#scared stiff

i’m glad someone noticed jerry took on the female roles in the remakes m&l did!

first in their remake of nothing sacred (1937) with living it up (1954) where jerry fills in carole lombard’s role as the main character dying of radiation poisoning (in nothing sacred, it is radium poisoning). dean plays his childhood friend and physican, who, in the original film, was carole lombard’s romantic interest.

then they did it again in the major and the minor (1942) with you’re never too young (1955), where jerry takes on ginger rogers’ role of the main character dressing up as a kid to get out of a sticky situation. dean, once again, plays the ‘major’ in the title (this time a regular sharp customer) and is playing the role of the male love interest.

surprisingly, scared stiff doesn’t do away with mary carter’s character played by paulette goddard from the bob hope film ghost breakers (1940). instead, they keep mary (carroll)’s role, played by lizabeth scott, and invent a new character for jerry to play—myron mertz, larry’s childhood friend. funnily enough, their scenes in the beginning of the film have homosexual underpinnings, and dean’s character, larry, shirks the girl he is originally seeing to go find and help myron.

additionally, pardners (1956), is very loosely based on bing crosby’s rhythm on the range (1936), and doesn’t have jerry take on a reinterpreted female role—though dean and jerry’s characters have a silly meeting like the main romantic couple do in the 1936 film.

it is clear that there is “unintentional” homoerotic coding in their films—remakes or not. the remakes slot jerry into the female romantic lead’s role, while their original films beat-by-beat make the characters as close as a couple.

additionally, jerry’s characters are generally queer-coded, or in a vaguely problematic 1950s way, stereotypically female (plus he cross-dresses three times—in the stooge (1952), in at war with the army (1950), and in money from home (1953)).

in the friendship between dean and jerry’s characters, he plays the doting, loyal ‘female’ coded roles, usually with strong loving housewife underpinnings. in the caddy (1953), jerry’s character, harvey, patiently cooks dean’s character, joe, dinner. a frilly apron is tied around his waist, and he sweetly greets joe at the door, even fussing with joe’s clothes and nagging at him. in artists and models (1955), their characters are trying to make it big—jerry’s character eugene a writer and dean’s character rick a comic book artist. the two men co-habit together and are very good friends—super sweet and affectionate to the nth degree. in the beginnings of the film, eugene makes dinner for the two of them, apron once again tied around his waist; it doesn’t say if they take turns making dinner, but the way it’s set-up, it’s implied eugene is the usual homemaker. it’s a meager dinner but ricky eats it nonetheless, and even reads a newspaper like a husband would. later, ricky tries to leave—stating they need to get a “divorce”—but falters once he sees eugene’s teary face and decides to stay. eugene’s character is loving and well-intentioned; if this were a straight goofball comedy, one can easily imagine the actress playing jerry’s role as “the wife” or “eventual wife” of the pair.

1940s and 1950s america had clearly caught onto the romantic tension between jerry and dean, and did their best to reflect it onto the screen. the crowds flocking to their shows were wildly permitting for a post-war audience and especially for fans of a comedy duo. they even delighted in the affection dean and jerry showed each other on stage and implied in dirty asides (jerry’s “riding” joke from the radio show comes to mind).

Logos I did for the SiIvaGunner 10th Anniversary (SG10) Graffiti Collab! Here we go….!

Bird Up! The worst logo on the collab! Had to do a lot of work finding the mural from the original sketch and finding the cloud texture Eric Andre used for the green screen. Special thanks to the legend JoeBro, whose rips inspired this!

Bear in the Big Blue House coming your way! I sure do love to Cha-Cha-Cha!!! This one is based mainly on the Songs from Bear in the Big Blue House CD artwork. But it also has some wavy "Cha-Cha-Cha" bits of text which are inspired by some graphics from some VHS releases of Bear. I love this show so much I'm glad it was able to find a place on this channel <3

David S. Pumpkins' logo will scare the HELL… out of you! I vector traced the pumpkins on his suit for this. The colours of the logo are inspired by the Halloween animated special as well. Shoutouts to Myeauxyoozi who was a big part of why David became a halloween staple on the channel.

Desmond the Moon Bear… how did this get here? THE END Desmond is one of my favourite jokes on the channel, I love asdfmovie mannnn!!! Grambam36 was responsible for introducing him and man that guy makes some amazing rips!

Fanboy & Chum Chum! Amazing and totally crazy as always. This show's theme song was one of the first memes pushed in 2020 back when I was only a fansubmitter to the SiIvaGunner channel. That era of SiIva memes was so strange as rippers were having to relearn how to make new established jokes after the King for Another Day era had ended. It was never a personal favourite joke but it's the poster child of a very transitional time for the channel.

