Jixby Phillips

[James]

Did you make this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgkgFw7i-WE

:eek

[Jixby Phillips]

I did not, I only uploaded it, because the .mov file was giving my friends greif when I tried to show it to them.

[Jixby Phillips]

woah, where did you see this? It's become huge overnight!

[Jixby Phillips]

ps me and mark have been singing the paises of this video since february:

http://www.i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=21232

[the_dudefather]

a weird co-incedence, saw a link from YTMND and watched these today, diddnt notice taht you uploaded it tho

the homer and marge voices are great

[Krythor]

I've had Homer crying as my user picture on msn since you and gadzooks started that thread too. I'm so pleased and excited that there are so many people on youtube that love it.

[Jixby Phillips]

seriously though I am getting an insane ammounts of comments, where the fuck are these people coming from?

[WhiteRat]

It's on the Something Awful Forums.

[Jixby Phillips]

I would like to see the thread if possible!

[James]

I don't know if any part of the forums are live at the moment.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1997876

Basically, Something Awful is trying an experiment to see if they can shoehorn something into a new internet/mainstream fad, like All Your Base or "I'm the Juggernaut, Bitch!" And this video was the one that was picked. The theory is that if enough people share it and say it's good, then EVERYONE will keep sharing it and saying its good, then run it into the ground like a Chuck Norris joke.

In other words, we're trying to see if, a year from now, Fark will still have "You're breaking my heaaaaaarrrrrrt." Photoshops.

So, feel free to lend a hand, and show it to people and force them to like it and send it to others. I did my part by posting it here, I guess.

[GADZOOKS]

oh man

[WhiteRat]

I've done my fair share of spreading the video around. I posted a bulletin on MySpace, emailed the link, posted it on a few message boards and submitted the link to several entertainment sites.

[MetalMilitia]

It's on Digg which is probably where the majority of people are comming from. Digg gets millions of unique hits every day.

Either way both episodes are brilliant.

[Immortal Goat]

And soon, your video will proudly sport the "ebaumsworld" watermark. :/

[Marc Summers]

Every 13-year-old will now have "IM MIZTER BURNZ GED OUDDA DA WAY!!!!!22@!11 lol" or some other line/variant in their signature. I tip my hat to thee :posh

[Trash]

Shouldn't this be at the "Around the Internet" board?

[Mad Melvin]

Maybe I just don't GET IT, but I think bart the general is a pile of shit.

[Misdemonar]

The internet is stupid.

[Jeff The Ninja]

BART THE GENERAL 2

As good as the first and twice as Incoherent :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTI828gVuRs

[Dole]

That was Toadfish from Neighbours that was.
http://encyclopedia.quickseek.com/images/Toadie.jpg

[James]

Shouldn't this be at the "Around the Internet" board?

Um, The Simpsons is a TV show. Are you stupid or something? :rolleyes

[Moobs]

woah this video is everything and everyones quoting Mr Burns what is going on

[Seven Force]

Maybe I just don't GET IT, but I think bart the general is a pile of shit.

I agree. I hate SA for this.

[Seven Force]

Ok the second one was funny as hell. :lol

>:

[WhiteRat]

Maybe I just don't GET IT, but I think bart the general is a pile of shit.

I agree. I hate SA for this.

That's the point. To get a SHITTY and POORLY MADE video to be the next internet meme, ala the SHITTY Chuck Norris jokes and it's many spinoffs.

p.s. Seven Force, why don't you message me on AIM anymore? I miss your rants about not being able to sleep because you are afraid of Chernobyl!

[Esuohlim]

I had a dream last night that I saw a bunch of people walking around wearing BART THE GENERAL shirts. :(

[Krythor]

SomethingAwful is even more terrible then for trying to make people IRONICALLY like it. It should be a HIT anyway because it's a great video.

I concede that to certain standards it's "shitty" but it's certainly not poorly made.

[James]

Krythor, you're breaking my heart.

[GADZOOKS]

Bart The General is NOT SHITTY or POORLY MADE, you people are monsters if you think so.

[Cliff Steele]

i dont like the second one as much, but ive probably watched the first one 15-20 times its fucking hilarious

[Marc Summers]

OH NO I'M A MONSTER OH THE NON-HUMANITY SOMEBODY PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY I DISMEBOWEL VIRGINS FOR PANCHO THE GOD OF THE NIGHT AND TO SATISFY MY BLOODLUST AND I DON'T LIKE BART THE GENERAL I'M SUCH AN ABOMINATION...SOMEBODY...SOMEBODY PLEASE...MAKE IT QUICK...:suicide

[GADZOOKS]

Oh man somebody shut this monster up, he's scaring the kids.

[Marc Summers]

Well! Shutting monsters up seems to be your "fetish"

It also happens to be mine ;)

[Marc Summers]

New "Internet" fad takes teens by storm

By SHAWNA DUKAKIS, Los Angeles Times Writer

LOS ANGELES, California - The most popular networked computer system to date, also known as the "Internet", has bred a new culture among America's teens. "Bart the General", as it is commonly referred to, is a crude homemade video which contributes to the shift in teen's attitudes towards computational systems, especially models intended for domestic usage.

