The Demented Cartoon Movie! [2001] 

Arguably one of the most important pieces of Internet Animation history

I think something that may not be obvious to viewers almost 22 years later in the future was how unprecedented the _length_ of this video was back in the day. 30 whole minutes for a *Flash animation,* when many households were still using _dial-up_ was absolutely unheard of!

This is like going to an internet history museum.

I think I've been referencing the "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" thing for most of my life without even remembering where it came from. Watching this awakened a part of my brain that I didn't know was still there

God, this was my favorite thing to watch as an 8-year old in 2003

You can watch the humour "evolve" as the video goes on. At first it's very much a kid's idea of random humour, then it starts making fun of itself with the couch guys, which from there goes to more voiced skits, and just keeps slowly evolving in how it tells its jokes. It's really interesting to watch a video that's such pure early 2000s bliss.

Reminder that Brian Kendall played this for his class project. Imagine being in that class and waiting for this thing to end. I bet by the end they were laughing so much.

this video made me think Hydrogen bombs would be a much bigger part of my everyday life as a child.

I remember the day I discovered this masterpiece. My friend called me on the home phone and I could barely make out what he was saying because he was in HYSTERICS. He told me I had to come over to his house, right away. He brought me to his sister’s bedroom (she had a computer with internet) and showed me this. Nearly died of laughter and became a loyal albinoblacksheep user for the subsequent decade. This flash video was essentially the beginning of my teenage sense of humor and the start of a hilarious journey into ‘random’ flash animations.

The sound design makes me laugh so fucking hard. I love how it goes from ear-deafening, distorted explosions to someone making fart noises with their mouth into a microphone at the most inappropriate times.

"Internet humor is so absurd in 2024, I remember when it was actually smart..."

"Do you want to crash?" "Well, not really..." "Then you should steer" "But I'm baaaad at thaaat" I've quoted this sporadically over the past 17 years, it never goes away, just lies dormant in my brain and occasionally resurfaces...

So, an interesting bit of trivia regarding the Demented Cartoon Movie: The original .swf version of it was 3.7 MB, just under the 5MB upload cap on Newgrounds back when Flash was still used in web design and animation. The above video is 78MB

I remember turning this on and not realising it was 30 minutes long and in those days you couldn't pause Flash movies, and I REALLY needed to pee

Be honest, you searched for this... because you are a legend of the internet. I commend you on your career.

...This came out in 2001?! I'M TOO YOUNG TO FEEL THIS OLD

realizing that this came out in 01 really puts into perspective how long I've truly been looking at stupid shit on the internet

I love it as much age 33 as I did age 14. This honestly feels like important cultural heritage to be preserved

A vintage meme from a time before they were even called memes.

This is like the father of ASDF movie lmao

I would love to see a bunch of animators do an reanimation collaboration of this classic.

Oh my god! I remember having to wait like an hour for this animation to load way back when.

I came back after several years to remember the canonical spelling of zeeky boogy doog

Genuinely the funniest thing on the Internet for me and my sisters back in the early to mid 2000s. We weren't starved for content or anything, there was lots of good stuff on the Internet, but if we wanted to absolutely die laughing, this was the one go-to. I wish I could see the original view counter for this.

Holy crap, I watched this for the first time when I was 11. Hearing the audio crystal clear like this is pretty surreal.

20 years later and I still love it. It was probably the longest video of the internet at the time. Me and my friends would quote it to each other all the time.

This man predicted the design of the cybertruck

To this day I can’t see the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet without hearing “Oh, Romeo… catch.”

The perfect epitome of "WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST WATCH?!" Also this year marks this movie's 20th anniversary.

I watched this as a child. I will now show this to my wife.

I haven't seen this is well over a decade cause I didn't think it would be as funny to me now as it was when I first saw it...but it still got me XD This movie had way too much impact on my sense of humour.

@24:20 The joke here is that Flash animations of the time didn't normally have pause/play buttons or progress bars. So it's a good bet that lots of viewers reloaded/rewatched the whole movie up to that point, probably more than once, trying to read all of the text. Soon after, authors started using ActionScript to implement these features, but due to lag, it was still pretty difficult to stop reliably on a given frame.

I used to wait 30+ minutes for this to download on dial up. Huge appreciation for this brand of humor almost 20 years later

The monty python influence is quite obvious here.

Ah, the old legend. By now must've watched this over 40 times and still never gets old. RIP Flash player, you made it possible to fit 30 minutes of life-changing hilarity in 3.7mb.

Okay, who tf said the zeeky word at the start of 2020?!

I remember being 12 years old and watching this on ABS for the first time in 2004. I was at my best friend's house and I don't remember how we'd come across ABS, but we were thrilled to find more internet flash cartoons beyond Homestar Runner (still a classic and unholy permanent influence on my vernacular to this day). This stupid thing had us collapsing onto the desk with laughter, and the second I got home I made my brothers watch it too. All of us still quote it to this day, and it's just. God, such a masterpiece of shitposting before shitposting was even a THING. Thank you, Brian Kendall. Zeeky boogy doog.

One of the greatest pieces of my childhood memories ever.

