Awesome Videos

Pleated Jeans reminds us of the tried and true tips to strike up a conversation with strangers. It’s worth watching if you actually want to know how to socialize. Just don’t follow his examples. Especially if you want to befriend hobos.

Carry-on luggage with wheels is pretty easy to pull around the airport yourself, but if you’re too lazy to even do that, why not hire a 3-pound Yorkie and put them to work like these folks did?

Fitness expert Frank Medrano shows off more of his incredible strength and muscle control in his most recent calesthenics video. What impresses us just as much is that this guy has written an instructional book for beginners. (Thanks Chris!)

Spin Master shows off their work in progress on a new robotic toy that looks like a baby dinosaur. Boomer can react to environmental stimuli and learn basic commands like a dog. Maybe we missed this lesson – did dinosaurs have wheels?

Slow down and enjoy a Saturday morning classic theme song, as interpreted by the always awesome Scott Bradlee and friends, with POW!GRL dishing out the sultry vocals. Part of the new Saturday Morning Slow Jams series.

We all know that honey badgers are the crazy, nasty, badasses of the animal kingdom but Stoffel here takes things to a whole other level. He just refuses to stay locked up, continuously outwitting his keepers and escaping again and again.

(NSFW: Language) Eight professional skateboarders travel to Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. This beautiful film by Patrik Wallner of Visualtraveling is part skate video and part travel documentary.

A parody title sequence by Louis Paquet. If Wes Anderson directed Forrest Gump, it wouldn’t be like a box of chocolates – we’ll know exactly what we’re going to get. Also that box would not have moved an millimeter.

With his upcoming stint as David Letterman’s successor, Stephen Colbert bids goodbye to himself – or rather, his Comedy Central persona – by dropping by an old stomping ground. How sweet of him to do that for himself.

(NSFW, Gore) Nacho Punch presents the most juvenile action figures never made. These troops and their enemies fight it out with their big man cannons. The sad part? There was an actual toy with a similar, uhm, feature.

While we prefer that helicopters we fly in remain upright, Red Bull helicopter pilot Chuck Aaron demonstrates some of the stomach-churning maneuvers you can pull off in a chopper if you really know what you’re doing.

Here’s another funny testament to the power of virtual reality and the Oculus Rift headset. While trying out the roller coaster demo, this guy didn’t even get the chance to enjoy the experience. He “fell.” Skip to 1:15.

Jim Cummings is the voice actor for beloved characters like Winnie the Pooh and Dark Wing Duck. Watch as he gives us a sample of what A New Hope might have been like had Vader given into his more animalistic tendencies.

There are lots of ways to get your jollies, but these yocals amuse themselves in a way that’s likely to win them a Darwin Award – lighting barrels filled with combustible gasses so they go flying sky high.

Daniel Savage’s gloriously animated short film tells the story of a boy who inhales too much helium, and ends up on the adventure of his lifetime. Think UP, but without the house, the dog, the old man, or the tears.

A small village in Shikoku, Japan has more dolls than people. Ayano Tsukimi makes the life-size dolls to preserve the memories of fellow villagers who have died or moved away. At once heart-melting and spine-chilling.

In recognition of Limb Loss Awareness Month, Mental Floss guest host and Paralympic skier Josh Sundquist educates us on celebrities, athletes, and historical figures who lived through the loss of limbs or other body parts.

Skydiving partners Vincent Reffet and Frederic Fugen set a new world record by jumping from the very top of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai, which is nearly 2,800ft. tall. POV footage please!

Nico Calabria was born without his right leg or hip, but that didn’t stop him from playing soccer competitively. You’re dead inside if this ad for Powerade doesn’t give you the feels. Support Nico’s dream of playing World Cup soccer here.

Just when we thought viral marketing had peaked, here comes this seemingly random Russian dash cam video. A woman using her phone while driving thinks she hit a dog. It reeks of a scam, but it’s not the one you think.

When he’s not being annoyed by his children, or providing life hacks, Vine user RED 6 tries to be productive using Siri. Unfortunately, his phone’s OS has a different idea, and berates him incessantly instead. Perhaps iOS 8 will fix this.

Speed rider Valentin Delluc pulls off a trick that seems straight out of a Tony Hawk Pro Skater game: grinding on ski lift cables at high speed, making sure to float off to avoid the posts at the last second. More here.

Have you ever been morose for so long that the weight of the emotion has become a part of you? It’s as if you’re each others’ shadow, and it fears that one day you’ll wake up feeling fine. Kokooma’s short film reminds us of those times.