Ranch or Cool Ranch?

June 11, 2011 8:24 PM

In a style reminiscent of Bart the General, these Dilbert cartoons will ＤＥＨＵＭＡＮＩＺＥ ＹＯＵＲＳＥＬＦ ＡＮＤ ＦＡＣＥ ＴＯ ＢＬＯＯＤＳＨＥＤ. (NSFW)

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posted by griphus (40 comments total)

Are we just bating Scott Adams now?
posted by wheelieman at 8:30 PM on June 11, 2011 [1 favorite]

Nice try, Scott.
posted by Sangermaine at 8:32 PM on June 11, 2011 [8 favorites]

So surreal! Love the music! Would share with friends if I wanted to keep them!
posted by rebent at 8:34 PM on June 11, 2011 [3 favorites]

Tags:

DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED
posted by facetious at 8:35 PM on June 11, 2011 [2 favorites]

I liked the way the artist depicted the copier light? That was interesting?
posted by winna at 8:37 PM on June 11, 2011 [2 favorites]

From the YouTube comments (I hope this is satire):

this is literally the most manic-depressive insane video youve ever made and it absolutely brought tears to my eyes to see dilbert come this far. a true ameracan hero..Destroy office shooting in try to escape obomo socialest USA

posted by Jasper Friendly Bear at 8:37 PM on June 11, 2011 [2 favorites]

I liked the copier light, too.
posted by rebent at 8:38 PM on June 11, 2011

Certified genius.
posted by maryr at 8:40 PM on June 11, 2011 [2 favorites]

Well, certified anyway.
posted by speedo at 8:45 PM on June 11, 2011 [2 favorites]

I don't want this to happen
posted by Nedroid at 8:56 PM on June 11, 2011

The copier light was a nice touch.

What's this "wwhy shrek is piss"? Is that meme that is dead and gone and I should be happy I missed it? I really do count on you folks to tell me these things.
posted by marxchivist at 8:59 PM on June 11, 2011

This will do for Dilbert what Spengbab did for Spongebob. I'm not sure what that is. But it will do it.
posted by brownpau at 9:22 PM on June 11, 2011 [2 favorites]

after years of being dark, the node in my brain where my memory of Bart the General was stored was just suddenly and violently reactivated and I'm not sure I can cope

metafilterrrrrrrrr, you're brrrrreaking my hearrrrrrrt
posted by Kosh at 9:28 PM on June 11, 2011 [2 favorites]

How different my life would have been if I'd viewed that on my C64 in 1989.
posted by not_on_display at 9:35 PM on June 11, 2011

That was something, for sure.
posted by Devils Rancher at 9:39 PM on June 11, 2011

Who here thinks griphus is Scott Adams?
posted by chmmr at 9:40 PM on June 11, 2011

Is this something I'd need to be a certified genius to understand?
posted by five fresh fish at 9:48 PM on June 11, 2011 [1 favorite]

Finished season 3 of Breaking Bad.
I understand, now.
posted by clavdivs at 10:07 PM on June 11, 2011

This is deeply weird.
posted by silby at 10:14 PM on June 11, 2011

I wasn't aware that there was anything else in the style of Bart the General. In the universe. So thanks, I guess?
posted by penduluum at 10:20 PM on June 11, 2011

I had a fever dream like this once.
posted by ShawnStruck at 10:59 PM on June 11, 2011

I don't care for the comic strips, but the two cartoons are awesome. I love the weird echo on all the voices. More things should be like television as transmitted via nightmares in Hell.
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 11:00 PM on June 11, 2011 [1 favorite]

No god dammit.

Bart the General was magic. And you cannot bottle that lightning. I won't have it!
posted by Senor Cardgage at 11:26 PM on June 11, 2011

griphus is not Scott Adams. he's Jim Davis, of Garfield fame telling Scott to lighten up on parodies the way he has.
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:11 AM on June 12, 2011

I told you man.

I told you about stairs.
posted by hellojed at 12:49 AM on June 12, 2011 [1 favorite]

Wow, that was marginally better than The Critic and only slightly worse than Custer's Revenge.
posted by loquacious at 12:52 AM on June 12, 2011 [2 favorites]

Wait, what? This seems less like "in the style of" and more like crude Bartsploitation. Bart the General was so compelling to me because it was challenging and unpredictable on every conceivable metric - character, timing, art, plot, sound, etc. etc. Detail was rich -- like, why was the bar renamed "Mr. Hot and Mr. Cool"? Why did that make my skin crawl? Did you notice how the characters names gradually shifted through the series, as in Homer to Omar to Omarn? Characters were introduced and dismissed with such jarring car-crash unpredictability that I was left truly fearing for the livelihood of every person, place, thing...

This feels like a rehash of the crassest tricks with none of the magic or mystery! Like Sum 41 to Bart the General's The Fall. All wrinkly close-ups and slapstick bad behaviour, no creeping existential dread...

Sorry for dissing your link! Apparently this is something I feel passionate about!
posted by metaman livingblog at 1:50 AM on June 12, 2011 [4 favorites]

I hate that I can't share this with my wife. Only metafilter understands wwhy shrek piss? Italiano.
posted by tmt at 4:13 AM on June 12, 2011

That was absolutely awful. Next time you find something like that, keep it to yourself.
posted by crunchland at 4:54 AM on June 12, 2011

Cool Ranch came before Ranch? I am a stupid f**king bitch.
posted by Mittenz at 5:41 AM on June 12, 2011

DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO OBOMO SOCIELEST USA
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 5:58 AM on June 12, 2011 [2 favorites]

Yeah, that was a cheap BTG ripoff.
posted by to sir with millipedes at 6:12 AM on June 12, 2011

Good artists copy, great artists steal.
posted by fungible at 6:35 AM on June 12, 2011

Can't watch this without a YouTube account.
posted by ardgedee at 6:41 AM on June 12, 2011

The "Dehumanize Yourself..." one, I mean.
posted by ardgedee at 6:52 AM on June 12, 2011

The world is turning all 8-bit. Is this the terrible backlash against all the 3-d movie hate?
posted by Redhush at 10:11 AM on June 12, 2011

urban dictionary tells me that "shrek piss" is neon green urine after drinking energy drinks
posted by ohshenandoah at 10:21 AM on June 12, 2011

I hate that I can't share this with my wife.

She's not 18 or older?
posted by Apocryphon at 1:45 PM on June 12, 2011 [1 favorite]

Oh, this is by Chef Boyardee, the guy behind Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden - possibly the funniest RPG ever made.
posted by Earl the Polliwog at 7:35 PM on June 12, 2011

That Obomo, he is just the socialest ever.
posted by maryr at 9:17 PM on June 12, 2011