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February 25, 2011

North Korea Acquires Video-Transition Weapons

by Jack Stuef  


“Comrade, we do not care for this individual. He is threatening the breathtaking glory of our motherland. How shall we defeat him?” “Have we finished our work on the top-secret spinning photo technology?” “Yes, the Libyans supplied the resources.” “Then use it.” “But sir, the horror of—” “USE IT.” It would appear from North Korea’s YouTube account that they have acquired key video-transition weapons, and they are deploying ALL OF THEM. What’s Obama doing about this? Just sitting around waiting for photo-going-down-the-drain effect to be used on us? Well, their propaganda cartoons about children blowing up American ships with their geometry homework still look like they were made in the 1950s, so maybe it’s not time to worry. YET.

It’s Friday. None of us are doing anything important. Let’s all watch this cartoon of a child destroying the U.S. military with pencils while a chorus of children sing in exultation.

And if you’re interested in comedy, you’ll love the hilarious stylings of North Korea’s top comedy duo in this famous sketch, “Two Guys Cross a Bridge.”

[YouTube]

{ 88 comments }

LionelHutzEsq February 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm

Dear God, Astroboy has gone over to the Reds!

ManchuCandidate February 25, 2011 at 1:49 pm

Big deal. I won't freak out unless they start building Veritech Jet Fighters than turn into robots.

ifthethunderdontgetya February 25, 2011 at 1:38 pm

Once again, Wonkette brings us the news the Lamestream media is afraid to cover!
~

user-of-owls February 25, 2011 at 1:39 pm

It's even more hilarious after a gallon or so of makkoli.

sezme February 25, 2011 at 1:40 pm

Dear God, Steven Spielberg has gone over to the Reds!

MinAgain February 25, 2011 at 1:40 pm

It's true, then. Video really has killed the radio star.

Ducandy February 27, 2011 at 7:11 pm

Well, in this case, Video Toaster.

How 1992.

CapnFatback February 25, 2011 at 1:40 pm

The North Koreans have perfected wipe-o-dong technology!

indysocco February 25, 2011 at 1:40 pm

I didn't see a star wipe, so I believe the world is safe for democracy. For now.

bagofmice February 25, 2011 at 5:13 pm

The dude snorted the whole frame! Went right up his nose.

assistantatlas February 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm

Other than the mass starvation, nuclear warmongering, weapons-proliferating, and the totalitarian dictatorship, North Korea is delightful!

DoktorZoom February 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm

We need our top experts to counter this. Get me the design firm that did the logo for Action News Team On Your Side at 10!

DerrickWildcat February 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm

Why were they not stopped from getting this. Pakistan is the only Country in that area that could have given North Korea the technology to do this. The big question is if this happened on Obama's watch.

HistoriCat February 25, 2011 at 2:45 pm

Of course it happened on Obama's watch – it's another sign of moral weakness.

ManchuCandidate February 25, 2011 at 1:42 pm

Not surprising considering NK has to buy PS2s (yeah, I know the 3's been out for a while) and Xboxes (with their counterfeit US America currency aka Kim Bucks) so they can use the CPUs for their home brewed "high" tech weaponry.

V572625694 February 25, 2011 at 1:42 pm

Easy to look on these with contemptuous scorn, but dutiful North Korean workers aren't occupying their provincial capitols! And why not, you ask? No, not because their failed police state doesn't generate enough food to keep people alive. No, it is because North Korean labor unions have triumphed! The Koch brothers want to warn you that this workers' paradise of video-editing clichés is the future that awaits us if the rebellion in Madison is not supressed immediately!

freakishlywrong February 25, 2011 at 1:44 pm

Like the Japanese, the North Koreans are deeply weird.

DoktorZoom February 25, 2011 at 1:51 pm

Everyone in my prefecture thinks so.

user-of-owls February 25, 2011 at 1:53 pm

I didn't realize you lived in Wackyama Prefecture, Doc.

freakishlywrong February 25, 2011 at 2:16 pm

I mean you and your prefecture no offense Doktor. It's all the MST3K I used to watch.

horsedreamer_1 February 25, 2011 at 3:11 pm

You get the bomb dropped on you, or end up in a state of perpetual non-war war for half a century, & see how you do.

not that Dewey February 25, 2011 at 1:47 pm

What's the big deal? Car dealers and linoleum flooring warehouses have been using this technology in their TV ads for at least 6 years now.

Extemporanus February 25, 2011 at 1:47 pm

DON'T RETREAT…RECURSIVE!

user-of-owls February 25, 2011 at 1:54 pm

Did I mention the fact that you're execrable?

Extemporanus February 25, 2011 at 3:44 pm

I'd heard some shitty rumors to that effect, but didn't know hoo-hoo had started them.

Monsieur_Grumpe February 25, 2011 at 2:55 pm

I had a dream, no, I mean nightmare that was somethinglike that.

