Can we dim the house lights for a minute?

by Meg on July 3, 2006

"Poopers" the Japanese Hammie representin’ with a tribute song: "Choppin’ Broccoli"

…And my lady,
she went downtown
She bought some broccoli
She brought it home.

She’s chopping broccoli
Chopping broccoli
Chopping broccoli
Chopping broccoli

She’s chopping broccoli
She’s chopping broccoli
She’s chop.. ooh!
She’s chopping broccola-ah-ie!

Choppin_broccolee

Arigato, Chanse-san and Dana C.

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1 Hila 07.03.06 at 5:39 am

That is, by far, the finest display of broccoli I’ve ever seen :) ))

And what a sweetie… Look at the ears… I wanna come home to that every night… *snorgle*!!

2 Jedediah Erasmus III 07.03.06 at 5:56 am
3 Nora 07.03.06 at 6:01 am

Bravo! Encore! Encore!

4 Fish Eye no Miko 07.03.06 at 6:07 am

“Poopers”? [giggles]

5 Aubrey 07.03.06 at 6:19 am

I want to scoop up that Poopers!

6 kms 07.03.06 at 6:21 am

sooooo cute!!!! i want one!!

7 betty 07.03.06 at 6:30 am

m’thinks it’s a hammy broccoli bridal boquet…Poopers is getting hitched…or he has a Hammy bridal boquet beeznuz

8 hrh.squeak 07.03.06 at 6:58 am

Awwww, Poopers looks willing to share his broccoli treat with someone he loves!

9 Nickole 07.03.06 at 7:16 am

Who can resist buying broccoli when it’s advertised like this?

10 Critterfriend 07.03.06 at 7:32 am

OMG!!! That shot is pure genius! How can anyone not love rodents? Delightful!
P.S. Congrats on the Washington Post nod! Keep up the cute work! :)

11 constance 07.03.06 at 7:55 am

…just wow.

12 tabbycat917 07.03.06 at 8:06 am

what a sweet little face!!!

13 Kjebba 07.03.06 at 8:33 am

Awww! Schmoooopie! :-D
I swear I didn’t realise hamsters can be so unbearably cute until I found this place.

14 Christina 07.03.06 at 8:58 am

I love hamsters. And I love broccoli. This is like, picture perfect squee material.

I’d share my broccoli anytime with that cutie.

15 StormCat 07.03.06 at 11:11 am

He looks like he’s got the “uh oh” face…Kind of like:
“What? THIS broccoli? No, I wasn’t eating it.. I would never do that…I was…um…I was…bringing it for you!! Yea, that’s it…I was bringing it to you!!! Oh, you don’t want it? Well…can I have it then??”

16 Redzilla 07.03.06 at 11:13 am

I think this hammie looks a bit nervous, perhaps because that is her bridal broccoli bouquet, or perhaps just because broccoli is the deadliest vegetable known to hamkind (It tries to warn you away with its terrible taste :o ) Of course, I could be mistaking BEF + romantic mood lighting as nervousness.

17 pheral 07.03.06 at 11:36 am

lol, i think you got it stormcat. it’s that classic “what broccoli?” moment.

18 ceebs 07.03.06 at 12:11 pm

LOL Betty, I wanna see a teeny tiny veil to go with the broccoli boo-kay! And a itty-bitty 3 tiered cake!

19 jaypo 07.03.06 at 12:19 pm

“Chompin’ broccoli” indeed. StormC–lol!!

20 Jan Spencer 07.03.06 at 12:28 pm

OH MY GAWD…visions of Dana Carvey going through my head with Sigourney Weaver looking on. OH how funny…(hysterical laughter can’t be contained here!!)

21 chunkstyle 07.03.06 at 12:29 pm

The BEF is off the charts here. Perhaps that lil’ hammie needs the roughage to feel a bit less…eye-bulgey?

22 ceebs 07.03.06 at 12:48 pm

I wanna see the next shot…of Hammie with that piece of broc shoved in his cheeks!

23 Theo 07.03.06 at 1:21 pm

Meg.
We *really* need to set up some celebrity interviews.
Dana Carvey and Poopers on Cute Overload Late Night.

(egad… “Poopers?” What’s next? I’m going to get a pet garter snake and name it Erectile Dysfunction, this I swear)

24 Amy 07.03.06 at 1:25 pm

That is so cute, but I will now have that song in my head. ALL DAY.

25 Theo 07.03.06 at 1:29 pm

By the way… mostly we’ll just call the snake “Ed,” of course.

26 greenighs 07.03.06 at 1:30 pm

Oooooooo. So very cute. And so sincere! Look at the sincerity in those beady little ighs. O.o

27 Lohan Roberto 07.03.06 at 1:56 pm

Think this is cute????

Check out my kitty: http://www.zxocuteboy.com/2006/06/sterling-slepping-in-my-bag.htm

28 Theo 07.03.06 at 2:00 pm

L-Rob — OK OK, your kitty is cute! We get it… got anything *else* to say?

(btw, CuteBoy, it’s spelled “sleeping”)

29 Tanya 07.03.06 at 2:03 pm

OMG that ish cute! You can find some cute stuff at my website becuase I do some of the same things. Hope you check it out!

30 Brak_Silverbone 07.03.06 at 2:26 pm

The hammie looks like he’s saying, “Thankyew! Thankyewverramuch!” (He’s almost holding the broccoli like a microphone!)

31 Evel 07.03.06 at 2:29 pm

Way too cute.

32 mrskittycats 07.03.06 at 2:36 pm

OMG, that’s the funniest immitation of Dana Carvey I’ve ever seen!! Makes me lol! LOVE this web site – mrskittycats

33 Redzilla 07.03.06 at 2:50 pm

Ceebs…I think we know who Poopers could hire to make the delicate, miniature wedding cake…Lucy’s boy, Mathijs van der Paauw.

34 Esme 07.03.06 at 2:55 pm

I’m so glad that other people remember that hilarious Dana Carvey sketch!!!!! Great job, CuteOverload!!!!!!!!

35 Theo 07.03.06 at 2:57 pm
36 Jude 07.03.06 at 3:20 pm

I love your choice of Dana Carvey song to represent your hamster. Gold.

37 Teddi 07.03.06 at 3:50 pm

With respect for the Dana Carvey original shouldn’t it be ‘chomping’ broccoli?

38 Laurie C 07.03.06 at 3:55 pm

On the topic of hamsters, I’m now completely off the charts in suspense about where Luna has gone on Baruchito’s Homecage. I never cared a whit about hamsters before I tapped into CO.

39 pistache268 07.03.06 at 4:05 pm

GASP.
Kawaii!!!!!

40 Gizmo 07.03.06 at 4:08 pm

/OFF the topic of hamsters/

Here on CO, where teh Qute and the literate *frequently* collide–er, intersect–there may be some who would enjoy the Judith Barrington poem quoted in the July 3 entry on Language Log:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003311.html

I mean, it *does* mention hedgehogs.

/resume hamster topic/

41 Theo 07.03.06 at 4:09 pm

Laurie C — I think she’s on the run:
http://pip.rubberfeet.org/07/race.gif

(not my anim… http://pip.rubberfeet.org/ )

42 Laurie C 07.03.06 at 4:13 pm

Thankee Theo. btw, I’m planning to upload some new boxcar cat photos this evening. With informative captions!

43 Aubrey 07.03.06 at 4:24 pm

Albert Broccoli’s original vision of the famous lines from ‘Goldfinger’:

“Do expect this lightly sauteed in a wok?”

“No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to fry!”

44 JenniferM 07.03.06 at 4:55 pm

One of the lesser known but my absolute favorite Dana Carvey sketch ever. Poor college cafeteria workers had to suffer my friends’ and my “performance” every time they served us the vile weed.

Cute hamster, too.

45 jaypo 07.03.06 at 5:03 pm

I forgot how adorable Kumanoko is. LMAO, Theo!! Ham on the lam. Not that it’s better then anything *you* might have done, of course…;-)

LaurieC, maybe she got sick…or worse. :-(

46 Aubrey 07.03.06 at 5:14 pm

A new BEF:
Broccoli Eating Factor

47 jaypo 07.03.06 at 5:19 pm

LaurieC, on your mommacat recommendation from Saturday, I’m thinking good thoughts for Luna.

48 Theo 07.03.06 at 5:22 pm

Aubrey — Glossary has been updated.
;)

49 Laurie C 07.03.06 at 5:39 pm

jaypo, knowing the bad luck Javi’s had with his hamsters this year, I *was* fearing the worst.

50 English Chick 07.03.06 at 7:14 pm

“Everything was going just the way i planned the broccoli was done” ba baaa naa naa.
.
.
.
just realised you wont know what the heck im going on about.

51 little gator 07.03.06 at 8:21 pm

Theo, don’t you mean a Reptile Disfunction?

hammie: do I have something stuck in my teeth?

52 Theo 07.03.06 at 8:41 pm

LOL, Little Gator.

53 Theo 07.03.06 at 8:42 pm
54 Jan Spencer 07.04.06 at 12:06 am

Hey, speaking of celebs on this site, didn’t Brad Pitt make an appearance somewhere before on here?

We should have a new category, “Famous people and their pets” or something like that.

55 Aubrey 07.04.06 at 12:11 am

Jan – For Brad and his pet, you can maybe do a search for ‘Pit Bulls’.

56 Mel 07.04.06 at 12:33 am

Fav SNL skit evar.

57 Theo 07.04.06 at 1:18 am
58 jane 07.04.06 at 1:44 am

OK – the picture, I’m kind of neutral on, but the song reference? Major props for that one! Best Dana Carvey skit ever!

59 jaypo 07.04.06 at 2:09 am

Brad Pett?

60 Theo 07.04.06 at 2:45 am

Jolie good, Jaypo.

61 jaypo 07.04.06 at 2:51 am

Well, it’s such an unushiloh name, y’know.

62 Theo 07.04.06 at 2:54 am

[dwah, dwah, dwah, dwaaahhh...]

63 A thinker 07.04.06 at 3:06 am

hokay. That is officially the most darling, adorable hammy picture. ever. posted. on. CO.

Bravo, Meg.

64 A thinker 07.04.06 at 3:09 am

…and argh. The puns just get worse and worse, here, they do…

65 jaypo 07.04.06 at 3:15 am

I agree, thinkie, and all the Br-angelina stuff is the pitts, these nouvel riche celebs so, so…so…

me done now. You can breathe.

66 Becca 07.04.06 at 5:23 am

I laughed out loud at the pairing of that song (Yes, definitely Best Dana Carvey Skit EVAR) with that picture. Awesome.

67 cuteness lover 07.04.06 at 7:44 pm

He looks like he’s guarding the veggie to me. He’s going to stick the whole thing in his mouth and run in just a minute.

68 Theo 07.04.06 at 9:47 pm

We can’t help the puns, you know. They’re kind of automaddox.

69 jaypo 07.05.06 at 12:54 am

hee hee!

70 A thinker 07.05.06 at 2:53 am

AGH!!

71 jenny 09.24.06 at 5:31 pm

I know this mouse’s uncle!

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