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The JibJab logo, with its Victorian era appearance, illustrates the influence of Terry Gilliam on the duo's animation
'JibJab' is a website featuring Flash cartoons. It is run by two Americans, Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, who call themselves "the JibJab Brothers". When they are credited together (such as when they are co-directors), they call themselves ''Grevan Spiridellis'', which is an amalgamation of Gregg and Evan.
Prior to 2004 Election
JibJab was started in 1999. The brothers had made several short films prior to the 2004 presidential election, including several Rumple sketches (Rumple was the President's fictional three-inch tall imaginary friend) even though the website was not as well-known as it became when the "This Land" video was released. Some of these movies involved politics, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign for governor in California's 2003 recall election, and another one involved the 2000 presidential election.
A few of the non-political cartoons are as follows:
★ Breedin' in Eden
★ Nasty Santa
★ Geezers
★ Sandbox
★ Raps!
★ Exit 109
★ Nookie & Wheels
★ Hoola Boy
★ Riddle King
Jibjab also featured a few extras on their site as well:
★ The Dick Johnson Show
★ Turkey Baseball
★ The History of Jibjab
★ Fart Waffle
Cartoons made for various companies:
★ Sony
★ Kraft
Election 2004
"This Land"
Ending of "This Land"
For the 2004 presidential election, JibJab created a Flash movie entitled ''This Land'', which featured a parody of Woody Guthrie's song "This Land Is Your Land", sung by animated caricatures of George W. Bush and John Kerry.
This animation was an instant hit. Visits to the site skyrocketed, and the site was listed number one on ''Alexa's "Movers and Shakers" list. After being linked to on thousands of websites, the song was featured several times in the printed media and on television, including ''NBC Nightly News'' and ''ABC World News Tonight''. On July 26, 2004, the creators appeared on ''The Tonight Show'' with Jay Leno.
The popularity of the animation has resulted in The Richmond Organization, a music publisher that owns the copyright to Guthrie's tune through its Ludlow Music Unit, threatening legal action. JibJab and Ludlow Music reached a settlement after JibJab's attorneys unearthed evidence that the song had passed into the public domain in 1973. The terms of the settlement allowed for the continued distribution of ''This Land''. Jim Meskimen voiced almost all the characters. Minor characters include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, John Edwards, Colin Powell, and Dick Cheney. To view the video, click This Land.
"Good to be in DC"
Ending of "Good to be in D.C."
"Second Term"
For the inauguration in January 2005, a third parody, ''Second Term'', featuring most of the political figures already mentioned, was made to the tune of "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain." The cartoon premiered on ''The Tonight Show''. It dealt with the reactions to Bush's 2004 electoral victory, both in the US and around the world. Jim Meskimen voiced almost all the characters once more. It also featured Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi with a Catholic Bishop along with a stereotypical Rabbi singing "We Want Peace on earth throughout his second term" with guns and artillery firing in the background. Bill Clinton gets slapped by his wife while reading a playboy magazine in his new library in this cartoon. To view the video, click Second Term.
Post-Election 2004
Matzah!
Matzah features a hip-hop Hebrew, Smooth-E, rapping about matzah, the unleavened bread observant Jews eat during Passover. The main character is reminiscent of rapper Eminem, and appears in front of rap-video clichés. It also features a burning bush -- part of the story of Exodus, which is told at Passover. It was aired on ''The Tonight Show'' on Thursday, April 21, 2005. To view the video, click Matzah!.
Big Box Mart
Another criticizing cartoon, "Big Box Mart" follows Jibjab's tradition of lampooning big retailers. It premiered October 13 2005 on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno''. It follows a man, representing the typical American consumer, who shops and purchases "crap" with "a wallet full of credit cards" at a fictional store called Big-Box Mart; partly based on Wal-Mart, to fulfill his "needs". Later the man's factory job is outsourced to another country, as it's cheaper to sell merchandise to retailers by using cheap foreign labor. He ends up as an employee at the big-box store he regularly shopped at, Big Box Mart, an obvious caricature of Wal-Mart. The cartoon is notable for containing the faces of approximately one thousand JibJab fans. To view the video, click Big Box Mart
The video is sung to the tune of ''Oh! Susanna''.
Budweiser advertising campaign
Their new project is an advertising campaign for ''Budweiser''. More information on this partnership can be found by going to their site.
"2-0-5"
This cartoon, which premiered on the Tonight Show on December 15 2005, is sung to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne" and "Turkey in the Straw". It depicts President George W. Bush singing about the many setbacks and issues he has faced and allegedly caused during 2005 and how he is hoping that 2006 will be better. Jim Meskimen provided the voices. The cartoon competed in the Internet category of the 2006 Ottawa International Animation Festival. To view the video, click [1]
Geezers: It Bit My Ass!
This cartoon is about two old men, one white, one black. The white grandpa, the pessimist, is complaining because he says that if you give something to a lot of people, they don't give anything back. The black grandpa, the optimist, is on the brighter side. The white grandpa feeds some Wonder Bread to some birds, but a squirrel takes it instead. He grabs the optimist's cane, and prepares to attack the squirrel. The squirrel turns evil-looking and bites his behind. Screaming to get it off, the pessimist calls the black man to beat the squirrel with his cane. He tries, but accidentally hits him in the Prosterior, and has to go to the hospital. The cartoon ends with a few squirrels laughing.
