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Hooray!That had a better ending than The Usual Suspects. You might not be able to tell because this kid sucks at it, but "Gallon Smashing" is the YouTube trend where idle youths grab two gallons of juice or milk or whatever at a grocery store, smash them both on the ground, and then pretend to fall so it looks like they slipped. The goal is to entertain other pubescent miscreants who don't know what girls are yet, and of course, to ruin the day of the employees who have to clean up after them...

Maybe gherkins would taste better if they called them "pickles."One of the joys of being a mom (or a dad) is watching your little peanut react with fury and anger toward harmless, everyday oranges and olives. Relive the magic of seeing your child make a face like they're too wasted to keep their eyes open with this video created by Saatchi & Saatchi and Heckler for TEDxSydney. If you speed up these videos, you can see that these reactions lasted only a millisecond before the children turned t...

They seem fun.As part of a Tonight Show bit called "Pumpcast News" (sigh) that aired the other night, America discovered the one couple who you actually look forward to seeing get on stage at Karaoke. Meet Will and Monifa Sims, a married couple so likable they make us feel like miserable curmudgeons (with terrible singing voices) by comparison. Their gas station performance was such a hit they were later brought on the show to sing with the band.

The sensation of a treadmill under your face is so worth the cost of a gym membership!First of all, we'd find it really helpful if someone literally lifted us up and placed us on the treadmill. But we can't promise we wouldn't react the way this kitty did and try and take a nap on it. What we really need is someone to move our legs for us, one at a time, until we're thin and beautiful. Or, like this kitty, we could just embrace the curvy look. Embracing sounds pretty exhausting though. Maybe ...

When are that many treadmills ever open?We hate going to the gym, but this video makes using the treadmill look really fun and provided another 43 seconds with which to delay going to the gym. David Wilson, who uploaded this video to YouTube, says this guy dances on the treadmill at his gym all the time. Meanwhile, the guy in the background doesn't even look over at him. Typical non-dancing runner.And here's the obligatory version set to music. Riverdance, naturally:

No way they don't like Reese's Cups. They're just bitter that we won the war.Go back to England then! Oh, you're already there? Fine, we'll go back to America then! Apparently British girls just aren't fans of orange-ish flaky goop masquerading as peanut butter. They didn't hate everything though. Now we know, if England ever tries to attack us, it'll be because they're jealous of our Cheeto Puffs.We still think this study is flawed since no sampling of American junk food is representational ...

When the story of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight first broke yesterday, rescuer Charles Ramsey's very funny interview was the focus of much of the coverage as we waited for facts to come out. After 24 hours of updates, we're pretty much terrified to click on any story purporting to have new details. It's hard to separate the rumors from the facts, and we're still holding out hope that some of the more horrific facts turn out ot be just rumors. Ramsey's interviews remain the o...

Very high production value for a government PSA.With all the scary events in the news lately—and we're not just talking about the brutal treatment of Justin Bieber's pet monkey—it can be hard to know just how much to let a tragedy affect your plans for the day. You certainly can't trust your personal emotional radar, considering the amount of time you spend reading Gawker. Trust the nice people at Landline TV instead.

America just ran into Charles Ramsey's arms, and it is so right.Internet, meet Charles Ramsey. Charles, meet the Internet (don't shake hands, the Internet's gross). Ramsey became a hero yesterday when he rescued Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and one other Cleveland woman, all three having been missing for more than a decade. The terrifying story of these three women who were trapped in Ramsey's neighbor's home is still being pieced together, but things might have ended differently had Ramsey no...

If Charlotte the spider were still around, she'd never allow this s*** in her barn."Oh, look at me, I'm an adorable baby goat, and I'm just frolicking around totally innocently." Yeah, right, like we're going to fall for that. Today's goats are practically born with the ability to walk onto YouTube's front page. Goats will consume anything, especially viral media, and they know what it takes to be popular: doing something silly with an animal of a different species. It's a tried-and-true stra...

Backtrack! Let's take a look at some reasonably priced pitch lessons.Someone broke up with Brianna Lynn Wolf, but don't be sad. His loss is our gain in the form of the oddly named "Punch (Let's Be Real)," a breakup song that feels just like a breakup in the way it drags so many different emotions out of you. First you just want to break up with Brianna Lynn and, well, all music, just to get this song out of your life. Then, you kind of miss Brianna Lynn and the way she would sound like a slow...

They're here to fight our most dangerous enemy: our own raging stupidity.This spoof trailer from Gritty Reboots would be even funnier if it weren't so horribly depressing. We really, really, really, wish this were a real movie. Hell, we really wish that Carl Sagan was hibernating on Mars to come back and save us all. Things really are that bad, and the few people left who actually care about, you know, science, art, teaching kids, and reality in general really do look that badass in this age ...

