Bill Stiteler and Jeremy Stomberg pondered what it would be like if Mad Men’s Sterling Cooper were in charge of coming up with ideas for films and television shows instead of advertisements. The results are all too close to home.

“Dumb Ways To Die” is the new cool thing to parody apparently. This time, members of the Rocky Point Haunted House and Teddie Film made a version for The Walking Dead. With really, really great special effects. Spoilers for character deaths up through the latest season.

(via The Clicker)

Previously in The Walking Dead

• The Walking Dead Loses Another Showrunner, Gets Renewed For Season 4
• AMC Is Giving Us Every Episode Of The Walking Dead In Black and White
• The Walking Dead With Lightsabers

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Remember that video, Science: It’s a Girl Thing? Yeah. It was terrible and the European Union Commission spent a lot of money making it. So a group of Bristol women getting their PhDs in neuroscience, psychology, psychopharmacology, and more decided to make a parody for a lot less. And it’s pretty great. The parody is called “Science: It’s a Thing.4.Girls” and some fellas even get in on the fun! The women suggest, “If you would like to do something practical to help women in science, why not buy a calendar here?”

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Look, I still haven’t listened to this “Call Me Maybe” song in its entirety and I really don’t want to. Getting the Wesley Freitas-directed “Batman Maybe” in my head is good enough. Plus, this Russ Russo guy does a spot-on concerned Christian Bale face. Watch as Blake from The Dark Knight Rises tries to get Batman back into action. Man, things would have been a lot different if Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character took this approach in the film, wouldn’t it? (Editors Note: Technically there are some TDKR spoilers in the video, watch at your own risk.)

When something hits really big, it inevitably gets parodied. And parodied. And parodied until everyone wishes it would just go away. The reason everyone starts making parodies in the first place is because the source material was so good so it’s a shame once the internet is done with it, no one ever wants to see/watch it again. So goes the music video for Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know.” To be fair, the videos that spun off of it were actually quite entertaining, and we simply cannot get the Star Wars/George Lucas version out of our heads, but perhaps it’s finally time to put an end to them all. Here to do it is comic Eric Schwartz. Watch as he attempts to break up with the song for good and when you’re done, you may want to watch this just to keep the circle of life intact.

(via Mashable)

You might be feeling a little Snow Whited out (ha!) but Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman are just two films this year when you think about it. (Though we told you yesterday there was another big Snow White film planned that fell through.) But what if, instead of Snow White starring in her own films, she starred in everyone else’s. Writer/actress Genevieve Farrell shows us exactly what could have been if the fairy tale character had invaded films like Battleship, Prometheus, or The Hobbit.

(via Deadline)

The creative minds behind the very funny A Very Potter Musical, the Starkid Productions, have done what sounds like it should never work: a genuinely funny Batman musical. Called Holy Musical B@man (see what they did there?), the play is posted in 10-minute (or so) parts on YouTube, the first of which we have posted above for your viewing pleasure. It does contain some NSFW language, but it is embedded within awesome musical songs that are about Batman. This is your call to make, folks!

(via Starkid Productions on YouTube)

Did you ever think that all that standing around in crowds, smiling, waiting for people to find him ever got to Waldo? I’ll bet no one ever expected Waldo to go rogue. Next time you ask the question, “Where’s Waldo?” — turn around. He might be tailing you with an assault rifle.

(Joule Thief via Geeks Are Sexy)

We’re due a new Avengers trailer tomorrow, this time with, like, actual plot elements; but in the meantime enjoy this shameless Oscar grab of a reinterpretation. I mean, come on guys. That “squelch” joke ain’t gonna get you anywhere. The Artist had a few other things going for it other than just being silent and in black and white.

It also glorified classic Hollywood culture, so… Well, actually you could work with that. Just tell Mr. Downey to reprise his Chaplin role, and throw a bowler on his Iron Man suit.

(via Screen Rant.)

So, for his post-Oscar show, Jimmy Kimmel threw together an epic fake movie trailer with a few famous friends. Actually, it was all of the famous friends. Nearly every single famous person in Hollywood is in this trailer, and we are a better people for it. If for any reason, for Gabourey Sidibe‘s Black Hitler. The full video is after the jump, but you really had to see that first, because of the whole “next logical step from the Venture Bros.‘ Girl Hitler” thing. Okay, on to the video.