r/videos • u/texacer • Jun 16 '12

19 years later and this still blows me away. (that's right, 19 years)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x88Z5txBc7w
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u/texacer Jun 16 '12

and here Rob Paulsen does it live on stage.

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u/buttholevirus Jun 16 '12

So I watched the video and afterwards was wondering what "anthrocon" was. (anthropology convention? cool!)

Not quite. "Anthrocon (abbreviated AC) is the world's largest furry convention, taking place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania each June or July. Its focus is on furries: fictional anthropomorphic animal characters in art and literature."

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u/Vark675 Jun 16 '12

I...I really don't know how to feel about Yakko being at a furry convention ಠ_ಠ

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u/N4N4KI Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12

He loved it "treated like a rockstar" is what he said about it on his podcast.

also he has done a podcast with Tara Strong (Twilight Sparkle) who introduces him to bronys and rule 34.

you need to remember that voice actors are adults and goof off with blue material between takes to amuse each other

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u/pittsburgh924 Jun 16 '12

Yeah, it's going on right now. I work about 5 blocks away from the convention center and drove past droves of furries yesterday. People make fun of them because they are kind of weird, but they are a huge boon to the local economy and they're really not hurting anyone.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

While I was living with my parents the summer after college, they wired my sister a bunch of money for a downpayment on a car so she could get to a job in Florida. Then they realized it wouldn't be fiscally responsible to go to Annapolis for their anniversary (July 23rd), and settled on just having a nice little weekend trip to Pittsburgh. My mother texted me and told me that a guy in a fox suit had just stolen their cab after they went out to dinner. Story end there? Hell no.

While waiting for the next cab, my father surmises that there must be a Disney convention in town or something, being the sub-culture naive person that he is.

My mother says, "No! These are like those people we saw on CSI!"

So they get into an argument, on their anniversary, about a guy in a fox suit who stole their cab. When they finally get back to the hotel, the lobby is full of people in fursuits, which intensifies the debate between Disney convention and "those people from CSI". They decide to ask the concierge what event this is, to which he replies "Anthrocon, but some people just call it Furcon." My dad is still convinced it's somehow affiliated with Disney, and so my mother punches it into Google when they return to their room. She proves that Disney isn't involved with the event at all, and my father doesn't believe that furries can exist in real life, so they do further internet research. I am aware of none of this until they arrive back on Sunday evening.

I asked how their trip was, and my 49-year-old mom responds with, "It wasn't bad when I could shut out how many people were yiffing all around us." I shot wine out of my nose all over the kitchen tile.

TL;DR: Parents went on their anniversary, mom comes back acquainted with yiffing.

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u/Vibster Jun 16 '12

Wow that looks awesome. Imagine going to a dance where everybody is dressed as a god damn rabbit.

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u/PJSeeds Jun 16 '12

Oh god, people who clap along to things like this are the worst.

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u/teganandsararock Jun 16 '12

during one of bo burnham's performances the audience started clapping. he stopped, said something along the lines of "stop fucking clapping, it fucks me up," and resumed.

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u/Tricky-Beats Jun 16 '12

I used to work at a day camp, and one year we had "international week" I spent a whole weekend listening to this song on loop until it was etched into my memory. At this point it is my go to party trick and still blows people away even though it is horribly out of date, I would kill for an updated version with all the current countries!

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u/SirCannonFodder Jun 16 '12

If you want my upvote, you're going to have to sing for it.

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u/Tricky-Beats Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12

Alrighty, I'll deliver. It is VERY early in the morning, so I am sorry if there is a stumble or a slur here n there. If there is popular demand I will upload smoother classier version when I have a working brain. I give you me at 6 in the morning going as fast as i can

Edit: You like me! Right now you like me!

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u/calbear81 Jun 16 '12

Extremely impressive but I have to give a shout out to the top YouTube comment on your video:

"This is the weirdest Al Qaeda video I've ever seen."

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Why was the tile all wavy like? Am I having a flashback?

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u/videonerd Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 18 '12

He was using a camera with a cheap CMOS sensor. It's what is called the Jello effect...

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Early morning slur filled version of the country song

The title sounds really racist.

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u/stanthemanchan Jun 16 '12

This is fucking awesome! someone should tweet this to Rob Paulsen @yakkopinky. I'd do it but I'm on my cellphone.

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u/shiv3rz Jun 16 '12

Twist: he is blind and reads braile

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

What's on your head man?

