Girl Eating Live Baby Octopus While Comedian Narrates

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True Facts is a series of videos created by Hosea "Ze" Frank, nigh diverse organisms (usually animals) that inhabit our planet, styled after nature documentaries. What separates True Facts from your typical nature documentary is the narrator's comedic phrasing, unusual comparisons, and frequent tangents while even so providing reasonably authentic lessons on each topic. Older videos used a Morgan Freeman-similar vocalism, though they've gradually evolved away from that.

Ze Frank takes suggestions from his viewers on what animals to brand videos for, and he encourages scientists, pet owners, biology weirdos, photographers, and videographers to contact him with ideas.

The series went on seemingly indefinite hiatus in Baronial 2014 merely unexpectedly returned in Apr 2018 with "True Facts: Frog Fish" and hasn't looked back since.

Truthful Facts provides examples of the following tropes:

• Beyond the Impossible: When talking about the mantis shrimp's ability to encounter colours that humans cannot, Ze Frank tells the viewer to "Imagine a colour that you tin't fifty-fifty imagine," and to do it nine times.
• Black Comedy: Since Nature Is Not Squeamish, jokes about animals killing each other are all around.
• Blatant Lies: The very title itself is sometimes 1, equally despite challenge to be "true facts" nigh animals, they sometimes just make up nonsense for laughs, near notably in "True Facts Near the Hedgehog."

  Narrator: "The hedgehog is technically a legume, and therefore has a second encephalon inside of its nipple."

• Buffy Speak: The narrator resorts to this on occasion.

  Narrator: "This withal does not hateful they can... cocky-baby-make."

• Butt-Monkey:
  • Jerry, ane of the researchers. He oftentimes is chided when the narrator encounters incorrect footage or questionable phrasing.
  • David, the idiot. He appears in some of the invertebrate videos equally whichever discipline is doing something incorrectly. In "Ant Mutualism," one of the worker ants who brings poop back to the nest is David, and in "The Sand Bubbler Crab," David is the one crab not making a burrow.
• Catchphrase:
  • When describing an fauna's unique action or behavior, the narrator will apply the phrase "To understand this, imagine Ten. That is how the Y practise."
  • "Just recollect, if (insert nonsensical situation), then (insert something silly about featured creature)."
  • "No judging" / "Don't judge" when a animal needs to practice something gross to survive, like animate through their barrel.
• Censored for Comedy: Sometimes innocent words are bleeped out.
  • In "Cannibal Plants," the word "clock" is censored while the give-and-take "erect" is not. The narrator himself is confused by the censorship.
  • In "Trap Jaw Ants", the beep is applied liberally:

    Scientists telephone call these sticky doorknobs. Not kidding. Sounds like a good proper noun for a f*blip*k band. Jerry, why'd you lot- I said "f*blip*k band". You call up I said "f*bleep*k"? Tell me: what is a "f*bleep*k band", Jerry? The bleep push button is a privilege.

• Confusion Fu: The body of water cucumber poops out its lungs when threatened. "Needless to say, the predator is confused past this."
• Content Warnings: "True Facts is not appropriate for children, or for adults who do not deed similar children."
• Corpsing: In character, when a video "surprises" the narrator, he'll often start laughing. Every video contains laughter somewhere, giving the impression he's watching the footage for the outset time as he reads the script.

  "Hither, the purple dragonfly." (laughs) "Well that moment's ruined. And the damselfly." (laughs) "Really? I'thousand trying for gravitas here."

