Presenting: Dance-O-Scope!
To our surprise here at Mission Control, Ellie made an attempt to film herself, Jeff, and Muffin performing for the camera (a tiny one that she can set up remotely). Press the buttons on the control panel below to see what antics transpired eight light years away!
Obviously Ellie and Jeff were inspired to strut their stuff by the dance sequence in A Charlie Brown Christmas.
The music behind Ellie is Linus and Lucy by Vince Guaraldi, which was introduced to television audiences during the very same Christmas special.
The music behind Jeff is Foggy Mountain Breakdown by Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt & The Foggy Mountain Boys. For those not in the know, Flatt and Scruggs recorded the theme to the Beverly Hillbillies.
The music behind Muffin is Baby Elephant Walk, written by Henry Mancini for the film Hatari, and performed here by Lawrence Welk and his Orchestra.
Great animation! And the selection of music was triple inspired! (I say this having grown up with the early Charlie Brown specials and Guaraldi’s music, Flatt & Scruggs playing on The Beverly Hillbillies and Mancini doing the soundtracks of everything else – are you 55 years old? If not, you are wise beyond your years.)
Hopefully just wise beyond my years at a spry 45. But thank you, Oneswellfoop! Great name!
Hahaha! This one is utterly fantastic! 🙂
Especially Muffin! Great fun! Great animation!
Love it!!!
Love how such ‘simple’ animations can be so entertaining. I just kept on watching Muffin standing there, scratching his butt 😛
Skar, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out; I did the same thing you did!
It’s a word that’s used way too much these days, but still: Awesome! 😉 Great fun to see these characters move and dance, and the music choice is indeed inspired.
Thanks Jonas! I’ll take “awesome” any day.
Absolutely brilliant.
You’re so kind, John!
It’s playing super choppy for me, but what I can see looks great 🙂
Thanks Tom! I wonder why it’s doing that? What browser are you using?
LOL!!!! I totally cracked up at Muffin’s, hahaaha!
Thanks Anthony!
I love it.
Glad for that, Mikey!
Great stuff, Jim! I love it.
I’s aim to please, Steve!
Absolutely fantastic! Expecially Muffin! Really great humor!
Great animation! Thank you for another great “special”!! 🙂
Thanks again, Carsten. I’m planning some more specials for the future!
What is Ellie showing them? She’s giving us a bad rep!
Reruns of “Family Matters”.
The horror.
Dance Test Three = ROFL!
Glad it made you laugh!
Aww, no Flash = no video. 🙁
I think, if you just post a link to an mp4 file, that’ll work well enough these days. Might depend on the codec used. There might even be a simple way to embed it, but I don’t know.