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Funniest Memes of the Week – Hipster Barista, Depressed Cat, and More

Hannah Gutenplan — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:48:00 +0000

The funniest memes of the week are back, and boy do we have some of the funniest memes that ever meme’d for you. Between ‘Intellectual Baby’ and a late Halloween meme, this week is bound to get you laughing. Not only did America re-elect Obama as President this past Tuesday, but multiple states passed important legislation. [...]

Reverse Trick or Treating Prank Takes Candy to the Street

Emerald Catron — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:35:12 +0000

Here’s a nice, friendly Halloween prank. (We promise there’s no Slender Man involved.) A friendly group walked around with candy and a door with a sign on it (advising people to knock, we guess). Once people knocked, they were treated like Trick or Treaters and given candy and compliments. Perhaps the real prank was that [...]

Jimmy Kimmel's Halloween Candy Prank Makes Children Cry

Emerald Catron — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:26:26 +0000

Jimmy “Man Who Hates Kids” Kimmel once again asked parents to tell their children that all of their Halloween candy had been eaten. And film it. Since the experiment was so popular last year, Kimmel thought he’d do it again. Fortunately for him, children aren’t cruising YouTube looking for old Jimmy Kimmel videos, so they [...]

'Pumpktris' Video Game Lets You Play With Your Food

Kyle Dowling — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 19:41:30 +0000

Allow us to introduce you to perhaps the coolest game ever… Pumpktris! Seriously, somebody created a playable Tetris game inside a jack-o-lantern. If you’ve got time, patience and brilliance on your side, you can too. We don’t know what’s harder: playing the game or figuring out how to pronounce it! Best of all: the stem [...]

Funniest Memes of the Week – Scumbag Sports Fan, Socially Awkward Penguin, and More

Hannah Gutenplan — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:02:07 +0000

The best memes of the week are back, with whole new bunch for you. For all our readers stuck at home because of Hurricane Sandy, we know you need the entertainment. So look no further, we’ve got enough fresh memes to keep you laughing until the lights come back on (well, maybe not that long). [...]

Creepy Halloween 'Slender Man' Prank Is A Hilarious Hit

Emerald Catron — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:21:22 +0000

If you like watching people being frightened, this is the video for you. A man and his cameraman friend set up shop in an alleyway near Chicago's DePaul University. The guy was dressed up like Slender Man, a creepy faceless man/internet meme. His friend wa

Chris Brown Was Totally Offensive for Halloween

Emerald Catron — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:37:36 +0000

We hope when people asked Chris Brown what he was for Halloween, he answered, "I'm offensive." That is maybe the only thing that would make the terrorist outfit he donned with pals cool. Of course he probably didn't. Would we be upset if anybody else had done this for Halloween? It's hard to say, because we can't imagine anybody other than Chris Brown being this for Halloween.

Awesome 'Mario Kart' Costume Rules Halloween

Emerald Catron — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:14:43 +0000

Now this is the kind of Halloween story we love. TheFW reader Kevin Fritz saw our post on inspirational wheelchair costumes and was, in fact, inspired. He made this awesome costume of Yoshi from 'Mario Kart.'

The Best 2012 Celebrity Halloween Costumes

Emerald Catron — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:42:42 +0000

Maybe it's the $2,000 wig, maybe it's that we wound up using some really old makeup we found under the sink (thanks, Sandy), but something makes celebrity Halloween costumes seem more glamorous than ours. Here are just a few of our favorites from this year. And yes, that is Ellen DeGeneres dressed up as Sofia Vergara. And Miley Cyrus as Nicki Minaj. Apparently this year famous people decided that the scariest thing is themselves.

'A Christmas Story' Inspires Awesome One-Legged Halloween Costume

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:09:53 +0000

Josh Sundquist wears a lot of hats. He's a motivational speaker, a best-selling author, a vlogger, former member of the paralympic ski team and US amputee soccer team and the founder of a social networking website for persons with amputations.

He's also a cancer survivor, and it was that disease which took his leg at age 10.

Baby in 'Alien' Power Loader Costume Wins Halloween

Emerald Catron — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:09:50 +0000

Giving up hyperbole was a New Year’s resolution of ours, so you can be confident we mean it when we say this is quite possibly the greatest baby costume ever. The little lady is dressed up like ‘Aliens’-era Ripley — operating a power loader! Her dad carefully constructed the costume to be baby safe, then [...]

Get Creeped Out By Zombie Pumpkins

Cameron Simcik — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:47:54 +0000

Happy Halloween all you Halloweeners! Aside from the whole boatloads of candy thing, there are two awesome things we're excited about today: it's socially acceptable to dress up like a disgustingly gruesome zombie in public, and we get to nerd out over jack-o-lanterns. Could it get much better?! Surprisingly, yes.

11 Hilarious Halloween Memes

Emerald Catron — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:33:45 +0000

Aah! Halloween! Halloweenhalloweenhalloween! Just because it's our favorite holiday doesn't mean we can't have a little laugh at its expense. Or our own. Wait who's laughing at whom? What's going on? We ate too much candy corn and now everything is confusing. Happy Halloween, here are some memes!

