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YouTube Performance Memes

toc Students in section 103 of ENGL 2720 -- Introduction to Literature; Drama -- were asked for Friday, September 3 to post examples of common or well-known YouTube performance memes. Below, for each example, you'll find both the original video and at least one later re-enactment of it.

=Charlie Bit Me= Ryan Jerving

AMATEUR SOURCE / COMIC RE-ENACTMENT

Original: //Charlie Bit My Finger - Again !//

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Re-enactment: //Charlie bit me 50yrs later//

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=I Like Turtles= Charles Mark, Deangelo Ross, Michael Berdelle, and Meghan Wleklinski

PROFESSIONAL SOURCE / ACCURATE RE-MAKE

Original: //Zombie Kid Likes Turtles// media type="youtube" key="CMNry4PE93Y?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

Re-make: //ZOMBIE KID LIKES TURTLES- Rage Mountain// media type="youtube" key="uygvtz8_Swg?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

=Leave Britney Alone!= Libby Pinkham, Katie Stahlmann, Michael Belknap, Rob Matuszewski

AMATEUR SOURCE

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=Step Brothers: Sweet Child O'Mine= (group 1 names?)

PROFESSIONAL, INTENTIONALLY COMIC SOURCE / SINCERE RE-ENACTMENT

Original: "Sweet Child O' Mine" (from movie //Step Brothers//)

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Re-enactment: //Sweet Child O' Mine// (edbobman)

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=My New Haircut= Group 7: Rebecca Jakubovsky (and who else?)

INTENTIONALLY COMIC SOURCE / SINCERE(?) RE-MAKES

Original: Brett Tietjen, //My New Haircut//

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Re-enactment: //My New Haircut - Senior Citizen Edition//

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Re-enactment: //My New Haircut - Asian Edition//

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=Yu-Gi-Oh= Group 11

The first link is a kid show from Japan Yu-gi-oh, based around a lose (hardly coherent plot) of ancient Egyptian artifacts/shadow monster fighting which has been reinvented into a popular card game (the rules of which are next to impossible to understand). The main character has a artifact that carries the soul of a Egyptian pharaoh which helps him to win said childrens card game. warning, it is a bit long; below is part one of two.

[|part of the original first episode]

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Now then, a British individual with far to much time on his hands, and a talent for throwing his voice, decides to create an (far more comical) abridged dubbed version of the show. this is less than four minutes

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Group 96

This is the first 1/9 of the full movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Despite international copyright laws the movie in its entirety can be easily found. This shows that the general support of the general public to keep this in the free public domain. With the nature of the internet filing and video sharing is challenging copyright laws and in a sense the concept of artistic ownership.

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[|The bunny scene]