Awesome Videos

“Sign up now and we’ll send you this handy pamphlet on embracing delusion and living a lie.” The latest episode of Fox Sports’ annual double-sided NFL burn craps on Vikings fans, Johnny Manziel and more with the help of the evergreen Betty White.

Drone flyer Bapu FPV shows off footage he captured during his flight through the crazy neon-tinged course at the XDC_2 race which was recently held at Zappos HQ in Las Vegas. Skip to 1:11, then stick around after the race to watch his drone take on a Mustang.

What do Adam Sandler, Pablo Escobar, and an electric fan have in common? They’ve all got shows on Netflix. The streaming video giant follows up its yule log with an hour-long video of, well, an oscillating fan. Yeah we watched it. So what.

(NSFW Language) People swear like truck drivers in today’s R-rated flicks. But there was a time when swearing in movies was considered so heinous that filmmakers could be slapped with huge fines. Movie Munchies walks us through the way we got from there to here.

Two siblings patiently wait for their parents, who had just won at the Golden Globes. Saturday Night Live found time for a Kyle Mooney skit this week, and it didn’t disappoint. Mom and Dad however, are another story.

In this series of all too short clips from Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s Anomalisa, we go inside some of the tricks of the trade the film’s animators used to bring their tiny stop-motion world to life. Now we want to see how they made every little detail.

YouTuber Grant Woolard performed and then arranged 57 classical pieces from 33 different composers. Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to have a nibble of caviar on blini while briséing on our way to pick up our doctorate in Serial Killing.

YouTuber Arman Minasian overlaid clips of a 2013 interview video with baritone-voiced basketball player Gerald Wallace, resulting in a sound that’s somewhere between a didgeridoo and Mongolian throat singing.

We’ve already seen the chaos that can occur when you place a small heavy object inside of a washing machine. Now take that same idea, and place it on a trampoline, and the chaos escalates even more quickly. The death cry the machine lets out at the end sums it up.

Stop-motion animator Harry Chaskin presents the somber tale of a washed-up movie monster as he reminisces about days gone by. You’d think that after the studio tells him he’s done, he’d at least crush, crumble, and chomp on their building for old time’s sake.

Director Ninian Doff reveals the true feelings of a James Bond style villain in the quirky music video for Miike Snow’s catchy new track. We always thought Bond and Blofeld shared a deeper connection, and now we know why.

After making people disappear, surrealist CGI artists Menilmonde turn their attention to buildings. Apparences (“appearances”) features shots of Paris, but with the buildings and other landmarks reduced to their facades.

During this week’s episode of SNL, we were reminded of this amazing, captivating, and enigmatic performance of the late David Bowie, along with Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias, back in the heyday of NBC’s late night show. After that, watch him on The Tonight Show.

Studio Smack envisions a future in which advertising goes beyond billboards, banner ads, and product placement, and brands devise a technology to invade our dreams with not so subtle promotions for their products. For some reason, we’re craving a can of Coke now.

To see what it’s like to be one of the many minions supporting the First Order, head cheese Kylo Ren goes “deep” undercover to live among the great unwashed in this sketch that makes us wonder how employees on Undercover Boss are so clueless about their disguised superiors.

YouTuber corenpuzzle made what he believes is the world’s largest order Rubik’s Cube. He designed and then 3D printed its 2,691 parts over 8 months. After a couple of failed attempts, he finally put the whole thing together in working order. Get the 3D files here.

(Gore) The latest project from ultra DIY channel How to Make Everything is about making a book. Host Andy George spent a total of 50 hours making paper – cotton, hemp, wood – a pencil, a quill pen, a leather cover, ink and glue. More here.

Cracked takes a look at our blind obedience to the expiration dates on store-bought foods, and why these arbitrary dates rarely have much to do with the actual freshness or safety of foods. Until labels get better, your best bet is to trust your eyes, nose, and taste buds.

Now You See It outlines the parts of a trailer and calls it for what it is: a short film made of clips from a longer film. Ironically, he ends up making his point by highlighting effective trailers instead of the problematic ones.

Dear Hollywood Foreign Press Association, may we submit for your consideration a prime contender for the 2017 Golden Globe Award for Best Comedy – YouTuber Brandan’s Waffle Poots. Skip to 0:22.

If there’s one thing we don’t appreciate our dogs doing, it’s counter surfing. But we have huge mutts who can reach the surface. This little dog is way more endearing as he jumps up and down to get a whiff of the fresh baked cookies that are just out of his reach.

Axe dug itself a hole with its sleazy hyperbolic commercials, but it seems it made it a New Year’s resolution to ditch that bro phase. It’s off to a great start with this new campaign, which acknowledges that we all have something we can bank on. Now work on it.

The Internet allows artists to reach billions of people, but it also emphasizes quantifiers of talent or success: views, likes, follows. Adam Westbrook uses Vincent Van Gogh’s drive to remind us that – artist or not – if you love what you’re doing, then that’s more than enough.