We fix your transmission. We do not encourage safe driving. That's government job.Hopefully going viral will help this local automaker's business, even though the vast majority of people watching it are nowhere near Los Angeles or Burbank. Maybe the idea behind viral marketing here is that someone breaks down, and when they get so bored waiting for AAA they look up funny videos on their phone and boom! If they're within towing distance of the place they're there. Assuming that ever happens. W...

Not only does this dog know tricks, he knows making a :37 video will help it spread.Like all great teases, Mariku has left us wanting nothing more than to kiss her doggy lips. We want slobbers, we want paws on our shoulders. That is the power of leaving you wanting. We tried clicking on other Shiba Inu videos in the hope that we'd find the licking we wanted, but all we really wanted was Mariku, and all the fuzzy red-and-white dogs in Japan couldn't slake our kiss-thirst. One thing's for sure ...

We always knew the Matrix was just a dream episode of "Cheers."Austin filmmaker Joe Nicolosi sat down with his mom to show her The Matrix, a movie she had neither seen nor heard of. After the viewing, Joe asked mother Nicolosi to describe the film to him, and he adapted her description into this instant classic of maternal sci-fi cinema, The Matrix Retold By Mom. Joe, if you're taking requests for the next movie to be mom-ified, we'd have to go with Spring Breakers. Spring break forever, b-wo...

That first "meow" gets us every time.This reminds us of those old school hits "Meow Me a River" and "Rock Your Kitty." The only complaint we have about this brilliant joining of the best voices in pop music and Justin Timberlake is we want more cats! We fear a lot of opportunities for a cat to pop up and meow were lost here. If someone is willing to go through and completely replace Justin Timberlake's singing with cats, we'd be eternally grateful and also a little sad for you.

This video makes us want to work harder on our marriage.Online dating makes discovering which local singles you should stay away from easier than ever. It may be a little soul-sucking, but when it comes to identifying the weirdos quickly and efficiently, using OkCupid or Match.com is where it's at. Of course, the problem comes when you realize that literally everyone on the site is someone you want to avoid. Then you can either cry, or laugh as you watch this video from the creators of the Ba...

Clearly, Frenchmen are not aware of the nobility you gain from being stabbed.What do the French know about movies? Oh, right, a lot. Well, that doesn't mean they get to make fun of OUR movies. Maybe we should make a parody of their films where we compare the harsh alienation of the French New Wave with real life. You know, like how in real life when you steal a car and shoot a policeman and hide out in your American girlfriend's apartment and she tells you she's pregant and you go on the run ...

Yeah, that's pretty much how we'd handle it too, except with more sobbing.This guy is really good at not being robbed. According to the New Orleans PD, not only did this victim snatch the shotgun and chase after his assailant, he was later approached by two men in a Honda Accord and told by the driver, "Give me my gun back and I'll give you your phone that you dropped." So naturally, the victim proceeded to smash in their rear windshield with the shotgun, making the car speed away before the ...

Second breakfast starts to make sense to Gandalf after a while.In honor of his birthday, Willie Nelson did an audition tape for the role of Gandalf in The Hobbit 2 for Conan. This kind of ends up being a "What if Gandalf was stoned?" video, which is still pretty funny. We hope Peter Jackson gives Willie a chance, since watching him get high is the only thing that could possibly keep us interested for two more feature-length films.

If there are any women in labor reading this, why are you reading our site in labor?So it turns out that our feelings of excruciating pain are all in our head, and radiating up and down our nerve pathways, and in our stress chemicals and feelings of nausea and dizziness. Basically, some guys will honestly believe death is at hand after being tapped on the nuts, and some women will just drop children out of their vaginas without too much hullabaloo, like an early 20th century joke about Russia...

They could have found someone a little goofier to accurately play Biden.Last night at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Steven Spielberg gave a peek at his next biographical film, "Obama" starring Daniel Day Lewis. As usual, DayLoo is nailing it!

The greatest Daym since Judi Dench.Daymon Patterson is awesome. Sure, if you go into any YouTube comment thread, you'll find people who have criticisms of anything, and probably something incredibly racist to say. But we can find no fault with Daymon. He's got a clear product: fast-food reviews. He's got a clear character: himself. And now he's going to be on The Travel Channel going to "landmark" fast-food joints, like, say, Shake Shak in NYC. This guy is entertaining and deserves to be watc...

"We need to work out this identification issue" - best Star Wars rewrite ever.The Pet Collective is an animal-webcam clearinghouse by day, but apparently a kitten-parody webseries producer by night (or whenever they make these videos). Paw Warz is going to be a weekly webseries following the adventures of Duke Mousepouncer, Haz Alone, Ol' Bengal Catobi, See-3Meow, Chewbacca and everyone's favorite droid, Boop Boop Beep Boop. So check in every week to Paw Warz and hopefully all the cuteness wi...