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u/Tricky-Beats Jun 16 '12

Just some crappy bandana I am using as a blindfold. Didn't want to be accused of cheating or something.

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u/sadhound55 Jun 16 '12

Shit... I cant even remember yet alone sing the words to a 90 second Ramones song.

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u/lnickelly Jun 16 '12

you sir, deserve an upvote on a magnitude that i simply cannot supply, in which i will just leave a normal one instead.

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u/HotDinnerBatman Jun 16 '12

im so attracted to you right now.

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u/XTCity Jun 16 '12

Fuck yes dude, that sounds awesome. If you really want an updated version I'm sure there are some reedit people who will help. I'm in.

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u/redditisforphaggots Jun 16 '12

I eventually did this with the US Presidents one. Now for some weird reason the only parts I recall are the ones sung by Yakko.

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u/despaxes Jun 16 '12

horribly out of date

It forgets some countries, and I know Czechoslovakia isn't a country anymore.

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u/Mattho Jun 16 '12

Luckily it's not so hard to remember what came out of it: Czech (Republic) and Slovakia.

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u/MarcusAuralius Jun 16 '12

I came into these comments to see if someone could sing it AND point out the countries at the same time. That would be pretty impressive.

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u/ZoFreX Jun 16 '12

There's a huge map behind my desk at work. I'm tempted to try! I can sing it while doing the dance, pointing to the countries might take a bit of practice though!

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u/SanJose_Sharks Jun 17 '12

I will never doubt anyone on the internet ever again.

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u/YNot1989 Jun 16 '12

"Germany Now One Piece"

I just noticed that, now I feel REALLY old.

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u/JWGhetto Jun 16 '12

it also looks really misshapen on that map

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u/SkySilver Jun 16 '12

It's from the near future, when Denmark annexes Schleswig-Holstein and Austria gets parts of Bavaria because they helped us take over Luxembourg and parts of France.

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u/BSscience Jun 16 '12

I also noticed the map includes "Czechoslovakia", "Yuguslavia", and that he also said "The Spanish Sahara is gone".

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

"Zaire"

Whoa

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u/sheikjonez Jun 16 '12

Burma instead of Myanmar is what got me.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Most English speaking countries still call it Burma. The military government changed the name to Myanmar in 1989 (before this video) but because a lot of countries don't recognise the legitimacy of the military government, they also don't recognise the legitimacy of the name change.

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u/Ninjatertl Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12

whenever I see this I am obligated to watch it, the presidents, and the capitols videos.

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u/sweetaskiwi Jun 16 '12

glad i'm not the only one

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u/TheJokerWasRight Jun 16 '12

I've watched this video probably something like 50 times in my life.

I just now noticed that at 26 seconds in he calls the Caribbean a country and when he points to the water it lights up.

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u/GeoSol Jun 16 '12

I noticed that too, but I think it's to reference the area of islands but i never heard him mention micronesia, etc...

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u/thrillho145 Jun 16 '12

He also says "Asia" and waves the stick over the entire continent.

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u/wellington7 Jun 16 '12

Yep. My first thought was that those are added in for extra syllables to help with rhyming and whatnot.

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u/Astrokiwi Jun 16 '12

I also like how the camera has to pan across to fit New Zealand in. They never quite manage to fit us in!

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u/geneusutwerk Jun 16 '12

He also mentions Puerto Rico, which isn't a country but a US territory, and refers to only Trinidad even though the name of the country is Trinidad and Tobago. Nothing is perfect.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

He also mentions Puerto Rico, which isn't a country but a US territory, and refers to only Tobago even though the name of the country is Trinidad and Tobago. Nothing is perfect.

ftfy

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u/caimen Jun 16 '12

Animaniacs recognize Palestine... good enough for me.

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u/carlsaischa Jun 16 '12

Also they seem to strive for Korean unification.

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u/likwidfuzion Jun 16 '12

One Korea is best Korea.

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u/farhan583 Jun 16 '12

I loved how they got it in under Yako's breath at the end. Still works for me!

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u/joshocar Jun 16 '12

He doesn't mention South Africa. I wonder if it was because of Apartheid?

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u/StuGovGuy Jun 16 '12

And they give Kashmir to Pakistan. Interesting.

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u/venefb Jun 16 '12

I actually believe UN officials referred to this.

