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Amanda of old-timey bike-riding The Ditty Bops has a sideline as one half of Pretty Thingsss. Pretty Thingsss is an online sketch show (and sometime public access tv show), with a minimal budget, minimal cast, but with maximum irony and laffs. For reals. Each show is under 3 minutes long and is a bite-sized nugget of knowing hipster self-mockery. Here’s the first of three interviews that Pretty Thingsss conducted with themselves, as themselves:

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP2veBAo-hI]

Shows like Popcorn are set in an independent art-house cinema, where movies like ‘The Duchess’ Picnic’ and ‘Almost a Woman’ expose the sometimes ridiculous world of ‘difficult’ movies, and the always ridiculous clientèle that frequent them. Mulberry Commons focuses on an elite boarding school for girls, where no student is aged under 21, and nobody’s hair is their own. Less clever, but no less funny, are the straight-up parodies of popular MTV shows:

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlFNt5Jg494&feature=related]

In an all-in-one-roundhouse-kick way of summing things up, if you go here, and view ‘Short Stacks’, you’ll see a charming Ditty Bops video that was directed by Michael Lucid, of Pretty Thingsss fame. Super.