Marine Life Videos are Better with a Live Studio Audience

By Kevin Zelnio, on January 7th, 2009

I think I will randomly edit all movies to insert canned laughter at seemingly not funny moments. btw why are the japanese so freakin brilliant??? The musical edits are perfect!

Hat tip to the Pink Tentacle.

10 comments to Marine Life Videos are Better with a Live Studio Audience

Christopher Taylor

January 7, 2009 at 02:06 · Reply

Do you have an ID? Is that some sort of pteropod or something?
Kevin Zelnio

January 7, 2009 at 02:10 · Reply

Wait you want content and facts??? I don’t have time for that! lol

Its a pteropod, genus Clione. Coincidentally Clione is also a sponge genus, but the pteropod has priority. Not sure what happened to the sponge name…
Christopher Taylor

January 7, 2009 at 06:15 · Reply

Nothing, I believe. The sponge genus is Cliona, not Clione.

Both genera did have a family Clionidae named for them, though, with the gastropod Clionidae in the lead. I believe the sponge family is now Clionaidae.
Kevin Z

January 7, 2009 at 17:45 · Reply

Sponges aren’t *real* animals anyways. just figments of our imagination.
Andrew

January 8, 2009 at 04:13 · Reply

Kevin – I don’t believe it..!! You dissing an invertebrate group……
Kevin Zelnio

January 8, 2009 at 09:16 · Reply

They are more a consortia of protists and other microfauna that build a home to live in. Kind of like a commune.
Michael Robinson

January 8, 2009 at 14:22 · Reply

Enough about invertebrates, what about the tv show? I want to know the mental process by which a Japanese producer looks footage of a pteropod and thinks: lets cue up that music from Ringu and Damien III. Then we’ll put a laugh track over it. Perfect!
Aeolius

January 8, 2009 at 18:11 · Reply

Posted by: Kevin Z – “Sponges aren’t *real* animals anyways. just figments of our imagination.”

Whooooo…… lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Eric

January 9, 2009 at 07:53 · Reply

Awesome video…very fun!
I think this one goes up as part of a video intro to molluscs for the next invert bio course.

But, Kevin, dissin’ the porifera?
Is that the pulled pork speaking?
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