Christmas with Obama

I totally failed at what I set out to do, but on the other hand...

2009-03-19T12:00:00.000-07:00

So okay look,

I haven't kept up with this thing like I said I would, I see that, we all see that. But the important thing is that the work I have already done on here was enough to get the attention of a few people, and those people were enthusiastic enough to figure out the appropriate steps to go through and now this project is on some kind of legitimate track.

Okay this does NOT mean I will be making this video. Incredibly UNLIKELY, but still, people in the right places have heard about this and so, you know, we'll see.

If something good happens you'll hear about it.

Post script: If I am being vague (and I am) it is because I don't want to bite any hands that maybe, could possibly, in some distant future, allow me to meet the president.

Idea no. 4: Obama and the Robot (version 1)

2008-12-05T11:25:00.000-08:00

So this one has a lot of possibilities and this will be only the first take on it:

The Prime Minister of Japan is visiting the White House and he brings a Christmas gift for the Obama family. The girls excitedly open it to find a robot. They take the robot out of the box and turn him on. He says hello and begins asking the Obamas questions about who they are where he is. Eventually the topic of the holiday season comes up and it turns out that the robot has no idea about Christmas or Hanukkah or any of it. So the Obama family, with the help of that Crazy Cabinet, decide to put on a series of skits for the robot to teach him about the various holidays and practices and traditions concerning this time of year.

These scenes include biblical reenactments, a version of the Hanukkah story, Charlie Brown’s Christmas special, the history of Kwanza and a sampling of other traditions from around the world.

In the end the robot comes to understand and he turns to the camera and wishes us all a happy holiday season.

Idea no. 3: "No I'm Obama!"

2008-11-23T13:37:00.000-08:00

It’s their first Christmas in the White House and the whole Obama family is excited. In many ways things are perfect, but Michelle and the girls miss Christmastime in Chicago when they still had a normal life and could go shopping un-guarded by secret-service agents, and the girls could sit in Santa’s lap without dozens of reporters surrounding them.

So Obama hatches a plan.

He calls up his good friend (and accomplished actor) Will Smith who happens to be in town for some reason. Big Willie agrees to dress up like Obama and impersonate him for a day while Obama disguises himself and his family as normal civilians out on a normal day of Christmas shoping.

So Michelle helps dress WillSmith up as Barack, does his hair and puts him in a suit and he looks perfect. Even Joe Biden and Rahm Emanuel can’t tell. On the other hand Barack himself puts on a fake mustache and glasses and Michelle and the girls put on wigs and when the transformation is complete they sneak out of the Whitehouse.

Things go well at first. Willsmith does a great job at impersonating Obama, and the family has a great time being normal civilians again. Trouble happens when it turns out that the D.C. police are on the lookout for a Christmas-tree Burglar whose description fits exactly that of the disguise that Obama is wearing. So he is arrested and put in a holding cell. No one will believe him that he is the president. Meanwhile back at the W.H. things are getting tough for Willsmith. Warren Buffett calls with some important economic policy issues to discuss and Willsmith has no idea what to do. Back in the holding Cell Obama gets into a conversation with some of the drunks and thugs in the cell with him. These are people who think that they have to place in society or in our nation. Obama tells them all about his ideas for change and about how wonderful our nation can be when we work together. Eventually everybody in the cell is in tears and they all vow to change their lives.

The Whitehouse is attacked by a gang of nocturnal mutant zombies and aliens. Willsmith is excited to find a problem he does know how to deal with. He fights them a lot and wins, “Welcome to Earth!”

Eventually Michelle gets the secret service to come down to the jail and get Obama out and they go back to the Whitehouse where Willsmith is just cleaning up all the mutant zombie and alien corpses.

Turns out, in all that time that Obama was in jail Michelle and the girls had a great time shopping enjoying the Christmas spirit. So it all worked out in the end. Merry Christmas.

Idea no. 2: Looking for Change

2008-11-17T00:37:00.000-08:00

So here's the second idea. I should say that I hope to eventually have concept art for all of these, but I'm not going to wait for that right now. If I get art for this one and the previous one, then I will go back and add it and I'll let you guys know when I do.

