Monkey rides a goat

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Cowicide

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t this animation loop go perfect with this remix?

http://cowicide.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-remix-song.html
snuh

please credit the gif creator: http://mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.tumblr.com
- slain by an elf
  
  thank you
Trotsky

NASCAR.
Anonymous

Yakety Sax!!
Trotsky

Also, there’s got to be a “Sarah Palin/Ben Quayle in 2012″ joke in there somewhere.
Anonymous

I love watching this. I’m hypnotized by it.
eyebum

Terrible form…he’s not posting at all!
- Ito Kagehisa
  
  Terrible form…he’s not posting at all!
  
  It’s hard to post when your ankles are tied together under your steed, which is what it looks like to me. I can’t tell if his hands are tied to the goat’s collar as well, but honestly I hope so. Otherwise he’d likely be dragged under the goat’s hooves if he fell off.
Trotsky

That animation jogged a dim recollection from my childhood. I believe that clip is from a Little Rascals episode. Specifically, this one:

>> The gang heads out to go swimming but wind up spending the day in a swanky hotel when Mickey switches clothes with a rich kid. He heads for the hotel with the gang, a goat and a monkey in tow.

http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-4259/episodes/103209

Must have made quite an impression on me some thirty plus years ago.

And for those of you who are unfamiliar with the Little Rascals, the Mickey referred to was Robert Blake, of Baretta and Bonnie Lee Bakley fame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Blake_%28actor%29
- Greaterspirit
  
  Yes those TV guide style plot descriptions are the last word on the drugged animal riding the back of that goat.
  
  Great eye on locating the clip source. I definitely would have had “Little Rascals” as one of my guesses.
  
  I Still think that is a dog on the goat. Having worked in film production myself, this certainly seems like a efficacious choice for an animal wrangler.
  
  Do you remember seeing the monkey in the episode?
- Anonymous
  
  This is from a Warner Bros film called Orange Blossoms for Violet. You can watch it on google video here http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6900103598217846300#
Anonymous

He’s on a goat! He’s on a goat!
Everybody look at him ’cause I’m ridin’ on a goat!
knoxblox

Maybe this is Whiplash, the Cowboy Monkey’s grandpa?

http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/local_news/mobile_county/meet-whiplash-the-cowboy-monkey
Anonymous

very interesting.
snakedart

This was obviously fated to be paired with Primus’ “Jerry Was a Racecar Driver”.
- snakedart
  
  Well, anything by Primus, really.
mwschmeer

That goat needs a re-hoof:

http://poetrymidwest.tumblr.com/post/523839106/kathleenjoy-i-dont-know-well-a-total
PGFish

Try looking at it with sunglasses over one eye. Bonus 3D! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulfrich_effect)
Greaterspirit

Wow. “Orange Blossoms” is all kinda wrong. After watching that my DNA hurts for my monkey ancestors.
Who knew animals in stereotype human drag could be derogatory and racist to other animals playing racist humans?

And I definitely recognized several prominent voice actors from WB cartoons of the era.

Hmmm. Maybe “Orange Blossoms” is all kinda fresh.

I’ll concede the monkey on the goat (that sounds like a kama sutra position)…
Not a Doktor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpWARvfgQX8

Somebody told me not to so I had to.
CapnMarrrrk

He’s racing to get to the Cat Washing Party
Felton

Perfect! I was getting tired of counting sheep.
Chupacabara

And tomorrow, after PETA chimes in, will it be an “Invisible Monkey” riding the goat?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXYfDO9mS4o
Anonymous

Does Stephen Colbert know about this???
Felton

I don’t mean this is boring, though it is kind of hypnotic. I just meant it was a great bedtime image.
Anonymous

atta boy, Mark!
Donald Petersen

Sit for a moment and consider: somebody took a quick inventory and found he was in possession of:
1. A speedy goat
2. An agreeable capuchin, with
3. Monkey-sized suit, complete with
4. Bowler hat
5. Loaded camera
6. Gassed-up camera car
7. An idle lunch hour near what looks a lot like the Angeles Crest road.

Did this person ever dream that some eighty-odd years down the road, millions worldwide would glimpse a couple dozen frames of his masterwork on their *telephones* and laugh out loud?

We’ve made someone’s afterlife, have no doubt.
- Anonymous
  
  That’s enough to ponder for the next eighty years or so…very deep, man.
mdh

Excelsior!
Sandbox World

Is this how Cornelius graduated to mounting horses?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUfs5E7IjvE
Dig Duggler

I enjoy Monkey’s tiny hat.
Anonymous

this is the perfect picture to re-discover some items from your music collection.
seriously – try it out.
works perfect with both older works of Public Enemy as well as the Public Enemies original Soundtrack….
- jokel
  
  Good call! It works well with gabber, minimal and drum&bass, too, and has every Rammstein track I tried so far hilarious.
Bray_beast

I look at this video and I think… “Speed”. I think it would have tricked the Dennis Hopper character for a long time.
Anonymous

Someone should show this clip to Werner Herzog, who said the following in his film Encounters at the End of the World:

“Why is it that a sophisticated animal like a chimp does not utilize inferior creatures. He could straddle a goat and ride off into the sunset.”
PrettyBoyTim

My son reliably informs me you are wrong. He tells me it is actually a man in a monkey suit riding a goat. I believe him because he is five and is therefore an expert on this kind of thing.
- The Compost Kid
  
  Would your son be able to clarify if the goat that the man in the monkey suit is riding is two men in a goat suit or just a really big goat?
  Or….is the man in the monkey suit really small?
  
  This was supposed to be getting me to sleep and now it looks like I’m going to be up all night trying to figure it out.
nanuq

There should be an intervention for that poor goat. He has a monkey on his back.
snoproblem

Now that’s an effed up calvary charge.

All it needs is a bugle cry – just substitute a kazoo for the bugle.
Nadreck

Man, does that goat ever have a monkey on his back!
Greaterspirit

Definitely not a monkey. Some small dog like a pug or something with a dummy body, fake arms and legs.

I challenge anyone to find a monkey with a head like that! The arms and legs are too long.

Plus a monkey would not likely sit still for that ride! A small dog might.

I think I see the TAIL sticking out back…

What do you primatologists or animal trainers think?
- Brainspore
  
  Definitely not a monkey. Some small dog like a pug or something with a dummy body, fake arms and legs.
  
  And that “goat” is clearly just a bunch of cats taped together.
  - Greaterspirit
    
    Yes cats. He’s def. not any old goat. Some kind of Ibex maybe?
rebdav

I demand more equestrian style clothes wearing monkey chasers!
Kaleberg

My favorite is from the 7/14/06 issue of Science -
http://www.kaleberg.com/pages/images/age-images2006-mousefrog.jpg
Anonymous

It harkens back to simpler times.
Anonymous

Where does a monkey need to go so quickly that he needs to ride a goat to get there?
snarf

It goes so well with Led Zeppelins “Ramble On” that I’m crying with laughter. This monkey (and goa) made my day!
Baron Karza

Detective Chimp to the rescue!
Anonymous

Anybody ever seen “Below the 50-50″?
Baron Karza

In other Monkey News:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm4jWwWfqaY