@@Psychiatry-q4n My mom did the same, left me alone as it played. Remembered it for over 18 years and have been looking for it on RUclips for 10 years.
I think he was making sure that the boy was out like a light. I mean when you properly fall asleep nothing can wake you, unless it's a loud sound like crackling lighting or physical pain.
Some more background info: The movie's plot is based off the 1816 short story "The Sandman" from E.T.A. Hoffmann, a German Romantic author & a pioneer within Gothic horror & fantasy literature (dark romanticism)*. He also wrote the novella "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" which Tschaikovsky used for his famous ballet. When Hoffmann was alive, the sandman was a popular bogeyman figure throughout Europe that parents used to scare their children into behaving. This character was far more sinister back then & only changed rather recently into a gentle entity who puts children to sleep with his dream sand. *for more on the OG story see comment below
@@OrfeuBR4The short story is one of the best examples of modern fantastic and horror-literature, one of the first stories which paved the way for authors like Lovecraft, Stephen King and others.
A fun fact: My english teacher in my old school put a 144p version on in school. Aparently it's one of her usual "Story Telling" lessons for that grade. I realised she could never find a higher res version. I upscaled a version I found online, and boosted the bass for, to make the sound hit the watcher, and feel the lowtones. 😅
YEEEES, my story exactly. 30+ years ago I watched it as a small kid. Never knew it was the sandman. Just distinctly remember the kid's eyes were plucked out and his hollow stare... Man some memories never go away.
Man, I'm really loving that Sandman design and movement. Creepy and intimidating in appearance, yet graceful and majestic in his movements. I wouldn't be surprised if Paul Berry was hired to animate Jack in the Nightmare Before Christmas since he kind of does move with a bit of a slink like the Sandman here.
@@HBIDamian Right, I do know he was an animator for the film, but it doesn't really specify what characters or scenes in the film he animated. I wouldn't be surprised if some scenes of Jack were animated by Paul considering how he moves in similar ways to The Sandman
collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8415591/witch-character-puppet-the-nightmare-before-christmas-puppet implies he made the Witch character. There are sources like disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Nightmare_Before_Christmas which state Paul Berry was the Animation Supervisor. But that's false, according to the credit sequence of the movie. The credit sequence is the same as imDb as far as I can tell. He may have had part in animating Jack, but I doubt it. I'd love to be proven wrong though
Yeah that design is so sinister and mysterious. Plus I love the idea of the Sandman being this owl vulture like creature. A bird of prey stalking the night for victims.
I'd honestly like to see a live action remake of this. Like, a portrayal based completely on this animation. Berhaps something directed by Tim Burton (Only man brave enough to attempt the project, and has ties with Paul Berry).
Then you probably have never seen the 1953 cartoon version of the Tell-Tale Heart. After watching THAT (probably along with The Shining), even this cartoon is nothing but comedy and BS to me. That cartoon I just mentioned, and The Shining, I believe THOSE are the films that really exemplify what horror is SUPPOSED to be.
When I'm guessing is that he's testing the boy If he was really sleeping then all of this wouldn't bother him Think of it like a nighttime trial to see if you're actually out cold or just faking it to get him to back off.
My uncle made me, my cousins and my brother all watch this religiously back when were kids and we were always left both so scared but fascinated by what we had just witnessed… I’ve been obsessed with this short film ever since (also stop motion and beautiful+creepy stuff in general). It’s funny cause my brother was particularly little at the time so he used to refer to it as “La Yunga”, which was his attempt at pronouncing “la luna” (I guess that shot of the moon really had an impact on him), and it just made it sound even more eery
This is playing before screenings of the 2024 movie hectic over at the Vista Theatre in Los Angeles was amazing seeing this on the big screen for the first time! If anyone else in la sees this check it out while it’s still playing there
I am sure I watched this as a kid in the early 90s, (in my room on my 12 inch portable tv 🤣) It freaked me out. There was so often some really obscure stuff on late night tv in those days.
I saw this while staying over at a friend's house. Who had a similar spooky staircase. And we were up in the top floor, by a large window, and my friend had fallen asleep. I was 11 or 12. I did not sleep well that night.
