When this was still big, a friend of mine said he saw it and really liked it. I casually said, “Be sure to watch it all the way through!”
I don’t know what prompted me to say that.
A few weeks later, we were talking, and he suddenly said, “Oh, BY THE WAY…I tried to watch Badger Badger Badger all the way through…” He said watched for “a while” before he caught on.
If I tried to plan a practical joke, it would never go as well as that one did.
I sent an article about this to him. He laughed.
As it should.
I was there at the very beginning. I watched the rise of today. From playing Oregon Trail on a teletype computer head in a dingy basement, trying to learn Basic, writing batch files, compiling kernels, and rpm hell.
The Badgers were amazing and mesmerizing and are truly worthy of preservation.
We’re approaching some of the old memes now, the Genesis Memes…
But if you want to brush away even more layers of digital sediment and excavate a truly ancient fossil, there’s All your base are belong to us.
What you say?!
Does anyone else remember Mahir, the Turkish stud? Or, am I really showing my age…?
I remember this cat video I liked.
🎶 Cat , I’m a kitty cat, and I dance dance dance. And I dance dance dance. 🎵
And I wanted to make it my ring tone. Back when phones were just starting to let you have custom tones.
And I sent the creator an email and asked if I could have a mp3. And he responded and sent it and I was like.
“Omg. This famous guy who made this video with like 10,000 views talked to me!”
I remember bragging to my friends that this famous video creator talked to me online.
Simpler times.
Now it’s 24 million views On YouTube. I’m pretty sure I messaged them on black sheep or some other video site that was popular around 2006.
I literally bragged breathlessly about exchanging a few words with the klingon actor from the new star trek (he’s a nice fellow) to my wife. Honestly, the way I lit up I wonder if that’s what made her want to watch SNW then TNG, like back to back
She enjoyed SNW but TNG she is fucking loving. Her crush on riker is almost as bad as mine
I had an anthropology tutor who is a renowned Trekkie
She is mentioned by name
There was a discussion about gender fluidity and she was so happy when the example of Dax came up as an example of falling for a person can remain while their body changes
That was almost thirty years ago, but I still remember her
What really should be preserved is the entirety of Homestar Runner.
The Cheat is grounded!
Hell yeah
I got my friend with that one back in the day. It was Flash so much harder to detect a loop than a video. I told him the ending was hilarious and he managed about 20 minutes of badger badger badger badger badger until he figured it out.
And on the opposite end there was the Demented Cartoon Movie, which was half an hour of nonsense and non-sequitors in an age where most animations were a few minutes long. Flash movies didn’t have a progress bar at the bottom, so anyone you sent it to was stuck watching the whole thing just hoping it would please end already.
It’s physically painful to watch today. My fellow Millennials act like Gen Z invented brain rot while ignoring that we grew up with this.
It’s been like 20 years since I watched that, and it held up way better than I expected. Surprisingly good comedic timing.
Oh god, it still exists! Now we just need four head shave cut and the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny to complete the chronicle!
Beavis & Butthead, Jersey Shore, Mr. Ed.
Rotten content is a product of capitalism
I believe the phrase you’re looking for is “decadent capitalist pigs” - best spoken in a faux Russian accent.
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🐍!
It’s a 🐍!
🦡🦡🦡🦡
I mean, really, most of Weebl’s stuff should be preserved: Amazing Horse, Magical Trevor, Crabs, Telephone Dog (“Hello, this is dog!”), Russian Dancing Men, a ton of others I’ve forgot.
I’ve seen things, I’ve seen them with my eyes
You forgot something? Kenya believe it?
See the friendly lions, only in Kenya!
Come to Kenya, we’ve got lions!
I remember I told a class group the best part of Amazing Horse was at the ending. Someone admitted to watch quite a few loops before asking if it did end indeed. Good times.
Haha, I did essentially the same thing once. I sent a friend a link a link to badger badger and told her the best part has to be the dog thing, definitely keep watching till you get to the dog…
She was like “I watched for almost 20 minutes you asshole!”
Good times…
probably not the most popular but Babies was always my favorite lol
12 badgers doing calisthenics while a mushroom and snake occasionally appear on screen, known as “Badger Badger Badger” or “The Badger Song.”
Somehow that description just doesn’t do it for me. Im not sure what would, but its not this.
They have an interview with the father of the “Charlie but my finger again!” kids, so they’re adding some good historical context to it all, too.
The archive is here
Thank goodness. I’m full up on shit right now
If you want to have fun with an internet newbie tell them to watch to the end, it gets really good.
This makes me so happy.
