Sing it with me now; ‘flürg ghat diddly sko-ogan!!’

by Meg on October 22, 2008

Please watch as this affectionate kitteh snorgles a horse and a mini Swedish chef sings in the background. Thank you. [Pulls curtain back to reveal insanity]

Why do I feel like putting together a Bînder bookcase unit, Ashley B.?

{ 164 comments }

1 falnfenix 10.22.08 at 8:04 pm

ohgodthevoice…AAAAACK

2 Janna D. 10.22.08 at 8:05 pm

Been wondering when this would make it to CuteOverload.

3 ink 10.22.08 at 8:05 pm

Aha. Love the falsetto.

4 Pants 10.22.08 at 8:06 pm

this is def the most mysteriously intriguing thing i’ve seen in a long time

5 liz 10.22.08 at 8:06 pm

god i love kitties

6 TW 10.22.08 at 8:07 pm

That voice renders me speechless (but not type-less).

7 Roisin 10.22.08 at 8:08 pm

Anhhh! I love it when kitteh and ponies all get along. The song was over the top. I hope someone can tell me what it is from and what the words mean. I am guessing it is Danish?

8 Estlin 10.22.08 at 8:09 pm

Repeat?

9 Todd 10.22.08 at 8:10 pm

Kitteh is super cute. Horse looks dissaproving, likely it’s the song :p

10 tracyFlick 10.22.08 at 8:18 pm

Are you kidding me?

11 Roisin 10.22.08 at 8:20 pm

Can someone please tell me why all of a sudden My CO pages are huge. I have to scroll side by side to read them or hit the apple key and the minus key to get them in frame. I use firefox (ver. 3.03) I changed my font and the size but that was not it. It does not happen with any other web pages just CO.

12 David Eliason 10.22.08 at 8:20 pm

The song is in swedish and is a children’s song (from the 70s I think). It is about the bear in this comic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamse

13 momof2kitties 10.22.08 at 8:20 pm

I call repost! November 2007, to be exact!
But, having said that, I want to be that kitteh. Minus the weird soundtrack.

14 warrior rabbit 10.22.08 at 8:24 pm

Cat and pony are cute. Voice is…well, it’s really something else, isn’t it? Also, I’m with Estlin — I think this is a repeat. You should totally repost that indoor elk (or whatever) with the awesome catchy Finnish tune!

15 claudia 10.22.08 at 8:29 pm

Holy crow that cat is super duper cuddly lol! I love how the horse is “meh.”

16 Simpa 10.22.08 at 8:29 pm

This is a repost. I am quite disappointment

17 Carolina2 10.22.08 at 8:30 pm

I am SO in love with this. I’d somehow never seen this before. It is probably the BEST thing I’ve ever seen. I would love to live on that farm (I’m assuming it’s a farm) I want!!

18 Mary W. 10.22.08 at 8:31 pm

I think the song is hysterical, lol. It reminds me of this old Disney songs tape I had as a kid… 1:08-1:19 he kind of sounds like one of the mice from Cinderella x3

19 (the original) Mel 10.22.08 at 8:35 pm

I’m going to get so drunk and watch this again.

20 Diane 10.22.08 at 8:37 pm

And here all this time I thought horses hated kittehs. We have several kittehs and are moving to horse country…and assumed we’d instantly be ineligible for one. Hmmm, maybe not. :)

21 Erebella 10.22.08 at 8:38 pm

Wow, it’s even ride barebutt………..I mean bareback.

22 nycat 10.22.08 at 8:41 pm

I think this is a rerun. But an excellent rerun.

23 Alison 10.22.08 at 8:41 pm
24 Boomer's Babysitter 10.22.08 at 8:41 pm

Well, I hadn’t discovered CO in 2007 so I can’t comment on repostage, but that song… I had to turn the volume off. :-P

25 jfield 10.22.08 at 8:46 pm

Wow! The Swedish Chef on helium;)

26 NoraMaria 10.22.08 at 8:47 pm

OH sho cute! This kitteh makes the horse look so soft and comfortable!

27 Cupcake 10.22.08 at 8:51 pm

Holy WUT? Where do I get this song? I’ve been looking for a way to get rid of unwanted house guests.

28 Rach 10.22.08 at 8:51 pm

Hey, I liked the song.. it was cute in a creepy way!

But that kitty! Tail has just the right about of poof, prettuh fur, and oh, so happy!

