the buzz log
And Search Ran Away With the Spoon
We noticed a bit of a Buzz storm raging Tuesday over an unusual phrase: "spoon me to death." The surge seemed to correspond with searches on "movie quotes" and "kroq," so we surmised that some sort of big screen challenge had been thrown down to listeners of the popular Los Angeles radio station.
Challenge turns out to be the right word. One of the Buzz Log's Southern California connections reports that KROQ deejays Kevin and Bean sparked the spoony controversy by wondering aloud which movie or TV show featured the line, "What are you going to do, spoon me to death?" Cue the Search frenzy.
Our source tells us that the mystery has become a city-wide obsession. "Various movies and TV shows were re-watched (many of them bad ones)," he revealed to us on Wednesday morning, "but none have been confirmed to have [the line] so far." Some enterprising souls have even cashed in on the hysteria and begun selling "spoon me to death" T-shirts.
Does the line come from "Mystery Men"? "The Whole Nine Yards"? "Anger Management"? "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"? Intrepid investigators left behind a trail of Search spikes as they ventured into the wilds of the Web and dipped into their DVD collections. These would-be Sherlocks approached the problem from different angles, tweaking their searches to find "famous movie quotes," "famous funny movie quotes," "funny quotes," and even "famous quotes."
"Spoon me to death"—after this hubbub, it may indeed qualify as a famous quote. Wherever it comes from.
Filed under: Quotes, Radio, Movies and DVDs
Doomsday Scenarios: Yours, Mayan and Ours
Take your age of reason, your proofs, your inductive methods to life. Give us doomsday scenarios and Mayan prophecies anyday. Science fiction fans have been abuzz over either "2012: Doomsday," released in video on February 12, or Roland Emmerich's big-screen version coming to theaters in 2009.
The video's tagline describes "a modern Christian epic in the tradition of 'Omega Code' and 'Left Behind.'" Any mix of religious overtones, ancient civilizations, and end-of-world scenarios pretty much guarantees the perfect online storm: Variations for searches on "2012 doomsday movie" have risen more than 1,200%, pushing the term into the top 3,000 terms in the past 7 days.
The mostly male fans aged 13-54 aren't merely tracking the movie poster and trailer. Investigations into the "2012 doomsday prophecy" and "prophecy cycle" are plentiful as searches for the film, and they in turn have led to online archaelogical forays into Mayan culture: "mayan calendar," "mayan culture," "mayan sacrifice," and the pre-Columbian site "chichen itza." Turns out there is an entire Wiki page dedicated to what could happen four years from now, replete with "how to survive" tips. (Includes plastic sheeting, a whistle to call for help, peanut butter, and fallout shelter.)
"2012: Doomsday" may turn out to be a creative franchise. The director and writers behind the romantic comedy "Failure to Launch" plan to do a version for Paramount Pictures' Nickelodeon Movies. If the end of the world isn't fodder for a feel-good family movie, we don't know what is.
Filed under: Movies, Movie Trailers, Movies and DVDs, Prophecy, Cult Movies
The Christmas Stories
Tales as old as... well, at least as old as 1823. Be it a poem, stop-motion animation, or a live-action film, a well-told holiday narrative is often appreciated and retold.
Family movie "This Christmas," freshly released Nov. 21, leads the Yuletide tally of the past 30 days. Actor/rapper Chris Brown's crooning likely fuels its frontrunner status... musical accompaniment can only help a story's success, as our Buzz holiday playlist reveals.
Queue up these most-searched classics, and weigh in with your must-see yarns of the season.
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Filed under: Holidays, Movies and DVDs, Christmas
Buzz in a Box Set
The DVD box set is a true wonder of the modern world. Slick packaging, post-production commentary, deleted scenes, and director's cuts—all high-tech marvels that rival any tower, statue, or the Library of Alexandria. You know this, we know this, and Search is the proof.
Along with big screen TVs and home theater upgrades, DVD collections are some of the hottest holiday gifts. Like you, we hope to get our hands on a few of this week's most popular box sets in Search. Yes, even "The Golden Girls."
Filed under: Shopping, Movies and DVDs
top movers
| Rank | Subject | 1-Day Move |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ford 400 | Breakout! |
| 2 | Indonesia Ferry | Breakout! |
| 3 | Jordan Chandler | 3481% |
| 4 | Evan Chandler | 2322% |
| 5 | American Music Awards | 1841% |
| 6 | John F. Kennedy | 1529% |
| 7 | Turkey Stuffing Recipes | 1361% |
| 8 | Liam Hemsworth | 1172% |
| 9 | Lou Dobbs | 1142% |
| 10 | Hendrick Motorsports | 888% |
top leaders
| Rank | Subject | Move | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black Friday | +340 | 1290 |
| 2 | NFL | +489 | 670 |
| 3 | Jennifer Lopez | +451 | 515 |
| 4 | New Moon | -67 | 250 |
| 5 | American Music Awards | +236 | 249 |
| 6 | UFC | -36 | 239 |
| 7 | Miley Cyrus | +66 | 169 |
| 8 | Hulu | -11 | 154 |
what's the buzz?
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