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“The No. 1 request I get, and the episode I fear the most, is ‘Bean Dad.’”
First uploaded to YouTube in the summer of 2010, the video latched on to a notably incongruous moment in a local news segment about a serious incident — a home invasion and an attempted rape in a Huntsville, Alabama, low-income neighborhood — and turned it into a jaunty, upbeat season. (By the way, the people behind Schmoyoho — brothers Michael, Andrew, and Evan Gregory, along with Sarah Fullen — are still hard at work making things for the internet; you might’ve heard the Corn Kid song that popped off on TikTok not too long ago.) 1 request I get, and the episode I fear the most, is ‘Bean Dad.’All of which is to say, there was, and remains, a lot going on with the “Bed Intruder” as a digital artifact, a reminder that beneath any cultural moment, produced on the internet or otherwise, lies oodles of details worth parsing over.
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