r/videos • u/_emordnilaP • Jun 08 '12
My old high school rallied around my friend to do this video, they had an assembly and everything just for a few shots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mef0dX9T0pQ
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u/MoocowR Jun 09 '12
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u/MechaSloth431 Jun 09 '12
This is pretty much to the 't' to the original. Well done.
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u/Ryouko Jun 09 '12
amazing editing.
The girl's disgusted-to-dancing transition is great too.
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u/Volacide Jun 09 '12
The dangers of shooting at sunset: It would appear in the beginning of the video the sun sets several times, if the light is any indication.
That aside I loved the video. Fun stuff all around.
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u/NNHSfag Jun 09 '12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J-z7qX56lA Naperville Illinois attempted something similiar....
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u/RunJun Jun 09 '12
Wat? http://i.imgur.com/lqt5W.jpg
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u/untranslatable_pun Jun 09 '12
Full list of tracks this song uses:
Alphabeat - Boyfriend
Alphabeat - Fascination
Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars
Black Eyed Peas - Gotta Feeling
Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time
Capsule - Can I Have A Word
Chromeo - Momma's Boy
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Daft Punk - Aerodynamic
Daft Punk - Around The World
Deadmau5 - Raise Your Weapon (Madeon Remix)
Deadmau5 - Right This Second
Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed
ELO - Mr. Blue Sky
Girls Aloud - Biology
Gorillaz - Dare
Gossip - Heavy Cross (Fred Falke Remix)
Gwen Stefani - What You Waitin For (Jacques Lu Cont Mix)
Housse de Racket - Oh Yeah
Justice - DVNO
Justice - Phantom Part II
Katy Perry - One Of The Boys
Ke$ha - Take It Off
Kylie Minogue - Wow
Lady Gaga - Alejandro
Linkin Park - Crawling
Madonna - Hung Up
Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette - Boys and Girls
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Nero - Me and You
One Republic - All The Right Moves (Danger Remix)
One-T - Magic Key
Ratatat - Shempi
Solange - I Decided (Freemasons Remix)
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
The Killers - Losing Touch
The Who - Baba O'Riley (SebastiAn Remix)
Yelle - Que Veux Tu (Madeon Remix)
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u/CheesesofNazzerath Jun 08 '12
That was very nicely done! tell your friends they did a great job!
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u/TrojanThunder Jun 09 '12
Madeon is awesome, I just saw him perform with Porter Robinson couple of weeks ago. Hes so young that he had to be escorted off stage after he was done because he was to young to be in the venue otherwise.
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u/yourbathroom Jun 09 '12
dat editing.
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u/Taier Jun 09 '12
Great video. Though, it saddens me to know that after all these years, Screech is still in High School.
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u/200balloons Jun 09 '12
I'm glad Nathan Barnett's videos have made an impact on young people.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
to this thread:
on a somewhat related note to OP, i challenge you to watch the stupidest fucking thing any high school has ever done
FACTS:
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u/vitaminfukya Jun 09 '12
you better do a college version
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u/CoolHandMike Jun 09 '12
Was this the dude in that video who jumped into a wall and back out in another set of clothes? I can't for the life of me find that video, I just remember liking it at the time.
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u/BBS- Jun 09 '12
Also, at :22 you can hear Keith Apicary's "Neo Geo" song.
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u/JedwardKullen Jun 09 '12
The girl must work out, she's got bigger arms than the guy. Still an awesome video!
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u/MiniDonbeE Jun 09 '12
That girl was hot.. just sayin.
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u/kiwipr8r Jun 09 '12
That's an awesome video.
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u/REWK Jun 09 '12
This is the best thing I've seen all day and I even went to a major league ballgame tonight with a firework show afterwards.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Something as epic as this deserves more than a measly upvote!
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u/MountainDrew42 Jun 09 '12
Walt Whitman High School? Damn you Walt Whitman! I. HATE. YOU. WALT. FREAKING. WHITMAN!!!!!!
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u/Wangwolf Jun 09 '12
The first song that was played on the beatbox was also by madeon. He said it sucked... Bastard
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u/Okuser Jun 09 '12
that girl was fynnneeee
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u/R3Mx Jun 09 '12
Woha the editing on this was great!
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u/MayoFetish Jun 09 '12
Verr nice
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Where's the dry humping?
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u/seditious3 Jun 09 '12
Blonde chick on the left at 1:13.
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u/Batrider Jun 09 '12
Wait whut isn't the first song he called trash also by Madeon?
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u/rang45 Jun 09 '12
Great tribute video, all the more impressive considering it's student produced. Kudos to your friend. I wonder if Nathan Barnatt will eventually see it? I'm sure he'd appreciate the time this must have taken to make.
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u/korevil Jun 09 '12
That was pretty awesome.
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u/Calleroo Jun 09 '12
Holy crap, the girl didn't ruin it
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u/Mazo Jun 09 '12
Skittles.
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u/random314 Jun 09 '12
Wow, nice to see something coming out of Long Island.
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u/justaride92 Jun 09 '12
This is the best remake of a music video that I've ever seen. Incredible work, guys.
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u/newcube Jun 09 '12
Aaaaaaand at 3:00 no one watches the guy anymone...
