FIRE ZE MISSILES!
November 20, 2015 6:00 AM Subscribe
[Editor's note: The website that sits at that URL (endoftheworld.net) is slightly different now.]
Sadly.
posted by oneswellfoop at 6:20 AM on November 20, 2015
Sadly.
posted by oneswellfoop at 6:20 AM on November 20, 2015
I wasn't ready for that present day picture of him.
posted by cashman at 6:21 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by cashman at 6:21 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
Uh... I spent quite a bit of time on the internet in the early aughts, and this is the first time I've heard of this "viral meme".
posted by Halloween Jack at 6:21 AM on November 20, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by Halloween Jack at 6:21 AM on November 20, 2015 [8 favorites]
You may have missed it, but I remember those bad flash days like it was yesterday.
posted by cashman at 6:29 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by cashman at 6:29 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
Halloween Jack: "Uh... I spent quite a bit of time on the internet in the early aughts, and this is the first time I've heard of this "viral meme"."
Phew! Glad to hear I'm not the only one.
posted by barnacles at 6:32 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
Phew! Glad to hear I'm not the only one.
posted by barnacles at 6:32 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
"When will I learn not to tell them that I can smell their brains?"
posted by pxe2000 at 6:33 AM on November 20, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by pxe2000 at 6:33 AM on November 20, 2015 [7 favorites]
There were whole areas of the web that I avoided, like ebaum's world, and so I missed a lot of this stuff. Kind of regret it. Flash was a great democratizer, making animation suddenly a thing that a lot of people could do, and I like the sort of anarchic explosions of rough creativity that result from this kind of thing.
posted by maxsparber at 6:35 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by maxsparber at 6:35 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
Somehow this has permanently broken my ability to say 'OK'. This pleases me.
posted by Confess, Fletch at 6:44 AM on November 20, 2015 [12 favorites]
posted by Confess, Fletch at 6:44 AM on November 20, 2015 [12 favorites]
The guy seems to have a really healthy relationship with himself and his place in Intermet history... that's nice to hear. For some reason I always kinda figure that people who were famous on the early Internet all wound up washed-up and miserable, I dunno why.
I feel like the world got over the crudely animated Flash video. It had its heyday and then we naturally got out of it.
Man, yeah, what a weird time in the internet's history. I feel like there's a great FPP waiting to happen on the rise and fall of ebaumsworld or something. I've kind of always wanted to do a post about the spate of cathartic, funny (or at least trying to be funny) flash videos people made about Bin Laden and the Taliban right after 9/11.
posted by Itaxpica at 6:45 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
I feel like the world got over the crudely animated Flash video. It had its heyday and then we naturally got out of it.
Man, yeah, what a weird time in the internet's history. I feel like there's a great FPP waiting to happen on the rise and fall of ebaumsworld or something. I've kind of always wanted to do a post about the spate of cathartic, funny (or at least trying to be funny) flash videos people made about Bin Laden and the Taliban right after 9/11.
posted by Itaxpica at 6:45 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Ok, can now somebody tell me what the deal was with Gonads and Strife?
posted by bondcliff at 6:47 AM on November 20, 2015 [18 favorites]
posted by bondcliff at 6:47 AM on November 20, 2015 [18 favorites]
bondcliff: Well, when you're young and you want to go "Wee!!" but you ain't got drugs yet...
posted by SansPoint at 6:51 AM on November 20, 2015 [12 favorites]
posted by SansPoint at 6:51 AM on November 20, 2015 [12 favorites]
Kenya was my favorite. Look at that little tiger dance!
posted by almostmanda at 6:52 AM on November 20, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by almostmanda at 6:52 AM on November 20, 2015 [9 favorites]
bondcliff: it was the song our hearts yearned for but could not articulate.
posted by LegallyBread at 6:53 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by LegallyBread at 6:53 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
Nigh!
posted by fairmettle at 6:54 AM on November 20, 2015
posted by fairmettle at 6:54 AM on November 20, 2015
It's called Mario Twins! They look the same. I would say to them "You want ice cream cone?" Both of them say yes. How in the hell?
posted by SansPoint at 6:58 AM on November 20, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by SansPoint at 6:58 AM on November 20, 2015 [9 favorites]
I don't remember this at all. Anyone?
