If you’ve been listening to the Frotcast, you know one of our favorite things ever are those isolated vocal tracks that have been going around the internet. It started with David Lee Roth singing his own back-up on Runnin’ with the Devil (OOOH BABY YOU KNOW I AIN’ LYIN AAAAAH AHAAAAAAAAA!), and it got even hotter this week with the guy from Smash Mouth (CALIFONYA GOT SUNSHINE! HANGIN’ OUT WITCHO FRIENDS!). Sorry, Steve Harwell, you are forever “the guy from Smash Mouth.” In any case, someone took the two tracks and did the obvious thing and cut them together. Two great tastes that go well together! It’s exactly what you’d expect, and I cannot stop laughing.

This is neither here nor there, but if I ever get rich, I’m going to pay Fred Schneider from the B-52s to follow me around, narrating everything I do. “He SAID he WANTS, a CUP of COFFAAAAYYYY!”

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It’s been a busy week in Busey news (see: Gary Busey plays a pro-wrestling vampire, Gary Busey gets into a fist fight over what kind of couches they have in heaven), so I thought this week, in lieu of a Friday Free For All video, I’d present to you instead an out-of-context word from Gary Busey. Sort of like a Moment of Zen on the old Daily Show.

Here it is, your out-of-context word with Gary Busey:

This has been: Your out-of-context word from Gary Busey.

By the way, have I ever told you want “panda” means, Butthorn? PANDA: Plush Asexual Nougaty Dream Animal, PANDA. Speaking of the Beatles, you wanna buy a suitcase full of panda meat? (*smoke bomb, jumps through plate-glass window*)
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Here’s the latest from our friends at 5secondFilms. It stars Weird Al Yankovic, it’s called ‘Weird Owl,’ and I think you’d have to agree that it’s one of the finest films in the history of five-second cinema. I’d like to think it was heavily influenced by my own zero-second film, Max Von Sea Doo. I watched this with the director’s commentary on, and I learned that Weird Owl actually comes from a whole family of actors.  His cousin was the eagle who stole Sandra Bullock’s Blackberry in The Proposal.

Friday Free for All has increasingly fallen by the wayside as I get lazier and lazier on Friday afternoons, but I’m bringing it back, with another sweet supercut/mash-up/montage/whatever you want to call it. (A while back I think we decided “Clipzkrieg” was preferable to “Montage” because it sounds angry and German instead of nice and French, but I digress). Some internet genius (Slacktory, to be specific) has taken every slow-motion shot from Wes Anderson movies and set it to Ja Rule.

Wes Anderson is well-known for getting a lot of emotional mileage out of his slow-motion shots, usually set to classic Rolling Stones tunes or folky indie rock. It works, because it’s cheating. Slow-motion anything set to music always feels important and deep. It’s video editing 101. But here I’d always assumed that Wes Anderson movies were stealing the emotional power of the songs for the visuals. The interesting thing about this edit is that it shows that the reverse is also true: Bill Murray walking through a crowd of photographers with his kid on his shoulders in Life Aquatic actually makes Ja Rule’s music seem less shitty.

You can see the original Royal Tenenbaums scene below.

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I’ll be honest, I was hoping for a lot more back-and-forth banter between the iPhone 4S’s Siri and the Furby here, but the video made me laugh anyway. Turns out, Furbys are inherently hilarious. Or maybe it’s just me. Between this, the mechanical falcon in Your Highness, and the “Wafflebot” in the new Harold and Kumar movie, it turns out my funny bone has a real weakness for sentient animatronics.

[via LaughingSquid]

After the jump, a mesmerizing combination of country folks and sword play.

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