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Poppadecorn Shrimpies

Look.  Approximately from when I was three until I was six, I was *obsessed* with the Muppets.  (Ok, I still am.)  So, man, has it made me joyful that the Muppets have made a comeback in a huge way on YouTube. 

I’m sure you all know the absolutely phenomenal Bohemenian Rhapsody cover (or at least over 15 million people know it), but there have been some great other Muppet videos that they have put on YouTube. 

And because you can never have enough Muppets, or enough YouTube, here are some other recommendations:

1)  Stand By Me - The monster!? Or the bunny?

2) Beakers Ballad - Beaker sings a ballad.  Too bad YouTube doesn’t let him finish.

3) Ode To Joy - Beaker’s version of Ode to Joy.  Times six.

4) Pöpcørn - The Swedish Chef makes popcorn shrimp. Amazing.

Oh, and the world of Muppets gets better.  Jason Segel is writing and starring in 2011’s Muppet movie: The Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made.  And the crew from this new Muppets film just went to Pixar to get feedback from the Pixar braintrust about their script. 

Pixar + Muppets + Jason Segel = win. 

In the meantime, I’m happy with YouTube. 

Old Spice for the Win

Okay, so clearly the Old Spice commercials are some of the best on television.  You know, the ones where the Old Spice Guy is riding a horse backwards?  The ones where the Old Spice Guy is seducing your lady? Or is just simply awesome?

These are the kind of commercials that are worth playing even when you have a DVR.  And this morning I discovered that it just got better. Old Spice just created the coup de grace of viral internet campaigns. 

Two days ago, Old Spice Guy started interacting with the internet.  Normal. 

Well, specifically, social media.  A little more cutting edge. 

But not just regular text interaction; he created individual video responses to fans’ questions on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, blogs, Yahoo, etc. 

Epic win.

These videos range from addressing Perez Hilton, to helping twitterer knitmeapony who wanted to use his voice on her answering machine, to some guy who wanted Old Spice Guy to propose to his girlfriend — which Old Spice Guy did.  (And she said yes.  For real.)

Unfortunately for those late-comers (like yours truly), the campaign ended today - as heralded by this hilarious goodbye:

Fortunately for the Realm of Procrastination and Hilarity however, there are dozens (if not a hundred or so) videos of Old Spice Guy addressing individuals in amazing ways on Old Spice’s YouTube page.

Talk about a great way to increase visibility for your brand. 

HAHAHA

Christianity - the belief that some cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.  Makes perfect sense.

nikkidecoy:

teapots:

visualizeus:

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I lol’d.