posted by GallonOfAlan at 6:59 AM on November 20, 2015
posted by GallonOfAlan at 6:59 AM on November 20, 2015
Do not remember at all.
posted by jeff-o-matic at 7:00 AM on November 20, 2015
posted by jeff-o-matic at 7:00 AM on November 20, 2015
I remember discovering this on Albino Blacksheep (together with The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny) when searching for How To Kill A Mockingbird. So long ago…
posted by erdferkel at 7:03 AM on November 20, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by erdferkel at 7:03 AM on November 20, 2015 [7 favorites]
One of the first words I teach any new device is Hokay. It's been wired so deep in my brain that i'd forgotten where it came from until now.
posted by Cold Lurkey at 7:05 AM on November 20, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by Cold Lurkey at 7:05 AM on November 20, 2015 [8 favorites]
I remember this so clearly that I still can mouth along to the words. It was a huge, huge thing on the neolithic web.
posted by 1adam12 at 7:14 AM on November 20, 2015 [13 favorites]
posted by 1adam12 at 7:14 AM on November 20, 2015 [13 favorites]
Everyone else has had more sex than me. Does anyone else get that feeling?
posted by SansPoint at 7:14 AM on November 20, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by SansPoint at 7:14 AM on November 20, 2015 [10 favorites]
The neolithic web? 2003? Kids these days etc.
I would say 2 people who weren't US teens in 2003 have heard of this.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 7:18 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
I would say 2 people who weren't US teens in 2003 have heard of this.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 7:18 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
GallonOfAlan: I heard about this in Malaysia and promptly trolled my college friends with it. Don't underestimate international virality.
posted by divabat at 7:19 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by divabat at 7:19 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
GallonOfAlan: "I would say 2 people who weren't US teens in 2003 have heard of this."
No way, dude. I was a 27 year-old-Dad in 2003 with little to no Internet access at home and I remember this very well.
posted by Rock Steady at 7:25 AM on November 20, 2015 [13 favorites]
No way, dude. I was a 27 year-old-Dad in 2003 with little to no Internet access at home and I remember this very well.
posted by Rock Steady at 7:25 AM on November 20, 2015 [13 favorites]
I would say 2 people who weren't US teens in 2003 have heard of this.
Informal poll of my floor at work - 39 people knew exactly what video this was, one person didn't - he is also the only one that was a 'teen in 2003.'
We are all a bunch of nerds though.
posted by synthetik at 7:26 AM on November 20, 2015 [5 favorites]
Informal poll of my floor at work - 39 people knew exactly what video this was, one person didn't - he is also the only one that was a 'teen in 2003.'
We are all a bunch of nerds though.
posted by synthetik at 7:26 AM on November 20, 2015 [5 favorites]
I would say 2 people who weren't US teens in 2003 have heard of this.
I mean, I'm all for lawn-off-getting, but I wasn't a teen in 2003 and definitely remember this. My wife and I still say "but I am le tired" sometimes when we are le tired. She was actually in college, though, in these Flash-cartoon days, and was exposed to and remembers a lot more of them than do I, which probably indicates that this was a huge one.
posted by uncleozzy at 7:26 AM on November 20, 2015 [5 favorites]
I mean, I'm all for lawn-off-getting, but I wasn't a teen in 2003 and definitely remember this. My wife and I still say "but I am le tired" sometimes when we are le tired. She was actually in college, though, in these Flash-cartoon days, and was exposed to and remembers a lot more of them than do I, which probably indicates that this was a huge one.
posted by uncleozzy at 7:26 AM on November 20, 2015 [5 favorites]
I was so obsessed with this stuff (fanimutation especially) as a mid-twenties dude that I told a bunch of coworkers about it in, say, 2004. You know those moments where you get so excited about something you HAVE to tell people and then you do and they look at you like Wha and you realize OH wrong crowd these adults with families and masters degrees in Education probably aren't super fascinated by Internet Cartoons and shouldn't he be working rather than downloading videos?
Now I'm the boss and the twenty-somethings have to listen to me heh heh heh, blasting Group X in my pod as we speak.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 7:39 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
Now I'm the boss and the twenty-somethings have to listen to me heh heh heh, blasting Group X in my pod as we speak.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 7:39 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
I ate some Fudge Stripe cookies, and Pringles...
posted by uncleozzy at 7:41 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by uncleozzy at 7:41 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
Odd Todd!!!!!!
posted by growabrain at 7:45 AM on November 20, 2015
posted by growabrain at 7:45 AM on November 20, 2015
Oh my god. This brings closure to another tiny part of my childhood.
