The internet never ceases to amaze me:

You remember the Maxine Swaby song, right?

Well, never one to leave a bizarre found video alone, the internet instead has opted to create a mathematically-diabolical facing-mirror-world of “Pardon Me” tributes. It’s the sort of thing that makes you believe in evolution, if something so strange could emerge without a guiding hand…

Here was the original response…

If you watch just one history of hip hop medley performed on a banjolele by a man wearing a fake mustache and speaking in a British accent, make it this one:

I take it back. The mustache might be real.

[via @ukelilli]

ZOMG!

More from cyriak’s YouTube channel.

And the best rap battle between dead economists goes to…

For the bizarre story behind the making of this video, and the opinion of pop sensation Ke$ha of “Tik Tok” fame with regards to, check out NPR’s Planet Money podcast.

9AM Meeting is a “barely animated” series that has, at this time, four episodes. Here’s the first:

Amazing song constructed entirely from sounds in Terminator 2.

The same YouTube user, the unfortunately named Fagottron (unless he’s a gay guy named Ron who’s taking the slur back), also has a similar video for Disney/PIXAR’s Up.

“It looks like it will be one of those groundbreaking seasons that will make the rest of us want to go into hiding.”

The only self-defense video you’ll ever need to watch…

See also a fawning response video to the above.

Here’s a lost audition tape:

A young fan tries, or doesn’t try, to do an homage:

A cartoon version of the MTV shit how:

And more cartoonage of “The Situation” on CNN’s The Situation Room:

MTV responds to criticism:

Salon.com has a great article on Lukeywes1234, your average nerdy kid posting videos of himself on YouTube.

Well, he was average, until YouTube suspended his account and, as retalliation, the internet prank community 4chan elevated him to the status of a god:

And 4chan then took it up a notch, declaring Jan. 6 YouTube Porn Day. The idea? Simple. (To nerds, anyway.) Set up fake accounts and upload videos of porn mixed with more innocuous subject matter. (The words “Jonas Brothers” appear in the directive.) Set those videos to private. Then, today, go live. In your face, YouTube! You shut down Luke — we’re coming at you with bare breasts! Not, perhaps, the kind of tribute the young man himself would have wished in his name, but this thing is bigger than him now.

Yes, it’s really that juvenile. And yes, Luke’s resemblance to YouTube folk heroes like the Star Wars kid and the Numa Numa guy, as well as the response that seems straight out of the great Boxxy eruption of 2009, makes the whole affair feel a little contrived. Much of the response to Luke is just an old-fashioned, bandwagon-jumping excuse to game the system, and there’s an undeniable undercurrent of snark in the elevation of a guileless boy to YouTube “god.” But in the midst of the attempted pornrolling (for what it’s worth, I’ve been trawling YouTube all day for examples, and it’s a lot easier to find real porn just about anywhere else) and faux outrage, there’s a sweetness to the whole insanity as well. A boy puts up videos of himself, shot by his grandma, posturing as hero, and in the process actually becomes something of an unlikely hero.

BONUS: Here’s Lukeywes’ original ghost hunting video directed by his grandmother. If you’re looking for a Lukeywes tribute that is tripped-out and scary, check this one.

I’m still tracking down the source of the above photo, but I had to post it for now because in many ways it needs no explanation.

I don’t think it’s related, but Cracked.com has this image of Jesus as a velociraptor:

I’m no expert, but I’m fairly certain it’s better theology to imagine Jesus preaching to the dinosaurs, but not being one.

[via reader AC]

Very cleverly done.

I think this may be a trend, because I also found an orginal Star Trek/A-Team mashup:

The same guy as the above, huckbone, also made a Love Boat/TNG intro:

As long as we’re on The Next Generation mashed up with other classic tv shows, here’s a mashup with Dallas:

If you liked that, you might also like the Voyager version or the Battlestar Galactica version. Still can’t get enough? How about the Star Wars version?

And what would a mashups chronicle be without the Brokeback Mountain parodies? The first one makes use of the new Star Trek movie…

STILL CAN’T GET ENOUGH?
Star Trek: TNG Explicit Rap
Captain Kirk on LSD
The Best of jandrewedit’s TNG Recuts
Captain Picard sings the Alphabet Love Song

As you celebrate this baby Jesus birthday, take a moment to think of how your Christmas tree feels. How easy it would be for the tree to just reach out and… well, enact “treevenge”?

This is a clip from a short that’s actually called “Treevenge.” It’s been doing the festival circuit and is now available in full online from Twitch Film. The filmmakers are also responsible for another holiday favorite, “Hobo with a Shotgun.”