Oof, right in the mail slot! (mouth)Being a postal worker is not an easy job. You have to deal with people's constant complaints about bad service, terrifying dogs, and one hazard that most people don't know about: toddlers. They're slobbery and completely unreasonable. The only way to calm them down is to use a bundle of junk mail as a pacifier. Real thought we had: this video is funnier without sound because then you don't hear the baby crying.

Grumpy Cat looks like that because he knew damn well how he'd be whored out.THESE CATS ARE FINISHED. DONE. DO YOU HEAR US? GET YOUR OVERPLAYED, OVERHYPED, ATTENTION-WHORE CATS OFF OF OUR INTERNET! So they can make room for new, fluffier, cuter cats, of course. Seriously, though, fuck these cats. Lil Bub may look stupid, but he knows he's fucking washed up. Careful there, you desperate feline. You're going to pull an Internet muscle. Cat, I'm a kitty cat, and I'm done done done, and I'm done d...

They left out his role in a high school production of Grease.Why is it so fun to mock the leaders of North Korea? We think it's because Kim Jong Un is the only guy in the whole country (now that his dad is dead) with access to the real Internet, real news, real movies, etc. So, literally, if ANY North Korean is going to see a video mocking Kim Jong Un, it's actually Kim Jong Un. This was what made "I'm So Ronery" such a fantastic thrill: Kim Jong Il was a rabid cinephile who had pretty much e...

It was not Ned Stark's year.TV has seen better days since the 1990s, but like The Rembrandts promise in their song, we've been there for it through its low points. Now, even though network TV is still bad and getting worse, we're living in a golden age of a Few Good Shows On Cable, like Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Homeland and others. Sure, there's still some good comedies on the networks, mostly NBC, but a general rule of thumb is that if it's good it will get canceled (like Comm...

Introducing a new service that's only not creepy if you're a suave billionaire.So, in case you were confused by the video, or had trouble sitting through the elevator music and jokes straight out of last year's Old Spice commercials, Virgin America airlines is introducing a new service that lets you hit on other people in the plane. However, like every single scene in Austin Powers, there is a conflict between the swinging attitude of the 1960s that Richard Branson and Virgin spend millions e...

But in all seriousness, that kitten's form is terrible. Whether it's your goal to incorporate more time playing with your cats into your daily exercise routine, or more exercise into your daily playing-with-cats routine, this video has some important suggestions. Of course, our cat is way too fat for any of these exercises to be realistic. We wish our gym had cats of various sizes in the free weight area. Also, maybe some hamsters. This may surprise you, but we're not exactly jocks. Oh, and d...

No "Surrender Dorothy?" Are we the only "After Hours" fans left?This brief, occasionally hot, often disturbing* video covers nearly every exclamation you should remember to never utter upon completion of coitus, no matter how appropriate "There's no crying in baseball" might be to the particular coupling. As we all know, the only appropriate thing to say after a sexual act is, "Jesus, forgive me. I'm a dirty person."*The clip is doubly disturbing for us, since the male lead is former Someecar...

English soccer zombies - faster, meaner, and a whole lot ruder.If our memories of second grade serve us correctly, when you bite people, you're supposed to get in trouble. Liverpool striker Luis Suarez may get a lengthy ban for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic, but he also got a new Twitter follower the next day: former World Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson, complete with his 3.6 million followers (see below). Biting people has been a no-no in sports since the days of Greek wrestling, when...

Your romantic overtures are no match for my dual-action news shield!Check out Mike Tobin, double-fisting the incoming lady-kisses during a not-at-all romantic report on the Boston bombing. They're all, "Mike you put the Fox in Fox News." And Mike's all, "Can't kiss. Newsing." They're all, "But we can't wait for you, Mike!" And Mike's all, "Anti-kiss double-block, ACTIVATE!" With one swift move, on-air intimacy was avoided and thank God. Shep Smith does not want to see that.

This also captures Schwarzenegger's tendency to smoke, blog and drive all at once.Will Sasso is, so far, the only reason to tune into Vine. Sure, some of his friends like James Urbaniak and others are starting to catch on, but the former MADtv star is undisputedly the D.W. Griffith of the 6-second format, minus the horrifying racism. The quality of the accent does flag at times, but you can't really be too upset that someone who is holding a phone while navigating the streets of LA and doing ...

Some people just like to make sure their first words are also their last.To be fair to A.J., he had no reason to believe his mic was on. Yes, the newscast had started, but based on the quality of the intro, no one in that studio should assume any of their electronics equipment is going to be in working order. Unfortunately for A.J., he's his own worst critic.Clemente also made clear on Twitter that the first word you heard him utter was not "gay."Seems like "fuckin' shit" is a weird way to pr...

