the tribe

July 27, 2003 5:36 AM

the tribe (Note: flash)
posted by crunchland (26 comments total)

I love how some flash artists get very good at doing smooth motion like that, taking advantage of the medium I suppose.

I just wonder why it took someone else to write the screenplay :) *shrug*
posted by Space Coyote at 5:42 AM on July 27, 2003

I think the credits were longer than the flick.
posted by Trik at 6:28 AM on July 27, 2003

hmm, great if you're 7 years old i guess.
posted by mokey at 6:37 AM on July 27, 2003

now THAT's sociobiology!
posted by condour75 at 7:29 AM on July 27, 2003

yeah, I would have preferred a warning that the payoff was a fart joke so that I knew not to waste my time...
posted by jonson at 9:50 AM on July 27, 2003

Wow. I thought that was going to be really profound, and then... fart. What a waste of talent.
posted by stonerose at 9:54 AM on July 27, 2003

Some people just don't appreciate immaturity, I guess.
posted by MrAnonymous at 10:05 AM on July 27, 2003

l'arte non esiste

Mmmm hmmm... that explains it.
posted by themadjuggler at 10:08 AM on July 27, 2003

The above reviews were brought to you by The Comic Book Guy.
posted by Hildago at 10:21 AM on July 27, 2003

Amazing flash, but I guess in the absence of a good story, there's always the fart joke for the big payoff.

Perhaps this group's next flash piece will meld a mind-boggling array of 3-D graphics to depict horses in full stride in an almost poetic display of illustration...and then someone will get hit in the groin by a flying object.
posted by mathowie at 10:21 AM on July 27, 2003

It reminded me of "touch the drip".
posted by homunculus at 10:32 AM on July 27, 2003

it wasn't the fart joke that made me think it was silly, just the way the monkeys were trying to get the thing and couldn't get it. i mean, there's no substance to it, you know what i mean? they try different methods and then one of them finds a method which works and gets what he wants. but people do that anyway, not just monkeys, we already know how to do that, so what are the people who made it trying to say?
posted by mokey at 10:58 AM on July 27, 2003

Also, aren't monkeys pretty good at climbing trees?
posted by teg at 11:27 AM on July 27, 2003

fart. in a jar.
posted by quonsar at 11:55 AM on July 27, 2003

mokey, why are you so upset about the monkeys? too many jokes about an infinite number of mokeys and an infinite number of typewriters? and what's this about you making up nicknames 'at random'? hmmm.
posted by stonerose at 12:02 PM on July 27, 2003

Pull my finger!
posted by homunculus at 12:03 PM on July 27, 2003

Since when do apes chase squirrels?

And I certainly wouldn't consume something that had just been overcome by toxic gas.
posted by konolia at 12:04 PM on July 27, 2003

Apparently Warner Brothers, with well over half a century of physical comedy cartoons behind them, had it all wrong.

*throws out collected works of Looney Toons and Merry Melodies*
posted by readymade at 1:09 PM on July 27, 2003

*sneaks into readymade's trashcan and makes off with all the loot*
posted by konolia at 1:34 PM on July 27, 2003

I had no idea that there were so many high-brows around here. Nor, did I realize that anyone's time was remotely valuable. Sincere apologies to all those with wadded panties.
posted by crunchland at 1:51 PM on July 27, 2003

Nor, did I realize that anyone's time was remotely valuable.

Wow, that may be the most offensive comment I've ever seen on Metafilter.
posted by rushmc at 2:39 PM on July 27, 2003

Wow, that may be the most offensive comment I've ever seen on Metafilter.

Well, we are on MetaFilter, aren't we? Game, set, match to Crunchy.
posted by mathowie at 3:02 PM on July 27, 2003

Wow, that may be the most offensive comment I've ever seen on Metafilter.

Surely you jest.

Especially since he's right. Oh sweet jesus preserve us, a stupid joke that consumed maybe, maybe five minutes of your life including loading screen. The horror... the horror..!

Perhaps this group's next flash piece will meld a mind-boggling array of 3-D graphics to depict horses in full stride in an almost poetic display of illustration...and then someone will get hit in the groin by a flying object.

That would be so awesome.

Anyways. Astonishingly good flash animation, I hadn't really been aware it was capable of motion that looked that natural.
posted by kavasa at 3:04 PM on July 27, 2003

Just in case you're having trouble passing gas yourself ...
posted by feelinglistless at 4:55 PM on July 27, 2003

Wow, that may be the most offensive comment I've ever seen on Metafilter.

Considering the fact that what I wrote was apolitical, had nothing to do with being fat or driving an SUV, I should probably take that as some sort of amazing badge of honor.
posted by crunchland at 5:45 PM on July 27, 2003

Since when do apes chase squirrels?

I've seen young gorillas doing just that at the National Zoo in DC. Almost got the bugger, too. I'm not sure what they would've done if they'd gotten it, though I imagine it wouldn't have been pretty.
posted by MrMoonPie at 7:25 AM on July 28, 2003