Loading ...Every week, we give away $500 and airtime on our Comedy Central show Atom TV in the the Atom Showdown. Our tireless development team sifts through all of your uploads (literally yours) that come in to Atom and then we pit the two best videos against each other and make them fight it out for our approval and our cash (check out the showdown upload rules for all the life affirming fine print).
And now, each week, the Atom Editorial Staff will get together, flip a coin, randomly assign one of the videos to each of us, and we will call on our ill informed and hastily compiled opinions to debate the merits of each week’s Showdown Contenders. We bring you the Showdown Showdown: Week 1.
Matt: have you seen this week’s showdown videos yet?
Andrew: haha, right
Andrew: let me do that, give me, uh, 45 seconds
<20 minutes pass>
OPENING REMARKS
Andrew: all right
Andrew: let’s do this
Andrew: so I have Parannoying Activity
Andrew: in the showdown showdown
Andrew: that you are losing
Matt: SHOWDOWN SHOWDOWN
Andrew: so far the score is Andrew 2 – Matt 0
ed: Matt has Funny Games
THE CASE FOR PARANNOYING ACTIVITY
Andrew: anyway, Parannoying Activity is the best a) because I think it stars Brooke Hogan
Andrew: b) it has eating an entire bag of chips
Matt: which you are a big fan of
Andrew: that’s my only skill
Matt: no, no
Matt: you’re good at eating all of lots of things
Andrew: 
Andrew: c) I get out of it exactly what I would have gotten out of the movie
Andrew: but in, like 3 and a half minutes
THE CASE FOR FUNNY GAMES
Matt: “funny games” has “officer balzak” from Home Alone
Andrew: haha
Matt: Larry Hankin!
Matt: STAR STUDDED
Andrew: man
Andrew: I honestly have no idea who that is
Matt: he actually is in a ton of stuff
Andrew: I guess I should look some of this shit up on wikipedia before we start the debate
Matt: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359969/
DISCUSSION
Andrew: was the theme for this week’s showdown that they’re movie titles, or are we going with chips?
Matt: I skipped the theme
Matt: but yes, they both have chips
Andrew: it’s chips
Andrew: “hey, why were you chosen for Showdown?” “Chips, son”
Andrew: that’s how the conversation would go
Matt: the theming has been a little wonky lately
Andrew: I’m going to edit all of the above out
Andrew: and just have you say “Chips, Dogggggggg”
CONCLUSION
Matt: I can tell you aren’t paying attention Andrew!
Andrew: no, the ending of Parannoying Activity is pretty strong
Matt: What? Is there something fascinating going on on twitter?
Andrew: damn
Andrew: that is me, 100% thoroughly caught
Matt: NAILED IT
Matt: I’ll admit though, Parannoying Activity is actually about as awesome as the movie
Andrew: haha
Andrew: fine
Andrew: well, Funny Games suuuuuuuuuuucks
So that’s our well reasoned debate. Think we did a bad job? Maybe you do! You can have your say by voting in the Showdown and joining the discussion!
