Play Him Off Keyboard Cat

May 16th, 2009

Ah. New Internet meme, this one takes a little while to sink in but I’ve laughed pretty hard. Keyboard cat. Bunch of keyboard cat videos collected at playhimoffkeyboardcat.com.

I find them funny as video Schadenfreude + LOLcat + a ridiculous pattern that becomes funnier with repeated viewing. An impending bad thing is set up. Cut to keyboard cat waiting to strike. Bad thing happens. Electronic drums begin. Keyboard cat starts playing happy song. Bad thing happens again in slow mo. Keyboard cat continues playing. Small unintentionally funny moments like keyboard cat closing his eyes as the song ends and one stray note compete the experience. It’s a video Fail Whale.

The first one is the original, followed by some others I found particularly amusing. That beware of dog one is a freaking classic.

Original

Can we talk about this later?

Classic afro ninja given the keyboard cat treatment

Tidy pants

Beware of dog