I'm a simple man, I see a surprising Albino Blacksheep upload, I click.

I suddenly remembered this video exists. The phrase "Let's play Catch the H Bomb" popped into my head. I'm so glad it's still online! ❤

I never realized it when this came out but this movie has massive Monty Python vibes and even some of their jokes. Still love it after all these years.

I remember watching this when I was 11 years old on my Parents Windows 2000 PC WAAAAAAY back in the day.

Fun fact, the world is destroyed 14 times in The Demented Cartoon Movie. I did keep count.

There are three inevitabilities in the world: Death, taxes, and ZEEKY BOOGY DOOG!

Seeing this in HD is what my heart needed.

The only thing I remembered from this in order to search for it was the whole zeeky booky doog thing and a guy going “hmmmmmm” at a button. Lmao

I still remember watching this for the first time and laughing my ass off in the middle of the school library

Mr. Weight is like adulthood just waiting to crush us.

Oh my god I remember first watching this, I couldn't believe how long it was! This was endlessly quoted by me and my friends in school for months

Fuck me, this is 20? Man. Back when I was a wee little memelet I had no idea this would make me feel old someday lol

My son and I watched this demented cartoon together and laughed so hard. We really needed that laugh today. We really needed that today. Thank you for your questionable sanity and your awesome talent. So creative, so funny and so Ziggy boogie poop.

I've realized that this movie can be broken down into a loose act structure. I've given them names so that you can follow along. Previews and credits Act 1: The Road to Qrrbrbirlbel Act 2: The Zeeky Words Saga Intermission: dances and songs Act 3: Super Blah and the Weird Evil Machine o' Doom Epilogue: Now the Nightmare's Real End credits

It's rare that stick cartoons are good ... this in particular was _legendary._ it was glorious back then, and even today, it's withstood the test of time. Brian Kendall, you are a legend.

If I was drunk in Vegas and had to get a tattoo, it would probably be a Boing Gloing. My favorite character, rest in peace... He lived a good 5 lives.

When I was a kid this was like going through the tunnel at the end of 2001 a space odyssey

They really didn't care about epileptics in 2001, did they?

This influenced my sense of humor permanently. It also gave me a solid number of usernames and made its way into at least one school project. Thank you for being a massive part of my childhood and development

After many thoughts about who the only character that didn’t die, I finally figured it out. It was Mr. Weight. He is so strong amongst everything he encounters. There is no way he could ever die.

If Brian Kendall sees this comment, thanks once again for the Final Fantasy victory fanfare remix. You all might remember this on ABS, but I remember it before then.

Didn’t expect this - nice return! ‘Til next year

at 3:15, The sounds he makes before pressing the button... that sound has been in my head for years thanks to this cartoon, I only recently discovered its source. it's the martians from sesame street looking at the phone

This is truly the most edifying content on U-Tube. My family was raised on the Demented Cartoon Movie. THANK GOD it's still on the internet!

THANK YOU, thank you so much for reuploading this in HD!!!

My god. I randomly thought about this and the fact it's on youtube is amazing. GenZ has no idea how absolutely cooked the OG internet was. The entire thing was a giant fever dream and we loved every second of it.

I can't believe how big a part of mine and my friends life this was when we were younger. What a blast.

This thing is 20 years old. TWENTY YEARS OLD.

As soon as I saw it I said “zeeky boogie doog “ It just never leaves

I dont remeber watching this but ive seen every bit already. Plus the whole vibe is giving me major 2000s nostalgia. God i miss stick games. And stick animations. So much variety in such a simplistic media

Gleeg snag zip! **boom** I probably haven't watched this since around the time it originally was made, and revisiting it 22 years later is a real trip! One of my favourite things from the early days of the Internet.

It’s my first time watching this, and I feel that I’m looking at a masterpiece of human history.

hey all you Gen Z kids watching, this is what us Millennials watched in our Pre-RU-vid childhoods.

*Clears throat.* *Deep breath.* Zeeky Boogy Doog.

asdfvirgin: -Totally monochrome -Pretty stupid -14 of them last time I checked, never knew when to stop -Generally around 2-3 minutes long -"I like trains." Demented Chad Movie: -Colorful despite being terribly drawn -Absolutely demented and inane, as the title implies -Loves to make fun of itself -One epic 30-minute movie is all it needs -"Zeeky Boogy Doog!"

I used to be scared to say "Blah" as a kid. Now I wish it actually would blow my head off

first watched this masterpiece in 2011, at the age of 7 years old. I grew up watching my brothers browse Newgrounds and all the sorts, I'm 17 now and the memory of this show resurfaced; and man is this nostalgic.

Oh my god...the nostalgia....makes my eyes watery :')

I think I first saw this on Albino Black Sheep. This movie has more comedic intelligence to it than one may think.

The memories.... Such joy am I filled with to find this at long last. Much obliged.

My birthday was on August 9th, and I would like to thank you for posting this as a birthday gift of sorts.

