Ze Frank Narrates Bird’s Mating Dance as Tennis Shots

In a clip from his True Facts series, narrator Ze Frank humorously describes the elaborate mating dance of a male Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise as a tennis shots, using the terms forehand and backhand interchangeably.

Backhand, forehead, backhand, and finish. It’s pretty cool right? I teach myself you know like this move. It’s hard you gotta practice. Like a lot of practice.

A couple of people commented that Frank’s bird impression sounded like Strong Bad from Homestar Runner

I just had a thought (and it really hurt!): Is ZeFrank secretly Strong Bad?

Here’s the full clip from Frank’s full True Facts Awards video.

Here’s the original footage of the mating dance.

Lori Dorn
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