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Mr. Weebl's Advent Calendar 2024: The Full Percy
Bass For Christmas
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Mr Weebl's Advent Colander 2020: Day 21
Reblog if you can hear this image
Title: Deconstructing Badgers (”Badgers” cover)
Artist: Devin Townsend and Dirk Verbeuren (Original by Jonti Picking)
Album: None, they were just fooling around during “Deconstruction”
Trivia: The original Badger’s video was released on September 2. 2003, (making it 14 years old on the date of posting this) and went on to become one of the first major internet memes from before the term was coined.
Transcribed lyrics below:
Mr. Weebl’s Advent Colon Jar 2023: Christmas Jumper Designers vs A.I.
WAP WWP (Well Wrapped Presents) from Mr Weebl's Advent Colander 2020
FLASHBack: Week 3 [First Class FLASHBack] - Badger Badger Badger
Another Thursday, so it's time for me to post another classic of the Flash Animation era. Since I'm doing one of these a week until the end of 2020 when Adobe shoves Flash into the End-of-Life bin, I realized that I'm going to be posting a whole lot of these. I also knew that a small handful of creators are responsible for a whole hell of a lot of Flashes that easily fall under the classics label. So I'm setting aside the first Thursday of the month for a sub-series that I'm calling "First Class FLASHBack", to help pace my posts of the most prolific creators, so they don't overwhelm the one-offs. And who better to kick off First Class FLASHBack with than one of Flash Animation's true juggernauts, Jonti Picking, aka Mr. Weebl? Hailing from Bristol, England, Weebl is a sound engineer and artist by trade. He also worked uncredited on some 3D visual effects for the first Resident Evil film (specifically, I understand he was responsible for the 3D animated map of Umbrella Corp's underground facility, "The Hive"). The name "Weebl" comes from one of his longest running series of animations "The everyday happenings of Weebl and sometimes Weebl’s Friend, Bob." The first episode of Weebl & Bob, Pie, establishes most of what you need to know about the series: Weebl and his smaller friend are both wobbly egg shapes with the same split head mouths that South Park uses for Canadians, they talk in an incomprehensible muttering that would be almost impossible to understand without the speech bubbles, and they're obsessed with pie. But, you're not here for Weebl, Bob, or pie. They're not the title of this post. I can hear you right now, you're saying: "radwolf76, when come back, bring Badgers." "Wanker." So, lets talk about Badger Badger Badger, sometimes called "Badger^3", "Badger, Mushroom, Snake", or just "Badgers"... no, wait. That clip I linked is too short. Last week I mentioned how many Flash animations were designed to play on continuous loop until it melted your brain? Weebl is one of the main reasons why. So many of his ultra-popular Flash hits were designed to be musical loops, that many other creators copied this technique to try to achieve the same success. I won't say for certain that he invented the idea of a musical loop Flash, but he's the one who codified it into the institution that it became. So, don't watch that first video I linked, watch this official one hour version instead. Yes, the whole thing. Or if you don't care about official uploads, here's a ten hour version. Badgers was released on 2 September 2003, and quickly became one of the most successful early internet memes. Unlike modern times, where memes can peak and then drift down into deadmeme territory in the space of days or weeks, the meme economy of the early internet was much slower paced. Flash music loops were particularly potent, as the repetition needed to reinforce the meme was built right in, and Badger Badger Badger may have been the most potent of all, with its hypnotic double layering of repetition. Weebl would revisit the Badgers concept many times. In October of the same year, he released Badgers 2, a special Halloween edition where the Badgers were zombified (sadly, this one seems to be lost to the mists of time, if anyone knows where it's been mirrored, let me know so I can edit in the link). A Christmas version would follow in 2005. He would also parody movies, such as Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Snakes on a Plane, and Transformers. Weebl is also a fan of football (soccer, for those who think of hand-egg when they hear the word football), originally uploading Footy Footy Footy in 2004, updating it for the FIFA World Cup in 2010 by overlaying vuvuzelas overtop the original audio (like the zombie badgers, this one's gone missing too), and then a 2014 version called Realistic Football Badgers in response to England's performance in that year's FIFA World Cup. He did a parody of the dubstep song Swagga by Excision & Datsik, called Guess I Got My Badger Back, which would also see a release as a 3D version. In 2013, he would partner with Brian May of Queen and Brian Blessed from the film Flash Gordon (among many other works), in support of the RSPCA's protests against badger culling in the UK. Together as "Team Badger" they would produce Save the Badger Badger Badger, which on 1 September 2013, charted at #79 on the UK Singles Chart, #39 on the UK iTunes chart and #1 on the iTunes Rock chart. And of course, Weebl would inspire other creators, such as Devin Townsend with his cover song Deconstructing Badgers, and the Fifth District, with their Harry Potter version of the concept. So next week, check back for good guys, bad guys, and explosions, as far as the eye can see. [Originally posted 03 January 2019]