Keyboard Cat

May 6, 2009 8:28 AM

Play him off, keyboard cat.

Thanks to billysumday for bringing this to my attention.
Atheism.
Collegiate Challenge.
Flaming liquor.
Soccer ball.

posted by Greg Nog (146 comments total)

I thought I would never live to see the day internet memes jumped the shark.

Lo! I was wrong. That is all.
posted by Sova at 8:32 AM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

I've always had a soft spot for the idiotic.

I like the TV studio one where the guy says 'I'm passing out" then does, then the cat plays.

So many to choose from though...
posted by From Bklyn at 8:32 AM on May 6

Keyboard cat has been saved!!

My favorite one is the atheist confrontation, because it's the perfect marriage of anger, awkwardness, and nonsense.
posted by billysumday at 8:36 AM on May 6 [4 favorites has favorites]

Oh HELLS YES!

He has risen, hallelujah!
posted by piratebowling at 8:37 AM on May 6

I predict that these will become even funnier after watching 30 in a row. I'll report back with my findings.
posted by Adam_S at 8:38 AM on May 6

The best one is the Glenn Beck one.
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 8:41 AM on May 6 [6 favorites has favorites]

keyboard cats are harder to get rid of than cockroaches, i see
posted by pyramid termite at 8:41 AM on May 6

I have no idea how Charlie Schmidt got his cat to groove, or why.
posted by maudlin at 8:42 AM on May 6

I like this keyboard cat better.
posted by Mali at 8:42 AM on May 6 [10 favorites has favorites]

I saw the wheelchair-down-escalator the other day on Fark and I feel bad for thinking it is sidesplittingly funny.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 8:43 AM on May 6

The best one is the Glenn Beck one.

The guest's self-awareness is admirable. "Gone."
posted by stargell at 8:43 AM on May 6 [11 favorites has favorites]

By the way, thanks to this, I will have a new "failure ditty" that runs through my head every time I massively eff up.

My previous failure ditty was just sad trombone.
posted by piratebowling at 8:44 AM on May 6 [3 favorites has favorites]

I do not understand this meme. Even a little bit. Even on a "dude, it's just totally random, there's no point" level. It makes no sense, nor anti-sense.
posted by shadow vector at 8:47 AM on May 6

I do not understand this meme. Even a little bit.

basically waht happens is the cat plays the keybaord
posted by Greg Nog at 8:48 AM on May 6 [124 favorites has favorites]

I do not understand this meme. Even a little bit.

All the world's a stage. We're all players. Sometimes, when we eff up, royally, on stage, that is, in the world, real life, we need a little help getting off stage. So keyboard cat plays his ditty, and away we go.
posted by billysumday at 8:50 AM on May 6 [22 favorites has favorites]

I like the TV studio one where the guy says 'I'm passing out" then does, then the cat plays.

SPOILER ALERT???
posted by inigo2 at 8:50 AM on May 6 [2 favorites has favorites]

This is much much funnier than it has any right to be. Curse you and bless you, Greg (and the "deleted mefi thread" greasemonkey script).
posted by not_on_display at 8:51 AM on May 6

basically waht happens is the cat plays the keybaord

The cat plays the keyboard to provide a transition between a traumatic event and the re-emergence of stability. He is a crucial interstitial operative, much like Maxwell's Sorting Demon.
posted by Burhanistan at 8:52 AM on May 6 [42 favorites has favorites]

Have you seen this cat?
posted by Artw at 8:54 AM on May 6 [22 favorites has favorites]

I love keyboard cat so so so much. Mrs. the dief slightly less so, so that the fourth time in a row I watched him I got a punch in the arm, which still hurts.
posted by the dief at 8:58 AM on May 6

I thought MeFi was the best of the web, not that stuff that digg and reddit posted a while ago.
posted by SouthCNorthNY at 8:59 AM on May 6

Keyboard cat is the sort of watered-down mom humor that occurs when non-/b/tards try to make memes.
posted by Spacelegoman at 9:00 AM on May 6 [4 favorites has favorites]

I thought MeFi was the best of the web, not that stuff that digg and reddit posted a while ago.

