A Slaptstick Masterpeice.
August 11, 2016 8:48 PM Subscribe
A detailed play by play breakdown of a very short gif. Featuring a cute doggy.
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I appreciate this breakdown because I had no idea how the pants came down at first. There's just so much going on.
posted by brundlefly at 9:05 PM on August 11, 2016 [7 favorites]
posted by brundlefly at 9:05 PM on August 11, 2016 [7 favorites]
Yes thank you very much.
posted by Grandysaur at 9:09 PM on August 11, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Grandysaur at 9:09 PM on August 11, 2016 [1 favorite]
Based on the poll results, we now know there are a lot of dogs on the internet.
posted by perhapses at 9:18 PM on August 11, 2016 [6 favorites]
posted by perhapses at 9:18 PM on August 11, 2016 [6 favorites]
Yeah I definitely needed the breakdown to make sense of it all, and appreciate it much more than I did at first glance. Although I was a little confused about the bafflement as to why The Spiller had a pan of water...it was for the dog, right? Right?
posted by the marble index at 9:46 PM on August 11, 2016 [6 favorites]
posted by the marble index at 9:46 PM on August 11, 2016 [6 favorites]
Pleased that dog escapes this mess early, and unharmed (but still hungry? Hmm. Perhaps not!)
posted by notyou at 9:48 PM on August 11, 2016
posted by notyou at 9:48 PM on August 11, 2016
That was a really nice breakdown, and I am totally The Spiller.
posted by queensissy at 9:53 PM on August 11, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by queensissy at 9:53 PM on August 11, 2016 [1 favorite]
If America's Funniest Home Videos were still on, this would have been declared the permanent winner. The last shot of the last episode would have been Bob Saget cleaning the darkened theatre, saying to himself, "I'm the luckiest son of a bitch on earth."
posted by roll truck roll at 10:13 PM on August 11, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by roll truck roll at 10:13 PM on August 11, 2016 [4 favorites]
It's enough to make you believe in a Watchmaker.
posted by Mei's lost sandal at 10:17 PM on August 11, 2016 [7 favorites]
posted by Mei's lost sandal at 10:17 PM on August 11, 2016 [7 favorites]
If America's Funniest Home Videos were still on
Uh...
But anyway, yeah, this is really amazing. I watched the whole thing maybe 10 times before I started reading, just to make sure I'd caught all the bits. It really is an amazing piece of machinery.
posted by uncleozzy at 4:38 AM on August 12, 2016 [1 favorite]
Uh...
But anyway, yeah, this is really amazing. I watched the whole thing maybe 10 times before I started reading, just to make sure I'd caught all the bits. It really is an amazing piece of machinery.
posted by uncleozzy at 4:38 AM on August 12, 2016 [1 favorite]
There's an undescribed element: What's the Hitter doing with the dog before this all starts? Shaking hands? But he then moves his hand to hit the dog on the head simultaneously with the Stander getting up to grab the dog by the ear or the scruff of the neck. What made both of those things happen -- and thus truly set off this whole chain of events? I suspect the dog growled.
posted by nobody at 4:52 AM on August 12, 2016
posted by nobody at 4:52 AM on August 12, 2016
This is truly a thing of beauty. UNironically favorited, and I will return to, daily.
posted by Dressed to Kill at 5:44 AM on August 12, 2016
posted by Dressed to Kill at 5:44 AM on August 12, 2016
A few of us are sitting around watching music videos one fine green evening when I suddenly receive a heavy blow to the right ear. I look around and the only guy anywhere near me is my good friend Dave, just kind of standing there with a bemused half-grin. So I wait a few seconds until he turns and heads for the kitchen, then I ninja myself off the couch and slap him an unexpected beauty upside the head. He whips around with the most WTF!? look on his face that I've ever seen on anybody's face, and for a moment it looks like we're going to come to serious blows. But then the moment passes.
I don't believe that either of us, to this day, understands what happened that night. We've never spoken of it, neither then nor since.
I'm definitely The Hitter.
posted by flabdablet at 6:53 AM on August 12, 2016 [1 favorite]
I don't believe that either of us, to this day, understands what happened that night. We've never spoken of it, neither then nor since.
