"Our story begins with a small fish named Jimmy."

April 26, 2018 12:49 PM

Ze Frank's True Facts comic nature series returns with the Frogfish. (See here for a webiste only about frogfishes.) Previously.
posted by Doktor Zed (17 comments total)

I'm glad to see this is back. I miss Ze, and hope that he finds pleasure in making things on the internet more and more.
posted by lazaruslong at 1:13 PM on April 26, 2018 [4 favorites]

Saw this yesterday, and like most of them, the mix of academic monotone with ridiculous mispronunciation, curse words and unexpected reversals hits my funny bone just right.
posted by OHenryPacey at 1:17 PM on April 26, 2018 [4 favorites]

Nice to see these back!

How come he doesn't even mention that these fish have feet though?
posted by Fuchsoid at 1:21 PM on April 26, 2018

I *cannot* believe you mentioned their feet, Fuchsoid! You know how embarrassed they are about them.
posted by Quindar Beep at 1:26 PM on April 26, 2018 [7 favorites]

"You look like a garbage bag that is also drunk."
posted by Catbunny at 1:43 PM on April 26, 2018 [3 favorites]

omigodomigodomigod I love True Facts about Animals so much!
posted by aubilenon at 1:57 PM on April 26, 2018 [3 favorites]

Like a lactose intolerant cheesemaker, the cuttlefish is unaware of its own gifts.

Excuse me, I'm off to rewatch all of those. Cause it's how the kleinsteradikaleminderheit do.
posted by kleinsteradikaleminderheit at 1:58 PM on April 26, 2018 [5 favorites]

I have fond memories of when he did summer camp-style color wars online which was...oh, Christ, ten years ago. I hope he keeps popping up.
posted by middleclasstool at 2:04 PM on April 26, 2018 [1 favorite]

Yesssssssss, best news I've heard all… wait, Cosby was convicted today. Second best news I've heard all week.
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 2:59 PM on April 26, 2018 [3 favorites]

I needed this.
posted by greermahoney at 3:36 PM on April 26, 2018 [1 favorite]

I didn't dare take a drink of this excellent jasmine tea (hot, my favourite) while this video was playing, and that's saying something.
posted by seanmpuckett at 4:36 PM on April 26, 2018

IN OUR HOUR OF NEED!
posted by longdaysjourney at 5:00 PM on April 26, 2018 [1 favorite]

How come he doesn't even mention that these fish have feet though?

Look, I know it’s sometimes hard to watch a thing for a whole two minutes, but...
posted by Sys Rq at 5:19 PM on April 26, 2018

Ze is the best. Best of the web. Like, all the best parts of the web, Ze started those.
posted by gwint at 5:22 PM on April 26, 2018 [2 favorites]

I am pretty sure I haven't been as purely happy as when the fish smiled ('like a class picture!')...possibly in years.
posted by kalimac at 7:50 PM on April 26, 2018 [3 favorites]

Maybe it's silly, but I associate True Facts with the ending of A Show, which meant a lot to me emotionally, spiritually, etc. at the time and so they always make me a little sad. If you haunt around the Ze Frank reddit, there's some theories about why he stopped and will probably never make content like A Show again, which also makes me sad. So maybe I should be happy about this, the closest we're going to get. Mixed feels.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 9:02 PM on April 26, 2018 [3 favorites]

A new one is up: True Facts about Carnivorous Plants!
posted by Doktor Zed at 1:01 PM on May 7, 2018