Awesome Videos

We’re not talking the Nic Cage on fire type here, rather the invisible kind – driving this moped as it pulls a skater down the road. Or is the skater controlling the bike? – an equally impressive feat.

A monkey gets snatched from its native habitat to be sent on a mission into space. A charmingly animated CGI short with a clever twist, by Eric Villeneuve, Antoine Rouleau and Emmanuel Gatera.

You’re probably too busy trying to replicate that airborne bazooka kill to notice the details, but slow down for a couple of minutes and check out the sheer gorgeousness of BF3’s Frostbite engine.

Eclectic Method arms its beams and shines their blinding light on pop culture references to lasers in their latest musical megacut. Plus, it’s got a frickin’ good beat and you can dance to it. MP3 here.

Man’s best friend takes on man’s worst enemies the only way a canine knows how. No, not with his mighty incisors, silly. With his handgun. Or should it be called it a headgun? (Thanks, Ben!)

This episode from the game show What’s My Line aired in 1963, merely a decade after KFC was founded, thus the contestants’ ignorance about the Colonel. It’ll make you want to slap them silly.

Jeff Gurwood replicated the classic opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark using action figures. It’s not the smoothest stop motion clip we’ve seen, but the devil is in the details with this one.

(NSFW: Language) Egoraptor is like Ashton Kutcher on crank, but if you’re a gamer, this video is required viewing. TL;DW: Mega Man X is awesome because it doesn’t think we’re idiots. Also lemons.

The music sounds awfully familiar, and the CGI isn’t up to Avatar standards, but we’re still impressed with this concept trailer for Alex Popov’s sci-fi action flick, which he says cost just $150 to make.

Here’s what makes dogs awesome: with their infinite capacity to be surprised, to appreciate and to enjoy, they take great pleasure from the simplest of things. This video helped cure our holiday blues.

Sony’s newest gaming system will be released on 2/22/12. In case the Vita has flown under your radar, here’s a refresher on its capabilities. Be sure to save some money for its memory cards.

In tribute to The Shawshank Redemption, portrait artist Xiaonan Sun draws both Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins simultaneously, with both left and right hands. Sped up for time, it’s still impressive.

Kyle Humphrey & Graydon Sheppard have created an amusing montage here in the appropriately named clip Sh*t Girls Say. Who here among us hasn’t heard all this before? (Thanks everybody!)

Come on, it’s fun and only a minute long: check out this Bearded Dragon playing Ant Crusher; she, like all of us finely skilled gamers at TA, is definitely not happy when she loses. (Thanks Aric!)

FPSRussia does what he does best, with a recap some of his favorite moments of wanton destruction of fake zombies, watermelons and blow-up dolls(?), all gift-wrapped in one pretty package.

Unlike the one-hit killing machines in Skyrim, this bear is fond of people, and knows how to exchange greetings the human way. He’s one of two Kodiak bears at the Olympic Game Farm. More here.

Another clever viral video from Pedigree featuring a group of caroling dogs. Assuming it was done without audio trickery, we’re calling it awesome. Otherwise, happy barking holidays anyhow.

Freddie Wong proves that Master Chief can be a total a-hole in his latest vid. We’re pretty sure we’ve played with this guy on our team before. At least he doesn’t sticky Freddie with a plasma grenade.

After the success of the Halloween candy prank, Jimmy Kimmel once again asked parents to mess with their kids. The little ones were allowed to open their presents early, only to find crap inside.

Swedish pop star Robyn filled the Saturday Night Live stage with a passionate performance of her heartbreaking electro-dance single Dancing on My Own. Watch her other set here.

This clip from an episode of ShaftedWriters’ web series Missed Connection starts off innocent enough, but looks and “artsy” guys with large sketchpads can be very deceiving.

Kåre (“Zenta”) Halvorsen’s incredibly cool, equally creepy MorpHex robot starts out looking like a ball, but can sprout six legs and walk around whenever it feels like it. Fortunately, it has no weapons (yet.)

For 40+ years, Al Jaffee has written MAD’s Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions. Last year, the 90-year-old Jaffee did a live reading, and we have to say we plan on using some of these lines now.