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🗓️ 16 May 2014
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the most famous burp in all of film history. |
| 0:05.0 | It's from Citizen Kane. |
| 0:06.5 | It's from Revenge of the Nords. |
| 0:07.8 | That is still going. It's Curtis Armstrong playing Booger in Revenge of the |
| 0:17.7 | nerds and as you may or may not know it's the 30th anniversary of that movie and |
| 0:21.8 | that great famous burp. So Curtis can you tell us the story of that |
| 0:26.9 | birth? Okay here's the story of the burp. When we did the I am not a natural belcher no |
| 0:35.8 | If you ask me to belch on cue I can't do it. You know they tend to sneak up on me like they do most people. |
| 0:43.0 | But I knew that there was this belching contest in the movie. |
| 0:48.0 | So I said, how do we do this? |
| 0:50.0 | And they said, just pretend you're doing the biggest belch in the world and we'll |
| 0:55.2 | find somebody who can actually do the belch sort of a stunt belcher and |
| 1:00.6 | they'll find someone and they'll dub it in later. |
| 1:04.0 | So when we shot the film, I just did this ridiculous, you know, endless belch. |
| 1:10.0 | And so they then started auditioning people to do the biggest belch in the world and they got some good ones apparently but none good enough. |
| 1:21.0 | It really lacked something. So they started searching through |
| 1:26.9 | recordings in the animal kingdom to find something that you could use in in lieu of a human belch and they found |
| 1:37.2 | strange as it is a recording of a camel having an orgasm. What? It was a. a they happened to catch one of the camels at confirmation and it was perfect. |
| 2:00.8 | So they |
| 2:05.0 | they took it with the best human belch they could come up with |
| 2:08.0 | and that is what you hear ultimately is a combination of human, |
| 2:13.0 | belch, and camel orgasm. |
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