i must be too old for this. i remember the hampsterdance but i’ve never heard of this badger-based knockoff.
Hampsterdance, you mean that flash animation that ripped off the song from the old Disney Robin Hood?
knockoff seems like a stretch
If you’re too old for this, it’s just barely! I feel like badger badger badger came about just a couple years after the hamster dance.
Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat!
Yes! Now do Benny Lava by Buffalax.
Thank you for reminding me about this song. I have no idea why I found it so hysterical as a kid but it still gets a giggle out of me every time. Especially this bit for some reason:
Finally some good fucking news!
🍄🍄
🐍
🐍!
It’s a 🐍!
🦡🦡🦡🦡
wish badgers were as amazing as my horse.
I gave it a lick.
Did it taste just like raisins?
Sweet lemonade, mmm sweet lemonade!
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.
Strawberry Pancakes decremented the population count on every loop due to the end of loop shooting. If you let it run to 0 the victim would be replaced by a zombie.
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.
Oh god, it still exists! Now we just need four head shave cut and the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny to complete the chronicle!
It’s been like 20 years since I watched that, and it held up way better than I expected. Surprisingly good comedic timing.
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.
Now they need to preserve salad fingers. I’m still creeped out by it and so should future generations.
It’s been like 20 years since I saw salad fingers and I will still sit down and think about it randomly from time to time.
Pretty much exactly the same as me, which is why I posted it :).
Hubert Cumberdale, what are you doing here?
Have they preserved where the sound gets increasingly out of sync with the video the longer you watch it? Because most archived versions don’t have this.
Flash’s terrible audio syncing makes it hilarious that the most popular indie rhythm game was built on one of Flash’s direct successors.
Also not preserved - me needing to spend a weekend getting the flash plug-in to work on Netscape under Linux. Just to watch a badger loop…
Time well spent.
Chances are pretty good that it and Mr Weebl’s other animations are preserved in their original format (i.e. Flash SWF files) at the free Flashpoint Archive project.
At least some of the old Jib-Jab stuff should be there also, which were some very amusing political parodies and such.
As it should be.
Ah but everyone loves magical Trevor.
it’s cause the tricks that he does are ever so clever.
Look at him now, disappearing a cow
Where is the cow? Hidden right now?
taking his bow, it’s magical Trevor
Everyone has seen that trick was clever
Yeah, yeah, yeah the cow is back! Back, back, back from it’s magical journey.
what did he see?
in the (?) adventure?
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 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…
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!
probably not the most popular but Babies was always my favorite lol
What really should be preserved is the entirety of Homestar Runner.
The Cheat is grounded!
It probably has been by someone since it is all on YouTube now, and I think they have revived the site to most of the old functionality (I could be wrong, I’d need to be on PC to really check). The things that YouTube can’t preserve is the stuff like the mouse over Easter eggs etc.
HSR is the easiest example of rasterizing Flash content being a bad idea, because there is just so much content. Even just the Sbemails compilation (1-200) is 10 hours, and for a DVD-quality video (480p) that’s almost double the size of the HSR collection that I have (2000-2009 from archive org).
The site does work via Ruffle (even the menus, though some links seem broken) and they still make new ones (sbemail-210-robots, backtoawebsite) with Flash versions. There is also an old.homestarrunner so you could probably run this with a browser that still runs Flash, lacking one I’m not sure the exact URL to do so via standalone or even if the links will properly work there.
Local is still probably best, though still a mess with so many SWFs.
I imagine that there are hundreds of swf files! The only way to make it really work is to maybe reconstruct the site locally by hand, and that would need a super fan with all of the free time in the world to accomplish, even with some community help. The creators may have a complete true backup, but as far as I know, it hasn’t been released.
They could pull a Newgrounds and integrate Ruffle (an open-source Flash player) directly into the site. That’d save them the headache of maintaining compatibility for all the niche features.
Edit: looks like that’s exactly what they did! Which I now see @insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe mentioned in their comment, whoops!
That’s wayy too much
Narwhal song when?
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.
But that’s kind of all it is? It’s pretty brain-dead IMO.
I feels like this might be a false memory but i remember back then the song is based on the Newgrounds music visualizer where it feature badger and mushroom popping up, which is why this one is so popular back then. But then i can’t find anyone mention of this so i’m just confused now.
Well, your opinion is catagorically wrong, but i don’t hold that against you. (this is a joke)
Har har. That’s not entirely an insult though. Sometimes I enjoy brain-dead things. e.g. there’s a newish Beavis & Butt-Head short about AI, and it’s much stupider than I could have guessed, but of course I spent my time watching the whole thing.
