Funny contrafactual animal song for kids

Posted by Cory Doctorow, May 11, 2009 4:54 AM | permalink

My little nephew Jaxon (2.5 years) is crazy for Eric Herman's "Elephant Song" and the accompanying video on YouTube -- and now my daughter (1.5 years) has caught the bug. It's some funny stuff, provided your sense of humor is still at toddler level (as mine apparently is!).

The Elephant Song - Cool Tunes for Kids by Eric Herman (Thanks, Jaxon!)

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#1 posted by JunkMail, May 11, 2009 6:53 AM

Has he gotten hooked on "The Duck Song" yet? Another classic example of simple flash and a catchy kids' song appealing to toddler level humor.

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#2 posted by arkizzle, May 11, 2009 6:56 AM

Hah! That's pretty sweet :)

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#3 posted by Anonymous, May 11, 2009 7:46 AM

adorable. I was giggling like... well.. a 3-yr old throughout the whole thing. "You don't know anything about animals!"

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#4 posted by Anonymous, May 11, 2009 8:04 AM

My son LOVED this song, as did I... I think this was the first youtube video he ever saw, too...

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#5 posted by jackie31337, May 11, 2009 8:34 AM

Oh, I loved that! I think my daughter will too, when she sees it. I guess all kids go through a phase where their idea of a hilarious joke is to say that something is something that it's not.

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#6 posted by Michael, May 11, 2009 9:21 AM

This makes me want to have another kid, just to show them this in a couple of years when they'd really appreciate it. My youngest is 10 now -- he'll like it, but not like a toddler would.

Jackie31337 -- uh, wait, you're supposed to grow out of it?

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#7 posted by axl456, May 11, 2009 10:11 AM

well this is better than teletubbies..

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#8 posted by arkizzle, May 11, 2009 10:35 AM

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#9 posted by adwkiwi, May 12, 2009 2:36 AM

Awesome - good times with animals. Although as a psychologist I'm amused that the key feature of mice is that they run through mazes for cheese :v