スキャットウルトラマン

October 1, 2008 9:01 AM

Scatman + Ultraman = ScatUltraman!
posted by fearfulsymmetry (27 comments total)

This is fantastic.
posted by lumensimus at 9:11 AM on October 1, 2008

This is scatastic.
posted by phirleh at 9:13 AM on October 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

Sometimes Japanese culture makes my brain feel like it's going to explode (with hilarious consequences).
posted by JimmyJames at 9:25 AM on October 1, 2008

Or Ultrascatman.
posted by Balisong at 9:28 AM on October 1, 2008 [2 favorites]

This is not what I was expecting. And I am so very, very grateful.
posted by ardgedee at 9:34 AM on October 1, 2008 [2 favorites]

Or Ultrascatman.

No, that's a very, very different video.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 9:36 AM on October 1, 2008

This is ... not what I expected.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 9:46 AM on October 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

This is not what I was expecting. And I am so very, very grateful.

I was expecting an elderly man asking me in my head if I wanted ice cream, so I'm with you on the "not what I was expecting" part, but I'm somewhat disappointed.
posted by LionIndex at 9:50 AM on October 1, 2008

スキャットウルトラマン

Twenty bucks, same as in town.
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 10:04 AM on October 1, 2008

Scat Man + Scat Woman + Rubber Gloves
posted by pracowity at 10:09 AM on October 1, 2008

I... uh...

What was I just seeing, there?
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 10:10 AM on October 1, 2008

Needs more Crothers.
posted by Bernt Pancreas at 10:17 AM on October 1, 2008 [2 favorites]

We all knew this day would come. Let's just try and get through it together.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 10:18 AM on October 1, 2008 [2 favorites]

It's going to be a great day! Thanks! Now if I can only get that song out of my head....
posted by The Light Fantastic at 10:20 AM on October 1, 2008

That was surprisingly awesome.
posted by VulcanMike at 10:24 AM on October 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

Can someone please make the requisite "Two ____s , One _____" snowclone already?
posted by griphus at 10:28 AM on October 1, 2008

I was expecting an elderly man asking me in my head if I wanted ice cream

Invoking an evil hybrid of Lemon Party and Two Girls, One Cup?
posted by PeterMcDermott at 10:35 AM on October 1, 2008

I'm not familiar with this thing I'm seeing here.

/Calculon
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 10:48 AM on October 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

This is sort of like what we did with 9/11 isn't it?
posted by Naberius at 11:34 AM on October 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

I'm going to Tokyo next week.

This is why we can't have nice things
posted by effugas at 11:34 AM on October 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

I'm going to Tokyo next week.

This is why we can't have nice things

I'm confused, is it your trip or this video that takes away the nice things? Because if it's the former, a quick tip to the TSA and we all get ponies!
posted by tommasz at 12:05 PM on October 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

A friend sent me some helpful background.
posted by grobstein at 12:55 PM on October 1, 2008

Asa youngster I so wanted to be Ultraman, and now all those feelings have come back tenfold.
posted by Vindaloo at 1:45 PM on October 1, 2008

Yay, Ultraman! Go Scatman! w00t Japanese!

The only reason I wasn't bigger into Ultraman way back 35 years ago was that it was an early morning Saturday cartoon and you know, there wasn't ANY superhero powerful enough to drag me out of bed at that time on my day off.
posted by darkstar at 2:05 PM on October 1, 2008

Well, not a "cartoon", exactly, but you get the idea.
posted by darkstar at 2:06 PM on October 1, 2008

I was hoping for Scatman Crothers.
posted by malaprohibita at 2:31 PM on October 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

And to think I've never known, until now, that the song was about stuttering. Maybe cause the only times I'd hear this song was usually as a background to a wholly unsettling videoclip (don't worry, I won't post examples) and I didn't really sit around to listen to the words.

Here they area, for anyone else who might be curious :

(Scatting by Scatman John)
I'm the Scatman

Everybody stutters one way or the other
So check out my message to you.
As a matter of fact don't let nothin' hold you back.
If the Scatman can do it so can you.
Everybody's sayin' that the Scatman stutters
But doesn't ever stutter when he sings.
But what you don't know I'm gonna tell you right now
That the stutter and the scat is the same thing.
Yo I'm the Scatman.
Where's the Scatman ? I'm the Scatman.
Why should we be pleasin' all the politician heathens
Who would try to change the seasons if they could?
The state of the condition insults my intuitions
And it only makes me crazy and my heart like wood.
Everybody stutters one way or the other
So check out my message to you.
As a matter of fact don't let nothin' hold you back.
If the Scatman can do it brother so can you.

I'm the Scatman.
(Scatting by Scatman John)

Everybody stutters one way or the other
So check out my message to you.
As a matter of fact don't let nothin' hold you back.
If the Scatman can do it brother so can you.
I'm the Scatman.
I hear you all ask 'bout the meaning of scat.
Well I'm the professor and all I can tell you is
While you're still sleepin' the saints are still weepin' cause
Things you call dead haven't yet had the chance to be born.
I'm the Scatman.
(Scatting by Scatman John)
I'm the Scatman....repeat after me
It's a scoobie oobie doobie scoobie doobie melody
I'm the Scatman....repeat after me
It's a scoobie oobie doobie scoobie doobie melody
(Scatting by Scatman John)

And the original video for anyone who'd like to see it.
posted by revmitcz at 5:59 PM on October 2, 2008 [2 favorites]