The Top 5 Nooners: #5. Now That's an Expensive Hat!
We saw some pretty inspired comedy and some pretty uninspired YouTube videos in the months since Ross began posting the Daily Nooner every day. This week Ross is in the mountains of Mexico, training for his new role as a Cracked columnist by drinking himself into a numb stupor. In his absence, we'll be posting his five favorite Nooners counting down from five to one. Dancing Pig
This abomination stars a "Dancing Pig" named Pot Belly Pete who talks like a Chipmunk, dances like Michael Jackson and bears absolutely no resemblence to a pig whatsoever. What kind of pig has wings and horns? I'll tell you what kind: a GARGOYLE. But that raises another question: What kind of gargoyle dances around to "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" and talks like a Chipmunk?
I'll tell you what kind: one that LOVES TO PARTY.
This video is plenty terrible, but what's even worse to me is the fact that it's been viewed over 220,000 times. That's like every single person in Akron, Ohio watching it... although that doesn't sound particularly impressive, I guess. How about Madison, Wisconsin? Does that sound better? How about this: That's like every single person in Independence, Missouri watching it... TWICE.
A few years ago we threw off the shackles of corporate television. We called it "social media," and then we smashed the Viacoms and Time Warners to bits. True, the internet has put the power of programming into the hands of viewers, but, sadly, this is what we've chosen to do with it. For shame, internet. For shame.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to throw my laptop out my window and watch Celebrity Rehab or something.
Speaking as a Madisonian, "HEY!"
ReplyJust kidding.
But yes, a lot of work probably went into that video. Not something to be trifled with.
Is there an internationally dubbed version? I´ll do the translation for the French Version, and the Casnadian version.
ReplyFrench: "Ah, mais non! C´était un chapeau cher!"
Casnadian: "Fuck off, eh? That hat cost me the last of my fuckin´beer money, eh hoser?"
Cool. At least you're not rude, other Jonathan. From here on out I'll just refer to myself as J-Papi to make things easier.
ReplyAh, what a classic. I feel young again!
ReplyI agree with my real counterpart. Looks like "Hellboy" to me, at least from the neck up.
ReplyThat "pig" looked more like Ron Pearlman in "Hellboy" to me, at least from the neck up. I.E., he's one ugly sumbitch.
ReplyThat -is- an expensive hat.
ReplyTony, stop smiling, you smug bastard!
Replyto juggadore: the fact the video may have taken 200 hours to make makes it so much worse.
Reply^sadi ransom-polizzotti
ReplyYou're so modest. "Girl being tied up" is ten times worse than this pig/dragon/whatever.
It may be impressive, but it's still annoying.
ReplyThe issue here is everyone will hear it a million times over, thanks to the demographic.
@ Captain Ross : no i didn't create this, but being a professional 3d artist myself, i'm quick to stand for any of us, that's just why :)
ReplyDaniel I think that might have been the funniest comment I've ever read
ReplyAre you guys kidding?
Reply"That's an expensive hat!"
Was no one else crying of laughter when they heard that line?
Tony, come clean, you made this video didn't you?
ReplyWow in case you didn't notice, that guy didn't post his stuff in the " New heights of comedy " section, he's just showcasing his ability to model/rigg/animate a 3d character....
ReplyWorst video ever ? 3d animations don't just spawn out of nowhere, it takes some hard work to create some, so leave the maker of this vid alone and stick to being so full of " humor " on BBs :)
Doesn't Akron have better things to do than watch pig-things complain about the price of haberdashery? You'd think that a fine, upstanding middle America metropolis like Akron would be more collectively concerned about this huge Spice Girls brouhaha forming like a typhoon over Australia.
ReplyOn the other hand, being a former resident of Independence, Missouri, I can practically guarantee that there aren't enough people there that can afford the broadband connections necessary to view this dancing...pig?...in all it's poorly-animated splendor. You're probably thinking of Mission, Kansas, or perhaps Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
I, for one, am completely offended by the fact that the guy who created this put "that’s an expensive hat" into the video thinking that it was funny. It was about as funny as an entire episode of "The View"
ReplyFuck those bitches
Why is it the crappy videos get all the attention?
ReplyI wonder if cough syrup was somehow involved in the creation of that video.
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