Go post something then.
posted by spec80 at 9:01 AM on May 6

I thought MeFi was the best of the web, not that stuff that digg and reddit posted a while ago.
posted by SouthCNorthNY at 8:59 AM on May 6

SouthCNorthNY's profile
MeFi: 0 posts

*plays keyboard cat*
posted by Optimus Chyme at 9:07 AM on May 6 [77 favorites has favorites]

Have you seen this cat?
posted by sidereal at 9:10 AM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

It dances on the fine line between clever and stupid.
I like when they tease the cat, before the actual fail happens...
and then he begins to play.
posted by stifford at 9:10 AM on May 6

Also, I inadvertently laughed at the break dancing bystander accident. See you all in hell.
posted by Burhanistan at 9:10 AM on May 6

Keyboard cat is the sort of watered-down mom humor that occurs when non-/b/tards try to make memes.

Wait a minute. Don't bring anyone's mother into this. She ain't here. And if it weren't for your mother, you wouldn't be here. So remember, when you put down one mother, you put down mothers all over the world.
posted by Dr-Baa at 9:15 AM on May 6 [4 favorites has favorites]

Keyboard cat is irrepressible. Keyboard cat defies your censorship.

Ask not for whom the cat plays, it plays for thee.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 9:17 AM on May 6 [2 favorites has favorites]

check out this funny picture guys
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 9:19 AM on May 6 [11 favorites has favorites]

I just can't stop playing these... it's like the hypnotoad or something
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 9:19 AM on May 6

YOU WANNA KNOW IF THERE'S NO GOD? WELL LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING -- YOU'RE GOING TO GET NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR CHRISTMAS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ABOUT -- JESUS CHRIST!

*cue keyboard cat*

Oh man. I think I just ruptured something. That was indeed way funnier than it should have been.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 9:20 AM on May 6

The cat moves like a puppet. Is this disturbing?
posted by grobstein at 9:20 AM on May 6

I've watched these way too many times since the deleted post this morning. The Glen Beck is indeed the best one, especially since the infographic itself is totally keyboard-cat worthy before the action even happens. Thank you, Mr. Nog, for Bringing Keyboard Cat Back.
posted by ulotrichous at 9:21 AM on May 6

check out this funny picture guys

I'd like to tell you that that wasn't worth the effort, but it would be a pretty transparent lie.
posted by middleclasstool at 9:23 AM on May 6

The atheism one totally got me, I was not expecting keyboard cat.

Fuck. Yes. Keyboard Cat!
posted by everichon at 9:26 AM on May 6

Ugh. no.
posted by scrowdid at 9:26 AM on May 6

Oman I love the experimental dog one.
posted by grobstein at 9:27 AM on May 6 [3 favorites has favorites]

The best ones are where it cuts away to the keyboard cat with his paws just poised over the keyboard... just waiting for the disastor to happen... then back to the clip... then cat.. then clip... then CRASH BANG WALLOP! ... do, do do, do, do do do

It's sublime genius.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 9:30 AM on May 6 [6 favorites has favorites]

And you can make your own Keyboard Cat from any youtube video.
posted by borkencode at 9:34 AM on May 6 [2 favorites has favorites]

> I do not understand this

Tumblr is the new YTMND.
posted by ardgedee at 9:37 AM on May 6

My wife totally does not get this kind of stuff. At home, when I laugh at the Internet, I laugh alone.
posted by tommasz at 9:42 AM on May 6 [5 favorites has favorites]

This appeals to my interests.
posted by ethnomethodologist at 9:43 AM on May 6 [3 favorites has favorites]

The cat plays the keyboard to provide a transition between a traumatic event and the re-emergence of stability.

Perhaps this is also true for what you see when you die (linked above). No doubt the universe is unfolding as it should
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 9:45 AM on May 6 [3 favorites has favorites]

Oh internet, is there no end to your bounty?
posted by ob at 9:46 AM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

I thought I would never live to see the day internet memes jumped the shark.

There was a Rick Astley impersonator who came before this, and I'm sure there were other memes repeated to death.
posted by filthy light thief at 9:51 AM on May 6

Whatever else you have to say about keyboard cat, he is indirectly responsible, via Mr. East Manitoba yadda yadda, for my first successful non-inverted viewing of a Magic Eye picture.

I can't tell you how many hours as a young man were spent in vain.

Also, it is fitting that the first correct Magic Eye image I saw was that.
posted by Darth Fedor at 9:52 AM on May 6 [4 favorites has favorites]

Really all jumping-the-sharks should have a literal non-metaphorical shark.

I guess the first one did.