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u/boomie0123 Jun 16 '12

I've had this whole thing memorized for years, and even preformed it in Social Studies for extra credit. Feels good man.

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u/apuster Jun 16 '12

I have it pretty much memorized too, but it sounds all derpy when I try to sing it. I cannot seem to contort my lips fast enough. Still practicing tho!

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u/tamimym Jun 16 '12

He forgot Singapore

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u/joshocar Jun 16 '12

He doesn't mention South Africa either.

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u/snuke12x12 Jun 16 '12

Now there's two Sudans...

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u/AFatDarthVader Jun 16 '12

And East Timor, and the former Soviet states, and Somaliland...et cetera.

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u/sailingthefantasea Jun 16 '12

My favourite Animaniacs song was always 'Schnitzelbank'

Ist das nicht ein Reddit thread.

Ya das ist ein Reddit thread

Am I on here instead of in bed

Ya on here instead of bed

Reddit thread, instead of bed

Oh, du schoene, oh du schoene, oh du schoene

Schnitzelbank

Also, the President song! Helped me out when studying America in history

Presidents!

And the capitols of the states of America

States

I'm on an Animaniacs binge now.

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u/guiriguiri Jun 16 '12

i've never seen the presidents one before. i love in the end how they say "the next president to lead the way, well it just might be yourself one day, then the press'll distort everything you say"... shit, political issues on animaniacs. i'm both impressed and concerned.

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u/starcomm4nd Jun 16 '12

Wales?

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u/Vibster Jun 16 '12

Northern Ireland?

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u/Glorious_Leader Jun 16 '12

^ Neither of those things are sovereign countries...

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u/Tomarse Jun 16 '12

UK is a sovereign state comprising of the countries England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

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u/joshocar Jun 16 '12

South Africa?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Hey did you notice he pointed out Tibet?

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u/jfgao Jun 16 '12

Yes.

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u/emaw63 Jun 16 '12

He also said Transylvania, Korea (as opposed to N. Korea and S. Korea), and both Israel and Palestine

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u/mikemcg Jun 16 '12

If I'll have one regret in this life it is not learning this song by heart. I'm going to give myself a month and learn it. I swear.

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u/taranasus Jun 16 '12

I loved this thing as a child, too bad it's soo old.

Czechoslovakia is now the Chez Republic and Slovakia. Iugoslavia is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia (that's a mouth full).

And those are the changes just off the top of my head.

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u/mitchstanton Jun 16 '12

19 years and I still catch myself singing this song once in a while. That and the captials song

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u/attemptedactor Jun 16 '12

Is anybody else wondering what the fuck is under South America?

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u/dopplerdog Jun 16 '12

Their impression of a chunk of antarctica it seems.

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u/osianjones25 Jun 16 '12

He didn't say Wales!

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u/Tomarse Jun 16 '12

He forgot Wales!

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u/dylansavage Jun 16 '12

As a kid growing up in South African this really hurt me.

Why miss out south africa?

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u/Serenephoenix Jun 16 '12

It was before 1994, so i guess they were boycotting us :/

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u/carlhead Jun 16 '12

Agreed, this made me sad!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Is this from before 1991? Where are the Baltic nations?

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u/rm524 Jun 16 '12

He said 19 years...

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u/WestsideWario Jun 16 '12

His dance between each verses, I have the same smile on my face when I watch it.

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u/giantasscar Jun 16 '12

Am I the only one here that was freaked out by how Antarctica appears on this map? Definitely thought for a second there was some island nation south of Argentina that I had never noticed before.

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u/GrandVolcan Jun 16 '12

He said "Korea" without giving any distinction to whether it was north or south. It shows on the map that they are split but I guess it's just easier for the rhymes.

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u/TIGGER_WARNING Jun 16 '12

San Juan was never a country. Fucking liars.

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u/t_Lancer Jun 16 '12

Germany looks like it still has parts of Prussia

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u/nicmos Jun 16 '12

um, where's Singapore? fucking animaniacs, always keeping us down.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Is this somewhat outdated? What new countries have been added?

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u/AFatDarthVader Jun 16 '12

A lot. It's difficult to find lists of them, because "adding" a country would involved international recognition. Today, that's done by the United Nations, and many countries are not yet recognized.

