YouTube Monday: Even Penn’s Golf Carts Are Almost Mowing Down Students! (UPDATED)

by Nick Summers | December 11, 2006 at 12:27 pm

This is the story of a boy, and a video camera, and a downright reasonable argument.

It's ... hard to ... explain the appeal of this clip from ... the Daily Pennsylvanian's Stephen Morse. The narration is halt ... ing, the voice guileless; we've watched this 11 times on repeat and we're not stopping anytime soon. "The broken light is merely taped ... up with duct tape! What is the city of Philadelphia doing to us?"

Reporting from 33rd and Locust, "debatably the most ... heinous intersection on campus":

After the jump, a classic 1997 SportsCenter commercial that bears an uncanny similarity...

UPDATE 6:06 p.m.: A commenter notes Morse's debt to this seminal performance:

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10 Responses to “YouTube Monday: Even Penn’s Golf Carts Are Almost Mowing Down Students! (UPDATED)”

  1. Christopher Says:
    December 11th, 2006 at 1:01 pm

    Dude, none of those cars were going faster than 25-30 mph. You can usually just walk across and cars will stop for you, especially in between classes when there are a lot of people trying to cross. 38th and Walnut/Spruce is so much worse.

  2. John Drake Says:
    December 11th, 2006 at 1:13 pm

    That narration is like listening to christopher walken having a stroke whlie trying to read cue cards with less than 8 words per card…amazing…Look at that CLOSE CALL!

  3. Martin Says:
    December 11th, 2006 at 1:35 pm

    Up and down 38th Street is pretty bad, but the intersection I’ve had the most “close calls” at was 40th and Locust. There is a stop sign there, but either people ignore it or slow down to 20-25mph.

  4. Hmmm Says:
    December 11th, 2006 at 2:52 pm

    That kid’s voice made me want to gouge my eyes out with a gel pen. However, this has a valid point…I would be mighty pissed if someone didn’t slow down for me in a crosswalk. I have to admit I’m the kind of person that would probably spit on their windshield or something along those lines actually.

  5. Adam Says:
    December 11th, 2006 at 3:41 pm

    1. I’d think Ivy Leaguers have learned how to cross the street safely by age 18.

    2. I’d think most Ivy Leaguers would have advanced their speaking skills since their 6th grade presentation on “tyrannosaurus rex.”

    However, seeing as the second point isn’t true, perhaps the first point doesn’t hold either.

  6. A Cornell Engineer Says:
    December 11th, 2006 at 4:00 pm

    This is a perfect example of why you should practice the narration before publishing your video.

  7. joeybagodonuts Says:
    December 11th, 2006 at 5:23 pm

    Not quite as bad as “boom goes the dynamite”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W45DRy7M1no

  8. Penn 15 Says:
    December 11th, 2006 at 5:38 pm

    I don’t know the dude that well but from my limited contact with him and from what I’ve heard from friends he’s apparently a sketchball.

  9. *e-hug* Says:
    December 11th, 2006 at 7:51 pm

    I feel so bad for the sport’s guy in the last one. I remember giving some stupid bio presentation on some disease I can careless about and it pretty much went like that. Well at least he kept going and that’s the most important part.

  10. Christopher Says:
    December 12th, 2006 at 2:51 am

    Yeah, I’ve seen Stephen Morse around campus, he’s a total douchebag.

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