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Bad Lip Reading Retells The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as an Absurdist Musical

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part I is striking box office gold this holiday week but it’s the trilogy’s second installment, Catching Fire, that has a new retelling from the ventriloquists over at Bad Lip Reading. In this version, the drama is driven not by President Snow’s sadistic murder games but by stolen fanny packs, pet iguanas and Peeta’s shocking admission that he’s a druid.

With numbers like “I Sing When I Eat Fruit” and “Smack Your Doctor,” the video reimagines the Katniss-Peeta-Gale love triangle as a batty musical. It may not make any sense, but then again neither does pitting 24 children against each other in a fight to the death.

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