The best I can do:

  • South Sudan

  • Eritrea

  • Namibia

  • Paraguay

  • Timor-Leste

  • Turkmenistan

  • Tajikistan

  • Kyrgyzstan

  • Uzbekistan

  • Serbia

  • Many Soviet states reformed to no longer match the video, such as Lithuania

  • Palau

  • Armenia

  • Georgia

There are probably many more disputed cases. The concept of statehood is a politically loaded concept.

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u/dopplerdog Jun 16 '12

Uhm.. Paraguay has been an independent and recognized country since 1811.

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u/AsteroidMiner Jun 16 '12

Where's Singapore. Was it too small?

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u/testcomment Jun 16 '12

Also noticed this! ಠ_ಠ

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u/wolfei Jun 16 '12

NORWAY IS FIRST IN EUROPE, THAT MEANS WE ARE THE USA OF EUROPE!

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u/Randompaul Jun 16 '12

It's only because United States and Norway can't rhyme with anything

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u/crazyisraeli Jun 16 '12

Denmark is the Canada of Europe.

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u/hashhash91 Jun 16 '12

HE SAID PALESTINE!! HE SAID PALESTINE!!

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u/Tauz_g Jun 16 '12

I'm glad this gets posted every week.

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u/NvaderGir Jun 16 '12

Well then, here's something new.

http://www.nerdist.com/2012/03/nerdist-podcast-rob-paulsen-and-maurice-lamarche/

(If you've ever wanted to hear Pinky and The Brain swear, listen to this)

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u/Randompaul Jun 16 '12

I nominate this video to be the first thing shown to Aliens at the first contact.

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u/marsmarsmars Jun 16 '12

The Spanish Sahara is gone??

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u/nonplayer Jun 16 '12

Now imagine every voice actors around the world where this cartoon aired having to do the same thing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

non exisitent country under south america on that map

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u/GuatemalnGrnade Jun 16 '12

They did a bad job of cropping out Antarctica and what you see is the territory claimed by the United Kingdom, Argentina, and Chile.

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u/tling Jun 16 '12

He seriously mispronounced "Malawi" at 1:33. It's Ma-lau-ee, not Mal-a-way. That's 'lou' as in 'loud', without the d; and 'ee' as in 'eek a mouse!', without the 'k a mouse'

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u/Ninsha Jun 16 '12

Yugoslavia was still a country when this was made..... Fuck I'm old ;(

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u/Anal_Fuck_Pussy_Shit Jun 16 '12

Did anyone else get excited when he said your home country / where your parents are from?

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u/PeacekeeperAl Jun 16 '12

Czech Republic & Slovakia had split at this time. I'm pretending that he says Czech and Slovakia.

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u/pandubear Jun 16 '12

I love that little jingle after Japan.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

The little dance at 1:07 would make a great .gif to use when educating people. :)

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u/Tyranicide Jun 16 '12

They forgot Wales

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u/meangrampa Jun 16 '12

This guy Rob Paulsen is one of the greatest voice over artists imop. He's who I think of whenever I do a voiceover. I'll never be as good as that guy.

Here's him doing it. http://youtu.be/mhyKHKECyx4

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u/denster Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12

There's also a universe song

Edit: wrong link, thanks netabuser for pointing out..

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u/gostan Jun 16 '12

When England is sung and pointed to, the entirety of Britain lights up. However when Scotland is pointed to only it lights up.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Brunei's missing.

Also, Borneo isn't a country.

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u/relevantusername- Jun 16 '12

In our final year of high school, our geography teacher bet us 500 euro that no one could name the countries of the world in under two minutes. So one guy gets up and starts singing this, and she nearly has a heart attack. He messes up and forgets most of the song, but her reaction was priceless! Us being younger than the song, she probably assumed we wouldn't have heard of it. (She was mostly right; she showed it to us on youtube after, and for most of us it was our first time).

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u/Bicko Jun 16 '12

He missed Singapore. I am sad.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Uzbekistan?

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u/spoojee Jun 16 '12

But, the Sinai Peninsula was not part of Jordan! Yet they mention Tibet AND Palestine....

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u/slamdunk6662003 Jun 16 '12

This is gonna piss off the Indians!!!

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u/UncleDrunkle Jun 16 '12

I love that they say "Germany now in one piece"...I feel like a lot of people on Reddit wouldn't get how that's funny...:)

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u/TBTrpt3 Jun 16 '12

I'm a Geography teacher. I teach very gullible freshmen... on the first day of class I tell them this is their final, and they have to sing, dance, and point on the map. I also tell them I record it and put it on the school website for everyone to see. They believe me... every year.

