The duo's third DVD installment screens
like a meticulously curated YouTube party, one with all the digging for gold
done by others. Pieces of some of these videos have made the Internet rounds,
including Dennis Madalone's ridiculously over-the-top "America We Stand As One,"
which screens as part of a "patriotic medley" that also includes Hulk Hogan's "Real
American." But that's just the start: Pickett and Prueher dig deep into the
American psyche (or at least the American psyche that wants to cheaply record
itself and add crappy-looking titles) to find ridiculous treasures that were
never meant for mass consumption. The video that started the Found Footage phenomenon
was a training tape for McDonald's custodians, and many more company-produced
pieces have found their way into the Fest over the years: This edition
(available through foundfootagefest.com)
includes a montage of horribly produced training videos from Jewel grocery
stores, Wendy's (which features some D-level rapping), and Arby's. It's an
alternately horrifying and hilarious look at how employers view their workers.
Elsewhere on the disc: religious clowns who visit
hospitals, Playgirl's Hunkercize, a scary treatise on pool hustling and life from
Pretty Boy Floyd, lots of public-access bits, cat massage, He-Man, and more. It's
engagingly random, but every video inspires the same question: "Who thought
this was a good idea?" At a couple of points in the show, Prueher and Pickett
(both funny guys, clearly) can't help but inject themselves into the
proceedings: They star in a few spot-on parody videos, including one
co-starring Chris Elliott, that work as perfect companion pieces to the
strangeness that inspired them to gather these clips in the first place.
Key features: The disc includes extended versions of the
original material, plus a montage of ridiculous nude scenes—including the
incredibly strange "Do The Macarena: Totally Nude!"
