web
counter
 

Where Can a Schlubby Unemployed Pothead Get the Hot Girl?

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (30)



g-hlt-080909-knocked-up.jpg

For a while there, College Humor had really began to nosedive, particularly with that awful MTV show. But over the last few weeks, they’ve managed to rebound in a huge way, first with the genius “We Didn’t Star the Flame War” and most recently with “Real Life Twitter,” which pretty brilliantly sums up the Twitter experience.

But my favorite actually has to be the recent entry “In an Apatow World,” which smartly captures what so many have complained about vis a vis the hot girl/schlubby guy dynamic in his movies. Only in an Apatow world can the unemployed boy slob get the Kristen Bell, which is probably part of the massive geek appeal of his movies.

Anyway, check out the video:









Judge Judy Review | G.I. Joe International Trailer













Comments

A lot of college humor's original videos are pretty great, you're totally underselling them.

Jake And Amir is awesome.
Hardly Working is awesome.
The College Humor Show was decent sketch comedy if nothing else.

Posted by: Max at April 30, 2009 6:10 PM

Jason Segel's character was the composer on the T.V. show that Kristen Bell was on. Don't all women love the brooding musician type?

Posted by: mex at April 30, 2009 6:36 PM

CH's lip dub of Harvey Danger's "Flagpole Sitta" was pure win and gave me a lifelong crush on Amanda Lynn Ferri.

Posted by: Spender at April 30, 2009 6:43 PM

That was really cute, but Judd Apatow certainly wasn't the first to do the "hot girl/schlub guy" thing. Jerry Seinfeld always had the hottest women playing his girlfriends! Besides, she only initially sleeps with him in Knocked Up because she's smashed. That does happen in the real world.

Posted by: Ariel at April 30, 2009 7:31 PM

I dunno, that video didn't really do it for me. The lyrics were rushed and hard to understand at times, and the message was basically "In real life, women care only about looks". I chuckled a little, but not much. Other CH videos are much funnier.

Posted by: ChristianH at April 30, 2009 7:32 PM

This is wrong though. Seth Rogen is totally cute, and don't even get me started on Jason Segel. Same with Paul Rudd. Not Steve Carrell though.

Posted by: Meredith at April 30, 2009 7:36 PM

Found this only mildly amusing but I agree 100% with the sentiment. Not all men can be Statham but I sure am glad I'm balling a dude that looks like him as opposed to Rogen.

Posted by: kidtiger at April 30, 2009 7:36 PM

Very clever. I like that parody but the flaw for me was the girl was not Elizebeth Banks or ......Kristen Bell or...... hot in any way.

Just saying....

While we're on the subject, and cos you like TV in Pajibaland... why don't you check out "The In-betweeners", a brit comedy, which in its own way is the diametric opposite of the Apatow comedy. Its more self-deprecating in its definition of geek, and these tits can't even score that girl in the parody, let alone Elizebeth Bell Apatow Rogen.

Maybe you have it in the US already?

Its not winning an Emmy any time soon. Nonetheless, it's very, very funny and enjoyable.

Posted by: Lenny at April 30, 2009 8:03 PM

If we are comparing on "Hot or Not", I fall a lot farther into the Rogen camp than the Statham camp where points are concerned (I lack Statham's looks and muscle but am free of the Rogen body fat).
I think this makes me... errm..."average".
I guess that's okay.

Posted by: Spender at April 30, 2009 8:08 PM

I meant to add that average guys know that they are average guys and tend to make up for it by being really decent, caring people who go out of their way to show some love to women.
So... ya know... GO SCHLUBS!

Posted by: Spender at April 30, 2009 8:12 PM

I love Sara and Streeter, as well as Jake and Amir. The Collegehumor Show? Meh.

Posted by: Erin S at April 30, 2009 10:18 PM

That was really cute, but Judd Apatow certainly wasn't the first to do the "hot girl/schlub guy" thing. Jerry Seinfeld always had the hottest women playing his girlfriends! Besides, she only initially sleeps with him in Knocked Up because she's smashed. That does happen in the real world.

