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The only thing to really do with this is set it up: the following is a scene from ABC Family’s new gymnastics-themed show, Make It Or Break It, which based on this scene appears to be a documentary about what life is really like on the streets. The main characters were minding their own business in a gas station parking lot when they were accosted by a gang of thugs. At first, it seems like these “defenseless” young women are in trouble. They’re outnumbered and physically outclassed by this swarthy (neck tattoo!) gang of amoral troublemakers. But the girls know how to defend themselves.

Kind of.

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Such a waste of pretty face but hanging in your noone’s face
I wish that you would take a look and really stop that
Top that, stop that
I don’t really give a about tryin to top that
Top that, stop that
I wish you finally take a real look and really stop that
Whats this, stop that
What gives, stop that
I don’t really give a about tryin to top that
Top that, big deal
Top that, unreal
You can try until you’re blue
I will make a fool of you
TOP THAT

(Via WarmingGlow.)

Comments (51)
  1. You know, I was taught to cartwheel away from danger. I never knew street tuffs were intimidated by tumbling exercises!

  2. don  |   Posted on Jul 28th, 2009 +3

    That was some superhero action YO!

  3. Eagle Hat  |   Posted on Jul 28th, 2009 -4

    Dignityrape.

  4. Eagle Hat  |   Posted on Jul 28th, 2009 -11

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  5. intimidating “scary” men at the gas station with crazy gymnastic moves? that happens to me ALL THE TIME.

  6. Wait. Wait wait wait. WAIT.

    I was under the impression that all conflicts of this nature were to be solved by super-choreographed breakdancing and possibly breakdance fighting. How come nobody told me we had moved onto aggressive front flips and cartwheels? I’ll need to learn a whole new routine now!

  7. They should retool the show to focus on that gang trying to threaten people, only to be frightened off again and again. They could run away from by kids blowing bubbles, the handicapped doing spins in power wheelchairs, etc. Best show ever.

  8. This had so much potential for the gang to rip off their street clothes to reveal gymnastics leotards underneath. At that point, the show writes itself.

  9. “I’m sick of taking people’s crap”.

    ))>((.

    So am I.

  10. ohhh come on writers… we all know “Let’s get ready to tumble!!” > “Follow me”

  11. Somehow I just don’t believe her when she says she’s sick of taking people’s crap.

  12. sorry, but this is horribly unrealistic. when someone cartwheels at me out in the streetz i usually just kick them in the mouth.

  13. This is why I travel everywhere with my bodyguards, Shawn Johnson and Kerri Strug.

  14. Be Agressive, B-E Agressive

  15. mp  |   Posted on Jul 28th, 2009 +12

    You’ve never seen “Gymkata,” the gymnastics martial arts movie that was made on the quick after the success of the U.S. Gymnastics team at the 1984 games? Want to know what happens when a U.S. gymnast is attacked by an angry crowd of Kazakhstanis from “Borat” — but wait, there just happens to be a POMMEL HORSE in the middle of the village? Click here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gTkUcXGF_Q

  16. Okay, fine, gymnastics are fun, we can all agree on that, but why is the school gymnastic team even in these “rough” gang-filled ghettos in the first place? I mean, if you’re so sick of “taking people’s crap” just stop going to places where crap happens!

  17. Now there’s no way We Are Heroes can lose.

  18. This would have been funny as a reverse Indiana Jones scene. They do all those cartwheels and flips at the thugs. And then the thugs take out their guns and shoot them.

  19. Bela Caroli has been taking out his enemies like this for years.

  20. I’m so glad Becca got in the car!

  21. Guestershire Terrier  |   Posted on Jul 28th, 2009 +13

    Like the alligator, the common street thug is inept at moving sideways.

  22. I don’t remember these girls from Mortal Kombat,were they in the first or the second one?

  23. Backwards hat dude has perfected the look of dumbfoundedness.

  24. As much as I laughed at all the great comments above, I still think this is cool and I wish I could do it.

  25. d-w  |   Posted on Jul 28th, 2009 +7

    Nice to see Dave Matthews branching out. He looks super tough with the neck tattoo.

  26. Those thugs have all right to be scared. Those girls can break the sound barrier with their super sweet gymnastics!

  27. Those thugs have all right to be scared. Those girls can break the sound barrier with their super sweet gymnastics!

  28. I thought for sure that those street toughs were actually the Hot Cops.

  29. That’s some serious United Colors of Benetton shit going on with the gang. They are so afraid of appearing un-p.c. that they’ve put together the most unlikely group of people….the white dude, the black guy, the south asian, the mexican, the canadian thug, the northern european…

  30. That’s all right, that’s okay, you’re gonna pump our gas someday!

  31. Mike  |   Posted on Jul 28th, 2009 -1

    Performing “The Friendship Song” is the only way to end wanksta/gymnast-related violence
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DxDLy3B40I

  32. Whatever. If they really wanted to be threatening, they wouldn’t have stepped out of the layout. A stuck landing has much more punch. Not to mention – entering the pass from cartwheel instead of hurdling into a roundoff? That’s like, not even scary.

    For the record, the most intimidating tumbling pass is punch front, roundoff, whipback, whipback, back handspring, layout with a half turn, punch front, flying side kick. Shut it down.

  33. Why is nobody else acknowledging the perfectly random but amazing placement of the entire Teen Witch rap? Has that stone been squeezed dry and bloodless already? Is it because it’s not Kenneth?

    Sad day for Teen Witches everywhere.

  34. This is not funny, guys. The Ukranians have been training these super soldiers for years! They will pummel horse your faces so bad.

  35. Maybe you could start jeteing and stop je-terrorizing me.

  36. This is not gym-NICE-tics!

  37. when videogum and i first met i had a Top That icon so it really warms my heart when it’s referenced from time to time here.

  38. rather than going into how AMAZING the whole gymnastofightying(?) was i have two questions. why the hell did they tape this scene in the holland tunnel? and why aren’t more abc family shows made there, the sound is BOMB, literally(?)

  39. Didn’t everyone know gymnastics was the way to get things sorted. That needless little girl in The Lost World owns that velociraptor with a bit of bar action. And to think, Geoff never went to see her do.

  40. I will watch this, but if they don’t have a dog named Dozer with a mohawk, I will only watch it reluctantly.

  41. I have a sneaking suspicion that McG is somehow involved with this show.

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