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A lot of celebrities have done ridiculous Japanese commercials over the years thinking they would never be seen in the west, this may be the most awesome one.

 

Mess of random links:

• Somari, bizarre Mario-as-Sonic pirate game for the NES. The converse hack also exists, and isn't any better.
• Look Around you: Synthesizer Patel, The Helvetica Scenario, Season 1
• Biffo Vision (as in Digitizer's Mr. Biffo)
• Round the Bend was a great kids' show and I'm surprised nobody seems to remember it.
  Yeah it's kind of tame through jaded adult eyes, but it seemed edgy and even subversive at the time. E.g. Pzycho the Magnificent tries to kill/mutilate people, Wooly the Wonder Sheep causes horrible disasters, Doc Croc sometimes calls the viewers "benders" and the same episode has Bum-Ra lamenting that he "cannot contain the massive output of juice from your jockey shorts." If internet rumours are to be believed it was taken off the air as the result of a Mary Whitehouse campaign ...
• Pib and Pog. There's a few of these.
• What
• This lightsabre fight is impressive for a fanmade thing (watch in HD)
• MAXIMUM TROLLING
• Dancing flash thing that lets you upload your own face. In Swedish because the English version is monetised now, but it's not too hard to work out.
• Armed remote-controlled helicopter POV nerdery
• Possibly the best Betty Boop, although this one is up there too
• Sonic and Knuckles: Flying Battery Zone syncs perfectly with U Can't Touch This ...
• ... although I guess you can match any genre with rap. (Yeah, I play Touhous a bit)
• One of the few good ytmnd's: Tasha Appreciates Drugs
• What the hell Japan, seriously
• The legality of these products seems questionable
• Comics I read: Pictures For Sad Children (see also the one-off Stevie Might Be a Bear Maybe), Dinosaur Comics, Nedroid Picture Diary, Sexy Losers, Super Mega Comics, Leisure Town, Order of the Stick, Chainsaw suit, Gun Show, Three Word Phrase
• Southwest Airlines employee song
• Flairs - Trucker's Delight
• Pink Panther Theme beatmatching skills
• Who Killed Captain Alex, Uganda's answer to Fatal Deviation
• Poochinski, a pilot which the studio rejected for some reason
• Jandrew Edits (main site seems to be down) of Star Trek TNG, Back To The Future etc. Funnier than that probably sounds.
• U.S. Emergency Broadcast System, used to announce national emergencies e.g. nuclear war, not being taken seriously (they got in trouble for this apparently)
• Birdy Nam Nam - The Parachute Ending