# Straight Dope's best videos **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166 "2010-12-14T21:21:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/1 "2010-12-14T21:21:11Z")
Is there a video you find particularly funny, fascinating, kawaii or otherwise interesting? Share it here. Here’s the song I’ve had in my head since yesterday: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/2 "2010-12-14T21:43:00Z")
I started a thread about [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM), and both people that responded really liked it. I’ve watched it a couple of dozen times now. Better with sound. And SFW. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/3 "2010-12-15T03:13:36Z")
One of the members here [created this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpjNLjBbVd4) - sorry don’t remember who. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/4 "2010-12-15T04:27:27Z")
Not really a video, but a song I was not familiar with, and is definitely worth hearing: The b-side of Terry Jacks’s “Seasons in the Sun,” [Put the Bone in.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_pX1-IxRBY) ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/5 "2010-12-15T04:32:43Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > One of the members here [created this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpjNLjBbVd4) - sorry don’t remember who. Ow! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/6 "2010-12-15T04:37:38Z")
This one is pretty cool. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qjCLQaTFXx0/maxresdefault.jpg "Dynamite - Taio Cruz - A Cappella Cover - Just Voice and Mouth - Mike Tompkins") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjCLQaTFXx0) He’s done a few others and there’s a load of copycat videos now by other people. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/7 "2010-12-15T04:52:10Z")
I posted this one a few months ago but it’s definitely worth another look. Video taken from the front of a cable car in 1906 San Francisco. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINOxRxze9k) ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/8 "2010-12-15T06:52:00Z")
[powerlifter breaks leg WARNING. EXTREME](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouVit0UUCG0) [Kids Gone Wild: Dirty Dancing Video Will Shock, Awe and Nauseate](http://tv.gawker.com/5549754/kids-gone-wild-dirty-dancing-video-will-shock-awe-and-nauseate) ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/9 "2010-12-15T08:48:28Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I posted this one a few months ago but it’s definitely worth another look. > > Video taken from the front of a cable car in 1906 San Francisco. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINOxRxze9k](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINOxRxze9k) That’s a pretty nifty video. If the commenters are to be believed, the film has been dated to only days before the big quake. Oddly, what struck me about it was the lack of ingrained traffic rules. There’s some adherence to everyone going in (roughly) the same direction on one side of the tracks, but aside from that, everyone meanders pretty much anywhere they want–cars, wagons, and pedestrians veering about and cutting in front of each other and the cable cars. With fewer vehicles and lower speeds, you could get away with it, I suppose. My current [favorite video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rmbN6-T-UE&has_verified=1) is considerably less illuminating, I’m afraid, but it amuses me. (It’s a line animation of Final Fantasy MMO characters doing a video to the song “Stacy’s Mom”.) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/10 "2010-12-15T13:45:25Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I started a thread about [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM), and both people that responded really liked it. I’ve watched it a couple of dozen times now. > > Better with sound. And SFW. This is an awesome video. I’ve seen it before and every time I watch it I tear up. Can’t say why. > [@PlainJain](#): > > One of the members here [created this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpjNLjBbVd4) - sorry don’t remember who. Really? I’m pretty sure I was the one that originally posted that…I had no idea a Doper made it! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/11 "2010-12-15T13:54:14Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > This is an awesome video. I’ve seen it before and every time I watch it I tear up. Can’t say why. You can’t? I can. It’s a simple message presented so powerfully that it hits me straight to my gut. It says “people love you and don’t want to see you die a horrible, bloody death.” And the scoring is perfect. I well up a little every time I see it, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/12 "2010-12-15T13:55:42Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > You can’t? I can. It’s a simple message presented so powerfully that it hits me straight to my gut. It says “people love you and don’t want to see you die a horrible, bloody death.” And the scoring is perfect. > > I well up a little every time I see it, too. 🙂 My ability as a man to articulate _why_ I cry is clearly not as keen as yours, Obi-Wan! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/13 "2010-12-15T13:56:35Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#): > > [powerlifter breaks leg WARNING. EXTREME](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouVit0UUCG0) Ouch! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/14 "2010-12-15T13:57:35Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > My ability as a man to articulate _why_ I cry is clearly not as keen as yours, Obi-Wan! The force is strong in this one. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/15 "2010-12-15T14:12:53Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Really? I’m pretty sure I was the one that originally posted that…I had no idea a Doper made it! I could be wrong but I’m sure I remember the poster opening a thread asking for opinions on this video that they created. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/16 "2010-12-15T14:31:22Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > One of the members here [created this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpjNLjBbVd4) - sorry don’t remember who. On the same lines I’ve always loved [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw). Catchy tune, too. ---
**Author:** ![cardinal\_fang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal_fang/32/15316_2.png) [@cardinal\_fang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cardinal_fang)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/17 "2010-12-16T05:24:52Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > This one is pretty cool. > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjCLQaTFXx0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjCLQaTFXx0) > > He’s done a few others and there’s a load of copycat videos now by other people. That is cool. [Cute video](http://www.youtube.com/user/MARCELTHESHELL#p/u/0/VF9-sEbqDvU) I ran across a few weeks ago. Impressively voiced by Jenny Slate, of recent (albeit brief) SNL fame. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/18 "2010-12-16T07:09:15Z")
[Compilation of car crash videos.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CO6Di0Trjc) Many are special effects crashes shot for movies or TV, but there’s also quite a lot of real ones caught by traffic cams, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/19 "2010-12-16T10:22:51Z")
I have posted this before but I watch every week or so and still love it. [Japanese adults convince kids a zombie is coming to attack their house.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEUWG1tmg_I) Kids totally believe it and fight off the zombie with a plastic dinosaur, Tabasco sauce and cling film (amongst other things). I have a new favourite part every time I watch it. Currently, it’s how polite everyone is - the zombie takes off his shoes before he enters the house and they him “Zombie-san” ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166/20 "2010-12-16T11:55:41Z")
> [@Manwich](#): > > I have posted this before but I watch every week or so and still love it. > > [Japanese adults convince kids a zombie is coming to attack their house.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEUWG1tmg_I) Kids totally believe it and fight off the zombie with a plastic dinosaur, Tabasco sauce and cling film (amongst other things). > > I have a new favourite part every time I watch it. Currently, it’s how polite everyone is - the zombie takes off his shoes before he enters the house and they him “Zombie-san” > [@](#): > > Work together? You weren’t helping! Do you think this is easy? 😃 I guess this is actually emotional child abuse, but I can’t help but laugh. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dopes-best-videos/564166.md?page=2)