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A compilation of Saturday Night Live sketches celebrating Halloween over the years. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Hilarious SNL Skit That Juxtaposes Beginning of Evening Intentions With End of Night RealitiesJourney to the End of the Night: Halloween San Francisco 2009Fright Night, A Rhythmix Cultural Works Fundraiser

With Halloween just a few days away, KJ of Creative Lighting Displays has created an encore of his incredible light show in Riverside, California featuring the classic AC/DC song “Highway to Hell”. Just like his amazing show set to “Time Warp”, this show featured anthropomorphic lights that moved in perfect synch with the amazing vocals […]

The Laughing Squid store is currently featuring a set of cookie/egg molds shaped like a silly skull and a wide-eyed owl. The molds are dishwasher and food safe, are very easy to use and fun all year round . Whether you’re baking cookies for Halloween or spicing up breakfast for your kiddos, these molds will […]

PBS Idea Channel host Mike Rugnetta gives an argument for how and why millennials ruin everything. His video also explains the concept of generations, and mentions a video in which Adam Conover explains why the idea of generations is a fallacy. For the sake of the argument, Rugnetta accepts the idea of generations and proposes […]

An adorable little chipmunk named Duil played as silly game of peek-a-boo as he sat inside an empty brown snack bag being held open by his very patient human who seems to love and spoil him very much. ???????? pic.twitter.com/YsrOcgOfcD — ????? (@duil_chipmunk) August 14, 2016 ???????????????? pic.twitter.com/nCE1CIDJxX — ????? (@duil_chipmunk) September 7, 2016 via […]

VINEBOX is a curated wine-by-the glass sampler service that offers monthly delivery of three limited-production varietals on a on a subscription basis. This affords members the opportunity to learn what they like without having the expense or commitment of a full bottle. The Laughing Squid store is currently offering a discounted rate on one month […]

Young Hedy makes some bold choices in pursuit of infinite wishes after she finds a genie’s lamp in her attic in a sketch by TomSka. Hedy has a genie-ous plan. Related Laughing Squid PostsBioShock InfiniteAn Honest Movie Trailer for the Disney Film ‘Aladdin’Talented 80-Year Old Japanese Craftsman Wants to Keep Making Toys Until He’s 200 […]

Real Engineering explains how super tall buildings like the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the Tapei 101 in Taiwan use things like vortex shedding and mass dampers to cancel out the incredible forces working on them and achieve such great heights. This month I was visiting my parents living in Dubai and I took the […]

Magic Wheelchair is a really beautiful non-profit that helps to build amazingly, elaborate Halloween costumes for children in wheelchairs by organizing volunteers within communities, helping families apply for costumes and providing ideas for “epic costumes“, all free of charge. Magic Wheelchair was started by parents Ryan and Lana Weimer, whose sons Keaton and Bryce both […]

In a mind-blowing timelapse video, German artist Stefan Pabst creates a 3D optical illusion drawing of a creepy clown from the annual Halloween Horror Nights event at Universal Studios. A photo posted by Stefan Pabst (@3dpainterpabst) on Oct 28, 2016 at 9:24am PDT A photo posted by Stefan Pabst (@3dpainterpabst) on Oct 28, 2016 at […]

Ellimacs SFX has released a gruesome zombie Halloween special effects tutorial on how to make it look like your guts and intestines are ripped out for everyone to see. The full tutorial is available to view on the Ellimacs SFX website. We previously wrote about their Demogorgon and Twisty the Clown tutorials. Gory stuff just […]

SafariSeat is an all terrain wheelchair designed for people in developing countries. The design is being released freely as an open source toolkit, and the chair itself can be constructed cheaply from bicycle parts. SafariSeat’s designer Janna Frederick Stone Deeble is raising money through Kickstarter to distribute the open source toolkit and to produce the […]

Adoring parents Richard Blakeley and Lindsay Kaplan wanted to make their son Max’s first birthday and first Halloween very special, so they dressed up as Wild Things from Max’s favorite book and marched along the route of the Hocus Pocus Parade in Beacon, New York where all sorts of people said hello to the character […]

Bethesda released a fantastic movie quality live action trailer for Dishonored 2, a sequel to the popular 2012 video game Dishonored developed by Arkane Studios. The trailer features assassins Emily Kaldwin and Corvo Attano taking on robots, using superpowers, and flashing their fighting skills all over Karnaca. Dishonored 2 is currently available to pre-order for […]

The Internet Archive has launched GifCities, an animated GIF search engine that has indexed over 4,500,000 animated GIFs saved from the defunct GeoCities. Geocities was an early web hosting service, started in 1994 and acquired by Yahoo in 1999, with which users could create their own custom websites. The platform hosted over 38 million user-built […]

The trailer for the upcoming, highly anticipated fourth series (season) of Sherlock strongly hints at the impending danger closing in on the eponymous character and all those around him. This includes the detective’s oft-reviled brother Mycroft, whom the normally accommodating Mrs. Hudson calls a “reptile”. Series 4 premieres on BBC One and on PBS (U.S.) […]

While pursuing a little zebra-tailed lizard while on location in the Sonoran Desert, the persistent Coyote Peterson of Brave Wilderness encountered a grove of prickly pear cacti that were sporting ripe, purple fruits on top. Peterson very carefully cut the fruit from the plant, unlaced his shoes, removed one of his socks and demonstrated how […]

Andy Jones of AgeOwns Photography enjoyed the historical period horror film, The Witch, so much that he made a great PLAYMOBIL playset based on the movie. The entire collection of photos are available to view on the MillionairePlayboy website and Flickr. Here is the original movie trailer for The Witch. Thanks David Klass! Related Laughing […]

In the spirit of Halloween, a herd of elephants at the ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, UK were given a yummy seasonal treat of big round pumpkins that were grown especially for them. The giant pachyderms gleefully smashed the orange gourds with their enormous feet in order to get at the meaty insides, while […]

Burger King disguised one of their locations in Queens, New York as the ghost of McDonald’s for a Halloween prank. The restaurant was covered in sheets and the sign read “BOOOOO! Just kidding. We still flame grill our burgers. HAPPY HALLOWEEN” This Halloween Burger King dressed up in the scariest costume imaginable. screenshot via Scariest […]

New York filmmakers Efraim Klein and Matt Silverman of Free Dad Videos have created “Link-or-Treat: A Legend of Zelda Halloween,” a wonderful video featuring Matt’s adorable 3-year-old daughter Amelia who gets dressed up as Link and engages in an epic Legend of Zelda themed Halloween adventure. They also released a behind the scenes look at […]

John Atkinson created a handy Horror Movie Plot Generator for Halloween on latest Wrong Hands comic. Related Laughing Squid PostsMovie Plot GeneratorThe Geography of Horror, An Interactive Map of Famous Horror Movie LocationsDutch Horror Film ‘App’ Uses Audience Phones to Enhance the Plot

MacRumors recaps everything announced at the Apple Apple MacBook Pro event in under 4 minutes. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Recap of Everything Announced at the Apple iPhone 7 Event in Under 5 MinutesApple Unveils iPad Mini, iPad 4, new iMac and 13″ MacBook ProApple Announces New 13 and 15-Inch MacBook Pros, Will Release OS X […]

Campers Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon tried to sing “Ironic” by Alanis Morissette without waking up their counselor (A.D. Miles) on The Tonight Show. During Timberlake’s appearance, he and Fallon also played “Best Friends Challenge” where they had to guess how the other would answer questions. During the challenge they had to guess what song the […]

Online novelty retailer Archie McPhee has just released a set of vinyl finger puppets shaped like tiny duck feet. They would look quacktastic walking next to their quirky finger puppets shaped like human hands. Duck Feet are the finger puppets for the person who wishes their hand was a duck. This set of two appealing […]

