Thanks everybody for watching! Please check out our new channel with current work and commentary here: / @aceandson Dr. Worm video for Nickelodeon's Ka-Blam! Worm by underground cartoonist Kaz, animation by Tissa David.
Ladies, if he: - Is not a real doctor but is a real worm - Lives like a worm - Interested in things - Likes to play the drums - Handles criticism about said drums He's not your man. He's Doctor Worm.
Produced this for Nickelodeon while running a company called The Ink Tank. The animator was Tissa David, the director Jesse Gordon, Kaz did the character design. All told, we had a crew of about 10.
absolute real story: this was one of my twin brother's fav songs and he recited it for an improv english assignment in 8th grade. it was 2013 and no one knew what he was doing but they were all delighted. totally solidified his reputation as the funny kid with aspergers who would do anything- everyone we went to school with remembers him as a legend. he died in 2017 from a brain tumour and every time something reminds me of this silly ass song i think of him and just burst into tears.
I absorbed my twin in the womb, I'm sorry you couldn't have siphoned his life force too. Jk. Just not about my twin, I did actually absorb him. Wish i didn't, but I'm now as strong as a man and a baby.
Cuz when I think hits of the 90's, this fits right in with those happy-go-lucky tunes from Pearl jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana, and such. This song is great though👍👍👍👍
sang this song to my sis when she was little, she thought I made it up and I was making up the lyrics as I went on. she liked it though and sang it to her friends, who all thought I was the creator. they thought this for 4 years. I never knew she thought I made this song up, so today I went to the video for some good times my sister flipped her shit thinking my song got famous on RU-vid. funny stuff.
Hey, I know this is an old comment but I thought it was interesting that I also feel a little sad to listen and watch this. I have a few thoughts on why. 1) When we first saw this, we were very young, and the kids in the video looked very grown up. "Big kids." Now that we watch as adults, we see how young they really are. But in reality, the kids in this video are older than us now. They will never be the kids in the video again, and we will never again be the kids who looked at them and saw someone "big." 2) The song is very a very sweet description of someone just starting out with their craft, learning every day and excited. "I think I'm getting good but I can handle criticism..." The song is the daydream of a person who might just be on the precipice of a promising career. "Someday somebody else besides me will call me by my stage name..." I think that reminds us of all the dreams we had when we were kids, the fantasies of what we'd grow up to be and do, which may have gone unfulfilled. 3) Pure nostalgia... classic Nickelodeon, Ka-Blam, and this video all belong firmly to the 90s. We miss that time. Things seemed less complicated, and those Friday night staying up to watch cartoons with our friends were maybe some of our happiest moments. Here's something that makes me feel less sad. They Might Be Giants was formed in 1982 and they're still touring to this day! TMBG was my first real concert back in high school and it's so cool to think I could still go see them play again if I wanted to. These guys are older than us, they're older than the kids in the video, they lived through and partially defined the 90s, and they're still living their dreams today. They support other artists by continuing to hire animators to create their music videos. They continue to experiment, explore, and daydream. We can do that too.
I remember watching this on Ka-Blam, and I was totally amazed by this as a kid. I thought it was SO FRIGGIN COOL. For weeks, I'd have a tape in the VCR, freaking ready to hit record for the next time this came on. Still have it. Still love it. Wish I had recorded the full episode though
I heard this exactly once as a child and I knew somehow even then it was going to be a core memory. I was right and I wanna be angrier about it. I would just randomly get it stuck in my head and it took until now for me to try looking it up. I shouldn't be surprised that this is They Might Be Giants.
I've listened to this song at least 20 times; only on this occasion did I pick up the lyric "When I give the signal, my friend rabbi vole will play the solo." What whimsy!
Hmmmmm, 70's illustrations..... 80's video.......90's music (not quite)....add 24 years.... where in that timeline does this video make its national debut? People seem to love it.... what have i been missing?
Another source besides the two others listed is that YGOTAS opening theme for season 0 is "Birdhouse in Your Soul" by "They Might be Giants which is such a ridiculous ear worm that many wind up searching for the original song, and see the video is awesome, and check out their other songs.
The 70-80’s were alive in the 90’s. This was the late 90’s. Cartoons were for adults and children equally. The liberalism and hippie-ism of the 70’s was finally coming to a close, while a strange new master, progressivism, reared his ugly head in the shadows. Now our cartoons and music will never return. It does not serve the proper agenda for the progressive powers that be. See also: Velma, the new Powerpuff Girls
When the kids are singing at the gig at the very end, I swear, I have rarely seen anyone singing with that much enjoyment. Certainly not in the last decade. We have lost an era of wonderful music.
This has been stuck in my head for the past few days. I miss Nickelodeon back in the days. This made me tear 😢 up watching. Idk why, maybe its been a long time since I've seen the video. The nostalgia hits hard.
