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‘Throbber’ — The nerd version of ‘Thriller’

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Los Angeles Times Staff Writers



What we're dealing with: A public access television parody of the "Thriller" video, made in the mid-1980s. In this version of the story, the nerd is terrorized not by zombies but by zombie-esque beautiful women who dance in front of a Bradlees store.

Accuracy of the parody: 8. The storyline of this video follows the story of Jackson's original almost exactly--it begins with a movie within the video, cuts to the movie theater, and then instead of a graveyard, the nerds find themselves in a mall where--surprise!--it turns out the girl nerd is actually a beautiful woman, too!

Worth watching: Sure. But it's not urgent.


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