Sadness
We need a new word in the English language, an adjective that describes a piece of work that would work brilliantly as parody, if it were parody. Only it’s not. If you’ve got suggestions for what that word would be, feel free to speak up.
Examples include that squirt gun commercial where it looks like the children are ejaculating on each other, The Village People video for “Sex on the Phone” and this Malaysian Martial Arts Training Video which is apparently from a country where “Martial Arts” consists entirely of jumping off high places and then rolling around on the ground in pain for several minutes.
I ask for this word because I want to use it to describe this trailer for the game Sadness for the Nintendo Wii. The “you want this game!” climax of the ad features the game character standing in the rain. The game player holds up the Wii controller…
…and the character on screen responds by raising her umbrella:
Yeah.
