Posts filed under ‘fictional shenanigans (TV, etc.)’
Should we count lip-synching as a shenanigan?
This video for Rufus Wainright’s “Out of the Game,” starring Helena Bonham Carter as a beautiful bored librarian, contains numerous library shenanigans, including smoking, slapping, sleeping, and more. Thanks, Steve Lawson!
Ohio Greene County Public Library’s giant library montage
Includes scenes from Seinfeld, Sesame Street, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Golden Girls, No Man of Her Own, The Shawshank Redemption, Philadelphia Story, Philadelphia, Harry and the Hendersons, Party Girl, Ghostbusters, Clean Shaven, Phineas and Ferb, The Music Man, Mr. Bean, Shadow of a Doubt, The Breakfast Club, Only Two Can Play, Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Twisted Nerve, The Man Who Never Was, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, JAG, The FBI Story, Wings of Desire, Se7en, Harry Potter, With Honors, All the President’s Men, and Strike Up the Band. Thanks, Dina Wood!
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic
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Captain Underpants library
Sarah Sloat’s blog post about the Dummhausen library (which had to close because someone stole the book) reminds me to document the library in Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants series. The school library contains only one book, and the librarian is Ms. Singerbrains (say it out loud).
In Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People (number eight in the series), our heroes George and Harold visit an alternate reality where their school’s library is full of books, and the librarian even celebrates Banned Books Week (she’s shown holding a copy of Mommy Has Two Heathers, a play on this frequently-banned book). And that reminds me! Pilkey has other library shenanigans in his book The Dumb Bunnies, too. In that book, the dumb bunnies “bowl a home run at the public library,” where books on the shelves include The Condo that Jack Subleased, The Second to Last of the Mohicans, and Green Eggs and Tofu.
20 Heroic Librarians Who Save the World
So glad someone has gathered together these heroic librarians from books, TV, and film. In particular I call your attention to the bookaneers in China Mieville’s excellent novel Un Lun Dun. About time somebody wrote a novel where a prophecy is a crock. Thanks, io9!
Hal Draper’s MS Fnd in a Lbry (1961)
The full text of Hal Draper’s “MS Fnd in a Lbry,” a satire on information overload published in 1961, is now available online. Here’s the Wikipedia entry to give you the full back story. Thanks, Daryll Stevens! Or should that be Drll Stvns?
Electronic Home Library (1959)
Here’s a vision of an “electronic home library” from a 1959 newspaper. Note the projection of text onto the ceiling. Thanks, BoingBoing and Paleo-Future!
“Blond joke for intellectuals”
Several people have sent me links to this short video, but I’m not really interested in blond jokes, so I didn’t click in. Finally today I found out it’s a library shenanigan. Thanks, Dina Wood!
Ain’t Got No Rhythm — Phineas and Ferb
Sherman, a drummer in a rock band, loses his sense of rhythm after falling asleep in a metronome factory. Now he works in a library. But look at the way he’s stamping those books! He DOES have rhythm! From the “Dude, We’re Getting the Band Back Together” episode of Phineas and Ferb on the Disney Channel, first aired in 2009. Thanks, Deborah Leslie and Christian Dupont.
Ninjerktsu: Public Library Ninja
Ninjerktsu: Public Library Ninja is a comic strip showing what can happen if you annoy a ninja in a library. Thanks, Karen Lakes!
Library Shenanigans 