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Originally Posted by Nate the Great

Bambi vs. Godzilla

I promise that it's worth a minute and a half of your time.

Surprisingly, I saw this in the 90's on Super Channel, back when that was still a thing in Canada. It was one of those filler things they put in between movies later at night.

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Well, I'm pretty sure I must've seen this one on Newgrounds back when YouTube was but a madman's dream (to quote Ashens).

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The Mini Page!

Grandma and Grandpa would send us these out of their newspaper, back in the late '80s or early '90s.

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A short clip covering the restoration of the original NCC-1701 shooting model at the Smithsonian, and another after it went back on display.

I'm fairly sure that I saw it in person twenty years ago on a field trip when the traveling Smithsonian exhibition came to town. I distinctly remember seeing the ruby slippers (they aren't as impressive in person, FYI).

I love museums, and I want to get to the real Smithsonian someday.

Incidentally, in these clips the experts do their best with the treknobabble, but they mess up a lot. Or at least they tend to go generic or imprecise. I kept wanting to yell at the screen "go to the Internet and you'll find hundreds of people willing to help you for free!"

The Smithsonian also has a Voyager commbadge given to astronaut Sally Ride.

Size comparison of several scifi ships, done to scale in CG.

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Collective nouns for Pokemon

I'm fond of unusual collective nouns for animals in real life (murder of crows, pod of whales, etc.), so seeing that someone has done this for the first generation of Pokemon amused me.

(PS. The page puts "s" at the end of the Pokemon names, I know that we don't do that in real life, it's one Pikachu, two Pikachu, three Pikachu, gray duck. Sorry )

Some favorites: a squad of Squirtle (of course), a mischief of Pikachu, a carton of Exeggcute, a fortune of Chansey, a mystery of Mew

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Someone turned the digits of pi into musical notes to make a song.

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The evolution and history of pop cans.

Look, I'm an engineer, so this kind of nerdy stuff fascinates me.

Music boxes are more complicated than you'd think.

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So I'm playing Monopoly on Pogo again, and I notice the muted sound icon. You see, there are so many other things to listen to on the Internet than musak. Out of curiosity I unmute for a few seconds to remind myself what it sounds like. Blech.

Then my mind goes to the excellent soundtrack on the 1995 PC game by Westwood. Ah yes, those dark times before widespread adoption of the Internet when you had to play games on CD-ROM. I still own the game of course, although I haven't used it in over ten years. But that doesn't matter, because you can listen to the soundtrack on YouTube!

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Westwood had a superb run for game soundtracks, then. This was their 1996 entry.

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The Vintage Computing Blog covers '80s electronic toys.

I had quite a few of these things (or at least similar models based on the same concepts), how about you guys?

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A Reddit thread invents a game where one poster does a one sentence summary of an episode focusing on the most ludicrous element while still being accurate.

Some favorites:

Captain Picard's ability to count the number of lights that he sees is put to the test. He passes.

Kirk allows oblivious woman to jaywalk to her death.

Major Kira gets really mad at a wimpy filing clerk.

Picard makes some new friends, but Riker disapproves of this and tries to murder him.

Sisko, Bashir, Dax and Kira sing and skip to help line quarks pockets.

Captain Janeway kills a dude in cold blood using the transporter. Why? Because he existed, and his existence offended her.

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How It Should Have Ended presents all of Harry Potter in 90 seconds.

Yeah, it's an old video, but it's vaguely fiver-related. "Vaguely" being the operative word here.

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LGR unboxes an almost 30-year-old IBM computer.

Talk about nostalgia. Incidentally, does anyone know why the thing couldn't play Commander Keen 1, but it could play CD-Man?

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Irish People try Root Beer for the first time.

Apparently I haven't shilled for the Irish People Try playlist over at Facts yet. It's funny to watch them eat food that we take for granted, but they have no first-hand knowledge of.

Spoilers, they didn't like the root beer. Now, who else doesn't like root beer? Someone that we all know?

Hmm.....

(I love root beer, especially if you put vanilla ice cream in it. It's cream soda that's vile.)

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A cover of the Palace Theme from various Zelda games that makes it sound vaguely like a James Bond theme.

I'll take Improbable Pop Culture Mashups for $1000, Alex...

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The band Five Year Mission does tribute songs for TOS episodes.

These aren't quite musical fivers, but rather sung summaries of each episode, along with commentary on performances, plot holes, etc.

YouTube channel with music videos.

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Last month was the tenth anniversary of the Potter Puppet Pals short "The Mysterious Ticking Noise."

It feels less pointless when a Buzzfeed article marks the occasion.

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First, there was "A Modern Major General"...

Then Tom Lehrer turned it into "The Elements Song"...

Then XKCD turned it into "Every Major's Terrible"...

And today I discovered the "Boy Scout Merit Badge Song."

Just in case you haven't gotten your daily reminder that the world is weird.

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So today the Nostalgia Critic reviewed the 1974 version of Jack and the Beanstalk, but I'm not here to talk about that. I'm here to talk about the images on this page...

Yes, these two characters are from the same cartoon. A girl who looks like she walked out of an Ozamu Tezuka anime and a boy who looks like he walked out of a Dr. Seuss cartoon.

And that's your dose of weirdness for the day.

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It's Back to the Future Pop Culture Mashup Day!

Dr. Seuss version: "Oh, the Era's You'll Go!"

Dr. Who version: The Tardis-as-DeLorean is cool.

Ghostbusters/Ecto-1 version

Calvin and Hobbes version

Peanuts version

The always classic Marty McPrime shirt

Mario Kart version

Crossover with ALF, A-Team, Ghostbusters, and Knight Rider