@@RafflesTheMovieTravelGuyPuffs actually saw this short and contacted the studio and _asked_ for their commercial's characters to look like that. Its not quite as simple as 'same anim studio = same characters'. They're more than capable of differing designs. Original character sculpts would've been by Colin Batty or Paul Berry.
HOLY MOTHER OF HELL I’ve been wondering for YEARS if this was real or just a fever dream I had as a kid but nope……. Turns out it was a very….. VERY dark short 😟😱
I could also see him being voiced by Tony Jay, known for voicing Monsieur Darque in Beauty and the Beast and Judge Claude Frollo in Hunchback of Notre Dame
@@josiahpurtee1156 Yea, we lost him too early T.T I mean, sure, he was 73 when he passed, but, come on man, Disney helped bring him to a new audience that we felt like we we're just getting to know him. Not to mention other such great roles like Megabyte in Reboot, Dr. Lipschitz in Rugrats, Nigel St. John in New Adventures of Superman and more. And lest we forget his contribution to video games like Elder God in the Legacy of Kain series, the King in Armed and Dangerous, and the Director in Return to Castle Wolfenstein to name a few.
7:40 Sandman: “Gee, Patrick sure is a heavy sleeper.” Patrick: “Huh? Who said that?! Who’s there?!” 7:44 Patrick: “It's the Clam Burglar! And he's stealing my secret box! Hand over the goods, Secret Box Bandit, and prepare for the most unpleasant pillow fight of your life!”
The funny things was that I was finding for this pearl I watched in my childhood, and I couldn't find. Just it appeared randomly on RUclips one day....
I'm grateful i didn't see this as a kid. I mean I saw the mummy, arachnophobia, LOTR and men in black 1 so I still had something to make me scared of the dark.
@@HBIDamian you know whats really nice about remastering the sandman? In the scene when the Boy is in the bed, yiu can more clesrly see a broken wooden plank i think next to his bed, it flips up and it adds to the crooked household
For someone trying to be sneaky the sandman is awfully loud. Dude really slammed the front door when he was already in the house and wanted to tip toe up the stairs but purposefully linger on the creakiest step lol
I think he was doing that to purposely wake the kid up so they'll be awake and he can take their eyes, but your right, the man can be a bit more quite though, he's even disturbing the mom
So at the end Was all the children just a representation that the Sandman stole eyes from many children? Or was the mother(or guardian) an ally of the sandman who is responsible for obtaining children to provide eyes to give to the sandman?
I think that I saw this when I was like 6 or 7 years old... Love it ❤😂 I think that my love for everything Goth and all the Tim Burton stuff has to do with this
I really like how much of a trickster the Sandman is. The boy was playing on his drum making earlier. So I like to think THAT is why he starts scaring the kid by making noise.
Well goddamn, it has been actual decades since I've seen this! I think it was on MTV or something way back when? I'm glad it wasn't just some kind of dream. 😂
Il video si Ispira al racconto di E.T.A Hoffman: L'uomo della Sabbia ( The Sandman). Tratto dai Racconti Notturni. Il bambino in cui vengono strappati gli occhi, deve essere Natanaele. L'uomo delle Sabbia si chiama Copellius. Dove nel video appare, sotto forma di mostro. perché il protagonista Natanaele da piccolo, l'o immagina così.
The sandman is fable is Scandinavian in origin. He supposedly put sand in your eyes to bring on a goodnights sleep and pleasant dreams! In the morning the sleep in your eyes (rheum) was evidence the sandman had been.
"omul din luna"... "omul lunii"; o poveste de adormit copiii :) un OM... tot un OM... OMUL meu? si TU"tu"/ EL"el"? TU"tu"/ EL"el"? TU/ EL "masca"/ TU/ EL "umbra"/ TU/ EL "schinduf" Petrariu Aura (Izaura/ Isaura/ Issaura; IEDERA Hedera helix "I")
As a grown adult, I still can't watch this! 🤡 Can't believe this was shown to kids in class!!! I remember watching Shrek at school😅 This one I saw way back on MTV, for some reason. I think it was on an animation weekend.
You really get the feeling this mother or caretaker doesn’t really love this child, but she also came into possession of a house with very high market value in todays economy. Not only that, but she’s about to get checks in the mail for his disability. Winning.
