Squirrel Attack!

2009-03-25 · song · Hank · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Everyday life (also: Nerdfighteria, Science & nature) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, guest or collab

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

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

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

00:03:36 — Sign-off interrupted by a squirrel attack; maniacal laughter

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?”

Threads in this video

• result reported · Hank asks for a Nerdfighter Irish fiddle player for his Irish song (2009) — Hank's Irish song features fiddle and penny whistle parts recorded by Nerdfighters. (00:00:06)
• thanks · Hank asks for a Nerdfighter Irish fiddle player for his Irish song (2009) — Hank thanks all the Nerdfighters who sent parts, including those he could not use. (00:00:26)

Where the stories that moved here went next

• Hank asks for a Nerdfighter Irish fiddle player for his Irish song (2009) — reported back; last: thanks, 2009-03-25

Mentioned

Central: Squirrel Attack!

Also: Ireland · Scuzzy Kizoozle Curl

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