Awesome Videos

YouTuber EviGL Павел made a reverse parody of the famous hanging hack scene from Mission Impossible. Why bother with fancy software when Windows can let you in? Oh right – for the huge “COPYING TOP SECRET FILE” progress bar.

(PG-13: Language) Some people make us feel unworthy of being in the same species as they are. Then there are folks like Simone Giertz, who makes it a point to develop modest ideas into hilariously mediocre results. If she can be average, then so can you!

Watch 5-year-old Phoenix replace a Toyota Corolla’s wheel bearing. As a bonus, he throws in the gearhead’s version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. He doesn’t do it flawlessly, but that’s a mechanic for you. Heyo!

YouTuber Mike Boyd is starting a series of videos where he documents himself learning something new. First off, he tried to learn how to do a kickflip on a skateboard. While you shouldn’t listen to everything Malcolm Gladwell says, practice and perseverance do pay off.

Actor and stuntman Eric Jacobus mimics the Taekwondo-inspired move set of Tekken fighter Hwoarang. He doesn’t launch his training dummy into the air, but he can pass for a Mokujin. Now do Yoshimitsu!

There is no spoon. Burger Fiction cut out all the bits of The Matrix Trilogy that didn’t move the plot forward, summing up the entire story in just 90 seconds. We love how they gave less than 30 seconds to Reloaded and Revolutions, because that’s all they really deserve.

“Just to give you an idea how hard these guys were punching, sometimes a punch didn’t even land, and the head flew back anyway.” CollegeHumor imagines how ESPN’s documentary series would treat Rocky Balboa’s fight against Ivan Drago.

“Maybe you and I could partner up.” YouTuber Grable424 masterfully recaps Breaking Bad by tracing the inversely proportional moral trajectories of its protagonists – by the end, one was a soulless demon, and the other a broken shell of a man.

After making a sandwich and a suit from scratch, How to Make Everything host Andy George shows us how to create a soda fountain favorite from raw ingredients. It only cost him $900 and took days of work, but at least he can call it “handcrafted.” Watch every step here.

A few weeks ago, the Brett Domino Trio asked YouTubers to submit parts for a collaborative song. They picked 50 contributions for surprisingly cohesive and enjoyable the final piece. That clapping man has seen some stuff.

Mehdi Sadaghdar thinks power banks are stupid, simply another thing that needs to be charged. So he added a USB charging port to a crank-powered flashlight, but not before sacrificing a couple of gadgets.

“Are there any Jews in New Britain? I heard they don’t let Jews in New Britain.” Cards Against Humanity’s last ever holiday bundle gets you eight “safe for work” gifts throughout December for just $15. If you’re not buying, at least watch their ad.

Artist Jake Weidmann possesses a truly special craft – he’s the youngest of only a handful Master Penmen in the entire world, with the hard-earned ability to create insanely intricate illustrations and calligraphy from the tip of his fountain pen.

A woman who’s sick of being single tries out speed dating. But her desperation may have led her to a symposium of stereotypical jerks and freaks in Meghann Artes’ slapstick stop-motion short film.

Brightly colored plants overrun a world in the music video for Slowly Rising. The song is from Full Circle, the debut album of Dutch beat maker Bastiaan van der Vlist aka Beatsofreen. Director Hideki Inaba says the song made him think of the sun and its life-giving power.

“There are often several fire burning parts to an up goer.” MinutePhysics and XKCD teamed up to explain how to explore space – but with one major restriction – they could only use the 1000 most common words in the English language to describe rocket science.

DNews points out that 2 million years of cooking have made us prefer the taste of hot food over cold food. Cooking lets us eat more efficiently because it pre-digests raw food and destroys harmful organisms, which our modern stomachs are ill-equipped to handle.

Our arm is sore from just watching musician Patrick Mathis turn the crank on this vintage instrument called a Barrel Organ. But what makes it more compelling is the track being played – Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal. His Miles Davis is pretty awesome too.

(PG-13 Language) Ed Asner and Doris Roberts star in this four minute gem of a video, where the uninitiated can now become educated on what exactly it means to “Netflix and chill.” Has this made it to the Oxford dictionary yet?

Adam Ruins Everything talks about the U.S. Electoral College. It was intended to give less populous states a voice and avoid problems should states support regional candidates. But it ended up being an undemocratic mess where a citizen’s vote hardly matters.

(PG-13: Language) Fallout 4 has a robot butler named Codsworth that can recognize and say certain player names. Polygon played a Scribblenautsian name game with the robot to test its limits. If he can’t say your name, you might be insulted at what he can say.

In one of his matches in the British pro wrestling league Insane Championship Wrestling, Graeme Stevely aka Grado pumped up the crowd with an unconventional theme song. The mostly male audience took it all in stride. Skip to 0:35.

Off-road race champ BJ Baldwin takes his 800 hp trophy truck through the forests and urban jungles of the Pacific Northwest to hunt down an elusive sasquatch named Bruce, who has a speedy off-road vehicle of his own. For more fun, check out Recoil 1 and Recoil 2.