"The Fart"

[Tarryk]

I don't know why this is called "The Fart", really. But it's pretty humorous and REALLY good 3d work, fantastic timing to the music.

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseacti ... id=1014187

And I WANT that remix. Just gotta find it.

[Traanse]

*cries that strategic blurring was even needed* Noooo! Even the thought.... *shudders*

Other than that, very cute and fun.

EDIT: Interestingly enough, I post this right after posting that I imagine Tk without pants... there is no connection. One is okay, the other is not.

[Xtrophic]

The frog is called Crazy Frog.

To read up on it go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Frog

[Ceryn]

THE FROG MUST DIE ! ! !

And yes, that did need to be written in huge letters

[Tastyvixen]

That video is played at our skating rink. They use a projector on the wall. Its pretty cool to skate to.

The girls LOVE that video. Gwyn is bugging me to play it again right now. lol

You know.... its rather sad now that I think about it. The skating rink here is the only place in the area these days that plays dancy music.... heh

[Ceryn]

righty then, for the record..

The Crazy Frog spawned a worldwide hit single with a remix of "Axel F", which reached the number one spot in the UK, Japan, Turkey, New Zealand and most of Europe. The subsequent album Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits and second single "Popcorn" also enjoyed worldwide chart success, and a second album entitled Crazy Frog Presents More Crazy Hits was released in 2006. The Crazy Frog has also spawned a range of merchandise and toys, and a video game, all of which were very popular for Christmas 2005. Negotiations are also underway for a TV series based on the character

The "Axel F" music video was produced by Kaktus Film and Erik Wernquist, and centers on the pursuit of the Crazy Frog by a bounty hunter. He reprises his role as pursuer of the Crazy Frog in all subsequent videos.

[Tastyvixen]

*points to X's link* Could have saved yourself quite a bit of time hun.

[Ceryn]

I was saving other people the need to read through that long page, just to find the simple facts..

besides.. gave me another chance to point out that the damned frog must die..

so should barney, and the tellytubbies, and and and and and

[Innari]

and and and and

The Wiggles.

[Twisty]

... and Schnappi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be2AUvIZLtE
That's where it started.

[Ceryn]

and going back still further..

The Insanity Test

[Vallikat]

Yeah, Ceryn, that's where I first heard it. I thought my son was going to bust a gut he was laughing so hard at that one. Then when the video that Tarryk posted came out he watched it countless times. Though I have to admit, the 3-D is cool, after being subjected to it so many times, I agree that the frog must die. Painfully.

[Lykeios]

Ceryn is right, the thing must die... ya see the main problem with the crazy frog isn't so much his annoyingness... the main reason he deserves to die horribly... preferably with something involving lots of prolonged pain and agony (and ergo Ann Widdecombe) is that he got adopted by the mobile phone ringtone market... and then was everywhere you watched a single program on near any non mainstream channel and he was there at least 5 or 6 times... so yes... The Crazy Frog/Annoying Thing. Must Die.

[Tarryk]

This is why I don't cannonball myself into mainstream "ubermedia" like most people. Y'all let every single internet and television media fad get overplayed, overwatched, and overtrended in your compliant face and end up bitter and spiteful on things that could otherwise be regarded as simply cool and unique if you laid off staring at the boob tube every night.

Anyway, I think it's freakin' fun and humorous, and I hadn't been subjected to it yet. So whatever, don't watch it.

[Twisty]

Luckily, Google is your friend

http://www.somethingwrong.co.uk/crazy_frog_baseball/


And Tarryk, this was one of the cases where it didn't matter wether you "cannonballed yourself into mainstream "ubermedia" or not. When that thing hit the mainstream you simply couldn't get away from it. It was even worse if you had already found the joke and didn't find it funny anymore.