Filmmaker Abe Forman-Greenwald teamed up with Super Deluxe to capture footage of the design process behind artist Landon Meier‘s creepy hyper-realistic baby masks. A video posted by Super Deluxe (@superdeluxe) on Oct 21, 2016 at 10:13am PDT Related Laughing Squid PostsCreepy Life-Like Baby Masks Create Alarming Adult BabiesPrank Has People Helping Crying Baby That is […]

A video posted by Niall T Kelly (@niall_t_kelly) on Oct 21, 2016 at 12:28pm PDT A man fell on his face while trying to climb a mountain in a virtual reality demo at what appears to be a Microsoft Store. The fall was captured by Niall T Kelly. via Geekologie Related Laughing Squid PostsWeb Worker […]

Former NASA engineer Mark Rober appeared on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live and showed off quite a few of his creative Halloween ideas for scaring family and friends. We’ve previously written about Mark and his clever creations. Related Laughing Squid PostsThe Cast of ‘Friends’ Reunites on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ to Act Out His ‘Friends’ […]

Musician Steve Onotera a.k.a. “Samuraiguitarist” hilariously played a Wild West cover of the 1986 hair metal classic “The Final Countdown“, complete with whistle, horse blanket and whammy bar. This amusing cover is >available to purchase on iTunes and Loudr. Here’s the original Europe version for comparison. Related Laughing Squid PostsAn Eerie Version of ‘The Final […]

Bug Man by filmmaker Iqbal Ahmed is a fascinating look into the life of noted “Bug Wrangler” Steven Kutcher, how he was a lonely kid who created his own safe world with his insect companions, how he was able to make a living from his entomological knowledge and how he creates art with his insects […]

ABC of Death is a new humorously morbid spec ad for Volvo Cars that distinctly recalls Edward Gorey‘s amusingly sinister book The Gashlycrumb Tinies with a Sinatra-style rhyming litany of deaths in alphabetical order. The rhyme stops after F is for Freddy, whose heart skipped a beat, but was luckily driving a Volvo with autonomous […]

In the remarkable award-winning film short “Zelos“, a harried woman (Erica Piccininni), finds that she is unable to keep up with the numerous pressures of life including her husband (Michael Ornstein), kids and a very competitive neighbor (Brooke Nevin) who challenges her to run in a charity race. Determined to win, she orders a clone […]

SoCal Attractions 360° shared a full POV video ride through of the TRON Lightcycle Power Run roller coaster at Shanghai Disney. The video was taken with low light cameras to properly show the darker parts of the ride, and also includes the full experience of the line area before the ride. via reddit Related Laughing […]

At an event held in Cupertino, California on October 27, 2016, Apple revealed a new line of thinner and lighter MacBook Pro laptops that feature an innovative new Touch Bar feature to replace traditional function keys. The Touch Bar dynamically changes based on the active application to allow users easy access to multitouch controls. The […]

A photo posted by Nightmare Machine (@nightmare_machine) on Oct 26, 2016 at 7:03pm PDT Three scientists from the MIT Media Lab – Pinar Yanardag, Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan – have created the aptly-named Nightmare Machine, a computer generator that uses artificial intelligence to transform existing photos of faces and places into wonderfully scary images. Users […]

As November 8 nears closer, Vox put together an informative video to remind people that there’s more than just the Presidential election on the ballot this year. Citizens will also be asked to vote on Congressional, local and judicial races along with state and local issues. Location-specific information and sample ballots can be easily found […]

On a deadly episode of the AWE Me show DIY Prop Shop, host Vinny Logozio demonstrated how to build your own version of Negan‘s barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat named Lucille from The Walking Dead. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Skinny Little Fruit Bat Eagerly Enjoys a Bit of Yummy Banana SmoothieMan at Arms: Reforged Builds Real-Life […]

