Awesome Weird

In 2014, YouTuber Thomas Dambo made a wooden My Little Pony sculpture, but it was stolen just a day after he displayed it in public. Luckily, he was able to track down the thief. What follows is a bizarrely heartwarming exchange.

YouTuber Sergio Tapia shares this video of a real-life Regan MacNeil. This kid doesn’t need an exorcism, but his extreme flexibility lets him turn his head almost 180º degrees. The only thing we can say is…

A series of ridiculous, yet somehow still useful designs for beds designed to protect sleepers from falling earthquake debris, by covering them with a sturdy roof and/or sealing them inside a metal coffin of sorts. It’s better than being crushed, right?

(Gore) Master of blood and guts and Play-doh-mation Lee Hardcastle created his inimitable take on the classic Simpsons’ couch gag, with a creepy and disturbing take that’s sure to fill your nightmares. We can say with 100% certainty that FOX won’t be running this one.

Mattel’s hilariously offbeat kid’s toy is a motorized car that’s steered by the movements of a cricket placed inside its cockpit-slash-bug-apartment. We’re guessing whoever came up with this was just as high as the person who directed the commercial.

A ridiculous Japanese video in which the scantily clad host demonstrates a series of poses which make him look like he’s naked, even though he’s wearing underwear. Despite us being completely confused, we still laughed.

Vat 19 recently crowdfunded the creation of this fluffy looking critter that’s designed for folks who don’t want to deal with messy litter boxes or the typical shenanganns that come with actual felines. Though it is still annoying.

If staging a backwards running event wasn’t strange enough, check out this video of the action played in reverse, which make the whole thing even more surreal and amusing. They look like badly animated NPCs in a video game.

Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi animated yet another weird and warped opening sequence for The Simpsons, this time with a nightmarish Halloween tale for the series’ annual Treehouse of Horror tradition.

While we’re used to the seeing the massive bodies of sumo wrestlers flopping around in the ring, there’s something so funny about seeing these guys competing in a foot race. We think the shorts were slowing down the guy on the inside. Just let it all hang out, dude.

If these were tiny spiders, we’d be totally creeped out, but there’s something oddly soothing about this video of Jeremias Maluw as he picks up a handful of teensy crustaceans and lets them crawl all over his hand.

(Gore) Red Guy is gone, but Bird Guy and Yellow Guy have no time to think of him because they have to learn about food. The nightmare continues in this demented puppet show, but it seems like the characters are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

Darren Dutton and his pals created these offbeat videos by acting out recordings from old vinyl, cassette tapes and TV programs. In keeping with their recycled approach, most of the props cost less than $2 off of eBay. Things get even weirder in Episode Two.

Lexus UK worked with design agency NVDK, Laser Cut Works, and Scales & Models to create a full-scale, driveable replica of the Lexus IS sedan, using from 1700 laser-cut pieces of cardboard. We’re guessing it’s not as much fun to drive as the actual IS, but it’s still really cool.

While looking at the safety information briefing card on an airplane, animator Paolo Čerić decided that the images “had a dance vibe,” so he decided to do something about it. If flight attendants presented this information this way, we might actually pay attention.

Kat Su’s book of f–d up taxidermy is at once hilarious and disturbing, filled with the strange creations we get when we let crazy people try to do “art” with deceased animals. Buy the book or check out the website.

Musician Valentin Guérin has a very special brass instrument – a trombone that doubles as a flamethrower. Here, he turns in a performance of Arthur Pryor’s Fantastic Polka, with Valérie Guérin-Descouturelle on piano. We think his nickname should be “hot lips.”

An assistant state’s attorney meets his new boss for the first day on the job, and becomes obsessed with the jar of marbles on the desk. Yet another Key & Peele clip that reminds us they can be just as weird as they are funny.

In a quest to create his own backyard flying machine, one man built a crazy rig which uses a matrix of 54 drone-style rotors to lift him off the ground. As one YouTube commenter put it: “I believe we have something like this already. It’s called a helicopter.”

We have no idea what’s going on here, but it’s from Japanese television, so that can mean only one thing: a guy dressed in a squid suit doing calisthenics. Dude needs to join Katy Perry’s tour with Left Shark.

“I don’t feel that I’m wearing technology. I feel that I am technology.” Neil Harbisson has an inability to see in color, so he had an antenna implanted into his skull which produces sounds which represent the colors around him.

USA Today reports on 24-year old Alex Craig, creator of Potato Parcel. It’s an anonymous messaging service where he handwrites your message on a potato. He claims he now earns ~$10K a month. Dreams really do come true.

Tesla showed off a prototype of a new type of charger that uses snake-like appendage to automatically reach out towards a vehicle, and plug itself into the car’s charging port. Just add a few more arms, and you’ve got Doc Ock.