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August 13, 2010 4:42 PM   Subscribe

 
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurn.
posted by GuyZero at 4:46 PM on August 13, 2010


I like that Lovecrafts brand of cosmic horror can be summarized as humanity being "way harshly insignificant".
posted by Artw at 4:56 PM on August 13, 2010 [3 favorites]


Cute. Nice animation.
posted by zardoz at 4:56 PM on August 13, 2010


Very cute. Love the animation, hate the narration.
posted by Fizz at 4:57 PM on August 13, 2010 [3 favorites]


Related: The Adventures of Lil Cthulhu
posted by Vindaloo at 5:04 PM on August 13, 2010 [2 favorites]


the big oil blotch entitled "BP's mess, your problem" on the globe at 0:49 was a nice touch
posted by Dr. Twist at 5:17 PM on August 13, 2010 [1 favorite]


Could have been done in under 1:30 without all the annoying slang.
posted by hermitosis at 5:37 PM on August 13, 2010 [1 favorite]


Turned it off after "The Call of the Cthulhu in, like, two minutes."
posted by Electrius at 5:45 PM on August 13, 2010 [2 favorites]


O R'lyeh? Ya R'lyeh!
posted by Doktor Zed at 5:48 PM on August 13, 2010 [7 favorites]


Cthulhu girl
Shes a Cthulhu girl
Cthulhu girl
Shes a Cthulhu girl
Okay, fine...
Fer sure, fer sure
Shes a Cthulhu girl
In a rare books store
Okay, fine...
Fer sure, fer sure
Shes a

Like, oh my god! (Cthulhu girl)
Like - totally (Cthulhu girl)
Arkham is like so bitchen (Cthulhu girl)
There's like the university (Cthulhu girl)
And like all these like really great antiques stores
I love going into like books stores and stuff
I like buy the neatest tomes and stuff
Its like so bitchen cuz like everybodys like
Super-super nice...
Its like so bitchen...

On ventura, there she goes
She just bought some bitchen robes
Tosses her head n flips her tentacles
She got a whole bunch of nothin in there

Anyway, he goes are you into s and m?
I go, oh right...
Could you like just picture me in like a leather teddy
Yeah right, hurt me, hurt me...
Im sure! no way!
He was like freaking me out...
He called me a beastie...
That's cuz like he was totally blitzed
He goes like bag your face!
Im sure!

Cthulhu girl
Shes a Cthulhu girl
Cthulhu girl
Shes a Cthulhu girl
Okay, fine...
Fer sure, fer sure
Shes a Cthulhu girl
So sweet n pure
Okay, fine...
Fer sure, fer sure
Shes a
Its really sad (Cthulhu girl)
Like my archaeology teacher
Hes like... (Cthulhu girl)
Hes like mr. bu-fu (Cthulhu girl)
Were talking lord God king bu-fu (Cthulhu girl)
I am so sure
Hes like so gross
He like sits there and like plays with all his rings
And he like flirts with all the guys in the class
Its like totally disgusting
Im like so sure
Its like barf me out...
Gag me with a spoon!

Last idea to cross her mind
Had something to do with where to find
A nice long robe to fit her butt
And where to get her tentacles cut

So like I go into this like temple place, yknow
And I wanted like to get my pseudopods done
And the lady like goes, oh my god, your pseudopods
Are like so grody
It was like really embarrassing
Shes like oh my god, like bag those toenails
Im like sure...
She goes, uh, I don't know if I can handle this, yknow...
I was like really embarrassed...

Cthulhu girl
Shes a Cthulhu girl
Cthulhu girl
Shes a Cthulhu girl
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
Shes a Cthulhu girl
And there is no cure
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
Shes a Cthulhu girl
And there is no cure

Like my mother of a thousand young is like a total space cadet (Cthulhu girl)
She like makes me do the sacrifices and (Cthulhu girl)
Clean the stone after (Cthulhu girl)
I am sure
That's like gross (Cthulhu girl)
Barf out! (Cthulhu girl)
Oh my God (Cthulhu girl)

Hi!
Uh-huh... (Cthulhu girl)
My name?
My name is Asenath Waite (Cthulhu girl)
Uh-huh
That's right, Asenath (Cthulhu girl)
Uh-huh...
I know
Its like... (Cthulhu girl)
I do not talk funny...
Im sure (Cthulhu girl)
What'sa matter with the way I talk? (Cthulhu girl)
I am a Cthu, I know (Cthulhu girl)
But I live like in a really good part of encino so it's okay
(Cthulhu girl)
Uh-huh... (Cthulhu girl)
So like, I don't know (Cthulhu girl)
Im like freaking out totally (Cthulhu girl)
Oh my god! (Cthulhu girl)

Hi - I have to go to the orthodon'tist (Cthulhu girl)
Im getting my braces off, yknow (Cthulhu girl)
But I have to wear a retainer
That's going to be really like a total bummer
Im freaking out
Im sure
Its like those things that like stick in your mouth
They're so gross...
You like get saliva all over them
But like, I don't know, it's going to be cool, yknow
So you can see my smile
Itll be like really cool
Except my like my fangs are like too small
But no biggie...
Its so awesome
Its like tubular, yknow
Well, Im not like really ugly or anything
Its just like
I don't know
You know me, Im like into like the clean stuff
Like Necronomicon and like, I don't know
Like my mother of a thousand young like makes me do the sacrifices
Its like so gross...
Like all the stuff like sticks to the plates
And it's like, it's like somebody else’s blood, yknow
Its like grody...
Grody to the max
Im sure
Its like really nauseating
Like barf out
Gag me with a spoon
Gross
I am sure
Totally...
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 5:50 PM on August 13, 2010 [7 favorites]