"Yea, I log on [to access the "Internet"] four or five times a day, just to watch B.T.G.! Marge, you're breaking my heart! I just can't believe how [expletive] hilarious this [expletive] is," babbles Tyler Nerdstrom, an entering senior at John F. Kennedy High School. While this statement may lead most of the population to believe that this cult-hit mainly appeals to teens with no friends and low GPAs, JFK High's valedictorian of 2006, Katsuo Takayama, begs to differ. "I L.O.L.-ed [Laughed Out Loud] at this too many times, and my parents have punished me greatly for dishonoring my family by watching this 'piece of [expletive], this abortion of the Ipod generation.' [multiple Japanese expletives]"

The title of the video, "Bart the General", may have people believing that it is simply a copyright-infringing republication of the 1990 The Simpsons episode, "Bart the General". In the televised episode, Bart Simpson, the trouble-making son of the Simpson family, leads a group of his classmates in defeating a playground bully.

A survey of people over the age of 25 has revealed that 90% of the people interviewed were repulsed at the images shown before them. In one extreme case, the five-year-old child of a subject being interviewed started bawling at the sight of Rod and Todd Flanders, sons of the Simpsons' next door neighbor, being hurled out of their home's second story windows. The remaining ten percent, after much prodding, admitted that they were heavy "Internet" users and regularly viewed videos with questionable comedic content. Without being prompted, they referred the creators of the survey to equally repulsive videos such as "The Juggernaut [expletive]" or "All Your Base".

Are America's teens in trouble? According to JFK High School's Student Counselor Nathan Horschfeld, yes. "These are the kinds of videos that are ruining the English language," he rants. "On top of that, teens who regularly enjoy watching these abhorrent videos form cliques whose sole purpose is to refer as many people as they can toward these atrocities." He goes on to explain that they use bully tactics to force people into enjoying them for acceptance. He referred to a few extreme cases in which social peers were called monsters.

While the issue is debatable, most rational people agree that if Bush doesn't get around to it first, these videos will ravage the already declining American intellectual landscape.

[Esuohlim]

They took the video down. :(

Hey Jixby, in the giant SA thread they posted your response to the alleged copyright infringment offense and now they're all sending angry emails to YouTube.

[James]

YouTube, you're breaking my heart. :(

[Jeff The Ninja]

Hey Jixby or GADZOOKS. If its not a lot of trouble, could you put the link up somewhere.

[Mockery]

Gotta love it when companies jump the gun and blam some content rather than actually reviewing it.

[Misdemonar]

HEY ITS NOT MY FAULT.

[executioneer]

ok i don't get why both jixby's and famicon's youtube of bart the general number ONE got flagged and removed but episode two is still up :/ who the f*ck is running this monkey house

[the_dudefather]

could youtube have killed SA's evil plot to dominate the internet so easily?

is it on google video? :P

[James]

ok i don't get why both jixby's and famicon's youtube of bart the general number ONE got flagged and removed but episode two is still up :/ who the f*ck is running this monkey house

It basically comes down to people abusing YouTube's system as a way to fight Something Awful. Number two didn't get flagged because number two wasn't being pushed.

It sucks that Jixby and Famicon are getting screwed because of this, when they didn't do anything wrong. People are just trying to stick it to SA at their expense.

[WhiteRat]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6952344246860098919

[the_dudefather]

im hearing rumors that the video:

-is viral internet marketing
-has sublinimal messages
-is related to terrorists in some fashion
-heavily sucks

i believe none of these to be true

[Misdemonar]

ok i don't get why both jixby's and famicon's youtube of bart the general number ONE got flagged and removed but episode two is still up :/ who the f*ck is running this monkey house

It basically comes down to people abusing YouTube's system as a way to fight Something Awful. Number two didn't get flagged because number two wasn't being pushed.

It sucks that Jixby and Famicon are getting screwed because of this, when they didn't do anything wrong. People are just trying to stick it to SA at their expense.

Huh?

[Jixby Phillips]

I'm not REALLY getting screwed. Deleting hundreds of comment notifications per day from my email inbox was getting screwed. I'm glad its off just for that.

Also, before I knew this was a scheme, I felt bad that my account was getting the attention, and not theirs. I kept writing all the new subscribers I have to refer them to the famicon youtube.

They're working on a censored version. I wish them luck.

[GADZOOKS]

you got screwed dude

[Jixby Phillips]

Oh yeah, people who think Bart the General is bad are not people I would care to know, okay

[Jeff The Ninja]

when i first saw it, i thought that it was funny, but not too funny. I now realize how awesome this video is. and i Hope that the Censored version is as funny as the original.

[kinot]

edit: doh! thought the people you refered to the new edit was famicon etc. not sa

[Misdemonar]

when i first saw it, i thought that it was funny, but not too funny. I now realize how awesome this video is. and i Hope that the Censored version is as funny as the original.

Is that brown on you?

[Darryl]

I can't watch video at work, so I will have to wait until Monday...I am sorry I missed this....

Is it still available for viewing somewhere?

[Esuohlim]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7325072488304689666