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“Keep Calm, Black Sabbath is gone” On February 4, 2017, the legendary band Black Sabbath ended an iconic era when original members Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler performed their last show ever. The band had come full circle by performing at the Genting Arena, which is located in their hometown of Birmingham, England […]

Samurai Jack is back to fight for the future, present, and past in a trailer for the fifth season of the popular Cartoon Network series that originally ended in 2004. Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky will return as executive producer during the show’s limited return that will premiere on March 11, 2017. It’s been 50 […]

Engineer William Osman decided to create a remote controlled reward-based robot inspired by the “carrot-stick theory“, using his bulldog Barkley as a subject. Osman built the robot as a backpack for the dog to wear, using a combination of hardware, firmware and software and then added a dangling hot dog (carrot). He also made it […]

Vox contributor Phil Edwards entered the world of Minecraft to explain how it grew from a game into a diverse and expressive art form where players can truly create whatever they imagine. Minecraft’s status as a hit game is well-known — but its massive success has made it more than just a game. As the […]

Looper takes a look at some of the reasons why DC Comics will not make a Robin standalone film. They reveal that it the character has already been killed off in the comics, there are too many versions of Robin to choose from, and too much backstory to introduce The Boy Wonder. Related Laughing Squid […]

Alessia Cara appeared on The Tonight Show to play Wheel of Musical Impressions with host Jimmy Fallon. The pair imitated Lorde, Axl Rose, and other famous singers performing nursery rhymes and commercial jingles. Cara also answered the show’s online “Internet Pop Quiz” about her digital habits. Related Laughing Squid PostsJimmy Fallon and Adam Levine Play […]

A beautiful longhaired tuxedo cat named Pooh proudly strutted around on his new set of prosthetic back paws that had been successfully implanted after his legs had been crushed, possibly by a passing train. A compassionate man found the severely injured Pooh and brought him to Let’s Adopt Bulgaria, a wonderful organization in Sofia that […]

Pop Culture Postage is a solo art show by Orlando, Florida artist Clark Orr at Gallery1988 (West) in Los Angeles featuring his amazing collection of pop culture themed postage stamp designs. The exhibit opened on February 3rd, 2017 and will run until February 18th. Orr’s entire collection of pop culture stamps are available to view […]

Chef Andrew Rea‘s always delicious series Binging With Babish covers how to make the decadent “Lover’s Delight” sundae from 30 Rock. Rea prepares the Tahitian vanilla ice cream from scratch without the aid of a machine, and adorns it with cognac, expensive

Drac Thalassa (a.k.a. “LordDraconical“) created an “Epic Mod Guide” on how to turn the Nerf Rival Nemesis MXVII-10K blaster into an insane foam bullet hose. The Nemesis is scheduled to become available to the public this fall. Fans of Drac can help support his future work on Patreon. This is a really satisfying modification, and […]

Saturday Night Live created a hastily modified welcome video for travelers from the United States Customs and Border Protection department to reflect President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban. The U.S. customs welcome video has recently undergone some changes. Related Laughing Squid PostsWelcome to Night Vale Performs a Live Show at the 2013 Los Angeles Podcast […]

In their amusing Super Bowl ad, It’s A Ten Hair Care that ask America to do their part with great hair over the next four years. It can be on one’s head, face, back or front, human or canine, young or old so long as it makes the wearer happy. America, we’re in for at […]

Host Garyx Wormuloid (Mark Schroeder) from the Wisecrack series Earthling Cinema gave an amusing alien perspective on the hidden meaning behind Disney‘s 1992 animated film, Aladdin. Related Laughing Squid PostsEarthling Cinema Gives a Hilarious Alien Perspective on the Hidden Meaning Behind ShrekA Hilarious Alien Perspective on the Hidden Meaning Behind ‘Watchmen’An Alien Analyzes the Hidden […]

With help from his cute daughter, How to Dad creator Jordan Watson of Auckland, New Zealand demonstrates how to how to build a go-kart for your kids using a large trash can with wheels, a pink trike, and a ratchet strap. Related Laughing Squid PostsNew Zealand Father Demonstrates How to Build a Game of Thrones […]

MapPorn redditor somegermankid posted a surprising map that shows which of the 50 American states has a smaller population than that of New York City. Some the larger (land mass) states include Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Missouri. Additionally, according to commenter Discitus, it appears that Iowa has more pigs than the state of New […]

Sony Pictures released the second official trailer during Super Bowl LI for Life, the upcoming sci-fi thriller film directed by Daniel Espinosa that will star Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, and Rebecca Ferguson. The trailer follows six astronauts on the International Space Station who extract a deadly alien microorganism from Mars and have to, somehow, figure […]

Marvel released a new Super Bowl ad for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 that features the original gang of Guardians recruiting a few new members for their heroic adventures. The film is set to blast its way into theaters in May 5th, 2017. Set two months after the first film, the Guardians of the […]

