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Great Scientific Experiments 1: Force Feeding Fish Milk

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Great Scientific Experiments 1: Force Feeding Fish Milk

Contents:

1  Introduction

2  The Force Feeding Fish Milk Ad.

3  Oh My God! (aka as OMG) Products

4  The Force Feeding Fish Milk Ad Script

5  Force Feeding Fish Milk Products

6  Collaborators & Licenses, including The Force Feeding Fish Milk Story

7  And finally

 

1  Introduction

Oh, I had some fun making the ad for Force Feeding Fish Milk!

Does it mean anything?

No!

Although I’m hoping that young men across the globe may take to spontaneously blurting out “I can type!” at inopportune moments.

 

2  The Force Feeding Fish Milk Ad.

 

 

3  Oh My God! Products

With so much happening in the ad, these products are just a brief selection of those generated around the Green Birdie, the Comedy Commando, the Activist Fish, the Drunk Skeleton, the Homely Cow & the Bearded Lady Zombie – with plenty more to be found in the relevant product categories!

NOTE: We’ve also created a number of products without the “Oh My God!” text, for those who might consider the phrase as being disrespectful or a profanity – it certainly wasn’t meant that way. However, we decided to leave the text’s space blank, rather than use a replacement phrase – because, those are the precise words that the Bearded Lady Zombie uses.

4  The Force Feeding Fish Milk Ad Script

If you haven’t seen it, the Force Feeding Fish Milk ad. doesn’t particularly attempt to make sense – it’s more a rush of nonsense that is hopefully amusing, so, please bear that in mind. Also, it’s in two parts, the first is the “entertainment” and the second is the SELL.

Part 1

STAGE LEFT OF A CONCERT STAGE, WE SEE A LARGE GREEN BIRD SEATED IN A FANCY CONVERTIBLE (CAR). STAGE RIGHT, A BURGLAR IN A BALACLAVA QUICKLY SCALES DOWN A ROPE, LANDING ON HIS FEET. HE STARTS “AIR-TYPING” AND THEN RANDOMLY CALLS OUT:

BURGLAR: I can type!

HE CONTINUES.

BURGLAR: This so happened! This so, so happened!

There’s this activist fish, see…

WE CUT TO ANOTHER SCENE WITH A COW IN A LIVING ROOM. A LARGE FISH SWIMS THROUGH THE AIR AND APPROACHES HER. THE BURGLAR’S VOICE CONTINUES.

BURGLAR: …and he goes up to this cow and does, like this mind-meld thing…

“You know, they’re now FORCE FEEDIN’ FISH MILK?”

AT THIS STAGE, THE VIEWER PROBABLY HASN’T NOTICED THAT THERE’S A GHOST ZOMBIE UNDER THE ROOM – BUT THERE IS!

BURGLAR:  And the ghost zombie, who’s livin’ under her house goes:

WE QUICKLY ZOOM TO THE GHOST ZOMBIE, WHO SCREAMS.

GHOST ZOMBIE:  Aaaaah!

WE QUICKLY ZOOM BACK TO THE FISH & THE COW.

BURGLAR:  And the cow goes:

COW:  Moo!

WE THEN CUT BACK TO PREVIOUS SCENE WITH THE BIRD & THE BURGLAR

BURGLAR:  Swear to God, I swear to God!

PART 2

PART 2 CONSISTS OF AN AT-TIMES, SILLY MONTAGE ABOUT PRODUCTS BEING PROMOTED BY THE VIDEO, WHILE A “SELL” VOICE-OVER SAYS:

SELL: Force Feeding Fish Milk – 2 designs, featuring Earl Quentin Finch-Hatton…

…and…

…the Oh My God! Lady Zombie version. T-shirts, merchandise, stuff, exclusively from Suburban Geek.

 

5 More Force Feeding Fish Milk Products

 

6  Collaborators & Licenses, including The Force Feeding Fish Milk Story

Force-Feeding-Fish-Milk-illustrator-Giovanni-Tamponi
Force-Feeding-Fish-Milk, illustrator, Giovanni Tamponi

Force Feeding Fish Milk is the first in a series of three great Scientific illustrations* of the English Victorian era that Italy’s Giovanni Tamponi and I worked on. I had Giovanni redraw the originals* to create a slightly different feel – Giovanni’s lines aren’t as crisp as the originals – and with the addition of a partial colorization, I’m convinced that they’ve become more “interesting” to the contemporary eye.

In Force Feeding Fish Milk, we depict the fictional Earl of Winchelsea, Quentin Finch-Hatton, an amateur, aristocratic scientist, following a hunch of his that fish could be force fed milk. “Why would you be wanting to do that?”, you may ask?

Well, I don’t really know but to be honest, it’s not my place to question Science, as Finch-Hatton may, indeed, have been onto something ground-breaking. Unfortunately, he left no papers collating the results of his findings and until such papers emerge, the Scientific community has no option but to – regretfully – consider his Force Feeding Fish Milk experiment, failed – a folly.

NOTE: The two other great Scientific illustrations were Capitalism Explained & Toilet Brush Telepathy. Giovanni and I also collaborated on two further pieces, The Gull Before The Storm & American Lobster – (all coming soon).

*NOTE:  The original image is scan of a nineteenth century illustration, offered for use in the Public Domain by Karen Hatzigeorgiou.

Video:  Fish Footage CC 3.0

Images:  Michael Angelo’s David CC3.0   Cat CC 0

Sound FX:  Meadow Lark CC3.0   Party Crowd CC 3.0    Audience Applause CC3.0    Clapping & Laughter CC3.0

Audio:  Small Indoor Audience Laughter  SFX License  Cow moo CC3.0    Cat purring CC3.0

 

7 And Finally

It would be remiss of me to not point out that the Force Feeding Fish Milk illustration – and the others in the  Scientific Experiments series – are directly inspired by one very ridiculous episode from the Ripping Yarns TV series, Across The Andes By Frog (1977), written by (Monty Python alumni) Michael Palin & Terry Jones. The show depicts a Victorian-era, British explorer, Walter Snetterton, who travels to the Andes in South America, determined to prove his theory that frogs are capable of climbing mountains.

I would like to think that perhaps, the Earl of Winchelsea, who was a classmate of Snetterton at Eton and that both are respectfully remembered by the school.