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[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 2 points 26 minutes ago
[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 4 points 27 minutes ago

What really should be preserved is the entirety of Homestar Runner.

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago

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.

Narwhal song when?

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CritFail@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

See the friendly lions, only in Kenya!

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Come to Kenya, we've got lions!

[–] PixellatedDave@feddit.uk 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Ah but everyone loves magical Trevor.

[–] kirishoru@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

it’s cause the tricks that he does are ever so clever.

[–] DigDoug@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Look at him now, disappearing a cow

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Where is the cow? Hidden right now?

[–] BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

taking his bow, it's magical Trevor

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 44 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 35 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

🦡🦡🦡🦡

[–] GardenGeek@europe.pub 43 points 5 hours ago

Finally some good fucking news!

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 31 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[–] YaksDC@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

This makes me so happy.

[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

wish badgers were as amazing as my horse.

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Did it taste just like raisins?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago

Sweet lemonade, mmm sweet lemonade!

[–] anothermember@feddit.uk 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Flash's terrible audio syncing makes it hilarious that the most popular indie rhythm game was built on one of Flash's direct successors.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Now they need to preserve salad fingers. I’m still creeped out by it and so should future generations.

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 minutes ago

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.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago

Hubert Cumberdale, what are you doing here?

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 3 points 3 hours ago

As it should be.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 5 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

i must be too old for this. i remember the hampsterdance but i've never heard of this badger-based knockoff.

[–] KanadrAllegria@lemmy.ca 1 points 46 minutes ago

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.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Hampsterdance, you mean that flash animation that ripped off the song from the old Disney Robin Hood?

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat!

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yes! Now do Benny Lava by Buffalax.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

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: