There’s a little game making its rounds on the internet that asks users to indicate whether a quote belongs to the fictitious Anchorman character played by Will Farrell, Ron Burgundy, or GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.
It’s so glorious I want to shout it from a mountain. Or perhaps San Diego, which we all know really means a whale’s vagina.
So, I went ahead and did as the Roman’s do and took the chock full of awesome 16-question quiz.
Now, based on my uncanny knowledge of all things Anchorman (I can quote the whole movie) and my love affair with following Trump’s bombastic, disgusting and downright hilarious rants, I got all of the questions right.
However, if you’re not an Anchorman junkie or of the variety who likes to make fun of and revel in the most idiotic of presidential candidates that ever existed, you may find it difficult to differentiate between who said what.
The quiz plays on the overt arrogance of both characters asking which man said, “sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest – and you all know it!”
There are several clues if you’re not sure who said this particular zinger. First, Donald Trump calls everyone a loser. Second, Ron Burgundy thought diversity meant an old, old wooden ship. That’s a good indication he wouldn’t know how to appropriately use the abbreviation for Intelligence Quotient in a sentence.
By the way, that diversity question … yeah, that’s on the list too.
Another play on the incendiary cockiness displayed by both blowhards is this nugget: “You dirt bags have been in third place for five years.”
While the Donald loves to talk about how China is beating us (the U.S.) and it wouldn’t be a stretch to think he was talking about the U.S. losing to them in this quote, it’s actually Ron Burgundy before the epic death match in which Brick kills a guy.
And then there’s this famous quote: “I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.”
If you don’t know that’s our dear friend Ron trying to impress Veronica Corningstone you need to sit you’re a** down right now and watch Anchorman. Though, I’m certain Donald Trump’s home does smell of rich mahogany. It’s the leather-bound books I question. I’m picturing more Dr. Seuss on his book shelves.
There are also references to hair, which make for an interesting guessing game if you maintain only surface-level knowledge of these two special characters. See, the Donald has terrible hair. Ron Burgundy loves his hair and obsesses over it.
If you were to read, say, an in-depth description of how the person quoted styles his hair everyday, you may think that came from Ron. But if you keep reading to the part where it’s pointed out that nobody else likes it, you suddenly remember that Donald Trump has terrible hair.
But the most fantastic component of this quiz is not whether or not you can guess who said what – it’s pretty easy for the most part – it’s that you can genuinely see either person saying these ridiculous things.
And one of them is not only running for the GOP presidential nomination, he’s leading by a landslide in just about every poll taken to date.
Welcome to America people, where you can “put food on your family” – George W. Bush, the man who makes Donald Trump look smart.
