“BEN! DO SOMETHING! WHY IS HE JUST SITTING THERE?! THIS DOG IS TRYING TO ANGER ME! I’M GETTING TIRED OF HIM, CHAT!”
Whether this was a genuine meltdown or brilliant performance art, one thing is clear: IShowSpeed raging at Talking Ben is the chaotic, weird, screaming content the internet desperately needed. IShowSpeed Rages at Talking Ben Animated
Ben by TKO (Technical Knockout via Apathy). What do you think? Was Speed overreacting, or is Talking Ben secretly the most infuriating character ever animated? Drop your hot takes in the comments. “BEN
The trigger. Ben sits in his armchair. He picks up a newspaper. He turns the page. He folds it. He puts it down. He sighs. This goes on for 45 seconds of real-time silence. THIS DOG IS TRYING TO ANGER ME
Speed: “He sad? Why he sad, chat?”
The Talking Ben animated series is a masterclass in anti-humor. The jokes are slow, the pacing is glacial, and the characters are depressive. To a hyperactive personality like Speed—a human Duracell bunny on Red Bull—watching Ben live a slow, mundane, purposeless existence is actual torture.