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The Danish National Symphony performing the theme to The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly!

This is so amazing! My eyes are still wet from laughing! My thanks to motodraconis for posting this.

Mainly because I was cleaning out some old browser tabs and found a new one to Trans-Siberian Orchestra that was awesome!

First off, blame james_davis_nicoll for starting it, as he provided this first video.


I loved it! Now, before doing the second fire truck light show, you need to see the real TSO video to Wizards In Winter.


And now, the firetruck version!


We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog reading.

Can't remember if I posted this, I know I didn't post the others that I've found since I just found them tonight!

This is the first one that I saw, from the Brits, they have a stunt fighter registry and figured out how to choreograph a fight sequence while home isolating.


Boss bitch fight challenge: women actors and stunt fighters. This isn't the original that I saw, but it's the same footage with subtitles identifying who the actor is.


An Italian boss bitch fight. This one is nice because there's some prop continuity between the cut scenes.


Broadway Women:


The German women get in on the action:


This one is a departure from the Boss Bitch Fight, it's a South African stunt fighter series, and I'm disappointed in that it has a bare knife and a gunshot with animated blood. Takes away some of the fun IMO. But there's a great faux Matrix scene.


Ring of Steel fight reel. They do fight demos at conventions and renaissance festivals.


This is an AWESOME fight reel of martial artists! I assume some of these people may be stunt people or coordinators.



And the last one, which is also the last one that I could easily find, is quite something! I think it's made by people who are super in to cosplay, the ones who when they do, for example, a Japanese fighting character, they learn the fighting style behind the character and can do the moves. And they do the moves! Very well done video.

james_davis_nicoll recently found an intact squirrel corpse, and the question was posited whether or not not squirrels could fall to their deaths.

I recently watched a video putting squirrels through an obstacle training course - yes, really - which included a catapult if they stayed on a platform too long. And according to this video: no, they cannot. They don't have enough mass to hit a terminal velocity is the most important aspect, and their fur is an automatic speed brake. They fluff out their tails to act as a drag parachute, they turn their eyes to lock on to where they want to land and maintain that orienting lock, then they move their arms and legs in and out to control their rotation and orientation. At the last possible moment, they extent their legs to act as shock absorbers when they land, then they scamper off.

Presumably the guy who invented the obstacle course - who is an engineer who worked for NASA and invented the package thief glitter/stink bomb/GPS tracker - did some serious research on the subject. And since it appears on the internet - in a video, no less! - it must be true.

On to the video, which is quite an amazing way to spend 22 minutes of your life.

We'll lead off with a Bohemian Rhapsody parody:


Followed with a very clever Spoonful of Sugar parody by a very charming Julie Andrews impersonator:


Our houseguest, Dave, found this on Facebook.

And finally, another brilliant Spoonful parody, only this one by Randy Rainbow, called A Spoonful of Clorox:


I found Randy's video from this HPuffPo link.

Done sort of in the style of Wonder Years. I needed to totally discharge my laptop battery from 3% to zero, and playing video seemed like a good way to do it.

As if Stranger Things isn't weird enough, changing it to an episode of Wonder Years really puts it over the top.

Well, Andy Serkis as Theresa May as Gollum. And it's beyond brilliant.

I've been watching a lot of these today, and I think this one to Jurassic World is perhaps the best single video. The one for Captain America: Civil War is also quite excellent.

No, it's not actually an NFL player, but it's really funny.