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I am happy to see the classics updated

Category: Cephalopods • Weirdness
Posted on: July 15, 2009 2:11 PM, by PZ Myers

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Posted by: Felix | July 15, 2009 2:24 PM

Ah, so they've finally recognized that these so-called 'classics' were in severe need of some deeper meaning.

deeper meaning, get it? I crack myself up. *splorsh*

Posted by: DLC | July 15, 2009 2:24 PM

Hahaha! that's a good one.
Tentacles from the pond. what next, squid washing up on the beach ?

Posted by: Hypatia's Daughter | July 15, 2009 2:44 PM

Oh,Yeah!! I hope they have done/will do Dickens. I have never been able to get past Chapter 1 of David Copperfeld. THIS I could swallow (with OO & garlic, of course.)

Posted by: MartinDH | July 15, 2009 2:46 PM

Reminds me of the scene from "Ed Wood" when Bela Lugosi battles the rubber octupus.

Posted by: Bjørn Østman | July 15, 2009 2:51 PM

Why was her dress wet up to the waist before she went into the water?

Posted by: TuxedoCartman | July 15, 2009 3:09 PM

Finest film since Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. It should be a tight race at the Academy Awards this year.

Posted by: LawnBoy | July 15, 2009 3:12 PM

The author of the rewrite is a college friend of mine - a very funny guy. This should be good.

Posted by: AlanWCan | July 15, 2009 3:19 PM

Posted by: Bjørn Østman | July 15, 2009 2:51 PM Why was her dress wet up to the waist before she went into the water?

Wouldn't yours be?

Posted by: Sili | July 15, 2009 3:26 PM

Bah. As David repeatedly tells us, there's no such thing as freshwater cephalopods.

Or so they would have us believe ...

#10

Posted by: Smidgy | July 15, 2009 3:32 PM

I especially like the other one, 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies', with the first line, 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.'

#11

Posted by: SciencePundit | July 15, 2009 3:36 PM

CTHULHU FHTAGN!!!

#12

Posted by: toth | July 15, 2009 4:03 PM

Cthulhu Fhtagn
What a wonderful phrase
Cthulhu Fhtagn
Ain't no passing craze
It means Cthulhu dreams beneath the waves
He's our undersea
Monstrosity
Cthulhu Fhtagn

#13

Posted by: daveau | July 15, 2009 4:27 PM

Smidgy@10

Yes, apparently Mr. Darcy greatly admires the Bennet girls' zombie slaying abilities. The spousal unit (Master's in English Lit) has read it, but I haven't gotten around to it, yet.

#14

Posted by: mattincinci | July 15, 2009 4:39 PM

LMFAO

#15

Posted by: phantomreader42 | July 15, 2009 4:51 PM

toth:

Cthulhu Fhtagn
What a wonderful phrase
Cthulhu Fhtagn
Ain't no passing craze
It means Cthulhu dreams beneath the waves
He's our undersea
Monstrosity
Cthulhu Fhtagn

I'm going to have that running through my head for a while. There's probably a better word than "running", but it's not coming to mind.

#16

Posted by: Keith | July 15, 2009 5:13 PM

Just finished P&P&Z and it was great. Looking forward to this one as well.

#17

Posted by: phantomreader42 | July 15, 2009 5:17 PM

toth:

Cthulhu Fhtagn
What a wonderful phrase
Cthulhu Fhtagn
Ain't no passing craze
It means Cthulhu dreams beneath the waves
He's our undersea
Monstrosity
Cthulhu Fhtagn

I'm going to have that running through my head for a while. There's probably a better word than "running", but it's not coming to mind.

#18

Posted by: Tim Danaher | July 15, 2009 5:21 PM

All together now...

#'No, it never rains in southern California...#

(you'd probably have to be from the place where those accents are from to get the overarching incongruity in that clippette...funny, though).

#19

Posted by: Beast | July 15, 2009 5:26 PM

Willoughby *so* deserved that!

#20

Posted by: OurDeadSelves | July 15, 2009 5:48 PM

I just got my copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in the mail today! How timely!

#21

Posted by: Happy Tentacles | July 15, 2009 6:03 PM

Oh bliss! I have long thought that almost all TV adaptations of nineteenth century classic novels would have been improved by the presence of a few Cephalopods. I'd now like to see 'The Pickwick Papers' performed entirely by cuttlefish, or the octopus version of 'Mill on the Floss'. Or even 'The Barchester Chronicles' re-interpreted by a theatre-group of progressive-thinking atheist giant squid.

