Jonathan Coulton - Chiron Beta Prime - ASL Song

[misscanadarain]

what is soy lent green? please tell me.

[Lord0beron]

@misscanadarain PEOPLE! it's made of PEOPLE!! .. it's from a Charlton Heston movie

[Arrghigiveup]

This remains my favourite Christmas song XD

[LaQuijotesca]

Huh. If I keep watching it, the snow piles up and now I understand he's working in a snowflake mine. Fascinating.

[LaQuijotesca]

YouTube, why is there currently a snowflake button? Now I am going to have to watch this video a billion more times.

[27aza1]

GIANT METAL SANTA CLAUS!!!!

[Ray77063]

I love soy lent green, too! Tastes like toenails!

[Christmas4eva]

Does that mean the pie is people?...O.O

[deafornot8]

I just start to learn ASL recently, am hard of hearing. I can sign some simple words now. I joined a great deaf daing site, ----Deafornot dot c om----, and met some good deaf/HOH friends over there. They help me to learn ASL.

[VincentJGoh]

I think this is pretty much my favourite of the JC ASL videos. You really pull off acting nervous and under pressure even though you're happy about Christmas. It's pretty awesome. :D

[schwagcast]

JEEEEEN YISS

[Mao42Ranma]

@CaptainValor Where did you get the sign for asteroid (SPACE ROCK)?

[kattahj]

All these videos are so brilliant. I can't decide which one I like best! So far probably Re: Your Brains, but I'll keep watching more...

[UnderDogIsOk]

"my mom told me to never make a triangle with your thumbs and index fingers lol o_o;;"

Your A Riot Man! LOL

Your one of a kind BRO!

[rozar142]

It frustrates me that the captions no longer work.

[uzumaki913]

this years christmas caroling is gonna KICK ASS

[gamerdonpaulsen760]

@uzumaki913 You're right! :)

[glancethatknows]

I LOVE YOUR YOUTUBE NAME!!!! XD AND YOUR VIDS ARE EPIC!!!!!

[minerboy077]

Amazing facial expressions!

[Auchenlochtermuchty]

Is it hard knowing that so many girls on the internet have developed huge crushes on you? You make me want to learn ASL. :)

[MorroccoSurrogate]

Ugh I love this dorky outfit so much.

[decentlyintense]

my favorite of all !! <3 <3

[karategrl4eva]

I LOVE HIM O MUCH I EARNED LIKE 5 SONGS ROM HIM AND MY FRIEND THIKS THAT IT IS RALLY COOL CAUSE HE IS DEAF

[LiveWithNoRegrets95]

@karategrl4eva hes not deaf =.=

[LiveWithNoRegrets95]

you WOULD sing this song on christmas XD its hilarious though! :) yay senses of humour!

[ClubRoyFX]

I'm an instant fan!

[AmberFaithChloe]

This guy kinda looks like Kurt Hugo Schneider....thumbs up if you agree!

[mangaread123]

intresting.. and awsome.

[decentlyintense]

I love your videos <3 !!

[aQuaSPLaSHLoVe]

lol awesome dude, way to go as fast as the song

[kuramaisminestayaway]

.... IT'S PEOPLE!

[ryanscarola]

You signed pizza instead of pie!

[CaptainValor]

@ryanscarola Way I was taught, "pizza" is the bent-2 handshape signed in a Z by the dominant hand.

[ryanscarola]

@CaptainValor - "pie" is signed very much like the sign for "share", except for the fact your dominant hand moves back and forth at an angle indicating slicing a piece of pie.

[pockyprincess12]

@CaptainValor my mom told me to never make a triangle with your thumbs and index fingers lol o_o;;

[Redarthas]

Another great video, Valor. :P

[alleybcb]

Can u do Handel's Hallelujah Chorus?

[bozzle18]

223 likes...1 dislike? i know someone who gets extra work for christmas

[candrion]

bla you should go back to the video captions cause with this transcript thing we cant be watching the video while were looking down to see what you signed

[mazzabrittany]

ahhahahahahahahahahhaha

[SkootMom]

FUNNY!!! I'd not ever heard this song, and to see it signed only makes it better!!!

[FanGirlYell]

I noticed he was just slightly waving at around 0:56

[Tacoman313]

You are easily one of the best ASL performers on Youtube, keep up the awesome work!

[ansfrid]

This is officially the best video on youtube.

Please contact your nearest robot protector for your prize.

[dragonheart333]

I love your facial expressions it made more believable

[rjgerhardt]

i love this, also your other videos. thank you!

[Dracowrath1]

Some of your facial expressions remind me of a guy I knew in high school, but somehow I don't think you're him, lol.

[vlopresto]

Great song. Great signing. And you're cute as hell! :-)

[CaptainValor]

@xflamexinfernox @skullz55555 Good catch! I spelled it with a Y and didn't realize that until now.

[AlaniDracon]

@CaptainValor Actually you spelled "Soylent" right; it's spelled wrong in the lyric subtitles and the gloss.

[AlaniDracon]

@CaptainValor You spelled "Soylent" right. The subtitles and gloss have it wrong. Awesome work, looking forward to seeing more of your stuff! Think you'll be in Atlanta or Montgomery sometime?

[skullz55555]

@xflamexinfernox soylent green the captions say soilent green but he used a y

[noooodl]

I love how you quickly spelt Soylent Green in finger spelling near the end.

[ToasterCentral]

Oh, one question: how are you signing the letters for "Chiron Beta Prime"? We were trying to figure it out, and it looks like you are maybe doing "C-B-P" in fingerspelling, but I was curious how the hand-rotation-thing works into it and all (pardon my ignorance, I am a VERY beginning ASL student).

