Real live badger fun

April 24, 2004 5:10 PM

Return of badger badger badger mushroom mushroom: a live action take on the historic badger meme.
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posted by moonbird (30 comments total)

Friends, this is why there's an Interweb.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 5:23 PM on April 24, 2004

PS: If I ever get around to hosting the Souther Appalachian 'filter meetup, I'm thinking about a friendly kickball game between MeFites and MoFites. Not much to do with badgers, unless we use it as a team name. Oh well. Enjoy.
posted by moonbird at 5:25 PM on April 24, 2004

I'm speechless.
posted by dobbs at 5:27 PM on April 24, 2004

moonbird: yeah, bu' wubbout us MeMoFites?
posted by mwhybark at 5:28 PM on April 24, 2004

While I admire the effort, would a little rehearsal've killed 'em?
posted by grabbingsand at 5:51 PM on April 24, 2004

I'm with dobbs.
posted by volk at 5:52 PM on April 24, 2004

Eh.
posted by ColdChef at 5:54 PM on April 24, 2004

That may be the single stupidest thing I've ever seen.

I'll get back to you when I'm sure.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:07 PM on April 24, 2004

I'm sure.

That's the single stupidest thing I've ever seen.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:10 PM on April 24, 2004

Now, is that a lady in the back left, or merely a long-haired gent?

Because I have reason to believe that no females were involved in the making of this film.
posted by rafter at 6:11 PM on April 24, 2004

The best part is the laughing - for you would think that by the time they set up the video camera and got all the college freshman to assemble in the student lounge, it would have ceased to be funny to them.
posted by PrinceValium at 6:33 PM on April 24, 2004

Because I have reason to believe that no females were involved in the making of this film.

if there were even the remotest possibility of any female involvement whatsoever in these poor bastages lives, they wouldn't be filming reenactments of the badgerbadger flash now, would they?

:-)
posted by quonsar at 6:59 PM on April 24, 2004

moonbird: yeah, bu' wubbout us MeMoFites?

Yeah, I dunno. I guess we can referee. Or in the crazed duality of MeFi-MoFi nature, watch our heads explode in conundrum.
posted by moonbird at 7:07 PM on April 24, 2004

PrinceValium, exactly.
posted by rafter at 7:32 PM on April 24, 2004

oh jeez louise.
posted by kjh at 7:42 PM on April 24, 2004

Would you all think less of me if I told you that when my son was down here on spring break we all sat around here singing "badgerbadgerbadgerbadger" complete with mushroom AND snake?
posted by konolia at 7:48 PM on April 24, 2004

Computer Science Club's group project.
posted by cinderful at 7:51 PM on April 24, 2004

konolia, it'd be hard to think less of you but let me try...

DONE!
posted by dobbs at 7:52 PM on April 24, 2004

Actually, I've created an improv warm-up game based on Badger-Mushroom-Snake. My students demanded it.
posted by Joey Michaels at 8:09 PM on April 24, 2004

Oh crap! They're getting the neighborhood kids in on it, too! When will it end?!

even the remotest possibility of any female involvement whatsoever in these poor bastages lives

Well, they do always have their desktops.
posted by rafter at 8:17 PM on April 24, 2004

priceless!
posted by quonsar at 8:57 PM on April 24, 2004

What's that system stats toolbar they're using in those screenshots?
posted by Evstar at 9:46 PM on April 24, 2004

Evstar, "What's that system stats toolbar they're using in those screenshots?"

My god! Folks we need to find Evan here, a date. Or some porn. Or something...
posted by arse_hat at 10:12 PM on April 24, 2004

1. There's a whole lot of stuff on the internet.

2. A lot of it sucks.
posted by yhbc at 10:19 PM on April 24, 2004

My brain has vacated the premises.
posted by Krrrlson at 11:05 PM on April 24, 2004

or: How to not get laid in college.
posted by tomorama at 11:53 PM on April 24, 2004

I've created an improv warm-up game based on Badger-Mushroom-Snake

Badger tramples Mushroom, Mushroom poisons Snake, but Snake bites Badger!
posted by kindall at 1:23 AM on April 25, 2004

Never trust the wily Nederlander; that server is not the original source of the clip. At least as far back as January, it existed on the server of the Montreal 2600. There's also this bit of educational video from Quebec, the province that brought us Kevin Mackle.
posted by Danelope at 8:31 AM on April 25, 2004

Badger tramples Mushroom, Mushroom poisons Snake, but Snake bites Badger!

Ghugle, it works. The hand positions are obvious -- a fist for Mushroom, Mushroom, a fist with thumb and pinkie out for Badger (wiggling them up and down is a bonus) and an extended index finger for snake.
posted by eriko at 9:25 AM on April 25, 2004

coming soon!

HamsterDance on Broadway starring Michael Flatley!

All Your Base- the Movie!

has to happen sooner or later- there are only so many 70's fucking TV shows to make movies out of.
posted by Miles Long at 12:59 PM on April 27, 2004