So without further ado:

It’s Christmas Eve and Obama is working late at his desk in the Oval Office. He reaches over to his can diet root beer and finds that it is empty. He opens the opens the oval office mini-fridge to find it empty with a note that says: “buy more diet root beer”. So he leaves the office and wanders around the Whitehouse until he finds a coke machine. He reaches in his pockets and finds them empty. Not even a quarter. So then he goes around asking people for change for the coke machine, he asks his wife and daughters, and Joe Biden, and Rahm Emanuel (and all of his other staff and cabinet members who haven’t been announced yet.) He even bumps into Warren Buffett (who is for some reason at the White House on Christmas Eve) but he tells Obama that he just spent his last few quarters buying GM stock.

So with no one to help him Obama goes and tries to pick the lock on the coke machine. Then suddenly Santa Claus shows up.

“I have heard your wishes Barack Obama, you desire change and so it shall be: when you wake up tomorrow the whole nation will have fuel-efficient alternative-energy powered cars, there will be peace on Earth with extra in the middle east, there will be no debt or poverty, and in general people will lead productive fulfilling lives. You asked so earnestly for change and no you have it, this is your gift this year President Obama, Merry Christmas!”

And in a puff of smoke he disappears. Obama is stunned. All of his goals achieved in a moment, a Christmas Miracle! Then… he realizes:

“What about my diet root beer!”

The End.

new posts soon

2008-11-14T08:35:00.000-08:00

I have a few more ideas already written but I am waiting until I have concept art to go with (cough cough, j. nelson...).

Idea no. 1: "Two Obamas?"

2008-11-07T17:18:00.000-08:00

I guess before I outline this video idea I should explain a little more about my intentions here. I want this job, very sincerely, but I understand that it is way out of my reach and this blog idea is the best way I know of bringing the possibility closer to me. So what I am posting here is for entertainment purposes only. I hope that you find these ideas funny and enjoyable. Nothing I say here is meant to be offensive or political. I love our new president and I would never want to do or say anything hurtful or negative about him or his family.

So I think that about covers that...

So this first idea goes something like this: It's Christmas time and everybody in the white house is busy either with the holiday spirit or with the governing of the nation. One day Joe Biden notices that Obama's daughters have been arguing a lot over who gets to feed and brush their new puppy. The puppy loves them both equally but neither wants to give up the puppy's affection to her sister. Biden naturally wants everybody to be happy and so he hatches a plan. He goes down to the secret laboratory below the basement of the white house and dusts off FDR's Duplicator Ray Gun. (This was of course the machine which allowed FDR to clone himself so that he could live long enough to serve all four terms as president.) Biden figures that if he can get the puppy in front of the ray gun he can turn it into two puppies and then each girl will have their own puppy to take care of and they will both be happy. it's so crazy that it just might work!

So Biden brings Obama down to the secret lab and shows him the Duplicator Ray. Of course the Ray malfunctions and zaps Obama himself and then there are two Obamas! Obviously hilarity ensues... I'm not sure what all exactly, maybe eventually Santa Claus calls the white house and says that because of the suffering world economy he can't afford to go out to bring presents this year and so Obama has Biden zap him hundreds of times with the Ray Gun, creating an army of Obamas who all dress up like Santa Claus and bring presents to children around the world. And at the end Santa Claus uses his magic to turn them all back into one Obama, just in time for his family to wake up and never have known anything happened. But his daughters are excited to see what Santa brought them for Christmas: a new puppy!

So that's roughly it, who knows, I may go back and change it, or spin it off into a new idea, I'm not sure, I'm new to this too.

Comments are always appreciated.

thanks.

To Start Off With

2008-11-07T08:19:00.001-08:00

President Bush has made goofy Christmas videos every year he's been in the white house. I want Obama to do the same, and I want the job of making them.

On this blog I will post my ideas for these videos with the hopes of gaining some kind of attention and possibly consideration for this job.

I'll try and post as often as I can and comments are more than appreciated.

thanks,

-ben collins