Do we ever SEE the shark?
posted by Artw at 9:53 AM on May 6

You can make your own with this site


my creation (video clip is nsfw in a far away, blurry way).
posted by stifford at 9:53 AM on May 6

(I'm pretty sure what you see when you die is the video for "Dream Weaver." [This may not have been the official video. I just remember an eerily fake starry sky and some guy playing the guitar.] A Cleveland local TV station played it at midnight or one AM or something every night the summer I was about eight and staying at my grandma's house, where I had a TV in the bedroom. It totally freaked me out and made me sad. I watched it every night. I would dread it, then watch it, then watch it the following night all over again. It was like the video in The Ring, for real.)
posted by kittens for breakfast at 9:53 AM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

Darth Fedor, it may interest you to know that some of those images require crossed eyes, as if looking at a near object, whereas most (like this one) require parallel eyes, as if you are looking in the distance. If you use the wrong technique the image is inverted.
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 9:55 AM on May 6

The beatific expression on the cat's face when he hits the last note... perfection.
posted by grubi at 9:59 AM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

Funny, when I told my mom I didn't believe in God, she was cool with it, feeling that she'd done her part to expose me to it but that it was ultimately up to me to decide my own faith (or lack of it.)

Keyboard cat would have felt useless that day, let me tell you.
posted by davejay at 9:59 AM on May 6

The Keyboard Cat rules, along with the Spaghetti Cat and the Chicken Tetrazzini lady.....this is why I love the internet.
posted by ktrain at 10:02 AM on May 6

YOU WANNA KNOW IF THERE'S NO GOD? WELL LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING -- YOU'RE GOING TO GET NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR CHRISTMAS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ABOUT -- JESUS CHRIST!

Man, that one was just sad. I felt bad for the kid and the mom was downright embarrassing. Plus it had all the theological subtlety of a Three Stooges movie.
posted by GuyZero at 10:05 AM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

I really think she expected him to cave when she told him he wouldn't get any more presents at Christmas.
posted by Dr-Baa at 10:11 AM on May 6

if you can resist clicking on these, good for you. you're very grown up.

posted by Hammond Rye at 10:13 AM on May 6 [6 favorites has favorites]

I'll bet they get him something nice anyways. She'll probably hold out on buying presents until December 19th or 20th, but then she'll break down while hearing an Xmas carol on the radio in the car and pull into to the nearest retail center.
posted by Burhanistan at 10:14 AM on May 6

Plus it had all the theological subtlety of a Three Stooges movie.

surely, you meant that it had none of the theological subtlety of a three stooges movie - there are adepts in some sufi groups that literally spend decades pondering the hidden messages the three stooges have offered us, if we would only see them
posted by pyramid termite at 10:16 AM on May 6

Keyboard Car
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 10:19 AM on May 6

The cat moves like a puppet. Is this disturbing?

Only when he's elected President.

[rimshot]
posted by CynicalKnight at 10:21 AM on May 6

The atheism link was my first exposure to keyboard cat, presented to me without context or any foreshadowing. When the mother screams at her son and I'm nodding in sympathy, the camera is hastily taken away by the erstwhile cameraman fading to keyboard cat and his magical ditty, transforming the video into a transcendental experience of absurd hilarity.

Truly, dada lives and its name is internet.
posted by ooga_booga at 10:31 AM on May 6 [7 favorites has favorites]

She's also pissed because he won't use any of his old roll-over minutes.
posted by dirigibleman at 10:31 AM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

We're staring into the very heart of the internet here.

Also, a kitty.
posted by The Whelk at 10:44 AM on May 6 [6 favorites has favorites]

I maked one with violence and ball-retracting....

Clicky
posted by Senor Cardgage at 10:45 AM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

Whooowoooo! Keyboard cat meets Bubb Rubb channeled by a little girl.
posted by diogenes at 10:45 AM on May 6

Just watch this, you'll love it.

They synch up rather well, don't they?

I cobbled this together myself, sad to say. I suppose someone had to do it. It didn't have to be me. I'm so sorry.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 10:46 AM on May 6 [4 favorites has favorites]

When the mother screams at her son and I'm nodding in sympathy

Sympathy, really? Sympathy with who? Perhaps mine is broken.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 10:47 AM on May 6

synch?

Ah well, at least I didn't put my single link youtube post on the front page.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 10:48 AM on May 6

This meme is as edgy as a butter knife.

It comes off as a little too forced, "Milhouse", if you will.
posted by amuseDetachment at 10:52 AM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

This is why RFC 1945 was written.
posted by Nelson at 10:54 AM on May 6 [3 favorites has favorites]

Here are lots of YouTube videos
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 10:57 AM on May 6 [18 favorites has favorites]

Here are lots of YouTube videos

That had no business being as cool as it was.
posted by Burhanistan at 11:05 AM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

two more using the creator (safe for work, but probably highly inappropriate) using classic WTF youtube clips...

