INT. UNDERDOG SPORTS BAR – NIGHT
A thin crowd mulls around a dimly lit sports bar. Practically every available surface in the bar is covered with a television screen; most are showing basketball and hockey games. A door behind the bar marked “OFFICE” opens and the bar manager emerges, followed by a large piece of electrical equipment.
BAR MANAGER: …and again, I can’t thank you enough for filling in for the regular guy tonight.
DJ 3000: IT IS MY PLEASURE.
BAR MANAGER: Do you need any…
DJ 3000: [has already plugged itself into a sound board at the far end of the bar] NOPE, I’M GOOD.
The bar lights brighten slightly.
DJ 3000: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN…[looks around more closely]…WELL, GENTLEMEN, ANYWAYS…[looks around again at the shabbily-dressed crowd]…WELL, ALL YOU DUDES OUT THERE, ANYWAYS…WELCOME TO KARAOKE NIGHT AT THE UNDERDOG BAR. I AM YOUR HOST DJ 3000. I CAN SEE THAT SOME OF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE MASTERING THE MICROSOFT SURFACE TABLET SIGNUP SHEET BUT ONCE YOU SEE HOW MUCH FUN THIS IS I’M SURE YOU’LL POWER THROUGH AND FIGURE IT OUT. LET’S GET RIGHT TO THE MUSIC! THE FIRST SINGER – OR I SHOULD SAY SINGERS BECAUSE IT’S A DUET – ARE TOM AND BILL. COME ON UP, YOU GUYS!
A very drunk TOM BRADY drags an obviously reluctant BILL BELICHICK to the stage and winks at DJ 3000, who cues up the music.
TOM:
You’re a full time hardass and part time friend,
That hoodie looks ridiculous but it’s become a trend,
I couldn’t win with anyone else but you.
BILL:
Grumble grumble grumble grumble grumble grumble grumble
Grumble mumble mumble grumble grumble grumble grumble
Grumble grumble grumble grumble grumble grumble fuck you
TOM:
Here is the church and here is the steeple,
Patriot fans really are the worst people,
I couldn’t win with anyone else but you.
BACKUP SINGER ELI MANNING:
Screw Ben McA-doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
TOM:
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, “b”, “a”, start.
Just because we cheat doesn’t mean we aren’t smart.
I couldn’t win with anyone else but you.
BILL:
Grumble grumble grumble grumble grumble grumble
Grumble grumble grumble should be watching film a grumble
Grumble grumble grumble grumble waste of my goddamned time
[tosses aside microphone, leaves]
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Today’s theme is DUETS! Pick five of your favorite duets (legitimate duets, none of this feat: crap) and post ’em in the comments!
5. A gift to Wee Baby Seamus, but these two have incredible voices. Go ahead, mock like you’ve never mocked before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsgbRuGZe64
Love this band and have for longer than many of you have been on the planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNKIba_yZJo
Yeah, that’s the stuff.
“Hey guys, this a little awkward, what with me being dead and all, but would you mind if *I* made a request?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2io3yhHHmM
(reference explained)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHkH6RPaS3c
4. The only time Jimmy Fallon is tolerable is when he’s being musical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6otmy3DAK8
3. The (sadly) late Pat Dinizio and Belinda Carlisle singing about strange-colored menses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vQ_fnlvvr8
5. Gonna close this out with one of the darkest songs I know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6rxP3m3PoA
So very tired/drunk-I’ll see you tomorrow at 5:30 EST……………
‘Easy Lover” getting more thumbs up than ‘Did You Evah’ is Trump’s America manifesting itself in comment form.
I dunno, man…Easy Lover has a black guy singing with a foreigner, so I feel like most Trumpists wouldn’t be down with that.
My comment was site-specific. Given that parameter, I’m quite confident that Tom Brady will very soon die in a fire.
I don’t understand the first part, but I like the second part.
4. This is my Mike Mitchell, in that it could easily be had as an UDFA, but I’m blowing a pick on it anyways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgWGcE5V83s
I’m breaking the rules in more ways than one here (too many entries and not sure if this counts as a duet or not)…but sorry, not sorry….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpDQJnI4OhU
Bill Medley/Jennifer Warnes dropping a top five pick…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BQLE_RrTSU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J3vgcE5i2o
I’m on the verge of creating a second account so I can do another five. It is REALLY hard to narrow things down here.
OK, time for SoS to give me shit….LOL.