[Traanse]

I think I've seen the character once or twice before. *shrugs* Honestly I hadn't noticed it being overused in anything. I suppose if it was a TV thing though then that would be it... yay for watching episodes off of the Net. xD

[Myz_Lilith]

It was cool and fresh and fun about three years ago, when the "riiiiing-ding-a-ding-ding-ding" was doing the rounds in the sports car email. (Picture of a gorgous sports car with the caption "Bet you can't look at this picture for 1 minute without laughing. So you'd sit there bemused for a bit, then the 5-year-old-on-helium-doing-a-racecar-impression kicked in, and within 30 seconds you were cracking up.) Throwaway culture, recieve, giggle, send on, forget. Fun and gone.

It therefore stopped being cool and fresh and fun about two years and 364 days ago. Well, it probably took longer than that. It took quite a while before a ringtone manufacturer suddenly saw the money, and added the frog animation to sell it to all those kids that had just bought a shiny new phone with a colour screen. But it meant that even when it first started up as a ring tone, it was a case of "Oh. It's that again." Not new, not fresh, not unless you were in utero when it first did the rounds. Unfortunately all the kids that were bought it for their phones.

And while it's true that the advertising campagin compounded the agony, the boob tube becomes slightly irrelevant when you can't step outside your front door without being aurally assaulted by the zany crazy frog noises (and remixes and highly patronising "cultural" version where they changed the music a bit and faked a bad chinese accent) eminating from the phone of every single school-age child within audible distance. Not to mention a hell of a lot of adults that should have known better.

(Please note: if 30,000 other people your age are doing it, it no longer counts as ironic... )

So yeah, I can get that to anyone that's not been through that, it's fun. Hell, it was fun for me three or more years ago, briefly. Just PLEASE don't try to make out it has some kind of massive cultural value that I'm sorely missing out on... it was briefly cute and kitsch, died a natural death, was revived and flogged very throroughly to death, dragged screaming back from the grave and flooged to death again, resuscitated again, dressed in a pretty new dress and false eyelashed and, you've guessed it, flogged into the grave once more, until it could no longer die but was left staggering undead through the streets whimpering for some kind soul to end it all while everybody looked the other way, pretending they never knew it...

And next month it will be something else.

(Of course, I'm mainly bitter cos if I could predict that something else I'd be a billionaire...)

[Tarryk]

It was cool and fresh and fun about three years ago, when the "riiiiing-ding-a-ding-ding-ding" was doing the rounds in the sports car email. (Picture of a gorgous sports car with the caption "Bet you can't look at this picture for 1 minute without laughing. So you'd sit there bemused for a bit, then the 5-year-old-on-helium-doing-a-racecar-impression kicked in, and within 30 seconds you were cracking up.) Throwaway culture, recieve, giggle, send on, forget. Fun and gone.

I think I actually remember that email. It probably amused me enough to forget.

Your next three paragraphs went on to reiterate and rephrase the fact that you've been relentlessly subjected to it. I have not. Except maybe that one email 3 years ago that I didn't pay much mind to since I hate circulated trivial emails. Beyond that, we must just be spending our hours at different places on teh intarweb when we're here, who knows.

This is an interesting observation, though:

So yeah, I can get that to anyone that's not been through that, it's fun. Hell, it was fun for me three or more years ago, briefly. Just PLEASE don't try to make out it has some kind of massive cultural value that I'm sorely missing out on...

Actually, shouldn't that be my line? LOL you sound like I'M the one that missed the bandwagon that turned all the cool kids bitter. So sorry, but I'm the one that had a grin on my face watching it. I think I got the nicer end of the stick, sure, but I'm not saying anyone was living under a rock. Quite the opposite, I'm saying people overexpose themselves. The average reaction to this video being more than a little proof of point of that.

[Vallikat]

I'm saying people overexpose themselves.

Yeah but, I like the way I look in my thong!

[Ceryn]

No complaints here... Valli does indeed look damn good in a thong.. and anything else she chooses not to wear...

Just ask veldron, he'll agree