I thought that short film about The Sandman was very scary when i watch it on youtube. The main reason for watching it was because i believe that short film was use for the ITV Schools programme Picture Box episode title The Sandman back in September 1992 , Did Childsplay Productions use that short film for Picture Box ?
I am so glad I didn't see this as a kid. I would have been an insomniac.
I think i was 11 or 12 when I watched it in English class. "How to tell a story without speaking"
The boy without eyes is nightmare fuel.
You'd have definitely ended like the boy in the film
@@jameswood1318 Exactly. Thank you, but no, thank you.
@@Psychiatry-q4n My mom did the same, left me alone as it played. Remembered it for over 18 years and have been looking for it on RUclips for 10 years.
So sad the creator passed away this is one of my all time favorite stop motion shorts.
May he rest in oeace
who?
@@emiliopolanco8587 Paul Berry.
@@xXLunatikxXlul oh, right.
Why do you spoil all the work put into this movie by revealing the ending? Jerk.
This man woke the boy up TWICE. You broke your own rule dude. He was sleep!
I think he actively wanted to pluck his eye's, he was purposely baiting him awake
I think he was making sure that the boy was out like a light. I mean when you properly fall asleep nothing can wake you, unless it's a loud sound like crackling lighting or physical pain.
This was pure nightmares when I was a child, watching late night tv. I can remember the trauma inflicted
I envy you 😂
Glad I didn’t as a kid.
@@Stroivanproper tough guy you are eh?
@Bishop2flyy I just think it could be a very inspirational childhood trauma ...
Oh yeah, this one creeped me out properly back in the day.
Some more background info: The movie's plot is based off the 1816 short story "The Sandman" from E.T.A. Hoffmann, a German Romantic author & a pioneer within Gothic horror & fantasy literature (dark romanticism)*. He also wrote the novella "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" which Tschaikovsky used for his famous ballet. When Hoffmann was alive, the sandman was a popular bogeyman figure throughout Europe that parents used to scare their children into behaving. This character was far more sinister back then & only changed rather recently into a gentle entity who puts children to sleep with his dream sand.
*for more on the OG story see comment below
Thanks for it, nice to know about that Background and even about the short stories.
I am going to look for and read them!
Knowing this, the short deserved to be a movie, directed by Tim Burton
@@OrfeuBR4The short story is one of the best examples of modern fantastic and horror-literature, one of the first stories which paved the way for authors like Lovecraft, Stephen King and others.
@@Thekidloquendero9745I was just thinking the same thing
Me as a german love E T A Hoffmann. And "Der Sandmann" is his biggest masterpiece.
(Also love the nutcracker)☺️
ive been looking for this for decades tbh i had almost given up hope that this was real but here it is thank you
A fun fact: My english teacher in my old school put a 144p version on in school. Aparently it's one of her usual "Story Telling" lessons for that grade. I realised she could never find a higher res version. I upscaled a version I found online, and boosted the bass for, to make the sound hit the watcher, and feel the lowtones. 😅
Me too. Very good animation, highly affecting. I give it top marks for scariness.
YEEEES, my story exactly. 30+ years ago I watched it as a small kid. Never knew it was the sandman. Just distinctly remember the kid's eyes were plucked out and his hollow stare... Man some memories never go away.
Man, I'm really loving that Sandman design and movement. Creepy and intimidating in appearance, yet graceful and majestic in his movements.
I wouldn't be surprised if Paul Berry was hired to animate Jack in the Nightmare Before Christmas since he kind of does move with a bit of a slink like the Sandman here.
I believe he was in the animation department for it. Check his imdb imdb.com/name/nm0077651/
@@HBIDamian Right, I do know he was an animator for the film, but it doesn't really specify what characters or scenes in the film he animated. I wouldn't be surprised if some scenes of Jack were animated by Paul considering how he moves in similar ways to The Sandman
collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8415591/witch-character-puppet-the-nightmare-before-christmas-puppet implies he made the Witch character.
There are sources like disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Nightmare_Before_Christmas which state Paul Berry was the Animation Supervisor. But that's false, according to the credit sequence of the movie. The credit sequence is the same as imDb as far as I can tell. He may have had part in animating Jack, but I doubt it. I'd love to be proven wrong though
@@HBIDamianWell, from what I looked up. He wasn't Supervising the animation on Nightmare, but he was for James and the Giant Peach and Monkey Bone
Yeah that design is so sinister and mysterious. Plus I love the idea of the Sandman being this owl vulture like creature. A bird of prey stalking the night for victims.