I'm definitely The Hitter.
posted by flabdablet at 6:53 AM on August 12, 2016 [1 favorite]
My first "real" job was as a PC field technician. I drove around New England fixing "IBM Compatibles" and printers. One day I was out with another guy and we were working on an HP Laserjet II, one of the finest printers ever made and one of the easiest to service.
He had his hands inside the printer, fiddling with things, and I was watching over his shoulder. He fiddled with the wires connecting the fuser to the rest of the printer. Unbeknownst to us, we had neglected to turn the power off. The fuser was a high voltage component.
He got shocked and jerked his arm back. His elbow hit me in the chin, which caused me to bite my tongue and jerk my head back and up. There was a shelf above me, which my head slammed into, causing me to bite my tongue again.
Both of us in pain, both shocked for different reasons, we stood up and recovered. As we turned around we noticed the customer had seen the whole thing and was giving us a "WTF?" look. Attempting to maintain some sort of professionalism, I turned to my partner and said:
"Looks like the power supply checks out ok!"
I wish he had that on video.
posted by bondcliff at 7:31 AM on August 12, 2016 [13 favorites]
He had his hands inside the printer, fiddling with things, and I was watching over his shoulder. He fiddled with the wires connecting the fuser to the rest of the printer. Unbeknownst to us, we had neglected to turn the power off. The fuser was a high voltage component.
He got shocked and jerked his arm back. His elbow hit me in the chin, which caused me to bite my tongue and jerk my head back and up. There was a shelf above me, which my head slammed into, causing me to bite my tongue again.
Both of us in pain, both shocked for different reasons, we stood up and recovered. As we turned around we noticed the customer had seen the whole thing and was giving us a "WTF?" look. Attempting to maintain some sort of professionalism, I turned to my partner and said:
"Looks like the power supply checks out ok!"
I wish he had that on video.
posted by bondcliff at 7:31 AM on August 12, 2016 [13 favorites]
Trying to decide whether a high-res video of the scene would be gooder or less good.
posted by straight at 9:18 AM on August 12, 2016
posted by straight at 9:18 AM on August 12, 2016
This is a classic! I think I can answer the mystery of why the Spiller is holding a pan of water. It appears as if he was intending to give the dog some water, which would give a funny spin to the old saw that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
posted by SA456 at 9:24 AM on August 12, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by SA456 at 9:24 AM on August 12, 2016 [1 favorite]
A nice interweaving of schlimazels and schlemiels...
posted by jim in austin at 9:37 AM on August 12, 2016 [5 favorites]
posted by jim in austin at 9:37 AM on August 12, 2016 [5 favorites]
I didn't even notice half of what was going on until I read the breakdown and was like, 'wait, huh? what bench?' Yeah.
posted by bologna on wry at 10:12 AM on August 12, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by bologna on wry at 10:12 AM on August 12, 2016 [2 favorites]
Yeah I think once you realize what's going on with the bench it suddenly becomes about a million times funnier.
posted by bondcliff at 10:22 AM on August 12, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by bondcliff at 10:22 AM on August 12, 2016 [2 favorites]
Poor hapless Spiller. Water knocked out of his hands. Pants pulled down. Struck with his own bowl. Let us all reflect on the Spillers of the world and remember to take mercy when they wet us.
posted by vorpal bunny at 10:39 AM on August 12, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by vorpal bunny at 10:39 AM on August 12, 2016 [2 favorites]
I don't think he's carrying water -- if you look at screengrabs where the basin is falling, it's a tan liquid. If it's water, it's a very dirty basin. It might be soup or something. Which could explain the Hitter -- getting hot liquid dumped over you is way more painful than just water.
