Going Now

About

Neil Cicierega was said to have invented the concept of animutations in 2001, with a work entitled "The Japanese Pokerap". That never sounded right to me, but I let it go, because I didn't think I'd ever find any evidence to the contrary.

Last night, while digging around through my old floppy disks, I finally found what I was looking for -- a clear case of animutation that I did a decade prior!

Written in April 1990, "Going Now" is clearly the first ever example of Animutation. (All of the apparent references to animutations that were created after 1990 are indeed a fantastic coincidence, and proof once again that God works in mysterious ways.)

Cast

• Gargamel
• Listerine
• Link
• Jay Jay
• Pee Wee Herman
• Harry Potter
• Jesus H. Christ
• Impact
• guy with teddy bear?
• Psycho Bear
• Magic Bean
• Alex Chiu
• Master Shake
• Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Maria Shriver
• Cookie Monster
• Guru
• Jay Leno
• Q*Bert
• Gadget Mobile
• Knee
• Irrational Exuberance screenshot
• Gellato El Chocolato screenshot
• Colin Mochrie
• Skeletor
• Salad Shooter
• Pac-Man
• Ms. Pac-Man
• Uncle Pennybags
• Boris Badenov
• Chocolate Dipped Strawberry
• George Bluth
• Matthew Lesko
• George Wendt
• Only in easter egg:
  • Hello Kitty
  • Zippy
  • Alan Greenspan
  • Leela (as Lee Lemon, her male alter ego from "War Is The H-Word")

Lyrics

Going Now
screenshot
Information
Author: VeryLowSodium Release Date: 6/8/2006 Length: 0:00 Complexity: Poiuytic Scale Animutatedness: Wartysian Factor Stars: Magic Bean
Audio Info
Ganbare Goemon Theme Artist: Hironobu Kageyama Album: Album Genre: Genre Language: Japanese

Fake Lyrics

Real Lyrics

Ganbare SO Ganbare Akiramenaide Kuchibue fuki Saa Aruki-dasou yo Going Now Psycho llama Kumo no sukima kara Hora! Me ate the guru, hide at Castle Lenno, Gonna Die! Tatoe tsumetai Eat cars and Knees, a life salad and more Jibun-rashiku ikite yuku no ga ichiban Da kara... Ganbare SO Ganbare Yume wa hitotsu ja nai sa Te wo nobaseba tsukameru yo Take a Chance Ganbare SO Ganbare Akiramenaide Gucci buoy fuki Saa Aruki-dasou yo Going Now

Ganbare SO Ganbare Akiramenaide Kuchibue fuki Saa Aruki-dasou yo Going Now Saa Goran Kumo no sukima kara Hora! Miete kuru haruka sora no kanata Tatoe tsumetai kaze ni sarasarete mo Jibun-rashiku ikite yuku no ga ichiban Da kara... Ganbare SO Ganbare Yume wa hitotsu ja nai sa Te wo nobaseba tsukameru yo Take a chance Ganbare SO Ganbare Akiramenaide Kuchibue fuki Saa Aruki-dasou yo Going Now

Trivia

• After the credits are over, the movie goes back to the command line, but "goingnow.exe /mode=cga" is run;, which shows a slideshow animutationist images accompanied by the theme song from an ad for "Super Timor Bug Spray" and floppy disk noises.

External Links

• Going Now on Veloso's Site