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“You know, we wouldn’t have invented a disease unless we had something to take for it” In 1960, Alka-Seltzer ran a cleverly animated ad that featured an atonal violin and the dulcet voice of actor Gene Wilder, who very clearly provided definition to an invented disease called “the blahs”. Alka-Seltzer invents a new disease – […]

A group of rescued rhinos at the Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary in South Africa very generously allowed playful goats use their big bodies as their respective jumping off points for a little while, but very clearly let the feisty little hircine kids know when enough was enough.

Dragan Ilic, a Serbian-Australian-American artist, has created the DI-2K4, a fantastic fully articulating robotic arm that can hold and direct him as if he were a human paintbrush. The arm also can create completely independently of any human interaction or intervention, thus negating art as an activity solely exclusive to humans. Ilic’s new project DI-2K4 […]

In February 2016, author and self-described “stranger enthusiast” Kio Stark gave a TED Talk in Vancouver, speakint specifically about talking to strangers – the profound intimacy of these fleeting interactions and the odd joy that’s felt when one’s existence has been noticed. Stark has also published “When Strangers Meet“, a wonderful book that expands, expounds […]

Pomplamoose has just released a live album, which is now available exclusively on Patreon. Here they are doing a live recording of their wonderful cover of “Telephone” by Lady Gaga. We went to a studio in Oakland with our band and recorded eleven songs! SURPRISE!!!! All $5 Patrons can download our LIVE ALBUM now!!! https://t.co/OC3fSgxRqP […]

A photo posted by Jason Mecier (@jasonmecier) on Aug 29, 2016 at 5:31pm PDT The talented San Francisco pop artist Jason Mecier paid very fitting tribute to the late, great Gene Wilder by immortalizing the actor as the iconic Willy Wonka in an amazing mosaic completely made of candy. Simply pure imagination. The portrait is […]

In the Gross Science episode “Why Do I Have to Poop When I Run?” host Anna Rothschild covered some possible explanations for the phenomenon known as “Runner’s Diarrhea” where long distance runners sometimes experience a sudden and urgent need to poop. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated […]

A photo posted by Ami Vitale (@amivitale) on Jul 14, 2016 at 10:12am PDT While on assignment at the Wolong China Conservation & Research Center for the Giant Panda in the Sichuan Province, China, Nikon Ambassador and National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale captured absolutely breathtaking shots of the resident baby pandas, who were born in […]

“Siblings” is a bizarre music video about family by Brian David Gilbert, his sister, and his brother. The video includes strange music, visual effects, and the unique gyrations of “The Sibling Dance.” pic.twitter.com/CdRbygiDtt — briam (@briamgilbert) August 31, 2016 The subtitle for tomorrow's video is "David Lynch directs a family comedy" pic.twitter.com/ihj86s8Ras — briam (@briamgilbert) […]

While rehearsing for a Glove and Boots performance of Romeo and Juliet, director Fafa the Groundhog helped Johnny T understand his lines by translating a particularly romantic Shakespeare soliloquy into more modern language. Meanwhile, Mario once again donned a wig in order to play fair Juliet. Johnny T tries to understand William Shakespeare’s, “Romeo and […]

Parody Patrol has created a hilarious “banned” parody of the Pokémon GO “Get Up and Go!” commercial that features adventurous gamers accidentally walking straight off of cliffs, trespassing into questionable areas, drowning in creeks, and more. Here is the original commercial for comparison. Get ready for an all-new Pokémon experience! Pokémon GO opens a universe […]

Mark Rober and the Backyard Scientist Kevin Kohler demonstrated the science behind bare hand bottle breaking. The pair used a high speed camera and some simple experiments to figure out exactly what caused the bottles to break. Using the Scientific Method and with the help of the Backyard Scientist, we determine how someone can break a […]

For CineFix‘s ongoing Trailer Mix series, Jon Tomlinson and Dustin McLean merged together scenes from Stan Lee‘s numerous cameos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and imagined him as Uatu the Watcher. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid PostsMTV Points Out and Explains Nearly Every […]

Mode Video paid tribute the most iconic women’s shoes of the past 100 years along with a supposition of of how shoes will be constructed in the future. Each design was modeled by an anonymous pair of feet that performed dance moves in accordance with each era, decade by decade. Take a (well-heeled) walk down […]

No Mario’s Sky is a great video game, created in 72 hours by ASMB Games for Ludum Dare 36, that merges together both No Man’s Sky and Super Mario Bros. The procedurally generated platformer is available to download for Windows, Linux, and OS X from their website. No Mario’s Sky is a game about exploration […]

On a recent episode of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon sat down with the awesome kids from Stranger Things (Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, and Finn Wolfhard) to play Stranger Strings, a game where they all “take turns reading unknown facts about each other, then spraying silly string on who they think each […]

Today I Found Out host Simon Whistler explained the dangerous properties and practical uses of the “nope” chemical chlorine trifluoride. The chemical is so reactive that it burns glass, explodes when it comes in contact with water, and can even burn asbestos. First discovered back in the 1930s, chlorine trifluoride is a rather curious chemical […]

