Awesome Videos

Watch out Flappy Bird. Independent game developer Coffee Stain Studios presents the next big thing in gaming. Or not. They were just fooling around with “programming stuff” and decided to make this video.

What’s most fascinating about this clips isn’t the footage of the flies fighting in slow motion, it’s that there’s something called “Substance P” that could be used to decrease (or increase) aggression in humans. Supervillains, get cracking.

Ever play with SSP racers when you were a kid? This guy (in Russia, naturally) tests the theory you can start a real car with the same method when the battery dies. Of course, don’t try this on any vehicle you actually care about.

Pleated Jeans dips into the archives for these tracks, which include such instant classics as “I don’t think you’re ready for fish jelly.” and “We don’t need no education, we don’t need no fart control.” You might though after fish jelly.

Last year, Ylvis thought they could teach us all about Foxes, but it turns out they were completely wrong, as SciShow illustrates in this brief educational clip. And here we thought they said “Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding.”

(Gore) This short film by animators Ruud Coenen, Luc Thijssen, Frank van Vugt and Stein Louisse tells the tale of three people as they vie for a mysterious box. We love the edgy, cel-shaded look, though it leaves us wanting even more.

The recent string of superhero movies are making Screen Junkies’ job a walk in the park. The group’s latest Honest Trailer pokes fun at the many spatial extrusions in Thor: The Dark World, aka The Avengers 2 appetizer.

This animated/live-action concept footage gives us an inkling of what Brandon Laatsch is imagining for an epic feature-length film inspired by the world of Minecraft. Support the project on Kickstarter and watch the teaser in HD here.

(NSFW: Language) Are your friends starting families like the Great Flood just ended? Are your parents nagging you for a proxy to take care of? Try this revolutionary treatment, and you may never look back. Also try Not Getting Married!

For the Top Gear at the Movies special, Richard Hammond took on paintball-wielding baddies on rooftops, bikes, cars and a helicopter – first in a BMW 1M, and then a Porsche Carrera R. Looks fun, but if those were real bullets, he’d be toast.

Leonard Solomon creates and plays unusual musical instruments – in this case, he performs the jazz classic Tiger Rag on his Callioforte, which sounds like a Calliope, but without the steam. Hear his “majestic” Bellowphone here.

The intense wub wub of First Person Shooter backs this performance by Android, Top Knotch and Dizzy of Dragon House and only serves to intensify the impact of their precise maneuvers, which remind us in some ways of The Matrix.

(NSFW: Language) If we could go back in the time machine to 2006 and nominate someone for the Darwin Awards, it would be this dude, who repeatedly attempted to destroy a guitar with his head. Now listen to your mother, Andrew.

Brusspup’s latest visual trick is a fun one you can easily do yourself with a couple of styrofoam rings and some hot glue. When attached at the right spot, they look like the rings that held General Zod captive in the original Superman.

Animator Cyriak dips back into the wacky sauce once more, this time creating a trippy short film based on old footage of monkeys banging on typewriters. We were waiting for them to write some Shakespeare, but that never happened.

Richard Sherman’s infamous NFC rant was intense, but the world’s reaction to it was way overblown. ESPN pokes fun at the media circus with the help of comedian Frank Caliendo and his hilarious impressions.

Who better to host an episode of Mental Floss about booze than our old pal Hannah Hart, who you may remember from her drunken mischief on My Drunk Kitchen. Here, she sets us straight on some myths about beer, wine and liquor.

(NSFW: Language) Another YouTube comment reconstruction. This time Dead Parrot’s talented thespians reconstruct a thread between two commenters arguing about the video “Soccer Player Accidentally Slaps A Referee’s Boobs.”

Comedian Toshiaki Kasuga ends up on the receiving end of a cruel prank from the Japanese TV special Dokkiri Award. According to Kotaku, Kasuga got drunk the night before the prank, sleeping through the elaborate setup.

The primary reason to watch Michael Bay’s Transformers movies, packed in 10 minutes. YouTuber Tunglebrek compiled most of the transformation sequences from the first three movies in one video. Uncompressed copy here.

Atty. Jamie Casino wrote and directed this ridiculously over the top commercial, which ran on a local TV station during the Super Bowl. Using your brother’s death to attract clients? Yeah, he’ll have a reality show by year’s end.

The post-apocalyptic zombie game DayZ has some creepy weirdos, but it also has lots of clowns. YouTuber Therealz0mbiemaster met this fly survivor, getting by through pure swag. Dude’s too dope for the computer.

As a thank you to Facebook followers who helped him win a contest, Kier Moffat did his best to replicate the behaviors of 52 different animals – both real and imaginary – using everyday household objects and a complete lack of shame.