http://chud.com/nextraimages/whats-it-gonna-be.jpgThe first time I saw a promo for HBO’s Flight of the Conchords, I was sorely tempted to buy a ticket for the “Man, HBO’s Sunday nights are fucking done” train. After exploding with a long string of landmark pop culture touchstones, it almost seemed like a regression to throw up this tiny musical/comedy weirdness from a couple of unknowns in their premier original programming slot. After all, HBO had already (barely) featured Tenacious D, and once you see one comic folk duo singing weird/explicit lyrics and getting into misadventures, haven’t you seen them all? Once I finally gave the show a fair chance several episodes in, however, I was won over by the show’s subtle wit and innocuous charm. Dick in a Box: The Series, it was not.

I appreciate their efforts even more after hearing that MTV Films has just snapped up the rather excruciating “What’s It Gonna Be?” online video from comedic duo Million Dollar Strong to turn into a feature length film. Yup, a two-minute comedy music video is being turned into 90-minute or so feature. And what a feature it will be! For those unfamiliar with the clip, it’s an oh-so-original and side-splitting faux rap video featuring a nerdy white guy at a bar dropping f-bombs all over the place as he tries to get in the pants of some chick while his Asian partner sprinkles ad-libs and falsetto bits all over the proceedings before working up to a Michael Jackson dancing impression to finish the clip. Ah, comedy.

Seriously…with all of the possibilities that The Internet offers amateur comedians, why is it that all of the “online sensations” are variations on the “Man, white people lewdly rapping and/or singing R&B sure is funny!” template? You’ll never, eeeeeeeeeeeever be able to top the self-parody of R. Kelly’s enduring “Trapped in the Closet” series, so why try? Anyway, the duo, Mike O’Connell and Ken Jeong (the jerk doctor from Knocked Up), will expand the scope of the video to follow their tribulations as they try to make it in the modern hip-hop world. If I had to guess, I’d say this will be a tad funnier than Marci X and nowhere near as knee-slapping as, say, Be Cool. Which is to say, it’s going to be celluloid cancer. Todd Phillips (Old School) is on to produce, but there’s no director set yet.