Hanukkah Hey Ya!

http://www.smoothE.tv.

I made this back in 2003, but it keeps burning. You may have seen Nefesh B'Nefesh's live flashmob version of "Hanukkah Hey Ya!"

This animation got millions of views before anyone was counting. It also made international headlines and played heavily on TV and radio.

How did it happen?

Before there was YouTube, there was flash animation. Jason Kwon, a Smooth-E fan from North Carolina, decided to practice his flash skills on my parody song, "Hanukkah Hey Ya!" He never intended it to be watched. He just tucked it into a dark corner of his "file-style" website.

As you can see, he did a great job, and people found out about it whether he liked it or not. It spread like wildfire online and offline, and Jason unintentionally hipped a lot of people to my work. Thanks, J!

I love this animation because Jason captured a lot of the humor of the song. His innocent lack of knowledge of Jewish traditions makes it even funnier!

Category:

Comedy

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• Hanukkah
• Hey
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• Smooth
• Eric
• Schwartz
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• Outkast
• Chanukkah
• Nefesh
• B'Nefesh
• Flash
• Mob
• Israel
• Zionism
• Judaism
• Aliyah
• Chanuka
• Jerusalem
• Olim
• NBN
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• חנוכה
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• ריקוד
• פלשמב

[mzzselah99]

this video started out pretty good....but you could have left out the "w.t.f."i mean come on - this is a family celebration - so i rate this "zero"

[suburbanhomeboy]

@mzzselah99 FYI, the animation was done by one of my fans in 2004, so I didn't make the decision to include "wtf." The many rabbis and religious school teachers who have played this for kids have never reported any problems to me. BTW, "FYI" is not meant to be dirty.

[MegaBlueJew]

HANNUKAH RULES, if you agree rate this

[suburbanhomeboy]

@MegaBlueJew How can I not rate that?!

[melalalanie246]

@cassy2004san29 huh???

[MacraStraba]

I watch this, like, 7 years ago off deviantART. Good times.

[danniegirl1213]

I'm not Jewish , but I love this song. :D

[xXoOBladeOoXx]

happy chanukkah :-)

[Hidepride]

@cassy2004san29 I dont get it?

[Xerxes613]

Bravo!!!

[fadoodles34]

got shown this in R.E today......

[alika207]

Hahaha! Love it!

[PhyzicClan]

45 ppl obviousley r raceis :|

[cassy2004san29]

If you like this video please do not like it

do not like it be