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Gotta love the Chief doing ballet. Always a classic…
i still gotta vote for Fidel beer…
Uh, ok. Nice, but, slightly weird. I felt the other “Best of” reruns we’ve had so far, were, well, better.
Oh, and, of course bush thought it was a female cow. I believe that.
what has happened with your tiger jump!!!????? oh no!!! mature tigress it’s dangerous what you do, specially for the poor sofa
what a zapping (argentina meaning) zipping collage
Rocketboom
Do not adjust your mind, the confusion is only temporary.
Yo, people:
It’s not Amanda’s couch at her apartment in NYC, it’s our (her family’s) couch.
Stop dissin’ on our couch!!
(Please)
Dave,
OHHHHH, That hurts!
It actually looks much better in person. :)
Did you know your site was just on Good Morning America!!?!?!?! I always come here andn watch and I was like, “HOLY MOM JUICE!” ;)
What I’ve seen so far as examples of Rktbm fare.:
1. This is what we looked like when we started which is way different then what we look like now, sort of.
2. This is a prime example of Rktbm’s. satire on display.
3. This says: “We have a keen sense of undeniable charm and dedication to entertain you.” And they do.
4. This is a typical normal day type of show where anything and everything can create a show.
5. (My guess:Not seen yet) Yes that girl can dance (Take your pick: Austin (my fave), St. Pete, NYC)
If I were Rktbm and you are just being discovered by a wider audience, these would be great examples to showcase what they do, how well it is done, the variety and how much they improved in a little over a year. A great strategy. Maybe some instructions on how to use the archives will help countless thousands to totally fritter away many hours giggling in their solitary sense of discoving something cool before they pass it along to a future fan. Fun!
itsa frickin great time we live in with this being a giant fricken tipping point ehh? i feel like im Dennis-fricken-Hopper in “Apocalypse Now”—-”The womans a fricken GENIUS man ..shes got it ALL, man! ..but UP HERE, MAN!!!..IN HER HEAD”…BRAVO!
I have hitherto managed to resist the urge to comment on your obvious beauty, Amanda but you just look so cuddly on that couch I had to say something. Your significant other(I have no doubt that there is one) is a very lucky human. :-)
Oh, yeah, Amanda’s Mom, I like the couch. :-)
Sooooo. If according to our host the vlog with the most comments “wins” then the Hybrid Hummer seems to be in the lead or should we just post our favorite from all of the archives. This post doesn’t count as one for the Thursday show though. But if I had to pick my favorite of all of the archives it would be the getting blasted to Scott McClellan from July 15th. Maybe not the best showcase for Rktblm, but it sure did knock you on your ass laughing as much as all that beer did to make Amanda pass out. And it has 43 comments plus this one, now so 44. She really showed her “inner NASCAR” on that one.
I like the one where you make fun of the people who comment. Also the one where you make fun of the dress codes video, I still think of that one and laugh.
Hi again. Good morning to you all, rocketboomers…Had fun today? I had. My day starts just great after watching Rocketboom.
To Amanda and the team that makes Rocketboom: make the episodes last longer…for the ultimate pleasure.
May the force be with you :-D
i like this.
It’s a prediction of the looming billion channel network of video over IP. But the comment is, it takes more than content. It’s curation.
To Bernardo (The Coca Cola Man):
Man…You are on the wrong site. If you want to do something usefull, spread the Firefox…it’s free and completly safe :-D. Please don’t mess with other poeple’s drinks.
just me.
is this rocketboom from the future..the calendar in the background would say so…july 2008?
Since Blue Balls first aired the theme song and visuals have thoroughly permeated my jigzaw puzzled brain truncating billions of synapse, turning my neurons in a tangled ball of obsession. As a result I have indulged in morning smoothies consisting of bananas, strawberrys, cactus fruit all mixed with 3 parts Prozac, Paxil, Zolofoft, and Wellbutrin and 12 parts cannabis elitus extract imported from The Jamaican Bob Marley Foundation. So please, please don’t rerun:
http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/
…as I’m just now just barely coping and trying to obvercome my Blue Balls addiction. I want to make clean start in 2006.
Maybe echolation of whales and bats would be more appropriate for this most significant casual friday leading into Year 2006.
