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  • did they house them in a ...... cathouse?

  • This company should reair this commerical during the Super Bowl!

    It's a classic! 

  • this video is the insemination to try to get my classmates into one video.

  • Still love this commercial! Hahaha.

  • I'm a cat hearder of strays in my area & it's a bitch!

  • @micpar2 I am trying to start a trap.alter .release in this area and my facebook page is called Cats Limited. I posted this video too hilarous

  • haw haw

  • Just brilliant! What made this commercial so exciting and funny was not just the concept of herding cats but the little details in the execution. The cat herders sneezing from allergies, rolling fur off a jacket or winding a ball of yarn. The cats walking across the river (obviously a killer special effect since it would never happen in real life). The big Western cinematography (which could not have been cheap). And the great acting by some total unknowns made it so believable.

  • One of my favorite all time commercials.

  • I can be hurded now?

  • Love this classic commercial - especially the guy with the lint roller and the guy who sneezes.

  • @Agadir2309 working together towards a common goal.

  • whats this commercial suppose to mean? i have to break it down for an english project, but i have no clue what its trying to say.please help!

  • ok so ive got 7 cats.... does that make me a partial cat herder?? <3 u shouldda seen the look on their faces when the kitties started meowing! c(=

  • AWESOME!! Are cat herders also known as ... catboys?

  • @RangerReg08 lame

    

  • hahahaha i want my cat to ride on my horse with me too!!!!!

  • Purrrrrrrrrfect!

  • I can sooo relate. My husband is an engineer. Hard to herd.

  • Can one of the 23 people who disliked this tell us why?

  • 23 half-wild short hairs didn't get herded.

  • I love this commercial! They have all the cat cliches and all the cowboy cliches - watch closely at the first camp site - the guy talking is rolling a ball of yarn, but look behind him. I've seen this a hundred times and just saw that! He's unloading a one story cat condo! ROTFL!!

  • that was the funniest commercial ever! XD

  • Coolest, hilarios, greatest commercial ever

  • "You see the movies, you hear the stories... I'm livin' the dream"...

    Classic!

  • Best commercial in the world, but don't know why they want to bring a bunch of domestic short hairs into town.

  • HILARIOUS

  • I love the passionate "I wouldn't do nothing else"!!

  • My son sent me the link to this on facebook as a mother's day gift cause he remembered how much I loved it when they first aired it. It's the best commercial ever! Thanks to mozilla download helper I now have it on my hard drive. Keep thinking this aired during one of the Super Bowls. I lmao every time I watch it.

  • Greatest commercial ever made!

  • best ad evar

  • It is so wonderful to see these early pioneers recognized this way.

    See, many people don't know this, but the feather boa was originally introduced by cat herders as a type of ease-of-use lasso. The fashion industry, and of course the rest of humankind by implication, owes so much to cat herding...

  • Brilliant.

    I saw this ad on TV a few years ago too, and was so pissed when they took it off because I liked it so much.

    Thank God for YouTube.

  • OMG the lint roller is my favorite part!!

  • No, seriously, the first time I saw this, I threw myself right into the side of a moving greyhound bus!!! Sure, I bounced off and survived it but it was worth it. Really!!!

  • I saw this ad on TV a few years ago and thought it was so funny and so effective.So glad to see it's on YouTube now!:-)

  • Long live the cat herders!

  • Oh, and the guy in the beginning is cute! ;)

  • L...MFAO

  • Do they still have cat herders/wranglers today or was that just a long time ago? I wonder what a cat brought in 1890?

  • @sendittobryce Oh they still have cat herders, not a lot but they are still out there.

  • This is too funny!!!!! XD Especially because we are studying Western Myth and Symbolism in my graduate seminar class this week!!!!! XDDD

  • Cats are god !

  • Is this for real?!

  • @rexorrama Yes

  • I read this discription: The phrase "herding cats" comes from the common saying that, something involving coordination of many different groups or people is as difficult as herding cats. One of the common uses of the term in technical fields is the phrase "Managing programmers is like herding cats" or "Managing engineers is like herding cats". In education it would be "Managing students is like herding cats".

    I would love living on a ranch with this many cats, I think!!!

  • @Kaya1955 Or, on the internet: "Trying to get [redacted due to rules 1 & 2 of the internet] to agree on one thing is like herding cats". In fact, this ad is the perfect metaphor of [redacted due to rules 1 & 2 of the internet].

  • Should have used an Australian sheepdog...

  • Won't Jesus do the same for the whole world? Yes, He will. :-)

    1 Tim 2:3-6

    For this is good & acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who WILL HAVE ALL men to be saved & to come into the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, & one mediator between God & men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself A RANSOM FOR ALL, to be testified of IN DUE TIME. :-)

  • @davidbrucemusicvideo

    What about women?

  • @TheRachiRay

    Oh, women? That's a given!  :-)

  • @davidbrucemusicvideo Are you such a sad, pathetic kid that you have to post a Bible quote on a comment's section for a video about herding cats?

