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With Father’s Day on Sunday, this much-beloved gem-of-an-ad for Hallmark’s “Cards with Sound” line will, no doubt, disappear into the vaults by Monday. Thankfully, on YouTube, these joints live forever.

My favorite part? As with you, every single moment of the dancing, and the actor’s perfect sync of the M.C.’s closing, “Stop! Hammer Time!” line, above.

But running a really close second? That glare his wife gives him at the 0:21 mark, right, after their youngest calls him out of reverie.

What’s the problem, Mom? Can’t Dad do a little dancin’ on his Very Special Day?

Rebecca Sealfon, 1997 Scripps Spelling Bee champ, casts her vote

I don’t actually share the outrageous ecstasy Barack Obama’s upcoming nomination has unleashed on our land. But when it comes to compressing said elation into a seventy-second video breakbeat, Jay Smooth of illdoctrine.com inspires pure joy. Had Black Eyed Peas front-man Will.I.Am done something as unpretentious and true as this piece, or as Jay’s earlier Pulp Fiction/Clinton superdelegate mashup, I wouldn’t have to keep talking about him, or his blathering, tepid “Yes We Can.” Still yet, a small price to pay in order to see real talent. Rock rock rock on, Jay.

You might think that a student with a double major in Geography and Russian & Slavic Studies—one matriculating in about a year, before heading to grad school—might have more to do at 4 a.m. than create a geographic outline of the places rapper Ludacris likes to pick up chicks, based on his 2001 Word of Mouf single w/ Nate Dogg, “Area Codes,” above. (Click on the map to enlarge it, then again to see it at maximum size.)

But, if you do think that, you neither know the contradictions of higher ed nor the peccadilloes of Stefanie Gray. (You also haven’t been to the incredible Strange Maps blog, where I first saw this.)

There, the CUNY Hunter College undergrad, right, notes, “I’m a female and a feminist. I dislike the usage of the word ‘ho’. However, as a geography major, I find this song hilarious, and had to map it.”

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Such nice, white kids: Corny Collins and crew give you the finger

TITLE: HarryAllen.info’s Hairspray: The Hardcore Hip-Hop Remix!

LENGTH: 3:51

QUESTION: Have you ever noticed that the “Nicest Kids in Town” dance sequence, from the hit 2007 musical, Hairspray, syncs perfectly with “Ante Up (Remix),” the 2000 Funkmaster Flex track by M.O.P., Busta Rhymes, and Remy Ma?

STORY: It’s 1962 in Baltimore, Maryland. Tracy Turnblad (Nicole Blonsky) is in school, merely tolerating chemistry class, anxiously waiting for it to end. When the bell finally rings, she dashes out and grabs her best friend, Penny Pingleton (Amanda Bynes). “Penny! Come on, hurry!” she urges. “Push, we’re late!”

While the two run fast as they can over to Tracy’s house, in a darkened studio across town, camera crews set up shots and slickly-dressed teens spin on their heels, taking special care to “douse their ‘do’s'” in Ultra Clutch. It’s The Corny Collins Show! One minute to air!

Tracy and Penny burst through the door and turn on the television, just in time for the start of their favorite weekday afternoon TV program. Soon, they’re moving to the beat as Corny (James Marsden), Link Larkin (Zac Efron), and “the nicest kids in town” do the hottest dances to the latest song!

INSTRUCTIONS: Forward this to your friends! Though audio is NSFW, play loudly, share widely, and enjoy!

mental_floss’s Ransom Riggs points out with several examples what was obvious to most, but undocumented until now: With the possible exception of the Flaming Lips, both cats and rock stars are united in their hatred of laser pointers.

I’m suddenly not too ashamed to admit that I used to do this before I knew it had a name: “Sleevefacing.” However, I did it with magazines instead of albums. (I wasn’t naked, either.)

Even today, every now and then, I stick a periodical in front of me piehole and strike a pose, just to be silly for the wife.

Aaah, memories.

Talented caricaturist Donald Soffritti’s humorous “Decadence” series depicts superheroes, like Batman and Robin, Flash, and Spiderman, above, in their not-so-golden years. Plus, if you like the work of talented illustrators the way I do, the guy’s got a blogroll to die for.

Introducing the dance remix of Bill O’Reilly’s now notorious, “twenty years old” hissy fit, obviously just as NSFW as is Bill.

I saw Amy Poehler’s toothsome chomp into Clinton’s soft, white underbelly this past weekend on SNL, and it was, indeed, hilarious. But The Huffington Post rocked this still frame hard enough to make me stand back, and re-see the beauty of the moment.

Thanks to Ebog Jonson for alerting me to another brilliant mash-up from fellow WBAI-er Jay Smooth, of ill doctrine fame.

Here, Obama supporter, Democratic Party leader, and movie gangster Marcellus Wallace smoke-filled-rooms with Hillary Clinton, letting her know in the very smoothest, frankest, most curse-laden language possible that she needs to take a fall. But, as you can tell, by the end, she still doesn’t get it. Looks like Barack is gonna have to get medieval on that…tookus.