Comments on: ...and ACTION!

...and ACTION!

Witty — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:13:46 -0800

Si'down, si'down, stay down... don't try and stand up. [.mov]

By: chuq

chuq — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:22:12 -0800

Well, y'know, the web just doesn't get any better than that, does it?

By: banished

banished — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:23:32 -0800

That would not have been so hilarious had he not kept going with the routine, still trying to swing his chucks as he falls over. I can't stop laughing, poor guy.

By: banished

banished — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:25:58 -0800

On the other hand... that cocky look he gives everyone before he does the flip is kind of inviting an accident. I'm still laughing.

By: Mach3avelli

Mach3avelli — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:26:11 -0800

HAHAHAHA, ohhhhhh maaaaaaaan, that was high-larious! I love the cocky "Heh" he gives right before the backflip. Then the best part is his face as he starts working the one nunchuck.

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:31:37 -0800

Ha, I almost posted this awhile back, but I couldn't think of how to put it into context. Guess it didn't need any. The only thing comparable in the funny/tragic category is this clip from the Atlanta Grape Festival.

By: sciurus

sciurus — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:33:53 -0800

oh. ow. [pause] BAHAHAHAHAA!

By: armoured-ant

armoured-ant — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:41:18 -0800

Oooh. Ow! Heh.

By: gazingus

gazingus — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:42:10 -0800

Bruise Lee

By: ook

ook — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:46:38 -0800

Oh, god, dhoyt, that's cruel. She really sounds like she's in pain.

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:49:55 -0800

That's why I specified funny/tragic

By: ook

ook — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:53:39 -0800

Sure, if you leave off the "funny" part.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:54:46 -0800

Classic. "Bruise Lee," LOL!

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:57:44 -0800

It is not fun at all to fall and get the wind knocked out of you. But it is fun to watch it happen to someone else, definitely.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:10:36 -0800

Okay, as long as we're posting videos of people hurting themselves...

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:14:54 -0800

Glass jaw.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:15:45 -0800

The grape lady was probably just fine. If you've ever gotten the wind knocked out of you, you know it feels like you're dying. But 30 seconds later you're fine.

By: Turtles all the way down

Turtles all the way down — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:17:56 -0800

The best part of the grape lady clip is at the end where they cut back to the station and the two haircuts are acting all fake-concerned.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:21:02 -0800

The grape lady was fine. It's from several years ago, and I hear she's a weather girl in New England now. I was kind of horrified by it, but a friend explained that if you really couldn't breathe, you couldn't talk. She's freaking out and making weird noises mostly from shock, but she was fine moments later.

By: putzface_dickman

putzface_dickman — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:26:06 -0800

I feel bad about this, but I found this from dhoyt's link, and I think its funny, although technically it's a kid being hurt by his friends, not by himself. Audio NSFW, but the clip's pointless w/o the audio.

By: ook

ook — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:27:54 -0800

That's a relief. I like a good pratfall as much as the next guy, but those noises she was making were just gutwrenching.

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:32:07 -0800

It's pretty awesome that he's still trying to show off his nunchuk skillz even when semi-conscious. It just proves: he's a mammal, he likes to fight all the time... Sorry.

By: stifford

stifford — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:40:12 -0800

The Grape Lady techno remix

By: ed\26h

ed\26h — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:41:38 -0800

putzface_dickman: That was possibly the most delightful thing I've ever witnessed.

By: majcher

majcher — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:08:04 -0800

Stare deep into the abyss that is Travis.

By: Blue Stone

Blue Stone — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:08:28 -0800

Grape Lady's sounds really are concerning, but Turtles is right - those "haircuts" (lol) back in the studio - their fake concern is genuinely hilarious.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:10:52 -0800

LIGHTNING BOLT!! LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT!!!

By: loquacious

loquacious — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:17:33 -0800

Holy crap that Travis guy is so hot my monitor exploded.

By: car_bomb

car_bomb — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:19:17 -0800

ahhh, the awkwardness of teenage adolescence. (screaming in a high pitched boy voice)I'M GONNA KICK YOUR ASS! hilarious.

By: abcde

abcde — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:20:06 -0800

I don't think he was still trying to bust tricks, I think he was just trying to keep balanced and the swinging nunchucks were a side effect.

By: milovoo

milovoo — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:21:02 -0800

robocop is bleeding said :[Family Guy] still has comic timing down to a science. My favorite example is when Peter, after finding the last golden scroll to visit his favorite brewery, runs home in a scene straight out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. When he gets to his house, he trips and hurts his shin. What follows is a genius level of timing as Peter sits and nurses his shin ("ooohh.. shhhhh...ooohhh.. sssshhh"). He does it so long that its starts funny, gets old, then funny again, then old again, then (quoth Brian) "Hay-lare-ee-yes!" The grape lady totally reminded me of that scene.

