Chipmunks!
September 17, 2014 2:31 PM   Subscribe

 
No, no, no... I insist, after you!
posted by fairmettle at 2:52 PM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]


Cartoon inaccuracy alert! Chipmunks live in burrows, not trees.

Also, ducks rarely wear hats.
posted by Sys Rq at 2:55 PM on September 17, 2014 [5 favorites]


I'm a little drunk but for some reason I was expecting Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers and now all I want to do is watch episodes. But this is pretty awesome.
posted by Fizz at 3:02 PM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]


No, no, no... I insist, after you!

I believe you are confusing Mac and Tosh with Chip and Dale.
posted by Thorzdad at 3:04 PM on September 17, 2014 [11 favorites]


I was confused as to why the link showed up gray when I first loaded the front page. Then I remembered that the first thing I did on my birthday this year was watch this exact video. I'm 32.
posted by dagosto at 3:05 PM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]


There are some anti-Asian notes in a few of the cartoons but that should unfortunately be expected in Disney cartoons of this era.
posted by dagosto at 3:10 PM on September 17, 2014


Are Chip and Dale part of the Duckiverse?
posted by mullacc at 3:15 PM on September 17, 2014


Q: Where do chipmunks live?

A: In a chipmonastery!
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:18 PM on September 17, 2014 [8 favorites]


#dadjokes
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:18 PM on September 17, 2014


> I believe you are confusing Mac and Tosh with Chip and Dale.

OMG-- The missing link. That explains a thing or two!
posted by cleroy at 3:33 PM on September 17, 2014


I believe you are confusing Mac and Tosh with Chip and Dale.

Clearly Mac and Tosh / Macintosh is a play on Chip and Dale / Chippendale, but who or what is the Macintosh referenced? It doesn't seem to be another famous cabinetmaker. Maybe the play on words just doesn't go that far. :(
posted by mullacc at 3:34 PM on September 17, 2014


macintosh apples
posted by pyramid termite at 3:39 PM on September 17, 2014


chippendale melons
posted by mullacc at 3:47 PM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]


My daughter was watching a bunch of these before the school year started this year.

A few days in, we got a concerned note from the teacher about her hitting and pushing (and no doubt bopping other kids on the head and talking in a squeaky voice and being obsessed with acorns).

We don't watch Chip and Dale anymore.
posted by clawsoon at 3:58 PM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]


We don't watch Chip and Dale anymore.

Try these lovely cartoon birds instead.
posted by cashman at 4:12 PM on September 17, 2014 [3 favorites]


Thank god she didn't watch Hare-Way to the Stars and try to blow up the Earth.
posted by Wolfdog at 4:15 PM on September 17, 2014 [3 favorites]


I think there's something about cartoon physics that makes violence inevitable. Something to do with cartoon quantum spin, no doubt.
posted by clawsoon at 5:24 PM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]


The first cartoon, "Donald Applecore" (which does indeed feature a horrible racist caricature near the end), was something I must have watched one hundred times as a kid, and features this exchange a few times:

Person 1: "Apple Core"
Person 2: "Baltimore"
Person 3: "Who's your friend"
Person 4: "Me / You" (or whoever gets that apple thrown at them, etc)

Evidently, this rhyme was not first featured here, but rather in a 1948 Melody Time gag featuring Johnny Appleseed. Also, this episode is seen by some as a subtle reference to the futility of nuclear war.
posted by RubixsQube at 5:52 PM on September 17, 2014




For watching after that stoner vid, no doubt.
posted by clvrmnky at 8:52 PM on September 17, 2014


wow! thank you! not what i expected. i thought this would be some terrible snarky remix of some sort with bad Euro-electro music. i am so excited to smoke more pot and watch this whole video.
posted by Conrad-Casserole at 9:07 PM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]


I love me some classic Disney shorts, but how did this get 38M views in less than a year? And why are the thumbs up/down counts so close?
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 9:17 PM on September 17, 2014


No, no, no... I insist, after you!

I believe you are confusing Mac and Tosh with Chip and Dale.


You are correct.

(However, they do perform a short homage to this WB routine at 1:06:54 on the OP's link during 1950's Out On A Limb.)
posted by fairmettle at 5:11 AM on September 18, 2014


how did this get 38M views in less than a year?

My daughter would've watched it twenty or so times herself if we had let her.

If you really want to be boggled by view counts, look for videos where disembodied hands open Kinder Surprise Eggs to cheesy synth music. That stuff is kiddie crack.
posted by clawsoon at 6:10 AM on September 18, 2014


As a data point, the top forty Kinder Surprise "un-egging" videos have a combined total view count over 1.1 billion.
posted by clawsoon at 6:27 AM on September 18, 2014


So, this "un-egging" is a sex thing, right?
posted by TheCoug at 11:40 AM on September 18, 2014


So, this "un-egging" is a sex thing, right?

Oh god, just wait until you see the surprise inside.
posted by mullacc at 12:07 PM on September 18, 2014


This seems like a good place to note that there is apparently an entire online subculture of people acting out elaborate scenarios with Littlest Pet Shop bobble heads, as far as I can tell entirely unironically, many with multiple millions of views.

One the one hand, it's not that different from many forms of classical puppetry, and kids have been acting out stories with their toys since time immemorial. On the other hand, I'm old, so stop being so weird, future! Back in my day, we mumbled our interplasticpersonal dramas to ourselves or one other kid, and without six-figure fanbases, and we liked it.
posted by Wandering Idiot at 3:26 PM on September 18, 2014


The number of downvotes is still weird, though, like a lot of people clicked on a link expecting something else, like... Chippendales?
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 10:04 PM on September 18, 2014


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