I had a phase some years back where I tried to make MetaFilter posts on other parts of AlbinoBlackSheep-era Internet culture: Weebl
The Demented Cartoon Movie
Joel Veitch/rathergood
Neil Cicierega, of Potter Puppet Pals/Ultimate Showdown fame, is still very much actively destroying your childhood. This reminds me that his latest mashup needs an FPP as well. Gimme five.
I would say 2 people who weren't US teens in 2003 have heard of this.
I was thirteen years old in 2003, and in the eighth grade. Classes of kids would literally group around the one computer in the back of the room, listening really closely with the sound turned low so the teacher wouldn't hear the word "fuck" get spoken out loud, breaking out in hysterics over every line of this thing. I know at least one kid who peed himself because of this video (as in, was literally there at the sleepover when this happened). AlbinoBlackSheep was the defining cultural touchstone for myself and many other people of that age. I can't tell you what songs were popular in 2003, but I can count all the way to schfifty five.
"The End of the World" in particular has lasted for a surprisingly long time; I go to weddings or community dinners and somebody'll say "Hokay. So. Here's the Earth" and immediately three clusters of people will burst out into variants of "But I am le tired!" and "MOTHERLAAAAAND!" and "Fucking kangaroos" and the evening will turn into a cacophony of shrill cusswords. It's our lingua franca.
posted by rorgy at 7:47 AM on November 20, 2015 [15 favorites]
I had a phase some years back where I tried to make MetaFilter posts on other parts of AlbinoBlackSheep-era Internet culture: Weebl
The Demented Cartoon Movie
Joel Veitch/rathergood
Neil Cicierega, of Potter Puppet Pals/Ultimate Showdown fame, is still very much actively destroying your childhood. This reminds me that his latest mashup needs an FPP as well. Gimme five.
I would say 2 people who weren't US teens in 2003 have heard of this.
I was thirteen years old in 2003, and in the eighth grade. Classes of kids would literally group around the one computer in the back of the room, listening really closely with the sound turned low so the teacher wouldn't hear the word "fuck" get spoken out loud, breaking out in hysterics over every line of this thing. I know at least one kid who peed himself because of this video (as in, was literally there at the sleepover when this happened). AlbinoBlackSheep was the defining cultural touchstone for myself and many other people of that age. I can't tell you what songs were popular in 2003, but I can count all the way to schfifty five.
"The End of the World" in particular has lasted for a surprisingly long time; I go to weddings or community dinners and somebody'll say "Hokay. So. Here's the Earth" and immediately three clusters of people will burst out into variants of "But I am le tired!" and "MOTHERLAAAAAND!" and "Fucking kangaroos" and the evening will turn into a cacophony of shrill cusswords. It's our lingua franca.
posted by rorgy at 7:47 AM on November 20, 2015 [15 favorites]
This must be a viral hoax intended to make you believe there was a viral thing you missed way back when, because I've never heard of this, and I go way, way back in Internet time, back when "Ate My Balls" and 'shopped pictures of Bill Gates as the Borg were a thing.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 7:48 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 7:48 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
Bananaphone anyone?
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 7:52 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 7:52 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
Badger badger badger mushroom mushroom!
posted by ActionPopulated at 7:55 AM on November 20, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by ActionPopulated at 7:55 AM on November 20, 2015 [8 favorites]
We were alllll into Weebl in college. As well as rathergood. They were the ones who introduced me to Electric Six!
posted by chainsofreedom at 7:55 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by chainsofreedom at 7:55 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
want pie now
posted by SansPoint at 7:56 AM on November 20, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by SansPoint at 7:56 AM on November 20, 2015 [4 favorites]
SansPoint: I think that pie video contributed a lot to my love of pie now.
posted by divabat at 7:58 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by divabat at 7:58 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
divabat mmm... pie!
posted by SansPoint at 7:58 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by SansPoint at 7:58 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
back when "Ate My Balls" and 'shopped pictures of Bill Gates as the Borg were a thing
Surely there is no internet meme which could've escaped your attention. Lo, you were the harbinger of 'dank memes' before they were dank. Or memes.
posted by CrystalDave at 7:59 AM on November 20, 2015 [4 favorites]
Surely there is no internet meme which could've escaped your attention. Lo, you were the harbinger of 'dank memes' before they were dank. Or memes.
posted by CrystalDave at 7:59 AM on November 20, 2015 [4 favorites]
Not only do I remember this video, I also remember that there was a MetaFilter FPP about it, however I can't muster up enough Search-Fu to find it. It hardly seems possible to me that this is 12 years old, but there you have it.
posted by briank at 8:06 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by briank at 8:06 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Well no wonder it doesn't feel like 12 years ago!
