True Facts: The Skeleton Shrimp
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- Published on Feb 7, 2020
- They look like little peoples.
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Comedy
Man, I'm so happy that you're actively posting these again. These consistently make me laugh out loud and I look forward to whenever you post them.
Right?! These are absolutely freakin genius
@El Hermano De Jiren Just can't stop digging that hole, can you?
@Paula Stiles Why do you hate men?
@El Hermano De Jiren Oh, good, yet another reason to like him.
"Imagine a drunk person in a sleeping bag trying to answer the doorbell"
That is how the Skeleton Shrimp dooo
Ngl, best analogy I’ve ever heard
i fucking died from that
And that is also how their bebehs do
I know him he’s me.
doodoo
“They are also kinda cute. Like little peoples”
*bless this*
they’re like sea monkeys if sea monkeys actually came closer to living up to their advertising hype!
Ur pfp is adorable lmao
bless
*_Bless_*
New best pick-up line ever: "Are you about to molt?"
It offers so much subtle horror beyond your standard joke lines.
@Edward Haas with moderate to high possibility of postcoital cannibalism :D
@Gregory Vasilyev exit back to the hotel you mean. Freshly molted means super soft cuddles!
But what if she answers "YES"? This plan should go with a very robust exit strategy
I love how he says the insults like he's a teacher reading a rude note that he caught getting passed around in the middle of class
This makes me wonder just how many animals I have never heard of.
There's probably a coupla million species of animals on Earth (estimates vary and this doesn't include extinct species). You probably know... maybe 300 species or so? So there are several millions of species of animals you don't know of :)
Almost all of them
@Petalleaf Gerenuk was the main one I meant. It's close enough to look like a deer, while being... off! In a cool way :D
@Meowstical Which deer? :3
And yay, I'm glad someone looked up some of these cool animals!
@Petalleaf Those deer are awesome! How the heck did I never hear of them before?
They look like the things Ursula turned everyone into in The Little Mermaid.
Holy shit, they do!!!
Except they are sad. While these are sneaky sneaky
I made this the 669th like
Omg ur right!!!
Oh my God, they do! :O
The analogies in these videos are so outlandish yet so accurate that I'm genuinely impressed lol. He deserves an award for each one
For real 😁
Oh god, I'd love it if you ever did an episode on Poodle Moths. They are sincerely the strangest and most evocative creatures. They have evocative mannerisms. Seem to display emotions, they have brows ffs. Hold things with their hands. Sit down with their legs hanging, prop their elbows, hands on chin. I kind of really think they're fairies, or definitely one of the more recent additions to the planet because they're not moths lol.
Yesss!
The stuff the mom was saying to the kids, man that was accurate af! It was like listening to myself at any given lunch time.
@Hoo Loo Voo glad to hear that^^
@Kody, in all sincerity, yes!
@Hoo Loo Voo let me phrase it diferently, does the joy they bring you make up for the trouble they cause?
@Hoo Loo Voo jeez do they at least bring you joy?
@Kody, it's a season, it'll pass. Like today; it's consisted of my eight year old son crashing a golf cart in to my van, at speed, first thing this morning (yes, he was ok) and dropping my eldest girl off at prom this evening. A bittersweet day.
"Well did you tell them its your body and you dont want to be peed on?"
Oddly, not the first time I've heard those words.
“If I had a nickel for every time I’d heard those words, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.”
I have so many questions, and I don't think I want answeres
Ah! I see you've been to an R Kelly concert xD
Same.
Uh the story please😳👉👈
"looks like a 3rd grade drawing that sent a student to the school psychologist" and the "like a drunk person in a sleeping bag trying to answer the doorbell" parts I just died laughing 😂
Me too 😭😂😂😂
You are honestly a master of Metaphor. Your humor, has helped me when I needed it most. Thank you for sharing your genius.
This might get lost in the comments but I’m genuinely so happy you’re back Zefrank, I have very distinct memories growing up attached to your videos. Thank you for everything 🙏🏼🙏🏼
I love the idea of them just sitting on the ocean floor talking shit to everything that passes by
So thats where they got the idea in the movie Men in Black!
$hit talking aliens! They even look like them!
@TACO JESUS2020 Wouldn't wanna catch those hands.
Imagine them saying something to a mantis shrimp and then they just realize they fucked up
The Kardashians as a sea creature
Pretty much me, but I lack the gumption to actually say what I'm thinking about people to their faces.
I've been in the fresh and marine aquarium hobby for over 30 years and I feel like I've been living under a rock no mountain! I really want to learn more this Skeleton Shrimp!
If it makes anyone feel any better, skeleton shrimps are still less dickish to seahorses than Zefrank was in his true facts about on them.
So this is what Ursula turned her delinquent contract victims into.