29 Laura 10.22.08 at 8:52 pm

Except for the PONY!!11! and the stable and the big brush, it could be my house, esp. the song…….

Sometimes I annoy my cats with silly songs. I just wish I could capture some of their reactions on film. Toooo phuny.

30 Rumi 10.22.08 at 8:54 pm

Yeah, I remember this one too. And I’ll say the same thing (more or less) now that I said then — while the cat may like that horse, I’m pretty sure he’s rubbin’ and rollin’ because he wants the human filming him to put down the damn camera and PET him, already!

Personally, I’d have filmed for about thirty seconds and then started loving on both kitty and horse. :)

31 skip 10.22.08 at 8:54 pm

The stable cat used to do this with my Arabian-thoroughbred gelding all the time! He’d stand veeeery still when she fell asleep on his back.

32 johnnyjohnny 10.22.08 at 9:00 pm

Great! Now the Swedes are kicking our asses.

33 david 10.22.08 at 9:09 pm

I sent this to a couple of my irony-loving hipster colleagues, and they declared it “possibly the greatest track ever”.

34 warrior rabbit 10.22.08 at 9:10 pm

This is the one I meant earlier, the classic that deserves a rerun. Moose in the hoose! (And catchy Finnish folk song.)
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/03/take-a-right-at.html

35 muttluver 10.22.08 at 9:13 pm

*is in state of shock* That… that voice… it… it… that voice… my ears….

And I think the kitty just likes the horsies hair. But I don’t have a horse or a kitteh, so don’t listen to me.

36 Cara N. 10.22.08 at 9:19 pm

Best… music… ever.

37 Delia 10.22.08 at 9:21 pm

Exellent rerun!
Swedish as I am, I must say I laughed the most at your, well, “swedish” headline: “‘flürg ghat diddly sko-ogan!!” :-)

Gotta love that cat, though!

38 Natalie 10.22.08 at 9:27 pm

Now that is a most excellent bottle brush tail.

39 dub1 10.22.08 at 9:32 pm

Lurve the negative-raccoon tailio!

40 ida 10.22.08 at 9:38 pm

This is f-king great! Im from Sweden and the stuff he sings, and reading Bamse (the bear he sings about) when I was a kid just make it go over the top. Combined with the loving kitteh its just.. too much!! hahahahaha

41 eikoleigh 10.22.08 at 9:45 pm

That is just adorable!!

42 Decca 10.22.08 at 9:53 pm

Well the catchy Finnish song from the Moose video is “Leva’s Polka” by Loituma from their CD “Things of Beauty.” But I’d love to get the music from this one. I host a world music radio show at Stanford University and I would totally play this on my show.

43 val 10.22.08 at 10:09 pm

i swear i’ve seen this on here before!!!!

44 Lynne 10.22.08 at 10:12 pm

Diane, fwiw, I don’t think most horses could care less about cats. But most cats that aren’t raised around horses are completely terrified of their giganticness and FREAK OUT at horse encounters.

45 chicky82 10.22.08 at 10:16 pm

I was laughing hysterically at the song when he hit the high notes that I had a hard time focusing on the kitty snorgle.

46 Mary (the first) 10.22.08 at 10:25 pm

Love this..(remember it from last time but the good ones are always good for a repost for newbies) but can anyone who knows Swedish translate the song or, at minimum, the headline??

47 Mari 10.22.08 at 10:47 pm

The headline doesn’t mean anything at all. Well, sko means shoe, but that’s out of context.
The song is basically about a Swedish childrens character named Bamse (see link ablove). He’s a bear, gets strong if he eats a special kind of honey and has a best friend named Lille Skutt who’s a white rabbit, etc etc. In the song the two meet a kittycat (kissemiss) and Bamse tries to get the cat to come along by offering a meatball and they go to grandmother’s (Farmor) house.
That’s so stereotypically Swedish I shouldn’t even post this.
The song is sweet, but a bit silly, doesn’t really say anything.

48 Felt Inspired 10.22.08 at 10:56 pm

Great–now I have coffee all over my computer….

49 pny 10.22.08 at 10:58 pm

My ears are bleeding.

50 michelle 10.22.08 at 11:06 pm

This is why I come to this site when I’m PMSing.

51 Barky 10.22.08 at 11:14 pm

Um…I think I have to watch again just for that song! It kind of… well… mezmerized my ears – in a loopy kind of way!

52 Gail (the first one) 10.22.08 at 11:17 pm

The song (and the comments) are killing me!!!!

