parrot.gifThis YouTube video from the Pittsburgh Pirates and their crew of costumed characters (pierogies, the Pirate and the Parrot) spoofing the ending of the Sopranos. (the video can be seen below).
Gameops.com reviewed a Pirates game as part of our Six From Six Series last year.  They put on a very good show and their video elements are very strong.
Great production values and editing in this spoof video. I would comment more, but I have never seen the Sopranos…to me this was a spoof of all the spoofs I saw on the Sopranos (like the Hillary Clinton version).  I suppose it’s always a risk doing run ups on pop-culture, missing the segment of people (like me) who have no idea what the spoof is about.
For example, the parallel parking bit was funny (now that I heard that was part of the dialog from the show) but as I watched I had no idea what was going on.  Having part of the audience in the dark is certainly no reason not to execute these videos, but doing as much as you can to make the videos “stand alone” is helpful.  It’s the same steps you see when movies are made from TV shows, like South Park, the X-Files, and the Transformers (all of which took steps in the movie to introduce new viewers to the characters and general plot lines).
Funnier yet were the comments on YouTube about the video, including the question if Oliver Onion (the onion pierogie) was a cannibal for eating onion rings.

-Cudo

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