Weezer post (third edit)

A Scene by Scene reference guide to Weezer's 2008 video for "Pork and Beans"

Click here for a link to the video.

First off...the song is catchy, but the video is catchier, in the pop culture referencing fun that goes along with every great compilation collection. Like Rushdie's Satanic Verses or Joyce's Ulysses to ABC's LOST, the fun is finding all the references. I tried my best, labeled unknown references hoping that someone might supply them later. Additionally, I lost much of the interest trying to sequentially do the last part of the video, only noting two newer references. Enjoy.

Start with Brian Bell (guitar) at top left screen in the style of
Pachobel's Canon by JerryC FunTwo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8

Bottom Left is Patrick Wilson (drums) and then Bottom Right is Rivers Cuomo.
The top right corner has Scott Shriner (bass), which then cuts to a guy with headphones (the Numa Numa guy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o), cutting back to Scott.

Cut to superimposed face on
Drama Prairie Dog - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHjFxJVeCQs
followed by a cut to
How the Dramatic Prairie Dog Was Born - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sochd9Xqlos

Cut to a flipping ninja guy falling down, which is a reference to Afro Ninja (thanks comment maker) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEtIoGQxqQs, and not Urban Ninja - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2kJZOfq7zk.

Cut to Rivers Cuomo surfing the web, cutting to Experiment #711, a reference to the Diet Coke + Mentos videos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKoB0MHVBvM

A pair of safety googles are thrown to Sergeant Slaughter, in a nod to the National Fenslerfilm Council G.I. Joe PSA parodies, such as this one - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAcg-kMC4QA

Cut back to the Diet Coke/Mentos, then pictures of Scott Shriner wearing different T-Shirts, based on the Guiness World Record for most t-shirts worn at one time - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6tlw-oPDBM

Some of the shirts that I could identify:

• "I love shoes" white T
• Blue Shirt
• Experiment #711
• Yellow with symbol
• Blue with a bear symbol
• A GOPHER shirt in the style of G.I. Joe
• A shirt with a Banana (Peanut Butter Jelly Time - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8MDNFaGfT4)
  
• A shirt saying Download Free MP3
• Russian words on T

Cut back to Mentos/Diet Coke, then to the karate guy twirling a bo staff, then a cut to Chris Crocker singing the song in the style of the infamous Leave Britney Alone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc

Cut to a Nintendo game screen that says "Crocker: All Your Pork and Beans Are Belong to Us!!" which is a copy of the "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" from the NES game Zero Wing - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg

Cut back to Mentos/Diet Coke, then a cut to one of the best stupid moments ever, the Miss Teen USA 2007, South Carolina answers a question - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww mixed with a lightsaber (references all over YouTube)

Cut to the guy seated dancing, enter Patrick Wilson, screen right, eating what appears to be cereal (reference), cutting abruptly to guy answering phone and Scott Shriner's head moving in screen left, cutting to guys doing to Soulja Boy dance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vum3qgoh0x4 (apparently the white Soulja Boys - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZE2OzguWHo)

The screen pans to the Evolution of Dance Judson Laippley - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

Cut to "Chocolate Rain" Tay Zonday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA

Cut to overhead shot of hands playing a keyboard, which cuts to image of K-Fed rocking out at the his home studio playing Popozao - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6RvngAZCcQ&feature=related

Then an image of Rivers Cuomo singing with Tay Zonday.

Cut to the chorus of the song written and performed on hands, like the Daft Hands video for Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq--Nw

Which cuts to the parody of the Daft Bodies Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYD_-A_X5E after which the helmets are lifted to reveal Scott Shriner and Brian Bell.

Cut to a continuation of the T-Shirts gag with Scott Shriner, ending with the final tally of "155 T-Shirts/ Sized Small - 10XL/ 4 Hours/ 100 Extra Pounds"

Cut to back to Mentos/Diet Coke with spinning fountain, cutting to Tay and Rivers continuing their duet, cutting to a girl on an armchair waving around her rainbow socks (Rainbow Socks Girl - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=embdtwW-sSE)

Cut to a continuation of the martial arts dude, this time fighting off three ninjas, ended with a cool Bruce Lee pose. Cut to Chris Crocker, then back to Mentos/Diet Coke.

Cut to Rivers Cuomo giving Chris Crocker a hug (maybe a reference to the popular Free Hugs video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4)

Cut back to the Mentos/Diet Coke, followed by continuation of the Daft Hands (No I Dont CAAAARE), then a cut to the Lyle Show "Shoes" song parody - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCF3ywukQYA&feature=user

Cut to Chris Crocker (again) wiping to a room filled with many of the characters dancing around the band, including some dancing babies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W4EBoQmWPs), some guy waving around a golf club (Star Wars Kid - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU), Patrick Wilson drumming with light sabers, the Daft Bodies, the guys doing the Soulja Boy, Tay Zonday, K-Fed in the background, some robotic things flying across the screen (ref?), the sneezing panda baby in background (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRH3iTQPrk), cutting to karate guy ripping off a ninja's mask to reveal a singing banana, its peanut butter jelly time - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8MDNFaGfT4.

Additionally, as there are rapid cuts everywhere, which I don't feel like documenting...there are two other references that I caught: there's the Will It Blend blender being operated by Miss South Carolina (Blendtec - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loi731aUYrQ) and what appears to be Charlie the Unicorn in the prairie dog tank (Charlie the Unicorn - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus)