4 minutes and 23 seconds of baby pandas wrestling

by Meg on December 16, 2007

This vid puts the overload in Overload. It goes on and on and on with these twin, lumbering panda toddlers, wrestling with each other. There’s a giggling Japanese audience in the background. Do we love it? HEI!

I coulda taken 30 seconds, but this is The Overload, so there you go.

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1 Wbirdie 12.16.07 at 6:48 am

~Roly poly Roly poly fluffitude!~ *dies*

2 Cait 12.16.07 at 6:48 am

So, that was so adorable that my heart just peed. Yeah, I’m serious. I’m almost comatose from the overdose of cuteness.

3 Sarah 12.16.07 at 6:50 am

I’m so sleepy right now, and this is so cute, am I dreaming? I can barely tell. I hope these guys end up in my dreams once I drift off. Ultimate de-stresser, that was.

4 O. 12.16.07 at 6:50 am

Barely bearable… soooo cute!!!!

5 Angela 12.16.07 at 6:52 am

I think the thing that makes pandas so cute is their butt. They’re very “un-butt-like.” They’re just so damned round and soft-looking, like a stuffed animal’s butt.

I must have a panda bear for Christmas.

6 Patricia 12.16.07 at 7:15 am

The attempted pounces were really funny. They looked like two giant teddy bears trying to wrestle. I felt bad for the one that seemed to inexplicably end up on his head a few times.

7 Syn 12.16.07 at 7:29 am

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww now thats just so darn cute. They couldn’t even get in good hits. They just kept falling back or tumbling forward. :)

8 CheshireCat 12.16.07 at 7:44 am

Pudgy pandas play as pleased peeps praise their precious patooties, Ahn!

9 Maimes 12.16.07 at 8:41 am

that looks like the cuddliest wrestling match ever, i just want to run in there and hug them
and SO MANY somersaults!

10 Kar 12.16.07 at 9:28 am

I can’t decide if they look like a new weight class of sumo wrestlers or really drunk boxers.

Or maybe just a pair of Weeble Wables. They will fall over but they won’t fall down.

11 LisaL 12.16.07 at 9:38 am

OMG… Baby Panda Wrestling FTW!!

pounce pounce pounce!

12 pb 12.16.07 at 1:00 pm

Too bad the beginning of the tape was missing. You know, the part where they stomp their feet, fling handfuls of salt to the ground …

13 Andy 12.16.07 at 1:14 pm

There are no pandas in Japan. The audience is almost certainly Chinese.

14 hey-h 12.16.07 at 2:07 pm

Andy – pandas live in zoos all over the world. Also, the audience is speaking Japanese. Also, if you follow the link to youtube, it says right there that these pandas are in Japan.

But about the cute: omg. I watched all four minutes (chin in hands, elbows on desk) and could have watched 10 or 15 more. LOVE.

15 Peg of Tilling 12.16.07 at 2:15 pm

This first rule of Panda Club: there is no Panda Club.

Two pandas enter, one panda leaves!

16 Miss Expatria 12.16.07 at 2:24 pm

highlights:

:20 – somersault!

:36 – paws up!

1:01 – braces himself!

1:19 – THWAP

2:09 – raspberry on the belly!

2:26 – headbutting step by mistake!

2:43 – so excited, he flings himself backward!

3:30 – belly flop!

3:36 – almost standing – OOPS

3:45 – yep, that ear kronsche is there in all its glory.

4:03 – HEADSTAND ehn ehn

4:16 – oh STOP, he says

17 moggyfan 12.16.07 at 2:25 pm

The cute! The cute! Eeeet eees tooo moishe.

For those who’d like a daily dose of teh panna qte, Zhen-Zhen, the cubbie at the San Diego zoo stars daily on their panda cam. She’s just barely started to toddle and her antics with mom are almost more unbearably cute than should be legal! http://www.sandiegozoo.org/zoo/ex_panda_station.html

18 Lola 12.16.07 at 2:29 pm

This is a little scary but the look on the panda’s face at the end made me laugh like crrrazy…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubZimS4E3F0

19 circuscake 12.16.07 at 3:11 pm

sooo adorable! what a perfect way to start my Sunday.