The 90s really were the gold standard for everything animation.
This has more life to it than almost all modern cgi films
That reappearance @6:20 was smooth as f
Would make a cool jump scare entrance in live action a horror film
I'd honestly like to see a live action remake of this. Like, a portrayal based completely on this animation. Berhaps something directed by Tim Burton (Only man brave enough to attempt the project, and has ties with Paul Berry).
Nothing invokes more terror than stop motion puppets. All other scary movies are wasting their time.
Then you probably have never seen the 1953 cartoon version of the Tell-Tale Heart.
After watching THAT (probably along with The Shining), even this cartoon is nothing but comedy and BS to me.
That cartoon I just mentioned, and The Shining, I believe THOSE are the films that really exemplify what horror is SUPPOSED to be.
Especially the endoskeleton in the first Terminator movie
Stop motion has always creeped me out
@miss-astronomikal-mcmxcvii just watched Tell-Tale Heart and it has nothing on this hahah
Been saying this for years
The German Expressionism is strong with this one. Gorgeous, gorgeous.
in my era, we have Coraline. That traumatized me as a child. I can't imagine watching this as a kid 😭
Same animation studio, coincidentally. Well, close enough. The studio that grew out of Cosgrove Hall
No kidding
The sandman cheated, he woke that kid up
Finally someone said it
The kid never fell asleep, he was jist closing his eyes but he was tossing and turning
When I'm guessing is that he's testing the boy If he was really sleeping then all of this wouldn't bother him Think of it like a nighttime trial to see if you're actually out cold or just faking it to get him to back off.
He cheat😂 he makes a lot of noises 😂@@jacekrall5080
@@jacekrall5080 Well, he did a lot of noise. Too much for just "testing"
Now isn't that superb! One of my all time favs that sticks with you long after you've watched it.
So..... I'm never sleeping again. Cheers.
As a wise man once told me: Sleep is for the weak! 😂
Not sleeping is what got the boy eyes snatched out 😂
Stop motion forever!!! I love practical effects and stop motion is king of it.
My uncle made me, my cousins and my brother all watch this religiously back when were kids and we were always left both so scared but fascinated by what we had just witnessed… I’ve been obsessed with this short film ever since (also stop motion and beautiful+creepy stuff in general). It’s funny cause my brother was particularly little at the time so he used to refer to it as “La Yunga”, which was his attempt at pronouncing “la luna” (I guess that shot of the moon really had an impact on him), and it just made it sound even more eery
Me and my brother were obsessed with this back in the 90's and it still blows us away
This is playing before screenings of the 2024 movie hectic over at the Vista Theatre in Los Angeles was amazing seeing this on the big screen for the first time! If anyone else in la sees this check it out while it’s still playing there
Interesting that they play it to this day!
I saw in 91' and he's stay The most impressive short film I have ever seen. Thanks for the sharing
I love when he looks to the side, his face (the nose and chin) is in the shape of a crescent moon :000
I am sure I watched this as a kid in the early 90s, (in my room on my 12 inch portable tv 🤣) It freaked me out. There was so often some really obscure stuff on late night tv in those days.
Boy I remember watching this on liquid television. The ending has always left a terrifying impression on me.
I saw this while staying over at a friend's house. Who had a similar spooky staircase. And we were up in the top floor, by a large window, and my friend had fallen asleep. I was 11 or 12. I did not sleep well that night.
That reminds me of the characters from Puffs tissue commercial
Same animation company
@@bensanchez8121 Oh.
@@RafflesTheMovieTravelGuyPuffs actually saw this short and contacted the studio and _asked_ for their commercial's characters to look like that. Its not quite as simple as 'same anim studio = same characters'. They're more than capable of differing designs. Original character sculpts would've been by Colin Batty or Paul Berry.
I remember seeing this on tv when I was 5 and spent so many years trying to find it. Thank you for providing an end to the nightmare.
RIP Paul Berry
HOLY MOTHER OF HELL I’ve been wondering for YEARS if this was real or just a fever dream I had as a kid but nope……. Turns out it was a very….. VERY dark short 😟😱
If there was dialogue in this short film, the title character would be voiced by Tim Curry.
and narration by Vincent Price.
