The most charming thing I've seen today is this fan-made video for a Pussycat Dolls song called "I Hate This Part," using Bratz dolls to tell a tragic love story, complete with black-and-white memories and big actions stunts (No, don't climb the file cabinet in anger! You'll fall!) It's funnier and more adorable than it sounds, and obviously a lot of work went into it. I think this is exactly what I would have been doing with Barbies and Amy Grant songs if YouTube had existed when I was a 'tween.
The year was 2009. Despite the long Iraq war and the looming Second Great Depression, American young people forgot their troubles by kicking off their shoes and swinging their hips to "The Paul Rudd Dance," named for the popular matinee idol:
Okay, it's just those girls, but that's adorable. Those are your girlfriends you wish. The first part of the dance is, of course, the "old prospector," but the second is owned, at least in the people's hearts, by P. Rudd Enterprises, LLC. Everybody do the Paul Rudd dance now.
OMG you guys, Katherine Heigl and T.R. Knight are both leaving "Grey's"! Ever since I found out, I've been doing what anyone would do: watching 100 shitty tribute videos on YouTube, trying to find the perfect one to represent George's and Izzie's ("Gizzie's) departure, but unfortunately they're like the only two people in the world who don't have a tribute video set to "Good Riddance" by Green Day. So "With Or Without You" will have to convey the proper reverential tone, for now, even though we all know it's rightfully Ross and Rachel's song:
After a false alarm a few weeks ago that led to rampant speculation about what this nation will possibly find to fill the hours next, the Shiba Inu live puppy feed is really going away. The first puppies will go to their new homes (cha-CHING!) this very weekend. The South Florida Sun Sentinel's blog is the unlikely venue of the first live puppy feed tribute video:
Presumably the Sun-Sentinel had to use an original song because of rights issues, but the citizens of YouTube aren't subject to such laws, so expect more tributes set to tribute montage classics like "I Will Remember You" and (unironic-to-ironic-to-unironic) "Good Riddance" sometime early next week.
There are three things that Internet People love: Radiohead (or The Subject Thereof), Troll 2, and Mashups (still? yes, still.) So it's a FREAKING MIRACLE that this video realization of Thom Yorke's "inspiration" for "Fake Plastic Trees" has existed quietly on YouTube for five whole months with only a few hundred views. Until today:
They had me at the watering can. Seriously, do you know how few views that is? It's suspiciously few. It's the exact number of views that a blank screen tagged "radiohead" OR "troll 2" would get in five months. It's almost like there was some sort of Big Event going on during the past five months that distracted Internet People from what was truly important. (Via Fey Friends.)
If you watch ONE THING today, make it Sara Schaefer of BWE.tv's hilarious and surprisingly nostalgia-inducing look back at Election 2008 -- the viral gang's all here, from Paris Hilton to the Obama monkey guy. Seriously, you'll be amazed:
Is it normal to have gotten GOOSEBUMPS watching a tribute to political-themed internet memes? We DID have the time of our lives, didn't we? And we owe it all to you, Internet.
There are no spoilers here, because I know people take their House very seriously. I know this in part because of all the FAN TRIBUTE VIDEOS that ALREADY EXIST based on the Big Thing That Happened on House last night. What was it? Did Amber come back from the dead? Did House and Wilson finally consummate their simmering bromance? Did Kal Penn allow his scrubs to slowly fall to the floor of the supply room, revealing prime time television's first intentional incident of full frontal...BUT FOR REAL, the thing that happened and an adorable fan tribute video are after the jump.
The Terminator trudged along the wooded path towards the lake, his gun dangling by his side, the taunts still ringing in his hypersensitive bionic ears. He stared at the ground as he walked, and didn't even bother scanning anything with...
After watching Death Sentence, a terrible movie starring Kevin Bacon as a father in search of vigilante justice directed by Saw's James Wan, Gabe embarked on The Hunt For The Worst Movie of All Time. This is his sad journey.
Do you ever eat foods that you know you don't like, just to remind yourself why you don't like them? I think that's a good thing to do sometimes! The worst case scenario is that you might momentarily have a...
Last weekend, something strange happened. Some of the Videogum Monsters created their own secret, password-protected chat room. In 2009! Incredible! I suppose every monster has his cave, or whatever. As it turned out, though, we already had a Videogum Chat...
Blogging about TV and movies isn't all fun and videogames. Every week, Lindsay or Gabe will be presented with a physical or mental challenge that tests their bravery,patience, and taste.
The Challenge: I had to go on a 3.5 hour bus tour of totally random TV and film locations in New York City. Alone, and wearing a specific ridiculous tshirt. And I had to find someone to take my picture...
I went to see Where the Wild Things Are on Saturday, but it was sold out. Ay-ay-ay. That was a surprise! I mean, anticipation for this movie seemed pretty high, but anticipation for lots of movies seems high, especially when...
