I’m logging footage for a reality television vehicle for Ted Nugent called Wanted: Ted or Alive (or What Happens When Reality Television Stops Being Nice and Starts Acting Nuge). E.T. (the Extra Terrestrial) sneaks into the Nuge’s attic, where there are two rifles. E.T. takes one of the rifles and crawls into the heating ducts. After a short crawl, E.T. is looking out of a register near the ceiling of one of the rooms in Ted Nugent’s house. E.T. takes aim at Ted Nugent’s right-hand man standing below the register and fires. E.T. kills the man.

But now the Nuge is aware of E.T.’s hostile presence. E.T. jumps out of the heating duct. The Nuge has grabbed a rifle and is in pursuit of E.T., who is running from the Nuge. E.T. is cornered in a room with no exit. The Nuge stands at one end of the room and fires at E.T. E.T., facing the Nuge, shuffles back and forth against the far wall of the room in an attempt to avoid the Nuge’s shower of bullets. Amazingly, the Nuge misses E.T. with every shot.

Of course I think, Bullshit. The Nuge is a crack shot. He would never miss E.T. with a rifle from that range.

After months of telling everyone around me that David Cross has turned into a washed-up loser, Underhyped has decided that it’s finally time to seal the deal. And so, before you all start screaming about how great Arrested Development is, I just want you to relax, kick back, and have an open mind… about how David Cross is an asshole.

David Crosses his fans!

MORE… David Cross - OVERHYPED

So, me and my associate, Mr. Adam, have finally found our place in Southern California only to be barraged with earthquakes and the voice of Maria Shriver, wife of our governor, alerting us to buy a earthquake care package. That being said - LA is scary on so many levels - but still, we LOVE it here!

Anyway, as part of the Underhyped.com team, we are obliged to look at the annals of culture that seem so overhyped in order to either bring them down a peg, realize - SHOCK - that those works of art are actually works of art(!), or just realize we had our panties in a twist and shrug our shoulders. We really aren’t talking about films like “Batman Returns” either. That brand of overhypedness is bought and paid for - and hardly anyone is fooled. But there are other films that are more subversive elements within our culture. They slip into our vernacular so imperceptibly that one day we realize they are sleeping in our bed with us (kind of like spiders or bed bugs or heart-shaped “hug me” pillows). They are supposedly sleeper hits that mean something to us or are somehow relevant to our lives. As VIPW (Very Important People of the Web), we feel it is our duty to analyze and judge and criticize.

So - drumroll - we are going to review the importance of Garden State and Napoleon Dynamite on our everyday lives. These films came out in 2004 - but as sleeper hits, they have continued to reverberate (kind of like a magnitude 4.9 earthquake) in our lives through 2005. Me and my associate - ahem, my associate and I - have been holdouts, refusing to join the masses, until after enough self-imposed alienation, we watched them last night.

MORE… The State of Garden v. Napoleon Dynamite