Every week, we dig in the archives for videos that we find noteworthy, memorable, or just unbelievably stupid. And then, Jon McMillan breaks 'em down for you. Why Video Hangover? Because when you watch as many videos as we do, you're going to feel it afterwards.
"Life is a Highway"
Tom Cochrane, 1992
Join Tom Cochrane on the lamest road-trip of all time.
Tom Cochrane looks like:
a) touring keyboardist for Hootie and the Blowfish
b) a homeless Chuck Klosterman impersonator
c) the Canadian Springsteen
d) a guy Kurt Cobain used to beat up in high school
e) Bryan Adams in a fat suit
Worst. Trip. Ever.
The only thing lamer than Tom's choice of road-as-life metaphor is the itinerary for this road trip. Driving? On the open highway? Of life? Maybe we'll meet some self-consciously quirky and "real" characters along the way. Like some old people. Or a vaguely indigenous-looking person. Or a fat man in suspenders eating a popsicle with his little-person bride. That's what the road of life is all about, right? Quirky, real people doing quirky, real stuff. On or near the road. Really, they should've run Cochrane down when they had the chance.
Or was it an abduction?
At the :53 mark, the woman (who looks suspiciously like Tina Yothers) makes a run for it, only to be corralled and forcibly returned to the car by the man (who looks suspiciously like Gerardo). Later, at the 2:37 mark, she tries again, and he wipes out trying to get around the car. Clearly, this woman is being coerced. I'm no Psychologist, but I can only assume that Stockholm Syndrome has set in by the time the incredibly awkward dance party begins at the 3:11 mark. I just don't see any other explanation.
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