Puzzle maker Tony Fisher has created an “impossible” 1x5x5 Rubik’s cube style cuboid puzzle. The puzzle is “impossible” because its design would not be functional using a traditional Rubik’s cube mechanism. Fisher explained the secret to his design in another video, and also demonstrated his solution to the puzzle. via The Awesomer Follow Laughing Squid […]

The Gregory Brothers shifted the theme song from Strangers Things into a major key in their ongoing series Happy Sad Songs. WHAT IF season 2 of Stranger Things was just Happy Sad Songs instead? That would be really strange. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid […]

Producer Felipe Haurelhuk and editor Wesley Martins teamed up with Darth Blender to create “People are Strange,” a mashup trailer mixing footage from Stranger Things with The Doors‘ 1967 song “People Are Strange.” Strange days, stranger things, people are strange. Joyce Byers is just one of them that The Doors included at the 1967 single. […]

A video posted by christina ogea (@xtina528) on Aug 25, 2016 at 2:59pm PDT A two-year-old student at Southfield School in Shreveport, Louisiana gave a powerful on stage performance of the alphabet song. via BuzzFeed, Neatorama Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid PostsA Darling […]

In the music video for “Banana Brain” by the wonderfully eccentric South African group Die Antwoord, singer ¥O-LANDI VI$$ER plays a young girl who brews up potent cups of tea for her parents before sneaking out to a wild party with with a thuggish guy played by DJ Hi-Tek. After experiencing “the best time of […]

PES has released a remastered HD version of “Human Skateboard,” his 2007 stop-motion animated commercial for Sneaux Shoes featuring a guy who is using another human being as a skateboard and performing all sorts of tricks. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid PostsA Stop-Motion […]

In a clip from Adam Ruins Everything, host Adam Conover reveals the truth about hydration and explains why people don’t really need to drink eight glasses of water. That myth and others like it likely started when consumers mistook marketing by beverage companies as scientific studies. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your […]

Steven Zurita of Hyperdrive Pictures has re-edited the first and second trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and filled them with hilarious Snapchat filters and emojis. Here is the original first and second trailer for comparison: via Tastefully Offensive Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid […]

Los Angeles baker and author Rosanna Pansino of Nerdy Nummies recently demonstrated how to make dragon egg truffles inspired by HBO‘s hit television series, Game of Thrones. This episode also featured her new “Nerdy Nummies Theme” song written and produced by Dawin. A photo posted by Rosanna Pansino (@rosannapansino) on Aug 30, 2016 at 4:06pm […]

Filmmaker Rishi Kaneria has created a fitting supercut tribute to the genius of the late Gene Wilder and the brilliant manner in which employed comedic pauses to have as much power as the words he spoke throughout his career. In honor of Gene Wilder I've put together this supercut showing his mastery of the comedic […]

redditor GeorgeOnee posted an oddly adorable photo that showed his tiny little hamster wearing a tiny little cast in order to heal his tiny broken arm. While GeorgeOnee didn’t say how his hamster broke his arm, he did say that insurance covered the cost of the cast. Insurance covered everything via reddit Follow Laughing Squid […]

British food writer Joanna Farrow has partnered with BBC One to release Doctor Who: The Official Cookbook which features a collection “40 Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey Recipes” that were inspired by the colorful characters who appeared on the long-running television series. The perfect addition to every Doctor Who fan’s shelf, Doctor Who: The Official Cookbook features a […]

The wonderfully quirky food expert and self-proclaimed Thyme Lord Alton Brown demonstrated how to prepare his unique recipe for “Bonuts”, yummy glazed biscuits that are shaped and fried like donuts. But first it would be nice to just have some biscuits. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, but we can also make something even more […]

In his latest animated commentary, video essayist Kristian Williams aka KaptainKristian takes a deep look into the origins of Bugs Bunny, the iconic smart-talking cartoon rabbit whose personality is absolutely timeless. He doesn’t seem like a character from the nineteen forties. His anarchic gender-bending wiseass personality is pretty progressive even by today’s standards and he’s […]

Vox critic-at-large Todd VanDerWerff has put together a beautiful piece that pays lovely tribute to the incredible talent and career of the late Gene Wilder, particularly noting that his generosity of spirit, his confidence and his ability to share the spotlight made his comedic genius shine through in whatever he did. Wilder’s comedy wasn’t about […]

Buffalo, New York filmmaker Bobby Burns has created a new video for CineMash that reimagines the 3D animated Disney film, Zootopia, as a crime thriller. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid PostsAn Honest Trailer For ZootopiaBunny Officer Judy Hopps Joins the Police Force in […]

The ever-informing CPG Grey explains how specific human traits and behaviors such as slow response time and tailgating, are the true culprit behind traffic problems. Stuck at an intersection, you always watch unfold the Fundamental Problem of Traffic. On green, the first car accelerates, and then the next, and then the next, and then the […]

