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Badger Badger Badger (a.k.a. Badgers) is a Flash cartoon by Jonti Picking, the creator of Weebl and Bob, published 2 September 2003. It consists of images of badgers doing calisthenics, a toadstool in front of a tree, and a snake in the desert. The cartoon loops indefinitely. The first two badger scenes contain twelve badgers; subsequent badger scenes contain eleven badgers. After a long running time, the song becomes out of sync with the animation.

1 Follow-up versions
2 See also
3 External links

Follow-up versions

Special Edition (Halloween) (Also known as Badgers 2)

At Halloween of 2003, Jonti made a 'special edition' of the cartoon featuring three badger zombies with rotted faces dripping blood and with human-style eyes on a black background, a flashing human face which draws closer and closer to the viewer as the cartoon progresses, and an occasional flash of the snake, with a glaring red eye. The cartoon's background music is the same as the original's with an added scratching sound, but the cartoon does not go out of sync, mostly because there appears to be no fixed animation that links to the lyrics in any significant way. It can still be found at the original weebl-stuff website: [1]

Euro 2004 Edition

During the UEFA Euro 2004 football championship, Jonti dressed the badgers in England football kit, replacing "badger, badger, badger" with "footy, footy, footy": the fly agaric with a map of the British Isles, which zoomed onto England with the chant of "England, England"; the "AGH! a snake! a snake! Ohhhh... It's a snake!" section was replaced with "Footbal! Football! GOOOOOAL! A GOAL! Ohhhh... It's a goal...Scored by England, England (etc)" as one of the badgers, on the football pitch, scored a goal past the here goalkeeping snake; England's "score" goes up by one each cycle. [2]

Christmas Edition

For Christmas of 2004, another special edition of the Badger cartoon was created. In this version, the badgers are depicted in a snowy climate wearing Santa Claus hats. We hear "Santa Santa Santa" instead of "badger badger badger". "Mushroom mushroom" becomes "presents presents" and an image of a wrapped gift is seen. Finally, the "snake" section is changed to "Hallelujah! Christ, it's a Christ, ooh, it's a Christ!" as an image of baby Jesus Christ in a manger is seen. This can be found at purple-twinkie.com: [3]

The Lord of the Rings Special Edition

An edit of a scene from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers where Elves come to Helm's Deep to assist the humans, with Elves digitally replaced by Weebl's badgers. The song is completely revamped, and replaced with what sounds like "Aragorn, Aragorn, here come the badgers." There has been some confusion due to the English accent; some perceive it as saying "welcome the badgers", or that it says "Éomer" rather than "Aragorn." Others have suggested that the lyrics are simply "Badgers, badgers, here come the badgers," or "Here come, here come, here come the badgers." At the end, the camera zooms in on the snake, which has the eye of Sauron. This can also be found on the purple-twinkies site: [4]

Badgers On A Plane

To parody the release of Snakes On a Plane, Weebl created a short animation containing footage from a trailer of the movie. The parody contains several badgers and a brief shot of a mushroom tumbling from its seat in the turbulence scene, both of which have been digitally edited onto the plane. A small fraction of the badger's song is played. [5]

Big Ass Badgers

In another parody of a recent movie trailer, "Big Ass Badgers" was released on June 7, 2007, this time spoofing the live-action Transformers movie. [6]

Other references

Badger Badger Polka: On 8 April 2004, Andrew Kepple (of French Erotic Film fame) released a spoof of the Badger Badger Badger animation, with polka background music and the head of the badgers superimposed over the head of men wearing lederhosen doing calisthenics with a circus tent in background. [7]
The Badgerphone is a semi-parody of Badger Badger Badger which combines the forementioned flash with the Bananaphone craze.
In Weebl and Bob, episode "pikea3", Weebl and Bob exchange the word "paj-ers" (similar to badgers) until Weebl says "Ahh. paj-ers." Bob then asks why Weebl got the mushroom ones.
In the game Kingdom of Loathing, there is an Astral Badger familiar, with an animated image that dances up and down, which sporadically gives out astral mushrooms to its owner. One of its attacks is to pull a snake out of thin air ("from a higher plane," thus providing a simultaneous Snakes on a Plane reference) and throw it at the enemy. A scene in the Daily Dungeon also involves a bunch of badgers.
The Free State Project released Porcupine Run, a cartoon featuring porcupines running for New Hampshire, loosely based on the Football Badgers variant. [8]
A very subtle hint at the original animation can be found in the top panel of Megatokyo 462: Tragic Deployments[9] in the way the bots (which look like Domo-kun) are placed inside the PC screen.
Valerie Kaplan and Steve Singer produced a Narbonic-themed version called Gerbil, Gerbil, Gerbil.[10]
Several references in the User Friendly comic, in January 2004: 19th 20th 21st 25th
Gaia Online released 3 officers badges as part of its LAWL and Order set. The descriptions of the badges are "Badge, Badge, Badge! Mushroom, Mushroom, Mushroom!"
On Albino Blacksheep, there is a trance remix of the song.
Potter Potter Potter (link): A group of artists put together a spoof on the Badger Badger Badger animation entitled "Potter Potter Potter", which shows Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Severus Snape. Often a hippogriff is seen flying around in the background and during the Snape scene, a black Whomping Willow is visible. The lyrics are "Potter, Potter, Potter", "Weasley, Weasley!", and "Snape! Snape! Ooh, it's a Snape!" After a few loops, the Snape scene will have Snape wearing the Boggart outfit (green dress with a red handbag and vulture-topped hat). Also, Potter's wand is a glowstick every 10 "Potter, Potter, Potter" loops.
Featured at brickfrenzy.com is a lego mechanized version of a badger moving his arms up and down to the tune briefly.
A very similar cartoon was used by PETA but withdrawn after the striking similarities became widely known. [11]
The Keentoon Evil Josh and Billy used a parody of the lyrics in the second episode, "A Fine Con for Science". When Prof. Alvin Simon Theodore activates a machine that synthesizes anything on the Internet, the lyrics of the song are played without music as badgers and mushrooms fall from the sky. A badger eats a mushroom and grows, accompanied by the Super Mario Bros. power-up sound effect. Evil Josh looks furvatively around, drops a mushroom down his pants, the power-up music plays, and he chortles. A snake then falls on the keyboard, and the monitor reads "LOSER COSPLAY SITE". A fat, hairy man in a Japanese schoolgirl's uniform appears. Evil Josh winces in disgust, and the Mario power-down music plays.
In Nickolodeons Drake and Josh, Drake and Josh's school football team is called the badgers. A poster advertising them unexplainedly repeats the word badger numerous times.
The video series "Shortlist", released by PC World Australia, made a clip on internet fads, listing the Badger fad as one of the top five internet fads (along with the Star Wars kid, All Your Base Are Belong To Us, Peanut Butter Jelly Time and Numa Numa. They further showed a version of the original animation, replacing the badgers, mushrooms and snakes with the hosts, and modifying the words to the people's actual names.
The Newgrounds Audio Portal features the dancing badgers as a theme in the custom media player.
Filker Tom Smith has a parody entitled Badger Pajamas
Badgers make an appearance in another of Picking's animations in Badgers Invade Kenya.