excuuuuuse me!

January 31, 2008 6:25 AM

Well, excuse me, princess. Youtube one-link, but very much a catch-phrase.
posted by parmanparman (49 comments total)

Oh grow some balls, Link.
posted by pyrex at 6:27 AM on January 31 [2 favorites]

Oh merciful heavens.

Zelda sure inspired a lot of crap knock-offs.
posted by Dr-Baa at 6:30 AM on January 31

More repetitive/funny videos (probably already posted to the blue):

Planet fucking earth.
CSI intros.
posted by billysumday at 6:35 AM on January 31 [2 favorites]

OMG I got to see Link's underwear!

*swoon*
posted by hermitosis at 6:39 AM on January 31

MetaFilter: Well excuse me, princess!
posted by Rock Steady at 6:39 AM on January 31 [2 favorites]

You could probably do this with Michaelangelo saying "Cowabunga" or "Pizza" from TMNT the cartoon. It's amazing how bad and repetitive these cartoons were in the 80s. Horrible production values, terrible writing, and annoying catch-phrases. And yet I managed to be too dumb to know better.
posted by allen.spaulding at 6:40 AM on January 31

Nooo! This is not right. Link doesn't talk!

*covers ears*
posted by iconomy at 6:46 AM on January 31

"Link is retarded in this game."
posted by Greg Nog at 6:48 AM on January 31

About halfway through, this goes from annoying to hilarious. Just... so... stupid.
posted by uncleozzy at 6:51 AM on January 31 [1 favorite]

I hope Steve Martin collected some royalties off of that.
posted by spilon at 7:00 AM on January 31 [4 favorites]

one-link
Yeah.
posted by Wolfdog at 7:03 AM on January 31

Does this post have one link or two?
posted by chillmost at 7:25 AM on January 31

I lasted 20 seconds before I developed homicidal urges.
posted by Dasein at 7:26 AM on January 31

BEST OF THE WEB
posted by fusinski at 7:36 AM on January 31

It cracked me up when he was suddenly fighting snakes while saying it.

Request for acceptance would not have been my first instinct given the circumstance.
posted by oblio_one at 7:44 AM on January 31

The original link isn't BOTW, but that CSI Intro clip is genius.
posted by papercake at 7:50 AM on January 31

I think this is safe only for cartoon characters; they have writers making sure roundhouse punches miss their mark.
posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 7:53 AM on January 31

Link is a child-man.
posted by solipsophistocracy at 7:53 AM on January 31

Wow, not that I've watched the show much, but I didn't realise how much that Caruso guy delivers his lines like Adam West.
posted by picea at 7:57 AM on January 31

This was Steve Martin's catchphrase first.
posted by mike3k at 8:01 AM on January 31

Well, EXCUSE ME papercake.
*puts on sunglasses* -YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH-
posted by Dr-Baa at 8:10 AM on January 31 [4 favorites]

That made me giggle a LOT. Excuse me princess indeed.
posted by dog food sugar at 8:11 AM on January 31

That CSI intro link is stunning.
posted by saladin at 8:27 AM on January 31

The weirder thing is, the Zelda cartoon in the video linked had only 13 episodes. So he was using this phrase multiple times per episode.
posted by mulligan at 8:28 AM on January 31 [2 favorites]

More repetitive/funny videos (probably already posted to the blue):

Planet fucking earth.

Yeahrite, what kind of noob would FPP that?
posted by Horace Rumpole at 8:29 AM on January 31

"I'm sorry, but your princess is in another castle."
"Well, excuuuse me, princess!"
"I'm sorry, but your princess is in another castle."
"Well, excuuuse me, princess!"
"I'm sorry, but your princess is in another castle."
"Well, excuuuse me, princess!"
"I'm sorry, but your princess is in another castle."
"Well, excuuuse me, princess!"
"I'm sorry, but your princess is in another castle."
"Well, excuuuse me, princess!"
"I'm sorry, but your princess is in another castle."
"Well, excuuuse me, princess!"

