Funniest. Thing. Ever.

[Hydro Typhoon]

If there's one thing that you watch in your life, it HAS to be this: IT IS THE FUNNIEST THING I HAVE SEEN IN YEARS!!!!

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/numanuma.html (http://www.ebaumsworld.com/numanuma.html)

There ya go, a fat man dancing to "Mia-hee, Mia-hoo, Mia-ha, Mia-ha-ha!"

LOL!

[Coco]

What



The



Hell



.....

[Gary Oak]

Numa Numa dance is evil. That's not even it's proper home, that's a viral copy of it. It's from Newgrounds originally and now people are making crap copies of it 'cause it was randomly funny for all of 3 seconds.

There's even been a press blitz over it 'cause VH1 started playing it on TV.

[Hydro Typhoon]

Anyone know that guy's name?

[sinistersausage]

Yeah that thing has been up for atleast a couple of months.

[stephanitis]

That song is called "Dragostea Din Tei" and that video .. I have seen it before. But It's still hilarious! I just love it!

[ZAKtheGeek]

His name is gary brolsma, I'm led to believe. And don't go to ebaumsworld. It is horrible. If you must, try albinoblacksheep.

[Pikachu]

One thing...how in the hell did he manage to get the words right :|. I'm scared.

[ZAKtheGeek]

Evidently he had listened to this song many many times.

People get famous like this, but he had to run away... somewhere. It's like being a celebrity but without the money.

[Prof. Cinders]

Heh, that thing's funny for the first three times... Then the novelty fades. The song rocks though. And maybe the guy who did it has Romanian lessons, but then, even I can mouth along to it.

Oh, and gprime's the best way to get anything like that, not ebaumsworld.

[Hydro Typhoon]

ebaums world is great!
anyone seen the "priceless" pictures?

Internet Fame Is Cruel Mistress for a Dancer of the Numa Numa

By ALAN FEUER and JASON GEORGE

Published: February 26, 2005


There was a time when embarrassing talents were a purely private matter. If you could sing "The Star Spangled Banner" in the voice of Daffy Duck, no one but your friends and family would ever have to know.

But with the Internet, humiliation - like everything else - has now gone public. Upload a video of yourself playing flute with your nose or dancing in your underwear, and people from Toledo to Turkmenistan can watch.

Here, then, is the cautionary tale of Gary Brolsma, 19, amateur videographer and guy from New Jersey, who made the grave mistake of placing on the Internet a brief clip of himself dancing along to a Romanian pop song. Even in the bathroom mirror, Mr. Brolsma's performance could only be described as earnest but painful.

His story suggests that the quaint days when cultural trinkets, like celebrity sex tapes, were passed around like novels in Soviet Russia are over. It says a little something of the lightning speed at which fame is made these days.

To begin at the beginning:

Mr. Brolsma, a pudgy guy from Saddle Brook, made a video of himself this fall performing a lip-synced version of "Dragostea Din Tei," a Romanian pop tune, which roughly translates to "Love From the Linden Trees." He not only mouthed the words, he bounced along in what he called the "Numa Numa Dance" - an arm-flailing, eyebrow-cocked performance executed without ever once leaving the chair.

In December, the Web site newgrounds.com, a clearinghouse for online videos and animation, placed a link to Mr. Brolsma on its home page and, soon, there was a river of attention. "Good Morning America" came calling and he appeared. CNN and VH1 broadcast the clip. Parodists tried their own Numa Numa dances online. By yesterday, the Brolsma rendition of "Love From the Linden Trees" had attracted nearly two million hits on the original Web site alone.

It was just as Diane Sawyer said on her television program: "Who knows where this will lead?"

Nowhere, apparently. For, in Mr. Brolsma's case, the river became a flood.

He has now sought refuge from his fame in his family's small house on a gritty street in Saddle Brook. He has stopped taking phone calls from the news media, including The New York Times. He canceled an appearance on NBC's "Today." According to his relatives, he mopes around the house.

What's worse is that no one seems to understand.

"I said, 'Gary this is your one chance to be famous - embrace it,' " said Corey Dzielinski, who has known Mr. Brolsma since the fifth grade. Gary Brolsma is not the first guy to rocket out of anonymity on a starship of embarrassment. There was William Hung, the Hong Kong-born "American Idol" reject, who sang and danced so poorly he became a household name. There was Ghyslain Raza, the teenage Québécois, who taped himself in a mock light-saber duel and is now known as the Star Wars Kid.

In July 2003, Mr. Raza's parents went so far as to sue four of his classmates, claiming they had placed the clip of him online without permission. "Ghyslain had to endure and still endures today, harassment and derision," according to the lawsuit, first reported in The Globe and Mail of Toronto.

Mr. Brolsma has no plans to sue, his family said - mainly because he would have to sue himself. In fact, they wish he would bask a little in his celebrity.

"I don't know what's wrong with him," his grandfather, Kalman Telkes, a Hungarian immigrant, said the other day while taking out the trash.

The question remains why two million people would want to watch a doughy guy in glasses wave his arms around online to a Romanian pop song.

"It definitely has to be something different," said Tom Fulp, president and Webmaster of newgrounds.com.

"It's really time and place."

"The Numa Numa dance," he said, sounding impressed. "You see it and you kind of impulsively have to send it to your friends."

There is no way to pinpoint the fancy of the Internet, but in an effort to gauge Mr. Brolsma's allure, the Numa Numa dance was shown to a classroom of eighth graders at Saddle Brook Middle School - the same middle school that he attended, in fact.

