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Jimmy Fallon and Rashida Jones Sing Holiday Parodies of Popular Songs on ‘The Tonight Show’
On a recent episode of The Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon and Rashida Jones performed a medley of holiday parodies of popular songs. The lyrics of the…
The Theme Song From ‘Too Many Cooks’ Played Solo on a Looping Cello
Microsoft employee and Seattle podcast producer David Chen (previously) takes on the strangely catchy theme song of the Adult Swim sitcom parody “Too Many Cooks”…
New ‘Better Call Saul’ Teaser Trailers Feature Saul Abruptly Meeting Mike Ehrmantraut & Shredding Important Documents
AMC recently released two new teaser trailers for their highly anticipated Breaking Bad prequel, Better Call Saul (previously). They feature Saul Goodman abruptly meeting Mike…
Australian Bat Rescue Clinic Demonstrates How to Swaddle Baby Bats So That They Look Like Burritos
Trish Wimberley, the Director of The Australian Bat Clinic and Wildlife Trauma Centre (previously) in South East Queensland, demonstrates how to swaddle infant flying foxes,…
‘This Is My Product’, A Brilliant Mashup That Uses Clips From ‘Breaking Bad’ Episodes to Create a Catchy Song
Video editor Matthijs Vlot has created “This Is My Product” a brilliant mashup that uses clips from the unrivaled AMC series Breaking Bad to create…
LEGO Stop-Motion Animated Re-Creation of the ‘Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens’ Teaser Trailer
A LEGO enthusiast who goes by the name Snooperking spent the better part of the day recreating a shot-for-shot stop-motion LEGO animation of the newly-released…
A Compilation of Four Incredibly Surreal Animations Created by Cyriak Harris for Adult Swim in 2014
Multimedia artist Cyriak Harris, whose many wonderfully surreal projects we’ve written about previously, has compiled together four of the bumpers that he created for Adult…
‘Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl’, Haunting Drone Footage of a City Evacuated After the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
While working on an episode of the CBS television news show 60 Minutes in the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine, filmmaker Danny Cooke captured drone…
‘The Human Show’, A Dark and Bizarre Parody of ‘The Muppet Show’ With Human Corpses as the Puppets
“The Human Show” is a dark and bizarre parody of The Muppet Show by Sethward in which human corpses are the puppets being controlled by Kermit,…
‘Happy Birthday to My Loose Acquaintance’, A Song by Garfunkel and Oates About Birthday Messages on Facebook Walls
“Happy Birthday to My Loose Acquaintance” is a song by the musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates (previously) about leaving birthday messages on the Facebook walls…