[Daimonis]

@ToasterCentral he put the three letters of the words onto the sign for "planet / world"

[ToasterCentral]

This song is hilarious...especially with the infamous "GREAT FACIAL EXPRESSIONS!!!!!!" :)

[Rahthoma]

Dude. You are a genius. You may have turned me straight.

[Soronja]

I'm impressed. good work. I enjoyed it

[CleansWithRag]

Impressive!

[boyofdestiny1123]

Amazing ASL, I loved it.

I love that Bill Corbett did the "Message redacted" line.

Subscribed.

[theblade1959]

You are just so expressive! I have always enjoyed watching people sign songs, and I really like your choices. Coulton rocks!

[kisamexxxaddiction]

That is so cool. You are very good at sign language. :D Keep it up.

[sonoki82]

Very well done! Does ASL have pantomime signs to indicate that instrumental music is playing, or were you just improvising at 1:48?

[modestlobster]

Ah, poison snow... it looks like winter. =D

Love it.

[conny515]

Awesome! Didn't know the song but now I love it!

[zouljiin]

You're the best, Captain!

[jousting999]

AWESOME ASL, costume, and HEROIC FACE EXPRESSIONS! <3! (But not quite in THAT way)

[Labrat428]

Your awesomeness knows no bounds :-D Happy New Year!

[mandydax]

BRILLIANT!

[pennylanesayshi]

hahahaha love this song. now i love it even more.

[Doorknobless]

Such a good song.

[MrsFrenchie]

You always put a smile on my face with your vids

[amgceg]

luv ur scarf! lol..

love ur eyesssss

[ChlorineChugger]

Haha you're too cute.

[midgiemai]

Your expressions in this video are really great. I hope your Christmas was super :)

[OBCBW]

fan. tas. tic.

[thanatosnoir]

AWESOME! ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!

[smoshlover1099]

hehe i fuckkin love this guy! :)

hope you had the BEST Xmas ever :)

[ooshadygirloo]

Merry Xmas to you too. this Jonathan Coulton is quite hilarious.

[Pixiegirl12]

One of the many many things I love about your vids is the fact that I can pick up geek-language in ASL. They just don't teach you the appropriate way to sign "Robot Overlords" in ASL 2...

[Banerika]

ROBOT + OPPRESS + (person/agent) might have been a little closer in meaning, ha ha! But I suppose managers can also be overlords. : )

[CapriUni]

@Banerika 

That's a good option. I was thinking ROBOT + ABDUCT + (person) or ... JAIL + (person).

I was also thinking CaptainValor might've had an office job from Hell, at some point.

[jousting999]

Why would you say THAT? That is not nice!

[CapriUni]

Well, if he equates "manager" with "overlord," he might've worked for some pretty terrible office managers, at some point in his life.

It was meant as a comment of sympathy...

[JustMargaret]

You, sir, have turned me into a JoCo fan.

[niptacularclam]

I hope you enjoyed your soylent green pie!

[MMasllove516MM]

Nice Christmas song!! Great pic!:)

[ctrymaus]

My favourite Christmas song! I love your version of it! :-)

[Marienkaefer4]

Wonderful!!!!

[slightlysarcasticc]

hahaha 0:57 kind of made my day :)

[RocksandRoses87]

Yet another crazy awesome interpretation. I love your facial expressions in this.

[blackstrawberrysky]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[UnCreativeBeliever]

You are great :)

Merry Christmas!

[NikXLII]

I'd wondered how you'd do the "Message redacted" part. :-)

And I like the name-sign you gave Chiron Beta Prime.

[ohelelvaguely]

aw, I love your facial expressions, cute!

And, I am impressed with the signing. Merry Christmas!

[kpYak]

My only nit-pick is that it is "Soylent Green".

Otherwise, well done!

[KRSONMar]

Just one thing.You might want to update your gloss translation on the Info Section,FYI,it seems a little different from the video.I'm guessing it's a different draft from the final product?

Hope I'm not nitpicking,sorry if I am.

[KRSONMar]

LOL,I'm glad I subscribed now,I got this right away!(Congrats,it's 2:38am EST and 303 views already!)

I was thinking about how to sign this one and I decided it wasn't doable,lol,so I'm impressed with you yet again.I like how you visually indicate the instrumentals in this one,I was always taught to do that when I sign songs.I wondered how to do the synthesizer,but you just went ahead and did MUSIC,lol.

[LifeTheUniverseAndPi]

loving all the JoCo!

[Spintown7]

Excellent. Merry Christmas. This is one of my favorite JoCo songs.

[Sirenhound]

And a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too CaptainValor!

[trinitysong08]

I watched this video about 5 times, thinking of a comment and all I can think of is: "I. love. you."

j/k great video! "message redacted" cracked me up!

[demiakumu]

keep it up man you're awesome, love the facial expressions, very well done.

[CousinoMacul]

Yes!!! This is one of your best videos yet! I love it!

Merry Christmas!

[hockeymonkey22]

OMG!!! So good. I love this song. Thanks for doing this one.

[Banerika]

Ahhhhhhh, you and Jonathan Coulton are a match made in heaven! Adorable, yummy stuff! Ha ba ha ha ha ha!

[bubblemum]

I love your glosses for Chiron Beta Prime, and the "message redacted" , made me laugh out loud, literally. I was half expecting a robotic hand with a gun to start moving in from the left side of the screen there for the chorus parts too. Woot! Great Christmas- THREE new songs done by you! Thanks again!

[MichelleTells]

the awesome just keeps comming! and this one is even Christmasy! haha I love the WoW video for this, such a great song!

[shirschfield]

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