@@hbkx5 R.I.P. Vincent Price
I could also see him being voiced by Tony Jay, known for voicing Monsieur Darque in Beauty and the Beast and Judge Claude Frollo in Hunchback of Notre Dame
@@BlazeHeartPanther R.I.P. Tony Jay
@@josiahpurtee1156 Yea, we lost him too early T.T
I mean, sure, he was 73 when he passed, but, come on man, Disney helped bring him to a new audience that we felt like we we're just getting to know him. Not to mention other such great roles like Megabyte in Reboot, Dr. Lipschitz in Rugrats, Nigel St. John in New Adventures of Superman and more. And lest we forget his contribution to video games like Elder God in the Legacy of Kain series, the King in Armed and Dangerous, and the Director in Return to Castle Wolfenstein to name a few.
Average german bedtime story:
One of the happier endings…
The sandman is a good dad.
Always came back from the shops with a bottle of milk!
How sad they don't make films these days anymore with this kind of atmospheric lighting and soundtrack.
7:40 Sandman: “Gee, Patrick sure is a heavy sleeper.”
Patrick: “Huh? Who said that?! Who’s there?!”
7:44
Patrick: “It's the Clam Burglar! And he's stealing my secret box! Hand over the goods, Secret Box Bandit, and prepare for the most unpleasant pillow fight of your life!”
The funny things was that I was finding for this pearl I watched in my childhood, and I couldn't find.
Just it appeared randomly on RUclips one day....
Wow, this was absolutely fantastic.
So crazy i remember this as a kid 😮
I'm grateful i didn't see this as a kid. I mean I saw the mummy, arachnophobia, LOTR and men in black 1 so I still had something to make me scared of the dark.
omg, what an outstanding creepy show
His chin and nose making a moon crescent is interesting.
This feels like a Tim Burton's work
Not all that surprising considering by the early 90s, everyone wanted to be like Tim Burton.
Paul Berry was an animator on _The Nightmare Before Christmas_ .
Tim Burton and Paul Berry are very food friends. It was Burton who sought out Berry because he loved his animations.@@Daniele_Manno
Hermoso trabajo de Paul Berry
Great piece ! Thank you so much for sharing it and with such a quality.
Thank you so much for this
Its far from perfect, but its definitely an improvement 😅
@@HBIDamian what is that wrong with your version?
@@theavootar it sometimes is blury in some scenes. I didn't realise till when i released it.
@@HBIDamian i love him
@@HBIDamian you know whats really nice about remastering the sandman? In the scene when the Boy is in the bed, yiu can more clesrly see a broken wooden plank i think next to his bed, it flips up and it adds to the crooked household
Ok, so I was way too stoned to watch that. I’m not in for a good night.
Now I'm so curious to know if you had nightmares!
I swear I saw something to this on MTV back in the day, one of their animated shorts and creepy too
The Brothers Quay.
One of my favorite stopmotion shorts.
Perfect for a lovely Halloween evening.
Something similar to nightmare before Christmas as well but more darker too especially at the end
Paul Berry did work on Nightmare before Christmas.... so yeh. 😂
@HBIDamian that's right and James and the giant peach 🍑 as well
A nose in need deserves puffs indeed…
Holy crap you’re right…
what you mean exactly ?
Remastered! amazing, a cult classic.
Holy shart. I should not have watched this when I have early morning marching band tomorrow.
Dammit, Count Olaf. The depths you've sank!
For someone trying to be sneaky the sandman is awfully loud. Dude really slammed the front door when he was already in the house and wanted to tip toe up the stairs but purposefully linger on the creakiest step lol
I think he was doing that to purposely wake the kid up so they'll be awake and he can take their eyes, but your right, the man can be a bit more quite though, he's even disturbing the mom
@@dexdillion1650 the mom was like " What the @!#$ was that???" but then went back to her embroidery🤣
So at the end
Was all the children just a representation that the Sandman stole eyes from many children?
Or was the mother(or guardian) an ally of the sandman who is responsible for obtaining children to provide eyes to give to the sandman?
Shut up
I think that I saw this when I was like 6 or 7 years old... Love it ❤😂 I think that my love for everything Goth and all the Tim Burton stuff has to do with this
This short film is awesome 🤩
It's a 1000 times better than most of the current horror movies, a forgotten gem that must be more popular.
