If you were out having a life and generally being a normal person last night, you might have missed the pop culture phenomenon known as “Sharknado.” But if you were on Twitter, or anywhere near a TV, chances are good that you caught some of SyFy’s B-rate movie about a tornado so powerful that it sucks great white sharks out of the ocean and dumps them into L.A., appropriately titled “Sharknado.”
Here’s a bit of what you missed:
Even Mia Farrow was hooked:
[embedtweet id=”355510835541577730″]
It inspired “Star Trek” writer Damon Lindelof:
[embedtweet id=”355504865943883776″]
TV critic Alan Sepinwall was taken by its brilliance:
[embedtweet id=”355521640760750081″]
People tried to find meaning in it. What is it really about, anyway?
[embedtweet id=”355519868910583809″]
[embedtweet id=”355521414406733824″]
Meaning aside, as Patton Oswalt notes, something in American television changed last night:
[embedtweet id=”355520633964199937″]
Perhaps now we can look forward to Barknado:
(credit @HeyVeronica)
Or Starknado:
[embedtweet id=”355530785303953410″]
Or, god forbid, Twerknado:
[embedtweet id=”355503184887824386″]
And when this happens — because it will — we will have only Tara Reid ourselves to blame:
[embedtweet id=”355506052038541313″]
If you missed it, behold the trailer, below:
