In a mashup from YouTube user isthishowyougoviral, the crunk madness of Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” gets paired with the plush-cuteness of our favorite Muppets. They’ve taken the mic and are taking it away.

Check it out as Dr. Teeth gets the whole squad turning up:

The guy behind the remix is Mylo the Cat, who’s also the genius behind the Muppets cover of the Beastie Boys. 

Photo via isthishowyougoviral/YouTube

American gymnast Jonathan Horton has set plenty of records in his long career, but now he has one on a different playing field.

After failing to finish the course last year, he competed on American Ninja Warrior in Houston Monday night as a walk-on contestant, and he easily showed the advantage of being a gymnast as he made his historic run through the course.

At just 5 feet 1 inches tall, Horton’s height might be seen as a disadvantage (as with fellow record-setting contestant Kacy Catanzaro), something the commentators mentioned at just about every possible chance they could. But while Catanzaro failed to qualify this year, Horton made it look easy as he used the skills he’s perfected to get ahead and become the shortest man to scale the warped wall.

Last week it was announced that the Canadian TV show, which has seen several iterations since its creation in 1979—Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High, Degrassi: The Next Generation, and now just Degrassi—would stop its run on TeenNick next month. But Netflix is good at swooping in and picking up shows relevant to its brand, and so 20 new episodes will hit the streaming service and Canada’s Family Channel next year, with a new name, Degrassi: Next Class. 

In a statement, the show’s co-creator Linda Schuyler said, “We are energized and excited to work with Family Channel as we tell stories for the new post-millennial teen cohort known as Generation Z, most of whom weren’t even born when Degrassi returned in 2001.”

If you want proof of the series’ influence, look no further than the Kroll Show spoof, Wheels Ontario. 

H/T Entertainment Weekly | Photo via TeenNick

In 2015, food culture has gushed over its tipping point, and the line between satire and reality is dust in the wind. There’s pizza on pizza. Bacon roses exist. This exists. In this climate, thankfully we have Made to Order.  

Leah Rudick and Katie Hartman, who make up the NYC sketch duo Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting, are the creators and writers of the webseries, which follows two sisters attempting to make some scratch by opening a food delivery service. The idea came from a painfully real place: the underground lobster-roll trade in Brooklyn.

“Katie had heard about these underground, secret lobster rolls,” Rudick told the Daily Dot. “But you had to find them secretly on Twitter.”

“You had to know a guy who knew a guy and get a phone number and text the phone number and see what was going on that day,” Hartman added.

“It’s like dealing meth,” Rudick said, “but it’s lobster rolls. And it was just one of those things we thought could turn into something cool.”

There are shades of High Maintenance, in that the series is less about the product and more about the weirdos Rudick and Hartman meet on their travels. The two have also starred in episodes of the Vimeo series, which is headed to HBO.

“We love them, obviously,” Rudick said of High Maintenance’s crew. “What they’ve done is create a totally new feeling [for] the medium of webseries.”

“That episode could have been 15 minutes long,” Hartman said. “It was heartbreaking to cut some of that down because it was just so funny. … We definitely wanted some tension. We definitely have experience with friends who shouldn’t be dating the people they’re dating. We wrote that character to be kind of cunty, but Megan took it to a whole new level, and the cowardly male figure who chooses insane women… I think that dynamic is infuriating to be around.”

“I think [that theme is] there without us meaning for it to be,” Hartman said. “It’s in our culture now. We wrote [the series] before Uber was a thing… but now because everyone has a smartphone, because you can just get an app, there’s a race to be the app that will call anything [you] want to [you].”

“Also, there’s just this oversaturation, and the idea that you could get anything at any point,” Rudick said.

“You could also just walk down to a grocery store,” Hartman added.  

The shelf life for many of these niche businesses is often mercifully short, as evolution steps in. “In the webseries, it’s such a sinister world of getting into it,” Hartman explained. “People thinking something is such an easy thing and being terrible at it. … In New York, I don’t like frozen yogurt, but there were a bunch of [shops] popping up with dumb names and now they’re all closing. Flavaboom can get out of here.”