Thank you very much
I really like how much of a trickster the Sandman is. The boy was playing on his drum making earlier. So I like to think THAT is why he starts scaring the kid by making noise.
I saw this as a kid.. I was so scared, but yet it's my favorite short movie ❤
This was great. Animation wonderful. Are there more like this?
....gotta love a family man....
Arthur Rankin Jr.
Activision city theater
Well goddamn, it has been actual decades since I've seen this! I think it was on MTV or something way back when?
I'm glad it wasn't just some kind of dream. 😂
The 90s was a better time. A time to traumatize not just the children but the adults too. No one slept during that time
This movie: Good
Watching it while trying to fall asleep: Not so good...
Made at Cosgrove Hall Productions.
Maybe that’s the secret reason Danger Mouse has to wear an eyepatch… but that’s just a theory. 😉
Wicked. Genius work.
Thank you.
I said "Oh Mr Sandman. Bring me a Dream!". Not Nightmares!!!
Il video si Ispira al racconto di E.T.A Hoffman: L'uomo della Sabbia ( The Sandman). Tratto dai Racconti Notturni. Il bambino in cui vengono strappati gli occhi, deve essere Natanaele. L'uomo delle Sabbia si chiama Copellius. Dove nel video appare, sotto forma di mostro. perché il protagonista Natanaele da piccolo, l'o immagina così.
The sandman is fable is Scandinavian in origin. He supposedly put sand in your eyes to bring on a goodnights sleep and pleasant dreams! In the morning the sleep in your eyes (rheum) was evidence the sandman had been.
I see it for the first time now I will see it forever
The kid didnt refuse to sleep, the sandman woke him up 🤨🤨🤨
thanks for this, I saw it in Locomotion
8:17 For some reason, as creepy as the bird chicks are, I think they are also cute (in some weird way).
Vaguely get “Count Olaf” vibes from this guy.
damn Snow Miser really was high on crack
"omul din luna"... "omul lunii"; o poveste de adormit copiii :) un OM... tot un OM... OMUL meu? si TU"tu"/ EL"el"? TU"tu"/ EL"el"? TU/ EL "masca"/ TU/ EL "umbra"/ TU/ EL "schinduf" Petrariu Aura (Izaura/ Isaura/ Issaura; IEDERA Hedera helix "I")
Phenomenal short
Wow... FREAKY 😱
I LOVE IT!! 🤩
Why did I watched this when I was a child ? So traumatizing
My English teacher in my first year of high school (UK) showed the class the video in crisp 140p quality.
I loved the style of animation!
As a grown adult, I still can't watch this! 🤡 Can't believe this was shown to kids in class!!! I remember watching Shrek at school😅 This one I saw way back on MTV, for some reason. I think it was on an animation weekend.
the title animation reminds me of The Thing
Tripay
... ça a mal vieilli 😟
Mais hommage à Paul Berry, animateur hors-pair s'il en fut...😌
Wow
You really get the feeling this mother or caretaker doesn’t really love this child, but she also came into possession of a house with very high market value in todays economy. Not only that, but she’s about to get checks in the mail for his disability. Winning.
How was he disabled
it's Count Olaf!!! :0
Tim Burton would be proud 🥹
Exit light, enter night ahh film
Thanks it lovley
Is this inspired by the story of E.T.A. Hoffman?
That was intense That Kid Got Wrecked
I thought that short film about The Sandman was very scary when i watch it on youtube. The main reason for watching it was because i believe that short film was use for the ITV Schools programme Picture Box episode title The Sandman back in September 1992 , Did Childsplay Productions use that short film for Picture Box ?
Paul Berry died by grieve not knowing how to get back his eyes from the moon.
Damn! It's too close to bedtime to watch this! I'm rather glad my dog sleeps on the bed with me... I think that I need his protection.
قصة جميلة للاطفال ينامون رجل القمر لايذال يارجل وانت انت هو هو انت انت قناع ظل حلبة 0:29 ❤❤❤❤❤
How interesting…
I remember these kinds of animation when I was a kid but it looked much scarier than this
Morpheus Sandman honest reaction: Why do you take my place, Corinthian?
lo vi hace muchos años y me traume y muchooooo