I was wondering for a while if it was a clip from some local film, especially considering the depantsing, but I checked the frame and it's wavering, so filmed with a phone. So I'm inclined to think it's real, rather than choreographed -- that kind of physical comedy requires a lot of practice, and hard to see why anyone would spend that effort and not film it properly.
posted by tavella at 10:46 AM on August 12, 2016
I was wondering for a while if it was a clip from some local film, especially considering the depantsing, but I checked the frame and it's wavering, so filmed with a phone. So I'm inclined to think it's real, rather than choreographed -- that kind of physical comedy requires a lot of practice, and hard to see why anyone would spend that effort and not film it properly.
posted by tavella at 10:46 AM on August 12, 2016
I must have watched that fifty times the other day, and I'm still boggling over it.
It's almost equally implausible that it's staged vs. organic. Occam's razor is not even in play here at the hell all.
Why would someone be filming at just that moment, from exactly the right perspective? If it happened organically, it is still staged, just by a loving god.
And if it's staged by humans, that's impressive on a hundred different levels.
First, someone had to storyboard the sequence of events. Then, they had to recruit five potential Buster Keatonesque physical comedians, one of whom is a dog. And you're not just coordinating your actors, but the physics as well. The bench has to hit just so, the bowl has to fall just so. And it all comes together in the end.
How many takes must it have required to do that? Like a thousand, probably, but then why is the dog still cooperating? And unless there's some sort of HD version floating around somewhere, they recorded it on the crappiest possible cell phone camera.
I actually don't want to know the story behind it, and I will be enraged if anyone ever explains it to me.
posted by ernielundquist at 10:56 AM on August 12, 2016 [4 favorites]
It's almost equally implausible that it's staged vs. organic. Occam's razor is not even in play here at the hell all.
Why would someone be filming at just that moment, from exactly the right perspective? If it happened organically, it is still staged, just by a loving god.
And if it's staged by humans, that's impressive on a hundred different levels.
First, someone had to storyboard the sequence of events. Then, they had to recruit five potential Buster Keatonesque physical comedians, one of whom is a dog. And you're not just coordinating your actors, but the physics as well. The bench has to hit just so, the bowl has to fall just so. And it all comes together in the end.
How many takes must it have required to do that? Like a thousand, probably, but then why is the dog still cooperating? And unless there's some sort of HD version floating around somewhere, they recorded it on the crappiest possible cell phone camera.
I actually don't want to know the story behind it, and I will be enraged if anyone ever explains it to me.
posted by ernielundquist at 10:56 AM on August 12, 2016 [4 favorites]
THE PAN OF WATER IS A BOWL OF RICE SOAKING.
I watched this so many times (because I had to figure it out), and when the water hits the ground, you can see the rice.
I can't tell you why he was carrying it outside.
posted by bibliogrrl at 11:11 AM on August 12, 2016 [4 favorites]
I watched this so many times (because I had to figure it out), and when the water hits the ground, you can see the rice.
I can't tell you why he was carrying it outside.
posted by bibliogrrl at 11:11 AM on August 12, 2016 [4 favorites]
They should've sent a poet.
posted by griphus at 11:19 AM on August 12, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by griphus at 11:19 AM on August 12, 2016 [4 favorites]
MetaFilter: five potential Buster Keatonesque physical comedians, one of whom is a dog
posted by griphus at 11:19 AM on August 12, 2016 [5 favorites]
posted by griphus at 11:19 AM on August 12, 2016 [5 favorites]
Possibly he's carrying it outside to cook it. There may not be an indoor kitchen in that house.
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 11:27 AM on August 12, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 11:27 AM on August 12, 2016 [4 favorites]
The stander caused the entire shitshow and came out unscathed. He has a great career ahead of him as my last four bosses.
posted by bondcliff at 11:58 AM on August 12, 2016 [9 favorites]
posted by bondcliff at 11:58 AM on August 12, 2016 [9 favorites]
I just checked the timing, and it's five seconds. So many events in such a short time...
posted by tavella at 1:33 PM on August 12, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by tavella at 1:33 PM on August 12, 2016 [1 favorite]
I haven't laughed that hard in a couple of months. God bless you.
posted by ZakDaddy at 8:36 PM on August 12, 2016
posted by ZakDaddy at 8:36 PM on August 12, 2016
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On first viewing, thought it was an orchestrated prank but there is so. Much. More.
posted by amanda at 8:57 PM on August 11, 2016 [2 favorites]