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Squirrel Attack!

2009-03-26 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Science & nature · comedy performance

Hank thanks the Nerdfighters who played Irish fiddle and penny whistle for him, explains mock 'squirrel linguistics', and sings a comic Irish song about Scuzzy Kizoozle Curl, the homicidal squirrel, ending with a staged squirrel attack.

What is said

00:00:00 — Red hands teaser; thanks to Nerdfighters who played Irish fiddle and penny whistle; not every contribution usable

  • ★★★ Hank thanks six Nerdfighters for the Irish fiddling and penny whistle parts he cannot play himself, which he had them record for the song. — 00:00:06 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★ Hank could not use everyone's contributions because of sound problems and trouble getting the videos to work on his computer. — 00:00:21

00:00:30 — Mock 'squirrel linguistics': squirrel noises, tail movements, names with a vocal and a tail part

  • ★ Hank says squirrels communicate with little noises and also with tail movements, which play the role of facial expressions and are very important. (playful) — 00:00:33
  • ★ Hank jokingly claims squirrels have names made of a vocal component and a tail movement. (joke) — 00:00:48

00:00:59 — Song: Scuzzy Kizoozle Curl, the homicidal squirrel, attacks a county fair and bites the narrator

  • ★★★ In an Irish-accented song, the narrator tells how Scuzzy Kizoozle Curl, a six-ounce homicidal squirrel, cut through a county fair crowd and bit him; he alone survived. (fiction) — 00:01:10

Humor (dominant)

  • Squirrel names have a vocal part and a tail-movement part; Hank names the song's squirrel. — 00:00:54 > «And this song is about a squirrel named Scuzzy Kizoozle ... Curl.»
  • The ballad builds up the most dreaded way to die under Ireland's skies. — 00:01:30 > «Oh, she's a six-ounce ball of blood, muscle, and fur,»
  • At the county fair the squirrel attacks the crowd. — 00:01:48 > «She was slicing through the crowd, like a mower mowin' lawns.»
  • Hank starts his sign-off to John, then spots something, and a squirrel attack follows. — 00:03:36 > «What is that?»

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