Drowning Pool With Puppets

June 13, 2022 8:14 PM

I Can Only Count To FOUR. via Garbage Day
posted by signal (16 comments total)

This just popped up on my tiktok for you page the other day, and I have to say: as the parent of two children under five, I Love it.
posted by kdar at 8:33 PM on June 13, 2022 [1 favorite]

If you're only familiar with the TikTok version, the YouTube version, which made the rounds in 2020, is about twice as long!
posted by JHarris at 9:14 PM on June 13, 2022 [4 favorites]

This is by Psychostick, and was a 2021 Logan Award finalist for Outstanding Comedy Music Video.
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:03 AM on June 14, 2022 [3 favorites]

When I did comedy, I had a short bit where I was a hard rocker singing, "I can count to four! I can count to four! One, two, three . . . line?"
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 6:37 AM on June 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

This somehow feels like peak mid 00s Internet, but I loved it. Definitely will be passing it along to friends with kids.
posted by explosion at 6:47 AM on June 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

Is this a satire about Sesame Street or about the ubiquitous 4/4 meter in rock/metal or both? Meanwhile, my brain is now yelling I CAN ONLY COUNT TO FOUR!! over and over. Thank you.
posted by njohnson23 at 7:24 AM on June 14, 2022

For anybody who doesn't know the connection: this, besides just being funny as hell out of context, is explicitly and lovingly parodying Drowning Pool's "Bodies", aka Let The Bodies Hit The Floor, aka the song where the guy keeps whispering and yelling about letting the bodies hit the floor. Which makes it an order of magnitude more funny and perfect.
posted by cortex at 7:56 AM on June 14, 2022 [6 favorites]

There, I Ruined It did a good version of something like this.

(See also Psychosocial Shark.)
posted by charred husk at 8:40 AM on June 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

cortex:"For anybody who doesn't know the connection: this, besides just being funny as hell out of context, is explicitly and lovingly parodying Drowning Pool's "Bodies", aka Let The Bodies Hit The Floor...."

Which makes a lot more sense to those who stupidly assumed (poss just me) it was referencing the 1975 Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward movie (which would be an extraordinarily hard movie to do with puppets).
posted by Jody Tresidder at 9:58 AM on June 14, 2022

I was worried you-know-who wasn’t going to show up
posted by sjswitzer at 10:00 AM on June 14, 2022 [2 favorites]

Another great moment in Drowning Pool-inspired tomfoolery: Niel Cicierega's Floor Corn
posted by cortex at 10:06 AM on June 14, 2022 [2 favorites]

I was worried you-know-who wasn’t going to show up

Likewise! It just wouldn't have been the same without them.
posted by bile and syntax at 10:30 AM on June 14, 2022

I made a karaoke track out of it Sunday for my shows. I'm dying for someone to sing it.
posted by eamondaly at 10:35 AM on June 14, 2022 [3 favorites]

I also like this reaction to 'Bodies'.
posted by fleacircus at 10:48 AM on June 14, 2022

While we're on the subject of Drowning Pool tomfoolery: oneboredjeu's mashup of "Bodies" with Britney Spears' "Toxic"
posted by a car full of lions at 9:12 PM on June 14, 2022

Count von Count pulling an Ozzy Osbourne was the metal/Sesame Street fan service I didn’t know I needed.
posted by jonp72 at 6:15 PM on June 15, 2022