Popped Culture

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Big Bird knocks the crumbs out of Cookie Monster in this mashup of Sesame Street and Street Fighter, from pop artist Jared Moraitis. So, you figure the bird is on 'roids...

Wee, time to celebrate the birth of our great nation with a holiday in the middle of the week. WTF?! Stupid calendar. Anyway, to you non-Canadians, this is downtown Toronto. Yep, it's all wilderness up here.Ok, maybe four hours north of the city it looks like this...

"I have something I want to tell you. I'm not like other guys." Truer words have never been spoke.You know it's thriller, Lego thriller night. Tired of the Michael Jackson tributes and retrospectives...

If there's something strange in Springfield townWho you gonna call?Ghostbusters!Or at least the Ghostbusters as envisioned by Dean Fraser of Springfield Punx...

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.This parody of West Side Story is the kind of thing that some producer of Broadway will laugh off and then calls the writers a few days later and options it...

Comic artist Neill Cameron is on a drawing quest, spending a month "drawing STUFF that is AWESOME." With H is for... Hagar the Horrible Hacking Hello Kitty in Half and K is for.....

Wow, that took way less time to watch than to read the first five books. And they need two movies to show Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows...

Watch Spoiler Alert on CollegeHumorTell your friends the ending at your own risk. While this might be a touch extreme, I certainly understand the desire to avoid spoilers.Previously on Popped Culture...I Spoil Your MovieStop Talking! I Taped It!

By now you will have heard of the unexpected death of Michael Jackson and public opinion has quickly divided into two camps: musical genius vs. insane, creepy pedophile.I think both are true and one shouldn't outweigh the other...

Britney Spears in the centre of the next pandemic. Surprise! I would have thought it would have been Paris Hilton.It's actually a Chinese ad for Panadol, a cold and flu medication. So the Chinese are either celebrity obsessed or think Hollywood celebs spread disease. Probably the later...

Violence is never the answer, but sometimes everybody deserves Keyboard Cat.Previously on Popped Culture...Keyboard Cat: You Make My Dreams Come TrueTeh Lolcats Theme SongAll Your Memes Are Belong To Us

This is what it looks like when toddler Prince cries. Or is that just how big he is? Hmm...Anyway, pop artist Dave MacDowell nods to both Purple Rain and Mark Ryden's Little Boy Blue.Previously on Popped Culture...Breakfast HawksOompa LoomPacino The Seven Jack Nicholsons

And cousin, bidness is a-boomin! Ok, forget Alice for a while, THIS is the movie I'm looking forward too: Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.My friend and critic James Rocchi describes it as a "series of great scenes without a movie to connect them," but that will work just fine for me...

Ed Wood meets Raoul Duke, crossed with Edward Scissorhands and Willy Wonka. I love everything about the new images from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, especially Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.Burton's take picks up 10 years after Lewis Carroll's classic tale left off...

Stick a stake in Twilight, it's done...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, the characters from Batman took on the some unfamiliar characteristics. At least they did in illustrator Dean T...

According to Dan Meth's Futuristic Movie Timeline, Clockwork Orange (there it is again!), Escape From New York and 2001 should have happened already...

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well, it's Kermit and his droogs, ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence. I knew those Muppets were up to no good...

I was never much into biology or hunting and, seeing as my father was both a biology teacher and an avid hunter, I'm sure he was a little disappointed. But thanks to knitter CraftyHedgehog, I can now relive my Gr...

General Lee: Dukes of HazzardYou know how you're always wondering what famous movie and TV cars would like if they had been '70s-era vans? Wonder no more...

So does that mean the aliens from Space Invaders were actually retaking their home planet? That we were the invaders? This t-shirt just blew my mind...

Mary Poppins remixed, resequenced and rerecorded, from Pogo of Last.fm, who last remixed Alice into his FairytaleDisneyHop sound...

"Look, let me explain something. I'm not Jesus. You're Jesus. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. That or His Dudeness... Duder... or El Duderino, if, you know, you're not into the whole brevity thing."The Big Lebowski Last Supper will match your favorite rug and really tie the room together...

