Lazy Sunday
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The film paired Parnell, an eight-year veteran of SNL who had performed rap several times during Weekend Update, and Samberg, a first-year featured player with little screen time.
After the film aired, it was available for free download on iTunes. Additionaly, it was posted to several Web sites and shared via e-mail. The film was viewed more than five million times at YouTube before NBC Universal asked the site to remove it, along with several other copyrighted NBC video clips in February 2006. [1] Warnings were also sent to other video sites. NBC later placed the entire film on its SNL web page.
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Making of the film
Samberg's fellow members of The Lonely Island were involved in the making of the film. Akiva Schaffer directed the clip and Jorma Taccone created the musical beat. All three plus Parnell wrote the script on December 12, 2005, and the music recorded the following day. On December 15 a crew filmed the short in about five hours using the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in the Chelsea district of Manhattan as a stand-in for a movie theater. Taccone's girlfriend's sister appears as a convenience store clerk.
Samberg thought audiences would criticize its low-budget style, cheesy lyrics, and product placements, but Internet prevalence and continued downloads suggest it has gained popularity on par with More Cowbell, a 2000 SNL skit starring Christopher Walken.
To capitalize on its popularity, Samberg, Taccone, Schaffer and Parnell put an original copy of the Lazy Sunday lyrics, with two deleted verses, up for sale, with the proceeds going to a charity for animal shelters. It was put on eBay and sold for $430.00.
Lyrics
Lazy Sunday, wake up in the late afternoon.
Call Parnell just to see how he’s doin’.
Hello?
What up, Parns?
Yo Samberg, what’s crackin’?
You thinking what I’m thinkin?
NARNIA.
Man, it’s happenin’.
But first my hunger pains are stickin’ like duct tape.
Let’s hit up Magnolia and mack on some cupcakes.
No doubt that bakery’s got all da bomb frostins.
I love those cupcakes like McAdams loves Gosling.
Two, no six, no twelve, BAKERS DOZEN.
I told you that I’m crazy for these cupcakes, cousin.
Yo, where’s the movie playin’?
Upper west side, dude.
Well, let’s hit up Yahoo Maps to find the dopest route.
I prefer Map Quest.
That’s a good one, too.
Google Maps is the best.
True that.
DOUBLE TRUE.
68th and Broadway.
Step on it, sucka.
What you wanna do, Chris?
SNACK ATTACK, MOTHER******
It’s the Chronic (what?)
Cles of Narnia
Yes, the Chronic (what?)
Cles of Narnia
We love that Chronic (what?)
Cles of Narnia
Pass that Chronic (what?)
Cles of Narnia
Yo, stop at the deli.
The theater’s over-priced.
You’ve got the backpack?
Gonna pack it up nice.
Don’t want security to get suspicious.
Mr. Pibb and Red Vines equals CRAZY DELICIOUS!
I’ll reach in my pocket, pull out some dough.
Girl actin’ like she never seen a $10 before.
It’s all about the Hamiltons, baby.
Throw the snacks in a bag and I’m ghost like Swayze.
Roll up to the theater.
Ticket buying, what we’re handlin’.
You can call us Aaron Burr.
From the way we’re droppin’ Hamiltons.
Now parked in our seats.
Movie trivias the illest.
Which Friends alum starred in films with Bruce Willis?
We answered so fast it was scary.
Everyone stared in awe when we screamed Matthew Perry.
Now quiet in the theater or it’s gonna get tragic.
We’re bout to get taken to a dream world of magic with…
the Chronic (what?)
Cles of Narnia
Yes, the Chronic (what?)
Cles of Narnia
We love that Chronic (what?)
Cles of Narnia
Pass that Chronic (what?)
Cles of Narnia
References in the song
- "I love those cupcakes like McAdams loves Gosling" A reference to Hollywood couple Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling and their on-screen romance during 2004's The Notebook.
- "The Chronic - what? - cles of Narnia" "Chronic" or "the chronic" is slang for a potent strain of cannabis and is also the name of Dr. Dre's highly influential solo debut. What? is a common shout-out among such rappers as Lil Jon and DMX. The Chronicles of Narnia are a series of seven fantasy novels written by C. S. Lewis. They are seen as a contemporary to J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series.
- "Google Maps is the best" Google's popular mapping service is believed by Samberg to be better than rivals Yahoo! Maps or Mapquest. The tagline, "Double True", appears on screen in the font and multi-color combination reminiscent of Google's logo.
- When Chris Parnell moves his left eyebrow in the second scene, this is a reference to the 1976 Jean Renault film Oscar Wilde's Tea Party.
- "Mr. Pibb and Red Vines equals crazy delicious." Mr. Pibb and Red Vines can be consumed together by biting off both ends of a Red Vine and using it as a straw. The slogan quickly spawned T-shirts.
- "Girl acted like she never seen a ten befo'/It's all about the Hamiltons, baby" "Hamiltons" are U.S. ten-dollar bills, so called because they contain a portrait of Alexander Hamilton. Common rap slang has dubbed hundred-dollar bills "Benjamins" and the line is a reference to Puff Daddy's "It's All about the Benjamins."
- "I'm ghost like Swayze" A reference to the 1990's Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze. "Swayze" has been a rap synonym for "disappear," popularized by EPMD during the "Ghost's" initial popularity. Ghost is another prototypical "chick flick".
- "You can call us Aaron Burr from the way we're dropping Hamiltons" This refers to the 1804 duel in which then–Vice President Burr killed Alexander Hamilton.
- "What Friends alum starred in films with Bruce Willis?" Answer: Matthew Perry, who starred with Willis in The Whole Nine Yards and its sequel The Whole Ten Yards.
Trivia
- Donald Burns, a baker at the famous Magnolia Bakery, is seen walking in front of the shop in the film.
Video Link
Greatest Moments in YouTube History
On August 18, 2006 Entertainment Weekly in their Issue #893 posted the Greatest Moments in YouTube History:
- Lazy Sunday - Two white boys rap about cupcakes and The Chronicles of Narnia
- CHIPS - Brookers Brodack's brilliant take on not being able to eat just one
- Evolution of Dance - This dance history lesson by Judson Laipply gets better as you watch
- Here it goes again - If Napoleon Dynamite had a music video, it'd be something like OK Go's
- I want it that way - These Chinese Backstreet Boys make us believe when they say...
