I ain't four years old no more

November 14, 2012 4:00 PM

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posted by homunculus (48 comments total)

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posted by Wolfdog at 4:01 PM on November 14, 2012 [3 favorites]

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I'm sorry, you didn't phrase your answer in the form of a question.
posted by grog at 4:04 PM on November 14, 2012 [7 favorites]

This breaks the mobile layout. Whaaaa!
posted by monospace at 4:05 PM on November 14, 2012 [3 favorites]

I basically do not understand this but I think that is okay.
posted by jessamyn at 4:05 PM on November 14, 2012 [24 favorites]

YouTube user Maximus Thor has a number of similar and similarly named videos. My favorite is this one.
posted by Kattullus at 4:07 PM on November 14, 2012 [3 favorites]

In a basement somewhere right at this very moment, Harmony Korine is giggling wildly and sharing these videos with every single one of this friends on Facebook.
posted by koeselitz at 4:07 PM on November 14, 2012 [2 favorites]

It's the loneliest number since the number one.
posted by 2bucksplus at 4:08 PM on November 14, 2012 [5 favorites]

Drip Drop Hollywood Diet. 2 Drips=2 Pounds.
posted by boo_radley at 4:09 PM on November 14, 2012 [1 favorite]

what
posted by OmieWise at 4:10 PM on November 14, 2012 [1 favorite]

Maximus Thor

I will be referring every single babynaming AskMe back to this comment from now until the end of time.
posted by elizardbits at 4:10 PM on November 14, 2012 [5 favorites]

elizardbits: "Maximus Thor

I will be referring every single babynaming AskMe back to this comment from now until the end of time."

I wanted to name my son UTHER (note caps) but my wife said no.
posted by boo_radley at 4:11 PM on November 14, 2012 [1 favorite]

I watched this earlier today, as it came up in the recommended videos feed for the Haunted Toaster clip. I call out your influences, homunculus. I call them out loud and clear.
posted by item at 4:16 PM on November 14, 2012

Whatever this is, I'm subscribing to it.
posted by mykescipark at 4:18 PM on November 14, 2012

For a second there I was worried that each numeral had a different link.
posted by ceribus peribus at 4:18 PM on November 14, 2012 [20 favorites]

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posted by XMLicious at 4:19 PM on November 14, 2012

There is some probably fake backstory on Maximus Thor. It is reddit, do not click if you don't want to be annoyed.
posted by Ad hominem at 4:25 PM on November 14, 2012

It's funny because the innocent little white girl sounds like a tough black man.
posted by Nelson at 4:26 PM on November 14, 2012 [1 favorite]

I cannot figure out which Indiana Jones movie he picked and it's driving me batty.

Also, I ain't for years old no more and what is this.
posted by miss_kitty_fantastico at 4:28 PM on November 14, 2012 [1 favorite]

It's Bootsy, Baby!!
posted by the painkiller at 4:29 PM on November 14, 2012

My favorite is Maximus Thor and the Nazi Gold
posted by Ad hominem at 4:30 PM on November 14, 2012 [2 favorites]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR4N5OhcY9s
(15 seconds in)

"1, 1, 1, uhhhhhhhh... 1"

/no idea if it's relevant
posted by randomkeystrike at 4:31 PM on November 14, 2012

There is some probably fake backstory on Maximus Thor.

Ad Hominem, I've actually known this kid since he was about two and can vouch that:

A) His name is indeed Maximus Thor.

B) He probably required very little coaching to make these videos.

Not really sure how I could prove this, but hopefully a mefite's words carries a bit more weight than a redditor's.
posted by SomaSoda at 4:47 PM on November 14, 2012 [16 favorites]

I cannot figure out which Indiana Jones movie he picked and it's driving me batty.

Given the shelf is alphabetized, and the fact that just in the freeze frame before you press play I can read 'Sicko' and see the font for 'Spinal Tap', I'm going to deduce Temple of Doom.
posted by carsonb at 4:47 PM on November 14, 2012 [3 favorites]

That's funny stuff..... thanks!
posted by HuronBob at 4:47 PM on November 14, 2012

I should note that his dad, the director, is Benjamin Barak. He is a standup dude and I worked on a number of the videos listed on that site with him.
posted by SomaSoda at 4:48 PM on November 14, 2012 [1 favorite]

Not really sure how I could prove this, but hopefully a mefite's words carries a bit more weight than a redditor's.