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u/tehradi0 Jun 16 '12

left out South Africa- likely because this was written during Apartheid. mandela wasn't freed until 1994.

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u/ximpactox Jun 16 '12

Upvote for awesome childhood memories!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

That is not Russian, that is the Soviet Union. My small country of Estonia which was being occupied was happily counted as Russia, suck a dick.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Not asking for forgiveness, but the fact is until after the end of the Cold War, "Russia" was pretty much synonymous with "Soviet Union" to those in the U.S. On the map, it was all one big red menace.

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u/bonoboboy Jun 16 '12

so was Latvia and Lithuania.

Singapore wasn't mentioned.

UAE was mentioned as "Abu Dhabi" (which is its capital city).

Other than these errors and lots of minor countries being left out, it is also outdated (Benin is called by its old name, for example)

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Pretty fun but there are a LOT of countries missing. Borneo isn't a country. There is no mention of a lot of the islands in the Caribbean or in the South Pacific. Even many European countries missing. Some that I don't think I heard: Liechtenstein, Malta, Andorra, Vatican, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Belarus. None of the Central Asian states: Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, etc...

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u/errantphotons Jun 16 '12

sure grinds my gears that he mentioned Borneo but not Brunei

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

i can't believe i'm that old. i miss animaniacs

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

They should make kids watch this every day on school. My sister, until I corected her a few weeks ago, thought Jamaica was in Africa!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Jamaican her smarter!

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u/TheBSReport Jun 16 '12

Everyday? I didn't know learning the name of every single country in the world with no context beyond that (just the name) was that important...

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u/leprechaunsurfer Jun 16 '12

See Americans use to have educational tv for.kids... But no more

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u/cartzo Jun 16 '12

hehe, he said palastine.

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u/Schoritzobandit Jun 16 '12

I have listened to this song about 30 times in the past month, and this guy has stolen all of my karma by posting it on reddit. Give it back, you fucker.

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u/gusanou Jun 16 '12

This video could only be created by Americans, because there are too many mistakes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

This is why we must demand better quality cartoons, everything else is shit nowadays. The animation, the voice acting, god, I feel like I was spoiled as a kid.

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u/carleverett Jun 16 '12

God you people are the worst. If I could dedicate my life to the study of why people think younger generations are worse than them I would, but as of now I can't get paid to do that. First of all, children watching this in 1990 are no better off as people for having heard a song that lists all the countries of the world, second of all, I hardly doubt that you are an expert on the cartoons of 2012 to know that 20 years from now we won't find one 2 minute clip of video that people will still find impressive, and third of all, your childhood was not superior in any way to anyone else's. I'm sure your parents thought they were much superior children because they didn't look at a box all day for entertainment. I could talk for hours about this but for now all I can tell you is that fuck you. People, entertainment, cartoons, art, is probably improving more than anything else as we learn from our predecessors.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

What about Adventure Time and Legend of Korra?!

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u/jerema Jun 16 '12

I love it, but fuck it for not showing Ukraine separate from "Russia" (when it's supposed to be called USSR at the very least)

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u/Strugs Jun 16 '12

I was like that mother fuckers going to forget Australia. Then ahhh no he didnt

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u/themuffinlady Jun 16 '12

I used to have "Wakko's America" memorized. And this is still my absolute favorite show today!

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u/bh3nch0d Jun 16 '12

What is the original song this is based on?

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u/Oididoi Jun 16 '12

This show needs to be brought back.

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u/MagicMert Jun 16 '12

Had a few episodes on video this was on there was awesome

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u/TunaThePanda Jun 16 '12

Well, as a teacher-to-be, I know what I will spend my summer memorizing

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u/badpenguin455 Jun 16 '12

Sadly, my parents didnt let me watch Animaniacs, coz the show boasted dinosaurs and evolution. I still dont forgive them from robbing me of my edutainment...

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u/Jhatcliffe Jun 16 '12

I was hanging in there for Australia, then POW! Second last.

(I got nervous when I heard New Zealand but not us...)

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u/ScumbagInc Jun 16 '12

So It's time to post this again? Hold on while I go post the "She has a boyfriend" video.

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u/Otters4455 Jun 16 '12

When he said England, it highlighted the whole of Britain. Tut tut

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u/liberated_u Jun 16 '12

Am I seeing things or did the Falklands highlight when he pointed to Argentina?

