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“Badger Badger Badger” is a Flash animation created by Jonti Picking in 2003. It consists of images of dancing Badgers over an electronic song while a voice repeats the word “badger”, breaking off to say “mushroom” at the approprite moment.

After about three loops of badgers and mushrooms a mini-chorus about a snake plays as an animated snakes crawls across a desert, and the animation loops once again. On the original site the cartoon loops indefinitely, but many YouTube videos (including Picking’s version) only last 30 seconds to a couple of minutes.

Because of its popularity the cartoon brought Picking to the attention of MTV Europe who produced a new flash series by Picking, “Weebl and Bob”. Its website Weebl’s Stuff would go on to win an People’s Choice award.

Badger Badger Badger was listed as one of the “top five internet fads of all time” by PC World.

Media

YouTube instance:

A Christmas version, also by Jonti Picking:

Remixes

Because of it’s popularity, Badger Badger Badger has spawned many remakes and parodies, one of the most well-known being the Bananaphone version:

Other remakes include the ones below:

Real people doing the badger dance:

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15 Comments

Haz
Jun 21, 2009 at 11:47PM UTC , Haz wrote:

I…guess it’s a meme…?

Kirsten S
Jun 22, 2009 at 04:01AM UTC , Kirsten S wrote:

I far as I know it’s considered a meme. Hey, and if I’m wrong I’ll get deadpool’d. I’ll live.

Jamie Dubs
Jun 22, 2009 at 05:35AM UTC , Jamie Dubs wrote:

oh man it was HUGE back in the day. we gotta teach the youngins about the classics… :D

Lord Jebe
Jun 22, 2009 at 08:58PM UTC , Lord Jebe wrote:

Oh yeah, good ol’ Badgers.

Elbirn
Jun 25, 2009 at 04:49AM UTC , Elbirn wrote:

Definitely a meme, just a really old, nearly forgotten one.

fletcher mackay
Jun 25, 2009 at 03:21PM UTC , fletcher mackay wrote:

Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger
mushroom MUSHROOM!!!

Garg27
Jun 26, 2009 at 12:47PM UTC , Garg27 wrote:

Absolutely a Meme, one of the classics to be honest.

Yasue
Jun 27, 2009 at 01:07PM UTC , Yasue wrote:

A classic meme indeed!

Zalgo The Nezperdian Hivemind of Chaos
Jun 30, 2009 at 11:44PM UTC , Zalgo The Nezperdian Hivemind of Chaos wrote:

Wow I’d almost forgotten about the whole badgers meme…
Z҉A҉L҉G҉O̚̕̚ be praised!

SpyHunter29
Jul 05, 2009 at 03:26PM UTC , SpyHunter29 wrote:

This one was mentioned on the Wikipedia page, so I’m a little surprised it’s not here. Unless no one made a YouTube port yet.

JJAAMMESS FFAAIILLAAPPAALLOOZZAA
Jul 14, 2009 at 03:08PM UTC , JJAAMMESS FFAAIILLAAPPAALLOOZZAA wrote:

Thats one of those classic, never forgotten Memes, you just can’t replace them.

pokecatchsoul
Aug 09, 2009 at 07:42PM UTC , pokecatchsoul wrote:

sooooooo win for the win

momow
Sep 09, 2009 at 01:04AM UTC , momow wrote:

badger badger badger!!

Ben "Jammin" Proctor
Oct 31, 2009 at 12:41PM UTC , Ben "Jammin" Proctor wrote:

I think that weebl needs to be a meme.

norsehorse89
Mar 17, 2010 at 06:35PM UTC , norsehorse89 wrote:

LittleKuriboh’s video for Anime Milwaukee refers to this meme:

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