Finish her! An epic battle between Rainbow Brite and Strawberry Shortcake as two '80s cartoon-cum-greeting card icons duel to the death. Pop artist Jude Buffum painted the pixelated pair as embroidery for the The Autumn Society's '80s pop show...

Good news, everybody! An insider has told Collider that Futurama has been given a 13-episode order by Comedy Central...

Mr. Blonde: "You don't have any idea what you're talking about. These people bust their ass. This is a hard job."Mr. White: "So's working at McDonald's, but you don't feel the need to tip them. They're servin' ya food, you should tip em...

Tiananmen SimpsonsOne of the most powerful images of the the twentieth century, the image of the anonymous man who stood in front of a line of Chinese tanks during the protests at Beijing's Tiananmen Square still resonate 20 years later...

Donatello was a painter? Who knew? (From xkcd, via Geekologie)Previously on Popped Culture...Here Be Anthropomorphic DragonsNow That's a Wine With Class!Spin Around, Ninjas

Yesterday, at the end of my street a group of good ol' boys called The Wild Turkeys set up with their washboard, bass, guitar and suitcase drum kit and just started letting loose. They are from Sault Ste Marie and on a tour out to the east coast and decided to make themselves a little gas money...

It's the Star Wars/Magnum P.I. mashup you didn't know you needed but are now complete because you've seen it. Wow, I miss that show - I used to watch it daily during university...

Watch Pedobear "Doubt" Trailer and more funny videos on CollegeHumorThe web is full of weirdness today. You doubt me? I give you the Pedobear version of Doubt. As CollegeHumor says, "We did it - we found something creepier than Philip Seymour Hoffman."Oh yeah, and did I mention Explosions and Boobs...

Turns out this looks pretty cool and is a nice retrospective on their career. I like that it gets all psychedelic in the middle. Previously on Popped Culture...Mashups Are Playing At My HouseA Day in the Life of Abbey RoadBrush With Ungratefulness

Every time I see one these literal videos, I figure it's going to be terrible, but it usually turns out to be the video they are mocking that's a mess. Who knew Total Eclipse of the Heart, which I just despise, had such a creepy, nonsensical video...

Oh Micheal Cera, what will ever become of you?When you're down and outWhen you're on the streetWhen evening falls so hardI will comfort youAn infotoon from cartoonist lunchbreath, who has many more gems of wisdom...

Go and ask the wizard for a heart, for a brain? Hell no...

Mmm, nothing cures a hangover like a Lust For Life breakfast, with a heap of fried Iggys. From artist Scott Campbell via his show at Gallery1988...

Broccoli and cabbage, yum! Who wouldn't want this truck in their neighbourhood? Reminds me of the cart that drives around here in the summer, ringing a bell. You start salivating, until you see it's the knife-sharpening guy...

Emomelon Days from Dan Meth on Vimeo.Emomelon days are lonely, 'cause the world is so phony. Such sad, gloomy watermelons. I just don't even know how to describe how wonderfully weird this video is...

"A towel, [says the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy], is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value...

Read more and submit your own at the simply, and obviously named, LOL FAT CATS. Ya, take that bankers. No, wait, stop already!Previously on Popped Culture...Teh Lolcats Theme SongThe Ennui of Henri The Cat Came Back

I guess that settles the whole Ginger vs. Mary Ann debate. From pop artist Isabel Samaras, who has some wonderfully smutty takes on Robin and the Green Hornet, and Samantha and the Darrins. I love seeing high art subverted by pop culture...

Edward Scissorhands is not the best rock, paper, scissors player. But Edward can just shred the smug little grin off that kid after losing for the fifth time. From Threadless t-shirt designer chippos...

From Jorge Cham's Piled Higher & Deeper, about the ongoing chronicle of life (or the lack thereof) in grad school. As someone who works deep in the bowels of both the media and the internets and spent an inordinate amount of time at university, this is pretty much how it works...