JPTV Jr.: Lost for Kiddies

Regular readers of this blog know that Tuned In Jr. and Tuned In Jr. Jr.--like the good alternaparent progeny they are--are fans of They Might Be Giants, and that we have a regular ritual of cruising for TMBG videos on YouTube. In the course of surfing, we've come across a strange genre: the burgeoning field of amateur videos for Particle Man. There's something about the song that lends itself to YouTube. The bouncy music is a good fit for comedy, and the simple cast of allegorical characters---Particle Man, Triangle Man, Universe Man and Person Man--is tailor-made for fan mashup. Like this one, of clips from Lost:

OK, this is not technically a kid's video (there's some violence--though not any worse than this Tiny Toons take on the song--and a PG-13 curse at the end, and a polar bear dies). But for you adults pining for more Lost, Sawyer makes a good choice as (Love) Triangle Man, while there's now a special poignancy to Charlie as Person Man. Hit on the head with a frying pan, indeed.

Oh, and although this is a Lost-biased blog, I don't want to neglect the Heroes partisans:

So who wins? Does Hiro make a convincing Universe Man? He's the smallest guy on the show, but if anyone's watch has a millennium hand and an eon hand, it's his.