Blinverted on Pop Culture being an examination on pop culture is not even a unique idea unto itself. I ripped it off from Mike Judge, the creator of some very popular (and very unpopular) television shows and movies.

It started with a mumbling worker in a cubicle named Milton, Mike Judge turned that cartoon short into Office Space. It was a bare bones examination into Corporate America with a hip-hop soundtrack. Ultra witty and very quotable, Office Space stole its plot from Superman III.

It had a certain flair that no one can deny.

His examination of cubicle life was followed by his examination of the teen-age boy mind, Beavis and Butt-Head was a short in an MTV block of cartoons and MTV gave Mike Judge his own show.

Beavis and Butt-Head was perfectly merged with its parent network as the teen-age boys spent most of their time watching videos and talking about doing stuff.

Fox had seen enough and they said what do you want to examine next, Mike Judge said Texas and King of the Hill was on Sunday night for thirteen years.

What clued me in that I was stealing my idea for BOPC from Mike Judge was a show of King if the Hill that was about pop culture. Bobby was forced to get an extra-curricular because he was watching too much TV. The Quiz Bowl team was struggling with questions on pop culture so Bobby was a perfect fit.

Hank even had a great quote of lament (I can‘t remember it now so I am going to wing it), ‘I wanted Bobby to join an extra-curricular activity but the extra-curricular activities became like him.’

Bobby began to get overwhelmed and had a panic attack in the Mega Lo Mart electronic section. It was a pop culture breakdown started by Kelly Clarkson and ended with an unlicensed nurse making a prognosis that a doctor customer shopping at the Mega Lo Mart confirmed.

The guys in the alley, excluding Hank, even called Bobby ‘The Professor’ since there were pop culture professors at universities. It is amazing how Mike Judge can make fun of Texans with every scene and still find time to show how pop culture can be a job.

In his movie Idiocracy, he took his examination of pop culture five hundred years into the future. It was a scathing prediction of a society full of style and without any substance.

I did a DVD review of it (the company that released it could find no audience in the theaters)(this was the unpopular one I was talking about earlier) and I called the review/article A Very Scary Movie.

I think by plugging my own blog in my own blog I have done something Blinverted.

I’ll have to examine that. Perhaps I can look into the decimal parts too.