“There was a store in L.A. called Plops.” Rudick added. “A store full of cake balls, but it just sounds like a poop store. That store also closed.”

Rudick and Hartman confirm there will be a second season of Made to Order (the remainder of season 1 will roll out over the next few weeks) and that they’re going to get “real artsy” with it. (The name “Burrito Abramović” was also floated.) 

 A hypothetical question about their last meal before being put to death unraveled this exchange:

Hartman: Probably steak.

Rudick: I was gonna say steak too.  

Hartman: We should get executed together.  

Rudick: But we should probably just eat one steak. We want to go to skinny heaven. ...I don’t want to be too heavy for my coffin.”

Hartman: Maybe some french fries too. … Red wine? Can you have red wine on death row?

Rudick: And a chocolate molten lava cake.     

Screengrab via Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting/YouTube 

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 ended on a cliffhanger, and the new trailer for Part 2 does little to resolve it—but it sure is thrilling.

In the conclusion to the Hunger Games story, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and her allies return for one final battle against the government of Panem, taking the fight to the streets of the Capitol. The nail-biting trailer has a "one wedding and a lot of funerals" vibe, beginning with Finnick and Annie's marriage before descending into the violent chaos that marks the end of the book trilogy.

Notable appearances in this trailer include Gwendoline Christie as Commander Lyme and a very tiny glimpse of Peeta. Sorry, Peeta fans.

Have fun re-watching this trailer and freaking out for the next four months!

Screengrab via Forbes/YouTube

You know, from Parenthood?

Or were you thinking Gilmore Girls?

It’s true: Her characters of Lorelei Gilmore and Sarah Braverman (from Gilmore and Parenthood, respectively) share more than a few characteristics, but her onscreen daughters really couldn’t be further apart. Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) was the quiet, book-smart favorite of Stars Hollow, while Amber Holt (Mae Whitman) took a more rebellious path through her teenage years before winning over the hearts (and ears!) of viewers in Parenthood.

Photo by Jack Plunkett (used with permission)

"I don't relate to being boy or girl, and I don't have to have my partner relate to boy or girl," Cyrus told Paper in a revealing NSFW interview accompanied by photos of the 22-year-old singer posing naked with a pig, covered in slimy mud, and wearing a beaded merkin (that's a, um, pubic wig).

Among the topics Cyrus discussed in the interview were her veganism, the Happy Hippie Foundation she announced last month, her Boddhisattva-like political awakening ("I can't drive by in my fucking Porsche and not fucking do something"), and her "conservative-ass" parents who she adores regardless of their different views.

Cyrus also opened up about her sexuality and gender identity with a fascinating fluidity—one that the Daily Dot addressed in a controversial article last month.

"I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn't involve an animal and everyone is of age," Cyrus told Paper. "Everything that's legal, I'm down with. Yo, I'm down with any adult—anyone over the age of 18 who is down to love me. I don't relate to being boy or girl, and I don't have to have my partner relate to boy or girl."

She's had serious romantic relationships with women, Cyrus said, but they simply didn't end up in the spotlight the way her relationships with male partners like Liam Hemsworth did. She told the magazine that she first confessed her sexuality to her mom at the age of 14.

"I remember telling her I admire women in a different way. And she asked me what that meant. And I said, I love them. I love them like I love boys," Cyrus told Paper. "And it was so hard for her to understand. She didn't want me to be judged and she didn't want me to go to hell. But she believes in me more than she believes in any god. I just asked for her to accept me. And she has." 

It's a beautiful interview in which Cyrus expresses a deep desire to use her fame and privilege to make the world more accepting for queer and homeless youth. And the photos—of Cyrus in all her hairy-pitted and body painted weirdo glory—are super hot.

Read the full Paper magazine interview with NSFW photos here.

Photo via Paper Magazine/Instagram | Remix by Fernando Alfonso III

Pensen Paletti is the German YouTuber who plays the impressive Bumm Guitar, which combines an acoustic guitar with seven mini drum pads to approximate a full drum set. The results are impressive.

Paletti's only been making his Bumm Guitar videos for a week, but if this is any indication of future success, he’ll have a long YouTube career of blowing us away with his talent.

Screengrab via Pensen Paletti/YouTube

Nilsen, who goes by the name missglamorazzi on the platform, opened up in a video titled, "Something I Want You to Know (Coming Out)." 

Nilsen explained that she's known since childhood about her sexuality, but that she grew up in an unsupportive environment. She also discussed the fact that she's dated guys in the past, and described her life as a "constant cycle of distraction and suppression."

Fans and fellow YouTubers are already reacting positively to the star's announcement.

Vimeo announced today four new music titles available in June via the Vimeo on Demand platform, so now there’s no need to get obliterated by the heat at a festival this summer. 

Titles include Soaked in Bleach, the latest documentary about Kurt Cobain (it comes on the heels of HBO doc Montage of Heck), which focuses more on his death than his life, and On My Way Home, a concert doc about YouTube-propelled a cappella sensation Pentatonix. 

Jack Warner, the FIFA official and Trinidad and Tobago politician who infamously cited an Onion article in his own defense, is one of John Oliver's favorite parts of the scandal. And after Warner paid for a pro-FIFA ad to air on Trinidad TV—where anyone can buy airtime—Oliver simply had to respond.

Warner's bizarre TV spot claimed that he had proof that FIFA influenced the 2010 elections in Trinidad and Tobago, with Warner threatening to make those documents public. It's not entirely clear why Warner thought this would help his own corruption case, but John Oliver couldn't resist replying with his own ad on Trinidad TV.

"Mr. Warner," Oliver said, speaking from the set of HBO's Last Week Tonight. "Do not blue-ball the entire planet by promising spectacular FIFA revelations and not delivering."

Photo via Maryanne Ventrice/Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0)

The Golden State Warriors are in the NBA Finals for the first time in 40 years, but some of their fans don’t know the first thing about the team.

To be fair, between the NBA, the Stanley Cup Finals, and the Women’s World Cup all taking place at once, it can be difficult for the casual sports fan to keep track of everything—even his or her home team. To show how much people are willing to lie about what they know to get on TV, Jimmy Kimmel once again sent out his Lie Witness News crew to Oakland, California, to stump them.

The lies are even more apparent than in previous segments. The crew still manages to dupe everyone with all of the celebrity callouts, but some people are starting to see through the veils. You can't fool everyone anymore, Kimmel.

It’s that time of year again, when all the fall/spring shows have wrapped up their runs and the summer TV season starts gearing up. There are plenty of promising series that will be premiering across the network and cable landscape over the next few weeks, but what if you’re left craving more of your favorite show in particular?

We’re still tinkering with our Cosmic Treadmill prototype, so we can’t bring you new episodes of The Flash from the future. And Matthew Weiner still refuses to take our “please make more Mad Men” phone calls. So we’ve decided to bring you the next best thing: suggestions for 10 streaming shows to check out if you’re fiending for the likes of Gotham, The Following, Arrow, and more. It may not speed up the wait until your favorite shows return in the fall, but hopefully it’ll get you hooked on shows you might not have seen—or even heard of—yet, all of which are perfectly suited for summer binge-watching.

Now then, put on your comfy pants and settle in for some serious couch potato action.

If you’re missing Arrow, check out… Torchwood

Season 1 is hit-or-miss, but the show is a blast when it’s firing on all cylinders, and it achieves true, dark brilliance during the Children of Earth miniseries that served as its third season. Just don’t get attached to any of the cast: Torchwood can be as brutal as Game of Thrones or a Joss Whedon show when it comes to putting its characters through the ringer.

