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Ninjas Started The Civil War!

Published at:  Mar 09, 2008 11:22:15 PM CDT


Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.

I know it’s true because Danny McBride says so.

Check it out:



My Favorite People!!

Danny McBride explains how Ninjas started the Civil War, how our Forefathers were all Wizards, and that Hitler was really a nerd, in this lovely clip from Drillbit Taylor.

Please share this with your friends, colleagues, and post it on your websites. Know your past!



Drillbit Taylor is in theaters on March 21st


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  • Mar 09, 2008 11:24:39 PM CDT

    First?

    by one9deuce

    Hopefully. Women really respond to someone with a lot of "first" posts.

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  • Mar 09, 2008 11:28:19 PM CDT

    The Tequila Lesson

    by horace cox

    That was more useful than anything I learned from my douchebag history teacher.

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  • Mar 09, 2008 11:30:51 PM CDT

    This guy is coming up. His shit is awesome!

    by tile_mcgillus

    His appearance on Conan was amazing. His performance in Hot Rod stole the show. I am really excited to see The Foot Fist Way. And it looks like me might make Tropic Thunder not suck. Loved this clip!Probably no hope for Drillbit though...

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  • Mar 09, 2008 11:34:07 PM CDT

    I agree with you Dr. Zoidberg

    by beetlegeuse

    Not funny

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  • Mar 09, 2008 11:36:52 PM CDT

    I agree with beetlegeuse

    by systemsbroom

    in his/her agreement with the Good Doctor Z.

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  • Mar 09, 2008 11:38:31 PM CDT

    If You Think...

    by therealmoriarty

    ... that the line "tequila is the most jealous of all the liquors" is not funny, then we have different definitions of funny. Sorry.

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  • Mar 09, 2008 11:38:56 PM CDT

    Sub-par for John Hughes??!?!?!

    by slone13

    You mean the guy who wrote Beethoven's 5th, Curly Sue, and Home Alone 4???

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  • Mar 09, 2008 11:40:00 PM CDT

    I never, EVER thought I'd want to see this

    by gotilk

    Now I have to.

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  • Mar 09, 2008 11:42:21 PM CDT

    wow, when I was invited to test screenings

    by s0nicdeathmonkey

    I was told this was a kids movie.

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  • Mar 09, 2008 11:49:22 PM CDT

    See, mori, *that* was funny

    by systemsbroom

    not too funny, mind you, but it did have some elements of funniness: timing, relevance, distinction stated through ironic overstatement, etc. Conversely, the clip just had some jackass reciting a string of stupid things in a setting that seemed both forced and lazy. Didn't do it for me.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 12:05:44 AM CDT

    Poor attempt at viral marketing

    by cerebralassassin

    AICN in bed with Paramount.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 12:07:36 AM CDT

    This guy is hilarious in Pineapple Express

    by industrykiller!

    He has a few pointless scenes that could afford to be cut, but even those will make excellent DVD extras.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 12:09:00 AM CDT

    meh

    by bucknasty1138

    I'm gonna have to go ahead and agree that this really isn't that funny. I got nothing against Danny Mcbride, mainly because i have no clue who he is, but this clip just doesn't do it for me. The lines are funny but are delivered so stale and wooden. No sense of timing. I blame this more on the director than the actor though. I though this movie looked like crap before, and i still believe that.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 12:11:23 AM CDT

    I just saw Jersey Girl today...

    by uncle stan

    You suck, Kevin. It's clear that Clerks was a fluke, you fat fucking piece of shit. Two hours of my life have been utterly wasted thanks to you, asshole. I could have been sleeping or jacking off.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 12:26:56 AM CDT

    The plural of ninja

    by phool2056

    is "ninja." The definition of "phool" is "poster who is a ridiculous stickler when it comes to ninja-related grammar, and who will no doubt be accused of being an asshole and perhaps also stupid further down the talkback."

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  • Mar 10, 2008 1:08:51 AM CDT

    Wow people who don't think it's funny at all

    by messi

    must be a bunch of boring cunts. Doctor Zoidberg. Do you like being a boring fuck?

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  • Mar 10, 2008 1:27:17 AM CDT

    Humorous But Not Funny

    by playhouse

    The tequila line was humorous in an observational way but hardly funny. There really needs to be a fresh comedic voice out there. All we're left with is the Apatow camp (enjoyable but in danger of becoming old quickly), the Will Ferrell gang (well past ripe and they cross-breed with the Apatow camp as it is) and the spoof bunch who think it's anywhere near original or funny to throw everything into a movie to parody pop culture and see if it sticks (way outworn its welcome; see Superhero Movie as the latest horrible example, not to mention the wretchedness of Meet the Spartans).