  • @LeeroyJenkinsstudio

    LOL! Are YOU such a sad, pathetic kid that all you have are cartoons for videos?! LOL!

    Grow up and calm down and eat some Captain Crunch, or something, man! LOL!

    =:-o

  • @davidbrucemusicvideo Whoa, you generalized me on what I make. Congrats, you're totally better than me for what I posted.

    Oh, and the fact that you cannot discern anime/parody videos from American cartoons proves you're not only pathetic, but also a complete moron.

  • @LeeroyJenkinsstudio

    Well... Well... Um, well... (I'm trying to think what to throw back at ya... Umm... Oh, l know! Here it goes...

    "Well you're a ka ka poo poo head!" THERE! Top THAT! =:-o

  • @davidbrucemusicvideo Your jokes are as good as your music. The only thing you need now is a rattle, a bottle, and someone to change your stained diapers.

  • @LeeroyJenkinsstudio

    Now THAT one was mean! I'm telling on you! Now l'm crying! You are heartless and cruel!

    Mommy!!!!!

    =:-(

  • @LeeroyJenkinsstudio You're going to have to elaborate my man......you lost me......

  • Hey chastschomber,

    I know the lint brush is hilarious - but how about the sneeze - due to allergies to the cat dander of course!

  • i'm a cat hearder it is a lot harder than it looks

  • I love it!!!!! As a cowgirl team roper and a cat lover...l6 cats now!

  • YES FUNNY COMERICAL BUT AFTER WATCHING THIS I DONT SEE HOW IT COROLATES TO EDS THE COMPANY THERE ACTUALLY ADVERTISING IM SURE AFTER WATCHING THIS YOUR NOT THINKING ABOY EDS ONLY "CATS"

  • @MegaBEANER1000 BOY THATS A LOT OF PUSSY THERE ?

  • @MegaBEANER1000 ---------------- from the dictionary, maybe this ties it together:

    cat-herding (verb) : Persuading a group of independently minded people to go in the same direction; (alt): a difficult, frequently failing enterprise in leadership.

    Getting a play date set up with these flighty parents was an exercise in cat-herding.

    ---after I found a definition I saw the tie in to the commercial.

  • Hahahaha!

  • cute

  • ahaha the lint roller

  • This was a great commercial for my former company. Nobody knew what the hell we did. They still didn't know after the commercial but the phones still rang off the hook. Goes to show you what an effective marketing campaign can do.

  • All-time best Super Bowl commercial ever. They should make a movie about this. It would have John C. Reilly and Steve Carrell. No CGI. All live cats. Hilarity ensues!!!

  • and EDS does what?

  • @ikemaster08

    Herd cats, I guess.

  • @ikemaster08 They manage the complexities of the digital economy.

  • The part that got me is the cowboy using the lint roller by the campfire.

  • How appropriate...Given that this is the company that gave us Sailors & Marines the shitload of fuck that is the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI)!

  • This ad is a classic. It's all in the details - like the "herder" rewinding the huge ball of yarn!

  • I own a half-wild short haired cat and he's not kidding. They definitely have minds of their own.

  • hahahaha

    "in a SENSE..."

  • Behold: The internets finally explained to the world.

  • bahaha, totally just came to this video because my management textbook mentioned it.

  • its absoutely amazing that they can accomplish such an impossible task...

  • My favorite is the guy that sneezes LOL

  • Cat Herders Reversed

    watch?v=HIpCCVNesYM

  • Oh, my, Gosh.....this is where I work.

    Just saying...

  • Problem is, EDS isn't the herders, they're the cats. ;)

  • OMG THAT MADE ME SO HAPPY AND BEST COMMERCIAL EVAH

  • haha the chestnut horse  looks exactaly like my horse!

  • Looked like the leadership of the Democratic Party...

  • great , I love cats jajaj , this commercial is the best I ever seen..

  • Awesome! 

  • I have a tough time herding one cat...holy smokes.

  • lol how funny! :))

  • Its really incredible CM :)

  • IT'S THE GREEk ARMY!!!

  • hahaha aww its cute and funneh!

  • Wow, this brings back fond memories of a cat herding job I had when I just got out of high scool! It was a rough job, but after a long tough day in the dust, there was nothing like sitting down to a small cup of low fat yogurt and a rice cake!

  • the ad before the video just frooze on me

  • If anyone is monitoring this, you need to know that it is not working. It downloads, but it won't play.

  • I'm a cat typing on the keyboard right now and I'd like to say that although these cats are herded, and it seems like an act of control. However, at least one of those cats aren't me and that's all that matters for me so I think this is the best commercial except there were no fish or mousies

  • I've seen almost that many cats in an old woman's house about 5 miles from where I lived as a kid. I know cat herding can be a back breaking job with little rewards at the end of the trail. Loved it. Weed out the bad cats.

  • Best. Commercial. Ever.

  • "I wouldn't do nothin' else." That guy's the best!

  • What really cracks me up is how "herding cats" is now part of American vernacular..classic!

