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## Melissa Locker


Oct 20, 2014 8:17 PM UTC

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## Melissa Locker


Oct 20, 2014 8:17 PM UTC

Marcel the Shell has put his shoes back on and marched on over to YouTube to take the Internet by storm — again.

The adorable mollusk is the brainchild of comedian Jenny Slate, who [tweeted](https://twitter.com/jennyslate/status/524213435257851904) about the surprise third installment of his YouTube series this morning.

In the video, Slate’s earnest little shell with shoes is joined by her husband, Dean Fleischer-Camp, who plays Marcel’s exceedingly patient off-camera interviewer. Fleischer-Camp keeps the camera rolling as Marcel talks about how shrimp “are the idiots of the sea,” explains that his “shell gets tight” when he gets worked up, sings a sweetly sad song and announces his favorite saying, which is, of course, “life’s a party, rock your body.”

It’s Marcel’s first video since 2011 and it seems that the happy little univalve was brought out of retirement to help promote his latest children’s book, [_Marcel the Shell: The Most Surprised I’ve Ever Been_](http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781595144560-0).

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