Comments on: Everyone deserves a little mariachi

Everyone deserves a little mariachi

functionequalsform — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:29:17 -0800

It's halfway through the work week, so let's just chill out and watch this mariachi band serenade this happy beluga whale. (SLYT)

By: inigo2

inigo2 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:36:52 -0800

This has just become my favorite thing of the day. Possibly week.

By: Solomon

Solomon — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:39:46 -0800

Was the whale trying to hear the music better when it was pressing its head against the glass?

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:43:37 -0800

YAY! I'm imagining an ongoing by-the-glass concert series.

By: gompa

gompa — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:45:00 -0800

This is why Al Gore invented the internet. It overflows with win.

By: azar

azar — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:47:00 -0800

this is just another proof why the whale should not be there.

By: Malice

Malice — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:47:31 -0800

It's ruined for me because it is always heartbreaking to see a whale in an aquarium. If it wasn't for that, I'd like this very much.

By: (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates

(Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:51:25 -0800

This great in and of itself, but I have chosen to make it even better by imagining that it is the final scene of a lost Herzog film.

By: Awakened

Awakened — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:53:07 -0800

Adorable, but something tells me it would prefer electronic rock. Moby, perhaps?

By: DU

DU — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:53:22 -0800

"How can I get one those hats?!"

By: dobbs

dobbs — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:53:40 -0800

Was the whale trying to hear the music better when it was pressing its head against the glass? I sent him a text and he said, "Yes!"

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:54:11 -0800

The trumpet has a whale echo sound through the glass, they're talking to it.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:57:57 -0800

I was really hoping these were a bunch of seafaring mariachis in a sailboat cruising around the sub-arctic, but this is awesome nevertheless.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:58:50 -0800

My favorite part is the part at the end where you can clearly hear the whale say: "Really enjoyed it, guys. Thank you!"

By: Medieval Maven

Medieval Maven — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:06:13 -0800

Oh, belugas in aquariums. I saw this earlier today and it's so cute, but I do feel badly for the trapped beluga. However, I also think of the two belugas that came to the (beleaguered, I know) Georgia Aquarium from (I shit you not) a pool/lake/holding tank UNDER A ROLLERCOASTER in Mexico. I knew the lawyer who worked on the deal. Regardless of anything else, those poor Belugas at least got to get out from under all that weird, loud machinery that surely was not anything approaching a good environment.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:12:17 -0800

Oh man, that aquarium is also super-cool because they have a petting tank for stingrays. Have you ever petted a stingray? They're like little friendly doggies!

By: DreamerFi

DreamerFi — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:18:31 -0800

Have you ever petted a stingray? And fed them, yes. They are awesome.

By: BlueHorse

BlueHorse — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:32:20 -0800

Yes! You can see him nodding his head in time, but he's not quite got the rythmn.

By: norm

norm — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:34:28 -0800

Oh, come on. Everyone knows white whales don't have rhythm. Cut him/her some slack.

By: norm

norm — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:35:21 -0800

(I did see a white whale jump once, but that may have just been a fluke.)

By: norm

norm — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:35:58 -0800

That last post was definitely a breach of etiquette.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:40:24 -0800

it's like you're trying to krill us with these terrible jokes.

By: BigHeartedGuy

BigHeartedGuy — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:45:35 -0800

Metafilter: it's like you're trying to k... oh I just can't do it.

By: ChuraChura

ChuraChura — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:52:15 -0800

They missed a golden opportunity to play Baby Beluga in mariachi style.

By: Pink Fuzzy Bunny

Pink Fuzzy Bunny — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:57:24 -0800

Ugh its almost like you guys are doing all the bad puns on porpoise.

By: Pecinpah

Pecinpah — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:18:04 -0800

This was so cute I almost started to blubber.

By: gompa

gompa — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:22:13 -0800

Call the humour police - jokes this bad deserve a cetacean.

By: mikepop

mikepop — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:36:41 -0800

You all are being so flip --- er, nevermind I got nothing.

By: norm

norm — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:42:31 -0800

The best de-flense is a good off-flense.

By: tzikeh

tzikeh — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:53:24 -0800

*Slow clap for norm*

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:26:43 -0800

I guess that's really a WHALE of an animal in that whale-holding-tank

By: Kabanos

Kabanos — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:30:11 -0800

Should have played "Whale Meat Again"

By: (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates

(Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:47:27 -0800

The beluga whale is like the shark of the ocean.

By: dracomarca

dracomarca — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:09:54 -0800

Metabaleen.

By: benzenedream

benzenedream — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:34:57 -0800

Those puns are great. AMBERGRIS

By: dutcherino

dutcherino — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:57:34 -0800

So is this Juno, The Mystic Aquarium beluga described as "aggressive" in the next video? If so, all he was saying was "Hey you kids, get out there and find me a mariachi band!" Kids can be soooo stupid.

By: mazola

mazola — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:13:53 -0800

It's ruined for me because it is always heartbreaking to see a mariachi band in an aquarium.

By: norm

norm — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:20:32 -0800

The beluga whale is like the shark of the ocean. ...and she just wants you to be her chum?

By: tomswift

tomswift — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:22:51 -0800

"How can I get one those hats?!" I was thinking "Do you have to peel the hat off a Mariaci before you eat one?"

By: Mister Moofoo

Mister Moofoo — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:34:36 -0800

How, I wonder, would this whale have responded to Mariachi el Bronx?

By: PueExMachina

PueExMachina — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:19:43 -0800

Something about the perspective confused me, and for most of the video I thought the band was standing above a pool and the whale was looking up at them.

By: janepanic

janepanic — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:29:46 -0800

So cute. I wonder how much he can hear through the glass? head smoooosh!

By: dirigibleman

dirigibleman — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:44:20 -0800

He was so happy he pooped himself!

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:26:31 -0800

SO HAPPY

By: 1000monkeys

1000monkeys — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:31:57 -0800

So, confession: I normally HATE SLYT's on the blue. I mean, that's what YT is for (and Break and all those horrible video sites, with the racist/sexist comments) but anyways, I just had a totally stress-filled shitty day and this video totally made my evening. So thanks for posting :-D

By: XhaustedProphet

XhaustedProphet — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:39:01 -0800

a) The whale looked like it was smiling. 2) I thought the whale was going to clap when it was over. d) They should've put a mic underwater, cuz I'll bet you that whale was singing along.

By: Ahab

Ahab — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 04:20:06 -0800

He tasks me! That whale, he tasks me!

By: greenish

greenish — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 05:15:11 -0800

I hope everyone noted the comment below the video: "This should be the only thing we put in the time capsule we launch into deep space" I cannot agree more with this statement.

By: pinkbungalow

pinkbungalow — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 05:52:36 -0800

aye carumba!

By: Fizz

Fizz — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:11:35 -0800

"That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principle, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."

By: Soupisgoodfood

Soupisgoodfood — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:34:57 -0800

Hate to be a pooper, but I read the whale has been trained to responded to certain arm movements.

By: Soupisgoodfood

Soupisgoodfood — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:35:32 -0800

IE: It's not dancing to the music.