Awesome Funny Stuff

EA is one of the world’s worst culprits when it comes to forcing microtransactions on gamers. Vivi the Dragon satirizes this player-unfriendly practice by imagining how bad a game like Super Mario Bros. would be if you constantly had to pay to play. Seriously, can we just go back to paying for our games once?

Whether you live in New York City or have visited, you know that for as much as the city seems simple to navigate, it can also be confusing. In this amusing SNL animated short, two explorers (Bowen Yang, Michael Longfellow) lay the haphazard groundwork for Manhattan’s master plan.

“Weird Al” Yankovic’s popularity has outlasted most of the musicians he’s parodied over the decades, and that’s pretty awesome. YouTuber boogiehead compiled this fun 6-minute reel that plays excerpts from the songs that Al parodied, followed by his novelty versions. We forgot all about Bedrock Anthem.

Severance season two is over now, and we have to wait at least a year to find out what happens next to our favorite Innies. In the meantime, enjoy this remake of the show’s opening credits, in the style of Parks and Recreation courtesy of editor Inherent Mediocre. It makes you wonder if Ben Wyatt is just an alternate consciousness of Mark Scout.

There’s that episode of Rick and Morty where Rick builds a robot whose sole purpose is to pass the butter. The gang from HTXStudio also built a robot with a simple primary objective – to shoot pieces of gum into a person’s mouth. While the idea behind Gummy the gum-launching robot is silly, it’s an impressive bit of engineering with excellent aim.

The internet and social media have been overrun with ads for non-existent and misrepresented products, and the advent of AI image generation has made things so much worse. YouTuber and scambuster Sambucha took one for the team and spent his hard-earned money to order some of these products to see exactly what you get when you order them.

After seeing artist Anh Dang’s wonderfully fun illustrations of a Playstation + crustacean hybrid, GingerOfOz was inspired to build a real-world version. He started with a cheap PSone he picked up on eBay, modified its circuit boards, and designed, printed, and assembled all its crabby bits. We love the Playstacean’s completely impractical pincer joysticks.

Most of the foods we eat come from grocery stores or restaurants, and we know they’re safe to eat. The poopie show explores eight forbidden foods that may not kill you, but that you probably should still avoid. Other than banana peels, don’t try eating any of the things in this video, especially not a beehive full of bees.

Inspired by footage of a futuristic garbage can from 2017, Blytical became obsessed with replicating its design. What makes his can special is its proximity sensor which triggers a mechanical iris just in time for tossed trash to land in its receptacle. Someone needs to put this idea into production.

This short Star Wars fan film from Jon Rist and Ian Buchan adds a new story about an underutilized but beloved character – the Gonk droid. As a battle plays out between Jedi and Sith, the droid makes a move that could change everything. Filmed entirely with practical effects, miniatures, and puppets, and no CGI. This isn’t canon, but it should be.

What does it take to make a “monster truck” other than a ridiculously lifted chassis an disproportionately-large tires? MuYe shows off a truck that meets those criteria, despite being smaller than a golf cart. After his pal Kenny Paton built a vehicle based on the Ibishu Pigeon from BeamNG.drive, he took it one step further and converted it into a tiny monster truck.

Mysterious and surreal TV series like Severance, Devs, and Maniac sometimes lead us down endlessly weird rabbit holes. Comedian Alasdair Beckett-King pokes fun at such convoluted storylines that may or may not lead anywhere and may never answer our questions. We’re looking at you, J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof.

Over the years, there have been plenty of fun hacks involving Big Mouth Billy Bass. gptars rigged up his animatronic fish to converse using OpenAI’s ChatGPT large language model. His talking bass can listen and respond quickly, and does it using a snarky attitude and voice inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

There I Ruined It cruises into port with more musical mayhem. This hilarious creation imagines what Titanic’s My Heart Will Go On would sound like if it was recorded by Blink-182 instead of Celine Dion. By some miracle, the emotional love theme also works as a pop-punk track. Perhaps it’s because they were both wildly popular in the late 1990s.

With so many companies making people return to their offices, Matty from Unnecessary Inventions figured they could use something to make things more entertaining. So he got to work rigging up a couple of desk chairs on a beam so two people can pretend they’re on a playground. But his version of the see-saw is better than most because it also spins.

Inspired by local newscasts from the 1990s, Andrew Ball created his own amusing version of the hyperbolic news programs. Ball portrays all the characters, embellishing the newscast with retro graphics and old-school commercial breaks. If you don’t pay attention to the ridiculous stories (and wigs), you might mistake it for an actual broadcast.