Awesome Videos

This highlight reel by Table Tennis Daily is a must watch even if you’re not a fan of ping pong. It has all kinds of shots – falling down, behind the back, no look – plus a wicked, never say die return.

(NSFW: Language) While you might be able to pull one off playing Shaun White Snowboarding, we’re much more impressed by snowboarder Billy Morgan’s real world Triple Heelside Rodeo flip.

Google looks back at the year’s most popular searches, which – by virtue of the company’s ubiquity – might as well be the year’s biggest issues. Song is Sooner or Later by Mat Kearney.

Jim Frommeyer and Teague Chrystie celebrate the Holidays with a nod to the hilarious eccentric snowmen that Calvin likes to build. Also as far as we know Bill Watterson is still very much alive.

In case you didn’t get enough chuckles from the first episode, get those chips away from her and check out the equally funny second episode of Kyle Humphrey & Graydon Sheppard’s Sh*t Girls Say.

(NSFW: Language) Add this to the list of sh*t girls say: “Notice anything different about me?” And then the guessing game begins. Ladies, forgive us for not being private investigators.

These mountain bikers take a ride on a narrow path alongside cliffs which looks insanely dangerous. It’s so tight, we’re amazed that the handlebars fit alongside the rock formations.

Fans of Terry Gilliam will appreciate the director’s warped sensibilities in this animation done using his trademark collage animation style all the way back in 1968. He’s brought joy to the world, indeed.

If you’ve ever been addicted to any form of entertainment, you’ll identify with this scene from season 2 of Portlandia. Yet another reason to watch the show. So what’s your Battlestar Galactica?

Videogum’s compilation of the best viral videos of 2011. There’s 80 of them crammed in here, from the Dark Side baby to Chuck Testa. Watch the 2010 compilation and decide which year was funnier.

Hannah Hart dips into the egg nog (and rum) to fix us all a delicious gingerbread house. If we were gingerbread men, we’re thinking we wouldn’t want her to architect our homestead.

The first feline nanny we saw was really patient and tolerant, but Stewie the cat takes a more active role – he uses his mystical cat powers on a crying baby to put the young one to sleep.

The music video for Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), a song about wanting to escape from the stale urban landscape and the stagnant cycle of life within it. Interactive version here.

This mesmerizing ad for BBC One plays clips of beautiful wildlife and breathtaking scenes of nature while naturalist David Attenborough narrates the lyrics to What a Wonderful World.

Anna and Arkadiusz Szafraniec, the Glass Duo made Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies all the more dreamy with this impressive glass harp rendition.

Never had one lesson: 59-year-old Brenda Hewlett celebrated her personal holiday on ice by making a 114′ puck shot during halftime at her local hockey team’s game to win a brand new 2012 Ford F-150.

We’ve seen some impressive Xmas light displays over the years, but this installation takes the cake, with 56,100 LEDs, controlled bye a custom-built computer. It’s like Vegas, only in the suburbs.

I am Stealth Cat. I am invisible. You cannot see me. You cannot – okay you can see me. Never mind, I shall now make my escape and vanish right before your eyes. Now you see me, now you don-

The EpicMealTime guys fix a very special Xmas tree, with enough bacon to clog every artery this side of the North Pole. We’re surprised they found branches thick enough to hold cheeseburgers.

This kid has a loose tooth and it’s time for it to go. But he’s not gonna let Dad yank it for him. Nope. He’s tied it up to a Nerf Big Bow, and lets it do the work. Not recommended for impacted molars.

It’s Fruit Ninja gone universal and existential in the music video for Pelican, the single from British indie rockers The Maccabees’ upcoming second album Given to the Wild. Making-of video here.

Who do you think is going to win this fight? The experienced man with the sharpened blade, or the young Ninja woman with the rope? Of course, a gun would be even more effective.

It’s incredible enough that this daring pilot lands his Chinook CH-47 copter right in the middle of the sea without crashing, but you must stick around all the way to the end to see why he did it.