Netflix released a thrilling new Super Bowl ad for season two of their popular original series, Stranger Things, that finds the original cast of kids watching as the world eerily flips upside down and turns to darkness all around them. Season two is set to premiere this Halloween. A year after Will’s return, everything seems […]

In a touching Super Bowl ad for Audi USA, a loving father watches his daughter compete fiercely in a downhill cart race. Seeing her determination, he begins to wonder aloud about future, specifically whether or not she will be regarded as an equal in her profession and paid accordingly. As the fearless daughter weaves her […]

While riding the NYC subway, lawyer Gregory Locke noticed that someone had drawn swastikas and other Nazi symbolism onto the glass of all the advertisements in the car. It became evident to Lock that other riders had noticed it as well, but weren’t sure what to do. Luckily, there was someone on the train who […]

For the hilarious international series “Every Second Counts” that makes fun of Donald Trump’s “America First” policy, television/radio hosts from Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Lithuania, Portugal have put together hilarious videos inviting Donald Trump to visit their individual countries, each voiced in Trump’s own distinctive style of speaking. The Netherlands and Switzerland had previously posted their […]

In a hilariously prescient Saturday Night Live sketch, actress Melissa McCarthy brilliantly channeled the rather combative style of White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer. As Spicer, McCarthy argued about the word “ban” with Glenn Thrush (Bobby Moynihan), spun established facts, chewed a giant wad of gum, scolded the press pool, used props to illustrate his […]

In “All That We Share“, a truly powerful ad for Danish television station TV 2, people from varying backgrounds (city-dweller, farmer, wealthy, middle-class) were segregated into boxes taped onto the floor. Responding to questions posed by a mediator, members to whom the question was relevant moved out of their box and in with others who […]

In a fascinating episode of the PBS series “The Mind of a Chef“, host Chef Ludo Lefebvre travelled to the iconic Jean-Yves Bordier Creamery in Brittany, France to learn how their legendary customized butter is made. Any French chef can tell you that the foundation of their cuisine is butter. So when we visited the […]

Crystals form, colors swirl, and liquids combine in the beautiful microscopic film series “Miniglobelet” by Beauty of Science. The four-part series covers the crystallization of alunite and ammonium chloride, pigments flowing in alcohol, and various liquids reacting to being combined with each other. Related Laughing Squid PostsMicroscopic Crystal Flowers Sculpted by Chemistry‘Dancing Colors’, A Beautiful […]

Shaker and Spoon Cocktail Club is a unique subscription delivery service that offers all the ingredients for creating cocktails but lets the consumer provide their own preference of spirits. Each month, a subscriber will receive a curated box containing house-made syrups, bitters, shrubs, tinctures, mixers, natural garnishes, fresh citrus, and three cocktail recipes from professional […]

Real Life Lore looked at some of the largest buildings ever constructed or proposed to determine how large a building would have to be to hold all 7.4 billion people on Earth. The resulting “Mega Cube” would be the biggest structure ever built, but would still fit comfortably within the borders of Manhattan. So, what […]

The short film “Goudy & Syracuse: The Tale of a Typeface Found” by Pentagram Design and Dress Code tells of the fascinating story behind “Sherman”, the distinctive typeface used by Syracuse University. Upon the university’s request, it was discovered that legendary type designer Frederic Goudy had specifically designed it for the school. The story of […]

Great Big Story visited with Jinnan Zheng, a talented award-winning artist who builds magnificent ice installations for the annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, about which we wrote in 2016. During the interview, Zheng spoke about how he conceives and executes his ideas. The whole process starts with a design. First of all […]

PBS Space Time host Matt O’Dowd demonstrates how geometry can help visualize spacetime and explains how causality, distance, and time are related. In this episode we dive deeper into the relationship between space and time and explore how we can geometrically map the causality of the universe and increase our understanding of how time and […]

“Trumpa the Hutt” by Evil Ice Cream Pictures combines the slimy lowlife Jabba the Hutt with President Donald Trump by altering a scene from Return of the Jedi with clips of Trump speaking. We took a little piece of the president and a little piece of Jabba The Hutt and mixed them together and made […]

A very sweet pit bull named Grayce who was pregnant and taken off the street by Rescue Rovers Dog Adoptions in Salt Lake City, Utah, found a loving home with generous foster mom Arin Greenwood. After giving birth in the safety of her foster home, Grayce very gently placed each of her 11 puppies into […]

In another installment of One Day Builds, host Adam Savage made a custom paint job and modification of a Nerf Longstrike CS-6 rifle for his Imgur Secret Santa. Savage gave the rifle a more realistic and weathered look, replaced its internal mechanism with a more powerful spring, and added a working scope and bipod. This […]

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, a determined Simon’s Cat set out to search for someone to love but found that he was to be either completely ignored or completely overwhelmed. This episode is a wonderful compilation of the past three years of Simon’s Cat Valentine’s Day vignettes – “Smitten“, “Butterflies” and “Tough Love” […]