Agreed. Hot girl/schlub guy has been a staple of sitcom television for years. The Flintstones is a perfect example. There's really nothing new or original about that dynamic in television or film.

I know some folks are annoyed at the Apatow string of films, but I can't remember the last good comedy I saw in the theater before "40 Year Old Virgin."

I'd take the Apatow thing every day of the week and twice on Thursdays over the Farley Brother/gross out comedy wave that was all the rage for a while there.

Posted by: ForbiddenDonut at April 30, 2009 10:40 PM

I think was it ABC who has a whole sitcom slate of Hot Chick Chubby Guy couples lined up on one weeknight. Still Standing, King of Queens, According to Jim, I'm blurring them, aren't I? They're all the same, aren't they? They have the same plot where frisky daughter runs amuck and then Papa Joe calls the lobotomy doc...no, sorry, that was the Kennedys. Then dad runs his mistress into a pond, no. That was Dad Gosselin. Then the cool cousin gets accused of Date Rape. Ah, no. Kobe Bryant.

We had a song we'd sing changing the channel, "Fat Guy and a Skinny Giiiiiirrrlllll..."

I call a penalty for anyone who dares lump Paul Rudd with those other lumps! If my closet door were not actually a curtain I would punch it often in frustration that Paul Rudd's deathly blue eyes brunette combo is not worshipped for the hot leading man piece of a he is.

Posted by: Stacy D at April 30, 2009 11:58 PM

Soooo, when are we gonna get a film that pairs the hopelessly average geeky girl with the hot guy?

Don't say Truth About Cats & Dogs was enough... because that movie was pretty damn awful.

Posted by: agent bedhead at May 1, 2009 1:24 AM

I was at Costco today and saw the Love Comes Softly series, featuring Katherine Heigl. I'm sure she doesn't want people to remember this, but girlfriend started her career in Lifetime adaptations of Christian romance novels. I think someone should remind her of that every time she gets uppity about Grey's Anatomy.

Posted by: Suz at May 1, 2009 1:59 AM

Isn't being stuck with Katherine Heigl more like a punishment. Her bitchiness has almost hurt Knocked Up.

Posted by: George at May 1, 2009 2:52 AM

Well, of course these schlubby pothead losers pair off with gorgeous women because as far as these movies are concerned, there is no other kind of woman on earth (except as fat friend comic relief).

In the Apatow / Kevin Smith world, Elizabeth Banks and Kristen Bell are the about as Girl Next Door as it gets. Even in Truth About Cats And Dogs, the geeky, supposedly unattractive chick was Janeane Garofalo, and maybe I'm alone in thinking she's hot, but... she's still hot.

What else are they going to do? Get an equally schlubby girl to play opposite the schlubby guy? Just stick a pair of glasses on Shannon Elizabeth and pretend she looks like she'd give the schlubs in the audience the time of day.

Posted by: Lenore at May 1, 2009 5:46 AM

I agree with the motivation. The bottom line appears to still be- prototype woman, appears as such. Prototype man- does this and that. And a by product of all the Enjolie commercials? You can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and ole Seth won't care. He's got a bag of Hot Chili Doritos and a trucker bottle in front of the X Box.

This is an old motif, yeah. The Flintstones is based on the Honeymooners. The shift appears to be that Fred is no longer a hardworking guy that Betty accepts lovingly for his character and work ethic. See: Uptown Girl. Fred might also be a stoner who can't keep a job, or an egotistical alky who wraps his cars around trees..

Yeah. Billy Joel. That's you.

Posted by: Stacy D at May 1, 2009 7:48 AM

Wilma. I did a Wife Swap, how very modern of me.

Posted by: Stacy D at May 1, 2009 7:53 AM

Only in an Apatow world and every single sitcom on TV.

Posted by: Henry at May 1, 2009 8:51 AM

Jake And Amir is awesome.

Ugh. I had blocked those tools out of my mind. Thanks for the bad memories.

