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I happened to play the Problem Child music video for a coworker today (I must really hate my coworkers!), and randomly paused on an image, that upon further examination, is so awful that I can't really believe it's in a music video by The Beach Boys:

(http://i66.tinypic.com/21b3qbm.jpg)

But then I remembered this scene of the band dressed as rappers in Wipeout:

(http://i64.tinypic.com/2myvn7b.jpg)

And the dog butthole shot unfortunately coinciding with my favorite guitar part in That's Why God Made the Radio:

(http://i63.tinypic.com/j92cdf.jpg)

Wondering if anyone else has any examples? Yeah, I know that every frame of stuff like Summer of Love is cringeworthy, but I'm seeking screenshots of frames of specific weird oddities that might have otherwise gone unnoticed...

I think that scene from Wipeout is so bad it’s good. 

I don’t know how to do a screenshot on the device I’m using, but there are a couple of scenes in the video for Crocodile Rock that consist of extreme close-ups of a person in an alligator costume ogling a woman’s breasts.  There’s really no way you can’t cringe while watching that. 

Yep, that's a good one  :lol

(http://i64.tinypic.com/szy0as.jpg)

Uh oh, that girl is probably going to sue that guy in the croc suit. 

 :lol

Thanks for capturing it in all its glory!  And I made a mistake in my original post - it’s clearly a crocodile, not an alligator...

My new profile picture! ;D

Hahahaha

Here’s a heartwarming moment from Rock & Roll to the Rescue.

(https://78.media.tumblr.com/e19c841c8f53e7fd09a989d838d8b3be/tumblr_p2416wofPB1qzd1yeo1_400.jpg)

Rocky going the distance! :lol

In what universe does a bald headed 40 something get the eye of a bikini clad 20-something?
Why, in Beach Boys Video Universe, of course!

We're going the distance. ..we're going for...speed

https://youtu.be/dJ-1ytWJXPk

In every universe where money exists.

Looking at that "Wipeout" shot, it's amazing how skinny Brian got for a while under Landy.

Considering how incredibly nerdy and detailed, in a good way of course, that historians have been about documenting each and every musician on every single recording by this band, I'm surprised nobody has tried to do the same for documenting every actor and extra who has appeared in one of the band's music videos…   I can only imagine the weird stories that actors and extras who were on the sets of these videos would have to tell.

My girlfriend thought he looked like a real stud back then!

I think if you look at any Vid with Stamos in it, at one point he inevitably tilts his head back for some reason, often in slow motion. Awful...

Virtually every frame the group appears on "Summer of love"

By the way, last night I dreamt I was at Stamos' place and I asked him for an explation for the autotune on Do it Again and other productions crimes on Unleash The Love.

Might bring it to therapy this afternoon, I think.

#MeToo

Billy going to the next BW show...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYDZbOutkpA

Two turntables and a Mike Love, just doesn't have the same ring. /Beck (not Jeff Beck the other 90s one. Nearly typed James Beck - he was Private Walker, the spiv in Dads Army lol)

Funny thing about this picture.  It's probably one of the few times in the late 80s where Mike is the LEAST ridiculous looking one in the picture. 

Mike actually looks 80s cool.  :o ??? :)

There's such thing as "80s cool"? That's funny, given it's the worst decade fashion-wise.

I don't know.   I think the 1990s gave us guys wearing baggy jeans past their crotch with oversized tee shirts and backwards / sideways caps.   I'll take those bright 80s neons over that any day of the week. 

Nothing racialized about that. Nothing at all.

It's impossible for me to equivocate on stuff like that "Wipeout" video; they all look ridiculous. Mike doesn't look any more or less ridiculous. It's all bad.

The "California Dreamin'" video was okay. Pretty much every other music video/promo film they did in the 80s and 90s was awful. The '85 videos were weird and goofy, and after that it quickly devolved into generic clip-jobs of beach or hot rod footage and unsynced b-roll concert footage smushed together, like "Rock and Roll to the Rescue", "Still Crusin", etc.

Nope.  It looks stupid no matter what color skin the person has.  

We dissected this awhile back, and through pretty much all of the 80s and 90s, the BBs looked ridiculous most of the time with the notable exception (sometimes, still not always) of Carl. Full stop.

I find it largely just amusing, although I suppose at certain moments in their career it didn't help them a great deal and certainly hasn't helped their image age well. But it's mostly just goofy stuff.

But I can't, with a straight face, parse it to the point of saying the goofy 80s neon stuff looks better than anything else. Mike wearing any clothes is preferable to this:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CursVz7W8AAEFMi.jpg)

But I can't say any of it is good, so it's kind of grasping as straws to say Mike in a big oversized puffy shoulder neon shirt in the 80s with the stupid baseball cap looks better than the picture above. Listening to "Summer of Love" is better than sticking my head in a vice too.

HJ,

I only made the comparison because in the Wipe Out video, Mike isn't wearing one of those Gilligan hats.  Of course, it's all pretty silly. 

2KDS: Max Goof used to sport backwards/ sideways cap in "Goof Troop" (rmbr the 1990s cartoon series with cool rhythm theme song?).

I only vaguely remember Goof Troop.   I was more of a Ducktales fan, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie wore their caps bills front.   ;D