(also: me like pie)
posted by briank at 8:10 AM on November 20, 2015
(also: me like pie)
posted by briank at 8:10 AM on November 20, 2015
On the one hand nice post because I'm loving 'The End of the World' and the others linked here. I get why they became memes.
On the other hand where the hell was I that I've never seen any of this? In 2003 I was working in an IT nerd factory full of 20-somethings and memes were everywhere. I missed all of these except 'All Your Base'. Clearly they were widespread so maybe Cool Papa Bell is onto something.
posted by Clinging to the Wreckage at 8:13 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
On the other hand where the hell was I that I've never seen any of this? In 2003 I was working in an IT nerd factory full of 20-somethings and memes were everywhere. I missed all of these except 'All Your Base'. Clearly they were widespread so maybe Cool Papa Bell is onto something.
posted by Clinging to the Wreckage at 8:13 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
Also in the zeitgeist (requires Adobe® Flash® Player)
Mashed Taters
Numa Numa
Xiao Xiao
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
posted by matrixclown at 8:13 AM on November 20, 2015 [4 favorites]
Mashed Taters
Numa Numa
Xiao Xiao
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
posted by matrixclown at 8:13 AM on November 20, 2015 [4 favorites]
OMG the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. I must have watched that so many times the summer of 2004.
posted by sciatrix at 8:15 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by sciatrix at 8:15 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
All of these were burned into my adolescent brain in the early aughts. Mildly horrified to realize how much of the lyrics I remember to all these.
"This is the ultimate shoooowdown" ♪♫
posted by Wretch729 at 8:18 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
"This is the ultimate shoooowdown" ♪♫
posted by Wretch729 at 8:18 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Come on fhqwhgads. I see you jocking me. Trying to play like you know me.
posted by SansPoint at 8:20 AM on November 20, 2015 [11 favorites]
posted by SansPoint at 8:20 AM on November 20, 2015 [11 favorites]
Oh, and French Erotic Film!
I remember a very literal-minded college friend of mine trying to explain why this was funny to his unimpressed girlfriend. It doesn't work.
posted by ActionPopulated at 8:21 AM on November 20, 2015
I remember a very literal-minded college friend of mine trying to explain why this was funny to his unimpressed girlfriend. It doesn't work.
posted by ActionPopulated at 8:21 AM on November 20, 2015
The unattainable is unknown at Zombocom!
posted by duffell at 8:21 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by duffell at 8:21 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
My girlfriend and I still sing "Who loves the chocolate? Everyone loves the chocolate!" when we buy anything with chocolate in it.
Wee-hoo!
posted by SansPoint at 8:22 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
Wee-hoo!
posted by SansPoint at 8:22 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
I routinely start sentences with 'H'okay'. And I also say 'I am le tired.'
I guess I'd forgotten where I got it from. Thanks for the reminder!
posted by Happy Dave at 8:24 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
I guess I'd forgotten where I got it from. Thanks for the reminder!
posted by Happy Dave at 8:24 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
With Mario Maker out, I started to remember the old video Super Mario Bros Frustration. Now, anyone know about the person who voiced that (sounds like Christopher Walken, but pretty sure not actually Christopher Walken)?
posted by FJT at 8:25 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by FJT at 8:25 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
FJT: I remember being rather disappointed when I learned that the voice over was recorded separately from the game. Still hilarious, though!
"Fuck you, Blooper!"
posted by SansPoint at 8:27 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
"Fuck you, Blooper!"
posted by SansPoint at 8:27 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
Joe Sparks' Radiskull & Devil Doll, from 1999 or 2000. The fun starts around :30.
posted by Ian A.T. at 8:28 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Ian A.T. at 8:28 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
All these old viral videos are coming back to me.