As for this...it's cute and funny because there is that shred of truth in there. Although to be fair, the majority of the women cast in Appatow-produced movies are more than just "the hot piece of tail" some are dismissing them as. Yes, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Leslie Mann, Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Banks and Jenna Fischer are all rather easy on the eyes. No doubts there. But they're also funny, talented and quality actresses.

I mean, Mann is fearless, Kunis is Meg on Family Guy and Bell...wait...why am I defending Bell to the "Veronica Mars rocks" crowd? Point is that they're not just there to settle for the poor schlub. Apatow and his crew have cast attractive women who are also geek-friendly.

The one exception to all this is Heigl.

Posted by: Fredo at May 1, 2009 9:31 AM

If there were a Mila Kunis action figure, I would buy that.

Posted by: Stacy D at May 1, 2009 9:40 AM

"Well, of course these schlubby pothead losers pair off with gorgeous women because as far as these movies are concerned, there is no other kind of woman on earth (except as fat friend comic relief)."

Amen, Lenore. Also, if there's a truly average woman paired with a good-looking guy, i.e. makeup-free, "chunky" Minnie Driver with Chris O'Donnell in "Circle of Friends", the "mismatch" is the point of the whole damn movie.

I actually don't put Steve Carrell into the schlub category too much - he's pathetic (on The Office), but he's at least somewhat cute. Juliette Binoche level cute? No, but I don't think of him as a total mess.

Sorry, Rogen is just not cute.

Posted by: samantha t at May 1, 2009 10:23 AM

Lenore raises a good point. This is a world where America Ferrara plays "Ugly."

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at May 1, 2009 11:35 AM

All Apatow has to do is point to his wife as proof that the schubly guy can get the hot girl in real life.

Posted by: MN_Jen at May 1, 2009 11:42 AM

It is possible. I got the hot girl, and i'm a monster.

Posted by: Nick at May 1, 2009 12:59 PM

What MN_Jen said.

The only average-girl/hot-guy movie I can think of is Dirty Dancing, and that's just cause Jennifer Grey had a big nose. Come to think of it, The Way We Were could also count, sorta.

I mean, in real life, both Jennifer Grey and Babs would be seen as drop-dead gorgeous women, but Hollywood obviously has different standards. To be fair, Rogen and Jason Segal are hot by real world standards too. I'd hit it.

Posted by: the essence of fanciness and class at May 1, 2009 1:05 PM

Could we count anything where Sarah Jessica Parker has a love interest an example of schlubby girl/hot guy? I mean, he doesn't have to be that good looking, bottom line is she's a horse-face.

Posted by: Nick at May 1, 2009 1:34 PM

I have to disagree that this applies to Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Jason Segal's character is exactly the kind of tall, well built but a little soft, definitely cute but not distractingly so, funny, smart guy that 99.9 percent of girls would totally fall for. In the movie he had let himself go and you knew why Kristin Bell was breaking up with him-but you could TOTALLY see why she liked him the first place. He's the kind of guy your mom would be delighted to see your bring home. I left the theater thinking it was really well cast because I really believed both of those women would fallen for him.

Posted by: katie at May 1, 2009 1:44 PM

Frankly- I love the CH cast and crew and just about 99.9% of all the material they put out. I think Jake and Amir is delightful, and even when it's not firing on all cylinders I still enjoy it because it is quite clearly two young friends just having a few fun time being silly together. I enjoy the Bleep Bloop video game review as well that CH does, since Pat Cassels and Jeff Rubin are geeked out and do it well. In an Apatow World is one of their better efforts lately, but their all-time best is probably still "Awkward Rap" or the like. Maybe "Brohemian Rhapsody".

Posted by: Ryan at May 1, 2009 4:48 PM


















Viral Hits

>> Pajiba Movie Posters

>> Pop Culture's 20 Greatest Dancing GIFs

>> Mindhole Blowers

>> The 100 Greatest Insults of All Time

>> The "Other" 100 Greatest Movie Quotes

>> The 100 Greatest Movie Threats of All Time

>> The Sean Bean Death Reel

>> Chicks Dig Beards: It's Science

>> The Coolest TV Show Title Sequences

>> The Most Rewatchable Movies

>> The Most Expensive Movies of All Time