Badger Badger Badger
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Badger Badger Badger (aka Badgers) is a Flash cartoon by Jonti Picking, the creator of Weebl and Bob, consisting mainly of images of Eurasian badgers doing calisthenics, a fly agaric in front of a tree, and a snake in the desert. The cartoon loops repeatedly until the user stops it. The first two scenes (After the Snake) of badgers contain 12 badgers in total with the twelfth badger being in the far back; however, after the first two scenes the total badgers in the other scenes are 11.
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[edit] Follow-up versions
[edit] Special Edition (Halloween) (Also known as Badgers 2)
For Halloween of the same year as the original release of the cartoon, Jonti made a 'special edition' of the cartoon, featuring three badger zombies with rotted faces dripping blood and with human-style eyes on a black background, a flashing human face which draws closer and closer to the viewer as the cartoon progresses, and an occasional flash of the snake, with a glaring red eye. The cartoon's background music is exactly the same as the original's with an added scratching sound, but the cartoon does not go out of sync, mostly because there appears to be no fixed animation that links to the lyrics in any significant way.
[edit] Christmas Edition
For Christmas of 2004, another special edition of the Badger cartoon was created. In this version, the badgers are depicted in a snowy climate wearing Santa Claus hats. We hear "Santa Santa Santa" instead of "badger badger badger". "Mushroom mushroom" becomes "presents presents" and an image of a wrapped gift is seen. Finally, the "snake" section is changed to "Hallelujah! Christ, it's a Christ, ooh, it's a Christ!" as an image of baby Jesus Christ in a manger is seen.
[edit] The Lord of the Rings Special Edition
An edit of a scene from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers where Elves come to Helm's Deep to assist the humans, with Elves digitally replaced by Weebl's badgers. The song is completely revamped, and replaced with what sounds like "Aragorn, Aragorn, here come the badgers." There has been some confusion due to the English accent; some perceive it as saying "welcome the badgers", or that it says "Éomer" rather than "Aragorn." Others have suggested that the lyrics are simply "Badgers, badgers, here come the badgers," or "Here come, here come, here come the badgers." At the end, the camera zooms in on the snake, which has the eye of Sauron.
[edit] Badgers On A Plane
To parody the release of Snakes On a Plane, Weebl created a short animation containing footage from a trailer of the movie. The parody contains several badgers and a brief shot of a mushroom tumbling from its seat in the turbulence scene, both of which have been digitally edited onto the plane. A small fraction of the badger's song is played. Interestingly, the parody also shows a shot of Samuel L. Jackson playing a Gibson Flying V.
[edit] Other references
- Badger Badger Polka: On 8th April 2004, Andrew Kepple (of French Erotic Film fame) released a spoof of the Badger Badger Badger animation, with polka background music and the head of the badgers superimposed over the head of men wearing lederhosen doing calisthenics with a circus tent in background. [1]
- The Badgerphone is a semi-parody of Badger Badger Badger which combines the forementioned flash with the Bananaphone craze.
- In Weebl and Bob, episode "pikea3", Weebl and Bob exchange the word "paj-ers" (similar to badgers) until Weebl says "Ahh. paj-ers." Bob then asks why Weebl got the mushroom ones.
- In the game Kingdom of Loathing, there is an Astral Badger familiar, with an animated image that dances up and down, which sporadically gives out astral mushrooms to its owner. One of its attacks is to pull a snake out of thin air ("from a higher plane," thus providing a simultaneous Snakes on a Plane reference) and throw it at the enemy. A scene in the Daily Dungeon also involves a bunch of badgers.
- The Free State Project released Porcupine Run, a cartoon featuring porcupines running for New Hampshire, loosely based on the Football Badgers variant. [2]
- A very subtle hint at the original animation can be found in the top panel of Megatokyo 462: Tragic Deployments[3] in the way the bots (which look like Domo-kun) are placed inside the PC screen.
- Valerie Kaplan and Steve Singer produced a Narbonic-themed version called Gerbil, Gerbil, Gerbil.[4]
- Several references in the User Friendly comic, in January 2004: 19th 20th 21st 25th
- Gaia Online released 3 officers badges as part of its LAWL and Order set. The descriptions of the badges are "Badge, Badge, Badge! Mushroom, Mushroom, Mushroom!"
- On Albino Blacksheep, there is a trance remix of the song.
- Potter Potter Potter (link): A group of artists put together a spoof on the Badger Badger Badger animation entitled "Potter Potter Potter", which shows Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Severus Snape. Often a hippogriff is seen flying around in the background and during the Snape scene, a black Whomping Willow is visible. The lyrics are "Potter, Potter, Potter", "Weasley, Weasley!", and "Snape! Snape! Ooh, it's a Snape!" After a few loops, the Snape scene will have Snape wearing the Boggart outfit (green dress with a red handbag and vulture-topped hat). Also, Potter's wand is a glowstick every 10 "Potter, Potter, Potter" loops.
- Featured at brickfrenzy.com is a lego mechanized version of a badger moving his arms up and down to the tune briefly.
[edit] See also
- Weebl's Stuff, the website of the creators of the badger cartoon.
- Bananaphone, another popular Internet cartoon that parodies some elements of the badger cartoon.
- Inherently funny word
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