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Farmville!!!!! A Song

2010-05-31 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Internet & YouTube · comedy performance

Hank performs a comic song in the voice of a Facebook FarmVille addict who prefers the never-dying animals of his virtual farm to real life, then thanks Photomatron beta testers and announces the song as his first iTunes single.

What is said

00:00:00 — Intro: song written when FarmVille was more relevant; wilted crops but animals never die; song begins

  • ★★ Hank says he wrote the song a while ago, when FarmVille was a little more culturally relevant. — 00:00:00
  • ★ Hank jokes that everyone has wilted FarmVille crops, but the game's cows, chickens and pigs never die no matter how much you neglect them. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:24 — The FarmVille song

  • ★★★ In the song, a narrator who discovered FarmVille on Facebook prefers its adorable farm, where the sky is always blue and animals never die, to real life. (satire) — 00:00:24 · Facebook > «Let me introduce you to my new home, Farmville»
  • ★★ The narrator admits it might not be real life but says he doesn't mind, since there is nowhere he would rather spend his time. (satire) — 00:01:50

00:02:11 — Thanks to Photomatron beta testers; the song as an iTunes single with fan-farm artwork; link in the doobly-doo; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank thanks people who submitted 'photomatronifications' for the video: Photomatron is software he is working on, still in beta, and it does not yet work in Firefox. — 00:02:11 · Twitter
  • ★ Hank says he has other plans for the Photomatron software and it's going to be pretty amazing. — 00:02:32
  • ★★★ Hank is releasing the song as a single on iTunes, something he has never done before and doesn't know if he will do again. — 00:02:32 · iTunes
  • ★★ Viewers submitted their farms for the single's artwork; Hank used one in which a viewer had written 'nerdfighters' with FarmVille items, and thanks her. — 00:02:53 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank says the link to buy the single is in the doobly-doo. — 00:02:53 · doobly-doo

Humor (dominant)

  • FarmVille lets the narrator live the way he always dreamed without ever doing anything. — 00:00:24 > «Which is good because I don't like doing things»
  • Chorus: down on the farm where the sky is always blue... — 00:00:24 > «And we never kill the pigs and the cows never poo»
  • The narrator lists his FarmVille achievements. — 00:01:30 > «I got an oddly shaped house that I couldn't fit inside»
  • Hank apologises that the Photomatron beta failed for some users. — 00:02:32 > «It doesn't work with one of the lesser-known browsers. It's called Firefox.»

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