My kids love it, they can't stop singing it. And any commercial that combines giant squids, Stephen Hawking, astronauts, and mummies - come on, that's good stuff.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I've had that damned song stuck in my head since the start of this season's Deadliest Catch.
And I love it
Really, that commercial is two parts warm fuzzies mixed with two parts awesome and one part catchiness.
It's a fantastic commercial, and frankly, Discovery channel is a damned fine television station.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
I'd never seen/heard it before, pretty cool. (I love tornadoes, I love arachnids. . . .) I think this should be the "Commercials we love to love" thread.
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
That commercial is awesome. *turns on discovery channel*
Posted by Starsnuffer (Member # 8116) on :
Wow. That is a good commercial.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
I guess I'm just a pessimist..
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
That is an amazing commercial. It just reminds me of how much I really love the Discovery Channel. It's incredible.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I like both the short & long versions (diff. words.) When I had Maggie about all I watched in the hospital was Discovery, and I was singing that for a week afterward. Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
This is one of my favorite commercials ever. Beanie loves when I sing along to it (since we watch a lot of Discovery Channel, that happens a lot).
Posted by Sachiko (Member # 6139) on :
I love it. Posted by T:man (Member # 11614) on :
That commercial is the greatest, it made me love discovery channel all over again.
Posted by Sm34rZ (Member # 8609) on :
My favorite "boom-de-yadda's" are from the african tribe and then from Stephen Hawking. Sooooo robotic.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I like Adam singing, "I love to try stuff" as he lights Jamie on fire. The looks on their faces are priceless. And the Deadliest Catch "boom de yadda." 'Cause it just seems to fit.
And have you all seen this?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Oh, and here is the short version.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Hmmm, though that seems to be out of sync for me. Anyone else?
[ May 19, 2008, 05:01 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: I like Adam singing, "I love to try stuff" as he lights Jamie on fire. The looks on their faces are priceless. And the Deadliest Catch "boom de yadda." 'Cause it just seems to fit.
I thought they were all saying hoom de yadda and the only one that said boom de yadda was the weapons show guy when he fires the grenade launcher, which I always thought was appropriate and funny.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
He emphasises the "Boom" but apparently they're all boom de adda, actually. If you watch that link. Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
LOVE that link! I didn't watch it at first. Especially love the Deadliest Catch guys singing. Mike Rowe is awesome too.
Thanks kq.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Is is just me or is Sig the only one of the DC captains actually enjoying himself up there?
(I like Sig. I think he's my favoritest of the captains, though I'm not sure.)
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
I am absolutely sure that Sig is my favoritest. My husband thinks he's awesome, Sig has the same type of work ethic and business sense my husband does, so he likes the way the Northwestern is run. He has several things in his office that have "Sig sayings" on them. Like "Shut Up and Fish" and "Stick and Stay and Make it Pay" and "Robots are Good". He's memorized Sig's whole speech about how he likes his employees to be robots, who just do what they're told and don't complain and get the job done.
Sig is awesome.
Posted by Dan_Frank (Member # 8488) on :
quote:Originally posted by Belle: I am absolutely sure that Sig is my favoritest. My husband thinks he's awesome, Sig has the same type of work ethic and business sense my husband does, so he likes the way the Northwestern is run. He has several things in his office that have "Sig sayings" on them. Like "Shut Up and Fish" and "Stick and Stay and Make it Pay" and "Robots are Good". He's memorized Sig's whole speech about how he likes his employees to be robots, who just do what they're told and don't complain and get the job done.
Sig is awesome.
I haven't watched Deadliest Catch in a while, but isn't the Northwestern the ship that also includes Edgar? He seems to be one of Sig's best crew members, but I also can't imagine any definition of "robot" that would include him.
Maybe I'm getting my ships confused.
Posted by Xann. (Member # 11482) on :
My firends and I started singing along to it after a midnight movie last night, it turns out, that people at Mcdonolds don't like this comercial.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
The Northwestern is my favorite boat. Sig is my favorite captain. Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
I love it too!
Posted by mimsies (Member # 7418) on :
THANKS for linking to this! We showed it to our Sunday School class this morning (our last meeting of the year). It was perfect.