53 Theo 10.22.08 at 11:17 pm

Yep, it’s a rerun (errrr…) that is, an encore presentayshe. Good call Estlin, good find Alison, good grief who SANG this one???

54 Mary (the first) 10.22.08 at 11:31 pm

eeek why do I now have “sexy college girls ” on the left side of my screen? ACK!!

55 Skalman 10.22.08 at 11:32 pm

Cuteness according to Werner Herzog? So disturbing and cute, at the same time.

56 Shaz 10.23.08 at 12:00 am

yes, people, it’s a repost, which is fine. What’s bad is that I KNOW it’s a repost. Means I’ve been around long enough…

Oh, and poor kitty has something wrong with its right eye — hope it got better. It didn’t seem to bother the cat a whole lot… it was still rubbings its face into the horse’s back. Maybe it was allergic to horses. :)

57 jmuhj 10.23.08 at 12:01 am

“Sexy Swedish Stable Cats!” would be more appropriate, don’cha think, M(tf)?

*SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!* (in Swedish, of course)

And isn’t the singer Bjork’s second cousin twice removed? (The Swedish one?)

58 jmuhj 10.23.08 at 12:02 am

Oh yeah, and I notice that too, Shaz, and share your hope. Absolutely.

59 Tina 10.23.08 at 12:04 am

You would probably think I was joking if I translated this for you, it’s crazy even in swedish :P
For example the lyrics tell us about a turtle named “Skalman” (= “Shell-man”) who apparently is so very tired, but it’s all sung as a child with a speech impediment would sing it…

60 berthaservant 10.23.08 at 12:09 am

Skalman — good call. This definitely has a “Stroszek” feel to it.

I don’t remember it either but the proof is there, it’s a repost.

Very, very, very odd. Love the kitteh snorgling the camera at about :58.

61 Szilvia 10.23.08 at 12:18 am

David, Mari and Tina are correct, you can see Bamse, Skalman and Lille-Skutt here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaNI0Mt_kLY

Bamse and his friends are just as loved as for instance Pippi Longstocking and the Moomins.

I can’t imagine how funny this must sound to anyone who doesn’t understand Swedish! ^_^

62 Houdi'sMom 10.23.08 at 12:27 am

@pny I’m with you. I listened to about 15 seconds of the song and had to turn off the sound. I love the cat, though, and the horse. I watched the moose clip from the link above and was totally fine with that song.

63 Fegli 10.23.08 at 12:27 am

Cute kitty and cute pony… together… it is simply TOO MOISHE!

64 Elsie 10.23.08 at 12:28 am

What the HAYLE is with the song?
Blam, there go my brains, right out of my head. (splatter, splatter)

65 Kimski 10.23.08 at 12:28 am

Cuteness according to Werner Herzog?

Ha ha, yes or the Dogma school , so true.

66 noonie 10.23.08 at 12:31 am

That song is better than valium.

67 Swede 10.23.08 at 12:32 am

I think it’s important to clarify that Bamse eats his grandma’s THUNDERHONEY to become strong, and also he hates bullies.

68 Amy 10.23.08 at 12:41 am

Volume at 0 fixes it. :D

Adorable.

69 Pinu 10.23.08 at 12:46 am

I don’t know what’s funnier, the song, the sound of me laughing at it, or the look my dog just gave me while I was laughing and I woke him up.

70 Jackie 10.23.08 at 12:53 am

I giggled the whole time because the song is so adorably cute. ;)

71 Sahrawi Wife 10.23.08 at 1:07 am

@Pinu * Same here!! Hannibal Looked at me like I have lost my Mind !! Sweet kitties , Horsies and Squeeky singing will make you laugh like a loony for sure Yall !! Thanks for the Laugh CO!!

72 Anon 10.23.08 at 1:19 am

Kitty’s right eye looks infected =(

73 snickers 10.23.08 at 1:34 am

It’s been a while since I laughed (out loud and a lot) while watching a cute overload video.

okay okay, I did laugh over the trampoline boxer..

I think it’s the music that did the trick.

74 scooterpants 10.23.08 at 2:08 am

oh good lord.
the lepricahn-singing- person-whatever is incredibly irritating, WTF?(heck) I wanna stick a fork in my neck.
the ponie is so cute and the kitteh, but the moozack, too much!!!
pleeze save the kitteh and the ponie from further hoo-miliation from the singer of the song.

75 PJ 10.23.08 at 2:10 am

That cat is codependent.

