New Year, New Bullshit (2023)

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On a Cunard Ocean Liner called R.M.S. Rolling Mary, Jr. hosts a New Year's Party in the Ballroom.

Jr: Alright, this decade is a controversial one. YouTube drops down in quality, foreign and indie films and shows increased in popularity, Disney just ruined themselves and got humiliated by other competitors and indie developers on their own 100th anniversary and film they held for a long-ass time, besides "Once Upon a Studio". Humanity started to tank in quality in around 2016 to 2019/2020. Alright, enough talk. Let's get going!

The video starts with an AMV with different cartoons and anime referencing history from one of Billy Joel's iconic songs along side with the actual context of the history source.

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Kyoka: What is this song?

Jr: This is "We Didn't Start The Fire"

Della: It goes from 1949 to 1989, the year the song came out

Jr: Fun fact, Billy Joel originally wanted to be a history teacher. But when he ended up doing a music career, he made this to reference the career he could've got that would change his life

Louie: If this is how Billy Joel teaches his history class, I might actually like it because history's boring

Louie then noticed History Buff Hippo Team death-staring at him from the distance.

Louie:...but not in a lame way

Hippo Team: *Historical Figures Intensifies*

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen

Kyoka: Hearing that makes it different

Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

A few began to rock out with the song.

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

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