I never would have known about it without you!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
See, Sig is the one I like the most as a person-- he's like a father figure or something. But I find Phil on the Cornelia Marie hilarious (despite every other word being bleeped out!) And sometimes I find myself rooting for the Time Bandit.
(Upon checking out Wikipedia, Sig is the only one who's been on every season-- I think part of it is that he's a good sport about the cameras. So he's kind of central to the show.)
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
quote:I haven't watched Deadliest Catch in a while, but isn't the Northwestern the ship that also includes Edgar? He seems to be one of Sig's best crew members, but I also can't imagine any definition of "robot" that would include him.
Edgar is Sig's brother. His other brother Norman is also on the boat, but is pretty camera-shy.
Edgar is the deck boss and engineer, so he is kind of the head deckhand.
The robot comment was about a time Sig drove them in a 36+ hour grind with no sleep or real breaks. He gave the speech about robots because he said he liked them that way - too tired to talk back, so worn out all they could do is go through the motions without argument.
Sig is a pretty hard taskmaster, but lest you feel sorry for his deckhands - if you've ever seen the final tallies for the season, the Northwestern deckhands make far and above what any others make. And, the safety record on the Northwestern is unparalelled - they stay safe, they make a lot of money, and they are truly a family atmosphere on that boat. He has the same crewmembers year after year, and only recently had an opening for a greenhorn and that greenhorn talked about how long the line to get a spot on that boat was.
Edgar was even interviewed once and asked if he would ever like to be captain - and he said something to the effect of "No way. Sig's made me a lot of money over the years, I'm perfectly happy where I am."
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
What was the guy tailing in a submersible? :hopes it was a coelacanth:
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
Am I the only one who sang this song in Primary as a kid? The words were slightly different and the tune was just enough different that I didn't recognize it until they got to the boom de yadda part. We sang it as a round and it ended with a "boom, boom, boom".
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
"I love the flowers, I love the daffodils, I love the firesides, when all the light are low..."
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: Am I the only one who sang this song in Primary as a kid? The words were slightly different and the tune was just enough different that I didn't recognize it until they got to the boom de yadda part. We sang it as a round and it ended with a "boom, boom, boom".
Never heard it before, but it sounds like that kind of song. What's it called and what are the words?
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
The words I remember went
quote:I love the mountains I love the rolling hills I love the flowers I love the daffodils I love the fireside when the lights are low Boom de yadda, boom de yadda, boom de yadda, boom de yeah Boom de yadda, boom de yadda, boom de yadda, boom de yeah Boom, boom, boom.
There may have been a second verse too but I mostly remember singing the first verse as a round (or maybe it was as a cannon. the tune is very similar to the one in the discovery commercial but it climbs but each line starts one note higher than the previous line.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Sounds like a fun fireside song Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
It's been referred to as a "camp song" enough in descriptions around the net that I assumed they must have written new words to a song they remembered from when they were kids. Cool to know some people here sung it, too!
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
We sang that a lot when I was little, but my younger siblings preferred the valderee valderah song.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
I'd never even heard of this song before.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Cannot get this song out of my head.
The kids and I rewrote our message machine to the tune of this song last night.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Scott, you really do need to share the lyrics to your message -- enquiring minds want to know.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Boom-di-yadda x4
You've reached the Roberts Please do not have a cow Just leave a message 'Cause we're not home right now.
And if you want us to We will get back to you
Boom-di-yadda x4
BYE!
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Scott that is awesome.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I would steal that, but my husband doesn't like cute outgoing messages.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Love it.
Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :
Today's xkcd fills me with unholy glee Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I loved this song when we sang it at camp.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
That xkcd is genius.
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
I don't think I know the song... Going to the first link in the thread.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
quote:Originally posted by Scott R: That xkcd is genius.
Posted by Elmer's Glue (Member # 9313) on :
quote:Originally posted by Strider:
quote:Originally posted by Scott R: That xkcd is genius.
Posted by Shawshank (Member # 8453) on :
Agreed. WHen I saw today's I was going to try and find this thread and revive it. But it was great.
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