76 scooterpants 10.23.08 at 2:10 am

(the original) mel-
did you pass out?
cuz i’m waitin for you to post again… mid drunked-ness.
i’ll just wait here quietly for ya…

77 jmuhj 10.23.08 at 2:11 am

Yes, a vet visit STAT. Antibiotics clear up that eye PDQ.

And Diane, btw, horses in general (and just about everywhere else, including, one assumes, Svensk) LOVE cats. Have you never heard of horses in the racing industry and their cats? Yep! It’s true! And lots of horses have stables cats as pals. ;)

78 winnie 10.23.08 at 2:22 am

a repeat, but still worth repeating

[Well said! Well said... - Ed.]

79 Anne Boleyn 10.23.08 at 2:25 am

And for you non Swedes out there, “Farmor” specifically means “father’s mother” (paternal grandmother). If it referred to the mother’s mother she’s be called “Mormor”, and paternal grandfather is “Farfar” and maternal grandfather is Farmor. I love that and now I’m missing my Mormor and Morfar :(

80 so_much_love 10.23.08 at 2:37 am

That song just made my 5-week-old kittens actually freeze mid-murdering of each other and head tilt in my direction. Like, ‘wtf?’

81 raymi 10.23.08 at 2:55 am

that’s my favourite song.

82 neptune 10.23.08 at 3:19 am

That song makes the video 10x funnier. I giggled a lot.

83 neptune 10.23.08 at 3:21 am

Also, Anne B, I often wish English family names were so specific!

And lol @ ravmi.

84 Not That Mike The Other Mike 10.23.08 at 3:35 am

After that video, I had to step outside for a moment to reassure myself that I was still on Earth.

85 Blyhagd 10.23.08 at 3:56 am

I just had a stroke of genius and sang the title to the tune of “Play that funky music white boy” and it added a whole other level of surreal-ness and absurdity to this post.

86 Sahrawi Wife 10.23.08 at 3:58 am

Ok Yall I have officially made the first part of the song ,up to the first pause, my BOSS’s ringtone !! He almost fell out of his chair lauging when he heared it ! :)

87 Shaz 10.23.08 at 4:03 am

I generally start losing it at about 25 seconds in when the song goes “KISSILI KISSILI KISSILI KISS” or some such… and then the giggles last throughout the rest of it…

88 Kell 10.23.08 at 4:08 am

ohhh god this horse feels soooo good… oh god i feel sooo good…mmmm camera you feel gooood… oh brush..

am i the only on who thinks of peter(a la family guy) when he took ectasy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgBLh3Gum5U) when i watch this?

89 Michelle S 10.23.08 at 4:48 am

hahah I love barn kitties <3 <3 <3

90 des 10.23.08 at 5:01 am

That is the most whacked out song I’ve ever heard, and it will haunt my dreams. Good thing the kitty is cute.

91 warrior rabbit 10.23.08 at 5:16 am

“Bamse tries to get the cat to come along by offering a meatball”

So it’s ‘I can has meatball’?

Thunderhoney! LOL. Sounds like something from James Bond.

[Yeah, no doubt... she's one of the "bad" girls that ends up busting Bond out of the enemy compound after a quickie on the bigass slab of gold... - Ed.]

And so_much_love, if you have two 5-week-old kittens, YOU HAVE TO SHARE! Pix! Vids! Stories of shenanigans!

92 wait what 10.23.08 at 5:18 am

Does this remind anyone else of that scene in “The Land Before Time” where Little Foot snuggles in the skin fold of his mother’s shoulders?

93 Star-eyed 10.23.08 at 5:39 am

My dog did not approve of this song, ran into the room barking like mad and trying to see if I was hiding somebody behind the computer..

94 Momcat 10.23.08 at 5:46 am

Cute and sweet; I had to play it with the sound off ’cause the Hubster is sleeping, so I haven’t heard the song yet. I love how the kitty changes positions about 2/3 through and pony kinda loses his balance. Kitty’s eye looks like my daughter’s after she has snorgled a cat – she is allergic. I think maybe a lot of the rubbing has to do with the eye’s discomfort.

95 doxnsox 10.23.08 at 6:39 am

OMG the song is hilarious. The randomness of all the cute elements makes this video amazing.

96 Janni 10.23.08 at 7:55 am

I absolutely love that voice, with all the falsetto and voice breaking and out-of-tuneism… And the kisseli is adorable.
I suggest kisseli gets to CO glossary, it’s a brilliant word!