Cthulhu girl
posted by Artw at 6:12 PM on August 13, 2010 [1 favorite]


Its like those things that like stick in your mouth
They're so gross...
You like get saliva all over them


A) Tentacles
B) People
posted by Artw at 6:13 PM on August 13, 2010


I Totally Cannot Stand the Narration and Have to Close the Video in Under 20 Seconds.
posted by nanojath at 6:20 PM on August 13, 2010


Gnarlythotep.
posted by Ron Thanagar at 6:44 PM on August 13, 2010 [7 favorites]


I dug the narration.

Also, I had never really thought about how little actual plot there is in that story.
posted by Pope Guilty at 6:52 PM on August 13, 2010 [1 favorite]


...How did they find a teenage girl who can't use slang correctly? I like the idea but it sounded like it was written by a 50-something-year-old who had a vague idea of how young people talk.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 6:52 PM on August 13, 2010


Actually I realize how stupid it is to say "use slang correctly." It just sounded... weird, off. Still funny though. :)
posted by Solon and Thanks at 7:27 PM on August 13, 2010


Also, I had never really thought about how little actual plot there is in that story.

The plot is basically Investigation -> (findings) -> DOOM!, with the findings being a nested series of investigations/dooms. And as they pointed out the implied outer level of this nesting being that you have investigated Call of Cthulhu by reading it and ARE THEREFORE DOOMED!

Watch out for jostlings from nautical looking negros.
posted by Artw at 7:36 PM on August 13, 2010 [6 favorites]


Haters to the left.
posted by Stynxno at 7:52 PM on August 13, 2010


I love Lovecraft and that was cool.
posted by jquinby at 8:03 PM on August 13, 2010


Am I the only one who expected the Metallica song?
posted by dr_dank at 8:25 PM on August 13, 2010


"Like on LOST" explains a lot in a short amount of time.
posted by Phssthpok at 8:48 PM on August 13, 2010 [1 favorite]


How did they find a teenage girl who can't use slang correctly? I like the idea but it sounded like it was written by a 50-something-year-old who had a vague idea of how young people talk.

It sounded like a teenage girl from about 1987, although I'm unconvinced that anyone in real life has in all of recorded history ever said "gnarly." I think this was invented by Hollywood. I don't know. It may have been, like, a southern California thing?
posted by kittens for breakfast at 9:10 PM on August 13, 2010 [1 favorite]


NO SPOILERS!
posted by Roger Dodger at 9:33 PM on August 13, 2010


I liked New Zealand being labeled "Middle Earth".
posted by Mister Moofoo at 9:53 PM on August 13, 2010


People do and did say "gnarly". I was nevertheless astonished when I moved to Southern California and people were actually using the term "bitchin'", without a trace of irony.

The narration was great. I did chicks, though, so maybe that biased me. It's a nice contrast to Lovecraft's style, which may sound best being read aloud by Vincent Price.

I swear I read all the Lovecraft books I could find when I was in high school, but I just don't remember much about any of them. I know I read Call of Cthulu, but ....the memory..is just gone.
posted by Xoebe at 10:13 PM on August 13, 2010


Also, I had never really thought about how little actual plot there is in that story.

The thing I tend to forget between readings (and which the HPPodcraft guys called out recently) is how kind of anticlimactic the climax is. "Oh noes! A horrifying manifestation of timeless and cosmic evil! I know: I'LL HIT IT WITH MY BOAT! Problem solved!"
posted by Lentrohamsanin at 10:39 PM on August 13, 2010 [1 favorite]


Hey there Cthulhu.
posted by Evilspork at 10:47 PM on August 13, 2010 [1 favorite]


OMG So Adorable!
Lil Cthulhu goes to Egypt to see Lil Nyarlothotep. He's called 'the crawling chaos' 'cause he can't walk yet.
posted by juv3nal at 1:02 AM on August 14, 2010


OK the art in that Hey there Cthulhu video was just damaging. Giger on some bad acid, if that's not already a thing.
posted by newdaddy at 6:12 AM on August 14, 2010


Saying 'like' every, like, twenty seconds is, like, so over.

And been on the blue more times that I can remember but always worth another link to, the HPLHS film version of Call of Cthulhu, filmed in glorious Mythoscope, is an essential but for anyone who enjoys Lovecraft.
posted by ciderwoman at 7:08 AM on August 14, 2010


Also, I had never really thought about how little actual plot there is in that story.

You'll find that, when you get serious about summarizing them, most stories don't have a lot in the way of plot.
posted by Caduceus at 9:45 AM on August 14, 2010 [1 favorite]


For instance: a guy discovers an old creepy book. Things go horribly wrong.
posted by warbaby at 2:43 PM on August 14, 2010




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