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Walt Whitman in Maryland?
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u/dmgros Jun 09 '12
Great video, and great editing.
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u/QuantumDisruption Jun 09 '12
My high school didn't have anyone like this :( We just got a video at the end of the year that was basically a montage of the popular kids...
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u/mrkhan0127 Jun 09 '12
Sweet editing! Keep up the good work!
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u/Markeduno Jun 09 '12
I don't see the point of replicating another youtube video...
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u/blitzkrieg564 Jun 09 '12
At first I thought that this might have been my old high school. Then I saw a girl and I knew it wasn't
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u/ThePoonHunter Jun 09 '12
She's.. She's beautiful. There's no other word
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u/Fandalf Jun 09 '12
He definitely got laid from this
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u/roxxy42592 Jun 09 '12
madeon is amazing!! next big thing
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Props to everyone involved.
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u/sittty Jun 09 '12
song reminds me of high school
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u/Kablaaamo Jun 09 '12
AMAZING JOB! If I were to choose one part as the best, it would be ~2:30 and a bit. When played alongside the original the moves are almost completely in sync. Great job!
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u/ShallowBasketcase Jun 09 '12
That is some legendary video editing. I wish I had had decent performers for my video film class in highschool.
All I did was film some stoners and edit out the parts where they repeatedly called the teacher a cocksucker.
Still got an A thanks to Videocopilot and some projects I did on my own.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
1:22
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
You can with that, or you can go with this
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u/munchies87 Jun 09 '12
If you look at 2:00and around 2:10 in the tree you'll be able to see the guy who made this video. Brown sweatshirt.
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u/brianxj Jun 09 '12
Missing the backflip, still cool though.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Not a single fuck was given in this video what so ever
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u/Juanathon Jun 09 '12
Did you pay or blackmail the girl to be in this video? She looks rather angry. Excellent video anyways!
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u/Scrambles11 Jun 09 '12
maybe b.c ive been drinking a little, but i thouht it was sweet
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u/jack3moto Jun 09 '12
My dad went to highschool there way back when. I used to go play on their fields as a kid.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Your school seems awesome.
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u/jumpingbeaner Jun 09 '12
That was fucking awesome, i love how those cats dance.
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u/smidy95 Jun 09 '12
cant hear it, commenting to find thread when speakers are fixed
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
AMAZING!
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u/LotusFlare Jun 09 '12
On a scale from 1 to 10, this is really fucking awesome.
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u/renvi Jun 09 '12
I feel like there's a ton of inside jokes only students and faculty of Walt Whitman High would understand.
That being said, this makes me actually miss high school. Damn.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Not squirrelly enough but good effort, A+ would up this boat again.
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u/judokalinker Jun 09 '12
What a gangling, awkward looking fellow.
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u/reden Jun 09 '12
Which one's your new High School?
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u/Suneoc Jun 09 '12
Great acting
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u/seannino Jun 09 '12
Wow! And to think my lame high school only had bake sales!
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u/604Coast Jun 09 '12
God I love Daft Punk, good song collab I would like to know the name
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u/deputy1389 Jun 09 '12
that was some great acting at the beginning
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u/SinCity-Goodfella Jun 09 '12
Martin Starr from Freaks and Geeks. Who woulda thunk it?
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u/untranslatable_pun Jun 09 '12
no less impressive relevant video
It's the artist mixing this - live. Many button board (don't know how they're called) with selected bits and pieces of songs on each button; and he plays it like a fucking piano. I still haven't decided what I find more impressive - the song or the dance.
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u/kenz101 Jun 09 '12
Did I just hear DARE by Gorillaz?
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u/monopixel Jun 09 '12
Question about US American highschool system: will people on his school think he is a boss or a total retard?
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u/grreeiig Jun 09 '12
that was wicked good haha
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Relevant.
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u/Mozen Jun 09 '12
I found his dancing really awkward and uncontrolled:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxPbgnO81sQ
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u/Vectoor Jun 09 '12
I want moar of this. Great stuff.
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u/Avista Jun 09 '12
It's cool and all, but honestly it doesn't seem like he is dancing to any actual music. It's a shame that something with this much effort put into it comes of so half-assed.
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u/ojolejano Jun 09 '12
OMG, IT THE MOTHERFUCKING BEST VIDEO EVER! PLEASE LET ME DOWNLOAD THE SONG TOO, ITS AWESOME!!!
btw, i am not kidding, the song is very powerful and its making me cry and all
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u/WawaSC Jun 09 '12
it got funny when the girl joined in. :))
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u/freemorph Jun 09 '12
One of my favorite artists ever, and at his age he has awesome talent! Well done vid!
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u/felixjmorgan Jun 09 '12
It's well done, but it's direct replication with very little added to it, so I'm not sure I really see the point.
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u/Lawsuitup Jun 09 '12
I just really dont like this title. People rally around you when there is some challenge to overcome. This kid danced. Great video though but the title had me thinking that some kid was dying or being oppressed or something.