I'm not gonna google it at work, but I have vague memories of a German commercial where some family is rocking out to a song and they don't realize the (english) lyrics are something like "I want to fuck you in the ass." The story had a moral, but I don't remember what it was.
posted by bondcliff at 8:28 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
I'm not gonna google it at work, but I have vague memories of a German commercial where some family is rocking out to a song and they don't realize the (english) lyrics are something like "I want to fuck you in the ass." The story had a moral, but I don't remember what it was.
posted by bondcliff at 8:28 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
rorgy: "This reminds me that his latest mashup needs an FPP as well. Gimme five"
Wait. What?!?
posted by schmod at 8:28 AM on November 20, 2015
Wait. What?!?
posted by schmod at 8:28 AM on November 20, 2015
Yeah if you don't remember this you weren't quite the interneteer that you think you were in the early 2000s.
vague memories of a German commercial
I got you fam.
My wife and I still say "but I am le tired" sometimes when we are le tired.
Same. Why change what works?
posted by Sternmeyer at 8:33 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
vague memories of a German commercial
I got you fam.
My wife and I still say "but I am le tired" sometimes when we are le tired.
Same. Why change what works?
posted by Sternmeyer at 8:33 AM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
The story had a moral, but I don't remember what it was.
It was a english language school.
posted by leotrotsky at 8:33 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
It was a english language school.
posted by leotrotsky at 8:33 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
I got you fam.
I'm going to let Eric convey my gratitude.
posted by bondcliff at 8:45 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
I'm going to let Eric convey my gratitude.
posted by bondcliff at 8:45 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Wow, everything from the early 2000s is so small now. How did we ever get by with so few pixels?
posted by eykal at 8:53 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by eykal at 8:53 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Was hoping someone would bring up Odd Todd! I still frequently answer "how was your day?" with "I drank some coffee; stared at the wall for a while; drank some coffee; stared at the wall...."
posted by rebekah at 8:59 AM on November 20, 2015
posted by rebekah at 8:59 AM on November 20, 2015
vague memories of a German commercialWhy am I surprised that this didn't link to Forklift Driver Klaus?
I got you fam.
posted by pxe2000 at 9:00 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
How did we ever get by with so few pixels?
Everything was bigger in the age of dinosaurs, even the pixels.
posted by uncleozzy at 9:01 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Everything was bigger in the age of dinosaurs, even the pixels.
posted by uncleozzy at 9:01 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
I would say 2 people who weren't US teens in 2003 have heard of this.
That's crazy talk. I was 23 in 2003 and I loved it. I was about to graduate college (in Arkansas, not some urban center) and all the wallpapers in the main library lab were set to screenshots from it.
Now I have teenaged kids who know about it without me having shown it to them.
posted by late afternoon dreaming hotel at 9:50 AM on November 20, 2015
That's crazy talk. I was 23 in 2003 and I loved it. I was about to graduate college (in Arkansas, not some urban center) and all the wallpapers in the main library lab were set to screenshots from it.
Now I have teenaged kids who know about it without me having shown it to them.
posted by late afternoon dreaming hotel at 9:50 AM on November 20, 2015
[NSFW] b3ta.com was the source and/or promoter of a fair amount of this stuff. It's still exactly the same, which pleases me.
posted by Drexen at 10:01 AM on November 20, 2015
posted by Drexen at 10:01 AM on November 20, 2015
Somehow this has permanently broken my ability to say 'OK'. This pleases me.
Despite being familiar with albinoblacksheep and ebaumsworld during the era in question (even if well out of my teen years by then), I don't think I was exposed to this video until some time post 2008. My fiancee occasionally says 'OK' in her version of the video's accent, but it always makes me think of John Malkovich in Rounders instead.
posted by solotoro at 10:10 AM on November 20, 2015
Despite being familiar with albinoblacksheep and ebaumsworld during the era in question (even if well out of my teen years by then), I don't think I was exposed to this video until some time post 2008. My fiancee occasionally says 'OK' in her version of the video's accent, but it always makes me think of John Malkovich in Rounders instead.
posted by solotoro at 10:10 AM on November 20, 2015
Maybe I missed the link, but my first flash videos were the semi-interactive bits by Joe Cartoon from the early-mid nineties (shockingly, it appears to be updated semi regularly).
