I loved that documentary as a kid. And the drunkity drunk animal scene was my favorite! Undulating giraffe neck!
I don't think there is anything quite so fugly-cute as a baby warthog.
I had seen this before, but had forgotten how judgmental the narrator is! They are lazy slobs with no zest for life who live only to get blackout drunk and pass out in the middle of the clearing. IIRC, the following scene is a bunch of crocodiles or lions or something taking advantage of their hangovers to kill them?
3: There's a theme throughout of moralizing and gender stereotyping. The thing that really stuck out for me when I first saw it was the bit about warthogs where the narrator imposes a vision of 1950s domesticity on rutting pigs, FFS.
With different music, this scene could easily be spun as the Leaving Las Vegas of the animal kingdom. That drunken elephant reaching out for just one more fruit!
It also like the human laughs and smoochie noises they dub over the monkeys.
Click here if you hate fun and never suspend your disbelief.
8: I think this question needs to be put to the Mythbusters.
oh, this is a better one.
Now we can have a long fight about whether or not, and to what extent, and how, the documentary was staged. I am pretty curious about the logistics of it- how do you get a giraffe drunk?
Just don't tell me that the Steve Irwin stuff was staged! I refuse to believe it!
8: If only this were the lede to a Vogue expose:
These models were highly biased in favor of inebriation
11: He's not really dead! Right now he's running a Fish and Chips van in Fremantle.
Is 13 in bad taste, given that Erwin was allegedly killed by a fish?
16 to whatever, but originally to 14.
Tell us more about your free-ranging negativity, heebie.
16 not to 12, because 12 is hilaripus.
I've known a dog that voluntarily became drunk on fermented grapes.
If this is fake then the question in 10 must be answered. How?!
Back in the day, we used to feed the cat rum and milk. He loved that shit.
We were bad people.
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth!"
10: Documentaries are regularly staged. The famous Disney lemmings running off a cliff footage had guys just off camera furiously shoveling the little creatures to their doom.
There was a rumour, probably an urban myth, that Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (not the blogger) had his tail stapled to a table to keep him still. Wherefore there were many Skippys...
Is the hilaripus related at all to the zorilla?
Well the zorilla is in fact a striped polecat, so folks less decorous and serious-minded than I can undoubtedly imagine all manner of relations it might have with a hilaripus.
I am pretty curious about the logistics of it- how do you get a giraffe drunk?
Water an acacia tree with vodka.
Thank goodness they included those sound effects. Otherwise I wouldn't have known the footage was humorous.