If you’re missing The Blacklist, check out… Leverage

It’s Robin Hood for the modern age—light and thrilling popcorn entertainment with a side of social commentary. Angel fans will be happy to see actor Christian Kane on hand as resident “muscle” Eliot Spencer, a former black ops veteran who knows his way around (or straight through) an action sequence.

5 of 5 seasons available on Hulu, Netflix Instant

If you’re missing Castle, check out… Murder, She Wrote

With all 12 seasons streaming on Netflix, there’s plenty of Murder, She Wrote to enjoy. For bonus fun, try watching the show while imagining that Fletcher is actually the one behind all the killings and is just using her purported knack for crime-solving as the perfect alibi.

12 of 12 seasons available on Netflix Instant

If you’re missing Elementary, check out… Life

Lewis is stellar in the lead role, as is his chemistry with Sarah Shahi as his new partner. With only two seasons produced and a satisfying conclusion to wrap it all up, Life is a perfect snack-sized treat for lovers of “smartest guy in the room” mysteries.

2 of 2 seasons available on Hulu, Netflix Instant

If you’re missing The Flash, check out… Misfits

Since it’s a British series, the seasons are bite-sized, ranging between six and 10 episodes, so Misfits is a perfect match for binge-inclined fans of The Flash’s colorful world of heroes and villains.

5 of 5 seasons available on Hulu

If you’re missing The Following, check out… Bates Motel

Much of that success hangs on the casting of Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore as Norma and Norman Bates, respectively, with the talented pair managing to sell all the creepy complexity of the most notorious mother-son relationship since Jocasta and Oedipus. We all know how Norma and Norman’s story ends, but Farmiga, Highmore, and the sharp character work of the show’s writers make the journey to that macabre destination a thoroughly addictive ride. Season 3 just wrapped on A&E last month, so it hasn’t hit any of the streaming services yet, but you can watch seasons 1 and 2 in full on Netflix Instant.

2 of 3 seasons available on Netflix Instant

If you’re missing Gotham, check out… Life on Mars

John Simm stars as Sam Tyler, a Manchester cop who gets hit by a car in 2006, only to awaken in 1973. But he’s not out of place in the past; it’s as if his life had simply been lifted out of one decade and dropped in another. He’s even still a cop. Over the two seasons that follow, Tyler works as a detective inspector while trying to solve the biggest mystery of all: Is he dead? In a coma? Or has he genuinely travelled through time? Fans of “mystery box” shows like Lost will find plenty to love in Life on Mars, not to mention a much more satisfying resolution. If Life on Mars gets its hooks into you, the sequel series, Ashes to Ashes, is also available on Hulu.

2 of 2 seasons available on Hulu

If you’re missing Grimm/Once Upon a Time, check out… Beauty and the Beast

Linda Hamilton stars as Catherine Chandler, a young New York lawyer who is rescued by the noble but beastlike Vincent after she is attacked and left for dead in Central Park. He transports her to his home, a secret community of people living a steampunk life in the tunnels and passages beneath New York City. Just as in the fairy tale, Vincent and Catherine are immediately drawn to each other, and Beauty and the Beast traces both their unlikely romance and the interactions between the “World Below” and the “World Above.” Hamilton didn’t return for the third season, a loss which hamstrung the show, but the first two seasons still hold up very well. (Fun fact: A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin was a writer and producer on the series.)

3 of 3 seasons available on Netflix Instant

If you’re missing Mad Men, check out… Magic City

The underrated Jeffrey Dean Morgan channels the same easy, alpha-male charisma as Mad Men’s Jon Hamm in the role of Ike Evans, owner of the glitzy Miramar Hotel in 1959 Miami. It might sound like a dream job to some, but Evans is continually under the thumb of local mob boss Ben Diamond (Danny Huston), the silent majority owner of the hotel. Evans wants to run a clean business, but the tendrils of organized crime are hard to escape, so Evans frequently finds himself caught between Diamond, the law, and family drama involving his wife (Olga Kurylenko) and sons (Steven Strait and Christian Cooke). Starz canceled Magic City after two seasons, but the writers got enough of a heads up to give the characters and storyline some proper wrap-up, so viewers won’t be left with a frustrating cliffhanger. There is also a feature film spin-off in the works that will add Bruce Willis and Bill Murray to the cast.

