Kirby's Gourmet Race Remixes

About

Gourmet Race (Japanese : グルメレース) refers to a style of MAD videos that use the audio track for Gourmet Race that is a mini-game in Nintendo’s 1996 game Kirby Super Star.^[1] This song written by a Japanese composer Jun Ishikawa is the most famous song representing the music of Kirby series, and its remixes are included in many other games in this series and Super Smash Bros. series.

Around the end of 2007, This song caused explosive boom in the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND), and This shock like a megaton punch was also received in all over the world through YouTube.

Origin

Probably the first instance using this song in remix can be found on a 2006 post in YTMND. It was a mash up with Snoop Dogg’s 2004 song “Drop It Like It’s Hot”.^[2] This was refined and also reuploaded to YouTube later^[3], and has been watched over millions of times.

Meanwhile, the video that led the popularity of this song carried through the present was posted to NND in November 30th, 2007, titled “Masami Hisamoto seems to have exploded her head.”.^[4] This was also the triggering video of Hissu Amoto San / Airmoto phenomenon.

Spread

Due to the collaboration with Airmoto phenomenon, the song itself also gained huge popularity like her head exploding. Many MAD editors followed the style of this video and began including this song into their works.

Among these derivative videos, This “Falcon * Parn~ [Iyaaaaahhh Mix]” which featured Falcon Punch made this song get a permanent place in online parodies, by its popularity on YouTube. It was originally posted to NND in January 25th, 2008^[5] and reproduced to YouTube in the same day.

And, “Iyaaaaahhhh” in the title is not only pointing Captain Falcon’s shout for a kick, but also a parody of the epic death cry in a Japanese indie game Noroi no Yakata (The House of the Curse) that was a trend on NND in those days, too.

This video has been watched over millions of times as well.

By these succeeded videos, this song also became to the standard music in YTPMVs made in outside Japan, and huge amount of Gourmet Race remixes had been posted to both NND^[6] and YouTube^[7] around 2008 to 2009.

However, its too convenient editing style was also popular among people who want to join the meme’s bandwagon without creative skill or mind. Their overproduction of inferior videos merely using template video was gradually dampening the enthusiasm.

Today, Gourmet Race remixes can’t get much attention as previous.

Wazukana Jikan wo Mitsukete

Many of Gourmet Race remixes have the same voice “Wazukana Jikan wo Mitsukete Y Suru X San” (X doing Y whenever he/she finds short amount time.) in the middle part.

This is a homage to the line “Wazukana Jikan wo Mitsukete My Revolution Suru Hisamoto San” in the original Hissu Amoto San remix. MAD editors challenge reproducing this line by their audio resources as if it’s a required course.

For example, The line in above Falcon Punch Remix is “Wazukana Jikan wo Mitsukete PK Fire Suru Kirby San”.

Naturally, this inside fad among MAD editors hasn’t been imported to outside Japan.

Notable Examples

For more videos, check out the videos section in this entry.

Super Mario 64 マリオのグルメレース^[8]
“Wazukana Jikan wo Mitsukete Yeah! Woohoo! Suru Mari-Mario”

ネトゲのデータを消されて発狂した少年のグルメレース^[9] (See also : World of Warcraft Freakout)
“Wazukana Jikan wo Mitsukete _!$#”!!**++#&!!!_ Suru… Shut up!!"

Chorus 合唱　カービィのグルメレース^[10]

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External References

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