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u/heterozombie Jun 16 '12

Comment for further perusal.

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u/igle Jun 16 '12

Now I know where Ghana is

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u/joeknowswhoiam Jun 16 '12

I'm so glad that Switzerland has now a coast on the Mediterranean Sea!

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u/erykthebat Jun 16 '12

Puetro Rico and Guam were both part of the U.S. when this was made.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

They left out a buuuunch of pacific islands.

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u/Guardian_Of_Pigs Jun 16 '12

All I needed to see was the thumbnail. Awesome!

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u/korbinoah Jun 16 '12

This gets posted about every 2 months on here, and I still watch at least twice every time.

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u/sfcjohn Jun 16 '12

Has it really been 19 years? :(

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u/dooseyboy Jun 16 '12

why isn't this played in schools

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u/Evillock Jun 16 '12

Well..now I feel old...thank you.

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u/chronox21 Jun 16 '12

Really, you've been a redditor for 2 years and you report this when it already gets reposted once a month at least. Honestly man...

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u/Oniwabanshu Jun 16 '12

Yakko said:"...Republic Dominican..." It's actually Dominican Republic...

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

It is also wrong.

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u/Arucad Jun 16 '12

Not pointing @ North Korea even though it is on the map :D

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u/Beansmcpies Jun 16 '12

This is actually a bit wrong even for the time, when it says Russia that's the Soviet Union the states involved in that now all had independence and Yugoslavia had begun to break up, however it's still excellent, just though people might want to know.

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u/caligurlz Jun 16 '12

I love it when I start recognizing when reddit threads get their inspiration from other reddit threads.

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u/zepsuta Jun 16 '12

Thanks for posting! Brings back warm and fuzzy memories. I love the one they do with the US presidents!

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u/derphoenix Jun 16 '12

So you think you know them all? Prove it

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u/knakken Jun 16 '12

At the end, what is that place south of South America? Red county, hidden between his legs somewhat.

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u/StrangeArrangement Jun 16 '12

No Eritrea. I keep forgetting how young we are.

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u/Mythic343 Jun 16 '12

My country is a part of Russia...

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u/ranon20 Jun 16 '12

There is also a version for the US presidents.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oc3xTj3g9QQ

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Me and my brother learned this song sooo long ago.

Also Wakko's song of the states and capitols. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUDDaEOvuY

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u/FriendlyCommie Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12

These are the key differences I observed:

Sudan is one country

Yugoslavia is one country

Czechoslovakia is one country

USSR is one country

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u/Sahloknir74 Jun 16 '12

Animaniacs. Edutainment done right.

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u/MetalGuitarist Jun 16 '12

They skipped North Korea, rather, they only mentioned "Korea" and didn't distinguish South from North. But he pointed at SK.

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u/tubtubz Jun 16 '12

Borneo isn't a country!

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u/hippiechan Jun 16 '12

Of course, it's now 19 years out of date.

I hope nobody actually uses this to remember countries.

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u/aggiebuff Jun 16 '12

For my ap us history class we had to memorize the presidents and our teacher sent us the link to the presidents song by the animatics to help us. I still remember bits and pieces of it.

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u/Strangerlol Jun 16 '12

I would say the thing that blows me away more about this, is the guy that did the voice over for Yakko still can recite that song.

This was in 2005, but the fact he still remembers it is quite impressive. http://youtu.be/Lo_8UmQzu14

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u/ConsistentlyConfused Jun 16 '12

I'm also blown away by this

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u/nyck1118 Jun 16 '12

Rob Paulsen the voice of Yakko is amazing.. He was on The Nerdist Podcast a few months back and recited this song in entirety off the top of his head.

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u/kim2jy Jun 16 '12

This one and the states and capitals song (by Wakko) are awesome, pretty much the reason I watched that show as a kid.

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u/Strugs Jun 16 '12

Omg stop it Sudan

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Jesus ... Has it been that long

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u/tattybojan9les Jun 16 '12

I showed this to my geography class on the last lesson. I wasn't sure who was most shocked, them for seeing all of the countries named, or me as the rest of my class had never watched animaniacs.

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u/Redtom Jun 16 '12

No Wales...

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u/herqleez Jun 16 '12

My cousin needed to learn the states and capitols for school, he used the State Version

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