Can someone explain what this is?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So, last night, I turned on the radio to one of those newfangled ‘Non-NPR, classical, or non-profit alternative stations’, just in time for their nightly top-5 countdown or whatever. One of the songs was some bizarre thing that was one part techno, one part some weird voice saying things like “baaah baaah” and “ding ding”. Uh…okay. This is why I avoid most top-40 radio stations.

Then, lo and behold, I found this, which is the same (highly annoying) song, with some sort of weird mutant gnome or somehing being chased, or something, and singing ‘ding ding’ a lot.

Am I somehow being wooshed by pop culture (which, I admit, is not entirely unusual)? What the hell is this?

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It’s exactly what you thought: a weird-ass techno song with a loopy music video, called “Crazy Frog.” I think it was originally based on a cellphone ring tone. It enjoyed a brief vogue a month or two ago.

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I don’t know but if you put it back where you found it perhaps nobody else will notice.

And I want the last three minutes of my life back.

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Take my advice: Don’t click on the link.
I’m gonna have bad dreams.

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Ah. Glad I’m not missing some sort of deep-set cultural phenomenon or something.

Man, that’s weird.

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Cool. It appears as though I don’t even need drugs to feel stoned.

That would have saved me alot of money in college.

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The underlying music (without the annoying frogs and ding-dings) is called Axel F, and was the theme for the 1984 movie Beverly Hills Cop with Eddie Murphy playing the lead role of Detective Axel Foley.

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I bet you guys stuck your tongue on the pump handle, didn’t ya?
:slight_smile:

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Didn’t someone compare this to the promos for Super Milk Chan?

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He hasn’t been the same since the yankees took his winkie.

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I like it!! I really do.

what?

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And, to add to the craziness, I’m pretty certain that song topped the charts in the UK.

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I must also categorize myself among those who derived enjoyment from this particular work of computer generated video entertainment. In other words, it’s cute and fun. :slight_smile:

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That ding ding thing?

A while back, there was a webpage that was being spammed by every web enabled n00b in the universe.

It had a picture of a Formula Racer, and was purported to be a sanity check… the picture would just sit there, and the website would load the sound.

Ding ding ding ding… ding ding ding ding ding ding dingdingdingdingdingdingdingding… dingdingdingdingidingdingbwaaaaaaaaaaaadingdingdingdingdingbwaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaadingdingdingding… and so on.

The dinging was done using the voice from the cartoon we all were just privledged to watch (shudder). It was supposed to sound like the formula car’s engine, doing it’s thing.

The idea being that if you didn’t crack up lauging, you were insane.

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Ah. Classic instrumental earworm there.

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I quite enjoyed that - I’ve sent the link to all my friends and family now. :smiley:

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I think I remember it saying that you were insane if you did start laughing, the better to joke with the viewer that s/he was insane.

Anyway, can anyone clear up whether the voice on that came from this frog cartoon character or vice versa? It just seems to me that if the frog came first, I would have heard about it when I saw the formula car thing.

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:smiley:

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Just for the record, here is the link to the original racecar (or a copy, I don’t think this is the original source).

And here is the original Crazy Frog ringtone without the Axel F theme music (item 3 under “fun sounds”).

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Spatial, the car thing came out eons ago. I remember it making the rounds about 6 years ago. It could’ve originated earlier than that. The frog thing is only recent.

Cheers,
Max.