Dude Falling

April 26, 2005 6:04 AM

Dude falling.
posted by BirdD0g (38 comments total)

Turn up the volume and watch repeatedly. No need to visit any other sites today.
posted by BirdD0g at 6:07 AM on April 26, 2005

Why, oh why did I watch that?


TWICE?!!
posted by Dagobert at 6:08 AM on April 26, 2005

Ladies and gentlemen, we have our new "Hampster Dance."
posted by MaxVonCretin at 6:12 AM on April 26, 2005

Dude. Dud.
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies at 6:13 AM on April 26, 2005

Is it Friday already?
posted by Captaintripps at 6:13 AM on April 26, 2005

"Again?"

Oh God, no. God, no. God, NO!
posted by OmieWise at 6:14 AM on April 26, 2005

Color me tickled pink.
posted by cloeburner at 6:23 AM on April 26, 2005

I want a refund.
posted by crunchland at 6:33 AM on April 26, 2005

How do you know it's a dude?
posted by scratch at 6:48 AM on April 26, 2005

Cause of the title.
posted by curtm at 6:50 AM on April 26, 2005

I saw this and got all excited because hey, Friday already! As it turns out, this is a cruel trick and it's only Tuesday. That's not to say I won't watch it ten or twenty more times today.
posted by uncleozzy at 6:51 AM on April 26, 2005

I feel like I'm watching "This Is Your Life"!
posted by ChrisTN at 6:59 AM on April 26, 2005

What's with the blackface?
posted by tim451 at 7:08 AM on April 26, 2005

Yeah, tim's got a point -- I wasn't even trying to read into it, but I thought the guy looked a little minstrel-like. Probably unintentional...
posted by hifiparasol at 7:12 AM on April 26, 2005

It probably wouldn't have shown up as well in another color.
posted by shawnj at 7:22 AM on April 26, 2005

That was crunk.
posted by fungible at 7:31 AM on April 26, 2005

meh. I don't think that will catch on. But now I have the hamster dance song stuck in my head. Grr!
posted by clgregor at 7:53 AM on April 26, 2005

AAARRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!
posted by Robot Johnny at 7:56 AM on April 26, 2005

This is awesome in every way except for the blackface, which completely ruined the thing for me and meant I didn't watch for more than ten or twenty seconds.

Maybe the disgust's an overreaction, I dunno.
posted by Anonymous at 7:59 AM on April 26, 2005

That was pretty good, but it's not a patch on
http://studenthome.nku.edu/~russelljo/flash/dudegettingkickedinthegroin.swf
posted by Capn at 8:00 AM on April 26, 2005

Sisyphus. Backwards.
posted by bardic at 8:19 AM on April 26, 2005

Also, I think that this is blackface the same way anything longer than it is wide is a phallic symbol and thus an instrument oppression used by the patriarchy
posted by Capn at 8:20 AM on April 26, 2005

Did anyone else think of Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo?
posted by Specklet at 9:08 AM on April 26, 2005

But ow! He lands on his head everytime!
posted by Smell at 10:04 AM on April 26, 2005

ah, i love that cartoon! (girl + cat)

i didn't notice the blackface. maybe if'n he'd got all, "oh no, massa! hep! hep!"--yeah, i'da noticed it then.
posted by gorgor_balabala at 10:39 AM on April 26, 2005

I watched this far too many times. It has a good beat and you can dance to it.
posted by Joey Michaels at 11:00 AM on April 26, 2005

Again? Once was too many.
posted by wsg at 11:09 AM on April 26, 2005

In this spirit I have no choice but to link this.

BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER MUSHROOM MUSHROOM.... SNAKE SNAKE A SNAKE, SNAAAAAAAAAKE, OH IT'S A SNAKE... BADGER BADGER BADGER
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 11:47 AM on April 26, 2005

Capn, you got me...
posted by cosmicbandito at 11:55 AM on April 26, 2005

Best of the web?
posted by grouse at 12:08 PM on April 26, 2005

Cool. That was worth watching. I had this horrible feeling at one point that I'd been duped, and that it was going to go on forever, stuck in an infinite loop...

meh.
posted by Chunder at 12:32 PM on April 26, 2005

Derivative.
Boring.
posted by D.C. at 3:41 PM on April 26, 2005

What is up with always using bad techno music with wacky flash animations like this? Is it meant to be ironic? Is this thing self-aware? It would have been funnier (even more unnerving) if it had a loop built into it so that it just never ended. Man. I need to make one of these just to prove that any jackass can do it. Then again, maybe that's not a contested point of view.
posted by ddf at 7:31 PM on April 26, 2005

Dood... Yer crampin' my buzz...!
posted by Balisong at 7:42 PM on April 26, 2005

I so have days at work like this.
posted by anastasiav at 8:44 PM on April 26, 2005

I like the part where he falls. Yeah.
posted by ZachsMind at 9:00 PM on April 26, 2005

Finally, the internet gets some real art.

ddf - The answers to all your questions and statements in the post above are YES. ...including your opening question.

The blackface outrage here made me shoot fanta out of my nose. You can't be serious, Schroedinger. Then again, the show is in the mind of the audience.
posted by phylum sinter at 2:04 AM on April 27, 2005

Did anyone else think of Ye Olde Minstrel Shows?

And in a similar vein, I feel I must link you all to Bear Powers
posted by Citizen Premier at 10:21 PM on April 27, 2005