Santa Claus!
This cartoon is about Santa ranting about Christmas. It has since spawned an entire series of JibJab shorts under the overarching title "Nasty Santa".
Jokebox
Jibjab introduced a new feature which allows members (who can sign up for free) to compile and view written, video, audio or photo "jokes" and store them in their own "JokeBox". JibJabbers have uploaded more than 100,000 jokes, creating what many believe is the largest online joke database.
Weird Al - Do I Creep You Out
JibJab has released a video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody song "Do I Creep You Out?", taken from his ''Straight Outta Lynwood'' album. The video can be watched on the site. It involves the song's character (played by Weird Al himself, looking similar to Taylor Hicks, the artist who sings the original song "Do I Make You Proud") stalking the object of his affection until he is violently beaten and arrested by the police. The song ends with him at the prison's talent show, and the object of affection for one of the larger inmates. To view the video, click Do I Creep You Out
Deck the Halls
A relatively unknown post-2004 elections piece by JibJab is "Deck the Halls." It isn't an animation, but more an amalgamation of President Bush's and other press conferences with Bush's voice timed to sound like the Christmas carol Deck the Halls. The song is very high-paced and very jumpy with its clips, where some are also stopped and replayed to keep its high-paced mood going. To view the video, click Deck the Halls.
Nuckin' Futs- A Jib Jab Year In Review
This Jib Jab music video features kids in a "school play" singing a song about things that happened in 2006 (the year that made us all go nuckin' futs). It is sung to the tune of Jingle Bells. It was shown on December 13, 2006 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Some of the events and people mentioned include, in order:
Lyrics
★ Welcome to our show
★ We're happy that you're here
★ To hear us sing a song
★ About this crazy year
★ There was violence in Iraq
★ Trouble in Afghanistan
★ And Brangelina had a kid and started their own clan.
★ Oh! Sama hides, , Saddam lost his case
★ Remember when Dick Cheney shot that one guy in the face?
★ Phone call scams, liquid bans, Chavez blew a nut.
★ In the year 2006 the world was Nuckin Futs!
★ Tom Cruise got the axe
★ The Thai had quite a coup
★ I learned at summer camp, Mel Gibson hates the Jews.
★ Haggard fell from grace
★ Zarqawi bit the dust
★ And the Google guys YouTube for a couple billion bucks.
★ Did you hear, this past year, Castro nearly croaked
★ And Ariel Sharon suffered a hemorrhagic stroke
★ Abramoff, Tom DeLay, freezers full of cash.
★ My congressman IMed me for a picture of my ASS!
★ Paris swore off sex
★ Religious wars abound
★ Kim Jong lit a bomb, somehwere underground
★ E. coli in our food
★ Ken Lay died after trial
★ Lance Bass announced that he prefers alternative lifestyles
★ Did you hear, this past year, Rummy got the can
★ The Dems took over Congress, I don't think they have a plan.
★ Israel, Hezbollah, Iran wants a bomb, the way that things are going Armageddon won't
★ be long!
To view the video, click Nuckin' Futs.
What We Call the News
This music video criticizes the sensationalism, punditry, and gossip in modern TV news shows. It is sung to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. The characters tend to use a different style of talking animation, with separated heads that are similar to the depiction of Canadians on South Park. It was shown on March 28, 2007 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. To view the video, click What We Call The News.
Star Spangled Banner
This is JibJab's most recent video with the same concept as Deck the Halls, only that multiple presidents do parts. To view it click Star Spangled Banner.
Parodies of Companies (incomplete)
★ ENN (CNN)
★ Big News Channel (Fox News Channel)
★ Mal-Mart/ Big Box Mart (Wal-Mart)
★ Big Buy (Best Buy)
★ Nexxo (Exxon)
★ JMart (KMart)
★ Booger King (Burger King)
★ Mendy's (Wendy's)
★ MyOil (Mobil)
★ Golf (Gulf)
★ OilCo (Amoco)
★ US Allday (USA Today)
★ UBS Evening News (CBS Evening News)
★ Pisa (Visa)
★ Hiphop (IHOP)
★ Waffle Hut (Waffle House)
★ Golly (Getty Oil)
★ 96 (Union 76)
★ Cheap (Texaco)
★ Self (Shell)
★ Playhouse (Playboy)
See also
★ Rumple
External links
★ JibJab.com
★ CNN article about attempted legal action ('This Land')
★ Animated cartoons
★ JibJab debuts video lampooning news media ('What We Call The News')
★ JibJab skewers politicians and celebrities in 2006 year in review video ('Nuckin' Futs')
★ JibJab audience votes comedy troupe “Famous Last Nerds” winner of Great Sketch Experiment
★ Comedy kings JibJab and “Weird Al” Yankovic break new ground with video parody of American Idol Winner ('Do I Creep You Out?')
★ JibJab and Verizon Wireless team up with renowned comedy film director John Landis in The Great Sketch Experiment
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