Originally published at: MrWeebl's classic viral animation "Badgers" turns 20 | Boing Boing
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And for mushrooms!!
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Feed the mushrooms to hamsters then feed them to the snakes. Problem solved.
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Over a decade later I finally figured out the source of the audio for Hamster Dance, quite by accident. The “AH-HA!” could be heard throughout the block.
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It’s a testament to its influence that for the “Save The Badger” Campaign to stop the UK badger cull not only did Weeble do a Flash Gordon inspired remake but got Brian May to do guitar and Brian Blessed to yell “Keep them alive!”.
Sadly didn’t work. But the video to Save The Badger was glorious.
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back in my day, people sent emails, both ways, up hill.
( and crowded around each other’s computer’s saying: “what’s that? play it again!!!” and later, “please stop please.” )
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Of course, Weebl’s videos were originally all in Flash.
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Thanks for making me feel old, mate. The old classics. Now got “Scampi” looping in my head.
“I’ve seen things, I’ve seen them with my eyes…”
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That one had a funny tempo skip that made it sound like every time through the loop was slightly faster.
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Oh I vaguely remember seeing this. Brain May actually did the licks on this video? Cool.
I unironically love the original Badger Badger song.
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In the snow, even.
Then there was Joe cartoon, which only had appeal if you like crude humor and violence.
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Do you mean the GI Joe ones?
I remember liking their surreal absurdity.
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He even did a song to say goodbye to Flash!
turn on subtitles on that compilation, the person who did them started trying to transcribe the dialogue and just gives up about halfway through…
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And so, the internet was born
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This sentence may have temporarily broken my brain, son.
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B3ta was great.
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I’ve seen my share of rattlesnakes in my yard – and indeed in the threshold of my garage. There’s a local guy who volunteers to capture and relocate them. I have him on speed dial.
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It’s possible? I was thinking more along of the lines of “frog in a blender” and “Superfly”… (this was alll the way back in 2000-2001, so take that as you will.)
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