By: hoskala

hoskala — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:33:31 -0800

This has always left me speechless. Real/fake, I have no idea. Thank you for the remix stifford.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:43:44 -0800

It's fake. It was an ESPN commercial, if I remember correctly. Can someone post a link to the security cam footage of the woman falling through the hole in the floor? I need to show a friend.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:53:36 -0800

No, he was totally trying to flip out ninja-style with the nunchukka even as he stumbled into the warm boiled-fur embrace of head (and face!) trauma. What is amazing to me is that kid on the rock in the stream getting paint-balled doesn't fall in. The girly boy falsetto screaming is excellent. I kind of wish I had videos of me getting my ass kicked in grade school and screaming like a girly boy.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:04:46 -0800

Funny/tragic. But more funny.

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:13:59 -0800

This one has given me many, many, MANY hours of enjoyment. I like how the kid is still running in mid-air after he's hit.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:16:33 -0800

Badger badger badger. Live action. OW.

By: Satapher

Satapher — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:17:49 -0800

lol @ loquacious

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:22:30 -0800

This thread rocks.

By: rafter

rafter — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:22:11 -0800

I second that, elwood. And I second the motion to see the video of someone falling through a hole in the floor.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:31:54 -0800

Speaking of ESPN commercials, their Big Buddy commercial fits right in here.

By: ChrisTN

ChrisTN — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:13:09 -0800

Schadenfreudefilter. What is amazing to me is that kid on the rock in the stream getting paint-balled doesn't fall in. Umm...I didn't see any paint exploding on that kid. He was getting shot with a pellet gun. An even better way (as mom would say) to put your eye out.

By: putzface_dickman

putzface_dickman — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:24:27 -0800

jpoulis: Woman falling through trapdoor.

By: LoopSouth

LoopSouth — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:48:14 -0800

Girls like guys with skills...

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:25:51 -0800

putzface: HAHAHAHA. this thread totally kicks ass

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:06:14 -0800

Man falling down manhole. (no vid) Not funny.

By: bitpart

bitpart — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:16:49 -0800

Way to jackknife the thread, fish.

By: Wet Spot

Wet Spot — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:08:51 -0800

Actor trips and falls at a, uh, climactic moment. NSFW !

By: loquacious

loquacious — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:34:01 -0800

That's totally funny, fish. I wonder if he got to meet any mutant ninja turtles down there. /thread re-rail. Y'know what's funny? My dad used to tell me this story about a friend of his who was a commercial electrician. One day he was down inside a vault box hooking up some wires for streetlights in a new subdivision when Southern California Edison came out and energized the circuts, despite lockouts, warnings, and whatever. Apparently the poor bastard bounced around the inside of the vault for a good 15 minutes before the SCE idiots realized something was going wrong. He suffered some pretty serious burns over 95% of his body, not to mention all the cool carbon tunnels that you get when you pass extremely high voltage and amperage through flesh. He got something like 15 million for his troubles, but needless to say, wasn't quite the same again. Even though he spent most of it on coke and strippers.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:16:54 -0800

There's that video of the asshat up on the powerpole, raving loony, who then becomes a human lightening bolt. Massive flash of light, etc. Hella video. I don't find accidents to be very funny, ie. woman falling down the trapdoor. I do find asshats fucking it up to be funny, ie. nunchuck dude, fryguy, that video of some dumbass trying to jump over a speeding car. Self-selection is a wond'rous thing.

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:36:58 -0800

Presenting... The mother of all cat-blooper videos (Somewhat OT, but I figure they're a decent addition to the mix if you haven't already seen them...)

By: jonson

jonson — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:15:47 -0800

fff, I tend to agree, re: accident v. asshat, but where do you classify the grape stomper video above? I mean, clearly, it's an accident, she's not doing anything inheirently self-selecting, yet I take complete unbridled amusement at her gaffe, probably because it wasn't all that serious (after all, it's not like she lost a limb or anything)?

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:27:17 -0800

Ah, well, she chose to be up there and careless. She should have been well aware that being up five feet in a tippy bucket just might be something to approach with a little bit of caution.

By: rafter

rafter — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:27:53 -0800

fff, yes. This thread stopped being funny for me when the woman fell through the trapdoor -- I didn't think it would go down like that.

By: sharksandwich

sharksandwich — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:28:35 -0800

Best part about the nunchuck video is that there are three distinct sounds as he falls: his feet, his hands, then his head.

By: jmccorm

jmccorm — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:33:21 -0800

Because when I'm about to fight someone with nunchucks, the best thing to do is to begin with a backflip...?

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:00:23 -0800

I love the "stay down, stay down" bit in the Klutz Lee video.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:18:34 -0800

Opps. We metafiltered his server... (NSFW, though it's text-only?)