97 Hon Glad 10.23.08 at 8:11 am

Det ar mycket bra.

98 cubbybutt 10.23.08 at 9:42 am

I teach 2nd grade, and that Swedish elf voice is very close to the insanity I listen to all day.

99 Emilie 10.23.08 at 10:13 am

Bamse og lille Skutt
hoppa ut i skogen
då kom skalmann …
snubla på en katt

Bamse sa: kom hit! kom hit!
kisseli kisseli kisseliss
så ska du få en kjøttbulle
når du kommer fram

og så så dom farmors hus
långt uppå kullen
lille Skutt han sprang så fort
hele vegen fram

Då sa Bamse:

Nu springer du for fort for fort
vænta på oss andra
vi har inga långa ben
og Skalmann han er trøtt
trøtt

Kom in, kom in i stugan min
då ska ni få eta
?
?

Vill ni inta ha nån …
stora stærka Bamse
Nei takk, nei takk inte nu
før jag er så mett

Då sa lille husmusen
Å nei, den er stulen
Då sprang Bamse snabbt så snabbt
fånga Jason katt

Asji basji lilla katt
du får vondt i magen
inte hitta på nåt pus
spring til farmors hus

så va sagan slut

100 cheesybird 10.23.08 at 11:02 am

I think this is my favorite thing EVAH!

101 Molly 10.23.08 at 11:49 am

Lynne: our late cat Spencer, though raised in a vet’s office adjacent to a barn, was never exposed to horsies growing up. But one day we took him to the barn to meet our pony, and this was the result:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v452/WriterMcKay/Alfie/4.jpg

So while most cats probably would be all HOLY HECK WHAT IS THAT THING?…not all are ;)

Said cat also had a lot of eye issues…nothing a little cream didn’t fix. I’m sure this kitty was just fine after some ointment.

102 uff da 10.23.08 at 12:16 pm

Giant og small leaps
jump out in the forest
then came skalmann…
snubla on a cat

Giant said: come here! come here!
kisseli kisseli kisseliss
so, you will few one kjøttbulle reachs you come forward

og so so judgement grandmother’s houses long uppå the hill
small leaps he ran as soon as entire vegen forward

Then, giant said:

Now, you run travelled forts traveled quickly vænta on us others
we have no long legs
og Skalmann he you trøtt trøtt

Came in, came in in the cottage face then will you may eta
?
?

Wants to you to occupy to have someone…
big stærka giant
Nei takk, nei takk not now før I you so mett

Then, the small house mouse said
On nei, it your stolen
Then, giant ran quickly so fast to catch Jason cat

Asji basji small cat
you may vondt in the MAG
not getupto anything pus
run til grandmother’s houses

sow va the fairytale finished

103 chocobo 10.23.08 at 12:29 pm

very cute, but let’s not forget that the cat is actually displaying that the horse is his property to the human, and these are not cuddles ^_^

104 T.U.M. 10.23.08 at 12:39 pm

What a fine, full, fat tailio on the kitteh!

105 uff da 10.23.08 at 1:01 pm

Here’s the original cartoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Kx-Ks4FA8

106 pookie 10.23.08 at 1:24 pm

Since I’ve had this song stuck in my head since YESTERDAY, I’ve managed to translate a few lines. “Bamse and Little-Skut were hopping through the forest/Along came a turtle and tripped on a cat/Bamse said, ‘Come, kitty kitty kitty!’”

I’d go on, but first I need to fortify myself with some of my Mormor’s THUNDERHONEY.

107 blair 10.23.08 at 2:04 pm

what i heard:

bleen bleenbleenbleen bleen bleen bleen

etc.

108 Jewelz_4_U 10.23.08 at 2:08 pm

The video would not have been the same without the song, and the song would not have been the same without the video and thus I love them both. I really, really want to learn the song – it sounds like something I’d sing all day!

109 mel 10.23.08 at 2:12 pm

OMG did anyone google up some pictures of the cartoon characters? *head asplodes* Wake up Amurrica! I mean, I can deal with the Japanese handing us our asses, but the Swedes must be laughing theirs off at our lack of cute-ability.

110 Theresa 10.23.08 at 2:24 pm

Arrgh, I was watching the World Serious and
I missed this! Gorgeous kitty and lovely horse, like the sweet horses I visited in Maryland last week.