The students' reactions ranged from envious to unimpressed. "That's stupid," one of them said. "What else does he do?" a second asked. A third was a bit more generous: "I should make a video and become famous."

The teacher, Susan Sommer, remembered Mr. Brolsma. He was a quiet kid, she said, with a good sense of humor and a flair for technology.

"Whenever there were computer problems, Gary and Corey would fix them for the school," she said.

His friends say Mr. Brolsma has always had a creative side. He used to make satirical Prozac commercials on cassette tapes, for instance. He used to publish a newspaper with print so small you couldn't read it with the naked eye.

"He was always very out there - he's always been ambitious," said Frank Gallo, a former classmate. "And he's a big guy, but he's never been ashamed."

Another friend, Randal Reiman, said: "I've heard a lot of people say it's not that impressive - it doesn't have talent. But I say, Who cares?"

These days, Mr. Brolsma shuttles between the house and his job at Staples, his family said. He is distraught, embarrassed. His grandmother, Margaret Telkes, quoted him as saying, just the other day, "I want this to end."

And yet the work lives on. Mr. Fulp, the Webmaster, continues to receive online homages to the Numa Numa dance. The most recent showed what seemed to be a class of computer students singing in Romanian and, in unison, waving their hands.

Mr. Reiman figures the larger world has finally caught on to Gary Brolsma.

"He's been entertaining us for years," he said, "so it's kind of like the rest of the world is realizing that Gary can make you smile."

NOW YOU CAN SING ALONG!

"Dragostea Din Tei"

Ma-ia-hii
Ma-ia-hoo
Ma-ia-ha
Ma-ia-ha-ha
[x4]

Alo, salut, sunt eu, un haiduc,
Si te rog, iubirea mea, primeste fericirea.
Alo, alo, sunt eu Picasso,
Ti-am dat beep, si sunt voinic,
Dar sa stii nu-ti cer nimic.

[Chorus]
Vrei sa pleci dar nu ma, nu ma iei,
Nu ma, nu ma iei,
Nu ma, nu ma, nu ma iei.
Chipul tau si dragostea din tei,
Mi-amintesc de ochii tai.
[x2]

Te sun, sa-ti spun, ce simt acum,
Alo, iubirea mea, sunt eu, fericirea.
Alo, alo, sunt iarasi eu, Picasso,
Ti-am dat beep, si sunt voinic,
Dar sa stii nu-ti cer nimic.

[Chorus x2]

Ma-ia-hii
Ma-ia-hoo
Ma-ia-ha
Ma-ia-haa
[x4]

[Chorus x2]

[baratron]

Ah, so finally someone explains who this William Hung is that you were all so eager to avoid having to watch in concert in the Argh! Painful Choice! (http://forum.tcgplayer.com/showthread.php?t=2993) thread. Jolly good ;).

Also, I am freaked out to discover how similar Romanian grammar is to Latin. I actually understand about half of that song just from knowing Latin. Weird...

[JustListen2Me]

Ya no offense but you have to be a little lonely to think that is funny. Thats the most retarded thing I have ever seen. Some moron singing a really sad song and dancing to it. OOOOOOOO real funny..... I first saw this video when my friend sent a link to it via AIM. I, along with a lot of other people called him dumb. But apparently a lot of people are like him since it made national news and is now on here.

[ZAKtheGeek]

Currently, internet fame can only be placed on chance. There are most likely other factors at play, but they seem to be totally invisible at the moment. Of course, if they are ever largely "discovred," they will be used like crazy and a new set of secret parameters will arise.

Natural selection. Of the internet. :D

[Gibby]

I will have to say that I am not suprised that there is another version of this out. I have come across several while I brouse the inter-web. However, I personaly have several other links that I find more appealing then these. I am sure that most have already been viewed by some of you, but I still find theses funny, for the most part. Enjoy.

Mario Hii (http://www.flashplayer.com/music/marionuma_movie.php#bottom)
If you like that song with the large person in it, then you will like this.

She Freaken Blocked Me (http://www.flashplayer.com/music/shefreakinblockedme_movie.php#bottom)
Now, here is a song that I like. The animation is alright, but the song, really easy to learn. :D

Chocobo Robo Voice (http://www.flashplayer.com/music/chocoborobovoice_movie.php#bottom)
Final Fantasy freaks, and casualy gamers that understand some aspects of the Final Fantasy series will find this quite appealing. I like it.

Egg Song (http://www.flashplayer.com/music/eggsong_movie.php#bottom)
How sweet, singing eggs. :p

Jesus Christ Action Figure (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/jesus.php)
OK, if you get easily offended by stuff like this, please be advised about this animation. I found it quite intertaining and funny.

I have many other flash / movies that I like, but there are the top choices of my list. And just so you know, the links that take you to the FlashPlayer web site, in order to view the movie, you need to click on the little image of the show on the left side. It is easy to spot.

[ZAKtheGeek]

As long as wer're off topic...

I (somewhat) recently started to like animutations. Anyone else like em?

[Gary Oak]

They scare me. Especially since a lot tend to feature that dude from Who's line is it anyway completely randomly...

I think he came up with them as a publicity stunt... It's all a conspiracy...

[b-ondablock]

Wow this is really old. But I still get a kick from this stupid thread and the fat guy is funny

[Yoshimitsu27]

I am going to cook you alive and feed you to the worms if you revive another topic...

Reviving = instant death sentence.

[Baboon]

As Yoshimitsu27 said, no revivals of dead topics.
*lock