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  • Mar 10, 2008 1:46:36 AM CDT

    Danny will steal this movie. Like Carrell stole Almighty

    by spidermanfreak20

    Seriously. The same way Steve Carrell stole Bruce Almighty so shall Danny steal the film from everyone else. Expect to see big things from Danny soon.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 2:30:14 AM CDT

    WTF?!

    by skywalkerfamily

    Shitty clip.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 2:36:49 AM CDT

    Owen Wilson movies....

    by jobacca

    Make me wanna legalize suicide...

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  • Mar 10, 2008 2:38:21 AM CDT

    That was hilarious!

    by warsinthesun

    I am now in the hospital, dying of laughter. So funny.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 2:39:21 AM CDT

    The teacher scenes in Back to School

    by skywalkerfamily

    were better than this.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 3:21:55 AM CDT

    Ninja started the civil war!

    by otm shank

    and Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11! Scary thing is...there's surely more than a few high schoolers who would believe this.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 4:22:27 AM CDT

    Yeah

    by doc_martigan

    Not funny. It was like watching some poor sap do a comedy routine for his high school talent contest. None of it was humorous, at all. Throwing out random things like that doesn't work without elaboration. "There was a ninja that stormed the beach at Normandy!" Wow. A reference to a ninja in a setting that a ninja does not belong in. What a riot. A ninja on D-Day would probably be good fodder for some humorous situations, but just saying it and then moving on to another impossible scenario isn't funny. It's stupid. "I own a giraffe that can sing! Oh and before you can think about that, did you know that Benjamin Franklin washed my car yesterday?!" I think I should pitch a sitcom. If so many of you find crap like that funny, I could just fill 30 minutes with similar nonsense and I'd have a hit.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 5:16:43 AM CDT

    Not funny.

    by batmans_pants

    Unless you are the type of moron that laughs at anything and everything.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 5:59:43 AM CDT

    Iv'e often wondered what happened to John Hughes

    by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks

    The guy made the greatest teen movies ever, and as bad as the Home Alones' are the slapstick violence in them is equal to any Looney Toons cartoon. Still they were the beginning of his slide to the dark side.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 7:02:35 AM CDT

    Actually Hitler was a nerd

    by grammaton cleric binks

    He was a wannabe artist with only one testicle.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 7:43:21 AM CDT

    Ninjas and robots will always be funny.

    by scudd

    They will never get old, no matter how long people in movies and on the internet run them into the ground. Comedy gold forever.

    -scudd, 1998

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  • Mar 10, 2008 8:07:36 AM CDT

    Never say always

    by grammaton cleric binks

    Beverly Hills Ninja?

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  • Mar 10, 2008 8:28:43 AM CDT

    Hitler got the tip of his penis bitten off by a goat

    by bobo_vision

    Seriously. When Hitler was a kid, he tried to piss in a goat's mouth and it bit off the tip of his penis. Involuntary circumcision, and an inability to enjoy getting laid. Circumcision ---> Jewish people ---> goat ----> scapegoat. You see how it all connects. Its all true. Google it.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 8:47:27 AM CDT

    @phool

    by roninhobbit

    Technically, 'ninja' is an English word too, since there is no English equivalent. Pluralization is a matter of context. You can say 'In feudal Japan, many warlords employed ninja to carry out their dirty work'. But, you can also say 'I was going to pay the cable bill, but I a bunch of ninjas stole it so I had to chase them to a strip club'.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 8:50:55 AM CDT

    Just like most history lessons...

    by lang the cat

    This one does not dig deeply enough. Yes, ninjas help start the Civil War, but outsourced much of the work to the Thugee and Assassin cults. In return for this work the Ninja were given control of U.S. convenience stores. These stores still employee Thugees and Assassins today. Next time you go into a 7-11, don't dig too deeply into the novelty ice creams, you might find a body there.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 9:01:34 AM CDT

    oops

    by lang the cat

    employ, not employee

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  • Mar 10, 2008 9:01:38 AM CDT

    BTW Iron Man started the Civil War

    by messi

    fucking cunt.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 9:10:15 AM CDT

