Geese. Geese everywhere.

October 17, 2023 1:02 PM

A couple of weeks ago, Cyriak went HONK. More recently, Mr Weebl answered with HONK. Does this maybe hint at the collaboration I've been waiting for?
posted by smcdow (27 comments total)

HONK, I suppose.
posted by hippybear at 1:13 PM on October 17, 2023 [2 favorites]

I have no idea if this link will work, but if you type /honk on Bluesky, a goose will reply.
posted by m@f at 1:21 PM on October 17, 2023

I don't think one can look at Bluesky without a Bluesky membership. Much like Instagram in that regard.
posted by hippybear at 1:23 PM on October 17, 2023 [2 favorites]

Sadness. Honk for some, no honk for others. But I will always honk for you.
posted by m@f at 1:24 PM on October 17, 2023 [1 favorite]

Possibly related note: I had to quit a job due to aggressive nesting geese.
posted by jenfullmoon at 2:01 PM on October 17, 2023

I wasn't familiar with Mr Weebl. That's bizarre yet oddly compelling.
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:25 PM on October 17, 2023

I'm just here because I wanted to say a thing:

biblically accurate goose

Okay thank you.
posted by phunniemee at 2:25 PM on October 17, 2023 [6 favorites]

I'm apparently so helplessly wired toward redneck redheads with beards that even that stylized trucker is somehow... interesting to me.
posted by hippybear at 2:29 PM on October 17, 2023 [4 favorites]

Needs more honking.
posted by GenjiandProust at 2:31 PM on October 17, 2023 [2 favorites]

Came for Weebl and Bob. I guess a small cameo will have to suffice.
posted by B3taCatScan at 2:32 PM on October 17, 2023 [3 favorites]

The algorithm offered me another goose.

As for the link, I think it's best filed under maximizing fun with the garish animation program. It made Cyriak seem restful.
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 3:14 PM on October 17, 2023

As a Seeger banjo player, that banjo neck isn't nearly long enough
posted by scruss at 3:26 PM on October 17, 2023

Is it just me or is this video majorly lacking in actual honks? There's one tiny little airhorn buried in the mix at 0:40, in sync with the grey clouds coming from the exhaust pipes; in the next scene the driver is pulling on what I assume is the airhorn cord but there's absolutely no honk, just wild camera motions. Then at 0:57 there's a drum fill followed by several poofs of exhaust with absolutely no horn sounds. When unexpected geese start showing up everywhere around 2:10 they open their beaks silently. Finally around 2:20 we actually get some airhorns that are audible over the music and synched with puffs of truck smoke.

The whole thing feels like it *should* be punctuated by immense, overpowering HOOOONNNNNKKKKs but it isn't.
posted by egypturnash at 3:51 PM on October 17, 2023 [3 favorites]

It's that liminal honk that is implied but cannot be detected wherein which we find enlightenment.
posted by hippybear at 3:55 PM on October 17, 2023 [5 favorites]

I'm with GenjiandProust. More honking!

(Said in the same tone of voice as "More cowbell!")
posted by Quasirandom at 4:14 PM on October 17, 2023 [3 favorites]

Seems like Weebl has not changed much since the Badger Badger Mushroom days. I do not think this is in any way a bad thing.
posted by HypotheticalWoman at 4:20 PM on October 17, 2023 [3 favorites]

It is the early internet and you are a horrible goose.
posted by eponym at 5:15 PM on October 17, 2023 [5 favorites]

I am strangely reminded of the video for Lemon Jelly's Nice Weather For Ducks.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:08 PM on October 17, 2023 [2 favorites]

Bumper sticker seen the other day at a local bookstore: “Keeping honking, I’m listening to Honk-FM! All honking, all the time!”
posted by azpenguin at 10:10 PM on October 17, 2023 [2 favorites]

Weebl is part of Savlonic, the 4th best virtual band.


Dropping fine electric beats,
Wearing trousers made of leather.
Yama Yamaha
Yama Yamaha
Yama Yamaha
Moog and a Casio
posted by Jacen at 2:06 AM on October 18, 2023

I have not heard of Mr. Weebl, so initially I thought this was a resurrection of Weebl and Bob.

It is not, and now I am sad. And want pie.
posted by Ben Trismegistus at 11:00 AM on October 18, 2023

Can someone loop Felix Colgrave into this honk thing?
posted by sonascope at 12:04 PM on October 18, 2023 [3 favorites]

Well, thanks to the nonsense here I started googling around and discovered the musical Honk! and the original cast album for it is here as a YouTube playlist.
posted by hippybear at 12:20 PM on October 18, 2023

And here's a documentary on Tubi called Honk. It's about a woman who befriends a goose.
posted by hippybear at 12:33 PM on October 18, 2023

> Came for Weebl and Bob. I guess a small cameo will have to suffice

Jeeze, I'm the one who posted the video, and it took me FOREVER to finally find that cameo.
posted by smcdow at 12:36 PM on October 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

sonascope > Can someone loop Felix Colgrave into this honk thing?

He's been in the loop far, far longer than Weebl or Cyriak. Like since 2014.

Thrice-Great Ben > I have not heard of Mr. Weebl, so initially I thought this was a resurrection of Weebl and Bob.

"Mr. Weebl" is the name the guy who made Weebl and Bob is using for his Youtube channel. You will have to provide your own pie however.
posted by egypturnash at 7:44 AM on October 19, 2023 [1 favorite]

Second one reminds me of driving through the desert once upon a time doing about 90 with a slight buzz going on with a couple of miles of empty in front of me and a couple of miles of empty behind me when back in the distance the red and blue started flashing. I did the trucker thing of letting off the gas while not actually hitting the brakes to keep from being obviously speeding. It took like two or three minutes while the police got closer and closer. Then they hit one of the Official Use Only turn-around bits of the highway and turned back and sped off the other way into the distance lights still flashing. Guess they weren't after me, just lights on barrelling down the highway to the closest turn around point. Don't know, foot back on the gas and back up to about 90, cruisin'.
posted by zengargoyle at 8:54 AM on October 19, 2023