HEY SONNY LOOK OUT FOR THAT TREE!!!!
Shit never mind (too soon?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80QHRTQ3Kmw
Can’t give you shit for this…what would “Groundhog Day” be without it?
And no, it was never too early for a Sonny Ski Suicide joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUsnVOqrqqE
3. Man, this is a tough one to restrict to five. This is probably my favorite out of the Decemberists/Arcade Fire/New Pornographers/etc. genre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Or6-HOveg
3. Kind of a Beauty and the Beast thing here, but it works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRO5ZZuJGYI
My friend Will got to interview both of them for a site I used to write for:
http://popdose.com/popdose-interview-matthew-sweet/
http://popdose.com/the-popdose-interview-susanna-hoffs/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkRKT6T0QLg
15 year old me LOVED this song. Good pick!
52 year old me still does.
Fun fact: Combined, we’re old.
LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqwnLDdu11Q
Well Did You Evah-Deborah Harry/Iggy Pop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC_bFDPiqYA
/drunkenly stumbles across the hands-down winner…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsC4kf6x_Q0
Excellent Ned-Beatty-raping tune. Then again, what isn’t?
2. I don’t have any actual stats, but it seems like these two might smoke all the pot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KNsBCf34fQ
Van Morrison and Paul Durcan-In The Days Before Rock And Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2GpEoZrS04
This is a bit tougher than I thought-bear with me…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQW7I62TNOw
Hope Sandoval and Kurt Vile? FUCK and YES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIpYJOiPAsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Or6-HOveg
You know, it never even occurred to me that this would have already been taken! Nice pick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suvULQgSzQ4
Once used in Irish tourism ads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8rcXql-fTo
Not a featuring, but does feature two of my favorite vocalists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJw-KQWG0pE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Hd3uWKFKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0qW9P-uYfM
1. some CanCon. love this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU5qp-cAtOU
I count Les Paul’s guitar as one of the singers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkGf1GHAxhE
I mean, come on. Do you even know me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=101&v=VUb450Alpps
Good value at this point in the round.
Best duet EVAR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50-EHJrALlI
1. Two of Us – Beatles (c’mon, it’s Lennon and McCartney) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLQox8e9688
2. Good Hearted Woman – Willie and Waylon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swRJeMsk21g
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz-UvQYAmbg
DOUBLE SHOT (are we still doing that?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdqtmnd2T0U
Pick B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3hw-6pOPhQ
First pick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3NJC18Oi04
1. Alison Krauss is an absolute treasure, and the other guy seems talented too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YVRxAX6fwg
I dated a girl who told me that she didn’t like this song. That was the moment I knew it wasn’t going to work out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01QQZyl-_I
“I just can’t respect anyone who rips off Vanilla Ice.”
Word to your mother.
All David Bowie duets are amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kfdEyV3RQ
This is the best video since Ram it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HasaQvHCv4w
“Damn, that’s kinda gay.”
– lead singer, Bronski Beat
2. “Fire in the Taco Bell? OH GOOD GOD NO!” – Kelvin Benjamin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a4gyJsY0mc
1. I love this song so much. Seems like it’s tailor-made for being drunk and lonely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNHdHBtAdzA
Getting out in front and taking this off the board early.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFcl96hxMDs
Smart move. That wasn’t going to stay on the board for long.
Here’s to drunk chicks singing along with this in bars 25+ years ago!
This is actually a trio if you consider the whale noises. No one ever considers the whale noises.
[makes whale noise in agreement]
– Jamarcus Russell
And numero dos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bLOjmY–TA
Well this seems simple enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8
“Sent to the slammer… for, the van…” — Marc Trestman, trying to play down the reason of his incarceration to his new cellmate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpmRU2TPJ-Y
Should we assume you don’t want stuff like Simon and Garfunkel or Daft Punk (i.e., two-person groups)? Just singers getting together for a specific song?
No, songs from long-term pairings like you’d mentioned are just fine. Only restriction is that it has to be a real duet, not like, say, Kate Pierson singing backup in Shiny Happy People.
Elisha’s part is just the fucking best.
gaming nerd alert. Miss going to the arcade sometimes.
The man beat Contra without using it (so I’ve been told) and he’ll always have my respect there.
To be clear, that claim is with regard to the Nintendo version of Contra. I don’t think any such code existed for the arcade version, and only ever played the arcade version a few time.