SorosBot February 25, 2011 at 3:56 pm
Extemporanus February 25, 2011 at 5:00 pm

Having inadvertently applied that very same transition far too many times myself, all I can say is…BWAHHHAHAHAHA!

bagofmice February 25, 2011 at 5:17 pm

It would be far more efficient to describe it as f("HA", 4); to determine the length of HA.

Extemporanus February 27, 2011 at 3:30 am

Me so solly, but me no speak Boorean.

MistaEko February 25, 2011 at 1:48 pm

Ha. Show 'em a little bit of those red blooded american spinning gifs and these commies will be signin' The Star Spangled Banner in no time.

SayItWithWookies February 25, 2011 at 1:48 pm

John Bolton came out with a statement saying the North Koreans are only months away from acquiring the technology that produced The Last Starfighter. We should've listened to him when we had the chance, people!

ManchuCandidate February 25, 2011 at 1:51 pm

All fear the Atari 2600!

Extemporanus February 25, 2011 at 2:01 pm

Yet another reason not to trust lizard people disguised as old white men.

I blame you, Secretary of Defense Centauri!

Preferred Customer February 25, 2011 at 3:06 pm

I take it this means it is time to bomb Iran?

weejee February 25, 2011 at 1:48 pm

Part I liked best was when the one kid scolded the other for losing the wascally wabbit who was a know CIA spy Bugs Kimchi.

user-of-owls February 25, 2011 at 1:49 pm

Somebody's gonna get an extra helping of boiled grass and bark tea tonight!

baconzgood February 25, 2011 at 1:51 pm

Needs moar GWAR!

user-of-owls February 25, 2011 at 1:52 pm

I bet you didn't know that Kim Jong Il invented mincing, did you?

[Credit where it's due: Pirouetting was discovered by George Washington.]

neiltheblaze February 25, 2011 at 1:53 pm

At last, the great North Korean conspiracy to impale us all with their nefarious gigantic #2 pencil weapons is uncovered. Little do they know that we've got phalanxes of Ruby Eraser tipped anti-pencil missiles waiting and at the ready!

Bring it on, muthas.

smokefilledroommate February 25, 2011 at 1:53 pm

The title to the third one should be 'North Korean Gilligan and Skipper Homoerotically Cross A Bridge'.

Monsieur_Grumpe February 25, 2011 at 1:54 pm

You know, whenyour work place blocks the youtubes, this post isn't much fun.
*sad*

DoktorZoom February 25, 2011 at 1:56 pm

That cartoon was OK, but it's no match for Worker and Parasite. You just can't touch the classics.

GOPCrusher February 25, 2011 at 3:45 pm

I love early Ren and Stimpy.

el_donaldo February 25, 2011 at 1:57 pm

Tank needs more sharks.

MistaEko February 25, 2011 at 1:58 pm

While the cartoon is apparently a drawn-out lesson in teaching children to put protractor centers at the fulcrum of the pencil launchers to avoid miscalculating angle measurements, it is worth noting that the pencils have guidance systems on them, which eliminates the need for trajectory calculations in the first place.
/edited as I was nerdy enough to pick up the lesson on the first run through and thought it was unintentional

MrFizzy February 25, 2011 at 1:59 pm

Maybe we can get a license for this thing and figure out what the fuck Sarah Palin is talking about most of the time.

harry_palmer February 25, 2011 at 2:01 pm

You may not be doing anything important. I'm hanging out at Wonkette letting my morals degenerate and my sense of propriety get shot to hell.

gef05 February 25, 2011 at 2:02 pm

If the Hangul (Korean characters) had used the "marching ants" effect, that would have garnered a 7/10 on the Crap-o-meter. As is, maybe a 5.5.

BarackMyWorld February 25, 2011 at 2:04 pm

I want to know how North Korea acquired so much of our precious military-based stock footage.

imissopus February 25, 2011 at 2:04 pm

WMD – Wipes of Mass Destruction

SilverTsunami February 25, 2011 at 2:09 pm

I learned so much! I learned that Korea invented polka music; that mouth-sounds for bullets in Korean are "Gwah! Gwah!" instead of "Pew! Pew! Pew!" and that Korea has flying cars.

JackDempsey1 February 25, 2011 at 2:09 pm

Not much in these clips, as far as I can see.
Now, I'd start to worry if those rascals combined this early-generation videography with one of our American superthespians or ultracomedians. The capture and deployment of, say, Andy Dick, with the technology here would certainly yield mutually-assured something or other.

user-of-owls February 25, 2011 at 2:15 pm

We should follow the lead of Herbert Hoover on this one, he knew how to deal with the pencil threat.
http://cdn3.iofferphoto.com/img/item/179/124/975/...

hagajim February 25, 2011 at 2:15 pm

Nice to see the North Koreans have finally moved into the 20th Century.

Dudleydidwrong February 25, 2011 at 2:15 pm

Video 1: Now I know the US is falling behind. The Glorious Leader video editing machine is impossible to defeat. Wait til our heads snap during the big screen version.

Video 2: Guided missile pencils are so "yesterday," but I sure would like a set of them erection binoculars. Haven't had one like that for years. NK invented binocular Viagra?

