# New favorite YouTube video **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 16, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772 "2007-11-16T22:44:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/121 "2007-12-08T18:22:35Z")
A Japanese game show. Another example of Japan creating the world’s weirdest shit. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm7aX3QfOG0) ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/122 "2007-12-08T18:47:07Z")
Two of my favourites from Trigger-Happy TV [Job interview](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIuNIGEhUy8) and [Chimney Sweep](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0B6GYnyiN8&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/123 "2007-12-08T22:07:26Z")
[QUOTE=Vision of Love] [Puppy howl](http://youtube.com/watch?v=lHAshi4vdbg) This is a very young golden retriever who howls after some coaxing from his/her owner. Again, this doesn’t sound all that interesting, but if you’re a dog lover at all, you will find this irresistible. Watch his little baby ears when he howls! [/QUOTE] I’m not much of a dog lover, but that was just so frickin’ cute! (BTW, it’s an edited version of this clip [http://youtube.com/watch?v=2-5jVB6QZPw](http://youtube.com/watch?v=2-5jVB6QZPw) ) ---
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/124 "2007-12-08T22:42:53Z")
[QUOTE=rowrrbazzle] I’m not much of a dog lover, but that was just so frickin’ cute! (BTW, it’s an edited version of this clip [http://youtube.com/watch?v=2-5jVB6QZPw](http://youtube.com/watch?v=2-5jVB6QZPw) ) [/QUOTE] I have the one you linked to in my Favorites but I linked to the other one for people (like me sometimes) who close the window when nothing happens in the first 10 seconds. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/125 "2007-12-09T13:13:26Z")
[QUOTE=Enola Straight] A Japanese game show. Another example of Japan creating the world’s weirdest shit. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Jm7aX3QfOG0/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/Jm7aX3QfOG0?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque [/QUOTE] Just to clarify (?) a bit, almost every contestant you see on a Japanese game show is a professional performer of some sort. They tried using ordinary people on game shows and in most cases the response was that it was boring, both since ordinary people don’t react comically on cue (and many of these are staged and rehearsed), and since the pros are under contract and have to do whatever they’re told if they want to eat, you can subject them to pain and humiliation that even the Jackass guys would balk at. In this case, the girls are members of the pop group Morning Musume. [Here’s the same group (plus a few others), being driven into hysterics with a showing of the final scene of _Ringu_.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoj3wbho-lI) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/126 "2007-12-10T03:03:33Z")
Today I was introduced to the [SwiftKids For Truth](http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=twentythreesix&p=r) and the ads are pretty funny. So far they’ve lambasted Clinton, Edwards, Obama and Giuliani 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/127 "2007-12-11T09:55:25Z")
[QUOTE=Peak Banana] [All](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Ma7bZ2dH0&feature=related) [things](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv8icJf8mjk) [QI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lun3Jrzfbr0). It’s in season 5 - and it’s all there! [/QUOTE] Thank you. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Excellent show. My faith in humanity has been restored. ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/128 "2007-12-11T14:41:29Z")
The [Heroine to Dark Princess transformation](http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=-sX1dXyxvro) from Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean’s [Mirrormask](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366780/) ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/129 "2007-12-11T19:18:50Z")
[QUOTE=TPWombat] The [Heroine to Dark Princess transformation](http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=-sX1dXyxvro) from Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean’s [Mirrormask](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366780/) [/QUOTE] That was … interesting. I like her little smile at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/130 "2007-12-11T20:15:59Z")
[QUOTE=Euthanasiast] Thank you [/QUOTE] You’re welcome. 🙂 Also, cat lovers of the SDMB, be sure to check out this piece from Alan Davies’ standup show on the subject of [cats](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BUiESEnKj0). ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/131 "2007-12-11T21:28:26Z")
[QUOTE=Stauderhorse] I’m rather fond of [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwecmArCTp8) one. Disney movies + Cell Block Tango = hilarity. [/QUOTE] That is absolutely brilliant! I’ve watched it like three times. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/132 "2007-12-12T10:38:12Z")
[Tagging subway trains in Legoland[sup]TM[/sup].](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFXMrIy8eqA) ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/133 "2007-12-12T11:16:08Z")
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain performing [Wuthering Heights](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSed1K-QNMc) (HEATHCLIFF!!!) and also having a bash at [The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3gp7B8WC4Q) (and trying not to laugh). Yes it’s novelty music, but both are great tunes anyway, and these guys are talented, so both are done _well_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Walking\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@The\_Walking\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Walking_Dude)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/134 "2007-12-13T04:14:06Z")
I just found this [one](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2857615512491488449) . The amusement caused by the song aside, they are rather impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/135 "2007-12-13T04:34:12Z")
[12 Days of Christmas, Indian Style](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owK5tHjL0aE) ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/136 "2007-12-13T05:35:43Z")
[Thelonius Monk performing Blue Monk in Oslo in April 1966 with his quartet.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmhP1RgbrrY) I love the look of cool, collected confidence on Charlie Rouse’s face during his tenor sax solo. And watching Thelonious Monk play is always a trip–he always focuses so intensely, then looks for all the world like he’s going to flub the note, and then always gets it exactly right. You can tell he had the mind of a chess player–two moves ahead of everyone else. Hell of a band, too, although IMO Ben Riley (on drums) could’ve stood to slow down during Larry Gales’ bass solo to keep Gales from looking as slow and deliberate as he did. [The John Coltrane Quartet performing Afro Blue](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTrb4iOiDpo&feature=related), with a sweet piano solo by McCoy Tyner and a pretty nice one by Coltrane himself to boot. I love that there’s some random white dude kickin’ it by the piano smoking a pipe. I saw a great clip of them performing My Favorite Things with Coltrane on tenor sax in Jazz by Ken Burns, but I can only seem to find him playing soprano sax on YouTube. C’est la vie. [Medeski, Martin & Wood](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3iyMC5nhfw), a more modern trio, playing Think. Props to **Argent Towers** for linking me to it. These guys are good. And who can forget [these](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCedVqOucMM) [classics](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWQdHoyn-mA)? (Not music, just funny and awesome, respectively.) ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/137 "2007-12-13T06:33:44Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog] … having a bash at [The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3gp7B8WC4Q) [/QUOTE] Brilliant! It’s been around a while, but I’m still impressed by [Mr. Woo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYMdpzE8Mk) - about the most amazing demonstration of physical skill I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/138 "2007-12-13T07:50:55Z")
:eek: :eek: :eek: That guy is my hero. ---
**Author:** ![Havik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Havik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Havik)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/139 "2007-12-13T09:10:50Z")
This video had me going “Whaa…?” the first time, but then I watched it a few more times, and just couldn’t stop laughing. It’s apparently the animation final of a third year student at UOIT, but he didn’t learn much, I guess… [Colin’s Bear](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiARsQSlzDc) ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772/140 "2007-12-13T18:27:54Z")
Continuing _The Good, the Bad & the Ugly_ theme, check out this version of [_The Ecstasy of Gold_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ3u3fTG70Q). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-youtube-video/426772.md?page=8)