2 of 2 seasons available on Netflix Instant

If you’re missing Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, check out… The 4400

4 of 4 seasons available on Netflix Instant

Photo via Orin Zebest/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) | Remix by Jason Reed

Larry King isn't tweeting out random things; he’s putting out a stream of consciousness.

The longtime talk-show host and avid tweeter—who famously doesn't actually post his own tweets—talked to Conan O’Brien about his process. Instead of winding down on a Sunday night, he'll just tell his wife what he wants to put on the Internet.

“Just let an idea float out,” he explained.

The Get Down is set in 1970s New York, a 13-episode musical series about a group of teens coming of age in the South Bronx hip-hop scene. According to Variety, Jaden Smith will play "Marcus “Dizzee” Kipling, a talented and enigmatic graffiti writer." Luhrman said:

"Recently, Jaden has been seeking diverse and challenging roles, and this is a testament to his passion to grow in the craft. In the short time he has joined our acting family, he has begun developing his ‘The Get Down’ skill set, even taking lessons from the legendary graffiti artist Lady Pink of ‘Wild Style’ fame, as well as steeping himself in the history and culture of the Bronx."

Smith is undoubtedly the most famous cast member so far, although it looks like the story focuses on an ensemble cast rather than having Smith in a lead protagonist role. Here are a few of the other characters:

• Boo-Boo (TJ Brown), "a mechanically-minded kid who wants to get down, he is an irrepressible 40-year-old in a 14-year-old body." 14-year-old TJ Brown was discovered when performing in the NYC subway.
• Ezekial (Justice Smith, Paper Towns), "a smart, resourceful teen brimming with untapped talent and unrequited love."
• Shaolin Fantastic (Shameik Moore, Dope), "a child of the streets, thrill-seeking, unpredictable, eccentric but above all, enigmatic."
• Ra-Ra (Skylan Brooks), "a loyal, respected, protective friend and brother with his head screwed on tight." 
• Mylene Cruz (Herizen Guardiola), "a shining, tenacious girl with a voice from God who dreams of disco stardom from the confines of her family’s fiercely religious church walls."

We're getting a vintage Fame vibe from these character descriptions. Hopefully Baz Luhrman, an Australian filmmaker with no first-hand experience of 1970s hip-hop culture, can handle the material.

Photo via amandla/Tumblr

Seemingly unfazed by the criticism on his comments about not performing at colleges anymore because “they’re so PC,” Jerry Seinfeld has once more talked about how the youth are too politically correct for comedy.

He defended his stance to Seth Meyers on Late Night Tuesday as he complained once again about how we keep moving the line of what’s offensive or sexist, which is getting in the way of lazy good comedy.

In a discussion with Meyers and New Yorker editor David Remnick, who’s also been called out for some of his covers, Seinfeld explained it’s no longer a young people thing when it comes to the line of political correctness. He recounted how his joke about a gay French king flopped during one of his shows, and they tried to figure out where to draw the line on Caitlyn Jenner monologue jokes.

Seinfeld is bemoaning the death of comedy because people are no longer finding offensive jokes funny.

“I could imagine a time where people would say ‘that’s offensive to suggest that a gay person moves their hands in a flourishing motion, and you need to apologize,’” he continued regarding the joke. “There’s a creepy, PC thing out there that really bothers me.”

Screengrab via Late Night with Seth Meyers/YouTube

The Daily Dot is celebrating Woman Crush Wednesday, better known as #WCWon Twitter and Instagram, by highlighting female creators on YouTubewhose work we admire.

Ingrid Nilsen is a sensational beauty guru, role model to millions of fans, donut connoisseur, mother to a fluffy feline named Nugget, and a proud gay woman.