• Curse Cut Short: From "True Facts About the Dung Beetle":

  "When it strays off class, the dung beetle climbs on top of its brawl and uses the position of the sun, the moon and even the Milky Way to re-orient itself. Sort of like how ancient sailors once did. Except without the giant brawl of shi—" (cuts to side by side prune)

• Cute Owl: "About the Owl" is clogged of examples. They include:
  • A burrowing owl doing an extreme version of the Quizzical Tilt.
  • A pygmy owl... in the process of killing a woodpecker.
  • Another burrowing owl investigating a tunnel photographic camera.
  • Owls of various species being petted by humans, and apparently enjoying information technology a lot.
• Deadpan Snarker: A beginning fourth dimension viewer wouldn't recognize this as comedy series based on his vocalization alone, delivering jokes with the same panache he does an actual fact.
• Deaf Composer: Discussed in "True Facts About the Cuttlefish", well-nigh the cuttlefish'due south incredible color changing skills despite the fauna being colorblind:

  "Similar a lactose intolerant cheese maker, the cuttlefish is unaware of its own gifts."

• Dissimile: Often. For example, when talking about how quietly the owl tin can fly:

  Narrator: "If silence were loudness they would be the loudest flying bird... that'due south, that'southward a terrible metaphor."
  Narrator: "Basically, the difference between a teddy bear and a mantis is... everything."

  • Subverted in "Cats' Killer Senses":

  Narrator: "Information technology'due south like the Internet, except communicated past pissing all over stu— it'due south basically the Internet."

• Early Installment Weirdness: "True Facts About the Hedgehog" was the very kickoff of these videos. While later videos are a mix of actual facts and nonsensical jokes, this one is almost exclusively the latter, and the narrator sounds completely different, with no Morgan Freeman impression.
• Eyeball-Plucking Birds: In "Truthful Facts About the Owl", ZeFrank tells a (non-real) German fairy tale in which an owl rips a girl'due south face off and eats her eyeballs.

  "... and then the owl hooted."

• Face of a Thug: He comments during "True Facts: The Ogre Faced Spider" that one of the titular spiders appears to take an unusually furious face as it has a meal.

  Narrator: "...heh, she looks pissed. It's similar a lunch date after a bad argument. Rage-chewing."

• Freudian Sideslip:
  • "True Facts About the Armadillo" starts this way.

    Narrator: "Here are true facts about the arma-dildo—hmm, that's a typo. Here are true facts nigh the arma-dildo - oops. I said it over again, two times."

  • The narrator, describing surfing snails on a beach:

    Narrator: "Withal, Abigail is not the but surfer on this bitch—beach."

• Gag Penis: If the animal being discussed has ballocks, there'south a practiced adventure that a skilful portion of the video will be devoted to discussing information technology. "True Facts almost the Duck" is pretty much entirely near the duck's mating process.
• A Proficient Name for a Rock Band: In "True Facts: Ant Mutualism," the narrator claims "Fungus Chambers" is a good name for a band.
• Hollywood Chameleons: In "True Facts About the Chameleon," the narrator notes that a chameleon's best charade isn't their color irresolute, but that it tricked humans into thinking they can practice it for camoflage.
• How We Got Hither: "Killer Surfing Snails" has 2 using the same footage of ane species of marine snail pursuing a much smaller one. The first is at the very start of the video, before the narrator says, "Let's back up a bit" and introduces "Abigail" the O. semistriatta (the smaller snail), and the second precedes a physical clarification of A. propatula (the larger snail).
• Humans Are Cthulhu: Margaret the Ogre Faced Spider finds it ironic how the animate being who gave her species' name is a nightmarish behemoth who has teeth equally big as her face up. She has given that beast the proper name of "F*bleep*stick Bastard F*bleep*wad."
• Hurricane of Puns: The "Stinkhorn" episode has a series of rapid-fire penis-related innuendos, with the narrator trying to observe out what the stinkhorn resembles.

  "Jerry, I experience like these remind me of something, but I simply tin can't... Information technology's on the tip of my natural language. It'due south on the tip of your tongue, likewise, Jerry. Well, I'm sure if it'due south on the tip of both our tongues, it'll come to i of u.s.. If it comes to you first, Jerry, only spit information technology out."