(ummm….i think you meant ‘Hai!’, yes?)

20 jess e. 12.16.07 at 3:30 pm

OMG could that have been cuter and funnier!?!?! No. It could not. LOVE the uncoordinated wrestling match.
And does anyone else think that pandas are related to Popples? They clearly have no bones.

21 girlnextdoortn 12.16.07 at 3:52 pm

Sooo slow-motion! They’re like puppies- they want to fight, but they don’t have much control over, well, anything of their bodies!!

22 chanpon 12.16.07 at 4:08 pm

4 mins? I can watch these roly-poly babies do this for 4 hours! *sigh* Is there anything on this Earth cuter than baby pandas?

23 Persephone 12.16.07 at 4:31 pm

For your consideration:

I think we should have a special category for cuteness from Japan. Maybe it should be called “Kawaii”?

24 berthaslave 12.16.07 at 5:41 pm

The somersaults did me in. Rolllll over….rolllll over….

25 Kecia 12.16.07 at 5:59 pm

that one was all….eh eh when it felld over on its widdle head. Wanna snuggle wid the cudlys.

26 jen 12.16.07 at 6:14 pm

the terror! the carnage! the brutality of vicious pandas!!!!

lol

barfing up rainbows over heah.

27 Caitlin 12.16.07 at 7:23 pm

People, I think we have discovered the ORIGIN OF SUMO WRESTLING!!!1! Call the press!

Also, I second the addition of a “Kawaii” category. Considering how many of Meg’s posts start off with “The Japanese are handing our asses to us AGAIN…” :D

28 My sister's cat is a blob 12.16.07 at 8:34 pm

Wow! That’s a lot of activity for pandas. Usually they are all like, can’t be bothered to get off de coushe. “Hey, could you hand me that remote? Oh, and pass me some of those bamboo stalks while you’re at it? *nam nam nam* Oh, and could you get the light switch when you leave. Thanks!”

29 cath 12.16.07 at 9:21 pm

ohhh… PWEASE can I get in there and ressle with them? PWEEEEEASE??? I promise to look out for their clawsies.

30 moo pie 12.17.07 at 1:04 am

Could anything make that better? I think not… oh wait… if the Rocky theme song was playing in the background. Such an overload of cute. Ehn!

31 sisterisablob 12.17.07 at 3:27 am

Santa is bringing me one of these for christmas. Or two of these.

32 Copycatz 12.17.07 at 4:38 am

The human version.

33 Subhangi 12.17.07 at 5:14 am

SQUEEEEEEEE!!! Roly poly bebeh pandas!!!

I think they look even cuter because their white bottoms look like diapers!

*SPLODE*

34 Tacti 12.17.07 at 5:22 am

When scientists figure out how to keep pandas babies forevarz, I want one.

This was DEF. overload. :D

35 Rob 12.17.07 at 6:09 am

i think it’s already been pointed out, but i think it’s supposed to be “hai” if its romanized Japanese.

36 Babs 12.17.07 at 2:16 pm

Heh, looks like their biggest challenge is working with that enormous noggin.

Meanwhile, if this were an Olympic sport, I would totally start watching the Olympics again.

37 Kathleen 12.17.07 at 2:49 pm

Thirty seconds? At the fifteen second mark my teeth started to ache from all the sweet cuteness and I had to hit the stop button. :)

Kathleen

38 Noelle 12.17.07 at 5:33 pm

Pandas are proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!

This video is proof that cute is universal and everyone laughs in the same language!

39 Driver B 12.17.07 at 5:54 pm

kawaiiiiiiiiiii!!!

40 DKN 12.17.07 at 5:59 pm

*adjusts glasses* “Yes” is “Hai”…and a “so desu yo” would be a good addition to that.

41 Kar 12.17.07 at 7:24 pm

WWE, WWF, Whateve.

42 debkakes 12.17.07 at 7:49 pm

No, I wahnt more more more! 4 min 23 sec NOT ENUFF! More clumsy panda puffage, please!

43 luvinmalssomuch 12.18.07 at 8:12 pm

My absolute favorite animal. Thanks for the pandas CO.

44 diandra 12.21.07 at 11:09 pm

hai!

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