Home Depot. In a perfect world there would be a Bunnings one too but that's not a SiIvaGunner meme or anything :( I'll be honest... I mainly made this one because it took like, 5 minutes to make lol!!!! The Home Depot Beat is an awesome mashup source!!!

Giant Steps. This is the augmented triad logo. Repost this in 30 seconds or you will never be able to play Coltrane changes again. I actually used to own Giant Steps on vinyl when my grandparents gifted it to me for my birthday (or something)... but we didn't have a record player so we had to give it to an Op Shop. Damnnnnnn :(

Knuckles from K.N.U.C.K.L.E.S. & Knuckles: Knuckles in Knuckles the Echidna feat. Knuckles from the Knuckles the Echidna Series (Knuckles of the Year Edition) & Knuckles

This visual is usually associated with Triple Q's upload of the infamous Unknown from M.E. (OST Version) but... it was actually officially made by SEGA's Aaron Webber on the Sonic Twitter account! The reference is mainly trying to evoke Triple Q tho

Mario Forever. Mario games. Super Mario Bros. games download. Mario games. Super Mario Bros. Download Games on PC. Mario games.

I have actually played and beaten the original version of this game, and despite it's malware infested reputation... it's a GOODDDD game man. For a safer experience, play Mario Forever Community Edition or Mario Forever Remake if you want a good time!!! The Mario Forever Softendo Arc/Story was one of the trends on SiIvaGunner that inspired me to become a ripper, and I love this game and it's music a lotttt

AAAAH! Call Mr. Rental! 🎵 Smoke smoke weed eeeeveryyyyyydayyyyyy 🎵 The legacy of hilarious rips NBGMusic left behind with this guy is fantastic... I love Mr. Rental! Even though I'm Australian, I hadn't even heard of the company he's from until I became a fan of SiIvaGunner.

What ae Ncaka? Are you paying attention? This might need a little context. During an ARG in December of 2024, fans on the SiIvaGunner fan server somehow hallucinated their own creation into the lore of SiIvaGunner... sort of. "Noaka", the characterised embodiment of distraction and avoidance. In the lore, Noaka had managed to infiltrate the network of Haltmann Works Co. and would put staff into a distracted hyperfocused trance of looking for hidden meaning in its idiotic files and memes. However there wasn't really ever a resolution to that... so... During April Fools of 2025, I made one. After the events of that ARG, Haltmann Works Co. obtained a really, really bad computer (the Hogulak 2000 from Bear in the Big Blue House) to trap Noaka in. That way, it wouldn't bother them anymore. I don't think it's very happy about this though… Do you? Yeah it's kinda dumb... but I had fun! I hope Noaka fans liked what I was able to do.

Digital Narcissist - Quinn Wolf. There isn't any Ice on the Road where I live, it's usually Summer around January actually. Quinn Wolf's discography is a SiIvaGunner meme that isn't as often talked about. ChristopherLry is usually the ripper who uses her music but other rippers have caught onto just how catchy a lot of her songs are. I was delighted to represent this meme with this logo and...

MicroJamz - Quinn Wolf. A wise man once said: "bruh why would anyone bite on dust? it gonna taste like shit. and all dusty."

...this logo as well! It's usually Digital Narcissist and MicroJamz that get rips based on them so I figured I'd have to make both of them!

Scared Stiff ft. Elvira: Mistress of the Dark. This one was a collaboration between myself and local Elvira enthusiast: Maggie! That's correct, this one was a collab! Maggie's love of pinball soundtracks and Elvira have been a big inspiration to me. I haven't dabbled much in either of those things but the dedication and the quality of the work make me so happy! I'm honoured I got to work with her on this one to make it look especially awesome :D

Shrek (Xbox). Dude I don't even have a bit for this one I just love Grand Mouth - Fleen Star by stephanie and All Snow by Chaze the Chat. Classic rips that deserved a visual in this. All Star is a SiIvaGunner joke that really needs more usage. We have the stems people!!!! we could make such funny stuff with em!! I remember being a teenager and thinking Offtopic's "Smash Mouth - Megalovania" was the best thing ever made. Good times :)

SiIvaGunner: Rebooted. Had the honour of rooting around in the original Photoshop file for the thumbnail in order to make this as accurate as possible! I'm glad I was given the official Photoshop file to work with because we were very close to having a VERY bad recreation of the background in this one. We live in a very fortunate timeline.

The SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival!! This event started right after right before I joined the team! Brings back a lot of memories… :D

🎃🎃Happy Halloween, Martin & Lewis style🎃🎃

Sure!! I watched it on internet archive but if it’s not still there i found it on dailymotion: