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Worst Effort: Adams

The creatively titled “Adams Housing Day Video 2018” serves to convey one piece of information: Adams is very close to the Yard. It’s hard to disagree that Yard proximity is a desirable feature in a house, and Adams is probably the closest house to many parts of the Yard, but this video accomplishes nothing besides getting that point across. The overwhelming impression is that its creators were not trying too hard.

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Worst Impression of Billy Joel: Kirkland

Much like “Fly Quincy,” it’s difficult to tell what this video is aiming for. It is based on an unofficial 2014 Kirkland video, in which students chanted “Kirkland House, Kirkland House” to the tune of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” while a “slideshow” comprised of one unimpressive picture of Kirkland played. While that video was a minimalist masterpiece that made a virtue out of ostentatiously low effort levels, this one tries a bit too hard for it to have the same effect. It has coherent lyrics and an actual multi-photo slideshow, which suggests that it is not aiming for slacker funniness, but nothing in the video is compelling enough to make it anything but a tone-deaf imitation of past greatness.

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