This one never quite got the recognition it deserves. When I show it to people, most of them never saw it before. I've even looked for it on Know Your Meme database and came up empty handed. So this is the original shit you've got right here. I never read it from an original source, but apparently, the story behind this video goes as follows.
Ross and his friends rented a room at this hotel for a LAN party (NERD!). Drunken people from the wedding reception across the hall kept crashing into the room, thinking it was the bathroom or something. The upstanding LAN party nerds got fed up after a while and planned their vengeance. All they needed for that was a video camera and a Batman-t-shirt-wearing nerd that vaguely looks like a young Bobcat Goldthwaite.
Why is it so funny?: Somebody please explain me how the hell Ross came up with such an slick choreography? Not only is he a genuine good dancer, with a sense of timing and smooth transitions, he pulled together the moves with such grace and comical stage presence that Jim Carrey probably wouldn't have danced it better.
There's always been a lot of propaganda made by Hollywood to convince kids that dancing made you more of a badass and a ladies man than any jock contact sport you can ever practice. This video hits the spot more than three seasons of "So You Think You Can Dance?" and two viewings of "Footloose" combined. There are two reasons for that.
1)Ross isn't pathetic. He's bored, mildly annoyed and he's looking for a way to have fun over obnoxious people.
2)Dancing here, is almost unchecked aggression. It's not a "way of self-expression" or "something that saves Ross' life". No, he dances to crash a party as hard as he can. There's a poetic justice to it, but it's devoid of underdog storyline. You don't need to get your head flushed down the toilet bowl to be an aggressor.
Oh yeah and have you noticed how the floor was empty? He probably scared everybody away with his boogeyman skills.
