Comments on: Fake Bird Poop is Pata-Fake

Fake Bird Poop is Pata-Fake

blasdelf — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:48:17 -0800

So you remember that 'dumb, totally fake' video of a bird pooping in a reporter's mouth that was posted and deleted a week ago? It's meta-fake. Maybe even pata-fake.

By: jontyjago

jontyjago — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:52:42 -0800

You do realise this doesn't make it any less dumb or fake don't you?

By: eriko

eriko — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:57:48 -0800

Meh, get with the times. We replaced pata-faka with sata-fake, and hell, we're using sata-II-fake now. Of course, in the enterprise, it's all sas-fake or fibber channel.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:04:38 -0800

You do realise this doesn't make it any less dumb or fake don't you? I do think it makes it quite a lot funnier (even though, or perhaps especially because SuperDeluxe is a front for TimeWarner). eriko: thank you for making the base joke I could not bring myself to make in the FPP, and then embiggening it with all that is fibber channel…

By: bunnytricks

bunnytricks — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:08:22 -0800

I'd forgotten just how funny Odenkirk can be. The meta-fake clip took a while to build up but by 1:30 I was clenched up in laughter. Someone get that man a new production deal.

By: bunnytricks

bunnytricks — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:14:00 -0800

Oh wait. I watched the rest of it. Never mind. Someone get that man another prosumer camcorder and pay off his bandwidth bill.

By: From Bklyn

From Bklyn — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:20:18 -0800

Great, it's a viral for a soda. heh hehe heh

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:25:40 -0800

Poopsi Blue.

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:29:09 -0800

SHITTR!

By: desjardins

desjardins — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:31:16 -0800

this is not the post I needed right before breakfast.

By: spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints

spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:32:01 -0800

Frumundah soda? No. Frumundah cheese? Yes. You know, it's cheese, frumundah there.

By: unsupervised

unsupervised — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:38:03 -0800

When I was shown the original "news" clip by coworkers who always show me this kind of thing and thought it was hilarious, I dismissed it as fake and chided them for finding it funny. I just watched this and found out the people behind the original were a bunch of people I find hilarious and were just using it as a setup to something I thought was genuinely funny. I called the coworkers who showed me the fake clip in to show them the payoff. They didn't think it was funny. At all. I don't know what to make of that.

By: Foci for Analysis

Foci for Analysis — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:49:24 -0800

unsupervised writes: They didn't think it was funny. At all. I don't know what to make of that. It's fascinating how a little context can change everything.

By: fourcheesemac

fourcheesemac — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:00:48 -0800

I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! FAKERS!

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:01:40 -0800

Shitters and titters, Mère Ubu!

By: Jody Tresidder

Jody Tresidder — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:21:58 -0800

"The meta-fake clip took a while to build up but by 1:30 I was clenched up in laughter." Ditto bunnytricks. I couldn't even speak for a moment. Thanks very much blasdelf.

By: symbioid

symbioid — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:38:41 -0800

Fromundah Yellow?

By: symbioid

symbioid — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:39:29 -0800

On preview... oops, beaten to the punch :(

By: hellslinger

hellslinger — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:46:16 -0800

Reminds me of Mr. Show a lot. Wasn't funny before because it was obviously fake, but the idea of selling soda for washing shit out of your mouth has potential.

By: fungible

fungible — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:48:11 -0800

I wanted to see what was so funny at 1:30, but I had a little trouble making it past the blatantly racist shit at :50.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:00:32 -0800

I couldn't even speak for a moment. Are you folks serious? I didn't even chuckle. And, what fungible said.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:06:07 -0800

I like Odenkirk, and wanted this to be funny, but it just seemed gratuitously racist to me.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:07:26 -0800

What dobbs said.

By: Pecinpah

Pecinpah — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:14:51 -0800

What, you don't think FOB Africans are funny? What's wrong with you? I frikkin' married a Nigerian because she makes me laugh so goddamn much. Always dancing around and talking about elephants. Oh, ha-ha, ho; she's a goddamn jungle riot. That said, I thought the line, "I will whore out your daughter before I whore out my soda!" was comedy gold. Maybe the only comdey gold in the whole video, but funny nonetheless.

By: Jody Tresidder

Jody Tresidder — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:31:00 -0800

I like Odenkirk, and wanted this to be funny, but it just seemed gratuitously racist to me. OmieWise, Oh god, really? Maybe I found the meta-aspect so insane & inspired my radar got warped. Anyway, your point is well taken - as painful as it is to think about it.

By: randomination

randomination — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:40:51 -0800

patafilter.com is available, guys.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:52:03 -0800

Remember on that very same blog when he called out Patton Oswalt for calling him out for selling out even though he does Sierra Mist commercials? Adds yet another layer to the humor. Or not. I'm not sure yet.

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:52:07 -0800

How is it that a prominent Nigerian business man wouldn't speak English? I kept wondering about that and missed all the funny.

By: pyrex

pyrex — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:02:24 -0800

Nigerian please.

By: unsupervised

unsupervised — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:12:17 -0800

MCMikeNamara, that was David Cross, not Bob Odenkirk. And racist? Really? Maybe my sensors aren't finely tuned enough to take this as more having fun with foreigners than races.

By: tkchrist

tkchrist — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:14:57 -0800

Great. A viral of a viral. And then, just to be sure the message infects it's host, post it to a community blog under the idea of exposing it. Meet the new Ultra-Recursive marketing.

By: billtron

billtron — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:20:08 -0800

This is funny and problematically ___ist in the same way that Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job is simultaneously funny and ____ist. And Odenkirk is associated with that show too. "Laughter... is caused... by [among other things] the apprehension of some deformed thing in another, by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves." - Thomas Hobbes

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:21:04 -0800

thanks unsupervised...I did, in fact, realize that but still saw the connection since they were only one blog post apart. Guess my "he" should have been a "they"

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:27:13 -0800

Obligatory.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:42:28 -0800

Why do people find scat funny? Is it because it's a very tangible reminder of our earthly existence? Usually, our attention is confined up in our minds somewhere in some kind of abstraction, be it interesting or mundane, and when a very corporeal and coprolitic example of our own bodily reality is seen, then a momentary disconnect is created. The tension between this disconnect and the previous daydream is relieved by laughter. Is that about it?

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:45:15 -0800

Thinking about this pata thing. How is it different than fiction or fantasy? Staking my claim as first posting the poop-in-mouth vid, pairing it with patastic (?) War of the Worlds.

By: C.Batt

C.Batt — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:32:27 -0800

Pata-fake? Liar. There's nothing at all in any of the links regarding synthetic noodles. You got my hopes up in anticipation of the perfect side to the cheeseburger in a can. What a let down.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:12:50 -0800

I need cliff notes on this as I can't be bothered watching past the introduction of the Nigerian soda company men. Is it a fake bird-poop video, or a viral spoofing the real bird poop video?

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:47:47 -0800

pata ?

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:13:52 -0800

flafla.

By: fooshier

fooshier — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:23:32 -0800

This whole damn thing is too confusing - now I just found this on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-fAajaSeiA Even funnier than the original video - pretty great!