Awesome Funny Stuff

One of the more entertaining engineering projects we’ve seen is that useless robot that un-flips its switches as soon as they’re flipped. Maker B created a similarly useless machine by fabricating a robotic joystick that records and plays back its user’s movements. The build process is impressive, but if you’re short on time, skip to 16:08 to see it in action.

Quiet Nerd wanted to know if a squirrel running in a wheel could generate enough electricity to charge a phone. He built his squirrel-sized wheel using a baking pan and a stepper motor to recharge a battery pack. Once he placed it in the woods, all kinds of animals checked it out, but did they generate enough energy? We bet a hamster would be more effective.

Song lyrics often refer to locations, but they rarely are specific and sometimes inaccurate. Jam2Go thought he’d nail down the exact places in songs, starting with the guy in the Plain White T’s Hey There Delilah, who mentions he’s 1000 miles away from Delilah. Then he travels to Ocean Avenue, Africa, Over the Rainbow, and Country Roads.

How Ridiculous has chopped things with a giant axe and slapped them with a killer fly swatter. Now, they’ve assembled the world’s largest blender. The giant appliance has a terrifying set of serrated blades that spin and kick objects against its polycarbonate walls. Among its victims were a surfboard, 10,000 golf balls, and some normal-size blenders.

If Bob Ross and Dr. Zoidberg had a kid, it might look something like this Cthulhu Chia Pet. H.P. Lovecraft’s creepy creature is ready to drive you insane with its beady eyes and tentacled face. Simply coat its head with the chia seeds, and in two weeks or less, your nightmares will come true.

We thought the Teletubbies were pretty weird to begin with. Thanks to Adam from North of the Border, these kids’ show characters are now downright creepy. His nightmare-fuel “Terrortubby” versions of Dipsy, Laa-Laa, Po, and Tinky-Winky look like they just stepped from the gates of hell to steal your children.

Get your groove on in the kitchen while you scrub pots and pans with Fred’s playful cassette tape dish sponges. The set includes four 3″ x 4.5″ sponges packaged in a cardboard boombox. Crank up your favorite retro playlist while doing your dishes with these.

There’s nothing inherently dangerous about playing a tuba. Sure, you might run out of breath, but that’s about it. YouTuber and maker MasterMilo has created the most dangerous brass instrument we’ve ever seen. His flamethrower tuba is powered by a chainsaw engine and spews a stream of flaming propane out of its bell.

(PG-13: Language) Dustin Ballard of There I Ruined It says he’s been hearing music in everything these days. For example, Samuel L. Jackson’s wrathful rants in Pulp Fiction provide the perfect opportunity for Jules to break into song. Honestly, we’d pay good money to see a Quentin Tarantino Broadway musical.

The David Bowie and Queen track Under Pressure is one of the greatest rock collaborations ever. But in the hands of There I Ruined It, it’s just a bunch of random noises, gobbledygook, and mumbo jumbo. He did something similarly silly with Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal.

The electromechanical band known as Device Orchestra returns with another fun cover song. They used just three instruments to replicate the AC/DC track Thunderstruck. This time, the electric toothbrushes and credit card terminal are running on battery power, so they really should just be called DC.

(PG-13: Language) Honest Ads roasts the universe of live video streamers on services like Twitch. The idea of paying money (real or virtual) to watch someone else play video games in their parent’s basement never really made sense to us, either.

The airport battle in Captain America: Civil War is one of the movie’s best scenes. Do you know what would make the fight even better? A dose of Heisenberg. Editor TortillaDelta13 did a bang-up job adding Walter White’s alter ego, turning Peter Parker into a meth-cooking Jesse Spider-Pinkman, and using pizza as a weapon.

Logos are a big part of companies’ identities, and brands often merge. Brendy Boy played around in Adobe Illustrator to see what might happen if competing brands combined their logos. He started out with McDonald’s + Burger King, then tried combining YouTube + Twitch, Coca-Cola + Pepsi, and Starbucks + Dunkin Donuts.

Gwen Stefani’s music couldn’t be the furthest thing from metal. So we had no idea what to expect when Finland’s Moonic Productions posted a cover version of Hollaback Girl in the style of System of a Down’s Toxicity. All we can say is this sh*t is bananas.

Adam from North of the Border apparently got confused and got the names of two of Marvel’s superheroes backward. His Man-Ant and Man-Spider sculptures are two of his most disturbing creations to date, making the insects the hosts with human genetics taking over their bodies. It’s the human skin that really creeps us out.

Eric Carr of EMC Productions is no stranger to doing weird things with drums. This time, he set up a ridiculously complicated drum kit where snares and toms represent letters of the alphabet, the bass is the space, smaller drums are numbers, and cymbals provide punctuation. It’s not the quickest way to type, but it’s certainly the most rhythmic.

The guys from Grind Hard Plumbing Co. have made some crazy custom vehicles, including a tricked out Barbie Power Wheels Jeep. Now they’ve equipped a shopping cart with a 125 hp motorcycle engine and dual powered rear axles. After an initial failure, they went back to the drawing board to improve its reliability. Driving footage starts around 32:30.

Nature can be weird, wonderful, and at times, gross. Ze Frank teaches us much more about elephants than the “has big ears and a trunk, likes peanuts, hates mice” education we had before. Along the way, you’ll learn why their skin looks so scaly, how they communicate with their feet, and how many pounds they can lift with their trunks.

The guys from How Ridiculous are always thinking of new ways to break stuff. Their latest method: drop stuff from a 150-foot tall tower and a crane onto sharpened metal spikes. After a few misses, they managed to poke holes in a steel and concrete safe and a junkyard convertible.

What starts as an ordinary day in the city quickly descends into pandemonium when a gigantic wiener dog appears and starts crushing, crumbling, and chomping his way through the streets. Does the big dog with the stubby legs mean harm, or does he just want some snacks? Crusoe the Dachshund stars in this silly send-up of monster B-movies.

Gav and Dan, aka The Slow Mo Guys, wanted to see how G-forces affect a human face. Since they didn’t have a fighter jet or a centrifuge lying around, they did the next best thing. Dan jumped on a trampoline while holding a pricey high-speed camera. The expressions on Dan’s face in mid-flight are priceless.

The guys at Garage 54 seem to have an infinite supply of junker Ladas lying around their workshop. In this video, they took one of the notoriously bad Russian compact cars and cut away half of its body and chassis. By keeping the engine, transmission, driveshaft, axles, and exhaust system in place, it’s still fully driveable.