YouTube?! Surely you mean Flash! This came from the creator Weebl who had a ton of great Flash animations on his website. Actually I can't believe it, but the website is still up in 2024!
Here's the badgers one specifically: http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/badgers-animated-music-video-mrweebl/
Speak for yourself. I, for one, do not miss needing to suffer through intro animations before the real site would load, "designed for Internet Explorer 4", or the endless ad popups of the era.
Points for nostalgia though
Adobe jumbled them up after acquiring Macromedia, which itself had previously acquired both (shockwave from Macromind, flash from Futurewave).
I remember watching this pre-youtube as well, but it was in ebaumsworld.com
It looked very different back in the day.
Another classic song is the llama song. I remember a friend showing that to me in '04.
Also used to muck around with Frog in a Blender and Gerbil in a Microwave Flash games all around the same time as badger badger badger….ahh memories ….when the internet was simply for nerds 😂
Joe Cartoon was an old internet staple. The website still exists but everything has been converted to movies, isn't quite the same without the interaction
I'm not sure if I've seen that one, I'll have to check it out, thanks!
Is it this one? http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/alpaca-animated-music-video-mrweebl/
Or maybe you were referring to the Llamas In Hats series? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBE8C175E9FAAA34A
I was always partial to the Amazing Horse one for some reason. http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/amazing-horse-animated-music-video-mrweebl/
I used to listen to it for hours and a weird quirk of Flash animations was that often the audio track and the video were milliseconds off so over time it would get very out of sync.
Ebaumsworld is where 14- to 17-year-old me spent most of my time in those days. The forum was my introduction to internet message boards. Will always have a spot spot there.
We shared the albinoblacksheep link on msn. Youtube existed, it was part of the rise of shockwave flash technology websites.
Badger by AlbinoBlackSheep (John Picking)
Publication date: 2003-09-01
https://archive.org/details/flash_badger
Youtube Founded: February 14, 2005
Ah, spent so many hours of my youth on albinoblacksheep. My first introduction to Lemon Demon among many other things.
Where is the music? I only see the one mushroom too, we're missing like 3/4 of the picture mate
To jump on the bandwagon, OP's showing their age. I can't remember where I first saw Badger Badger, but it was definitely pre-Youtube (or at least mainstream Youtube) when Flash was all the rage
I remember seeing flash video like "End of the World" and "Bunny Kill" series on Miniclip and then later ArmorGames. I didn't even consider how far they predated YouTube until now lol
Showing age, the first thing that came to my mind was the old show The Wind in the Willows.
I have a soft spot for music from tv show intros from the 70s and early 80s. The compositions and memorable melodies were something else.
I think maybe it was a legacy from the 70s movie soundtracks, where Ennio Morricone really showed how important soundtracks were to movies, but then TV shows had to do it in 30 seconds. I love the craftsmanship of it.
Some of my favorites:
Airwolf's opening I've seen before; and the Dallas one is pretty great. Here are a couple I'll throw in to the mix:
Rupert note the interesting time signatures
Gormenghast the first and second books are excellent. The third is... different....
The Prisoner possibly the greatest (and surely the longest!) opening
"The prisoner" is quite wild from a music perspective and way ahead of it's time. Looks more like a 60s/70s series. Never saw it myself.
I guess it's not so decade dependent, but more about someone caring enough to make a good intro song.
Here are more TV themes that you didn't know you already knew:
Round the Twist (this is the Epitome of early 1990s)
Did carmeldansen become a thing before or after badgerbadger mushroom?
Anybody remember dafthands, and daftbodies?
Oh yes, I remember them. Every few years I remember the Badger song and play it for a while + some other catchy old Weebl's stuff like Amazing Horse, Where can you see lions (only in Kenya)... Oh god, the more I think about them the more I remember.
Apparently Badger Badger is from 2003.
Caramelldansen (gif + music) is from 2005.
Daft Hands from 2007.
Dancing Baby is even older, from 96 / 97.
I found basgerbadger a long time after caramelldansen. Helicopter parents of the 90s/early thous with all the time limits and website blockers a parent could easily get their hands on lmao
A large part of my journey of becoming a nerd was figuring out how to disable those haha.
I had time limits, until my dad became too much of a drunk to care, and my mom was too disabled and incorrectly medicated to do anything.
Anyway, I was not introduced to carameldansen until dating an extreme weaboo girl who insisted on dressing me up as L from Death Note... whereas I found badgerbadger years earlier.
I watched Tim Burtons Batman in our local cinema.
Also my first contact with silly internet movies was the llama song.
20s? 30s? A teenager? I'm assuming not 40s or older. anyway that picture is fucking adorable.
Yore, pfft, not sure on the exact year but predates badgers by some I'm sure. From rathergood.com/b3ta.com. My zimmerframe is parked in the corner btw!