The real estate marketing team at Drawbotics have created a highly detailed series of 3D floor plans of workplaces featured in popular television shows like Silicon Valley, The Office, The IT Crowd, and Mad Men. Drawbotics‘ entire collection of floor plans are available to view on their blog. images via Drawbotics submitted via Laughing Squid […]

Talented Serbian bodypainting artist Mirjana Kika Milosevic used only makeup to demonstrate an amazing optical illusion that transformed her stomach into a knot. Milosevic has also amazingly turned her head into a hanger and her chest into an ashtray. via Daily Mail Related Laughing Squid PostsMakeup Artist Uses Her Amazing Skills to Transform Ordinary People […]

Talk show host Conan O’Brien sat down with New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and Atlanta Falcons defensive end Dwight Freeney to play For Honor on a special Super Bowl edition of his Clueless Gamer series. Patriots running back LeGarrette Blount, Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, and former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch later came […]

A group of pro football players like Odell Beckham Jr., J.J. Watt, and DeMarco Murray read mean tweets about themselves on the second NFL edition of Mean Tweets on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Here is part one of NFL players reading mean tweets from 2014. Related Laughing Squid PostsPart Eight of Celebrities Reading Mean Tweets About […]

After visiting with a flying iguana and B-Rad the baby sloth at the Kids Saving the Rainforest organization in Costa Rica, adventure host Coyote Peterson of Brave Wilderness entered into the marmoset enclosure armed with their favorite treat – marshmallows. Once the tiny monkeys realized that Peterson was carrying the yummy bounty, not one of […]

A rather talented chicken named Jokgu very precisely plucked out the notes with her beak to the classic patriotic tune “America the Beautiful” on a Yamaha EZ Series EZ220MM 61-Key Portable Keyboard after a grand recorded introduction. Jokgu, her sister AiChan and a new chick named Mayumi all make up an adorable avian band named […]

Redditor Edders_19 has shared an image of the Bromley, England skyline featuring a lens flare that looks just like Eric Cartman from South Park. Edders_19’s screenshot was taken from The SPORT Bible‘s promotional video posted on Facebook for the Discovery UK documentary series, Idris Elba: Fighter. via reddit Related Laughing Squid PostsRush Uses Clip of […]

Billy Crystal and Daniel Stern reprised their roles of Mitch and Phil from the 1991 comedy City Slickers in a Funny or Die video that placed the characters as malfunctioning hosts in HBO‘s Westworld. Years after their ‘City Slickers’ narrative was retired, Westworld hosts Mitch (Billy Crystal) & Phil (Daniel Stern) are still happily driving […]

Cineplex has created a supercut video of every 2017 Oscar nominated film. They feature some of the great movies nominated including Arrival, La La Land, Moonlight. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Supercut of the Powerful Uses of Sound Throughout Mad Max: Fury RoadSupercut of the Early Roles Played by 2014 Oscar Nominees and WinnersRyan Reynolds Releases […]

Bioengineers at Stanford University have created the “paperfuge”, blood centrifuge inspired by a children’s toy that costs only 20 cents to make. The simple device can be used in remote areas without access to electricity or more advanced equipment, allowing doctors and healthcare workers around the world to diagnose diseases like malaria, HIV, and African […]

Bud Light has released a great new Super Bowl commercial, titled “Ghost Spuds,” that features their legendary 1980s canine character Spuds MacKenzie coming back as a ghost to help reunite a dude with his group of friends for drinks, inside jokes, and trivia at the bar. The ghost of Spuds MacKenzie is here to let […]

Warner Bros. has released an amusing “Gotham Cribs” promo for The LEGO Batman Movie, the upcoming animated action comedy film directed by Chris McKay and spin-off of The Lego Movie. The MTV Cribs style promo features LEGO Batman (Will Arnett) hopping in and out character as Batman and Bruce Wayne as they give us a […]

Science presenter Steve Mould explains how to make a dry erase stick figure dance, animate, and get abducted by aliens. You might have seen some videos of stick men floating of water recently. This is how you can do it and how it works. Earlier we shared video of someone demonstrating the trick, but Mould […]

Paramount Pictures has released a new Super Bowl ad for Ghost in the Shell, an upcoming live-action adaptation of the popular sci-fi manga by Japanese artist Masamune Shirow. The explosive new commercial features Major Motoko Kusanagi (Scarlett Johansson) coming out guns blazing and being faced with the truth that her life may have actually been […]

Not wanting to be outdone by the Netherlands invitation video, the Swiss television show Deville Late Night put together “Switzerland Second“, a hilarious video inviting Donald Trump to visit their country, voiced in English and using his own style of speaking. Additionally, the Swiss video touts its geographical superiority over the Netherlands. Dear Mr. President, […]

A video posted by WHERE ANIMALS COME FIRST ?? (@thekangaroosanctuary) on Jan 20, 2017 at 5:37pm PST In 2015, we wrote about Chris ‘Brolga’ Barnes and his mission to save orphaned, abandoned, and ill kangaroos of the Australian Outback. Of the resident mob, Roger stood out the most because of his enormous stature. More recently […]