111 Swede 10.23.08 at 2:26 pm

Ok so the translation up above didn’t make a whole lot of sense so I have returned to clarify…

Bamse (name of bear) and Lille Skutt (name of rabbit) are walking through the woods and they run into Skalman (name of turtle) and they run into a cat and promise the cat meatballs when they arrive at Grandma’s house. Lille Skutt (being a bunny) runs ahead to get there first and Bamse says slow down, our legs aren’t as long as yours – plus Skalman is tiiired.

Then they get to Grandma’s and she says come into my little cabin and I’ll give you meatballs with lingonberry jam and lots of icecream! Bamse, you can have some honey – but Bamse says no thanks, I’m too full!

Then a housemouse comes out and says “Somebody stole the honey!” and it was Jansson’s cat! Bamse runs and catches him and tells him he’ll get a tummy ache, so be good and run along to Grandma’s house.

See them all here:
http://www.bamse.net/

[Wait. Skutt eats *meatballs*?? That rabbit's DYNAMITE... - Ed.]

112 Swede 10.23.08 at 2:28 pm

Sorry, I didn’t mean for it to sound like I was “uff da” who posted the translation – just that I had come back to the post after teaching you all about Thunderhoney.

113 uff da 10.23.08 at 2:48 pm

Swede, ha I know the translation’s crazy … it’s from an automatic Internet translator … they always come out completely insane but I thought it was funny enough to post, and in keeping with the overall surrealist mood of the video & comments. Thanks for the real translation!

114 Katrina 10.23.08 at 3:11 pm

More international Cute!
This video is my second favorite, after the moose, of all time on CO!
More songs, more international cute, please!

p.s. my inhaler is now empty- tusen takk!

115 crackjob 10.23.08 at 5:12 pm

A meatball?!??! Ahahaha!

How very… Swedish.

116 sweetpea 10.23.08 at 5:54 pm

What a snorglerific kitteh

117 Paunchie 10.23.08 at 6:34 pm

Nice vram horsehair blankie!

Also love how the horse is all “meh” lol

118 joools 10.23.08 at 6:36 pm

I was having a WEIRD morning, and logged on to CO for some perspective as always, this is JUST what the doctor ordered! I should send you all the money I save in therapy bills. Meg and NTMTOM are National Treasures! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

119 joools 10.23.08 at 6:38 pm

Teho too?
Teho too!!!!!

120 Paunchie 10.23.08 at 6:48 pm

meatballs and ligonberry jam, LOL

121 Anna 10.23.08 at 6:52 pm

It’s swedish. Where i’m from… ^_^
Its from a childrens book called “Bamse” I’ts a friendly bear that helps his friends, and gets extremely strong by drinking homemade honey his grandmother makes for him. Kinda like popeye.

The cat is audroable, i love the look he gives the camera in the end… “he is mine!”

122 Wisteria 10.23.08 at 7:10 pm

what? WHAT??!?

This sounds like Shari Lewis, Victor Borge and Topo Gigio all rolled into one surreal Swedish meatball.

In other words, DELICIOUS.

123 Tina 10.23.08 at 7:12 pm

Först en hälsning till er svenskar som verkar finnas här på Cute overload! Tjena!

Most swedish children grow up reading and watching Bamse, so we are all totally brain washed with messages like “the ones that are very strong must also be very kind” and believing that honey (thunderhoney!) will give us superhuman strength ;)

124 jmuhj 10.23.08 at 7:14 pm

I can’t stop coming back to watch this video over and over and over again.

What syndrome do I have?

125 Tina 10.23.08 at 7:15 pm

Paunchie: We actually eat meatballs with lingonberry jam, it’s not as strange as it may sound :P

126 Wisteria 10.23.08 at 7:22 pm

I believe that’s called Stockholm Syndrome.

[*SNÖRKT* -- oh man, you SO win this thread! I need to go lie down... - Ed.]

127 Paunchie 10.23.08 at 7:30 pm

I think I’d rather have swedish pancakes with ligonberry jam….

128 Swede 10.23.08 at 7:46 pm

Meatballs and lingonberry jam is soooo gooooood!!!

It´s a Swedish invasion! Next thing you know they´ll be posting “Höjdarna” stuff!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGByxXtM28Y

(show for kids)

129 Andy 10.23.08 at 8:17 pm

I think the singer is called Britt-Erik. Which is very weird.

130 Marie 10.23.08 at 9:43 pm

This cat is horny. I think it would even rub against cactus.

131 becx 10.23.08 at 9:52 pm

i think this is what the veggietales would sound like in swedish. the song acutually made my kitty extra snuggly!

