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January 29, 2019 7:57 AM

Crab Rave! [YouTube] “Every year after the most intense tropical storms, thousands of crabs gather on this remote island. Now for the first time, witness all the side-stepping, air-snapping action of the monumental Crab Rave!”
posted by Fizz (18 comments total)

Left wishing this was not CGI. Oh well.
posted by JamesBay at 8:01 AM on January 29, 2019 [12 favorites]

ooontz ooontz ooontz clawsnap clawsnap ooontz ooontz aiyeeea ooontz ooontz...
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 8:10 AM on January 29, 2019

Still a better party than Fyre Festival!!
posted by Fizz at 8:13 AM on January 29, 2019 [6 favorites]

Do you want crabs? Because this is how you get crabs.
posted by The Bellman at 8:14 AM on January 29, 2019 [2 favorites]

Aw little guy on the Fat of the Land album cover just look what you've started.
posted by 7segment at 8:15 AM on January 29, 2019 [2 favorites]

I really expected this to be more reminiscent of Fat of the Land from Prodigy than it was...
on edit: Jinx!
posted by Nanukthedog at 8:17 AM on January 29, 2019

WERNER HERZOG VOICE: "But that was not how they had gotten crabs."
posted by mhoye at 8:17 AM on January 29, 2019 [9 favorites]

Left wishing this was not CGI

I think you had to be there.
posted by CynicalKnight at 8:38 AM on January 29, 2019 [2 favorites]

(V)i_i(V), surely.
posted by a car full of lions at 8:49 AM on January 29, 2019 [3 favorites]

Now I want to see Sir David Attenborough deejay a rave.
posted by JohnFromGR at 8:56 AM on January 29, 2019 [1 favorite]

Other appropriate music: Party Rock.

Everyday I'm shufflin'.
posted by Pronoiac at 8:58 AM on January 29, 2019 [1 favorite]

Whatever engine that is is purty.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 9:03 AM on January 29, 2019

The Fyre Festival organizers themselves beat us all too it, I think.
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:19 AM on January 29, 2019 [4 favorites]

CRAB RAVE!!!
posted by frecklefaerie at 10:16 AM on January 29, 2019

beat us all too it

A warning, kids, about posting before coffee...
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:23 AM on January 29, 2019 [1 favorite]

I expected crabs to be better dancers. I mean, eight legs and all. But all of them seem to be doing the system analyst convention shuffle, except the one who's learned to do a couple of slides.

I want to see the crabs doing glorious Gene Kelly routines, flinging their many limbs about in a muscular rhapsody. I want to see them doing sophisticated Fred Astaire dance numbers, tapping out insanely complex polyrhythms. At the very least I want a Busby Berkeley shot of coordinated crab legs making dazzling kaleidoscopes.

I should probably just go watch some musicals.
posted by MrVisible at 10:43 AM on January 29, 2019 [3 favorites]

A magic lobster fight is coming over me.
posted by Wolfdog at 12:28 PM on January 29, 2019

That’s the island from “Castaway”.
posted by Autumnheart at 6:03 AM on January 30, 2019