#22

Posted by: @BangClangCrash | July 15, 2009 7:37 PM

toth@12:

You win. Forever. Nothing else will ever be funny again.

#23

Posted by: wrpd | July 15, 2009 8:31 PM

I liked the South Park version of Great Expectations.

#24

Posted by: dbtad | July 15, 2009 9:07 PM

@tosh:

That made my week. Thank you!

#25

Posted by: toth | July 15, 2009 10:01 PM

Much as I love praise, I must come clean and reveal that the above is not my own concoction. It's a common song circulating among a certain circle of my friends who are rather Cthulhu obsessed ("Cthulhu kisses", which involve waggling fingers in front of one's mouth like tentacles and touching other waggling tentacle-fingers, are common). I'm afraid I don't know the origin. I thought it might be from A Shoggoth On the Roof, but apparently not (I am not nearly as well versed in Cthulhu details as said friends, I just absorb their obsession happily).

#26

Posted by: Cowcakes | July 15, 2009 10:18 PM

I used to dread the mention of Jane Austen ever since being forcibly subjected to her tediously tortuous prose in high school. I may have to reassess my opinion with these revised works

#27

Posted by: Brandon P. | July 15, 2009 11:10 PM

What we need now is Shakespeare with non-avian dinosaurs.

#28

Posted by: Autumn | July 16, 2009 2:33 AM

A while ago, my wife went on a Jane Austen kick; she read all the novels and bought most of the BBC adaptations. I got her Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as a lark, and her main complaint is that it is, except for a few inclusions, simply the same book that Austen wrote.
She admits that the original novel is not something that she would read again.
I, however, am actually reading it, so I may be able to intelligently discuss Pride and Prejudice, as long as I remember to forget the "unmentionables".

#29

Posted by: Rich | July 16, 2009 4:28 AM

Having just finished Pride and Prejudice and Zombies I can honestly say that I found it a very enjoyable read. It's rare that I pick up any non-fiction, but I'm glad that I made an exception in this case. Highly recommended.

#30

Posted by: Orange | July 16, 2009 8:30 AM

Waaaaah. Thank goodness Jane Austen isn't alive to see this. She would positively faint! :)

#31

Posted by: Sleeper | July 16, 2009 8:41 AM

@Bjørn Østman (#5)

Take two, with no duplicate costume and no time to wait for it to dry. At a guess.

#32

Posted by: SeanJJordan | July 16, 2009 9:26 AM

@29, Rich

Um, you do realize that even without the zombies, Pride and Prejudice is fiction, right?

#33

Posted by: Gregory | July 16, 2009 10:05 AM

With the success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the author has been contracted to write two other similar books. This is one of them; the other has the working title of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which will be based on Lincoln's autobiography.

#34

Posted by: Ian | July 16, 2009 10:06 AM

toth,

It's a song by filker Tom Smith. I think it's even available for download somewhere on his website at www.tomsmithonline.com

#35

Posted by: Gregory | July 16, 2009 10:07 AM

Err... Lincoln's biography. Sorry.

#36

Posted by: Don | July 16, 2009 1:35 PM

#26

Austen's prose tortuous? Man, you must have had lousy teachers.

I hear one of the series is to be 'Queen Victoria - Demon Slayer' Tag line 'She loved her country, she hated demons.'

#37

Posted by: Don | July 16, 2009 1:50 PM

Oh, and a zombified Christmas Carol which begins 'Marley was dead. Again.'

#38

Posted by: HombreMoleculos | July 16, 2009 5:10 PM

She probably did what I would have done. Pissed my pants.

#39

Posted by: Cate B | July 16, 2009 6:57 PM

I dig the irony of turning Sense and Sensibility into a dark gothic tale with monsters! I'm sure Marianne would appreciate it. Can't say the same for Elinor, though ...

#40

Posted by: IO | July 17, 2009 2:43 AM

#39
Elinor would just deal with it like she deals with everything. Plus, if the monsters got Lucy Steele and/or Fanny, she might get to appreciate them, too ;-)

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#42

Posted by: estraven | July 17, 2009 9:38 AM

Anyone may read what Austen thought of her contemporaries' fascination with horror novels in Northanger Abbeys.
And compulsory reading has to be removed from all kinds of schools, if it ends up preventing people from appreciating Austen's prose.