132 Brooke 10.23.08 at 10:22 pm

repeat – WHAT’S with that?

133 AuntieMame 10.23.08 at 11:26 pm

I can maybe picture eating meatballs with jam. But the ice cream is a little bit much! (Please don’t give Dairy Queen any ideas!)

134 Bex 10.23.08 at 11:38 pm

Chicky, That was my problem too, I was laughing so hard I stopped paying attention!

135 anastasia 10.24.08 at 12:41 am

OMG!!!!?WHAT THE HELL?????
SNORGLE!EVER HEAR OF A KITTEH SNORGLING A PONEH? NO? I BET YOU NEVER EVEN HEARD OF ONE! IT IS NOW SETTLED THAT KITTEHS MUST SNORGLE other ANI-PALS!!!

136 Martha in Washington 10.24.08 at 1:22 am

You can get Swedish meatballs with Lingonberry jam at Ikea!! I’ve had it and I like it!

137 e-beth 10.24.08 at 1:38 am

Has the person filming this never heard that you don’t walk behind a horse?!

138 jazzkate 10.24.08 at 2:17 am

I think the reason I find this so very funny is because I imagine that that voice is the cat’s… Why that cracks me up, I have no idea. It’s ridiculous(ly funny).

139 jazzkate 10.24.08 at 2:17 am

Also, I really like how spongy the horse seems beneath the kitty’s kneading. Almost like memory foam.

140 Lilli 10.24.08 at 2:30 am

Hahaa! I’m finnish, and I SHOULD know some Swedish, but I only got a couple of phrases here and there… so thanks for the English version. Helped to clear things out “a bit”.

Small forest… meatballs…grandma’s house… long legs…BAMSE! Hmmh.

141 Mel2 10.24.08 at 2:39 am

Hahahahahahahaha…….this is possibly the funniest thing I’ve ever seen….I love it! The music was perfect for the video.

142 Adrig 10.24.08 at 3:11 am

If you really want to have a good time – press play and then scroll with alacrity down to Emilie’s lyrics and SING along OUTLOUD!!
Loved ones will promise you anything to get you to STOP!

143 Christi 10.24.08 at 3:58 am

Okay, so I had to replay the video just for the song. I love it, lol.

144 compy-saur 10.24.08 at 4:35 am

I love Swedes. Well, Scandinavians in general! They are such cool people.

:D

145 hamster on rye 10.24.08 at 4:36 am

lol “memory foam” pony!
that pony is so best-in-show…the cat is prosh…
as for the song, when I heard it, I thought “AAAAl-vin…”

146 Theresa 10.24.08 at 7:52 am

I think the word “snorgle” has Nordic roots. If it doesn’t, it should.

147 skippy 10.24.08 at 1:27 pm

jazzkate, you’re so right — imagining it’s the kitteh’s voice makes it about 1000 times funnier!

148 Momcat 10.24.08 at 1:38 pm

Swedish meatballs with lingonberry jam are delish but: if you can’t get lingonberry jam you can substitute cranberry. The two berries are related and taste similar. YUM gonna make some right away!

149 violetgreen 10.24.08 at 3:16 pm

Sounds like the tomte got into the glogg a little early. My ex was Swedish/Norwegian. I miss his family, culture & cuisine. Lovable kitty makes it all better.

150 mewfymewf 10.24.08 at 3:26 pm

A tube of polysporin eye ointment will fix that infected eye up overnight. $5!

151 intransigentia 10.24.08 at 4:10 pm

Did anybody notice in the “related videos” – the horse trying to snorgle the kitteh, but getting carried away nomming its ears?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGIEjo1_xCw

152 Jojo 10.24.08 at 4:18 pm

O.O Omg… whats up with that voice….its Creapy…

153 Another Swede 10.24.08 at 5:08 pm

It should be made very clear that although this is a song *about* Bamse, it is NOT an official Bamse song. I have no idea who made this song (or why), but it’s not a part of Bamse canon in any way whatsoever.

