Friday Funtime: Pop Argot Goes to the Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell

For all of you who are gonna be firecrackin' this weekend: I did a 4th of July Funtime set last year (I was a bit angrier toward our nation at the time) although I wish I'd linked to more of those. Ah well, y'alls know how to navigate YouTube.

Instead, I'll celebrate the convergence of two of America's most American concepts: fast food and corporate merger. It's hard to explain its appeal, but this summer's novelty hit manages to laugh at itself while laughing at franchise marketing, overconsumption habits, stoner disorientation, and belief of the hype. But ignore the original version of "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" by Das Racist (cute name, that: it deflects the criticism it simultaneously invites). Instead, go with the funked-up, popped-out, Propeller-headed Wallpaper remix, which gives authority to its absurdity. Really, what summarizes 2009 America better (on a hamburgers-and-hot-dogs holiday, no less) than "I got that Pizza Hut / I got that pizza gut / I got that pizza butt / I'm at the Pizza Hut"?