--- description: Comedy on the half shell. title: Marcel the Shell (With Shoes On) Is Back image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d49b42d89273b8c/698761def887dc95b9e87a12/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Marcel the Shell (With Shoes On) Is Back by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 20, 2014 8:17 PM CUT  by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 20, 2014 8:17 PM CUT 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 "undefined") 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 "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3525399/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on-new-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3525399/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on-new-video/"},"headline":"Marcel the Shell (With Shoes On) Is Back","datePublished":"2014-10-20T20:17:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:55.471Z","description":"Comedy on the half shell.","url":"https://time.com/3525399/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on-new-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Comedy","viral","Videos","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d49b42d89273b8c/698761def887dc95b9e87a12/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d49b42d89273b8c/698761def887dc95b9e87a12/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3525399/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on-new-video/","name":"Marcel the Shell (With Shoes On) Is Back"}}]}] ```