Re: Drunk monkeys

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I loved that documentary as a kid. And the drunkity drunk animal scene was my favorite! Undulating giraffe neck!


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 7:32 AM
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I don't think there is anything quite so fugly-cute as a baby warthog.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 7:37 AM
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I had seen this before, but had forgotten how judgmental the narrator is! They are lazy slobs with no zest for life who live only to get blackout drunk and pass out in the middle of the clearing. IIRC, the following scene is a bunch of crocodiles or lions or something taking advantage of their hangovers to kill them?


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 7:59 AM
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3: There's a theme throughout of moralizing and gender stereotyping. The thing that really stuck out for me when I first saw it was the bit about warthogs where the narrator imposes a vision of 1950s domesticity on rutting pigs, FFS.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:08 AM
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With different music, this scene could easily be spun as the Leaving Las Vegas of the animal kingdom. That drunken elephant reaching out for just one more fruit!


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:12 AM
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Monkeys is the cwaziest people.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:14 AM
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It also like the human laughs and smoochie noises they dub over the monkeys.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:16 AM
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Click here if you hate fun and never suspend your disbelief.


Posted by: E. Messily | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:26 AM
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8: I think this question needs to be put to the Mythbusters.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:32 AM
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oh, this is a better one.

Now we can have a long fight about whether or not, and to what extent, and how, the documentary was staged. I am pretty curious about the logistics of it- how do you get a giraffe drunk?


Posted by: E. Messily | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:32 AM
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Just don't tell me that the Steve Irwin stuff was staged! I refuse to believe it!


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:36 AM
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8: If only this were the lede to a Vogue expose:

These models were highly biased in favor of inebriation


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:38 AM
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11: He's not really dead! Right now he's running a Fish and Chips van in Fremantle.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:39 AM
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Is 13 in bad taste, given that Erwin was allegedly killed by a fish?


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:42 AM
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Was it in not a tasty fish?


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:44 AM
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No.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:44 AM
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16 to whatever, but originally to 14.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:45 AM
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Tell us more about your free-ranging negativity, heebie.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:46 AM
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No.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 8:54 AM
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16 not to 12, because 12 is hilaripus.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 9:13 AM
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I've known a dog that voluntarily became drunk on fermented grapes.

If this is fake then the question in 10 must be answered. How?!


Posted by: W. Breeze | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 9:13 AM
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Back in the day, we used to feed the cat rum and milk. He loved that shit.

We were bad people.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 9:33 AM
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"Jack, you have debauched my sloth!"


Posted by: Stephen Maturin | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 9:44 AM
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10: Documentaries are regularly staged. The famous Disney lemmings running off a cliff footage had guys just off camera furiously shoveling the little creatures to their doom.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 10:07 AM
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There was a rumour, probably an urban myth, that Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (not the blogger) had his tail stapled to a table to keep him still. Wherefore there were many Skippys...


Posted by: OFE | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 10:16 AM
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Is the hilaripus related at all to the zorilla?


Posted by: persistently visible | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 11:38 AM
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Well the zorilla is in fact a striped polecat, so folks less decorous and serious-minded than I can undoubtedly imagine all manner of relations it might have with a hilaripus.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 11:51 AM
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I am pretty curious about the logistics of it- how do you get a giraffe drunk?

Water an acacia tree with vodka.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 11:57 AM
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Thank goodness they included those sound effects. Otherwise I wouldn't have known the footage was humorous.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 03-17-10 12:00 PM
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