Web Video / Bosnian Ape Society

"Mailboxes are unpredictable. They are a public enemy and menace to society."

"Every time you click that suspicious link, you are exposing yourself to the dangers of a main battle tank shooting your computer and killing it."

—How to Protect Your Computer from Getting Shot by an MBT

Aka "that Surreal Humor YouTube channel that involves improbable uses of military hardware."

Bosnian Ape Society is a YouTube channel focused mainly on Surreal Humor. While there are a few videos involving live-action footage, most of the channel's content involves rendered CGI, and mostly (and most famously) involves the use of military hardware in incredibly improbable situations for equally improbable purposes.

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Bosnian Ape Society provides examples of:

• Attack of the Killer Whatever: Several of the videos warn viewers about sentient and evil main battle tanks, aircraft and mailboxes who will shoot their computer and steal their bicycle when they least expect it.
• Awesome, but Impractical: There are a few drawbacks and practical limitations to mounting a massive CIWS gatling gun turret on your car, like being unable to drive it under bridges or to park it in your garage.
• Bait-and-Switch Comment: The narrator of "Can a Modern Main Battle Tank Defend Against a Baguette?" comes up with the solution of shooting a tank with a HESH explosive but admits few people would have that just lying around. So then he instructs the viewer to build one with the components they do have lying around and use a baguette as an improvised shell before shooting it out of a cannon they happen to have in their basement.
• Behind the Black: "Is Your Car Safe From Supermaneuverable Air-Defense Fighter Aircraft?" begins with driving lessons about how to navigate a roundabout, after which the narrator reveals there was a predatory aircraft observing the situation just off-screen the whole time.
• Comically Missing the Point: Turning a shopping cart into a turret with anti-rocket measures unfortunately makes it impractical for manual propulsion, so the obvious solution is to jam an engine into it.
• The Comically Serious: The Synthetic Voice Actor narrators in the videos never drop their serious attitude no matter what kind of nonsense is being described.
• Death Glare: "Uh, Pass the Remote Please" involves a Sphere watching the English Channel when a Cone asks for the remote and transforms the UK into a second France. The video ends with the Sphere slowly turning towards the cone while shifted into an expression of rage.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In British Person Simulator a butter knife is considered an unregistered weapon of mass destruction. Picking it up is a capital offense, plus a twenty pound sterling fine.
• Eldritch Abomination: Played for laughs with the Computer Toucher and The Shredded Cheese Man, though one is much more genuinely threatening than the other. The Computer Toucher literally just touches your computers and leaves, explicitly stating that he won't touch anything else or alter the computer in any way. The Shredded Cheese man, however, will tempt potential victims into their refrigerators with the promise of giving them shredded cheese and then traps them in what looks like The Backrooms when he succeeds... And also commits tax fraud if you look away from the refrigerator.
• Epic Fail: A bike equipped with state-of-the-art surveillance devices is just snatched away by a van. A heavily armed shopping cart causes the owner to be fined before it can even be tested against arsonist attacks. A baguette HESH bomb does not stick to a Leclerc tank no matter how French it is.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: "Normal water" is a view of a lake. Nothing unusual happens because the water is normal.
• Gone Horribly Right: "How to Defend Against Home Invasion Using Sweet Baby Ray's" ends with the viewer eradicating an invasion of evil beans by transforming into a living beam of nuclear hellfire.
• No Kill like Overkill: Considering the channel's habit of involving military hardware in mundane situations, this is inevitable. The Tennison Gambit Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Variation in particular involves using a intercontinental ballistic missile to win a chess game.
• No-Sell: "Can a Modern Main Battle Tank Defend Against a Baguette?" Why yes, it doesn't even need to.
• Non-Indicative Name: Nothing in the channel's content is connected to Bosnia or apes in any meaningful fashion.
• Nothing Is Scarier:
  • A few videos on the channel simply show a peaceful real-life landscape with no people for a few minutes, but "You are in a field" is given a ominous description:
    "You are in a field somewhere. You hear the sounds. They are here."
  • "The Computer Toucher" is a declaration by an unseen entity who'll visit you in order to do just that, with vague threats that both you and him will "scream" if you dare look at him or interfere with him in any way.
• Orwellian Retcon: Several videos in the channel were either deleted or replaced with a revised version. The "Enzo Ferrari’s Who Asked Radar" video originally ended with the narrator triumphantly describing how the radar can help the viewer win any discussion. It was replaced with a version where the voice of Henry Ford hijacks the narrator to proclaim that "nobody asked", and then this version of the story was deleted from the channel as well.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: "The Shredded Cheese Man" has the protagonist live in hiding to avoid the Shredded Cheese Man, hopping from one location to another so as not to be found. However they begin to enjoy the freedom and independence this life grants them and seek to lure other people into this life by using the Shredded Cheese Man's methods. The video ends with "you are now the Shredded Cheese Man"
• Shout-Out: "How to Prevent Bike Theft Using Electronic Warfare Countermeasures" mentions modern bicycle thieves won't just lockpick your bike while mumbling "click out of one, click out of two...", in reference to Lock Picking Lawyer.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Part of the series' humor comes from the very technical language used to describe comical situations in a serious way, with a few sarcastic comments tossed in at times.
  "Most modern iterations of long-rod APFSDS rounds use a kinetic energy penetrator rod made of depleted uranium and can penetrate over seven hundred milimeters of rolled homogeneous armor, or even tandem-charge anti-tank guided missiles, which detonate in two stages and can penetrate more than one thousand. Almost enough to get something through your thick skull."
• Super-Persistent Predator: The Shredded Cheese Man chases its target everywhere while driving a really sick 1988 Nissan 2000 Skyline GTS-R.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Many of the videos instruct the viewer to defend themselves against something with nonsensical combinations of military hardware. The usual punchline is the contraption failing spectacularly, if the viewer doesn't get arrested first for even attempting to use it.
• Surreal Horror: Mailboxes are alive and conspiring against mankind. An entity perceived as a stone bust of Sigmund Freud comes out of fridges to possess people. And worst of all, somebody is coming to touch your computer and there's nothing you can do to prevent it.
• Surreal Humor: Most of the channel's videos revolve around this.
• The Virus: The Shredded Cheese Man will hunt his prey across the world. All avoiding him for long enough does is make the target so unearthly that before they realize it they've become another Shredded Cheese Man with the ability to assimilate others as well.
• Unsportsmanlike Gloating: "We are going to piss on the moon" devolves from a documentary about how a heavily armed container of urine being sent onto the Moon is a great achievement for mankind to the narrator distancing themself from the commonfolk and repeatedly bragging about how they and only they have pissed on the moon while you can merely and impotently piss in your pants.