And so it ends. 2009. 2008. 2007. 2006. 2005. 2004. 2003. 2002. 2001. 2000. They're all gone now. R.I.P, those years. What a Toad's wild ride it has been. So many ups and downs! Just kidding. I mean, I guess... CONTINUE READING THE CATCHPHRASE OF THE DECADE»
Posted on December 30, 2009 in Awards
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Tags: Awesome | Catchphrases | History
Now that mash-ups have become so common as to be boring, one can forget just how good mash-ups can actually be. For example this mash-up of Pixar's Up and Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino. Now THAT is what I call a... CONTINUE READING GET OFF PIXAR'S LAWN!»
Posted on December 15, 2009 in WebJunk
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Tags: Awesome | Clint Eastwood | Gran Torino | Pixar | Up
What a year 2009 has been, you guys. So many people died, or were trapped in balloons, or not trapped in balloons and then threw up on live television. But despite the ups and downs (get it? Ups and... CONTINUE READING THE BEST VIRAL VIDEOS OF 2009: A RETROSPECTIVE»
Posted on December 15, 2009 in Love-Watching, Viral Video
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Tags: 2009 | Awesome | Viral Video | Yay!
Maybe! I finally saw it over the long holiday weekend, and boy did I love it! After all of the weird press about what a nightmare Wes Anderson was during the filming process--the general idea being that he mostly... CONTINUE READING WAIT, IS FANTASTIC MR. FOX THE BEST MOVIE OF 2009?»
Posted on November 30, 2009 in Love-Watching
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Tags: Awesome | Bill Murray | Fantastic Mr. Fox | George Clooney | Jason Schwartzman | Meryl Streep | Wes Anderson | Yay!
Thousands of young Americans enter film school every year with the hope of making the next Citizen Kane (but this time, "Rosebud" is a pair of rollerblades!). Most of them, of course, won't succeed as directors, and will eventually find... CONTINUE READING KIDS MAKE AMAZING VIDEOS STARRING THEIR DOLLS SINGING ABOUT BURRITOS THE DARNDEST THINGS»
Posted on November 5, 2009 in Cute As Balls, Love-Watching, Viral Video
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Tags: Awesome | Awww | Burritos | Children | Dolls | Lunch
Oh man. Obviously, I am as big a proponent of trying to do it all at the same time as anyone (other than John Kilduff himself), but this one seems a little dangerous. At the very least, if we... CONTINUE READING LET'S PAINT, EXERCISE, AND GO TO THE HOSPITAL: HALLOWEEN EDITION»
Posted on October 22, 2009 in Love-Watching
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Tags: Awesome | Halloween | Hospital | John Kilduff | Knives | Let's Paint TV
Check it out now before it's co-opted into a bluejeans/Sony Bravia commercial.... CONTINUE READING MORE GREAT STREET ART FROM THAT ONE DUDE»
Posted on September 23, 2009 in Love-Watching
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Tags: Awesome | Graffitti
I guess the original video footage of Baseball Hall-of-Famer George Brett chatting it up with the boys about how much he shits his pants is old. It's weird that in my insatiable hunger for all things sports, I somehow missed... CONTINUE READING CLASSIC LOCKER ROOM TALK (NOW WITH AUTO-TUNE)»
Posted on September 16, 2009 in Sports
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Tags: Awesome | Baseball | George Brett | Shit | Toilets
The "gang" from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia are going to do a six city tour of their musical The Nightman Cometh. Tickets go on sale tomorrow. Ah-ah-aaaaaaaaah.... CONTINUE READING A PLAY ABOUT KARATE AND FRIENDSHIP FOR EVERYONE»
Posted on August 6, 2009 in Good Idea Jeans
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Tags: Awesome | It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Musicals | The Nightman Cometh
"Champion of My Heart" by Richie Cunning: I was at a barbecue last weekend (your jealousy is palpable) and my friend Jane had one of those mini-boomboxes that you can plug your mp3 player into (whatever that is, I still... CONTINUE READING INTRODUCING THE OFFICIAL VIDEOGUM THEME SONG»
Posted on July 28, 2009 in Music Related Content
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Tags: Anthems | Awesome | Hip Hop | Richie Cunning | Theme Music
The only thing to really do with this is set it up: the following is a scene from ABC Family's new gymnastics-themed show, Make It Or Break It, which based on this scene appears to be a documentary about what... CONTINUE READING THE GREATEST FIGHT SCENE OF ALL TIME»
Posted on July 28, 2009 in Teen Soap Operas
(51 comments)
Tags: Awesome | Fighting | Gymnastics | LOLk | Make It Or Break It | Women
By now you have probably seen the videos (after the jump) of a young Japanese girl who won a contest to interview Harry Potter going basically INSANE when Daniel Radcliffe surprises her on set. And again when Rupert Grint surprises... CONTINUE READING THE JAPANESE GIRL MEETING HARRY POTTER IS LIVING THE DREAM WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WE HAD»
Posted on July 21, 2009 in Behind The Scenes
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Tags: Awesome | Daniel Radcliffe | Harry Potter | Rupert Grint | Superfans
Sorry guys, we have to do the 2009 Academy Awards again, we messed up. After we KILL HITLER, let's point the Time Machine to last February and give all the Oscars to Bollywood He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.... CONTINUE READING BOLLYWOOD HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE IS THE RICH MAN'S SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE»
Posted on July 1, 2009 in Love-Watching
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Tags: Awesome | Bollywood | He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe | Poverty | Slumdog Millionaire
This is the demo reel for professional stuntman Damien Walters (via FilmDrunk). CORRECTION: this is this year's demo reel for Damien Walters. You can see last year's here, if your mind is not blown enough by this video. Dude is... CONTINUE READING DEAR AWESOME STUNTMEN, LET US WORK ON YOUR SOUNDTRACKS»
Posted on May 28, 2009 in Love-Watching
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Tags: Awesome | Damien Walters | Stuntmen
Speaking of Persia, if you had told me a day ago that they should make another Mummy movie, I would have told you to put a curse on yourself damning you to an eternity of lifeless shuffling in a dusty... CONTINUE READING THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR IS GOING TO JUMP SPIN CRESCENT KICK ASS»
Posted on May 1, 2008 in Posters
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Tags: Awesome | Brendan Fraser | Jet Li | Martial Arts | Racism | The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor
OK, this one is going to be a hard sell, but stay with me here. I know that this trailer is in Thai, not English, with no subtitles. I know that the audio is edited together kind of badly, with... CONTINUE READING I LOVES ME SOM TAM»
Posted on April 30, 2008
(3 comments)
Tags: Awesome | Muay Thai | Som Tam | Tony Jaa
John Travolta did not like riding his motorcycle behind Tim Allen because of the flatulence. It wasn't Tim Allen's fault, and John Travolta was respectful of that. Plenty of men had difficulty with gas as they got older--John Travolta didn't...
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The novel Blindness, by Jose Saramago, was published in Portuguese in 1995 and translated into English in 1997. Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature one year later, in 1998, in no small part due to the success (and...
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Although many people who participate regularly and enthusiastically in the Videogum commenting community could not be at this week's Videogum Video Pizza Party, I still like to think that this week's Monsters' Ball marks a new chapter in all of...
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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...
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"Whoa." --Kebanu Roves It is weird that you can't do things normally in New York sometimes. Like, I'm so sorry that I ate an early dinner before going to see Avatar on Friday night the way that a HUMAN BEING...
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