Here’s the actual theme tune from the old Bamse cartoons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa0hCOR6Fvw

It’s instrumental, so you don’t have to worry about funny Swedish words, apart from the written credits. ;)

Also, ANYONE who’s Swedish will instantly recognize this song (the theme tune, not that monstrosity in the cat-and-horse-video). If you want to verify if someone’s actually Swedish, don’t ask them to hum the Swedish national anthem – ask them to hum the Bamse theme tune. ;)

154 Tina 10.24.08 at 8:27 pm

violetgreen: Haha, right on! Tomten should probably put away the glögg before someone gets hurt…

155 Tina 10.24.08 at 9:04 pm

Another thing that I consider very swedish indeed: “Tornado” by Galenskaparna & After shave.
So here is a little song that I hope most of you swedes remember, and a cute dog ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QninLEMoHns

And “Ronja Rövardotter”!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKCmrR6gymA

156 Jen 10.25.08 at 1:27 am

That is just deliciously adorable. It reminds me of how my cat acts around the dog.

157 Marie 10.25.08 at 11:16 am

Ok, another swede here, I feel this deserves a full explaination.

Bamse is the worlds strongest bear, champion of the weak, the poor, and the very very small. He gets his superpowers from thunderhoney, which his grandma (farmor) cooks for him. Farmor lives with a cat and a mouse. If anyone but Bamse eats the honey, they get a terrible stomachache for three days.

He has two best friends, Skalman (Shellman) and Lille skutt (little jumper). In this song, the whole gang is going to visit grandma, and get the cat to come along by bribing it with a meatball. Lille skutt jumps on ahead. Bamse asks him to wait, because Skalman, being a turtle, is tired.

They get to grandmas, and eat lots. Bamse doesn’t want any honey, because he’s full. The cat runs off with a jar, and they have to stop him, because if he eats it, he will get the dreaded tummyache. (Tummypinch, in swedish. Weird, I know.) They catch the kitty.

FIN.

158 Theo 10.25.08 at 1:47 pm

*whew* That’s a relief. My own translation skills were failing.
http://www.squidgrid.com/images/misc/sureispeakswedish.jpg

159 Katrina 10.25.08 at 7:03 pm

Wowie this thread has lots of comments! I just went to the horse nerbling his cat and accidentally munching his ear (no seriously hurt) it is very funny.

Inska deeska dinska din-Bork Bork Bork!

160 katiebug 10.26.08 at 5:42 am

hahaha wow…
at the beginning it sounds like the lollipop guild from the wizard of oz. the song goes on to become more chipmunk-esque. very interesting, and hysterical, especially late at night and (as others have suggested) imagining the singing to be kitty’s voice.

161 seeds 10.26.08 at 9:42 am

I’m finnish, and I do know some swedish… The lyrics posted abowe are NOT swedish but norwegian. Swedish doesn’t have the funny O with a slash (/), and they say “och” not “og” amongst other things… So no wonder if some of you who di know some swedish couldn’t quite understand the written lyrics. I think the song was in swedish, tough.

162 Maeliz 10.27.08 at 9:37 pm

It’s as some already said NOT the original song of Bamse but rather the Onkel Kånkel distorted version of it. At least these lyrics are completely “childproof”. Onkel Kånkel has also made songs with Bamse theme, but perhaps I should stick with the childproof theme and not mention the titles. Search Google if you wish to listen more, probably YouTube and otherwise facts in English are here at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkel_K%C3%A5nkel

Here are the lyrics to go with the song above:

Artist: Onkel Kånkel
Title: Bamse o Lille Skutt/Bamse saga

Bamse och Lille skutt hoppa’ ut i skogen,
då kom skalman trampeli svamp, snubbla på en katt.
Bamse sa kom hit kom hit,
kisseli kisseli kisseli kissemiss,
så ska du få en köttbulle när vi kommer flam.

Snart så såg dom farmors hus långt upp på kullen,
Lille skutt han sprang så fort hela vägen flam.
Då sa Bamse “Nu springer du för fort för fort, vänta på oss alla.
Vi har inga långa ben o Skalman han är tlött.” Tlött…

Kom in kom in i stugan min så ska ni få äta,
köttbullar med lingon på o glass i stora lass.
Vill du inte ha nån honung stora starka Bamse?
Nej tack, nej tack inte nu för jag är så mätt.

Då sa lille husmusen “Honungen e stulen!”
Bamse sprang så snabbt, så snabbt, fånga’ janssons katt.
Ajsing bajsing lilla katt du får ont i magen.
Inte hitta på nåt bus. Spring till farmors hus.

Så var sagan slut…

(I blame my years as a student/dormhouse living)

163 ammalamm 10.28.08 at 3:10 am

I’m in TEARS!!! What the heck-ola is up with that freekin’ song?!

164 JT 11.10.08 at 7:14 pm

I’ve bookmarked this video and come here whenever I’m having a crappy day LOL

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