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Animals Interrupt Sporting Events: A Critical Analysis

2013-04-30 · John · watch on YouTube · Sports · comedy performance

Imitating Hank's cat-GIF critique, John gives mock-serious readings of GIFs of animals interrupting sporting events, crowning Pine Marten Invades Swiss Soccer Match for refusing the simple morals of sports stories.

What is said

00:00:00 — John as a would-be professional critic of animals-interrupting-sports GIFs: Anfield Cat, Squirrel Interrupts US Open

  • ★★ John says some days he wants to be a professional critic of GIFs of animals interrupting sporting events, and reviews them in mock-critic style. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ John's description calls the video a rip-off of Hank's video and links Hank's cat-GIF critique. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ In mock-critic voice John calls Anfield Cat, a cat on the pitch at a Liverpool game, a classic best read as a metaphor for human life: isolated, afraid, resilient. (parody) (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • ★ John jokes about Liverpool's own confused, inconsistent defending. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★ John's description thanks Rosianna for help making the GIFs. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Reviewing Squirrel Interrupts US Open, John says sport is not only about winning and losing but about displaying what bodies can do, especially squirrel bodies. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:29

00:00:58 — Dog pooping at a baseball game, dog on the pitch, Goalkeeper Dog Catcher Fail, Drug Dog Wants to Play and Air Bud: World Pup

  • ★★ John reads the dog pooping at a baseball game as rejecting our obsessive fascination with sports. (parody) — 00:00:58
  • ★★ John calls Goalkeeper Dog Catcher Fail the comic pinnacle and Drug Dog Wants to Play the greatest, a work that raises questions and leaves us unsettled. (parody) — 00:01:27

00:01:58 — Fox absconds with golf ball; sports stories' simple morals (Rudy, The Blind Side, Teen Wolf); Pine Marten Invades Swiss Soccer Match as the greatest; sign-off

  • ★ John says Fox Absconds with Golf Ball is another brilliant rejection of sport itself. (parody) — 00:01:58
  • ★★ John says most sports stories (Rudy, The Blind Side, Teen Wolf) lack a complex moral narrative, while great animal-interruption GIFs refuse that moral simplicity. (playful) — 00:01:58
  • ★★★ John names Pine Marten Invades Swiss Soccer Match the greatest such GIF: biting marten and fouling defender leave no clear hero, suggesting each of us contains multitudes. (parody) (hedged) — 00:02:26

Humor (dominant)

  • Imitating Hank's opening from his cat-GIF video, John declares a new critical career. — 00:00:00 > «some days, some days I just want to be a professional critic of gifs featuring animals interrupting sporting events.»
  • The dog pooping on the baseball field seems to ask which of them is really sentient: you, watching men hit a ball with a stick? — 00:00:58 > «or me, elegantly articulating my feelings via defecation?»
  • The drug dog's attack on the ball asks important questions: are there drugs in the ball, would they affect its performance? — 00:01:27 > «And most importantly, why wasn't Air Bud 3 World Pup a better movie?»
  • With the marten biting and the defender fouling, the GIF offers no easy answer to who is good and who is bad. — 00:03:24 > «the Pine Martin, the Defender, and indeed each of us contain multitudes.»

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