On the August 30th episode of The Tonight Show with host Jimmy Fallon, legendary funnyman Mel Brooks mourned the loss of his good friend Gene Wilder for the first time in public. He also shared a number of very funny stories about the work they did together. He also shared a touching memory about raising […]

Anthem Sports has created the Screen Pod, a personal pop-up screen tent that provides shade and protects you from irritating insects. It is available to purchase from their website. This pop up tent not only serves as a shelter that keeps mosquitoes, deer flies, wasps, and bees out, but also allows a breeze to flow […]

Aldo Jones has created an incredibly weird re-edit of the original trailer for DC Comics‘ upcoming superhero film Justice League. Fans of Aldo can help support his future work on Patreon. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid PostsAn Incredibly Bizarre Re-Edit of the Batman […]

Superfruit has created “Stranger Fruit,” a fantastic video where the comedy group dresses up as characters from Stranger Things and reenacts the entire first season in 3 minutes. A video posted by SUPERFRUIT (@sup3rfruit) on Aug 29, 2016 at 9:18pm PDT A photo posted by SUPERFRUIT (@sup3rfruit) on Aug 30, 2016 at 12:50pm PDT Follow […]

Netflix has released a teaser trailer for the Duffer Brothers‘ upcoming second season of Stranger Things. The teaser does a fantastic job of getting fans excited for the new adventure coming in 2017 and giving out tidbits of information through episode titles. The adventure continues. Stranger Things 2 is coming 2017. pic.twitter.com/3H4WR3DGEj — Stranger Things […]

Marvel has released a brief behind the scenes look at Doctor Strange, their upcoming upcoming superhero film directed by Scott Derrickson and based on the Marvel character of the same name. The full Doctor Strange behind the scenes video will be available to “fans who purchase Captain America: Civil War on digital HD September 2nd, […]

In a brilliant new ad for Kenzo World perfume directed by Spike Jonez, actress Margaret Qualley who plays Jill Garvey on the HBO series The Leftovers, escaped the confines of a boring awards ceremony into the freedom of the empty hallways. Finally liberated in that big space with the sound of “Mutant Brain” by Sam […]

Competitive eater Matt “Megatoad” Stonie set a new world record back in May by eating 113 pancakes in 8 minutes while at The World Silver Dollar Pancake Eating Championship held in Chico, California. A photo posted by Matt Stonie (@matt_stonie) on May 29, 2016 at 4:07pm PDT A photo posted by Matt Stonie (@matt_stonie) on […]

Lucasfilm and Tongal have teamed up with creative fans to make Go Rogue, a stop motion animated Star Wars series revealing new Rogue One toys that follows Jyn Erso and other characters as they adventure across the galaxy. In chapter 1, animators Dan MacKenzie and Tucker Barrie follow Jyn as she searches for the building […]

Filmmaker Tillman Ohm has created the short mashup film “Reflections of HAL and Samantha“, using original dialogue from 2001: A Space Odyssey and Her to conduct a fascinating, but dissonant conversation between the two artificially intelligent personalities. Composed of original lines from “2001: A Space Odyssey“ (1968) and “Her“ (2013), the mashup creates a new […]

In 1971, Dutch filmmaker Han Van Gelder captured the artistic incredible process of M.C. Escher in the 20-minute documentary entitled “Adventures in Perception“. The film, part-biography, part artist demonstration was created for The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands program “Living Art The Netherlands” The first half of the film shows a lot of his work […]

Filmmaker Steve Giralt has created a truly incredible video of a hamburger complete with all of the fixings (bacon, cheese, mustard, ketchup, onion and tomato) being deconstructed in slow motion before falling back perfectly into place alongside a cold beer. In an article Giralt wrote on PetaPixel, he explains this was done in one shot […]

News Be Funny presents a compilation of some of the best news bloopers from August 2016. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid PostsA Compilation of July 2016 News BloopersA Compilation of April 2016 News BloopersA Compilation of May 2016 News Bloopers

In “On Being Hated“, the School of Life, through animation by Luiz Stockler, offers thoughtful insight into the disquieting anxiety caused by being disliked intensely for no apparent reason, particularly in this age of social media and digital communication. Learning that someone hates us deeply, even though we have done nothing ostensibly to provoke them, […]

Youtuber –zach– has created a mashup of the classic theme song from Full House and Avengers footage from Marvel Cinematic Universe films. Follow Laughing Squid on Facebook and Twitter Host your WordPress blog with Laughing Squid HostingRelated Laughing Squid PostsMashups of the ‘Friends’ Theme Song With Clips From the ‘Harry Potter’ Film Series and Marvel’s […]

Ted Yoder, an extremely talented multi-instrumentalist who lives in Arkansas performed a brilliant cover of the Tears for Fears song “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” on the hammered dulcimer, lending gorgeous texture to the sound. The song has made quite a resurgence since Angela Moss (Portia Doubleday) performed a listless rendition in the “eps2.6_succ3ss0r.p12” […]