Dramatic Chipmunk
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About
Dramatic Chipmunk (a.k.a "Dramatic Prairie Dog") is a short video clip featuring a sharp-eyed prairie dog from the Japanese TV Show Hello! Morning. Since its upload via YouTube in June 2007, the animal became most notable for its dramatic expression and theatrical demeanors, in similar vein to OMG cat and Inception cat.
Origin
The prairie dog was first introduced in Episode 7 of Hello Morning! show in the segment known as "Mini Moni Chicca"[2] in which a group of J-Pop idols presented a number of cute pet animals like bunnies, turtles among others:
On June 6th, 2007, YouTube user magnets99[3] uploaded a clip titled "Dramatic Look" featuring the footage of prairie dog from the Japanese TV show, set to a sample audio taken from the score of the 1974 film Young Frankenstein arranged by John Morris.
As of May 2011, this instance alone has over 30 million views. On June 19th, the same clip was re-uploaded by another YouTuber user cregets[4]. As of May 2011, the duplicate video has over 29 million views.
Spread
By June 20th, 2007, multiple instances of the same footage were being reblogged all over the web and throughout the rest of June, YouTube underwent an explosion of Dramatic Chipmunk-related videos with dozens of duplicate uploads as well as remix contributions.
The Dramatic Chipmunk video also appeared on College Humor[6], I Am Bored[7], BoingBoing[8] and ComedyCentral[9]. In the days following, GigaOm's Mathew Ingram[10] recognized the Dramatic Chipmunk as a meme.
In 2007, People Magazine named the Dramatic Chipmunk as one of The 10 Wildest YouTube Stars of the Year.
BustedTees, CollegeHumor's in-house T-shirt retailer, released a T-shirt featuring the "Dramatic Chipmunk".[1][9]
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Derivatives
Notable GIFs
The footage spawned a series of GIF animations that can be used variously as a reaction face.
Re-enactments
Many YouTubers uploaded their own re-enactments of Dramatic Chipmunk, even drawing participation from notable Internet video personalities like iJustin[11], Veronica Belmont[12], Drew Olanoff[13]. In February 2010, Funny Or Die[14] presented a re-enactment video by Justin Bieber, which has received over 6 million views as of May 2011.
Remixes
In addition to re-enactments by YouTubers, the footage has been remixed a number of different ways, including mash-ups with other notable memes like This is Sparta version and Star Wars Kid version (shown below, left and right, respectively) among others.
Spin-offs
On YouTube, there are over a dozen of notable spin-off videos with million plus views, portraying various wildlife animals and domesticated pets in the same light with the dramatic music:
Search Interest
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Hello! Morning
[2] YouTube – Mini Moni Chiccha!
[3] YouTube – Magnets99's User Profile
[4] YouTube – credgets' User Profile
[5] YouTube – Search Results for Dramatic Chipmunk
[6] CollegeHumor – Dramatic Chipmunk
[7] I Am Bored – The Dramatic Chipmunk
[8] BoingBoing – Dramatic Chipmunk
[9] ComedyCentral – The Dramatic Chipmunk
[10] Mathew Ingram – Yes, It's the Dramatic Chipmunk Meme
[11] iJustin – Dramatic iJustin
[12] Veronica Belmont – Dramatic Veronica
[13] Drew Olanoff – Overdramatic Scriggity
[14] FunnyOrDie – Dramatic Bieber
[15] People Magazine – The 10 Wildest YouTube Stars
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Comments ( 26 )
uploaded cat version
also…
FIRST!!!
Need an episode tag here!
There were also derivatives of the "dramatic look" videos with other animals such as the Dramatic look Lemur that also featured a different music.
tantantannnnnn
I just added one based off of Rock Driving
Should add the CarMax commercials.
There is something that sound came from the Rocketboom Daily News. ((Know Your Meme's parent!)
DRAMATIC GARBAGE DAY!
Here is Justin Bieber imitating it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzX1nxpnKZ4&fmt=22
BTW ppl, i checked. /b/ aproves, and so do i.
Well, actully i havent checked /b/, but i want annonymous to crash this computer im using to post this cause i get to lol at them!
The music is from "Young Frankenstein" starring Teri Garr and Gene Wilder
Original clip added.
It has a parody in Total Drama Island.
oh dramatic chimpmunk. xD it came from a show which the girls had a hamster persona in order to release songs for Hamtaro movies.
so it's a Prairie Dog not a chipmunk?? which is it?
we don't get either where i live
That prairie dog was probably scared out of its wits. Being surrounded by creatures roughly ten times your size making lots of sudden movements tends to provoke a fear response.
I just watched Young Frankenstein today, and I was surprised that the music came from that movie.
Happy Birthday Dramatic Chipm….er….."Prairie Dog."
after ten years, people STILL think its a chipmunk… >.>
My Uncle Samuel just got a stunning blue Infiniti QX80 SUV by working part time from a
computer. see page………….indeed-job.com
Well does the computer also give him gas and insurance as well?
Well does the computer also give him gas and insurance as well?
Happy Dramatic Birthday, Chipmunk!
Oh wait, it's a Prairie Dog?
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what a funny little animal haha what a goofy lil boy :3
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