And I’m with you on being torn between the two versions, I also think “Video Problems” may be a motif of I Got the Poops which I didn’t include too much of (although, while working on the color I DID NOT check to make sure it would look right on a television screen)

And I’m glad the analysis was helpful. I got to thinking a while after posting that I shouldn’t have included it for one reason or another.

I’m torn on whether or not I like the version with the tape error better than the original master (arguments in favor: the “Hooked on a Feeling” and Mudkip motifs emerge much more fully-fledged and to lively, surprising effect when they are not so directly hinted at earlier in the video. Arguments against: We miss out on the first instances of intense anger, the phrase “powdering steaks in the third dimension” and the fantastically unexpected intrusion of Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google). Either way, This is some truly masterful editing that shows great nuance in its introduction and resolution of scenes. It seems almost musical in its pacing–Eisenstein would be proud. Most remarkably, though, I found the long Mudkip sequence to be riveting. It could have easily been intractable, but somehow your assembly made it hypnotic, almost trance-like. I couldn’t look away.

Incidentally, a Google search for the exact phrase, “Linda just gave birth to puppies” returns only one result: this page. Just thought you should know.