Badger Badger Badger

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Screenshot of a tweet remembering the Badger animation, with a mushroom reply. Caption: DID YOU KNOW: the internet was once a fun place for watching badger videos instead of monitoring humanity’s real-time collapse.

Before real-time collapse

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DID YOU KNOW: the internet was once a fun place for watching badger videos instead of monitoring humanity’s real-time collapse.

Screenshot credits GWAR on Christmas / @wonderella and reply mcc / @mcclure111

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Animated Badger parody replacing the badgers with budgerigars and the snake sequence with a cockatiel. Caption: AAWWWW!

Budgie budgie remix

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AAWWWW!

based on the Weebl/Jonti Picking Badger animation.

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Tumblr thread with baby badgers followed by mushrooms and a snake, recreating the Badger sequence. Caption: I have no idea what’s going on / Congrats, we have reached a period of time where there is a generation that does not remember the first memes. / THIS MAKES ME FEEL OLD.

A generation that does not remember

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I have no idea what’s going on / Congrats, we have reached a period of time where there is a generation that does not remember the first memes. / THIS MAKES ME FEEL OLD.

Tumblr usernames visible in screenshot

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Three panels replace badgers with Obstagoon, the mushroom with Foongus, and the snake with Seviper.

The Pokémon casting department understood the assignment

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A badger-like Pokémon, a mushroom-like Pokémon and a snake Pokémon supply a complete replacement cast. The order is enough to bring back the rhythm in your head. This is an actual static crossover edit, not a playable version of the song.

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A silent animated edit multiplies penguins under PENGUIN, then switches to an iceberg captioned ICEBERG.

Badgers have been reassigned to Antarctic duty

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The field of badgers becomes a snowy gathering of penguins; the interruption becomes an iceberg. The GIF keeps the accumulation-and-switch machinery while replacing the scenery and nouns. Its thirteen frames are a visual parody, not the original soundtrack.

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About & sources

Dancing badgers, mushrooms and a snake form a looping musical cartoon whose repetition is the joke.

Date

Jonti Picking (TheWeebl); Newgrounds upload dated September 1, 2003.

History

Know Your Meme dates TheWeebl’s original Newgrounds publication to September 1, 2003. The short illustrates a Flash-era mode of sharing: a compact animation with a chant that invites imitation.

Know Your Meme — Badger Badger Badger
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