Inventor Rahul Agarwal has created Polygons, an ingeniously designed measuring device that sits flat in the drawer, yet uses the principles of origami to create a spoon of any one of four different measurements. Polygons is the origami-like measuring spoon that lays flat and folds to 4 different sizes to fit your cooking and baking […]

Today I Found Out host Simon Whistler talks about how Dan Akroyd‘s personal fascination with the paranormal influenced the creation of Ghostbusters. In the episode he explains that Akroyd’s great-grandfather was a spiritualist who performed seances in his family’s home, and his father not only believed in ghosts, but wrote a book on the subject. […]

“A Stranger Things Christmas” (or “Merry Christmas Will Byers”) is a mashup of Stranger Things and the classic Peanuts Christmas special A Charlie Brown Christmas. The animation was created by Leigh Lahav and Oren Mendez, and it plays perfectly on the tone of both Peanuts and Stranger Things. In this Peanuts/Stranger Things mash-up, Will Byers […]

Sundown, a beautiful short film by Liz Mandelup, about a wonderful sleep-away camp that caters to children and young adults who were born with Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), a rare recessive genetic disorder in which the skin’s ability to repair itself from UV sunlight is non-existent, making daytime activities dangerous. Camp Sundown an important part of […]

Luís Azevedo of Beyond the Frame has created a great video that gives us a look at how all of the characters in Quentin Tarantino‘s collection of films are connected. Luís went into more detail on less obvious character connections on Patreon. Ok, here it is. Quentin Tarantino confirmed that his movies exist in two […]

A photo posted by anna dovgan! official :) (@anna.dovgan) on Oct 21, 2015 at 12:18pm PDT Ukrainian artist Anna Dovgan of Woolsculpture has created a line of absolutely adorable anthropomorphic felted foods that are made to match or complete each other perfectly along with other felted crafts such as hair garlands, a giant spider or […]

The Voctave a cappella group teamed up with musician Jon Cozart (a.k.a. “Paint“) to perform a eerily good Disney Halloween medley. Their song is available to purchase on iTunes. A photo posted by Voctave (@voctave) on Oct 26, 2016 at 1:09pm PDT NEW VID IS UNDEAD (as in live lol). Get ur spook face on […]

Propel RC has created a collector’s deluxe edition of their Star Wars Battle Drones that can fly over 35 MPH, perform awesome aerial stunts, and allow you to engage in a “laser battle with up to 24 pilots simultaneously.” The Star Wars themed Millennium Falcon, 74-Z Speeder Bike, T-65 X-Wing Starfighter, and Tie Advanced X1 […]

Jamboard is an interactive whiteboard with a 4K display and cloud integration that was just announced by Google. Users can make notes on the board itself or remotely through connected devices in the same room or from anywhere in the world. The Jamboard has a built-in camera for video conferencing, and includes battery-free stylus and […]

Simon Whistler, host of the informative video series “Today I Found Out” explains why movie previews are called trailers, even though they are usually shown (ad nauseam) before a film starts. As it turns out, this wasn’t always the case. It turns out, the first movie trailers occurred not at the beginning of the films, […]

Filmmaker Kristian Williams (a.k.a. “kaptainkristian“) explained how South Park has managed to carefully walk and push the lines of censorship and decency on television over the course of its nearly 20 years. A look at the animated series that used vulgarity in language to reflect the reality of our lives. Related Laughing Squid PostsNosulus Rift, A […]

During a sneak peek of Jay Leno’s Garage, Vice President Joe Biden did a burnout in his 1967 Corvette Stingray while Jay Leno rode along in the passenger seat. New episodes of Jay Leno’s Garage will premiere on CNBC Wednesday, November 9th, 2016 at 10 PM EST. Related Laughing Squid PostsJay Leno’s Garage Features Randy […]

Stylist Amanda Ozard turned a model’s hair into a beautiful oversized poop emoji in the Super Deluxe series Turnt Beauty.