Thanks for the confirmation. Maybe there is an exchange rate, 1 mefite's word = 10 redditors' words, as long as none of those redditors are novelty accounts with names like I_LIE_FOR_FUN.
posted by Ad hominem at 4:55 PM on November 14, 2012 [3 favorites]

He picks Raiders though I can't imagine why it's placed there on the shelf.
posted by ShutterBun at 4:58 PM on November 14, 2012 [1 favorite]

Now I want to start a sock puppet account called I_LIE_FOR_FUN, which only tells the truth about esoteric things that aren't easily googled.
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 5:05 PM on November 14, 2012 [11 favorites]

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(click on the word "Enter") (repeatedly)
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 5:08 PM on November 14, 2012 [3 favorites]

carsonb: Given the shelf is alphabetized, and the fact that just in the freeze frame before you press play I can read 'Sicko' and see the font for 'Spinal Tap', I'm going to deduce Temple of Doom.

See the thing is, it's clear there are three Indiana Jones movies next to each other there. They are plainly in the wrong place, as all the movies after also appear to start with "S". Also, at the highest resolution you can clearly read that the rightmost movie (farthest from the camera) is "Temple of Doom". The next closest is harder to read, but I'm pretty sure it says "Bonus Material". The title of the third is hidden by shadow, but comparing the thumbnail at the top of the spine to this image of the Adventures of Indiana Jones boxed set, I'm going to say it's actually Raiders of the Lost Ark. Deepening the mystery is the fact that there are four DVDs in that boxed set.
posted by ob1quixote at 5:09 PM on November 14, 2012 [2 favorites]

P.S. I need a hobby.
posted by ob1quixote at 5:11 PM on November 14, 2012 [3 favorites]

But critiquing movie sorting techniques is a hobby - a noble hobby!
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 5:14 PM on November 14, 2012 [2 favorites]

They are plainly in the wrong place, as all the movies after also appear to start with "S".

Maybe the movies are in autobiographical order.
posted by ceribus peribus at 5:14 PM on November 14, 2012 [2 favorites]

BONUS MATERIAL. That's why I couldn't just figure out the one he picked via process of elimination (because the words on that 2nd one looked neither like "Raiders" nor "Last Crusade").

He picked Raiders, brain! You can stop scritch-scritch-scritch-ing at me now.

Thanks, y'all.

Metafilter: enabling OCD since 1999.
posted by miss_kitty_fantastico at 5:20 PM on November 14, 2012 [2 favorites]

See the thing is, it's clear there are three Indiana Jones movies next to each other there.

Yeah, having actually watched the video now, he doesn't even pull it from where I thought he would. The freeze is from earlier, as he's checking other cases, still looking. The one he actually yanks looks like it's in an ok spot for 'Raiders', but if there's really three of the movies all in a row there then I dunno what's going on.
posted by carsonb at 5:47 PM on November 14, 2012

...pets his cat...

Donald Pleasence was the best villain, in the best Bond Film.
posted by ovvl at 6:22 PM on November 14, 2012

Binary solo. Just sayin'...
posted by TigerMoth at 6:24 PM on November 14, 2012

That was fantastic, and the kid is highly watchable.
posted by heyho at 6:34 PM on November 14, 2012

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That's Numberwang!
posted by moss at 6:39 PM on November 14, 2012 [7 favorites]

MetaFilter: homunculus forever.
posted by four panels at 7:00 PM on November 14, 2012 [3 favorites]

These shorts are fantastic! Production, editing, and writing are superb, so good I keep suspecting the videos are part of a viral ad campaign requiring the work of a couple dozen people.

I'm suspending my suspicion of lure only because SomaSoda says so.
posted by mistersquid at 8:18 PM on November 14, 2012

that was hilarious!!

(except for the cultural appropriationism and racism and sexism and ageism and nazism and, and didn't that old guy in the nazi gold episode look kinda jewish?)

(i'm just performing preemptive thread homeopathy and rapid-eye desensitization)
posted by facetious at 11:06 PM on November 14, 2012

there are a *lot* of great parts, but i think his (that's a little guy, isn't it?) little-kid's gentle poking/petting of that big fat cat are what made it work for me. you can talk shit, but you got ta be cool with our little dumb chums
posted by facetious at 11:09 PM on November 14, 2012 [1 favorite]

My first thought was 60x1 too ...
posted by mrgrimm at 12:09 AM on November 15, 2012

This white girl was vaguely worried about racism too -- that that's where the funny comes from. But I think it's more the dissonance than anything else. Please somebody tell me if I should feel more guilty for enjoying this.
posted by angrycat at 4:26 AM on November 15, 2012

I don't feel guilty for enjoying this. It's the dichotomy that does it. Swap out the blond haired caucasian boy with someone else and substitute the voice with any overtly macho dialogue and cultural dialect, and it's going to still be funny.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 7:44 AM on November 15, 2012

That's some naughty bits!
posted by Twang at 4:24 PM on November 15, 2012

dog
posted by homunculus at 11:02 AM on November 21, 2012