• Inherently Funny Words: "Bobbit worm."
• Insane Troll Logic: Tarsiers are the but primates that are completely carnivorous. And so if you lot don't eat your vegetables, you lot'll wind upward looking like a tarsier.
• Insect Gender-Bender: Worker ants are sometimes referred to with male names and male pronouns.
• It Tastes Like Feet: The narrator's description of salary from a bounding main grunter.

  Narrator: "I way to tell the departure [betwixt a land hog and a bounding main grunter] is that bacon from a country pig tastes delicious, while bacon from a sea pig tastes like a fish farted on a muddy beach cracker."

• Less Embarrassing Term: From the Snake and Cadger Tongue video, regarding researcher Dr. Kurt Schwenk:

  Narrator: "He's been studying tongues for decades! No, Jerry, it'due south not a fetish. If a scientist does it, it'southward an 'expanse of interest'."

• Mama's Baby, Papa's Peradventure: Referenced in "Trap Jaw Ants" when introducing Mildred and Madison the worker ants' parents. The father doesn't look like their daughters, much less an ant, "so there were rumors".
• Metaphorgotten: Often. due east.g.:

  "The land snail is merely like a tiny human, who happens to expect like a disembodied natural language. And is covered in mucus. And has a trounce. The country snail breathes air, just similar the peoples do, and eats with its mouth-hole..."

• Listen Screw: "The cuttlefish's encephalon is larger than its entire body. Including its brain. Which might not make sense but information technology does to the cuttlefish. Because it has a very big encephalon."
• Monster Clown: The mantis shrimp is described every bit the ancestor of the modern clown, and like the modernistic clown, the mantis shrimp is a psychopath.
• "No. Just... No" Reaction: The Narrator's response to the acorn worm, the only footage of which is it... excreting a very long, very big amount of waste material.
• Noodle Incident: Mildred the trap jaw emmet has beef with i of Dr. Adrian Smith's (a real entomologist who consulted for the video) fingers. Non the whole Dr. Smith. Just that specific finger.

  Narrator: No, Jerry, I don't know what the backstory is. [beat out] Well, what Dr. Adrian Smith does with his fingers is none of our business.

• No Pronunciation Guide: The start of the Chameleon and Macaque videos.

  Narrator: "Here are some True Facts about the 'shyamaleon.' What? The 'ka-ME-leon,' uhh, that give-and-take actually looked that information technology would be more fun to say."

  Narrator: "Today, we volition explore the culture of the... uh... 'mack-uh-kway'. Jerry, how exercise you say this one? You recall it'due south 'muh-cock'? No, it'south likewise long to exist 'muh-erect'. Perhaps 'mack-uh-cue'? Oh, 'muh-cack'! All correct."

• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Occasionally, when the narrator states a fact that seems specially outlandish.

  Right here. Those iv little bumpy things. Scientists call these sticky doorknobs. Not kidding.

• Oh, Crap!: The Narrator sometimes gets this reaction when something tearing happens in the video, or he gets surprised.
• Ostrich Head Hiding: Mentioned at the very end of the Ostrich video.

  Narrator: "Simply as a coda, one of the ostriches asked me to read this: Honey Viewer! Ostriches don't stick their heads in the sand. If you keep saying that, I volition stick my head in your butt.' You know, every bit I'grand reading this, I feel like he might not have thought that all the way through."

• Overly Narrow Superlative: Ze Frank notes that the octopus is the most intelligent invertebrate, then goes on to say that this isn't as impressive as it sounds, since "clams are stupid."
• Seldom-Seen Species: There are episodes almost tarsiers, sea pigs and other body of water cucumbers, polychaete worms (primarily the Bobbit worm), mantis shrimps, frog fish, star-nosed moles, naked molerats, foliage katytids, bolas spiders and myrmecophagous mammals including pangolins, numbats and aardwolves.
• Self-Deprecation: In "Macaques," at the starting time:

  "Today, nosotros will explore the culture of the... macca-cway. Jerry, how do you say this ane? You call up it'due south muh-cock? No, information technology'south too long to be muh-cock."

