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| Fingertips |
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| Artist: | They Might Be Giants |
| Album: | Apollo 18 |
| Genre: | Misc. |
| Language: | English |
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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
Transcript
Lyrics
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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
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Audio Details
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".
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