Video 3: Doesn't the loving government know that those guys are practicing to escape from the people's republic of assholeistan?

Show's over. Back to work…

edgydrifter February 25, 2011 at 2:15 pm

Are Your Base Are Belong To The Workers Collective For Glorious Benefit

baconzgood February 25, 2011 at 2:17 pm

After seeing that I can firmly say I can die now. That was the best thing I've ever seen and I once saw a tiger eat a shark.

Ducksworthy February 25, 2011 at 2:19 pm

In North Korea it is still the 1950's, part of North Dakota too, as well.

Oblios_Cap February 25, 2011 at 2:24 pm

I didn't know there were rabbits in N. Korea. I figured they'd all been eaten by now.

Bring me my Hassenpfeffer!

comrad_darkness February 27, 2011 at 10:50 am

I bet in N. Korea it also tastes like cooked carrots.

freakishlywrong February 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm

Is this in retaliation for Team America? Fuck yeah!

Oblios_Cap February 25, 2011 at 2:39 pm

They probably just got a copy of Red Dawn and this is the Korean response.

HistoriCat February 25, 2011 at 2:53 pm

WOLVERINES!!!!

Preferred Customer February 25, 2011 at 2:41 pm

The guy at the beginning is the human incarnation of the dramatic gopher. Need more of him, memestyle. Stat.

Oblios_Cap February 25, 2011 at 2:48 pm

Protractors of Mass Destruction! Pencils of Doom!

SorosBot February 25, 2011 at 2:52 pm

Man, those North Koreans will be unstoppable once they discover the technology that we call "food".

user-of-owls February 25, 2011 at 2:56 pm

I love Two Guys Cross a Bridge!! It's their best work since the 2007 masterpiece, Two Guys Watch a River. Some critics are even comparing it to the paradigm-shattering production of Two Guys; Just Two Guys.

환상적 !!

Preferred Customer February 25, 2011 at 2:58 pm

As long they don't acquire a cup, I'm fine with any of it.

horsedreamer_1 February 25, 2011 at 3:13 pm

Some would say it inspired the prize — if not election — winning campaign for president of former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel.

user-of-owls February 25, 2011 at 7:10 pm

Interviewer: Are you disappointed that this comment has only received one upfist?

User of Owls: While I try not to be overly fixated on the pee-score, occasionally it ruffles my feathers that what I think is a snappy little comment seems so ill-appreciated.

Interviewer: Does this mean we'll be hearing less of you in the days to come?

User of Owls: My team and I will be assessing the situation and will respond in the manner we see as most appropriate.

Interviewer: Surely Team Owls will not abandon its trademark "Poopyhead" or "Palin Hookworm Conjecture" rights?

User of Owls: T

Negropolis February 26, 2011 at 12:49 am

Well, it's definitely better than Two and a Half Men.

Chillwaver February 25, 2011 at 3:19 pm

"Ooohhh…rearry gooood!"

WordSaladNation February 25, 2011 at 4:06 pm

I'm not interested. Let me know when they acquire Scanimate.

Nopantsmcgee February 25, 2011 at 4:22 pm

That's a hellava lot better animation than anything Hanna – Barbera has done or that awful 'anime' crap.

Steverino247 February 25, 2011 at 4:53 pm

Steamboat Kimmie!

ttommyunger February 25, 2011 at 5:23 pm

"Now, this North Korea, is it the good one or the bad one?"-Sarah Palin; looking at palm.

genxr February 25, 2011 at 5:57 pm

Let's remember our ethics. We can't be sure of this story until we send Riley to N Korea and get his picture taken with an arm around Lil Kim.

ShaveTheWhales February 25, 2011 at 10:40 pm

Owls, you're quietly developing another nice little theme here.

donner_froh February 25, 2011 at 10:52 pm

So that's how the Korean People's Navy sunk the ROKS Cheonan. Those guys are unstoppable

LetUsBray February 25, 2011 at 11:43 pm

I guess that last one is the North Korean Cirque du Soleil.

earling2 February 26, 2011 at 7:40 pm

They must have captured some Red Skelton reruns on their 1960-vintage internets machines. I laughed until the corners of my mouth turned up!

comrad_darkness February 27, 2011 at 10:48 am

Well there is 8 minutes 34 seconds I won't ever get back again.

earling2 February 27, 2011 at 6:44 pm

They must have captured some Red Skelton reruns on their 1960-vintage internets machines. I laughed until the corners of my mouth turned up!

SanfordandSon11 February 28, 2011 at 12:01 am

"My opinion is formed," replied Ned Land, sharply. "They are rascals."
"Good! and from what country?"
"From the land of rogues!"

SanfordandSon11 February 28, 2011 at 12:07 am

"My opinion is formed, they are rascals."
"Good! and from what country?"
"From the land of rogues!"

eekahil February 28, 2011 at 11:18 am

The Bloc Swan.

eekahil February 28, 2011 at 11:20 am

Why do the US boats have faces at all?

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