About

Badger Badger Badger is a Flash animation video created by Jonti Picking. The video consists of images of dancing badgers over an electronic song while a voice repeats the word "badger" for three measures and changes "mushroom" in the fourth. After about three loops of badgers and mushrooms a mini-chorus about a snake plays as an animated snakes crawl across a desert, and the animation loops once again.

Origin

On September 1st, 2003, Newgrounds ^[1] user TheWeebl published the original video (mirror below). The post received more than 1.1 million views in less than 20 years.

Spread

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.

Due to its popularity, Badger Badger Badger has spawned many remakes and parodies, one of the most well-known being the Bananaphone version. On July 11th, 2006, YouTuber ReelTreble92 published the parody, which received more than 4 million views in less than 15 years (shown below, left).

The video also inspired a series of videos in which people perform the dance from the video, holding out their arms and bobbing up and down. On March 24th, 2008, YouTuber ccati published a variation that received more than 250,000 views in less than 14 years (shown below, right).

On June 28th, 2008, Weebl uploaded the video to YouTube, ^[2] where it received more than 28 million views in less than 13 years.

Various Examples

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