@Vanilla Jack poor unfortunate vs. rich fortunate. I wonder if the little mermaid would have been very different if Ariel had paid the full transformation fee, probably wouldn't have ended up with all those other commitments and limitations in her contract.
Poor unfortunate souls...
Imagine holding on to a cable with your toes and trying to eat by catching pieces of soup on a mustachio that you grew on your ear.
That is how the Skeleton Shrimp do.
“...like a drunk person in a sleeping bag trying to answer the doorbell.”
There’s a story in there, Mr. ZeFrank. I’d like to hear it.
@Emily Jewelle The world NEEDS that!
AIZAWA!?
I went into a fit of hysterics after hearing that. I cried laughing 😭
You are so right
Ditto
Seeing an animal wearing its children like a constantly writhing blanket made me picture what the human equivalent might look like. Anyway, has anyone seen that comic panel where a criminal declared that the heroes could not possibly take him down due to the fact he duct taped multiple babies to his body?
The animal featured in this episode is amazing. It looks different to others I know. It swims and doesn't. And its parenting with the narrator is among the funniest entertainments.
They are the most amazing creatures I have ever seen🥰
I could watch them all day. Fascinating!!
Love your narrating always☮️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I can't wait for when secretary birds are caught on this guy's radar
@Tim Woods thanks dude
@Tim Woods I'm not excited to look these up.
And then there's nightmare animals like the weel bug and spider-tailed serpent.
“To hunt their pray, they use their long legs to stomp them to death. Think putting out a campfire, but with more death, we hope.”
@Carl Ryan What do you mean slap?! That's full stomp, stomp of disgusted, the stomps that said "HOLY SHIT!! A CENTIPEDE!!".
"Courtship begins by males beating the living crap out of each other"
Sounds very similar to an average night out!
*Leaving buzzfeed is the best gift he gave us*
@flannagan 37
Underated joke. 👍
I remember when I was a wee nymphophyte and I murdered a jealous love-rival with my claw's venom-tooth. I couldn't chew through my lover's exoskeleton, so we are both starving to death. No wait, here's that one sea-snail. That guy is a fucker. I'm throw a mountain of shade at him while he eats us. "Bitch you look like Donnie Osmond's shirt - oh God nooooo."
Because humans, although most like to think we're some special creation of an all powerful being who endowed us with intelligence, are just animals too.
I had a Jersey Shore flashback.
You make me laugh like no other. Thank you for making these videos, they bring little rays of sunshine into my gloam filled days! 😘
Did I ever mention how happy I am that you are back doing true facts videos? I still can’t get over how much I enjoy them and missed them!
Always love this channel just wish they showed this in school. It would be way more fun to learn watching your vids.
True Facts about the Sable Antelope please
Actually, why not just make a whole true facts episode about antelopes? You’d be surprised to find that they’re a lot crazier than you think.
The drunk person In a sleeping bag bit hit a little too close to home
😁
@Andre Ware Took a few city guys camping while I was in the Navy... multiple occasions... almost always involved alcohol... LOTS of stories...
Among the first times, rather than risk them getting themselves scared into injury, I thought it best to camp in a small grove (they considered a forest) that bordered a Dairy Farm... AND I got to see first-hand, a drunk fat guy in a sleeping bag, swearing he was coming to answer the door because one of the cows had gotten out... and the bell was dinging periodically as it wandered a little, stopped and nibbled grass... wandered a little... stopped to eat grass... etc...etc...etc...
SO... yeah... I rather agree with that bit in the vid'. I wasn't drunk enough to forget it, nor to go after the cowbell like a doorbell... BUT I was certainly drunk enough to be entertained. ;o)
Why? Was he thrown out of a plane over your town?
Yes....
Someone had a bad experience while camping drunk.
i didn’t hear “Heëre are tru Facts about”
my life is not complete.
Maybe just this once, they weren't true facts?! 😳
bluethenewb I feel you.
my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
What was he thinking? :)
G3M1N1 😂
God, you being back is one of the best parts of this year. Absolutely loved your early content when I found it and happy to see you making content again.
I can imagine how much effort you put into these. Much appreciated, zeFrank.
It is amazing. Your channel is my favorite! I really enjoy every single of them and learn something new every day. Thanks for these marvelous informative videos.
I've been watching Ze for a long time and I think this might be the funniest True Facts ever. Thanks!
You’ve only done 1 Reptile (The Chameleon) The Gharial _Gavialis gangeticus_ is to Crocodilians what Sloth was to the Fratellis.
@BellaBarossa Not good enough. Want True Facts: The Gharial, Now!
I never knew these things existed. Imagine if they were the size of people? That would be terrifying.
On another note, they should make cartoons about these videos. Each cartoon should start with Zefrank's video and narration and then go from there... I'd watch it.
One time when I was out at T Street waiting for a wave, I decided to put a patch of seaweed on my head and this seaweed was covered in these thing. I didn’t know until I took it off and found these things all over me. I started freaking out because I didn’t know what they were and they looked like they can burrow into you skin.
"You look like an accordion that was used in a colonoscopy and kept that shape" - It's so accurate and yet my mortal brain could never have come up with such a perfect description!
Guys. You say he’s poet. He’s a roasting those animals. I think he should do the same format of video, but roasting humans. A whole separate playlist. Imagine him burning beiber, 6ix 9ine, or cardi b. It would be glorious.
Truly the greatest poet of our generation.
ZeFrank has a beautiful brain. He's totally my internet crush.
Holy crap these look amazing. How have I never heard or seen one before. I want an army of them
They honestly look like aliens that tried to colonize earth and this is the result
Your one of the best nature narrators ever!
Muchas gracias, es fantástico, bello, hermoso, informativo, interesante, lo uníco malo (para muchos) es que NO hablo Inglés, solo Español, ¿podrían poner subitulos en Español?, ¡por favor!
Little-known fact: Caprellids are capable of causing sick burns.
Jon - and they can do it underwater, too.
@Carlos Alberto if an insult is bad enough, the difference doesn't matter.
FilterExel fire too
I thought that was Alpheids.
@Carlos Alberto probably insults
I don't think I ever saw this before. Wonderful surprise just before going to bed.
Also: skeleton shrimp look like high budget science fiction movie monsters. Utterly unearthly.
yes so happy every time you upload. your way of telling animal fact in a funny way is so charming
these are seriously fantastic! they make my day instantly better :D
These guys look like how we might build robots in the future, just growing a genetically engineered robot arm and controlling them using computers to do all our work for us.
There is nothing that could ever go wrong with this idea!
Awesome channel, subscribed!
As always, fantastic! I really hope some day you put all these together on a DVD or something: The World According to ZeFrank.
It always makes me happy to see really good footage of an animal i never knew existed.
This is amazing. It's always amazing. If I crack up and discover a creature I didn't know about at the same time it's a win win. Thanks
I really love the characterization of skeleton shrimps saying really specific petty insults to anything that moves by
This looks almost like a cross between a praying mantis and an inchworm.
These are always amazing. Can you please please please do one on the "slippery dick (Halichoeres bivittatus)" it's a fish. We joke about it at work all the time.
I've never seen this animal. Not in books not on TV no where. This is a completely new experience for me.
I will cherish it, ZeFrank
Ha! Interesting (never heard of these little guys), informative and hilarious - as always!
Who else thinks that ZeFrank came up with this just to insult random sea-life?
Does he has an ig account? Curious.
@MonteCreations it's rude
Exactly!
Definitely why this episode wasn't about Puffins
Impossible, he didn't insult clams. This must just be all true facts.
It's amazing that after so long, you can still find a new favorite channel out of the blue. You have rekindled my sense of wonder and whimsy, good sir
I’m going through your whole playlist now, been watching for awhile keep GOING BRO!
TruFactzPact
"Three pairs of hold on for dear life grasping appendages"
"...But it's not holding onto anything, certianly not dear life..."
"I mean it's in the process of being much less alive"
first time watching one of these about an animal i actually didn’t know about previously. knowledge is power!
“You look like a ruffle potato chip trying to get into coachella.” My new insult
@Hamza Juelz am not even gonna ask.
Where’s your pfp from??
Well the skeleton shrimp look like the wrinkled up prisoners of Ursula after she sucked their souls out
Yay
Love your stuff, excellent presentation style, very educational and informative, which I believe is your intention.
Like a drunk person in a sleeping bag trying to answer the door.. how the hell do you come up with a metaphor that good!!!
I like to watch these, usually, on my “fricken Monday’s”, but sometimes I make exceptions, like when it’s about a “horizontal/vertical (and apparently even upside-down) molt jolts”;
that’s how the Spidey DewwWWWr.
#YTsBests
“Frankly, I “F”ing love zeFrank1: not as much as Franks&Beans or rotating gas-station wieners, but DAMN CLOSE.”
I just realized I also unknowingly live the s*** out of hyphens too.
Hmm 🤔...
I’m going to have to tell my counselor about this new “digital Tourette’s”.
Meh. 🤷♂️
@zefrank1
P.s.
One of these times you should do one about the “Frankenstein Insects” of the Carboniferous Period & title it:
“zeFrankenStein 1nsects (or 1sex...ur choice on the spelling).
For what it’s worth...
Which I imagine is a lot...
(However I imagine all kinds of ridiculous things).
