CHRIS' QUARANTINE RECOMMENDATION OF THE DAY (4/23/20): ASSORTED YOUTUBE VIDEOS I LIKE THAT YOU'LL LIKE TOO IF YOU HAVE GOOD TASTE (VOL. 2)

CHRIS' QUARANTINE RECOMMENDATION OF THE DAY (4/23/20): 

ASSORTED YOUTUBE VIDEOS I LIKE THAT YOU'LL LIKE TOO IF YOU HAVE GOOD TASTE (VOL. 2)

By Chris La Vigna (@Chris_LaVigna)

Listen up you degenerate freaks, it's time for me to list off some more YouTube videos I like and for you to dutifully watch them, because you're self isolating and have nothing better to do and my taste in art of all disciplines is virtually unimpeachable. These are just facts, okay? So watch these videos, laugh your butts off, or in the case of video number four, burrow into a fear cocoon, and join me in the eternal struggle to squeeze a few extra drops of serotonin from our dirtbag brains. Alrighty then, let's get to it...

1.) THE JUSTIN BIEBER SHOW

This video from animator Harry Partridge is my favorite kind of YouTube clip, just straight up surreal nonsense. It starts with the simple conceit of Justin Bieber starring in his own sitcom and quickly devolves into absolute batshit madness over the course of forty six seconds. Just watch the damn thing. You're welcome.

2.) TEENAGE MUTANT HARDCORE TURTLES

This video right here is one of my earliest YouTube-related memories. I remember my cousin showing this to me back around '07 or '08, and I reacted to it then the way I reacted to it now when I looked it up and gave it a quick re-watch: I damn near pissed myself from laughing so hard. The genius of this video lies in its simplicity: It's a bunch of clips from a video of the brief live-action TMNT stage show from the sometime in the late 80s/early 90s, at the peak of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hysteria, edited along to a song from a hardcore band called Throwdown.

What's impressive about it is how well a lot of the clips sync up with the song, and there's just something inherently hilarious about watching kids dance and parents nod their heads while some guy shouts "YOU FUCKING BASTAAAAAAAAARDS!" over the soundtrack. There's also a very specific drum hit around the 1:45 mark that's perfectly times to a clip of the turtles jamming, and it is super satisfying.

3.) PUNISHER '66

This sketch is brought to us by the TWO MINUTES TO LATE NIGHT crew before they'd even made 2MTLN. The premise is as basic as it is brilliant: How fucking insane would be if The Punisher was given a silly Saturday morning kids show, not unlike the famous Alan West BATMAN series? 

Yeah, it'd be pretty fucking great! Especially because The Punisher is still just as brutal on the cheeky villains he's faced with on the show as he is in the comics, so he's just straight up slaughtering sons of bitches while all those wacky sound effects go off! Watch this one if you need a solid, amoral chuckle-fest in your life.

4.) I FEEL FANTASTIC

I FEEL FANTASTIC...HEY HEY HEY.....YOU FEEL FANTASTIC... HEY HEY HEY... RUN RUN RUN...

This is still one of the creepiest videos I've ever seen on the internet. Apparently it was uploaded sometime in 2009, and it features this wigged robot singing a very disturbing song that goes on forever. Mix that in with random shots from a backyard, a generally dated VHS look, and the fact that the video description is just a weird copy and past of some ancient myth, and this has all the makings of a Great Internet Mystery.

Of course, the common theory at the time was that the robot was made by a serial killer, the backyard footage was meant to be shots from where he buried his victims, and all that good stuff. While it's more likely that this was just somebody's weird art project that they put online for shits and giggles, it still has a very eerie energy, and I severely regret putting it on this list that I am writing at two in the morning, inviting the memories of this cursed video to awaken inside my consciousness and wreak havoc upon my mind. I am an idiot.

5.) ARE THOSE REEBOK OR NIKE (SUBTITLES)

Okay, I'm still freaked out thinking about the last video, so I'm gonna end this on a nice and funny clip from a Dominican radio station, where a listener calls in to request a song that he's certain is called "Are Those The Reeboks Or The Nikes?" Hilarity ensues. My friends and I still quote this one to each other to this day.

And that's all folks! See ya next time!