    ABSOLUTELY FUCKING TERRIBLE. WHAT A PATHETIC WASTE

    by proman1984

  • Mar 10, 2008 9:14:03 AM CDT

    No, Iron Man started the English Civil War

    by lang the cat

    Hence the name Roundheads. Sheesh, you would think people would learn history. Tony Stark worked for Oliver Cromwell against his peers in the House of Lords, he betrayed many noble families and watched as their lands were seized for the good of the government. It was during this time, Stark started sleeping with his assistant, Margaret Thatcher.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 9:22:14 AM CDT

    Well, I thought it was pretty funny

    by vern

    But not as funny as reading you guys explaining why in fact it is not funny. I liked that guy as "Bust Ass" in ALL THE REAL GIRLS so it's cool that he's suddenly gonna be in about ten million movies.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 9:35:59 AM CDT

    GEORGE BUSH STARTED THE CIVIL WAR

    by uss cygnus

    Right aint-it-liberal-propaganda.com?

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  • Mar 10, 2008 9:41:13 AM CDT

    ugh

    by eleikus

    This looks absolutely awful. Not funny at all.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 10:34:55 AM CDT

    Like I said before, everyone who works for this site

    by proman1984

    is a moron. I know you get $ for every click but seriously stop wasting our fucking time with tis excrement.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 10:54:34 AM CDT

    i'd like to think

    by mactard420

    that abe lincoln was a wizard though! it wasn't as funny as mcbride's other stuff...drillbit taylor is still a Netflixer to me at this point.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 11:14:59 AM CDT

    no subject

    by redkamel

    dude, I thought the day of saying completely unbelievable things with a straight face were gone, since Will Ferrel has done it to death.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 11:35:38 AM CDT

    see to me

    by bloo

    the Roy rogers as a founding father bit was funny espically with the Abe Lincoln and george Washington adn I wonder how many HS kids today would catch that only one of those was a true founding father.I wasn't making a point to see Drillbit but now i kinda doI'm not a big Aptow fan because everytime I think of Aptow I'm reminded of a little kid wearing an Aptow jersey in the Aptow produced Kicking And Screaming

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  • Mar 10, 2008 11:48:55 AM CDT

    TomBodet's talkback line

    by arcadiands

    was funnier than that entire clip. Here's what he said for the duncecappers in here who dont bother reading the talkbacks:

    "Giant Robots started the Civil War -pause- John Brown was one."
    There's a way to tell a joke, and there's a way to not tell a joke. The differences are ALL in the timing.
    Furthermore, was this scene a test shot to see if the face animations worked on the giant HR Puffinstuff body suits? I'm thinking it is.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 12:40:44 PM CDT

    TV Ad Humor Rules You All

    by christian66

    Just throw in a product and you've got yourself the makings of a typical unfunny commercial developed by bonehead ad folk. Like the ones pimping this laugh-free bit.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 1:04:20 PM CDT

    Well, it made me laugh

    by franklin t marmoset

    And I can offer no analysis as to why. Played video, chuckled some, was confused by the posters who explained why it was not, in fact, funny at all.I do like to laugh, me.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 1:36:51 PM CDT

    Ninja Moose

    by roninhobbit

    The plural of 'moose' is 'moxen'.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 1:39:08 PM CDT

    Ninja Grammar

    by roninhobbit

    As above, NINJA IS AN ENGLISH WORD TOO. In english, the plural is 'ninjas'.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ninja

    You can drop the -s in certain contexts, or if you are, you know, speaking Japanese.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 1:54:36 PM CDT

    Naah

    by donniedorko

    The plural of 'moose' is 'moice'. The plural of 'Matrix' is two shitty movies.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 2:01:39 PM CDT

    i dig it

    by the real mirajeff

    i'm liking mcbride more and more. i thought that was funny shit. i've read drillbit and i thought it was pretty good. not your typical john hughes movie but a fun kids film, and no offense to paul feig, but better than unaccompanied minors. didn't realize josh peck was playing the bully in this one too. mean creeks is a must-see for those of you who haven't.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 2:50:11 PM CDT

    I thought a robot Abraham Lincoln started the Civil

    by skywalkerfamily

    War? See, now that's funny!

