Ballad of The Sneak

Number one summer jam of 1936!

[shawnkilpatrick]

The funniest bit for me is where the animators feel the need to point out that an old wooden barrel is not, in fact, the Panama Canal.

[Menegroth]

I remember watching this on my barely functioning Windows 98 pc back in the early 2000s. Took like 20 minutes to load but worth every second

[jenniferwilliamson]

That's a real popular song! Who wants to hear it 50 times more?

[fridaynightjones]

Just sitting here thinking about the fact that the Chapman brothers dead ass composed and recorded an old timey rag, set it to animation and gave it to us for free. Like, we paid nothing.

[captainrxrs]

"He's the Strong Bad's Leporello". that's some big brain lyrics right there.

[TheOrangeRoad]

I cant believe by just using those paper towel rolls, they can get that awesome old timey sound!

[uglyteethbakeryandotherstr]

Sometimes there are moments where I haven't thought about Homestar in months and "Who dropped The Homestar Runner from his flying machine?" Just starts playing in my head.

[MrAmgeo]

I had never understood the lyric "Who's been drinking bootleg hooch and listening to the jazz" until today

[professorhaystacks]

"Takes his tea at half-past three." Truly a heinous crime.

[calvinjluther]

It is the Sneak.

He has been drinking bootleg hooch and listening to "The Jazz."

[beyondthegong]

The doo wacka doo wacka doo still hits hard in 2019..

[adrianmalacoda]

Video titles were incredibly scarce during the Great Depression.

[enlightenmentbarbie]

I just wanna say, our dearly departed orange cat was named the sneak because of this. He deigned to speak, though, quite a talkative fellow. But every other quality in this video is accurate. ✨

I was listening to some creepy old Christmas songs, and told my husband that this Christmas music sounded exactly like “it’s the sneak” and he was delighted. Along with the memory of The Sneak, best feline ever.

[noirakita]

"....What?"
I love The Homestar Runner (Oldtimey Homestar)

[ryanandrews]

“Several syncopations, Several syncopations, Several syncopations toniigghht.”

[poecollector]

I love how there's casually a reference to Don Giovanni in this
This was the last cartoon series I expected to find opera references in

[scarfguy]

To be quite frank this was absolutely music to my ears. As most music is. Because it's music.

[razpup]

I remember watching this on an vhs with my good ol great grandpappy Timber Woofling. Rest his soul.

[henrynelson]

The Sneak dancing on his hind legs is the cutest thing ever

[HerecomestheCalavera]

I remember listening to this over and over back when this first came out in 2003. It is insane that it was 19 years ago! I remember taking a screenshot of The Sneak at around 0:36 and coloring it in Photoshop. Back in 2003 I never would have thought I'd look back at that time as the good ole days. That reminds me of a quote from Andy Bernard on The Office "I wish there a was way to know that you are in the good ole days before you leave them" :(