Bunnies Get Sixteen Candles

Posted by Dominic von Riedemann May 23, 2008

Jennifer Shiman's bunnies are back, and this time they're taking on the 1984 teen comedy Sixteen Candles, and doing it in 30 seconds. According to her, Amy Forstadt of Amy's Dairy helped out with the voices.

Sixteen Candles was unusual for its time, in that it showed a little more sensitivity to the adolescent zeitgeist than previous teen comedies like Porky's and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It made Molly Ringwald a teen star, and introduced future stars Anthony Michael Hall, Gedde Watanabe, plus Joan and John Cusack.

It is possibly the only flick where the star of a teen movie, Ringwald, actually played her age. Yup, most actors playing teenagers are in their mid-twenties; for instance, Ralph Macchio was 23 when he appeared in The Karate Kid, and was 31 when he played a freshman university student in 1992's My Cousin Vinny.

This one doesn't have as many gags as previous parodies, and for reasons of space, Shiman had to pass on the wedding ceremony, which is possibly one of the funniest matrimonial sequences of all time (hint: it involves an overdose on muscle relaxants).

You can check out Sixteen Candles Bunnies by clicking here. Jennifer Shiman's next parody will be Superbad, followed by Goodfellas.

Fun Fact: Shiman's parody of Brokeback Mountain won two Webby Awards for Online Film and Video/Animation, plus the People's Voice award in that category.