If you have somehow not been on the internet at all for the last month, you may have missed the latest musical meme to take over the intertubes – the headscratchingly catchy “Pen Pineapple Apple Pen” music video by Piko-Taro, the alter-ego of Japanese professional comedian Kosaka Daimaoh.
We have spared you the countless Indonesian parodies of PPAP up until now, but this one from the Balikpapan Police force was too good not to share (1,800 people have already shared it).
What is brilliant about this parody is its subversion and critique of the PPAP trans-binary – rather than attempting to squeeze together the es cendol and the beer to make es cendol beer, the dancing police officer instead rejects the beer and chooses only the es cendol.
The same goes for the gorengan (fried stuff) and narkoba (drugs). Instead of pressing them together into narkoba goreng, he chooses only the gorengan, thus achieving a state on kenyang (fullness).
The video ends with several more police officers telling the audience to stop stop stop narkoba and then the police chief telling us to not consume drugs or alcohol because they will destroy your health and are expensive. Instead, he advises eating es cendol and gorengan.
Some people might argue that videos like this could actually drive the public to try more drugs and alcohol, but we found it’s message very persuasive and you can be assured that the next time somebody asks us to choose between crispy fried gorengan or crystal meth, we will make the right choice.