Specially designed by scientists who researched where genitals are.For those of you in long-distance relationships but too lazy to touch yourselves, Durex has a solution. Their new Fundawear are vibrating underwear that can be controlled via your partner's iPhone (or your own, presumably, if you're into that sort of thing). The user simply touches spots on their phone that correspond to the underwearer's errogenous zones, and bam! You're having a lot more fun giggling about Fundawear than you...

Our reaction: 90% "This is amazing," 10% "We hope our lovers never see this."Birthdays may happen year round, but thanks to the incredibly talented Leigh Lahav, "Birthday Time" now only applies to her very lucky husband, Oren Mendezitsky. Most of the videos we put up are things that happen on accident or things that are really stupid. Well, this is incredibly well-done and smart and pretty much nails it across the board. So we don't have much to say, except that if Oren ever forgets what a go...

Nothing like the gritty texture of a space washcloth for sloughing.First of all, we didn't even know Canadians were allowed in space. Doesn't the lack of gravity make it hard to pour maple syrup on everything? Apparently, they are allowed up on the International Space Station, based on this video of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield performing a pretty awesome washcloth-wringing experiment that was designed by two Canadian teens. After the video cuts out, Hadfield politely asked the water to ...

A perfect end to the week.Hey, Ryan does enough rushing around when he's in the pool. When he goes on the news to promote his misguided new show with the Jesus-y title, he likes to take his time, really get a feel for the next sound that's going to come out of his mouth. He's also a playful guy who makes you wonder, is he going to finish the sentence he just paused in the middle of, or is he just kind of shutting down for an open-eyed nap? Either way, Ryan Lochte is a mouth-breathing national...

Being a cat must be so confusing.We've all wanted to do this at some point, right? So we owe this kitty a thank you for discovering that licking a vacuum cleaner attachment is completely safe and also a really good time. This video also suggests that a fantastic way for cat owners to deal with cat hair everywhere is to vacuum their cats directly. But make sure to use an attachment small enough that your entire cat can't fit inside. And please don't tell the ASPCA.

Weird how no one ever sings when rights are taken away from people.Can this happen in the Supreme Court if (when!) Prop 8 gets struck down? When New Zealand Parliament voted to make gay marriage legal on Wednesday, members of Parliament and everyone in the galley burst into applause, and many got in line to embrace the bill's sponsor, Louisa Wall, who is gay. But that's not the good part. Proceedings were interupted (around 1:20) when everyone in the galley, along with members of Parliament s...

So, basically, he's using a giant humidifier.Paging Don Draper, if you were trying to find an ad that uses suicide to sell your product, here it is. The word on the street is that Hyundai declined to actually run this ad, however like many companies' most controversial ads that they didn't run, this one is bouncing around the Internet generating viral buzz and causing the word "Hyundai" to be typed and read over and over. The ad company who made this, Innocean, wasn't even really being origin...

This is easily the worst crime this man has ever committed."What the hell is this guy's private life like?" Anyone who's had to sit through one of the many random presentations American high schoolers are subjected to has wondered this. When we were kids, we liked to joke that they're secretly the next Unabomber. Well, we were right: this guy, celebrity impersonator Paul Kevin Curtis, is suspected of mailing the poison ricin to U.S. Senators and the President. It turns out the crazy people wh...

Wait, wha??! When did those two get married?! Ugh, we hate having a day job.Soap opera scores are usually written by highly trained monkeys, but it turns out a cat can compose the music just as easily. Redditor PGERMS wanted to impress a girl, and so, like Redditors do, he got a cat involved. Apparently, the girl he likes suggested that the music in her favorite soap opera is so bad, her cat could write it. PGERMS put this to the test, and these are the results of his experiment. We think thi...

Personally, we were hoping for Scumbag Alison Brie.Between Mad Men and Community, Alison Brie is already part of two of the most popular juggernauts on Twitter and Facebook, and when you add to that her own personal fans and following, she's practically half-Internet already. Like "Freakazoid," but winningly nice and not blue. If you don't know what Freakazoid was, congratulations, you're on the Internet and you can look it up. If you don't know what these memes that Alison Brie is impersonat...

If you need a quickie, try Craigsphone, Powerchat, Whosaround, or Faceunion.Law & Order first aired in 1990, and frankly, it was way harder to catch a child porn afficionado and/or strangler then than it is now. Back in the day, the detectives had to actually go into people's houses and find physical evidence of their misdeeds, but nowadays everyone's on AQ—oh sorry, we're referring to AnonymousQuickie.com—and if you want to find out if someone's a child molester, you just lure them to you us...