Extremely Lame

No longer are our magazine racks graced with Sylvester P. Smythe and the half-assed wannabe parodies of Cracked magazine. Instead, now the interwebs and website aggregators like Digg and FARK are cluttered with the New & Improved Cracked.

I understand the concept of doing one thing really well and sticking to it, but doing things well is not what Cracked is known for, it’s for doing things decidedly not well. Instead of being the poor man’s unfunny MAD Magazine, they’re determined to make themselves the poor man’s unfunny VH1/David Letterman. That mash up will make sense in a minute.

What Cracked has started doing now is making stupid list after stupid list after stupid list. Here are a few of the ones up on the front page now.

• 12 comic book ads that taught us to be cynical
• 7 reasons Kid Rock’s new song may be the worst song ever
• The 6 least plausible jobs held by Steven Seagal characters
• 12 things that pissed me off about Larry King the other night
• The 8 least intimidating gangs in movie history

Note: easily four out of five articles on the front page are idiotic lists just like these.

I can understand differences in senses of humor, but these guys are just relentless. Putting out an occasional list on a site of equally unfunny stuff wouldn’t be that noticeable, but they’re just doing the same thing over and over and over (kind of like VH1’s penchant for I Love the whatever shows) They’re a one trick pony where the trick isn’t that great to begin with.

And yet, they consistently are featured on FARK and voted up on Digg. Do people actually like this unoriginal, unfunny garbage? Apparently they do. I’m sure we can point to these same people and cite them as the reason they keep making crap like Date Movie, Epic Movie, and Meet the Spartans. At this rate, we may as well just put out the movie Ass and be done with it.