projects in East Cambridge. I took them to see "House Party" about six times that summer, because the theaters were air conditioned, and because George Clinton swears and breaks vinyl over Full Force's head.

In other news, Tisha Campbell still won't return my phone calls, but she's still slammin'.
http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/new_line_cinema/freddy_vs__jason/tisha_campbell/freddystandpre.jpg

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 6 May 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck, I thought that was Rachel Ray for a minute.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 6 May 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

(My wife did summer PBH in '93! SYNERGY)

(I did no community service because I am self-serving.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 May 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, probably
she heard horror tales of
reprobate counselors:

drinking at all hours,
swearing, never cleaning up;
GUILTY AS CHARGED SIR

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 6 May 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

GRAPE OR RED

RED

[[[very few celebrity deaths have hit me as hard as robin harris' did]]]

He (Williams) released a DVD this year Robin Harris at the Comedy Act Theatre, manna from heaven considering the dearth of Robin Harris standup footage out there, although a lot of the video is devoted to other comics who shared the stage with him.
Topper Carew was announcing a new Robin Harris tribute DVD and I've been counting the days but Carew's website went down a month ago, hope it comes on schedule.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 24 September 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

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