Awesome Videos

Table tennis coach Ben Larcombe hoped to train Sam Priestley from a newbie into one of England’s top 250 players within a year. They didn’t meet their goal, but Sam’s progress is still a testament to dedication. Now we wait for the parodies.

Believe it or not, The Breakfast Club turned 30 this year. YouTuber Robert Jones pays tribute to the movie and other ’80s teen classics in this compilation set to Don’t You (Forget About Me). Where the heck are Breakin’ and Breakin’ 2?!

Team ICON RAIDEN rides across 1,000mi. of Mexican desert on modded Triumph Tiger 800xc street bikes. While they provide an advantage on smooth roads, the brutal off-road stretches push the bikes and riders to their limits. (Thanks Matt!)

Say hello to my little “A” button! 8-bit Cinema envisions Brian DePalma’s gore and obscenity filled classic as an early ’90s console game. Though this version seems much more PG-13 than the hard R movie that inspired it.

Jimmy Fallon recounts the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary event and after party. More than anything, this video is proof of The Tonight Show host’s appeal. How many guys can tell this story without sounding like a douchebag?

Vinheteiro plays a medley of 13 tracks from the Super Mario series on a synthesizer he’s loaded up with 8-bit sounds. While we’ve heard lots of covers before, there’s just something about hearing them played with the original sounds.

Here in the States, breakfast usually consists of cereal, eggs, meats or pastries. But these kids learn that dining habits vary greatly around the world, as they partake of some very different takes on the most important meal of the day.

(Loud) An awesomely trippy 3-dimensional illusion that appears on an overhead LED display at the Center Bar at the SLS Las Vegas hotel. The effect only works if you’re standing at the proper angle though. Read how it works on Make:.

Mental Floss busts some of the common occurrences in crime and medical TV shows that won’t actually work as often or at all in real life, from escaping through air ducts to restarting someone’s heart with a defibrillator.

Keep your eyes on pops on the left. He took the balls from the other arcade machine to power his conveyor belt of swishes, shooting with both hands in rapid succession. If we were there we would have asked for his autograph.

There’s a chain-link fence by the airport in Grand Theft Auto V that appears to be pretty tricky to enter. But it turns out it’s not the fence that’s really the problem – it’s the gate that’s got an attitude.

Sorry Zach LaVine, but Dirk Nowitzki is our dunk champ. Steph Curry didn’t actually know whom he was passing to in this hilarious All-Star Game play, but the 36-year old didn’t disappoint. The last time Dirk had an alley-oop was in 2004.

(NSFW: Language) YouTuber Commandoflauge’s new series of funny Grand Theft Auto V machinima. Here he imagines the mundane and not so glamorous aspects of being a superhero, or of living in a world where superheroes exist.

Snow removal trucks are supposed to angle plows away from cars and oncoming traffic. But that’s not what happened here, as a driver who was on a perfectly clear stretch of road is suddenly blanketed in snow by an idiotic plow operator.

Sure, it’s a shameless plug for Famous Footwear, but that doesn’t make the sight of Shauna Duggins taking the kids for the ride of their lives in 550hp RWD minivan any less awesome. Parents, don’t try this at home. (Thanks Spencer!)

Last Week Tonight is completely baffled at the continued and celebrated existence of Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue, at a time when you can have Google: Swimsuit – or less! – Edition for free 24/7.

Good news everyone! We’re all time travelers! In the BBC special The Science of Doctor Who, Prof. Brian Cox showed a simple experiment that you can do to demonstrate time dilation, and thus the concept of time travel.

Jean-Claude Van Damme recently released a series of green screen videos for people to make their own action videos, and YouTuber Marca Blanca put the clips to good use, turning JCVD into the leading cause of Internet fail videos.

In 1999, Will Radford and his friends pooled their money and bought a used 1957 Series 1 Land Rover. They had a lot of good times with it but were unable to maintain their beloved car, so they sold it last year. Guess who bought it.

Footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović had the names of 50 people he never met tattooed on his body – each of whom are suffering from hunger. He hopes it will help raise awareness and support for the millions who are starving around the world.

Saturday Night Live alums Andy Samberg and Adam Sandler coopt Tina Turner’s The Best to look back at SNL cast members who broke character during a sketch, namely Jimmy Fallon, Horatio Sanz, and Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz.

Not to be outdone by Wendy’s classic training videos, McDonald’s created this cheesetastic Michael Jackson inspired video to motivate its employees to keep the joint clean. An oddly appropriate companion piece to Weird Al’s Eat It.

(NSFW: Language) While some first world countries have successfully limited cigarette marketing, tobacco companies are delaying the same restrictions in poorer countries using legal loopholes and financial threats. #JeffWeCan