The video is emotional, honest, and beautiful. And years from now, after the buzz of this public announcement dies down, the video will continue to inspire LGBT youth and allies just as coming-out videos from Hannah Hart, Connor Franta, Jelly and Day, Ashley Mardell, Joey Graceffa, and Tyler Oakley have done before.

But long before her coming-out video gained international attention, Nilsen was already living life in the spotlight after becoming one of the most popular fashion and beauty gurus on YouTube. Though it got its start as a 3am secret in a dorm room in November 2006, the 26-year-old’s channel has since grown into a very public empire covering everything beauty, fashion, DIY, and lifestyle.

What continues to make Nilsen unique as a beauty creator is the confidence she instills in fans to be their best selves—whether that’s through a full-blown makeover, experimenting with a new nail color, or simply treating yourself to a cookie. For me, a girl who defines her style as “whimsical tomboy” (a.k.a. has no clue how makeup works), her videos are fun, uplifting reminders to always approach each day by appreciating and making the effort to beautify my life.

Ingrid Nilsen, while your videos are making the world a more glamorous place, it’s your authenticity and bravery that is changing it for the better. Cheers to you.

Screengrab via TheGridMonster/YouTube

BY MEGAN VICK

Bryce Dallas Howard is not Jessica Chastain, but now there's a song to help you remember that fact. 

Chastain posted an Instagram video of Howard singing a verse from the Legolands' song "Jessica Chastain: The Musical (Bryce Dallas Howard)." Their full video below explains just how much the two are mixed up by interchanging scenes from both of their films and trying to make you guess which is which. 

The James Bond franchise has a hard act to follow after Skyfall, but the new movie is already shaping up to look very, very cool.

The first trailer for Spectre was enigmatic, hinting at Bond’s mysterious backstory and introducing Christoph Waltz as the new villain, Oberhauser (rumored to be a pseudonym for Ernst Stavro Blofeld). It had a surprisingly somber tone for a Bond film, but this new TV spot—airing during the NBA Finals—gives us a better look at some of the stunts and explosions we’ve come to expect from 007.

Also, Bond gets up close and personal with characters played by Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux, the film’s two new Bond Women.

Screengrab via jamesbondbrasiltv/YouTube

That is to say, when executive producer Al Jean mentions that “Homer and Marge legally separate, and Homer falls in love with his pharmacist, who’s voiced by Lena Dunham,” and that they'll “have cameos from the other women from Girls,” you can probably take a deep breath and not freak out. Splitting up is something these characters do all the time:

“Life on the Fast Lane,” “Colonel Homer,” and “The Last Temptation of Homer”

These early episodes established how susceptible Marge and Homer’s marriage is to life-destroying infidelities, and each brings them juuuust past the brink of ruin before restoring the status quo with a monogamous happy ending. Marge falls for a French bowling instructor, while Homer inexplicably gains the lustful attentions of a budding country music star and a hot coworker voiced by Michelle Pfeiffer. And thus the familiar trope of “Homer loses Marge, Homer wins Marge back” was born.  

“Secrets of a Successful Marriage”

In season 5, Homer improves his self-esteem by scoring a job teaching an adult education class on how to maintain a good marriage. But since he doesn’t actually know how to do that—let alone teach others how—he just ends up revealing Marge’s most intimate secrets. The end result? Homer spends a few days banished to a treehouse in the backyard, where he all but loses his mind. If that doesn’t count as a separation, what does?

“A Milhouse Divided”

“Wedding for Disaster”

Fast-forward to the 20th season, in which it’s revealed that the wedding ceremony performed by Rev. Lovejoy at the end of “A Milhouse Divided” was technically void because of a lapsed priestly credential. So, in fact, Homer and Marge were divorced from season 8 onward—a full 12 seasons. This gimmick is mainly an excuse to let Marge become a bridezilla as the legitimate nuptials approach.

H/T The Guardian | Photo via Simpsons World