Awesome Videos

(PG-13: Language) “I’m sure you’ve been slapped before…” Steven Ho doesn’t think highly of his padawan’s foundations, so he decided to teach Conan O’Brien a couple of basic moves. Conan seems to think they’re more Basic Instinct.

Adam Ruins Everything washes out a seemingly harmless piece of advice: drinking 2L or eight glasses of water a day. It turns out no study has conclusively proven that standard. So why are we often told to stay hydrated? Because money.

Jonathan Bird’s Blue World shares footage of one of nature’s odd relationships – as a hermit crab helps move a pair of anemones from her old shell to a bigger one. The anemones offer the crab protection, and the crab offers food to the anemones. (Thanks Paul!)

YouTuber kaptainkristian talks about the collaborative effort that led to the creation of Warner Bros.’ enduring cartoon character. Then he points out why Bugs and his cartoons remain a treat to watch after all these years, before (unnecessarily) trash talking Mickey Mouse.

(PG-13) Profound, painful, pathetic. The cycle of an adult relationship distilled in five minutes. François Jaros’ quintessential male rom com will save you a dozen trips to the movie theater.

Colin Furze promotes Deus Ex: Mankind Divided by making a gauntlet armed with a retractable rocket launcher, a knife thrower and a taser. Your arm never asked for that, Colin. Watch the making-of here and here.

Laika and the cast of Kubo and the Two Strings talk about the painstaking work that was done to make the stop motion world come alive, from piecing together a boat of out tiny pieces to making custom rigs to simulate an ocean.

The always compelling CGP Grey looks at the behaviors underlying traffic patterns, such as city gridlock and highway traffic jams. He provides some simple things we can do to reduce the problem, but his ultimate fix would require a far more dramatic change.

Puzzle fanatic Tony Fisher shows off a unique 1x5x5 Rubik’s Cube which should theoretically not function in a single layer. While many thought it was an April Fools’ prank, it really does work – it just turns out that the secret is painfully obvious.

After becoming the first woman to beat American Ninja Warrior‘s Los Angeles qualifier, stuntwoman Jessie Graff made history once again as the first female contestant to complete the first stage of the National finals. Mirror here.

YouTuber Aldo Jones works his VFX magic on the Justice League trailer. He turns Bruce Wayne into Santa, gives Wonder Woman a Melisandre moment and shows us how much fun it would be if the movie had Plastic Man in it.

Beat maker Crank Lucas has an ongoing parody series about trends in hip hop across the decades, from its inception in the ’80s until today. Watch his funny take on rap songs that involve drugs. It’s okay though, we gon’ be alright.

Motorcyclist Chris Ganley was in a horrific crash, resulting in the loss of his left hand and arm. But his determination drove him to get back on his steel horse, and Chris hopes to one day race the deadly Isle of Man TT. A brilliantly edited documentary by The Roos Brothers.

Now You See It compiled this short, but well done video of moments in film where the characters’ experience was less about what they saw or heard, and mostly about what they physically felt. The track is you n’i by rainlord.

We’ve seen artist Kay Pike cover herself in some amazing comic style body paint before, and her latest creation is as impressive as ever. Watch as she transforms herself into DC Comics’ speedy hero, Flash. The finished still images are especially impressive.

“Fury! What does he really know, and is “Fury” his real name?” Get a taste of Taika Waititi’s (What we Do in the Shadows) take on Thor in this short mockumentary, which shows what the god of thunder was doing while the rest of the Avengers were at each other’s throats.

The Leftovers star Margaret Qualley wilds out in director Spike Jonze’s fun ad for KENZO’s first perfume. Qualley’s moves were choreographed by Ryan Heffington, who was also behind the music video for Sia’s Chandelier. The song is Mutant Brain by Ape Drums and Sam Spiegel.

Costume maker Julian Checkley was awarded the Guinness World Record for having the most functional gadgets on a costume. He didn’t make the Arkham Origins-inspired Batsuit, but he did make the gadgets, which include a Bat-tracker, a grapnel gun, and a flashbang.

For his new Tonight Show segment First Drafts of Rock, Jimmy Fallon is joined by Kevin Bacon to sing what were the original lyrics to Tom Petty’s 1989 hit Free Fallin’, a song about a girl who really, really, really, really, loves horses.

(PG-13 Language) “It was made specifically to correct mistakes, right?.. but all it does is make them.” GradeAUnderA’s latest rant is a hilarious slam on autocorrect and the trouble it can get you into, but he doesn’t just bitch about it – he actually provides a solution to the problem.

Regular Car Reviews takes us on a ride inside the cockpit of a replica of the Knight Industries Two Thousand, the car driven in the ’80s classic Knight Rider. Pretty much everything about the modded 1982 Pontiac Trans Am is impractical, but we still love it. Full review here.

Magician Mac King opted not to do his mesmerizing rope trick to try and fool fellow Las Vegas vets Penn & Teller. Instead, he went fishing on stage. Now that’s a proud and natural entertainer.

Erasmus Brosdau and his friends have been working on this Warhammer 40k fan film for about 6 years, and the end is nearly in sight. This is the first 8 minutes of the short, introducing us to the cyber-gothic world and its main character, a young and cocky Inquisitor.