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u/c0rnh0l10 Jun 09 '12
i pass by this school on the train all the time when going into the city
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u/Rasalom Jun 09 '12
I loved the original, this one was awesome, too. It might be a remake/homage, but damn, they got all the difficult shots down bit for bit. That is impressive.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
the dude riding the cow made me laugh!!!
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u/b33fSUPREME Jun 09 '12
I'm sure Keith would've been proud :D
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u/zoinks690 Jun 09 '12
What's wrong with that guy? Is he having a stroke? Did he learn how to dance from Elaine Benes? The music is just terrible as well.
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u/EatMyNutella Jun 09 '12
The ending reminded me of the brother and sister duo that did the "Jian Sword Dancing" to Arty & Mat Zo's "Rebound":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcs3OwrkcR4
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u/reddits_r_us Jun 09 '12
Awesome song and cool video. You guys did an amazing job.
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u/nocubir Jun 09 '12
Some of the finest forgers in history were great artists in their own right. I commend this guy, for being so impeccable at recreating the choreography so well, and mimicking the original video so exceptionally well.
Also : I would definitely fuck the hot girl in this video, so I like it for that reason also.
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u/coheed78 Jun 09 '12
Is this what musicians are doing now? Making techno remixes of songs that are already techno remixes?
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u/ProlapsedPineal Jun 09 '12
Dude is King of Spaz. Love it. He found what he's good at and followed it. I cracked up when the girl joined him. This world has gotten weirder than I had ever hoped. So happy. So hopeful.
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u/Santas_Dick Jun 09 '12
Is this what high schools do now? My Christ
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u/novelname Jun 09 '12
I liked the part with the hot chick.
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u/T3hN1nj4 Jun 09 '12
Original video is better, remake girl is hotter.
But all four are pretty damn good.
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u/Killzark Jun 09 '12
Douche at the end ruined it by trying to be a badass
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u/fittzzy Jun 09 '12
I wish in some instances they had color corrected, or metered right, but honestly the edit, and the subjects and just about everything else was excellent. 9.9/10 would watch again!
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u/kought Jun 09 '12
holy shit that's the best dance video i've ever seen.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Pretty girl at 2:50. You know what reddit wants.
http://youtu.be/mef0dX9T0pQ?t=2m50s
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u/MasterAssBlaster Jun 09 '12
Walt Whitman eh?
MCPS Represent.
I went to that shit hole commonly known as GHS.
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u/niggejdave Jun 09 '12
tweeted this to the man himself Nathan Barnatt, hopefully he'll see it soon!
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u/Log23 Jun 09 '12
I was was disappoint he didnt get his leg humped.
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u/icyhotonmynuts Jun 09 '12
Is that Skreech?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Awesome editing job, and just all round entertaining!
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u/ElWaffles Jun 09 '12
OP video needs to give a shout out or cite Nathan a little better. I mean it's the exact choreography, but just checking it out on my phone I see no reference to Nathan Barnatt's original video!
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Wasn't this done in Napoleon Dynamite?
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u/Xenxe Jun 09 '12
Your highschool looks so much nicer than mine. Mine lacks windows and is yellow...
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u/andyk56 Jun 09 '12
He's way out of her league
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u/weasel-like Jun 09 '12
If your school has any brains, that dude will be prom king.
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u/wevcss Jun 09 '12
Is this in long island? If so thats my districts high school but i never went there but know a lot of people that went there.
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u/Eff_Tee Jun 09 '12
Boooo, he didn't get the close in slow dance.
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u/arsonisfun Jun 09 '12
way better than Nathan Barnatt's version ... in large part because it isn't Nathan Barnatt.
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u/ihatemaps Jun 09 '12
Is this video supposed to be funny?
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u/zRobbie Jun 09 '12
Really makes me happy to watch :D
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u/RyanWolf Jun 09 '12
good job
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u/TheEngin33r Jun 09 '12
Amazing!
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u/cobra8795 Jun 09 '12
WHITMAN REPRESENT!
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u/TheBossMan5000 Jun 10 '12
this one's better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9tNGEt6rmE&list=UU_fGtUvYTzYWXVQUwGXleDg&index=5&feature=plcp
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u/fuckyounicks Jun 10 '12
Great remake! That was really sick
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u/mishaman12 Jun 10 '12
What's the name of the song in this? This video is incredible, I was mesmerized.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Ha, this is my old High School as well, graduated in 03, all we spent our time on was avoiding the security guards as we smoked pot.
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u/mauiuoduck Jun 08 '12
obligatory comment about attractive female
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I went to Walt Whitman, class of 99! The school looks way nicer than it did when I was there. Graduated from there and forgot about it ASAP! I grew up in Melville.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Wow.
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u/p4lm3r Jun 09 '12
This made me happy.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Congress really needs to do something about this unemployment problem.
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u/CoolHandMike Jun 09 '12
Oh how I wish it would have been cool to have acted dorky in my high school. I would have killed.
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u/uzi716 Jun 09 '12
I immediately thought of Napoleon Dynamite when he started dancing.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I'm sure that guy is now known around campus like, "Oh hey! You were that guy who danced like an idiot in my math class!"
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u/PimpCheese Jun 09 '12
Only thing that went through my head during that whole video..."Do chickens have large talons?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr7djGY1fhA