What is this "doot" thing, with the skeletons?
October 7, 2017 2:08 PM   Subscribe

Every October, this disembodied skull emerges from its slumber to doot across the internet with its trusty brass trumpet. Actually, skull trumpet never sleeps, and is kept alive by Le Doot Generation on Reddit and folks on Tumblr (and specifically The Skull Trumpet), as well as mashup makers, re-mixers and even live covers.

The story goes that this particularly spooky 2 seconds was made from Microsoft's 3D Movie Maker game-like video maker (almost 8 minute "demo" of the software), under the 1995 era Microsoft Kids brand.

If you just need a little doot-doot, here's SkullTrumpet.com, but if you want a little doot-doot on demand without the spooky skull, push the button.

If you need a lot of doot-doot, start with skull trumpet storm (warning: Sandstorm, but worse), and descend into madness and remixes from there.
posted by filthy light thief (17 comments total) 19 users marked this as a favorite
 
Post title from this r/OutOfTheLoop question.

If you really want to get retro, here's a copy of 3D Movie Maker v1.0, both English and Spanish, as it's probably considered abandonware at this point. But as always with downloading random software from the internet, tread with caution.

thank mr skeltal
posted by filthy light thief at 2:11 PM on October 7, 2017 [5 favorites]


(And my apologies to Johnny Wallflower, for possibly diluting the Memento Mori October theme with this bit of silly internet goofery)
posted by filthy light thief at 2:22 PM on October 7, 2017 [1 favorite]


thank
posted by glonous keming at 2:54 PM on October 7, 2017 [6 favorites]


Before David S. Pumpkin and the KVXO-TV Pumpkin Head Guy, there was Skull Trumpet.

Of course, before THAT, there was the Great Pumpkin and Charlie Brown's bag full of rocks...

Still, we all need a little DOOT.
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:20 PM on October 7, 2017 [1 favorite]


Doot - E1M1 [Knee-Deep in the Doot] <-- BÄST
posted by Foci for Analysis at 3:50 PM on October 7, 2017 [3 favorites]


2spoopy4me!
posted by Guy Smiley at 3:58 PM on October 7, 2017


The meme I didn't know i was missing until now 💀🎺
posted by Fig at 4:02 PM on October 7, 2017 [2 favorites]


Also, the skeletons-making-puns comics too.
posted by Guy Smiley at 4:03 PM on October 7, 2017 [2 favorites]


Oh dear that skull trumpet storm. Sandstorm, but worse indeed. I laughed pretty hard for the first 10 seconds but, despite my growing horror and unease, could not look away thereafter. Thank Cthulhu it was only 89 seconds long.
posted by mce at 4:10 PM on October 7, 2017 [2 favorites]


I've been online since 1995, somehow never heard of or saw this.
posted by jeff-o-matic at 4:33 PM on October 7, 2017 [1 favorite]


2SPOOKY! The Skeleton is inside you!

1 Calcium, filthy light thief
posted by Sunburnt at 7:06 PM on October 7, 2017 [1 favorite]


Thank you so much! I have been terrorising people with Mambo No. Honk in isolation for years, not appreciating this was a whole cultural-musical tide. I don't know why I find it so funny, I just do. (Burst out laughing at the first doot in Sandstorm.)
posted by Trivia Newton John at 10:31 PM on October 7, 2017 [1 favorite]


3spoopy5me
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 1:44 AM on October 8, 2017 [1 favorite]


I feel like somehow David Pumpkins is going to be at the root of this.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:10 AM on October 8, 2017


oh no not my face
posted by scruss at 9:10 AM on October 8, 2017 [2 favorites]


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posted by Splunge at 10:17 AM on October 8, 2017


This meme is HUGE on Imgur's user-submitted section (which is where the site's more social stuff tends to take place, as opposed to its general purpose as a picture-host) starting mid-Septemberish (like Christmas, it seems to start earlier every year) and running through Halloween, the date of the Skeleton War*. Various gifs of skeletons and people readying their masses to do battle against humans and skeletons, respectively.

Pick a side and bone up on the alert system.

*Not to be confused with LNI, "Late Night Imgur," in which the more disturbing/unsettling content gets posted.
posted by Sunburnt at 10:33 PM on October 8, 2017 [1 favorite]


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