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Unless you’re familiar with the brand Humanic and unless you can understand the German title of this YouTube video, you might have a difficult time figuring out what this circa 1970 German commercial is about. One thing is for certain: it clearly provided some of the inspiration for Sprockets. Take your guesses as to what …
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The Old West has tumbleweeds. Scotland has trampolines. Enjoy your Dadaist moment of the day. Via The Daily What
In case you hadn’t heard, the always unconventional Community is in real danger of being canceled. Anyone who saw last week’s brilliant foosball episode knows such an act by NBC would be nothing short of criminal. Hopefully viewers will support the struggling sitcom, whose own problems echo the ones of the show’s fictional Greendale Community …
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Guys, it’s been about fifteen minutes since I posted something about “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” I know what you’re thinking: why the long wait? Luckily, I can put you out of your misery. Today comes yet another viral video featuring Mariah’s seminal holiday tune, and this time it’s a lip synched rendition …
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I feel like all I’ve been doing this week has been posting about “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Well, here goes once again. Two spritely hoofers have put together a dance to the aforementioned song that can best be described as infectious. It’s cute, sweet, fun, and really impressive. This is far better …
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Someone had the brilliant idea to have Santa Claus rappel down to his workshop from atop a mall in Florida. Things, as you can imagine, did not go smoothly. It was about time those kids learned the truth about Santa anyway. What’s sadder: the destroyed childhoods or watching Santa helplessly toil away? Via Geekologie
So this guy decided to make pancakes AND rap his own flow to the beat of “Look at Me Now” by Chris Brown. It’s shockingly impressive. Also, I’m jealous of his perfect pancakes (of which he’s clearly made many — I guess there were a lot of takes).
There’s something special about news bloopers. Maybe it’s the formal setting or the stakes of a live audience, but when things go wrong on a newscast, it’s kind of HI-larious. Thankfully, someone compiled all the notable news bloopers of 2011 into one handy video for all of us to watch again and again and again. …
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What happens when you put two old men on stage who hate each other? Fisticuffs, apparently. Check out this video of two former Canadian Football League rivals (billed as “legends”) getting into it after one rebuffs the other’s flower-laden gesture. Yes, there’s even cane swinging. Via D-Listed
Nickelback responds to NFL Petition from Nickelback Everyone hates Nickelback. That’s a given. But good on those bland-tastic rockers for taking a few lumps and laughing at themselves in the above Funny or Die video featuring Paul Scheer. Nice work all around. Still don’t like their music though (except for like TWO songs).
