Take A Tour

Hello. I thought that I would write a little something here about how I came to teamfishcake and then a little bit about some of my favourite articles on the teamfishcake website. I'll try to keep it short and snappy. I know text can be hard on the eyes and that you'd rather be watching a cartoon of two fighting dwarfs throwing planets at one another.


I started to contribute to teamfishcake sometime in the middle of the year 2000, but before then I was a big fan of the website. I'd been following the updates to the site for about three years. Back then I only had semi-regular access to the internet, so I often had to read the site in my local library. This had the disadvantage that I had to try to stifle my laughter away from the stern ladies glowering at me from over the top of their spectacles.


Since those early days, the site has been more regularly updated with content and one or two people have come and gone. There have been some good, productive times and there have been some not-so-good, quiet times. In the early 2000's, we were doing some fairly unique things as far as websites go. We started to upload videos back when it was quite a novelty.


These days, there are millions of websites that are screaming for the attention of a society of surfers who are less willing to put in the effort to find content and certainly less willing to spend the time reading plain text when they'd rather be watching content in video form. It's hard for an amateur outfit with no financial backing to compete with media outfits able to spend money on publicity campaigns through organisations who know how to manipulate search engines, blogs and social networking websites like facebook. If we were to attempt to compete with that, we'd be spending far too much time not producing actual content.


Having said all of that, we do manage to stick our heads above the rabble from time-to-time. Most recently with our Otters video. Social networking websites and link sharing websites like StumbleUpon help because genuine and original content is able to spread by word-of-mouth. Both are susceptible to marketing ploys, and StumbleUpon is already a target of fake marketing accounts who spam the websites of their clients.


Whatever happens, hopefully we can continue to enjoy being creative and make people laugh. That's all we really want to do. That's why, incidentally, we'd love it if you could tell your friends about us. Word-of-mouth is the best way that we can hope to reach new people.


The thing with the teamfishcake site is... it's more than 10 years old. Despite a few cullings, the content has accrewed. Hopefully everything on the site has something going for it, but inevitably some stuff is better than others and that stuff can be tough to find. The real gems can easily be forgotten about. Of course what constitutes a gem is subjective. Finally getting to the point, here are some of the pieces, in no particular order, that I consider to be gems.




Too Dark To See

This video took cocking ages to put together. From conception through planning, writing, scripting, actually filming it and producing it, we literally put in hundreds of hours. It's the most ambitious project that we have completed to date. It's less accessible than other videos we've put together and requires some patience to watch. It was pretty well received by people who run websites similar to ours, which was quite satisfying. Of course there's people on youtube who will always call it shit.



Go Drive Yourself

Another video which was a large undertaking with hours and hours of work. I've tried to list the creations of the other guys from teamfishcake rather than my own, but couldn't resist listing this video in which I play a driving instructor. It was great fun to film, and I think featured one of the most productive filming sessions we've had.



The Seman

Although this isn't one of my TOP, TOP favourites, I'm listing it because it's the most popular creations on the website. From the head of Mike and featuring the singing of Louise, this became extremely viral. This video has had more 'hits' than everything else on the website combined.



Radio Mr John | Part 3 | 2006 Special

If teamfishcake had their own radio station then this kind of head-fuckery would probably be on most of the time. There were three installments of Radio Mr John and a one-off 2006 special.






Generic Sad Song From A Movie

One of Dan's best songs, in my opinion. Greatly under-rated. If it wasn't so much work, I'd love to take a few clips from films to go along with this song to make a youtube video!



My Grandad (Is A Prostitute)

One of Dan's most popular tracks. It became extraordinarily viral and is really rather funny and accessible.




Chi-Ki-Kok!

Mr John banged out a number of "Short Attention Span Cartoons". Cartoons that last just a few seconds, of which this insane creation is my favourite.



Fdyhsfre!

Old-skool teamfishcake. This photostory makes me laugh time and time again, even though it dates from sometime in the 90's




Mark Palmer's Sanitation / Nailbomb

Mark has drifted away from teamfishcake, which is a shame. His socio-political commentary is often scathing and his observations often hilarious.
There's a good few articles by Mark. Here is just one of them.



Psychologically Unsound Guides

The guides were around from the beginning and they remain some of the most unhinged articles on the site.




Dr Volvohead

Insane cartoon with little or no overall point, which makes it all the more funny. My favourite cartoon on the site.





Lastly, some "Honourable Mentions"

What's Going On?! - Video quality isn't very good else I'd have mentioned it above. This is my favourite sketch video because it's just so insane and all over the place.

Michael Buerks Christmas Rampage - Bizarre cut-out-and-keep board game featuring BBC News presenters. You choose a character who has to stop Michael Beurk in his tracks. Each presenter has special X-Men style powers of absolutely no consequence.

Droitwich Rock City - Funny song, great video. An anti-tourist video of Droitwich-Spa, a fairly irrelevant town (sorry) in middle-England. The comments on youtube about this video are just full of arguments.




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