From Ferris Bueller giving life advice (“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”) to Tyler Durden giving the audience some home truths about consumerism, characters love breaking the fourth wall.
Meaning, they love crossing that fictional line and addressing the audience head-on because, you know, movies are actually real. And here’s ten of the best moments of that, picked subjectively by a random stranger who you’ll probably disagree with.
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LOLCats may’ve been LOL back in 2005, but the internet is a fickle mistress and new memes soon become discarded and oh-so-last week quicker than you can say “Impact Font”.
But why? And just how long is the LOL-cycle of a new meme? Mike Rugnetta from PBS’ Idea Channel takes a fascinating look at why and when memes stop being funny and start being really annoying.
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This has got to be the dumbest prank in the history of pranking—just what did they expect to happen?
After pretending to rob someone in broad daylight at an ATM (the “victim” is in on the prank too), many times over, inevitably a hero steps in and dishes out some justice with his fists.
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From its classical, upright beginnings playing Bach to the Seinfeld theme tune, Collective Cadenza explore the history of the bass.
And what a versatile instrument it is, used in jazz, rock, pop and funk it helped found many, many genres and musical styles. All hail the bass!
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Don’t worry if you’ve not been keeping up with what the idiots of the world are up to, this compilation’s got you covered.
From the ridiculously stupid to the stupidly ridiculous, all varieties of fail are here, from both young and old and everything in between.
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No doubt you’re Charlie Big Potatoes and you often get those emails from people on LinkedIn asking you to join their network.
Yeah, it’s kinda awkward in the virtual sphere but imagine if that was happening in the physical realm, like at your front door?
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Kids these days, they don’t even know they’re born, etc, etc… but back in the 80s, it was very, very, very different.
Kevin Bacon knows about the suffering we all experienced back then, getting nuked on the way to Blockbuster, Rubik’s cube being the best app we had—but you try and tell the young people of today that… they won’t believe you.
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The Honest Trailer crew really couldn’t have made a more accurate trailer for Disney’s Christmas hit Frozen.
“From the studio that finally learned how to make Pixar movies,” it begins, “…comes the feature-length music video for ‘Let It Go.’” Pwnd.
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