Web-based shorts you know and love

For obvious geeky reasons, my favorite is probably “George Lucas In Love” – crossing Shakespeare in Love with the Star Wars mythos was pretty inspired, once you bought into the premise. To think, the Nemesis of the Rebellion is based on some pompous, wheezing, anal-retentive asthmatic film student named Aaron. My cousin Aaron didn’t like it as much as I did, for some reason.

If anybody can find a link, go right ahead and post it. All the ones I googled are dead.

405. Absolutely amazing, especially considering it was done by a couple of guys in their spare time.

I agree with George Lucas in Love and give an honorable mention to Tripping the Rift and the original South Park short.

Wow!

For fans of Kevin Smith’s Clerks, there’s The Flying Car.

Troops. A camera crew accompanies Imperial Stormtroopers as they make their rounds.

OMFG, that was amazing. Could have done without the laughtrack, of course, but still, priceless.

Well, there’s Red vs Blue. Oh, and there’s also Banana Phone!

In the same vein there’s Trooperclerks which is what happens when you put the Clerks movie in the Star Wars universe. Check out the live action and the animated versions.

Camp Chaos’s “Napster Bad!” series*

it’s not kid-safe, and it’s borderline NSFW, but it’s very funny

Napster BAAAAD GOOOD!

*warning, may contain content offensive to people with no sense of humor

Make sure you get the “enhanced Monkey Notes” version with the deleted scenes!

Stale Piss BAAAAAAD!

This one, Tetra Vaal , is one of the greatest pieces I’ve ever seen. Not only because the robot is CGI, but because it is a perfectly done corporate video demo. And, it’s really quite spooky, when you think about it. HIGHLY recommended.

Rockfish is standard-issue CGI, but quite well done.

This is … interesting . Let it play all the way through. Trust me. Someone has too much time on their hands, but at least they’re creative.

No kidding! I think that even who made the film got part of that, as there were a lot of Robocop elements to it. I can’t find the thread now, but there was a long thread a while back where a number of posters said that they were creeped out by the Honda robot commercials.

That isn’t really a laugh track. What you’re seeing was being broadcast on The Tonight Show (hence dialogue like Randal saying “…he diddles your weiner” instead of “…he fucks you in the ass”). You’re hearing the audience laugh along.

[hijack] If you’re a Clerks fan, then you might want to take a look at yesterday’s the big announcement from News Askew (if you’re not seeing the May 31, 2004 update on that link, then the story has been archived and can be found here). [/hijack]

Hey. In three more days I’m out for the summer and I’ll nothing but time on my hands to check out links for web-based shorts like these. Please don’t let this thread die!

What else ya got? I thought the Clerks thing was hilarious, btw.

If you like Star Wars, http://www.theforce.net/theater/index.shtml has alot of fun fan film shorts to enjoy.

These two are some of my favorites. =)

I love this first one, some great martial arts, and the narrative is from an actual Civil War love letter:

http://www.theforce.net/theater/fxprojects/artofthesaber/index.shtml

This 2nd one never fails to crack me up. It’s a spoofe on the Princess Bride and Star Wars:

http://theforce.net/theater/shortfilms/brains/