My ipod is my saving grace, especially for long, pan-pacific flights. I have playlists that last for hours and from time to time, I’ll doze off and wake up to song #106 in my queue of 500 from playlist-on-the-go #14. Anyway, I did just that and woke up to the tail end of Imogen Heap’s Hide & Seek. A pretty good song, no doubt, but then I was quickly reminded of Saturday Night Live’s Dear Sister parody. It was a digital short that was broadcasted 2 years ago featuring Shia Lebouf, which was a spoof of the last scene from the second season finale of The OC, a year before that. Classic tropes of cool, haunting song with slow mo, death and puzzled faces of young starlets in dire situations. Perfect spoofing material. If you don’t remember, here’s the original clip from The OC:  For some reason, NBC has taken off all official versions of their spoof offline, but here’s a link.  

I guess I missed the boat because this whole “Dear Sister” parody is just another classic example of the internet meme. Trolling through Youtube, the ultimate time waster, I found one parody after another. Literally, hundreds. Most of them bad, but here are some that are pretty chortle worthy:

See what I mean? Pretty amusing and you either laugh out loud, or you just scratch your head in confusion. Whatever weird path this meme goes, I know this for sure: Imogen Heap knows how to make this type of WB/CW/Dawson’s Creek/Grey’s Anatomy music.