The Blues balls animation is….
just as painful, (as the real thang) trust me!
Since Blue Balls first aired the theme song and visuals have thoroughly permeated my jigzaw puzzled brain truncating billions of synapse, turning my neurons in a tangled ball of obsession. As a result I have indulged in morning smoothies consisting of bananas, strawberrys, cactus fruit all mixed with 3 parts Prozac, Paxil, Zolofoft, and Wellbutrin and 12 parts cannabis elitus extract imported from The Jamaican Bob Marley Foundation. So please, please don’t rerun:
http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/
…as I’m just now just barely coping and trying to obvercome my Blue Balls addiction. I want to make clean start in 2006.
Maybe echolation of whales and bats would be more appropriate for this most significant casual friday leading into Year 2006.
The Blues balls animation is….
just as painful, (as the real thang) trust me!
Hmmm?
Hey Amanda,
What is the deal with the coke can on the table…I hope you are not adving for Coke…you look kind of organic to me…or is the caffeine rush you need…
Gee, all the belief in cryptic messaging that a simple appearance by a Coke can, sold in stores by the gagillions around the world reminds me of all those people who used to find hidden messages in Beatles and Dylan songs. (If you played them backwards of course) Thank God the label from the couch manufacturer remained hidden. With all the grief that poor furnishing got, I couldn’t imagine what conspiracies people would find in the poor company that made it. Probably, de-nuding rain forests, moving indiginous people off their lands and sacrificing sheep for wool so that Amanda could have a home bound Trampoline, yoga mat or just a plain old couch that is also manufactured by the gagillions all over the world.
In case anybody hasn’t noticed, it appears that some very, very, very serious people have discovered something that is not that serious. Which is the basis of its charm and success. Now about that life you need to have?????
my fav of rerun week….amanda congden, young republican! Without a doubt the funniest and sexiest of the lot! Thank you Amanda!
my fav of rerun week….amanda congden, young republican! Without a doubt the funniest and sexiest of the lot! Thank you Amanda!
Funny but not my favorite. Rocketboom keeps me guessing…and I like it. Creativity rocks!
Wait..
This was a rerun right? Then why is your aparentment/home look a lot worse now than it did.
Dear Tricky and Tyco,
Actually I think this is the perfect site to raise such issues, not that matters of social concern should be limited to a few venues. I draw your attention to the “Young Republican/Billionaires for Bush” type segment or the celebratory nature of the segment noting the indictment of Tom Delay ( or was it arrest?) — the latter would probably be my favorite. And I’d imagine that a majority of Rocketboom’s viewers skew left in their politics.
Tyco — Rocketboom and Amanda are entering their “15 minutes” which may last quite a while, especially considering Amanda’s charisma and Rocketboom’s creative genius coupled with the downfall of traditional media sources and the ascendency of the internet. It would be naive to not expect that Coke’s marketing aggressors would want to get a piece of this hot property — that being the case Coke would pay far less if the product-placement did not clearly demonstrate the label as was the case in the segment. By the way, it wouldn’t surprise me that the pink more subtly appearing IPOD might also have been an underwritten placement and/or perhaps be a shout-out to Steve Jobs who at a major Apple meeting drew attention to Rocketboom.
But you guys just continue on in entertained apathy as the world burns up and corporations sell you their pap, profess concern with the public interest, market themselves with images of bald eagles flying in pristine forests (we wouldn’t want to be reminded of their nuclear power plant technology) — all while financing the likes of Bush and other politicians that create a business climate unimpacted by environmental or human rights concerns.
By the way, as was the case with questions about the couch, I had hoped Rocketboom would comment upon my query, but alas not so . . . some might read into such silence.
Happiest of New Year!
bernardo
Mr, Brahe:
Why is there a Coke can in the shot. Anybody who shoots video for a living knows it wouldn’t just be some kind of oversight. Plus, wouldn’t Amanda’s mom want it removed for decorum’s sake? By the way, how much did you guys get paid by Wired to run that infomercial for their store last week?
… Huh. Kinda harsh there, Vermouth.
Anywasys, Happy New Year everyone! :-)
TeraLink Was Here! ;-)
Like the show, but wish you’d consider some center or right-of-center slants occasionally.