Apr 27 2012
I would love to have one of these Massive Squishable Narwhals, but then I realized that I’d never be able to look at it without the Narwhal song popping into my head.
It’d be like having a Massive Decorative Bag of Crack hanging on my wall.
You’re not playing that video, are you? Sorry.
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reasonbeing
27 April 2012 at 10:55 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thanks for putting that song in my head for the day…damn you PZ!
Glen Davidson
27 April 2012 at 11:03 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
They want to touch my balls?
It’s been a miss thus far, I think I’ll keep it that way, ‘K.
Glen Davidson
Epinephrine
27 April 2012 at 11:07 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I don’t know, at least they aren’t dugongs.
'Tis Himself
27 April 2012 at 11:07 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thanks for that, PZ, ’cause narwhals are awesome (as long as they’re not touching your balls).
fastlane
27 April 2012 at 11:11 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Did you notice the large octopus bean bag?
pentatomid
27 April 2012 at 11:11 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Argh, I hate the narwhal song. Give me breadfish any day.
numenaster
27 April 2012 at 11:15 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Until pentatomid links us to the breadfish song, I’ll cheerfully hum this one. I LIKE the narwhal song (and the badger song, for that matter).
Brother Ogvorbis: Advanced Accolyte of Tpyos
27 April 2012 at 11:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Damnit. Now I have that song cursing through my synapses.
I wonder if YMCA is an antidote?
megs226
27 April 2012 at 11:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
They don’t have a squishable cat but they do have a squishable Cthulhu: http://www.squishable.com/pc/squish_cthulhu_15/Big_Animals/Squishable+Cthulhu
Are you behind this, PZ?
Brother Ogvorbis: Advanced Accolyte of Tpyos
27 April 2012 at 11:21 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Damn.
It isn’t.
Now I have Narwhals staying at the YMCA in my brain.
Rev. BigDumbChimp
27 April 2012 at 11:23 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
sending a thousand rabid ferrets in your direction PZ
cafeeineaddicted
27 April 2012 at 11:29 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
If you actually want anyone’s head to explode, send them this link of the narwhal song on loop for 10 hours.
Deanna Joy Lyons
27 April 2012 at 11:36 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Well, damn. There goes $17.00. A micro narwhal and a micro manatee are headed to me. (there’s a coupon code from free shipping on two microsquishy things)
Stop me before I spend again!
littlejohn
27 April 2012 at 11:47 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I just dropped acid. Did anyone else just see dancing unicorn whales?
aleopold
27 April 2012 at 12:24 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
And from the same creators…Badger Mushroom Snake:
busterggi
27 April 2012 at 12:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
We don’t need to see the video, all we need see is the word narwhal.
Damn Pavlov!
Brownian
27 April 2012 at 12:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It is just me, or does the Breadfish song kinda sound like something from David Byrne’s 1997 album Feelings?
keenacat
27 April 2012 at 12:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Look at my horse. LOOK AT EET!
Caine, Fleur du mal
27 April 2012 at 12:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
megs226:
Yes they do, they have a squishable kitten.
pentatomid
27 April 2012 at 1:27 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Numenaster,
Here you go: http://breadfish.co.uk/
Beatrice, anormalement indécente
27 April 2012 at 3:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
After standing beside a guy listening to “I’m a Barbie girl” – loud, on repeat, in a crowded tram so I couldn’t move… I caught the damned song and this was a welcome cure.
nesetalis
27 April 2012 at 4:17 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkuSmJtRY8E&w=560&h=315
Here is my contender… Narhwal though is quite devious. :P
nesetalis
27 April 2012 at 4:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
http://www.youtube.com/embed/YkuSmJtRY8E
well.. if the youtube embed would work
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
27 April 2012 at 4:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Believe it or not, I’d never seen that video before. It rocks. Thanks, PZ!!
Just one question: Do they have narwhals in Kenya?
Sili
27 April 2012 at 5:14 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
You do realise you’re gonna get sent half a dozen of those things now, right?
Don’t knock the dugongs. I have a whole bouquet of the things, myself.
a3kr0n
27 April 2012 at 6:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
This could be another endless thread…
Lazy Harp Seal by Parry Gripp
gregvalcourt
27 April 2012 at 7:39 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Do you have a waffle? Wouldn’t you be happier if you did?
John Morales
27 April 2012 at 8:41 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
[meta]
Gah! The embedding!
eddyline
27 April 2012 at 9:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
And the jazz remix…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSsZtjvNs7w
localnebula
28 April 2012 at 12:16 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Ha! Found a successful antidote. Though the cure might be worse than the disease.
jayarrrr
28 April 2012 at 9:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Ahhhh. At least I don’t have “Broken Hearts are for Assholes” stuck in my head anymore…
MetzO'Magic
29 April 2012 at 3:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Until this moment in time… well, at least till yesterday, I was blissfully unaware of these catchy, cute, and (and dare I say) repetitive little videos.
Now I have to try to get to sleep at night with cartoon caricatures of narwhals, badgers, and yes, the latest travesty, lions and tigers, cutting great swathes of pain through my delicate psyche. Many thanks for that, fellow Pharyngulites… and a great big fuck you to the collective you, and the bus you rode in on :-) … :-|
Marcus Hill
30 April 2012 at 3:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Why the youtube linkage when you can just get to the originals at http://www.weebls-stuff.com/ (where you’ll get not just 10 hour versions but infinite loops…)
birgerjohansson
30 April 2012 at 6:12 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I just imagined Narwhals sung to the tune of Abba’s “Super Trouper”. I am stuck with an infinite loop of that.
Maybe I should try Marilyn Manson.
birgerjohansson
30 April 2012 at 6:16 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
“Narwhals are made of this
who am I to disagree
They travel the world and the seven seas
Every narwhal is looking for something”