Looking back at some of the stuff there, I'm a little embarrassed at what I used to find funny.
posted by Mooski at 10:10 AM on November 20, 2015
Looking back at some of the stuff there, I'm a little embarrassed at what I used to find funny.
posted by Mooski at 10:10 AM on November 20, 2015
WE LIKE THE MOOOOOOOOON
You...you don't want to know how many little songs I still sing to myself with this tune. I don't even know why, I didn't watch/listen to this particular viral video all that much, and yet.
Also, count me as yet another person who totally forgot that this is where HOKAY and "I am le tired," came from.
posted by yasaman at 10:17 AM on November 20, 2015
You...you don't want to know how many little songs I still sing to myself with this tune. I don't even know why, I didn't watch/listen to this particular viral video all that much, and yet.
Also, count me as yet another person who totally forgot that this is where HOKAY and "I am le tired," came from.
posted by yasaman at 10:17 AM on November 20, 2015
We are here to protect you.
Since we're talking of flash animation history, it seems right to also link to the event that inspired the creation of The Terrible Secret of Space - the ICQ prank (note: it's broken into 4 pages) that inspired it by SomethingAwful's founder, Lowtax, in April of 2000.
posted by chambers at 10:41 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Since we're talking of flash animation history, it seems right to also link to the event that inspired the creation of The Terrible Secret of Space - the ICQ prank (note: it's broken into 4 pages) that inspired it by SomethingAwful's founder, Lowtax, in April of 2000.
posted by chambers at 10:41 AM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
I would say 2 people who weren't US teens in 2003 have heard of this.
I was 28 in 2003 and I definitely saw it. A lot of my friends are programmer nerds though, so that may skew things a bit.
I still say "I am le tired" on occasion.
posted by Fleebnork at 11:20 AM on November 20, 2015
I was 28 in 2003 and I definitely saw it. A lot of my friends are programmer nerds though, so that may skew things a bit.
I still say "I am le tired" on occasion.
posted by Fleebnork at 11:20 AM on November 20, 2015
LOBSTER MADE OF MEAT!
posted by sara is disenchanted at 11:25 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by sara is disenchanted at 11:25 AM on November 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
I love this video. Count me as another person for whom the pronunciation of the word "OK" has been permanently altered by this video. Funnily enough I was just thinking about it the other day.
Also, was anyone else a fan of Miss Muffy and the Muff Mob? This used to have me in stitches in college, circa 2000. I have burned CDs of the raps in a Case Logic CD case somewhere in the basement and my fiancée and I still quote lines to this day.
"Like boogies in my nose,
I pick 'em and I flick 'em
at your moms, while she's sleeping"
posted by friendlyjuan at 11:33 AM on November 20, 2015
Also, was anyone else a fan of Miss Muffy and the Muff Mob? This used to have me in stitches in college, circa 2000. I have burned CDs of the raps in a Case Logic CD case somewhere in the basement and my fiancée and I still quote lines to this day.
"Like boogies in my nose,
I pick 'em and I flick 'em
at your moms, while she's sleeping"
posted by friendlyjuan at 11:33 AM on November 20, 2015
I would say 2 people who weren't US teens in 2003 have heard of this.
I was no longer a teen by 2003 and I remember this Very well. My cousin (4 years older) and I routinely text one another that we are le tired.
LOBSTER STICKS TO MAG-NET ya ya ya ya
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 12:47 PM on November 20, 2015
I was no longer a teen by 2003 and I remember this Very well. My cousin (4 years older) and I routinely text one another that we are le tired.
LOBSTER STICKS TO MAG-NET ya ya ya ya
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 12:47 PM on November 20, 2015
I was a freshman in college in 2001 and these videos were all over my dorm. End of the World, Radiskull, Shifty-Five, Gonads and Strife. I vividly remember checking New Grounds and eBaum's world every day to see what the new uploads were. So yeah, at least in my little corner of the world these were all a big hit. Thanks for the hit of nostalgia!
Also, from a couple years later: Charlie the Unicorn
posted by joechip at 12:59 PM on November 20, 2015
Also, from a couple years later: Charlie the Unicorn
posted by joechip at 12:59 PM on November 20, 2015
I want more tattoos but have no ideas.