My 4th grade teacher played this for the whole class back in 2012 and I immediately fell In love with this song. 4th grade was such a terrible year for me so whenever I felt sad I put this on and it immediately cheered me up. It’s very random but this song holds a special place in my heart, it’s fallen off so much that all my friends look at me weird when I sing it. But I don’t care. So Mr. Whitmer, if your reading this somehow thank for you exposing me to such an amazing song and being the best teacher I could ask for. You’ve changed my life more than you know.
Takes me back to seeing this on Nickelodeon in the 90's! Great time in my life. I'm 37 now and wonder where the years went. In any case, being a teenager in the late 90's was awesome. My contemporaries and I were the last generation of people to grow up without the internet, we had four channels on the telly, and had to go to the library and use books to learn. Back then, if you didn't know something, then toy were just shit out of luck. There was no google. Simple time. So good though.
Goofiest funniest song that lives rent free in my head for the past 17 years. My little brother and I sang this song constantly running through the whole house as kids. My brother and best friend, He would have been 25 soon, love you forever Christopher.
I miss the days when Nickelodeon was still watchable. Back then things were fairly simple and the morals seemed different. That's probably just nostalgia speaking however songs like this seem like they have so much more personality then the stuff they show on Nickelodeon nowadays. TMBG will always be one of my favourite bands.
im here because of the "meet the elements" so I decided to check out the rest of their stuff☺️😊 this is really cute, im only 15 but I do wish this was apart of my childhood!
Definitely 🙂👍I'm 27 today and this was my childhood way back then. This song was made by giant's doctor worm 97/98?. It was on kaBlam started back on oct 11/96 on my b day and it played this song for a commercial for the show, yeah it's confusing but it was a hilarious show from the 90s.
tmbg has been my dads favorite band since the 90’s. he played this stuff all the time for me as a kid so it was a really big part of my childhood. im only 14 but i’m so glad he showed me these songs when i was young
How does this only have 1.6 M views this song is a classic... maybe if we all listened to Dr. Worm's advice and stayed home and played the drums we would not have this pandemic now just saying.
I remember seeing this before school at like 6am on ka-blam at least 10 years ago; and I always felt like it was weird, but still charming and awesome all at the same time.
My parents love them, and they always played their albums in the car with me and my siblings as early as pre-21st century. +1 Faith in nerd culture for you.
It was called Dr Worm. I played with my brother and sister too years ago. But we stopped because the game actually ended up giving my computer a virus 😂
i remember seeing this at age five and singing a very small part of the chorus for about eight years until one day i found the actual. It literally made my month and no one understood why i was so excited
This song reminds me so much of my childhood.. My dad used to play this certain album he had, and i would ask for him to play this song 99.9% of the time :P
I've been listening to this song since the video first aired on nick, and I still to this day have not gotten tired of it. Bravo, TMBG, keep up the good work. :)
They call me Doctor Worm Good morning, how are you? I'm Doctor Worm I'm interested in things I'm not a real doctor, but I am a real worm I am an actual worm I live like a worm I like to play the drums I think I'm getting good, but I can handle criticism I'll show you what I know And you can tell me if you think I'm getting better on the drums I'll leave the front unlocked Cause I can't hear the doorbell When I get into it, I can't tell if you are watching me twirling the stick When I give the signal, my friend Rabbi Vole will play the solo [Guitar Solo] Someday, somebody else besides me Will call me by my stage name They will call me Doctor Worm Good morning, how are you? I'm Doctor Worm I'm interested in things I'm not a real doctor, but I am a real worm I am an actual worm I live like a worm And I like to play the drums I think I'm getting good, but I can handle criticism I'll show you what I know And you can tell me if you think I'm getting better on the drums I'm not a real doctor, but they call me Doctor Worm
One of my favorite songs. I can't help but sing this on long drives, people look at me funny when they pull up next to me at lights and I'm waaaay too into it.
That son g is so weirdly catchy, chill and enthusiastically wholesome, the chorus is so satisfying to listen to and yet I never know what to say in response to all of it put together like this.
I like how this is not listed as being "for kids" while this mv was featured in Nickelodeon Kablam, while 'Can't keep johnny down' IS and the lyrics swear multiple times.
This song was my childhood. I thought this was the coolest song ever and only now refound it in the month of my late father's birth. We used to jam out to this together and I really don't think finding this now is a conicidence
Ahhhh, takes me back to the days where I helped a child version of my worst enemy and two musicians who had their voices stolen break out of a snow globe that was designed to house the four of us in the private collection of a cosmic entity who ended up trapped in his own prison thanks to the four of us working together to steal his pendant and escape after multiple shenanigans theough time and space. Good times. Good times.
The 90s were. such an interesting time. Such different way of living. This kind of music just wouldnt work today or if did they would have a very underground fan base. I am a real worm
