The Creepy Pencil

1. SoLo
   June 3rd, 2008 at 8:48 am

   “The pen is mightier than the sword.”… and then there’s pencils.

2. Tyler
   June 3rd, 2008 at 9:08 am

   Um… what is going on there?

   No.. Never mind… I don’t think I want to know.

3. Andrew G
   June 3rd, 2008 at 9:16 am

   awesomely wtf

4. Emily M
   June 3rd, 2008 at 9:44 am

   Creepy pencil is creepy.

   No seriously.

   I enjoyed(?) the creepy music as well.

5. Triseult
   June 3rd, 2008 at 10:08 am

   I feel the music was the most creepy thing about this video… Watching it on mute makes it look like a retarded children program.

6. Justin
   June 3rd, 2008 at 10:16 am

   yeah you guys hit the nail on the head… Creepy!

7. pepsibookcat
   June 3rd, 2008 at 10:19 am

   Oh man. Now, I’m the whole rest of my day is going to have a creeped out edge to it. Bah!

   The music was perfect for that, btw.

   I will take real pleasure in feeding pencils into the electric pencil sharpener for the next few days.

8. Pol x
   June 3rd, 2008 at 10:30 am

   the pencil was really eldritch, it was the fixed grin that put me in mind of the Lady In The Radiator from Eraser head…that and the fact that the pencil really did have an eraser for a head.

   That girl is seriously going to break an awful lot of hearts when she’s grown.

9. Patrick B
   June 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 am

   Ewww! EWWWWW! and for good measure, EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

10. Sheldon
    June 3rd, 2008 at 11:35 am

    Wow, now I can never use a pencil again. Great.

11. Lo
    June 3rd, 2008 at 11:55 am

    Oh GOD was that creepy.

12. estapler
    June 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm

    Quick! Erase it! Erase it!

13. eric
    June 3rd, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    it doesnt get anymore wtf than that. i mean that was straight out of a Steven King.

14. kid_icarus
    June 3rd, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    that is sooo creepy……..i’m glad i kidnapped the copywriter’s pencil a while ago and did it in when she wouldn’t give me the ransom.

15. kim
    June 3rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    that happened to me once, back in the ’60s

16. Ali S.
    June 3rd, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    Anyone else get that weird feeling of the pencil being like the Bunny from Donny Darko? With the creepy soul eating smile? Jeez. The music definitely lent itself to making this uber-creepy.

    And if there are any Sponge Bob Squarepants fans out there I’m sure you’ll remember the episode where he finds a pencil that could his drawings come to life. Me thinks that these were inspirations for this creepy video. Brrr!

    Now I can’t sit here at work without thinking that the bundle of pencils in a cup near me are staring…and smiling. O_o

17. jack.wh
    June 3rd, 2008 at 1:30 pm

    Ali S., I was literally JUST about to comment saying about Frank the bunny from Donnie Darko! I know completely what you mean! The evil, sadistical smile, the terrifying music.

    For those of you who’ve never seen Frank…

    http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/Cryptic-Rick/Donnie_Darko-Frank .jpg

    There’s a picture there. it was the freakiest one I could find. I think the scariest bit is when Donnie looks in the mirror and Frank appears. That bit was SPPOOOOOOOOKEEEEEE!

18. Jeff Bell
    June 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    We must also pay homage to Duck Amuck (1951), and Escher’s “Drawing Hands” (1948).

19. ripper
    June 3rd, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    So the point is what ??? If she hadn’t drawn the cake and kite she wouldn’t have gotten sucked up in the black hole lollipop -is that what the moral is?

20. jenjen
    June 3rd, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    I think the point is ooo-eee-ooo.

21. french
    June 3rd, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    ripper, look how fast she rejects everything that she gets so easily. Firstly, she barely eats any of the cake, though she wanted it. Then, she lets the kite fly away, as it would have gotten too boring to play with. The number three is always magical. So as she hadn’t learned anything by her first two wishes, the third one is final. It shows how our selfishness and greed sucks us in and we lose everything.

