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Weekend Destructainment: Ding-A-Ling Fireman to the rescue!
7:24 AM on 08.31.2008, Jim Sterling 29 comments

     Weekend Destructainment

Our opening gambit for this week's Destructainment isn't really videogame related, but we don't play by the rules on Destructoid, even if we made the rules ourselves. I don't think you'll mind much, given that it's a ridiculous toy commercial from the 60's, and they're always good for a chuckle. Ding-A-Ling Fireman to the rescue, indeed.

Yes, it does advertise that the Ding-A-Ling Fireman has a "built-in pumper."

Hamza is at PAX, getting drunk and having sex with all his girls, so we're holding the fort in his stead. After the jump, you can see a Manhunt-influenced cuddly monkey, a fun Mercs 2 commercial, drunken Castle Crashers glitching, MEH-DI-BOT and some Street Fighter IV combat.

Spunky, the videogame-influenced monkey:

 
Silly Mercenaries 2 commercial, as found on DaedHead8's CBlog:
 
 
A drunken Castle Crashers glitch from XBUDZ:
 
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Random Robot Intermission: Medibot, taken from spoof 70's educational show Look Around You:
 
 
And finally, Vega takes on the scarily mannish Chun Li in Street Fighter IV:
 

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Fusiontr's Avatar
Fusiontr at 08/31/2008 08:16
The Look Around You video makes this weeks Destructainment so awesome
Peter Serafinowicz (spelling?) is so awesome

And Ding A Ling things are just weird
DR EGG's Avatar
DR EGG at 08/31/2008 09:08
I'm interested in that 'black smoke' counter that Balrog pulled 1/2way through the match. Outside of that, which seems to be a SF3 parry, the gameplay looks to be extremely like the original.

@ Reaprar: If you hadn't noticed yet, every damn character in this game has big hands. And big feet. And big muscles. BIG EVERYTHING!
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dephect at 08/31/2008 09:11
SPY DING A LING!

And I want SF4.. please.
Holyetheline's Avatar
Holyetheline at 08/31/2008 09:16
Dude some of those videos really creeped me out.
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MEE at 08/31/2008 09:39
i am scared of medibot.
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Mekanikles at 08/31/2008 10:07
Couldn't see the Castle Crashers glitch because there was a god damned ninja in the way.
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Dunsparce4Prez at 08/31/2008 10:33
lol. Ninjas are irritating.
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TurboSpaz at 08/31/2008 10:40
Wow, 3 million dollars?
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Lewis Bell at 08/31/2008 10:49
Spunky the monkey is from Ashens, if you don't already watch his videos gaddamnit!
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fetusmilk at 08/31/2008 10:53
that fight was awesome in the street fighter 2 animated movie where vega fights chun-li in a t-shirt and panties, fresh from the shower..
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njsykora at 08/31/2008 11:03
Peter Serafinowicz makes my ding-a-ling pump.
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JtheYellow at 08/31/2008 11:09
I like how Vega/Balrog and Chun-Li are fighting in a brewery.
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MechaMonkey at 08/31/2008 11:54
Every Ding-A-Ling comes complete with a free innuendo!
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Batthink at 08/31/2008 12:36
Where do I start?

Aside from the obvious 'Ding-A-Ling' and fireman's pumper-based innuendo, I also found a Ding-A-Ling Construction Worker who functions by pressing his helmet to use his 'jumping jack-hammer'.

Then, a Ding-A-Ling [b]enters King Ding's groin[b]. O_O

Also, lines like;

"...King Ding's actual brain!"

"...boys all over America right behind him to help him perform his tasks..." XOD

All this, and it features the Mastermind theme-tune. O_O
Batthink's Avatar
Batthink at 08/31/2008 12:38
Also, BB Code fail. :O(
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zeroword at 08/31/2008 13:42
ME-DI-BOT. I love it!
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Jack8274 at 08/31/2008 14:39
Ding-A-Ling's sapping my sentry!
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TurboSpaz at 08/31/2008 15:58
Vega = Balrog??
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Scary Womanizing Pig Mask at 08/31/2008 16:49
@turbo Spaz
Yeah, in Japan:

Vega = Balrog
M. Bison = Vega
Balrog = M. Bison

I believe it was changed because Vega was seems as too feminine for the manly final boss, so they renamed him M. Bison and the rest shifted around to accommodate it.
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TrailerParkJesus at 08/31/2008 19:09
I like how Chun-li sticks her ass out for Kikokens
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TurboHyperFighting at 08/31/2008 19:59
Think about the time period that SF2 became a hit. The boxer character is M. Bison (in Japan). Mike Tyson's controversy was going strong and the localizers didn't want to infringe on likeness rights, and also didn't want to associate a video game with a raping lunatic. Thus the switcherooskis.

And I'm pretty sure that Balrog was Bison's name in Japan... This threw me a bit, too.

Also: @Fetus, Yes. The fight scene post-shower in the SF2 movie was fantastic. Lots of action and fan service.
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ace of knaves at 08/31/2008 22:31
That Mercs 2 spot is the best video game ad I've seen since the Gears of War Mad World commercial.
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zeroword at 09/01/2008 10:11
Vega = M. Bison - he was played off of the Latin American dictator stereotype.

Balrog means snake, thus the American "Vega's" tattoo.

M. Bison = Balrog.

The reason it was changed was due to Capcom not wanting to be sued by Iron Mike since they were parodying him after his rape case.

Vega is a Spanish last name. It is definitely NOT feminine.
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