Play 'Em Off, Drummer Boy
December 26, 2009 Preeeeesenting a sweet moment between Mr. & Mrs. Claus!
Oh, ick! What is going ON here? Hey, Drummer Boy! Could you play them off, please?
Uh. You're not the Drummer Boy.
Jumping poo-streaked gingerbread, what is THIS? Drummer Boy, seriously, get in here and play this guy off.
[frantic whispering]
What? A substitute? Well, I guess, if that's all you've got...
What the...seriously? I ask for the little drummer boy, and you give me a "LiltLe Drum Set"? And how are two crossed matchsticks a drum set anyway?
[shaking head in disgust] Ug. Well, we have one more entry today...
Oh.Yes, my friends, I'm afraid Zwarte Piet has reared his ugly, ugly head again this year. However, I think I've more than said my piece on him, so...
Drummer Boy? Are you finally ready? Oh, good. Please, proceed.
YeeAAAAaaaah! Haha! Embrace the irony.If this post made no sense to you whatsoever, you might want to take a look at this. (Be aware some of the clips in that vid contain unfortunate accidents.) And if that still doesn't help, then I owe John five bucks.
Thanks to David G., Sara K., Adriana B., Kim R., Malorie M., & Sondra D., for snaring these awesome Wrecks.
Reader Comments (88)
Sorry... I don't get ANY of it. Pay John and I want my 4 minutes back from watching that video.
Ok, so from reading the comments, I am not the only one who it more lost after seeing the video. That was very random, but had both of my teen boys and me going "huh?"
Sheri in CA
Long time reader, first time poster :D. You owe John NOTHING!! Not only did I get your post prior to watching Fatso - AKA Keyboard Cat, I loved the vid!! So much so that I watched more of their series. Now I can't get that tune out of my head... Doot doot do do doo doo do do
x Mel
cake no. 1
possibly from the song 'I saw mommy kissing santa claus'
And speaking of oH oH oH Santas:
http://paulandstorm.bandcamp.com/track/backward-santa might be of interest to you. 'Tis creative-commons music. :D
Captcha: efistr ... is it THAT time again?
yep. clueless. I also want 5 bucks.
Thanks, now I'm going to have nightmares. LOL.
I think you were reaching a bit with that. You probably owe John $5.
In case the sheer gluttony (on my part) of Christmas wasn't nausea inducing enough, that last cake...ugh..heave..choke. ahem.
Wow!
http://www.theladyslounge.com
Okay, now I get it. Thanks for the link.
The video didnt help but I googled keyboard cat and I think I get it now!! hehehe
I get it thanks to the video. Yeah for me.
Turns out Zwarte Piet isn't African after all... I learnt this year that he was black because he went through the chimney! ;)
is the little drummer boy having a baby?
I was familiar with keyboard cat, not so much with Zwarte Piet
That poor gingerbread man -- what HAPPENED to him?
At this point, I wish I had the Internet skills to to turn that Drummer Boy cake into a new FAIL! meme. It's so meta in being a fail playing off a fail.
I'm not convinced that's a Zwarte Piet cake.
The beard and all that jazz on the hat is making me think that's actually a Caspar of the Three Magi cake.
You don't owe John a dime!
WOW. Those are ALL SO UGLY. And what the heck is that second one supposed to be? no wonder it's "on sale!"
zwarte piet looks like a scary voodoo doctor!
The French kissing Clauses look completely unappetizing. The drum set is just pitiful. Drummerboy is scary.
and WHAT is the CONCEPT with the poo-streaked flotsam headed gingerbread concoction sitting on yellow icing and sprinkles? WTF?
zwarte piet reminds me a little of tar baby caricatures from the south
wv: prairnts: where are the prairnts of that kid running around like a nut?
That last one is gonna give me nightmares!
The only part I don't "get" is the bit about irony. What's ironic?
ummmmmmmmmmmm YOU OWE JOHN $5.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Adam: I think that the irony is the fact that the Little Drummer Boy who is to "play them off" due to their epic fails, is an epic fail, and should actually play himself off.
Okay, so I read everybody's comments (75 at this point), looked up Zwarte Piet, saw the Fatso video, and I still don't get it. Puhleeze John or Jen, fill me in. I can't take the suspense anymore...
Ok second cake there... Why so serious?
The alleged "Zwarte Piet" pictured in the post is actually from the video game Little Big Planet. It is actally a well done likeness. So not a wreck at all, sorry. It is ugly though, I'll give you that.
Snow Crash,
Actually it is supposed to be Zwarte Piet. Feather in the cap, gold hoop earrings. And it was sent in from one of our Dutch readers who found it on a site where it claimed to be Zwarte Piet.
Unless you are the baker or the recipient of the cake and say otherwise, we're sticking with Zwarte Piet.
Yours,
john
so, i dont know if anyone has said it or not, but the little drum set wasn't just those 2 odd colored q-tips [drumsticks], but the cake itself was supposed to be the drum. it was ugly, had weird lettering and strange drumsticks... but it might have been sorta cute, maybe, possibly, if they did it right in the first place!
how on earth is that cat supposed to explain it????
What if the little drummer boy is waiting for me outside... in the dark....
Rose
http://roseintheslowlane.blogspot.com
I get it. I just don't get the irony of that real drummer boy.
The Zwarte Piet one looks like Mr. Popo from Dragon Ball Z!!
(http://tinylink.in/Mrpopo)
also go to jibjab.com and in the calssics section of the site there is a vid with 2009 on it at the end it says "PLAY EM' OFF KEYBOARD CAAAAAT!"
Drummer Boy nearly scared the living crap out of me. The whole thing is...just wrong.
sorry jen i think you owe jhon 5 bucks because when i clicked on it it said the video had been removed
On the "LitLe Drumset" cake, I saw....... Something else........................................................ Yeah....................