Awesome Mashups

Mad Max: Fury Road‘s trailers were sublime, but if you’ve seen the film then this mashup with 331Erock’s heavy metal rendition of Yakety Sax isn’t so absurd. The movie does have a few Benny Hill-esque moments.

Ezequiel López combined footage from the 1963 madcap comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World with audio from Mad Max: Fury Road, resulting in an action-packed car chase flick that we’d pay good money to see on the big screen.

While Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is said to be the perfect companion track to The Wizard of Oz, Craig J. Clark’s rescore of the classic film using over sixty tracks from They Might Be Giants works equally well.

This hilarious mashup of Mad Max: Fury Road and the Star Wars universe by Krishna Shenoi envisions a world where Darth Vader has taken over for Immortan Joe. The full title of the film is Road Wars: The Imperator Strikes Back.

Mighty Mike created this mix of M83’s Midnight City and Men at Work’s Down Under, seamlessly melding the ethereal electronica with Colin Hay’s inviting vocals and the late Greg Ham’s catchy flute solo. Video by DJ Morbid. Download here.

Redditor CarlosDanger100 doctored images of some of the characters from Game of Thrones and faceswapped them with Nicolas Cage. The end result is both surreal and awesome. Arya Cage is our favorite. Who’s yours?

“What I’m about to propose to you is both highly lucrative and highly dangerous.” George Clooney is Danny Ackbar in Synaptic Studios’ mash up of the planning scenes in Ocean’s Eleven and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Skip to 1:30.

An amusing mashup of scenes from Breaking Bad, with animation from SpongeBob Squarepants by YouTuber RunningFlannel. Without benefit of the original imagery, we are yet again reminded just how brilliant Bryan Cranston was.

(Spoilers) Mashup maker Simonb02 saw an opportunity at the end of the amazing Hardhome episode of Game of Thrones – and decided to set the epic battle sequence to the tune of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Also, this.

Advertisers have wasted millions of brain cells with catchy commercial jingles that burrow into our heads. YouTuber Grant Woolard turned 25 of the most memorable jingles into one long earworm.

Steve Ramsden’s brilliantly edited mashup of two classic, but very different movies which take place in iconic hotels – Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel – and the Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

“Legends will unite and galaxies will clash…” YouTuber SonofSpork made this ’80s style trailer for a crossover movie featuring characters from Star Wars and Star Trek: The Original Series.

Vimeo member Smyths juxtaposes David Hasselhoff’s cheesy ’80s throwback theme song for Kung Fury over the latest teaser for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Rey and Finn, welcome to the Cool Guys Club.

YouTuber megasteakman and his friends animated the land of Hyrule from the original The Legend of Zelda in the style of Game of Thrones’ opening sequence. Mattia Cupelli provided the hybrid score.

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.

Butcher Billy’s new series of superhero-themed mashups features post-punk and new wave artists such as The Smiths, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Devo. Get them on various merch on Red Bubble.

The Piano Guys mash up the sounds of Johann Sebastian Bach with the Jackson 5’s I Want You Back – which is now permanently intertwined in our minds with Dancing Baby Groot – who should now be wearing a powdered wig.

(NSFW: Language) Honey, Biggie’s home! Benjamin Roberts spent three days creating the best mashup he could think of: Dinosaurs’ Earl Sinclair performing Hypnotize. Put your hands up Baby! Next we want Biggie singing I’m the Baby.

For his latest edit, sample-master Eclectic Method took sound bites from the Terminator universe, and mashed them up into an edgy electronic track loaded with the sounds of weaponry and futuristic killing machines.

Mashup master Neil Cicierga managed to combine two of the most incompatible tunes – Hall and Oates I Can’t Go for That and Metallica’s Enter Sandman into a single track that’s just so bizarre that it’s actually brilliant.

(NSFW: Language) Eric Simmons juxtaposed the jokes of Louis C.K. over Cathy Guisewite’s legendary comic strip. The result is as natural as peanut butter and jelly, Peanuts and The Smiths, Cathy and “Aack!”, Cinnabon and Louie.

Universes awkwardly collided when OG sax player Kenny G performed Regulate with Warren G. The best part about this is you can see both men are in disbelief at what they’re doing. At least they got paid to be punchlines.

YouTuber Redtank took video elements from rapper Rick Ross (er RO$$), and replaced the music with Paul Simon’s Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, which should make absolutely no sense, but somehow it works brilliantly.