Video Kaboom!!

Since I haven’t put much up here in a ways, thought I’d sprinkle some YouTubes, some newly found, some I’ve been sitting on a while.

Perhaps she was one of his young:

Jungle loneliness strikes:

A Left 4 Dead mod perhaps scarier than the original:

And then there’s Japan…

And this, the unquestionably most awesome prank ever in the history of EVAR:

Counting in English

Remember that horrible 1990s relaunch of the American gameshow Make Me Laugh? Here, in one fell swoop, a seemingly intellectually challenged Japanese man puts dozens of second-rate American comedians to shame:

Oh, and administering corporal punishment to unsuccessful contestants never hurts (the ratings, that is).

In defence of the poor guy, Japanese and English are very different languages. Now, I remember a girl back in the fifth grade who moved from England to Canada, and she couldn’t count past 29.  True, I’ve never been to Britain, but I’m pretty sure they don’t use use “twenty-ten” …

Skin Food — You Decide

So I’m sitting at the train station, absently watching the TV they have set up there, and this commercial comes on.  And, within the first 5 – 10 secs, I think “Man, this commercial has huge sexual overtones.”  And then I think, “Nah, I’m reading too much into it, it’s just the whole typical Asian-cutesy thing.”

But then there’s the ending . . .

So — what do you think?

Why I No Longer Fear Robots

Though I do have to give Baloonhead props.  That’s a hell of a finisher he’s got.

In The Name Of Science

“So now a new trivia is born into this world.”

You can also become a Pants man!

Pa, Pa, PANTS MAN!

“Human Art”

Thanks to William Gibson for pointing this one out.

마스터 치프가 아주 위협하고있군요!

Ahh, CGV Yongsan. Seen me many-a movie there.

Like the shadows of the mind, they are.

Kicks Go Boom Boom

We’ve all seen what Japan did to Spider-Man.  Well, he’s not the only human-animal crossfreak to be besmirched in some way by those rice-eating bastards.

Actually, these ones have been besmirched in the exact same way as Spider-Man.

In case you haven’t seen what Japan did to Spider-Man, here you go:

Tetris + Old Man Bites Tenderly

Here’s some fun human-style Tetris followed by some SILENT LIBRARY!

Japan’s Finest Scientific Minds

Hard at work.

The Villain Revealed

The Impossible Occursuh

MadTV does something funny.

Well, at least it’s funny to me. I’m not sure how much you need to know about Korea to get these, but I know I’ve got an Edge (heh) over the rest of you. I can confirm they are wickedly mistranslating a lot of it (in the first video, at one point he says “I can’t speak Korean”), and I can verify there’s more funny to be had from the slapping sequence than any of you realize. These Koreans, they love the slapping!

That was the Edge right? From wrestling? The Canadian? Right?

Play Soccer In Japan At Your Own Risk

Retort!

On the actual broadcast, this didn’t have the English translation at the top of the screen. I recommend not looking up there your first time through.  Hold a hand up, or maybe scroll the window down enough to block out the top bar once the letterboxing kicks in.