1 2
posted by stifford at 11:05 AM on May 6 [2 favorites has favorites]

Ketboard Cat has given me a reason to get up in the morning. For that I thank him, and I thank you.

Does he do any requests?
posted by metagnathous at 11:07 AM on May 6

I agree that the best clips are those that show Keyboard Cat poised over the keyboard. It's like a modern-day Sword of Damocles.
posted by diogenes at 11:09 AM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

Here are lots of YouTube videos

I want that running an a full wall video. It would be tres cool, make a good modern art video installation. I quite love Justice in any case, so I might be biased.
posted by Bovine Love at 11:14 AM on May 6

God stifford. I mean. Wow.

Where in sweet holy hell are those 2 clips from?
posted by lazaruslong at 11:18 AM on May 6

God stifford. I mean. Wow.

Where in sweet holy hell are those 2 clips from?

1) is some made for TV movie called "Child of Rage" from the 90s, you can find more info on it if you do a search.

2) is just some clip floating around teh InterNetz (usually around Halloween).




more youtube gold + Keyboard cat
posted by stifford at 11:25 AM on May 6 [2 favorites has favorites]

Here are lots of YouTube videos


The only logical choice

And over overkill's shake.
posted by The Whelk at 11:26 AM on May 6 [2 favorites has favorites]

Keyboard? Pshaw. Bandoneon-playing cat.
posted by dr. boludo at 11:27 AM on May 6 [2 favorites has favorites]

Actually I take that back, this is overkill
posted by The Whelk at 11:32 AM on May 6

more lots of youtube videos
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 11:39 AM on May 6

Im thinking that "lots of youtube videos" deserves its own FPP!

I'm too lazy to make one, though.
posted by Avenger at 11:41 AM on May 6

No, this is overkill.
posted by Burhanistan at 11:41 AM on May 6 [4 favorites has favorites]

The cat plays the keyboard to provide a transition between a traumatic event and the re-emergence of stability. He is a crucial interstitial operative...

I like to imagine a future where the human race has vanished and an alien species is studying the internet to learn about our culture. There will be an entire department dedicated to understanding YouTube. In that department there will be a professor who dedicates his life to deciphering the significance of Keyboard Cat.
posted by diogenes at 11:46 AM on May 6 [5 favorites has favorites]

No, this is overkill.
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 11:52 AM on May 6

No, this is overkill.

I think that may have infected my brain with a mind-altering meta-virus.
posted by diogenes at 11:53 AM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

Overkill, perhaps, but a very good use of the technique. Still, the Justice one really hit it.

And oh, the cat is phatastic.
posted by Bovine Love at 11:54 AM on May 6

No, this is "Overkill"
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:56 AM on May 6 [2 favorites has favorites]

Sympathy, really? Sympathy with who? Perhaps mine is broken.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 10:47 AM on May 6 [+] [!]

Sympathy with the kid, actually, with a little empathy thrown in. Frankly, I don't talk about religion much at all with my mother as it will likely go down similarly to the video.

Except keyboard cat won't be there to play me out.
posted by ooga_booga at 11:57 AM on May 6

grobstein: "The cat moves like a puppet. Is this disturbing?"

The cat does not play the keyboard.

The cat is a puppet, some jerkoff dressed it up and stuck his hand in the clothes.

The beatific look the cat has at the end is it fantasizing about creeping into the bedroom when his owner is asleep and ripping his eyes out.

I may be the only person online who hates this meme, but there it is.
posted by merelyglib at 12:00 PM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

Wow! I was really under the impression that the cat was indeed playing the keyboard with his little paws. They sure got me!

Really, you can jostle a cat around in a playful manner and the cat can have a good time. They do like to wrestle and pounce all over the place, you know.
posted by Burhanistan at 12:03 PM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

merelyglib - Ah, but cats are always thinking about that. It's part of their fuzzy-wuzzy charm!
posted by Artw at 12:06 PM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

The cat is a puppet, some jerkoff dressed it up and stuck his hand in the clothes.

What?