    Sorry for ant mistakes I might have made. I’m a foreign reader from Lithuania (near the Baltic sea). I am also having my English exam tomorrow ( I am a 12th former), so this is a bit of a practice for me too. Hope you got my point.

22. Sandra
    June 3rd, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    Looooved it! Great commentary French.

23. Fritz
    June 3rd, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    Good thing I don’t have a pencil like that…I’d be in a heap of trouble in short order

24. ted
    June 3rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    At least he was wearing his rubber.

25. Tempscire
    June 3rd, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    Sort of creepy but also predictable, I thought. :\

26. DOJ
    June 3rd, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    i thought the last drawing would turn into a jet engine.

27. Ali S.
    June 3rd, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    @ DOJ

    Or a blender!

28. lindsay
    June 3rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    I thought it was kind of creepy that someone said “That girl is seriously going to break an awful lot of hearts when she’s grown.”

    But then again, she could probably pass as an Urban Outfitters model in the video.

29. Miss Curly
    June 3rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    This does have the creepiness feel of Donny Darko.
    I loved it!

30. leongsoon
    June 3rd, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    Moral of the story: Learn how to draw a proper lollipop

31. Pol x
    June 4th, 2008 at 4:46 am

    lindsay wrote:

    “I thought it was kind of creepy that someone said “That girl is seriously going to break an awful lot of hearts when she’s grown.””

    Are you one of these people who thinks that all comments about kids are sexual?

    It says more about what is going on in your head than anything I said.

    She is a very good looking kid who’ll no doubt break a few boys hearts, what is there that is creepy about that?

    It’s people like you who have paniced parents and Grand parents about displaying affection, to the point where they can’t comfort their own grand kids when they graze a knee.

    If anyone is “creepy” in this mate it’s fucking well you.

    I am absolutey seething with anger at you, you are the wedge that divides people, that has people second guessing their first and totally innocent thoughts.

    You are the thought police all you need do is infer improprioty and that’s enough.

    You are so wrong it make sme want to vomit.

    It’s morons like yo who fire bomb paediatricians offices.

32. Chad Cloman
    June 4th, 2008 at 6:03 am

    I don’t get the ending it seems incomplete to me. What am I missing?

33. lindsay
    June 4th, 2008 at 8:19 am

    Sorry Pol x. That was just my first reaction. Didn’t mean to hit a nerve so hard or induce vomiting. I’m not the thought police, I’m not a moron and I’m sure you’re not either so please accept my apology.

34. just a guy
    June 4th, 2008 at 9:53 am

    What is it about internet that causes people to get so angry?
    I think it’s somehow connected to road rage… there must be something in the human brain that allows anger to go unchecked when we are ‘protected’ from intimate retribution… like behind the armor of a car, the internet, and perhaps even a crowd of others (so perhaps mob violence can be included in this theory?)

    I find it much harder to be angry / ‘yell at’ people in person, even if I’m justified in my anger. Hmmm

    (And, pol x, i’m not saything thats the case with you. This whole situation just made me think about these things.)

35. Pol x
    June 4th, 2008 at 10:48 am

    Lindsay, your apology is accepted.

    And in turn if I have given offence then I too apologise to you most sincerely.

36. Pol x
    June 4th, 2008 at 10:52 am

    Oh and “Just a Guy”, I have long since implemeneted the policy of never saying on line what I would not say to the persons face.

    Yes I was very angry, but that was because I was very angry, not due to the anonymity of the internet.

    Anger causes me such distress that it is something i try to avoid, some times to my own detriment. So if I sounded off it was not done lightly.

    I appreciate your point that you are not refering to me per se, but I think I should make the point.

    All the best

    Pol x

37. Huggkruka
    November 22nd, 2008 at 11:30 am

    The most terrifying thing is that the pen has the face of RICHARD D JAMES!!! :O

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