Funny or Die Skewers YA Flicks for New Lets Move! Plug

By Warren Rojas

Posted September 3, 2014 at 3:10pm

First lady Michelle Obama pops up at the end of a new Funny or Die parody that swaps in nutritional hobgoblins for the living dead/pandemic event/fetishistic survival trials that seem to plague the protagonist of every young adult novel.

FLOTUS has been championing healthy eating since 44 took office in 2009; her hands-on approach to raising dietary awareness has ranged from overseeing the <a href="https://cdn.videos.rollcall.com/hohfalse">evolving White House kitchen garden</a> to <a href="https://cdn.videos.rollcall.com/hohfalse">soliciting recipes</a> from snack-conscious youths.   “Snackpocalypse” has its moments — “It’s like the more garbage everyone eats, the sicker they get. It’s a mystery,” muses school nurse (and “VEEP” vet) Sufe Bradshaw — but is unlikely to stir up the type of response President Barack Obama did last spring when he <a href="https://cdn.videos.rollcall.com/hohfalse" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">traded insults</a> with Zach Galifianakis on “Between Two Ferns.” HOH would, however, like to congratulate faux pol Clark Duke for extrapolating on Pedro Sanchez’s pie-in-the-sky campaign platform:   <iframe width="445" height="250" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6DmH30Vmsso" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""/> Now, about that “pizza party every day” pledge… </body>