Had no ideas. Thinking something based on "Left claw north RIGHT CLAW SOOOOOOOUTH!" would be just the thing.
posted by SpiffyRob at 1:24 PM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
Had no ideas. Thinking something based on "Left claw north RIGHT CLAW SOOOOOOOUTH!" would be just the thing.
posted by SpiffyRob at 1:24 PM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
Additionally:
CRAB BATTLE!
Forehead Shavecut
Defender of the Supermart (Part 1)
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 2:16 PM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
CRAB BATTLE!
Forehead Shavecut
Defender of the Supermart (Part 1)
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 2:16 PM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
[with increasing excitement] Darmok and Jalad, watching the sex rabbit!
posted by DoctorFedora at 3:14 PM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by DoctorFedora at 3:14 PM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
Huh, I only just discovered that a band called Gröûp X are behind the original audio of some of the classics. I wonder how much their schtick influenced the odd accents that seem to be part of a lot of these.
posted by lucidium at 3:37 PM on November 20, 2015
posted by lucidium at 3:37 PM on November 20, 2015
I'm extremely surprised and disappointed nobody has mentioned Prince Adam at at his best. I try to say "Now is time for cake!" whenever or appropriate.
or not appropriate, idgaf
posted by Tevin at 3:53 PM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
or not appropriate, idgaf
posted by Tevin at 3:53 PM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
I love this thread and everyone in it.
Vresa pleci dar numa numa yay!
posted by Pallas Athena at 4:29 PM on November 20, 2015
Vresa pleci dar numa numa yay!
posted by Pallas Athena at 4:29 PM on November 20, 2015
So much early internet / flash goodness in this thread. I was 23 in 2003, and I've seen "The End of the World" approximately 5000 times.
While we're attempting to reinfect the modern web with old viral strains, what about these?
I saw Weeeeeeee mentioend above, but not School Bus? Or y2Khai? And Bill Clinton & Ted Kennedy as Bill & Ted (NSFW) And Zombie College with the longest most annoying theme song intro of all time?
Finally, and not flash, but what about Ill Mitch?
(Al Gore will pull a 900 for the American People.)
posted by namewithoutwords at 4:47 PM on November 20, 2015
While we're attempting to reinfect the modern web with old viral strains, what about these?
I saw Weeeeeeee mentioend above, but not School Bus? Or y2Khai? And Bill Clinton & Ted Kennedy as Bill & Ted (NSFW) And Zombie College with the longest most annoying theme song intro of all time?
Finally, and not flash, but what about Ill Mitch?
(Al Gore will pull a 900 for the American People.)
posted by namewithoutwords at 4:47 PM on November 20, 2015
Additionally:
CRAB BATTLE!
I've still got one friend who I'll occasionally, out of nowhere, shout OLIOLIOLIO!!! at, and vice-versa.
posted by Itaxpica at 5:49 PM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
CRAB BATTLE!
I've still got one friend who I'll occasionally, out of nowhere, shout OLIOLIOLIO!!! at, and vice-versa.
posted by Itaxpica at 5:49 PM on November 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
I cannot explain why I found Hatten år din so funny, so I won't.
YATTA!
Magic Trevor
posted by gc at 8:48 PM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
YATTA!
Magic Trevor
posted by gc at 8:48 PM on November 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
I have a tendency to eventually force anyone who dates me to watch Cat News (not flash, but of the same era).
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 10:49 PM on November 20, 2015
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 10:49 PM on November 20, 2015
I would say 2 people who weren't US teens in 2003 have heard of this.
You would be very very wrong.
posted by tzikeh at 1:26 PM on November 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
You would be very very wrong.
posted by tzikeh at 1:26 PM on November 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
I definitely remember this one! It took a second to click, but as soon as I saw the first bit of animation it all came back.
As a former enlisted sailor in the Navy, I also remember spending lots of duty days sitting at the duty desk with a couple of other guys and spending several hours on ebaum's world. Often I have wondered whatever happened to that site, it doesn't really seem that long ago.
But in the spirit of the upcoming holidays, 'Ding, fries are done!'
posted by HycoSpeed at 10:35 PM on November 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
As a former enlisted sailor in the Navy, I also remember spending lots of duty days sitting at the duty desk with a couple of other guys and spending several hours on ebaum's world. Often I have wondered whatever happened to that site, it doesn't really seem that long ago.
But in the spirit of the upcoming holidays, 'Ding, fries are done!'
posted by HycoSpeed at 10:35 PM on November 21, 2015 [1 favorite]
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