They Might Be Giants - Can't Keep Johnny Down

The winning entry for TMBGs Can't Keep Johnny Down contest, judged by John Hodgman (correspondent on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart")

"...Every time I watch this video, I see new beautiful things in it. The reverse spit take, the firecrackers arcing through the air, the weirdly poetic, jiggling man-flesh... make this a wonder, complete and impeccable." - John Hodgman




Please watch in the highest quality possible.


Director: Mohit Jaswal
Cinematographer: Eduardo Uruena
Editor: Justin Dean

For more info,
Email: beeskneesfilms@gmail.com
Twitter: @MohitJaswal

Lyrics:

Outnumbered a million to one
All of the dicks in this dick town
Can't keep Johnny down
Men piled up in a towering mound
None of them once has found a way
To keep Johnny down

Spending days by myself
Remembering slights
I'm not a monument to justice
Plus which I don't forget a face

And they can't (down, down, down)
Can't keep Johnny down (down, down, down)
They haven't yet built the man (down, down, down)
That'll keep old Johnny down (down, down, down)

Some dude
Hitting golf balls on the moon
Bathroom in his pants
And he thinks he's better than me
I'm pointing a finger at my own face
They can't know what's in here
And they can't keep Johnny down

Beneath my dignity
To flip off the guy
When he pulls up alongside
To say my gas cap is unscrewed

And they can't (down, down, down)
Can't keep Johnny down (down, down, down)
They haven't yet built the man (down, down, down)
That'll keep old Johnny down (down, down, down)

And they don't (down, down, down)
Don't know what I've seen (down, down, down)
They can't know what's in here (down, down, down)
And they can't keep Johnny down (down, down, down)

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  Film & Animation

[PillSoup]

this video is about a man who gets tired of running around in his underpants and gets a job

[fruubful]

this wasn't reversed. That's actually how things went

[agentgreen004]

I used to have that same exact PC monitor. I have no idea where I got it, but it was the best monitor I owned until I got a widescreen flatpanel... It's gone now.

[99Chemicals]

+100 points for awesome!

[insideyourspine]

careful dude, lyme disease....

[CurlyChristChild]

I've never seen someone swim backwards, or spit out a beverage backwards, or unbutton their shirt backward. THIS VIDEO WINS!

[Leigh Timper]

Stupider things have been the last straw.

[xxZeroZonexx]

This is so perfect.

[Timothy Domingo]

All that because someone else got the last doughnut?

[Malik Bayati]

This is what usually happens when a employee wins a million dollars unexpectedly.

[bakosy]

he's gonna fuck that deer