Entries Tagged as 'ftw'

Thursday, March 6th, 2014

The 1D & Miley Cyrus Double Whammy! – YouTube Comment Reconstruction #9

YouTube comedians Dead Parrot deliver the last in the current series of their YouTube Comment Reconstructions, this time featuring a One Direction and Miley Cyrus double bill to go out in style—the first argument for you to LOL over is commenters ‘Crystal Leal’, ‘Joel Johnson’ and ‘Swagg Kidd’ slinging mud under the video of “One [...]

Thursday, March 6th, 2014

The Epic Drink-Driving Coma Prank, Part II

A few months back Tom Mabe and group of concerned friends tried to scare the bejesus out of their bud in the hope that he’d curb his errant ways of drink-driving by pranking him into believing he’d been in a coma for a decade after being in an accident. It didn’t entirely work, but someone [...]

Thursday, March 6th, 2014

Worf Gets DENIED Again and Again on Star Trek TNG

Poor Worf, here he is offering up advice and suggestions to his fellow crew members, only to just get shot down by them. He perseveres but it’s no good, he just faces rejections, denial, scorn, derision—it’s just constant humiliation from the people who are supposed to be his friends and colleagues. But thank God they [...]

Thursday, March 6th, 2014

Watch Jimmy Kimmel’s Brilliant Movie Adaptations of Classic Viral Videos

In his post-Oscars show Jimmy Kimmel premiered a series of viral video movie trailers that took some classic YouTube clips and, using the movie industry’s finest, proceeded to give them the Hollywood remake treatment where budgets are big and the acting is award-worthy.

Wednesday, March 5th, 2014

Timeholes: Short Film About Time Travel

In anything’s going to make you feel cynical about the future, this short film about time-travellers who tend to be total assholes will do it. Set in 2015, what was once science fiction has become fact and, as is the case with most new tech, it’s now being abused by people to do the same [...]

Tuesday, March 4th, 2014

Watch This Totally Rad Documentary About Inline Skater Sven Boekhorst

Sven Boekhorst decided to tour some of Europe’s finest cities, but this guy’s not your average tourist. Because Sven’s luggage includes a production crew, cameramen, a photographer, his rollerblades and, oh yeah, an 80 kilo ramp. No big.

Monday, March 3rd, 2014

The Onion Film Standard: Oscars Edition

You’re probably not aware because it’s a very low key affair, but a little ceremony known as the Academy Awards was held over the weekend—it’s kind of insignificant but Hollywood likes to make a big deal of it and Hollywood rules the earth so you should maybe feign interest just in case. And there’s no [...]

Saturday, March 1st, 2014

Stunning Microscopic Time-lapse of Snowflakes Forming

Chances are you’ve never witnessed a snowflake forming, not unless you have microscopes for eyes—but in the video above from Vyacheslav Ivanov, you can witness the wonder of nature at the microscopic scale in this beautiful timelapse set to Aphex Twin’s track “Avril 14th”. The ice crystals take on hexagonal forms growing in size until [...]

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Want To Know The Secret Identity Of Andy’s Mom In Toy Story?

Online magazine Slate have an article up which reveals exactly who Andy’s mom is in the Toy Story trilogy and what her relationship is to the toys in the films—specifically one toy in particular: Jessie. According to the article, Jon Negroni has a theory that Andy’s mom is in fact Jessie’s previous owner, Emily.

Thursday, February 27th, 2014

Academy Awards PSA with Celebrity Impressions by Piotr Michael

Piotr Michael is an impressionist and voice actor whose spot on impersonations of celebrities like Charlie Sheen, Maggie Smith, Jeff Bridges, Liam Neeson, Steve Buscemi, Ian McKellen, Steve Martin, and John Malkovich will have you making with the lolz as you watch this parody PSA about the Oscars. It’s the best celebrity impression reel featuring [...]

Thursday, February 27th, 2014

Hennessey Venom GT Sets New Speed World Record

It’s the fastest production model car on the planet and it goes by the name of the US-made Hennessey Venom GT—this beast of a supercar recently took to Kennedy Space Center’s shuttle runway in Florida where it went from 0 to 200mph in less than 15 seconds and hit a max speed of 270.49mph powered [...]