The worst thing about the 80s is that it only lasted 10 years.
posted by aftermarketradio at 8:32 AM on January 31 [2 favorites]

I've never seen CSI, but I used to like Caruso a bit. Is he really that godawful in the whole show? Good heavens.
posted by brundlefly at 8:43 AM on January 31

Is he really that godawful in the whole show?

Yes. But he's so over the top bad that it almost makes it back around to good.
posted by LooseFilter at 8:57 AM on January 31 [2 favorites]

I can't tell if Caruso knows he's overacting and is doing it on purpose, or if he thinks he's being a Master Thespian.

But you also have to lay some of the blame on the god-awful writing: "The verdict is in... but the jury is still out." YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
posted by papercake at 9:17 AM on January 31 [1 favorite]

I will never listen to The Who the same way.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 9:20 AM on January 31 [1 favorite]

Apparently the phrase is pretty popular. I had a false memory of Han Solo saying it, but I guess he didn't go all the way.
posted by christopherious at 9:36 AM on January 31

Ok, the Link link, not so much. That CSI intro? Kind of interesting. But this Bruce Lee screen test on the same site? Awesome. Awesome, awesome.
posted by Squid Voltaire at 9:40 AM on January 31 [4 favorites]

LET'S GO BOMB SOME DODONGOS
posted by Demogorgon at 9:44 AM on January 31

I had a false memory of Han Solo saying it

Wasn't there also a similar line in The Breakfast Club?
posted by thanotopsis at 10:41 AM on January 31

Is this some new Guantanamo torture? At 20 secs I was ready to crack, I think I could have lasted longer being water-boarded
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 10:48 AM on January 31

The wonderous bounty of Youtube just keeps giving, and giving, and giving, doesn't it? It's a cornucopia.
posted by Dave Faris at 10:50 AM on January 31

or if he thinks he's being a Master Thespian.

Oh, yes, that one please: I...was ACTING!!
posted by LooseFilter at 11:00 AM on January 31

Ha, this is awesome. I used to watch this and the Mario cartoon when I was a kid. About three years ago, I said it to one of my friends, but couldn't for the life of me remember where I got it from.
posted by spiderskull at 11:07 AM on January 31

I tried. Just couldn't do it. Got pretty far, but that was the most annoying thing I've seen online in a long time.

Tom
posted by Chuffy at 1:17 PM on January 31

Yes?
posted by hermitosis at 1:47 PM on January 31 [1 favorite]

Well don't taaaze me, princess!
posted by hellbient at 1:48 PM on January 31

I am so very glad I was too old and jaded for that particular crop of '80s cartoons.

Dear sweet merciful monkey gods, so very, very glad.
posted by batmonkey at 1:50 PM on January 31

And there were only 13 episodes in the entire series run. That's a lot of excuses.
posted by absalom at 2:11 PM on January 31

See, now I'm going to have to get out one of my Zelda games just so I can kill him off a couple of times. Just to make myself feel better.

Because there is no excuse for that.
posted by quin at 3:45 PM on January 31

But this Bruce Lee screen test on the same site? Awesome.

NICE find. That should have been the FPP.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 4:20 PM on January 31

Whoa, that Bruce Lee clip is something else isnt it? The guy is both nervous and confident, the disembodied voice is perfect, and the old white guy they drag out to be his partner was ready to wet himself. Bruce's moves are just so uncannily machine-like. Its amazing how fast he was. Wow, what a nice find. It says a lot on more than a few levels.
posted by damn dirty ape at 5:36 PM on January 31

Yeah, the Bruce Lee clip kills. A badass and a gentleman.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 7:32 PM on January 31

I just feel that the FPP didn't get the real gist of it.

It's more like: Ex-cayuuuuuse meee. Gotta make it come from the throat.
posted by Cyclopsis Raptor at 8:41 PM on January 31

I think I saw the Bruce Lee clip some time ago on Digg or MoFi or something and, yeah, it would have made an awesome FPP post. I got the impression that the screen test director and old guy just sort of don't really understand what they're filming, and I love watching Lee in his badass pedant mode.
posted by absalom at 6:41 AM on February 1