Awesome Videos

“Their ceiling is our stage, and we’re dancing across it.” Above Average imagines one of the worst narcissistic scenarios possible: that the folks living above you are intentionally making all those noises to screw with you.

With great power comes…great. Just great. The Bilderbergers parody the Spider-Man cartoon theme song by imagining a superhero subparhero who was bitten by one too many radioactive animals.

YouTuber Dwight Galang combined a classic moment from the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee with Kendrick Lamar’s powerful a capella verse in the extended version of his bombtrack i.

A chemistry teacher demonstrates a really cool property of liquid methane by pouring the rapidly-extinguishing substance onto the floor while afire. We’re not sure how safe this is, but it sure looks cool. Original video here.

Liam Saint-Pierre’s short film about artist / inventor / designer Dominic Wilcox, and his unconventional and whimsical way at looking at the world. A reminder that “weird” can be a much more rewarding way to live than the status quo.

The Slow Mo Guys made match rockets and filmed them blasting off at 2,500fps. They should’ve made dozens and launched them all at once. You know whom they should get to drop by their show? The Fastest Man Alive.

Wingsuit flyer Sebastian Alvarez just gets more and more daring. His latest stunt had him smashing head first into what appears to be a small styrofoam board, which was held aloft by two of his bravest buddies on top of a mountain.

Two of the world’s best hybrid supercars go for the fastest lap at Laguna Seca raceway, with GT champion Randy Pobst at the helm of both cars. The Porsche’s lap starts at 8:35 while the McLaren’s is at 16:40. Come on Ferrari! Forza!

Jake from Vsauce3 got together with the Muppets to investigate the physics of X-Men’s Quicksilver, and what would happen if the Mach 10 superhero existed. Basically, you couldn’t see him – and if brushed by you, you’d explode.

Smosh Games pokes fun at Irrational’s dystopian undersea game, which if you really do think about it, does involve beating homeless people so you can take their money to feed your drug addiction. And that plumbing minigame was the worst.

Cinematic montage artist Roman Holiday compiled this brief sequence using only closeups from the only Matrix movie that really counts – the 1999 original. Set to the original soundtrack’s epic Hotel Ambush music by Don Davis.

Nope, not the guy from Beach Boys, but this Hawaiian reggae artist is an equally talented musician. This live performance of his song Permanent Holiday may not seem much at first, until you realize what he’s doing. Skip to 4:22.

We know it’s not nice to make fun of people’s accents, but the guy doing the English voiceover for this Chinese knife manufacturer is just too awesome not to showcase. Besides, we bet we’d sound as ridiculous speaking in Chinese.

This strange and hypnotic contraption is another single-purpose robot, designed to delicately pluck young plants from a cramped pallette and replant them into larger packages for sale. Watch as it transplants countless flowers without a hitch.

(PG-13: Language) YouTuber Robbaz indulges the mad engineer in him by building airplanes propelled by flamethrowers in the hilarious building game Besiege. Watch him cackle and improvise when his medieval jet engines fail.

Bard the Bowman risks his life to try and talk some sense into Thorin Oakenshield, but the Mountain King won’t let him get a word in edgewise. M Venturelli turns a dramatic scene from The Hobbit: BoFA into a slapstick skit.

This hilarious old promotional video from the European Commission demonstrates some basic chemical attractions and reactions using guests at a party as human analogs for the elements. The track is Fledermaus Can’t Get It by Von Südenfed.

Set in a futuristic and dystopic Mexico, this proof-of-concept short is about a man who figures out that the world is not what it seems. We’re not convinced that it’s as profound as it seems, but its mix of District 9 and The Matrix is intriguing.

YouTuber Tom Scott visited Ai Pioppi, a restaurant in Treviso, Italy with a unique playground. Built by the restaurant owner, many of the playground’s rides are man-powered, such as this pedal-powered 360º swing. More here.

SubOverHype’s action-packed music video for Malakai’s pop-rap track Queens & Kings mashes up the worlds of Furious 7 with Mario Kart and a dash of Mad Max for an explosive shopping cart chase through L.A.’s iconic viaducts.

This incredible machine is the Plasser & Theurer RU 800 S, and what it’s doing is building a railway line by laying rock, beams, and track with minimal human intervention – a once monumental task if you’ve ever seen an episode of Hell on Wheels.

During a recent episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host had a special dinner guest over to his house. Though if you invite a character from Game of Thrones over for a meal, you can count on the conversation getting pretty depressing.

YouTuber John Ruddock shows two projectionists changing the xenon arc lamp of The Tech Museum‘s IMAX projector. The 15,000W bulb costs about $6,000. It’s so bright if you lit it up on the Moon we’ll be able to see it from here.