Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, the twisted minds behind Jib-Jab, review 2007. As always, it ain't looking good.
Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, otherwise known as JibJab, have once again offered up their commentary on the year that was and according to them, 2007 wasn't exactly the best year on record.
Then again, has any year been all that good since 1989?
Here's the premise: a group of angels, realizing that "the last time they had a year this bad, the big guy sent a flood!", decide to dress up the mess that was 2007 with a song-and-dance routine, set to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire." The usual suspects get pilloried: Osama bin Laden, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Anna Nicole Smith and other assorted celebrities and newsmakers.
The angels try to find some good in the past year. Unfortunately, the best hey can come up with is the Orioles, Brad and Angelina adopting (yet) another baby, and Martin Scorsese finally winning an Oscar for The Departed. The Spirardelli's finally sum up the year that was with the lyric: "Things were far from great, but don't forget '08."
If you liked previous animation efforts, such as the classic "This Land is Your Land" or "What We Call the News," you'll definitely dig what this latest animation has to offer.
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Fun Fact: The Richmond Organization, a group that claimed to own copyright of Woody Guthrie's songs, threatened to sue JibJab over their use of the song "This Land is Your Land" in their parody. The lawsuit quickly died when the Spiridellis' lawyers pointed out that TRO had allowed the song's copyright to lapse, which meant the tune was now in the public domain. TRO and JibJab reached an agreement that allowed the Spiridellis to continue distributing the animated short.