No . . .
posted by metagnathous at 12:09 PM on May 6 [2 favorites has favorites]

Wow the internets have been generous today... keyboard cat AND 'lots of youtube videos'
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 12:11 PM on May 6

Do this.
posted by Navelgazer at 12:11 PM on May 6 [5 favorites has favorites]

Nice video/rows/columns choice, navelgazer. Works out very well. Matches the scene cut frequency nicely.
posted by Bovine Love at 12:16 PM on May 6

Keyboard Cat plays yooouuuTuuube
posted by Sailormom at 12:21 PM on May 6 [2 favorites has favorites]

Okay, keyboard cat adds little to this one, but it hits my bizarre/funny bone in just the right way to make me laugh until my eyes tear up.
posted by ooga_booga at 12:22 PM on May 6

This could very easily be the original version of this video
posted by The Whelk at 12:23 PM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

ooga_booga, my roommate and I watched that one a few times and couldn't figure out what was going on. Did the dude get electrocuted? By grapes? WTF?
posted by Navelgazer at 12:23 PM on May 6

I want to take the Keyboard Cat, and the Dramatic Chipmunk (Prairie Dog) and a couple of other moment enhancing videos and have them stored on my phone. That way, whenever the need for it arises, I can whip it out and without a spoken word clarify the moment for everyone around me.

Guy in meeting: "So anyway, in an effort to manage on our company's diversity goals, this week I was working with the Mexic.. uh Spani.. er Hispanic... yeah Hispanic elements of the workforce..."

and quietly in the back you will hear a tiny keyboard playing as I hold my phone up at the person letting him know to just walk away. Then when he gets mad, and storms off I can switch over to the Dun Dun Dun... Chipmunk (Prairie Dog).
posted by quin at 12:29 PM on May 6 [4 favorites has favorites]

Navelgazer, I don't know - my theory, from watching the slow-mo replay, was that there are some shenanigans going on and some of the grapes move just as he reaches for them. This startles him and he hits himself in the nose with his mike but it doesn't quite work. Now the idea that he's getting electrocuted kind of dampens the comedic effect for me, alas.
posted by ooga_booga at 12:34 PM on May 6

It seems, from a comment on the deleted thread, that the newscaster is getting shocked by a loose wire somehow. A quick google search leads to this. And now, for sports.
posted by ooga_booga at 12:59 PM on May 6

I think the reason this resonates so well among so many is that there have been, and there will be, times in our lives when we really do need a Keyboard Cat to play us off.
posted by Spatch at 1:00 PM on May 6 [5 favorites has favorites]

On the grapes one, I thought a bat or something flew out and startled him.
posted by bink at 1:30 PM on May 6

Oh. Never mid.
posted by bink at 1:30 PM on May 6

MIND.
posted by bink at 1:31 PM on May 6

Yeah, I've already thought "Keyboard Cat, play me off," a few times today. It made me smile and forget the initial "d'oh!"
posted by not_on_display at 1:32 PM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

I CAN READ YOUR MIND
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 2:18 PM on May 6

if you can resist clicking on these, good for you. you're very grown up.

From the link:

grandma coming up the stairs on her automatic chair. Reminded me of the music with the cliff hanger from the price is right
Category: People & Blogs

I think maybe "Blogs" was not the right word. Maybe something with an 'n'.
posted by davejay at 2:21 PM on May 6

Where does that atheist confrontation clip come from? Some sort of reality show?
posted by mullacc at 3:18 PM on May 6

Where does that atheist confrontation clip come from? Some sort of reality show?

Its a new show called "Growing up Palin".
posted by Avenger at 3:38 PM on May 6 [2 favorites has favorites]

Here is the best extendo Youtube i have seen yet.
posted by Widepath at 3:49 PM on May 6 [35 favorites has favorites]

You would almost say it was made to purpose, Widepath. Extremely good; the cut back and forth make it interlaced lines. Good tune, as well.
posted by Bovine Love at 4:08 PM on May 6

To play us out... Keyboard Cat
posted by Anything at 5:03 PM on May 6

all the theological subtlety of a Three Stooges movie

OK, I understand that Moe is Yahweh; angry god and all. But which one's Jesus and which one's the Holy Spirit?
posted by Flunkie at 5:13 PM on May 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

I'm not sure about the specifics Flunkie, but if the fake rapture doesn't start out with Moe sending Fake Shemp out to the car to get his bow and crown, I'm not buying it.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 5:28 PM on May 6

Thank you everyone for making this the least productive day of my life.
posted by hillabeans at 5:38 PM on May 6 [4 favorites has favorites]

Here is the best extendo Youtube i have seen yet.

