Awesome Weird

Aldo Jones turns his insane mind towards the trailer for Marvel’s latest Spider-Man flick, filling the new Peter Parker’s universe with talking cats, DC characters, a fart-powered jet suit, and all the wrong Avengers.

(PG-13: Language) The Gregory Brothers introduce us to vocalist Takeo Ischi, also known as “the greatest Chicken Yodeler the world has ever seen.” We have no idea what we just watched, but we’re pretty sure it was awesome. Also, we found this when researching Ischi.

Most of us know it better as the opening theme from The Lone Ranger, but whatever you know the finale of Rossini’s energetic William Tell Overture as, you’ve probably never heard it played using a model train and a bunch of bottles. Hi-ho Silver, Away!

Musician Randy George created this clip more than a decade ago, performing the most unusual cover version we’ve ever heard of Gnarls Barkley’s hit tune Crazy – using a theremin in place of the lead vocals. Given the title and subject matter of the song, it’s somehow fitting.

A series of Japanese commercials from 2009 we stumbled across on YouTube, featuring a woman singing about hot peppers as the Peanuts gang jams out in the background. It’s almost as catchy as the Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen song. Dance remix here.

Amazing, but simultaneously creepy footage of a piano that was rigged up by artist and composer Peter Ablinger to modulate key presses in such a way that it sounds like it’s speaking. Our overlords have arrived, and they have 88 keys.

(PG-13: Language) Ever since it was possible to discern faces in video games, celebs have been showing up as either themselves or as characters. But not every in-game appearance makes sense, as AlltimeGaming points out. That creepy Burger King product placement, eesh.

If there’s one thing we can count on from Japan, it’s their weird, wacky, and over-the-top sensibilities when it comes to its TV shows and commercials. JPCMHD put together a reel of the most entertaining Japanese commercial spots from 2016. We totally want a DualSaw now.

Consistently weird animator Cyriak offers up a holiday greeting in the only way he knows how, with a brief and trippy take on where presents really come from, and what really happened to all that garland that you thought the cat ate.

There are but a few other songs which have served as the basis for so many memes as Smash Mouth’s 1999 hit All Star. In this video from William Hutchinson, we hear the song ever so slightly tweaked so the vocals never change pitch after the initial note.

Studio Smack created this weird and wonderful animated re-imagining of Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden Of Earthly Delights. Watch in 4K, full-screen to see all of the detail – or head to MOTI to see the full-size installation. See if you can spot Spongebob.

We’re currently in Tokyo for a few days, so there’s no better time to feature this hilarious bit of old Japanese TV in which they launched a series of car and truck tires down a ski ramp to see how far they would fly. We’re pretty sure this is how Katamari Damacy started.

It’s been a while since we last checked on YouTube’s psychopathic parody instructor HowToBasic. Let’s see how he’s doing with this “guide” about hacking into computers. Bet he’ll toss eggs at – oh. Okay. See you in another 3 years.

Musician Travis Netzer shows us how with a few effects pedals and the right technique, an ordinary tuba can sound like an fuzzed out electric guitar, as he performs a cover version of The White Stripes’ Catch Hell Blues from the 2007 album Icky Thump.

You think you know how the world works? If you’ve ever watched one of Aldo Jones‘ Weird Trailers, you most certainly know to expect some strange stuff. It’s only more appropriate this time, since the lead character’s name is “Doctor Strange” after all.

England’s new Five Pound notes are made from a durable plastic polymer that makes them impossible to crumple, resistant to water and burning, harder to counterfeit, and as an added bonus, capable of playing records, as shown in this brief video clip.

Do you want sunlight streaming in your living room all day long? Do you hate the glare on your computer screen? What you need is a house like Jarle Hegerland’s, which was built in Norway on a giant turntable to control the light coming in – and the view out of the windows.

Great Big Story takes a look an unusual group of musicians based in Vienna, Austria who play just like any other orchestra, except their instruments are perishable, and must be freshly harvested before each performance. Watch a complete concert here.

Weapons expert Vitaly Kryuchin heads up the Russian Federation of Practical Shooting. While on the firing range, he came up with this very special musical instrument called the Metallophon, which is played with bullets and extraordinary aim.

When we’ve driven through the desert, we’ve had the occasional tumbleweed cross our path. We’ve never seen anything like this though, as seemingly millions of the pesky balls of plant matter took over a stretch of highway like a scene out of a Hitchcock movie.

While laser engraving is typically done on wood or acrylic, this video shows a laser system which is used to add patterns or a pre-washed look to blue jeans. The completed fashions aren’t our style, but the tech is really cool. Plus, the music just makes it so much more dramatic.

Serbian artist Dragan Ilic voluntarily strapped himself onto the end of an industrial robot, while holding onto a box filled with paintbrushes, then allowed the robot to move him around a giant canvas and put him to work as a painter.

Proving that pretty much anything can be turned into a compelling sounding statistic, Mental Floss walks us through 46 wacky and weird stats. According to our statisticians, 36% of you aren’t actually reading this sentence.