Monday, February 2, 2009

Weebl

Weebl? What the hell is that? That was more or less what I said to my girlfriend back before we started dating when she showed me a bunch of videos on this website called Weebl. For one of the most disturbing things you'll ever see (though it's hard to explain why), check out Salad Fingers (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/salad+fingers/) Some of you may have heard of this cartoon, but if you haven't, you should check it out. No doubt, it's fucked up; the music in the background just give me chills. It's incredibly difficult to describe (my take on it is that it's set in some strange sort of post-nuclear world, where deformity and empty spaces are the norm, but it's never explained where this thing takes place); you just have to watch it for yourself.

There are several "episodes," most of them between 3 and 7 mminutes. If they were 20-30 minutes, like a television show, it wouldn't work. Salad Fingers simply cannot be stretched out to a "full-length" running time. If you string all the episodes together, of course, they would make this time, but each episode is both self-contained and part of a larger whole, and wouldn't make sense if presented as a straightforward narrative.

There are many more cartoons on Weebl, too. To check them out, visit http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons

Oh yeah, and a show this bizarre probably wouldn't make it anywhere other than the internet; not even on Adult Swim.

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