This shaped so much of my humor as a child 😂

A relic of years gone by. This animation is a national treasure. Let's play toss the H-bomb 5:02

In "The Demented Cartoon Movie," the portrayal of Juliet and Romeo deviates from the traditional narrative. Juliet exhibits a compulsive urge to kill Romeo, which disrupts the classic balcony scene. Despite the director's efforts to steer the production towards a conventional rendition, Juliet's inability to resist her violent impulses leads to repeated comedic fatalities.

I remember the Ziggy words by heart, still, because I was such a chaotic child Did anybody else say the Ziggy words trying to summon explosions from Mars as a kid 😂

lol Ive been watching this video since I was a wee lad. Thanks for making a synchronized version!

21:24 furthermore the person who made this movie is a complete jacka-*the universe explode* perfectly cut swearing.

I feel like I’ve changed as a person.

I really want to know the story behind how this came to be. And by that, I mean which drugs.

Aahhhh college memories of sitting in the lab laughing my head off at ABS vids 😂

I remember religiously watching this animation over and over again back in primary school. Takes me right back to the good ol' flash days easy.

One of my favorite things about the OG flash video was that it had a pause, forward and rewind. That was innovative for its time.

it feels weird actually hearing all the voices not compressed by flash for the first time

I remember laughing tears the first time I saw this, and Immediately starting looking for the author. I found another animation called "A Device to Blow Up the Moon" or similar, and three very nice ambient tunes composed by him, that I still have in my collection and listen from time to time.

Boing Gloing has to be one of my favorites. Truly inspiring words.

1.9.2023 I randomly said Zeeky Boogy Doog to a customer for no reason.

me: mom can we have monty python? mom: no we have monty python at home monty python at home:

It's nice to finally be able to pause the video to read all the text in some of the fleeting images (like at 24:20), and take in more details. Back in the day you could only see this on a flash video with no pause option. I almost forgot how much "lol so random *explosion*" a lot of that 2000's internet humor was.

I make an effort to watch this video at least once a year.

This movie has meme potential. I expect to see something like "The Demented Cartoon Movie but every time someone says 'blah' it gets x% faster" later on.

When my older cousins first introduced me to internet videos (probably around 2004?) this was the first thing they showed me. I thought it was so hilarious that when it came time to make my first email account my username was blah_blah_blah. Simpler times.

1:55 First blah 3:29 First laugh. 3:35 First random word. 3:46 First Sentence. 5:07 First H bomb explosion 5:52 First two watchers. 6:35 First low voice. 7:09 First Kamikaze Watermelon 7:48 First blockage 7:58 I N S T A N T Z O O M 8:17 First world explosion 8:21 First take 9:04 Uh... 9:05 First evil laugh 9:47 Famous last words 9:54 Second explosion. 9:56 Second world explosion 10:00 Correct. 10:09 First voice splash. 10:13 o no 10:29 First swimmer 10:42 First zeeky word 10:51 Second zeeky word 10:59 Third zeeky word 11:08 Fourth zeeky word 11:15 Accident. 11:21 Don't make a sound. 11:37 Uh oh 11:38 Fifth zeeky word 11:40 Sixth zeeky word 12:13 Seventh zeeky word 12:23 *WAIT WHAT?!* 12:39 Eighth zeeky word 12:41 First news 12:46 First DJ stop? 13:03 What did he say? 13:43 Ninth zeeky word 13:49 13:50 13:51 13:52 13:53 10-14th zeeky word 14:32 First take? 14:43 Second take? 14:59 Third take? 15:25 Fourth take? 15:48 Fifth take? 16:08 Fifteenth zeeky word 16:21 Sixth take? 16:47 Seventh take? 17:08 Eighth take 17:40 Ninth take 17:45 17:45 17:45 17:46 17:46 17:46 17:46 17:46 17:46 17:47 17:47 17:47 17:47 17:47 17:47 17:48 17:48 17:48 17:48 17:48 17:48 10-50th take 18:03 51th take 18:08 18:08 18:08 18:08 18:08 18:08 18:09 18:09 18:09 18:09 18:09 18:09 18:09 18:09 18:08 18:08 18:08 18:08 18:08 18:08 18:09 18:09 18:07 18:08 18:08 18:08 18:08 18:09 51-232nd take 18:32 Sixteenth zeeky word 18:39 18:39 18:39 18:40 18:40 1-5th gasp 19:00 Seventeenth zeeky word 19:11 Eighteenth zeeky word 19:28 Evil Lair 19:52 Is this a cashing competition? 20:50 Race number 1? 20:59 Explsion again. 21:32 21:32 21:33 21:34 21:34 21:35 21:36 21:36 21:37 21:37 21:38 21:38 21:39 21:39 21:40 21:41 21:41 21:42 21:43 21:43 21:44 21:44 21:45 21:46 21:46 21:47 21:47 21:48 21:48 21:48 21:49 21:50 21:51 21:51 19-68th zeeky word 22:08 First happy end. 23:13 First Robot? 24:23 Not again. 24:30 Damsel? 26:08 Weird Machine 27:05 IS THAT A ###? 27:15 People? 27:27 You tried. 27:49 Goo...? 28:34 69th zeeky word 29:33 Stuck Issue 29:39 Uh oh. 29:49 AAAAAAH! 29:51 Rocket 29:56 BOOM 29:58 Second happy end (end)