I know 1993′s Surf Ninjas might be a bit of a stretch in terms of the ‘forgotten’ part of forgotten classics, since I do hear people bring it up from time to time, but the trailer is still useful as an example of the earliest record scratch sound effect in recorded history.  Most people don’t remember, but 1993 became the high-water mark of record-scratch sound effect usage, when a spunky little flick called Surf Ninjas employed the device before the trailer even began.  Most of the time in a movie trailer, some normal crap will be happening and everything will be all regular, when all of a sudden, (*RECORD SCRATCH*) the world gets flip-turned upside down and hijinks begin to ensue.  Therefore, the message of Surf Ninjas, by putting the record scratch before any of the footage, is that THIS MOVIE IS PURE HIJINKS!  THE HIJINKS BEGIN AS SOON AS YOU BUY YOUR TICKET!  COWABUNGA, DUDE, THIS ISN’T YOUR GRANDMA’S NINJA SURF RECORD SCRATCH DJ!  And yes, that was Rob Schneider in there.  He should’ve killed himself after this came out, and gone out on top.

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500 Days of Summer has a new trailer out, and amazingly, they made it look like something I’d want to see.  Funny how replacing mom pants and a scene blatantly ripped from Garden State (and might I add it was the worst scene) will do that to a trailer.  Now we’ve got an anal sex joke, Hall & Oates, and my all-time favorite, the record-scratch sound effect.  A record scratch says WHOA, STOP THE PARTY, CHEECH, THIS STORY ISN’T PLAYING OUT HOW I’D PLANNED!  YOU’VE SUBVERTED MY EXPECTATIONS AGAIN, YOU CRAZY KIDS! OH NO, HIJINKS!

Zooey Deschanel is really hot.  She’d be even hotter if she didn’t dress like sex was something she read about in the New Yorker.

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After the jump, I’ve got the trailer for Baby on Board.  Which I liked better when it was called The Break Up, and again when it was called What Happens in Vegas.  That’s right, What Happens in Vegas looks better than this.  But it does still have a chance at the Oscar for best use of sound effects in a trailer (they have that, right?).  Keep your ears peeled for the classic record scratch at the 45-second mark, and the criminally underused Flintstones-car-coming-to-a-halt sound at 1:07.  What, no canned laughter?  For the love of God, tell me how to think, trailer editing guy!
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In TOMMY AND THE COOL MULE, Tommy’s DAD goes off to IRAQ, leaving TOMMY and his MOM to defend the FAMILY FARM from a GREEDY DEVELOPER played by KEVIN SORBO.  But if he WANTS to be the MAN OF THE HOUSE, Tommy is going to have to WIN the BIG RACE…. (*RECORD SCRATCH*) on a mule!  A cool mule, to be exact.  Voiced by Ice-T.

I. Cannot. Believe. This. Is. A. Real. Movie. Seriously, this has to be from the same people who made Nachos the Cross-Eyed Cat, right?  I would love to have been a fly on the wall when they were making the Cool Mule’s costume.

“Hmm, the bling necklace doesn’t fit over the mule’s head. I’m gonna have to go get a longer chain.”
“What?  We’re burning daylight here!  Screw it, just put the necklace over his face.  There.  I think it looks… cooler like that way, doesn’t it?”
“Whatever.”

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