I so wish it was 1997 and I could show that to my college roommates on a Saturday night and totally blow their minds!
posted by diogenes at 6:02 PM on May 6

God damn this has to be the funniest video I have ever seen! A combination of failing superheros and keyboard playing cats! What else could an immature college student ask for?!
posted by eiro0701 at 7:59 PM on May 6

hours later...still watching.
posted by pedstel at 8:31 PM on May 6

Is it just me, or does Keyboard Cat look exactly like Rick Wakeman? Kitty in a caftan.
posted by Scram at 11:53 PM on May 6

Matt's unresponsive iPhone
posted by blueberry at 3:07 AM on May 7

Widepath... that was awesome, thank you
posted by Acey at 3:54 AM on May 7

And Keyboard Cat as covered by CNN.
posted by rottytooth at 5:27 AM on May 7

Aw, Fatso the Keyboard Cat died! At least now we know his real name.
posted by grubi at 6:15 AM on May 7 [1 favorite has favorites]

"All the world's a stage. We're all players. Sometimes, when we eff up, royally, on stage, that is, in the world, real life, we need a little help getting off stage. So keyboard cat plays his ditty, and away we go." - Billysumday

This may be related. Check the spelling of the URL.
posted by mccarty.tim at 7:45 AM on May 7

And Keyboard Cat as covered by CNN.

Man, the meme lifecycle is getting shorter and shorter. Keyboard Cat is over before it even began.
posted by GuyZero at 10:57 AM on May 7

And Keyboard Cat as covered by CNN.

Man, the meme lifecycle is getting shorter and shorter. Keyboard Cat is over before it even began.

No, that was really charming. I liked how they made their own Keyboard Cat videos from embarrassing CNN bloopers.
posted by grobstein at 11:02 AM on May 7

How do I report a broken URL? The video link in the original post should have been this.
posted by w0mbat at 12:00 PM on May 7

Bugger. I meant to post that in the Mia Farrow thread (cue keyboard cat).
posted by w0mbat at 12:33 PM on May 7 [3 favorites has favorites]

Shame the kitty died. He seemed really good-natured to put up with that.

I guess it's cool that CNN is covering memes, but I kind of wish they'd do a better job of covering politics and important culture, so I'm ambivalent about it.
posted by JHarris at 12:26 PM on May 8 [3 favorites has favorites]

I'll be seeing that cat and hearing her merry tune during many inappropriate moments in the future, I'm sure.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 7:26 PM on May 9

My partner and I have spent at least an hour, the last couple of nights, watching Keyboard Cat videos via Tivo/Youtube. It's remarkably funny on a big screen TV, although the glass of wine may be helping.
posted by Nelson at 9:33 AM on May 10

Oh, also, this

Keyboard cat is the sort of watered-down mom humor that occurs when non-/b/tards try to make memes.

makes absolutely no sense to me. Keyboard Cat, love it or hate it, is solidly in the same league as shoop da whoop, Girugamesh, Millhouse is not a meme, and so on. I didn't think /b/tards had illusions that their humor was somehow sophisticated or cutting edge, which was kind of refreshing in its honesty and unpretentiousness, to be honest. Get a couple spots on Fox News and they get all snooty on you.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 9:44 AM on May 10 [1 favorite has favorites]

Keyboard cat is the sort of watered-down mom humor HAPPY MOTHERS DAY
posted by grobstein at 5:54 PM on May 10

Keyboard Cat plays off Stephen Colbert on The Daily Show.
posted by ryanrs at 10:15 PM on May 19 [5 favorites has favorites]

The cat is a puppet, some jerkoff dressed it up and stuck his hand in the clothes... I may be the only person online who hates this meme, but there it is.

Doodoodoo doo dododo doo doodoodoo doo dododo doo...
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:43 AM on May 22

Man, I just realized OC already made that zing and I had favorited it five minutes before.
*Has Keyboard Cat play me out*
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:57 AM on May 22 [1 favorite has favorites]

Zing!

Zing zing zing zing zing zing zing zing zing zing!
posted by Artw at 9:35 AM on May 22

For anyone still reading this, I believe Keyboard Cat has reached its apex with Keyboard Gato.
posted by The Devil Tesla at 1:29 PM on May 26 [3 favorites has favorites]

I dunno Tesla Devil, watching an angry cat be pushed around while trying to bite the hands holding him is kinda depressing. OTOH, Keyboard Green Day is all kinds of funny.
posted by Nelson at 6:20 PM on May 26

For anyone still reading this, I believe Keyboard Cat has reached its apex with Keyboard Gato.

Stop that this second! You can't have your infinite perception recursion tunnel and eat it too. The results are ...messy.
posted by The Whelk at 6:37 PM on May 26

When memes collide.... Play Him Off Keyboard Chad
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 3:51 AM on June 5