• Shaped Like Itself: From "True Facts Virtually Sloths":

  "As it is, the sloth mainly eats leaves, because they tend non to run away. The only drawback beingness, they taste like leaves."

• Share the Male Hurting: The innuendo-laden stinkhorn video features diverse stinkhorn mushrooms, including many shaped like penises. The narrator goes, "Oof" and apologizes subsequently footage shows one stinkhorn snapping.
• Shown Their Work: The facts, for most parts, are authentic, except when they're overruled past the Rule of Funny.
• Sidetracked by the Analogy: Frequently, perhaps well-nigh notably when talking about octopus reproduction:

  Narrator: "When her chore is washed, she is gone, but thousands of little bebbies emerge. Floating. Just beautiful. Sort of similar the catastrophe of Charlotte'south Spider web, except under water. And without the farm animals too, they would, they would all drown. They'd dice; the dancing pig wouldn't concluding a second actually, information technology'd be, uh, babies interspersed with these expressionless and rotting animals existence eaten by fish, it's, it's a different story really, less appropriate for children and I—the duck would do OK, just... i floating duck does not a children's book make. Merely remember, if you're writing a children's volume, ane animal tin dice, non all of them. Simply a mollusk would write that sort of crap, and they're dumb as hell."

• Spoof Aesop: A common way of ending the videos:

  (from Truthful Facts about the Bounding main Pig) "Remember, if someone scares you, just bend over and fart your lungs all over that bounder."

  (from True Facts near the Tarsier) "Remember, always swallow your vegetables, or you'll look like a freaky, freaky trivial tarsier."

• Solid Gold Poop: "Truthful Facts: Ant Mutualism" has a lot of insect secretions beingness quite valuable to ants, acting equally nutritious meals to share with the colony.
• Something Completely Unlike:
• Sophisticated every bit Hell: Ze Frank tin can go from a scientific description of cavitation bubbling to summing it upwardly as "Mortal Kombat finishing movement shit" inside the same sentence.
• Stock Footage: Ze Frank apparently uses stock footage for the videos, simply he notably too lampshades how strange some stock footage is.

  Narrator: "This is stock footage of a sea cucumber. Information technology has been downloaded one times. By me."

• Tastes Like Chicken: "Truthful Facts Most the Hedgehog" shows that a hgedgehog'due south diet has Angel Tears in information technology, which taste like chicken... tears.
• Toilet Humor: There's a lot of talk about how animals urinate and defecate.
• Violation of Mutual Sense: Sometimes when they get a chip more nonsensical than usual. For example, from "True Facts Virtually the Hedgehog":

  Narrator: "The nation of French republic was named afterwards a hedgehog. That hedgehog was named Kevin. Don't enquire."

• Vocal Evolution: The vocalism used has gotten gradually higher pitched and less Morgan-Freeman like as time has gone on. This is all-time observed past watching something like the anglerfish video and the nudibranch video back to back.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyhow?: The cuttlefish can change color to match its background perfectly even in complete darkness... which is astonishing but useless.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: Ze Frank speaks in an odd but perfectly normal vocalization except for certain words which he consistently pronounces oddly.
  • Babies is "behbehs."
  • Bird is "byuuurd."
  • Sea is "oh-see-un."
  • Pregnant becomes "puh-reeeeg-nunt" in an extreme Southern drawl.
  • Dew is "deeuwr."
  • Glue is "gleewrr."
  • Shine is "smyoothe."
• Who Writes This Crap?!: On describing the armadillo'south armor:

  Narrator: "... the armadillo has plates of dermal bone on its back, covered with horn and leathery pare. Imagine having a agglomeration of horny bones on your back, constantly rubbing togeth—I can't read this. I hateful, I understand it's technically correct..."

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