  • @ZivaLight - it was part of American vernacular long before this commercial, that's part of what they were banking on when they made it. It might have been more common in the southern US than elsewhere, but I've heard people say it for most of my life.

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  • I love that I can type something as random as "herding cats" into YouTube and get a quality video! This will be the perfect into to my presentation. ;o)

  • my dad showed me this lol thanks dad

  • i think the best part is when the guy is using a lint roller, ahaha

  • cute

  • LOVE it =))

  • my life ambition is to be a cat herder.literally.i have 3 cats and have been practicing with my freinds to box them in and leam them across the house

  • I first saw this commercial several years back when it first came out, this commercial as well as the plane one are he best commercials I have ever seen.

  • Epic commercial

  • lol real awesum commercial lol

  • lol!! so funny!!!

  • This one is tied with the 1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial, which was really slick!

  • It's just ripped to shreds, you know?

  • OMG! That is hilarious! LOVE it! I have several cats and feel like a cat-herder myself, LOL! Thanks for the laughs!

  • ...what?

  • It's the small details that make this one favorite ads ever. Did you see the guy using the lint brush?

  • @chadschomber and the guy sneezing? Oh my it is a classic.

  • @chadschomber I love the guy that sneezes, too!! LOL

  • @chadschomber I like the sneeze.

  • @zo219 Heh, totally. The details are what make this ad epic.

  • @chadschomber No kidding, the ball of string, the guy sneezing, the two bragging about scratches-if you listen you can hear the cat he's holding purring, I love this commercial so much.

  • when I first saw that ad, I was bar tending the super bowl, and laughed so hard I dropped a whole round of drinks.... I agree, the best BWB ad ever!

  • Hysterically insane ad!!

  • how can people thislike this?

  • @MsSoylu this like this?

  • @phatcrackerr .. i mean "dislike" .. of course ..xD

  • song or songs like it?

  • The best!

  • Watched this all the time while I was getting my degree in Advertising. Saw it in nearly every class. Love it!

  • Too cute!

    ^O^

  • lmfao @ 0:36!!!!!

  • At the end of the lecture my algebra II teacher plays a random funny video and he played this today XDDD

  • This is one of my all-time favourite videos! lol

  • One of the best commercials ever made! If companies would be more creative and less annoying, more people would watch their ads.

  • This vid. is a stoke of geuis!! This si so funny!! I just love it. I! Ikeep watching it over and over!

  • Cute cats, no doubt. Now, what were they selling?

    See!

    EPIC FAIL! ..and a classic at that!

  • @zippyman818 you mean they werent selling cats?!?

  • @tobiosnmakky Lovely photography, tight editing and an intriguing storyline; but in the end a loser since no one remembers what is being hawked and few people remember EDS at all. Business schools study this kind of thing you know.

  • Yessiree, time to saddle up and git back to scho... to sch... to sc... Dang! I can't say it!

    This sums up my job quite nicely.

  • Them's Pedro Flores's cats!

  • get along little kitties!

  • hahahahahahaha that's awesome

  • Youth Ministry commercial. LOL

  • Great !!!

  • "This is what we do..."

    Oh yeah, and we also "fire" people on trumped-up bullshit charges so that we don't have to pay severance and unemployment.  Our CEO leads the way for company-wide 5% pay cuts by taking a 20% cut to his own base salary... but he neglects to mention that of his overall compensation, his voluntary "20%" (base salary) cut amounts to only a 0.68% total cut. And then he lays off people anyway after that 5% cut was meant to prevent layoffs.

    Fuck HP and fuck CEO Mark Hurd.

  • @YodaBSith If it is such a bad company you should quit, that will teach them. How would they ever function with out you.

  • I love this ad. How did they make it? XD

  • wonderful commercial to use with educators. I can open every year with this and it still is fun to watch.

  • Many times I feel like this in my job

  • I wouldn't do nothing else.

  • this ad is freaking hilarious. i am so late on this but i love it!

  • Wut the hell is this :D

    But nvm, I love cats. :)

  • "...and if you look at his face, it's just ripped to shreds, ya know?"

  • I see more every time I watch this. The sticky roller to take the cat hair off clothes is priceless. Brilliant.

  • "You see the movies, ya, ya hear the stories, it's . . . I'm livin' a dream," the interviewee intones. The deadpan humor seamlessly integrated with the documentary tone! Obviously the greatest commercial ever! Lol!

  • That is weird.

  • This is great. I have used this commercial to illustrate quite a few points to my clients and co workers. It brings a smile every time.

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  • I keep watching this and I still can't stop laughing my butt off.

  • love it ..... :)

  • This is the greatest piece of surrealist cinema ever filmed.

  • Best, absolutely, the best commercial ever.

  • Where do I sign up?

  • Love this 1 minute video so much I've created a shortcut to it on my desktop at work. When I start feeling down or stressed out; well, it just makes me feel better (and it's cheaper 'n quicker than therapy).

  • @Nephrie Cheaper than Weed and Alcohol too! lol

  • Ahhhh HAhahhahah! i'm in love w/ this! =^..^=