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Bearobics: the 1985 digitally "animated" video featuring teddy bear-related "parodies" of Bee Gees songs

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My friend in high school owned this video, and I could not convince anyone of its existence since. But, guys, it's on youtube and it's real. Please share this nightmare with me.

― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Thursday, 29 October 2009 19:49 (sixteen years ago)

speechless

― sleeve, Thursday, 29 October 2009 19:52 (sixteen years ago)

that is profoundly disturbing.

― Pedro Paramore (jim), Thursday, 29 October 2009 19:56 (sixteen years ago)

I managed to handle it until about two and a half minutes in, ie, 3 seconds into the first song.

― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 29 October 2009 19:57 (sixteen years ago)

Obviously in 1985 people thought that the best way to get kids to take more exercise was to get them to sit in front of the TV.

― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 29 October 2009 19:58 (sixteen years ago)

Even after enduring the first two songs, it still blows my mind that they thought "Bears Are Alive" would be a clever chorus for "Stayin' Alive."

― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Thursday, 29 October 2009 19:59 (sixteen years ago)

It cuts out early – the tape has one more song, not Bee Gees based. It's a bear rapping in that same fake Mickey Mouse voice about how he loves America, imo the highlight of the piece.

― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:01 (sixteen years ago)

oh man that would be horrifying.

― Pedro Paramore (jim), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:03 (sixteen years ago)

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/honeycookies.jpg

― from alcoholism to fleshly concerns (contenderizer), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:06 (sixteen years ago)

what the hell is this

― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:06 (sixteen years ago)

I am still in awe that they try to pull off letting all the layers load, slowly, as animation.

― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:07 (sixteen years ago)

This is about as "animated" as Teletext.

― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:08 (sixteen years ago)

if I continue watching this, my head is going to turn into a teddy bear a la "Halloween 3", right

I mean how is this not an SNL skit

― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:10 (sixteen years ago)

I wonder if the ppl who performed in this actually put it on their resumes

― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:13 (sixteen years ago)

I love that the credits attribute the "concept" to A. Bill Comeau. A. Bill Comeau, please find this via google & tell me...why? what? how? ....why?

― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:14 (sixteen years ago)

"Script & Lyrics: B. Comeau & V. Pasternak." Please let that be a relation to Boris Pasternak.

― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:16 (sixteen years ago)

...well. Dan put it better than I could.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:16 (sixteen years ago)

When he's singing dude sounds uncomfortably like this guy:

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/familyguy/images/d/d1/Herbert.JPG

― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:20 (sixteen years ago)

LOL at "We Should be Lunching"!

― Tuomas, Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:21 (sixteen years ago)

Mind blown, completely. And then there was a link to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuA9YzGUzKU&feature=fvw

― mottdeterre, Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:22 (sixteen years ago)

GAH what the

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:23 (sixteen years ago)

Also, great dietary advice: "You should eat those... green things, and, you know, the orange things that grow on trees."

― Tuomas, Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:23 (sixteen years ago)

Love the big introduction of the video company that kicks things off: AVG. I mean, with a name like average, you know it's got to be good.

― from alcoholism to fleshly concerns (contenderizer), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:29 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBITk6uZomk

OMG, the links from the second Bearobics vid get even better!

― Tuomas, Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:30 (sixteen years ago)

I think these guys deserve their own thread.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:32 (sixteen years ago)

Manchester Manbears group appreciation Thread!!

― Tuomas, Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:34 (sixteen years ago)

Help! I can't stop watching this! (The teddy bears, not the man bears.)

― mottdeterre, Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:41 (sixteen years ago)

The first time I watched it I laughed so hard my abdomen hurt.

― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:43 (sixteen years ago)

Can anyone get MP3s of this?

― mottdeterre, Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:46 (sixteen years ago)


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