Gorilla Hears His Leg Must Go

Me when I was 5 and grazed my leg, my dad said he's gonna have to cut it off

A close-up gorilla chews a yellow bell pepper while staring intensely at the camera, briefly opening its mouth in alarm. The caption exaggerates a child’s panic after a minor scrape and a dad’s threatening joke that the leg must be amputated; the deadpan gorilla reaction makes it a fitting response to overreacting. The clip uses the slowed, reverberant music “Untitled #13 (Slowed + Reverb)” by glwzbll, whose dreamy, ominous mood heightens the absurd seriousness of the joke.

♪ glwzbll — Untitled #13 (Slowed + Reverb)

• @eternalclassic / 46303 2024-02-13