The Fingertips Project

The Fingertips Project
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Information
Author: Toxic AKA Bob Barker, Andrew Kepple, Neil Cicierega et al. Release Date: 6/19/2005 File Size: 4.88MB Length: 4:33 Complexity: Poiuytic Scale Stars: Colin Mochrie
Audio Info
Fingertips Artist: They Might Be Giants Album: Apollo 18 Genre: Misc. Language: English

About

An epic animutation collaboration, where 13 flash artists took on the task of creating a montage of animutation sequences to the 21 vignettes that comprise the song "Fingertips" by They Might Be Giants.

Cast

• Colin Mochrie
• Hulk Hogan
• Zippy
• Alex Chiu
• Jesus H. Christ
• Neil-Bot
• Luigi
• Artemis
• Mark Hughes
• Hamtaro
• Totoro
• Chiyo-Chan
• Homer Simpson
• Cool Spot
• Dancing Banana
• Burger King
• Jay Jay the Jet Plane
• Random Pokerap Guy
• Muhammad Ali
• Charles Manson
• Randy Savage
• Mike Tyson?
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Jay Leno
• Domo-Kun
• Al Gore
• Ronald Reagan
• Gary Coleman
• Zeeky H. Bomb
• Dopefish
• Randy Constan
• renniD nezorF
• Ren and Stimpy
• Alan Rickman
• Jerry Springer
• Cthulhu
• R2-D2
• Boomhauer
• The Cheat
• Swedish Chef
• Beaker
• The Riddler
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Mr. T
• Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Sherlock Holmes
• Drew Carrey
• Bilbo Baggins
• Spongebob Squarepants
• Hank Hill
• Matthew Lesko
• Chewbacca
• Dave Thomas
• Wesley Willis
• Sora

Lyrics

Real Lyrics

Everything is catching, yes Everything is catching on fire (Everything's catching on) Yeah (fire) Everything is catching on fire Fingertips Fingertips Fingertips I hear the wind blow I hear the wind blow It seems to say, "Hello, hello, I'm the one who loves you so" Hey now everybody now Hey now everybody Hey now everbody now Who's that standing out my window? I found a new friend underneath my pillow Come on and wreck my car Come on and wreck my car Come on and wreck my car Come on and wreck my car Aren't you the guy who hit me in the eye? Aren't you the guy who hit me in the eye? Please pass the milk, please Please pass the milk, please Please pass the milk, please Leave me alone, Leave me alone Who's knocking on the wall? All alone, all alone All by myself What's that blue thing doing here? Something grabbed ahold of my hand I didn't know what had my hand But that's when all my troubles began I don't understand you (I don't understand you) I just don't understand you (I don't understand you) I don't understand the things you say I can't understand a single word I don't understand you (I don't understand you) I just don't understand you (I don't understand you) I cannot understand you (I don't understand you) I don't understand you (I don't understand you) I heard a sound I turned around I turned around to find the thing that made the sound Mysterious whisper Mysterious whisper Mysterious whisper Mysterious whisper The day that love came to play I'm having a heart attack I'm having a heart attack I'm having a heart attack I'm having a heart attack Fingertips... Fingertips... I walk along darkened corridors and I walk along darkened corridors I walk along darkened corridors and I walk along darkened corridors

Trivia

• The "Ninja vs. Pirate" animation seen during the "Hey Now Everybody" sequence first appeared in Andrew Kepple's animation "Only Superhuman", but its first appearance in an animutation was in HOLY SHIT! NINJAS!!!!.
• The sequence for "Aren't You The Guy Who Hit Me In The Eye?" is apparently based on real-life experiences of Peter Rybchenkov and one of his neighbors shortly before the Fingertips Project started: Peter woke up with a hangover after drinking too much cheap beer (Miller "Milwaukee's Best", known coloquially as "The Beast"), and about the same time his neighbor got punched in the eye.
• The first part of the scrolling message that appears during "I Don't Understand You" reads:
  

"Our world is a strange one. There are many people in it who are not like you. This makes them :better. You cannot understand these people because you are not as good as they are. They do not :need you to understand them because you are not as good as they are."

The second, backwards part reads:

"I hope you're paying attention. Nothing is worse than being so narrow-minded that you can't even :listen to what anyone else has to say. You're a Nazi. Bork Bork Bork!"

• During "I Don't Understand You", two famous mondegreens appear. The first is from an old ballad called "The Bonny Earl of Murray", and considered the origin of the phrase "mondegreen". The second is from the Australian national anthem.
• Randomutations:
  • The guy who may or may not have hit the character in "Are You the Guy Who Hit me In the Eye?" is randomized to be either Muhammad Ali, Charles Manson, The Random Pokerap Guy in his Jesus H. Christ costume, or pro wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage.
  • The picture of Andrew Kepple's head that Colin feeds himself to is sometimes randomized to be somebody else.
• Secret Pictures:
  • At the end of "I Hear the Wind Blow", we see a picture of Mei and Chibi-Totoro from the famous anime film "My Neighbor Totoro".
  • At the end of "I'm Having a Heart Attack", we see a picture of Sora and Mimi from "Digimon", which along with the presence of Sora from "Kingdom Hearts" and Mimi from "The Drew Carrey Show" mere seconds before, is an oblique reference to the Japanese term for misheard lyrics, "soramimi".

External Links

• The Fingertips Project on Newgrounds