| The Fingertips Project |
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 Colin Mochrie rocks out on the keytar. |
| Information |
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| Author: | Multiple, listed below |
| Release Date: | 6/19/2005 |
| File Size: | 4.88MB |
| Length: | 4:33 |
| Complexity: | Varies by song clip |
| Stars: | Colin Mochrie |
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| Audio Info |
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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.
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Cast
Transcript
Lyrics
| Real 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
Ah-Come on (come on!) and wreck my car!
Ah-Come on (come on!) and wreck my car!
Ah-Come on (come on!) and wreck my car!
Ah-Come on (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 to understand you because you aren't anything."
- 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.
- Tenniru (Previously listed as the green "Knuckles-like character") is not allowed to have a spaceship.
- A few of the scenes have hidden commentary. (Wreck My Car, I Dont Understand You, Heart Attack, and Darkened Corridors)
- The "Blue thing" sequence uses characters from TmfT'S "Zero Wing Rhapsody"
Hidden Messages
- During "Something Grabbed A Hold of My Hand", the message "Your Zig A Splode" appears as the cartoon fish does.
- During the same scene, near the end the screen shows the message "If you are reading this Spuerluminal Message then you have just broken the laws of physics. Fix them at once! With duct tape if necessary!
Randomutations
- The guy who may or may not have hit the character in "Aren't 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 guy who appears at the end of the "Whos knocking on the wall" segment is randomized to be Domo-kun, George W. Bush, Jay Leno, a white cat on the guitar, and a few others[names, please]
- The face that Colin Mochrie feeds himself to in "Darkened Corridors" is either Andrew Kepple, Tom Jones, Conan O'Brien, Nardwuar, Bob, Phil Collins, Neil Cicierega, Clint Eastwood, Morrissey, John Linell, John Flansburgh, Paul Gilbert, Terry Gilliam, or a big circle with the words "Your Photo Here"
- During the "Darkened corridors" sequence, when Colin drags his own body in order to feed the face, an ANIMUTATION HAIKU GENERATOR V.1.51 generates a Haiku at random. Examples of such haikus are :
- The Cold War Redux: / Subliminal Messages / And Janitors rule.
- Shumway (by Toxic): / Bearded Oompa Loompa men / To the funny farm!
- French Erotic Film: / Let our powers combine! Spleen! / Jesus wastes Colin.
- Leela Doo was great! / Fusion can be dangerous! / Stay in your nerd hole.
- Seeing J.H.C.: / Who puts TOAST in their toaster? / I put BREAD in mine!
- Jada (It's Swedish): / Skal vi hitta på nå't ball? / Sponsors: Kebab King.
- Mostly Metal Jack- / -et: The Vietnam war! LOL! / Charlies killed Zippy ;_;
- Miko Miko Nurse: The sprites of Suzukisan / Battle JamezBond's sprites!
- Hyakugojyuuich- / i: Found a hobo in my / room. Jay Jay is cool.
- Chocolate Niblet Beans: / Will Bob get his grove [sic] back? / Here comes Sailor Spoon!
- HOLY SHIT!!!!! NINJAS!!!!! / Vengeance must be mine! TONGA! / Pirates are better!!!
- Sting of the Stingray / Beauty is under the sea / Will Smith? What the heck?
- Wizard Power: So... / What's the music that you used? / New Wave Jacket, noob!!!!!!!!!1
- Armageddon Ho- / down! It's the end of mankind! / Brought to you by Sprite.
- Can-O-Swedes: Is it / SWEDEN OWNS YOURFRONTAL LOBE / Animutation?
- Monster Deer got blammed / Newgrounds really really sux! / And there goes my Nan...
- Life Is Like A Mop: / When will all the madness stop? / The South Pole goes pop!
- Gellato Choco- / -lato: Exiting dogs, fish, / Forgotten pizza.
- There could be more...
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 kashi".
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