Intercontextuality

I find that satirical cartoons such as the Simpsons and Family Guy have many humorous examples of intercontextuality. I have picked out a few of my favorite examples from Family guy:
• Pawtucket Pat Brewery episode “beer room song”- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxyny7ZzrHM

• Family guy’s banned joke about The Simpsons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYtlCR0V4cM

• You cant touch Me(from the Petoria Episode)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDw9y2zFIF8

The first one is definitely one of my favorite examples of intercontextuality in family guy. It is a play on the scene from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. In this episode, Peter, the main character finds the final golden ticket for a tour of the Pawtucket Pat brewery in a beer bottle. He goes on a quest to find one by drinking tons of beer and on his final beer, when things aren’t looking to hot for him, he drinks his last beer and proceeds to puke up the final golden ticket. They also make fun of the scene where Willy Wonka comes out of the factory limping then dives and rolls and pops up perfectly fine. Well in family guy, Cheech Marin drives by and shoots Pawtucket pat, only to find that it was all a joke. The link that I provided is a parody to the song that Wonka sings in his candy room right when they enter the factory.
The next one makes fun of the Simpsons, which was retaliation for the Simpsons making fun of Family Guy. There have been many examples of the shows making fun of each other as an example of intercontextuality.
The Final link is a parody of MC Hammer’s “U cant touch this”. Its vey funny and well crafted. He also takes a direct shot at hammer in the rap.
In summary, Family Guy does a great job of incorporating and satirizing popular culture into their own show.

I am eighty eight pages into this book and I have yet to be hooked. I don’t know what it is, but I just am not interested. His writing style is extremely detailed and I feel like I kind of get lost in the descriptions. If it were not for the author breaking up the novel into fairly short chapters, it would be very difficult to digest. I feel like his extremely detailed style is great for certain situations but I really don’t like how it continues throughout the book. I felt very involved in the in the novel at first because it seemed like he was bringing the audience into his life with description. Unfortunately it just continues on into the rest of the book.
The author of ‘Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name” did a great job keeping me hooked the entire time. She used the same technique of the very short chapters. Unfortunately I am not as interested in Blue Highways. I was really not into the subject matter in the first book but the writing style kept me hooked. With this novel, I am really interested in the subject manner and the idea of a solo road trip, but his style just bores me. With this novel, I tend to find myself having to reread things because I just lose myself in my own thoughts while reading and as a result, I don’t retain much. I just really am not hooked.
I am hoping that eventually I will find something that catches my interest but its not looking good. I am still trying to keep an open mind about where this book will go. I am hoping that eventually ill get interested in this book. Well see how it develops from here on out.