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  • Mar 10, 2008 3:48:46 PM CDT

    Please stop sucking McBrides cock...

    by tourist

    ...I love the dude so far, but nothing tastes good if its constantly rammed down your throat. We will be capable of discovering him for ourselves over the coming months, we might even be able to decide for ourselves wether we think hes really funny or not. We don't need constant idolatrist propoganda. If thats a deleted scene, that sucks. Fat white trash trying to score with underage girl is always funny shit for a kids movie.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 3:49:54 PM CDT

    Node32774

    by donniedorko

    No, It's not a "must see". It's a decent movie and probably a great short-story. It suffers from "indie-hype" though like "Hard Candy" which is a better movie but a bit thin storywise. So no, you don't HAVE to see this movie, if your only able to see one more movie in your life, this would be a terrible choice! I would suggest.. Hmmm.. damnit.. I never remember the titles of my porn!

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  • Mar 10, 2008 4:03:55 PM CDT

    Also...

    by tourist

    ...I remember sitting through all the real girls thinking "wait...did they call him 'bust ass'?".

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  • Mar 10, 2008 4:20:56 PM CDT

    If you see only one movie this summer

    by arcadiands

    odds are good it will be another movie, and thus you achieve great win.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 4:41:46 PM CDT

    steve carell

    by slkboxrman

    steve carell was a nobody before bruce almighty...and he certainly didnt steal the movie..... he should be kissing jim carreys ass for the rest of his untalented life......who the hell is McBride ?? never heard of him....is he like McLovin ??

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  • Mar 10, 2008 4:47:00 PM CDT

    skywalkerfamily, the South survived because

    by grammaton cleric binks

    they bought robot attack insurance after the Sam Watterson endorsement.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 4:48:37 PM CDT

    True fact: Tony Stark's grandfather

    by grammaton cleric binks

    designed the Monitor and the Merrimac. He sold to both sides, and that's how he started his fortune.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 5:39:02 PM CDT

    The Robot was gonna go on a killer rampage

    by skywalkerfamily

    but he got damaged at the Ford's theater and was deactivated.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 5:40:39 PM CDT

    Sam Watterson has played Lincoln

    by grammaton cleric binks

    Sam Watteson endorses robot attack insurance. Coincidence? I think not.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 6:49:47 PM CDT

    cocksucking warstarting ninjas

    by prossor

    kick their FUCKEIN ass

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  • Mar 10, 2008 6:55:32 PM CDT

    McBride's Awesome, But....

    by djspoonfed

    That clip doesn't look like part of the movie. Notice how when Owen Wilson shows up, the coloring and contrast of the whole scene changes? This looks like "cutting room floor" material to me. I found it hilarious though. Ninjas broke the liberty bell.... I knew it.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 7:47:13 PM CDT

    The Civil War was NOT started by Ninjas!

    by 'cholera's ghost

    The civil war was caused by a host of factors that included economic and social differences, political disagreements about States' and Federal rights, and the election of Lincoln in addition to the slavery issue coming to a head, and secret for-hire sabotages by an east Indian yogi splinter group, unaffiliated in any way to any ninja order.However, Tequila is, in fact, the most jealous of all liquors.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 11:19:28 PM CDT

    College

    by choo

    Reminds me of the drivel that most of my professors tried to shove down my throat. The clip made about as much sense as their hate rants.

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  • Mar 10, 2008 11:58:08 PM CDT

    choleras ghost

    by slkboxrman

    thanks for the history lesson but i think we all knew its not true.... geeze....u must have had too much techila if u thought otherwise

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  • Mar 11, 2008 3:01:08 AM CDT

    My history teachers told of similar nonsense

    by joesixpack

    Seriously, we might as well have learned that stuff. We were fed some grade-A bullshit throughout the years.

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  • Mar 11, 2008 4:11:21 AM CDT

    I think you nerds...

    by edbig98

    HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR! Now unless it involved something along the lines of Shirow or D&D (R.I.P. Gigax), you kids will squeal like a pig getting punched in the snout. I thought this shit was HILARIOUS, mainly due to the fact that the students just sat there and took it. And besides, kids in school today are just like the ones in that clip: They don't do shit unless they are asked to answer a question. Dr. Zoidberg just needs to get a life and stop bitchin' at every little thing that YOU KNOW will make people with a real sense of humor laugh their asses off. Tell you what Dr. Z: Why don't you polish up that "Ultimate Screenplay" that will blow the all movies outta the water, go to a movie studio, pitch the story and CONVINCE THE STUDIO to give you millions of millions of dollars to make a movie that YOU THINK will be the movie to end all movies...Fucking nerds...

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