I can't stop laughing about the punchlines in this little ceature. Love to listen to your very entertaining facts. 😊
This might be the best channel on TheXvid. I never watch without laughing so hard I cry. Thank u for all u do!
You should totally do one about the kiwi! I’d love to see that!
Love all the vids and their frequency lately. Keep em coming!
Seems redundant to have an arm that can slice your opponent in half, then a different appendage to poison them.
"They swim like a drunk person in a sleeping bag trying to answer the doorbell" me on any given day 😂 🤣 😂
@Mz Clementine I have CP and I would be lost without my reacher grabber stick especially if I drop my meds on the floor
Nicole Abed no lie. I’ve dropped everything today... by 8pm I’m cussing up a storm cause I’m so GD clumsy.
I have EDS and we are prone to this.
Adding in... That’s me, too. On the daily. 🤪😏🤦🏻♀️
I once broke a whole shelf of crystal vases. I was 15. It was so embarrassing. I was with my mom. She asked me, “don’t touch a thing.” I oOppp... oh... my... goodness.
😖
This one felt more joke heavy than usual. I love it😅
Please do a video on Sea Dragons. They are the weirdest sea thing I’ve seen lately and I would like to hear your commentary on their anatomy 😂
They are peculiar. As a fisherman. It took quite awhile to let myself believe I was actually seeing them clinging to rope. Lol
All kidding aside, this is some excellent macro video! And yes, I laughed all the way through.
"Whatever parenting experience you've had, this is some next level shit."
Seriously, seriously brilliant.
Watching your videos makes me think that there is no such thing as an empty seafloor. There's always something trying to look like an empty piece of the seafloor.
I do have plenty of pets and as I am planing on making more videos on them in the future you are welcome to use the footage for these little skits. Keep up the awesome work.
"Imagine a drunk person in a sleeping bag trying to answer the doorbell"
Lmao. Dead.....like six feet under. The tears.
Whatever you do.. Please continue this series.. Your jokes make my day everytime!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂
"Caprellid be sneaky sneaky. Polyp be sad."
Scrolled to this comment EXACTLY when he said it in the video 😂😂
OMG, I lost my mind in that moment! ...and my breath! Ze is so freakin hilarious!! (...while males play tappy-tap...)
That is how a Caprellid do
Clearly one of the best lines XD
thank you for all these videos.. with the stress of whats going on in 2020.. i need this to take my mind off things.. please continue to make the smiles happen for everyone
This channels content is genius level docu-comedy.
Thanks, much appreciated.
Absolutely beautiful! Informative and very entertaining! Ty!
I'd love to see you narate an ant colony from AntsCanada lol it'd be a really cool collaboration. Love the videos btw
I found these guys in Alameda, CA while looking for bubble snails carrying schistosome parasites (as they do) and spent about an hour just watching them.
Monterey Bay Aquarium usually has a display of them.
ifoldinhalfsoeasily thx! An excuse to spend some time outside rather than on the couch waiting for a zefrank vid, lol.
@kohljackal I found them all along Shoreline Drive, across from all the apartments and condos. They hang out among the seaweed in the shallows.
ifoldinhalfsoeasily ooh, where in Alameda?
You are the most comically intelligent analogist I have ever known, (not that I’ve known any at all). I will never stop learning or laughing at the information you provided about these beautiful creatures that we know so little about. Did I mention that I love you? I mean, not in a wrong way but you know what I mean.
"Like a drunk person in a sleeping bag trying to answer the doorbell"
Say no more, sir. *hits subscribe*
🤣🤣🤣 "They swim like a drunk person in a sleeping bag, trying to answer the doorbell!" We died laughing! This was too funny!🤣🤣🤣🤣
I just love these videos! Please keep making them !
But seriously, these little things really toe the line on being unnaturally creepy and kinda cute.
True facts about bearded dragons? They're really fun little creatures
Or perhaps leopard geckos?
Lizards in general?
I really love your videos and would be absolutely blown away if you made one about lizards!
Thank you Zefrank! Once again making the Internet a better place, one video at a time! :-)
I love your videos
They amuse and relax me at the same time. Anyway, very interesting and intertaining.
I love your videos every time i watch it always makes me laugh and makes my self a lil more happier so thank you for making your awesome videos
“In the process of being much less alive” aren’t we all?
Carl Bailey
I'm not currently being slurped down into a ravening maw either, and to be honest it's been a long time and although she had her faults, I miss my ex.
The virgin spoiler vs the chad timestamp.
Big Cadeucus mood
I absolutely live for these videos. Seriously cannot stop laughing.
I love actually learning from these videos along with laughing lol
I love these and learn so very much. Please keep it up!
"Courtship begins by males beating the living crap out of each other" the wonders of life.