Awesome Videos

The Fine Brothers hand a bunch of today’s kids the 1985 storytelling bear Teddy Ruxpin. We love how some kids think he’s weird and creepy too. Our favorite quote: “Is this from Five Nights at Freddy’s?” Also, kids have no attention span.

Will and Robbie from At-Bristol show off a neat trick for science geeks. When you project a laser pointer through a droplet of water, it creates a microscope that can project tiny organisms onto your wall. (Thanks Ross!)

YouTuber Roman Atwood surprised his wife by turning their house’s living room into a knee deep giant ball pit, complete with a trampoline that he can bounce into from their second floor. Good luck finding the remote!

That’s not an air compressor. THIS is an air compressor. An Aussie with time on his hands shows what happens when you attempt to smoke a cigarette and drink a beer while getting smacked in the face by a powerful blast of air.

Officer Jeff Davis has been with the Dover Police Department for 19 years, but he made a rookie mistake. Perhaps forgetting that their cars have inward facing cameras, Jeff was caught enthusiastically lip syncing to Shake It Off.

“I’m an obsessed marathon runner and an out-of-work drummer. I’m not particularly good at either.” That’s how Brendan likes to describe himself as he gets in a little workout while he practices his percussive skills.

A lone astronaut is conducting research on another planet when he encounters a group of space ducks. Planètes Après Planètes (Planets After Planets) is a charming short film by animation student Titouan Bordeau.

IGN made this polished chronological enumeration of characters who became part of the X-Men, from the fab five to the increasingly varied and confusing kids of the 2000s. Then there’s… nah, that’s all of them.

It is unclear to us why the baseball fans are our favorites, but any way you slice it, this compilation of people running onto the field during sporting events and getting tackled is bound to be a crowd peaser. Pleaser. Geez.

Jimmy Fallon and Kevin Hart played slapjack at The Tonight Show. It’s like blackjack except the winner of each hand gets to slap the loser using a giant foam hand. They’re awful at the game, but Kevin’s nasty jokes saved the segment.

Key & Peele play inept commentators giving their take on the AFC and NFC championships. They will host Comedy Central’s Super Bowl comedy special later this month. They should do Shaq and Chuckster too.

Kenan Thompson, Kevin Hart, and Jay Pharoah spend an afternoon hanging out on a corner in Brooklyn to chat about what’s been happening on in their hood lately. Yo. It’s getting crazy out here.

It’s a question anyone who grew up in the ’70s or ’80s has asked. Could the Kool-Aid Man and his glass pitcher body actually bust through a brick wall? Vsauce3 host Jake Roper is here to answer this critical question once and for all.

Watch what happens when two super-strong neodymium magnets are let loose to smash into one another, causing an impressive amount of destruction. And this is why you never put your hand between one and a piece of metal.

Threatened with a fatal genetic disease, Hayden Peters turned to the ocean to be reminded that to be alive is to be vulnerable, and that it’s not about how much time you have left, but how alive you were in the time you’re given.

In this amusing promo spot for the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, famed adult star Ron Jeremy finds himself disappointed that the festival won’t consider such great films as The Rod Father and Woodfellas as entries.

Filmmakers John Downer Productions captured this awesome slow-motion underwater footage of dogs swimming, which not only shows how efficient their paddling and diving skills are, but is sure to bring a smile to your face.

Awe Me’s new series Epic How To starts off with a set of cynical instructions for those who seek fame and arbitrary recognition… thus rendering the very thing you covet meaningless. Uhm, who were those editors again?

Candide Thovex skis and somersaults his way down the slopes of Val Blanc, France in one of the best first-person videos we’ve ever seen. You don’t need music or flashy editing when you have someone this skilled at work.

The Local Europe shares a linguistic quirk in the northern Swedish town Umeå. The most common Swedish equivalent for “yes” is “ja”, but Umeå’s locals have a strange alternative for it. How do you even spell that?

A cab driver wakes up in a car wreck with the city in ruins. Before he has time to figure out what happened, zombies appear. Isolated is an intriguing and realistic computer animated short. We hope they finish the story.

Check out Clarkson, May, Hammond and the Top Gear set as CGI LEGO in this teaser for the show’s upcoming season. As with many things LEGO, the devil is in the details here. This has to become an official LEGO set.

In this excerpt from BBC One’s series Pets – Wild at Heart, a hamster is scanned with an X-ray machine while it’s stashing food in its pouches. It turns out those pockets actually extend up to its hips.