With over 72 hours of footage uploaded every minute, it’s physically impossible to keep track of the content on YouTube. But in YouTube Guide, the Daily Dot will curate its five favorite finds for each workday.
1) Manny Perez, “Highway Scare Prank on Wife”
Manny Perez spent the first night of vacation on the foldout hide-a-bed because of the prank he pulled on his sleeping wife last week. “She said I couldn’t be rewarded for bad behavior,” he told the Daily Dot this morning. Still, pulling a prank like this is worth any kind of temporary punishment, even if she wouldn’t talk to him for a while.
“She loves me enough to stay with me,” Perez said. “We’ve been married for six years now, but if I keep this up, I am questioning number seven.”
2) Pomplamoose, “Batman Theme”
It was only a matter of time before Pomplamoose got themselves on The Dark Knight Rises train. The commercial-friendly duo remixed Danny Elfman’s Batman theme with a bottoms-out dubstep sound. Pomplamoose wrote in the video’s notes that the group hesitated to release this video in the wake of Friday morning’s shooting in Aurora, Colo., but ultimately decided to go through with it.
“We’ve been told that our videos give people some joy,” the band wrote, “or just a moment of light in their days.”
3) The Onion, “New Ad Urges Hipsters to go to Applebee’s Ironically”
Hipsters and Applebee’s: the two go together like ketchup and chocolate. Naturally, the snarky pests at The Onion are here to pick up on the fun. In this spoof of a new ad campaign, the fake media conglomerate finds Applebee’s vying for the adoration of the plaid-shirted and tight-jeaned hipster crowd. Don’t you know they love those awesome blooming onions?
4) Third Eagle of the Apocalypse, “Mitt Romney, a Hero in My Mind”
Anticipated Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney needs some campaign music, and the Third Eagle of the Apocalypse has just the idea. Introducing “Mitt Romney, a Hero in My Mind,” a two-minute keyboard jam that sounds like ice cream truck music but packs a conservative punch that’s usually reserved for the likes of Ted Nugent.
5) Gringotone, “Grad School’d!”
For anybody who’s ever had the fun luck of having a social circle that includes a whole slew of grad student friends, Gringotone may just have the stuff to serve you solace. The sketch comedy duo perfectly tackles the passive aggressive nature inherent within a conversation between grad school graduate and nine-to-five working man. If you’ve been there before, you know exactly how it feels.
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