The 10 Best Skeleton Dances Ever

Emerald Catron — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:00:59 +0000

Videos of old-timey skeleton dances are the best way to get a little spook-ified before Halloween without accidentally soiling yourself. That is a fact -- you can ask anybody. Oh, thanks for asking. Yes, that is a fact. From PBS to Disney and beyond, here are the best skeleton dances EVER to get you into the spirit of Halloween.

Tired of Pumpkins? Make a Krang-o-Lantern!

Emerald Catron — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:08:08 +0000

If a plain old pumpkin jack-o-lantern isn’t your style, or you’ve mastered pumpkin carving and are looking for a challenge, perhaps consider making a Krang-o-lantern. Website #MikeVDesign posted pics of the project, and we think it’s an excellent idea. Except for the fact that we can barely carve two triangles out of a pumpkin, let alone turn [...]

10 Costumed Mugshots for Halloween

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:41:09 +0000

When we get older, Halloween becomes less about accumulating candy and more about letting off some steam and having a good time.

However, the mixture of alcohol and costumes are too much for some adult Halloween revelers to handle and their celebrations run them afoul of the law.

See the Kids of 'The Monster Squad' Then and Now

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:00:53 +0000

In ‘The Monster Squad,’ a gang of monster movie-obsessed adolescents end up waging an epic battle against the ghouls they idolized after they learn that Dracula, Frankenstein, et al. are real. Some of the cast went on to pursue careers in entertainment, but others were more difficult to track down. Robby Kiger — who played [...]

10 Halloween Costumes For You and Your Horse

Bonnie Biess — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:27:45 +0000

Between dogs dressed as Miss Piggy and Big Bird looking for work this Halloween season, we figured why not cram our other animal friends into fashionable Halloween get-ups as well? Sure, you're more likely to find a dog parade or a cat fashion show rather than a horse and/or seeing eye pony pageant. But, hey -- farmers and the children of the independently wealthy need Halloween love too right?

See the Cast of 'Friday the 13th' Then and Now

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:19:21 +0000

Audiences got their first taste of the ‘Friday the 13th’ franchise, which is now 12 films strong, when the original horror flick hit theaters in 1980. The tale of gruesome happenings at Camp Crystal Lake didn’t do much for critics, but audiences ate up its grindhouse-style gore. ‘Friday the 13th’ certainly wasn’t a star-based film — in [...]

10 Things You Didn't Know About Halloween

Danny Gallagher — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:16:41 +0000

Shakespeare described the "witching hour" as a time "when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out." Spooky! Equally esteemed author Washington Irving described Halloween night in his classic 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' as a setting full of "fearful shapes and shadows...amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night." Kids all across the country describe it as the night when the entire world gives them all the candy they can eat until they either pass out or develop early on-set diabetes.

Hurricane Sandy Has Awoken the Shirtless Horse-Man

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:25:10 +0000

Hurricane Sandy is being called the storm of the century. Being that it is such an unique weather event, nobody is really sure the extent to which its high winds and flooding will damage the East Coast of the United States.

But we may have gotten some insight into the changes to come from a Washington, DC news broadcast. As you can see, NBC 4's cameras captured images of a shirtless horse-headed man jogging through the streets of our nation's capital.

Learn the Meaning of Halloween From Kristen Stewart

Cameron Simcik — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:15:50 +0000

Kristen Stewart is always around vampires these days. She's surrounded by the bloodsuckers in 'Twilight', and rumor has it she's back on with Robert Pattinson, AKA Edward Cullen. So since vampires are a Halloween staple, and October 31st is just around the corner, what better way to help us understand the creepy holiday than by enlisting K-Stew?

Zombie Pranks Fast Food Drive-Thrus

Emerald Catron — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:32:37 +0000

In the spirit of Halloween, here is a video of a man in zombie make-up driving through various fast-food restaurant drive-thrus and demanding chicken nuggets. Maybe our favorite reaction comes from the lady who silently closes the window and locks it. They’re all pretty good though. We just hope the guy didn’t actually eat that [...]

Subway Sandwich Artist Foils Robbery, Throws Soup At Thief in Ghost Mask

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:24:10 +0000

Thanks to the seasonal boom in masks and disguises, Halloween is prime time for criminals. That is, unless they tangle with the wrong sandwich slinger… When a 6 foot tall, 250 pound man in a ghost mask barged into a Subway restaurant in Braidwood, Illinois this past Friday, there was no doubt he was looking for trouble. The [...]

They're Here: Odd Video Tributes to 'Poltergeist' Actress Heather O'Rourke

Tom Blunt — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:08:27 +0000

Heather O’Rourke, the actress who played little Carol Anne Freeling in the ‘Poltergeist’ films, would have turned 37 this year, if she hadn’t passed away at the age of 13 from a chronic illness. To this day, YouTube users create tribute videos memorializing O’Rourke, with results ranging from charming to downright strange. The video above [...]

18 Spooky Vintage Halloween Cards

Emerald Catron — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:15:18 +0000

Apparently people haven't always celebrated Halloween the way that we do today, which is weird, because we sort of assumed "Sexy Referee Costume" was one of those timeless classics that had been around since the days of ancient Rome. It turns out people used to actually be kind of charming and thoughtful, instead of just smearing their bodies with glitter and pointedly refusing to drink anything less than 100 proof. Here's an example.

Just How Extreme Are the Haunted Houses This Halloween?

Danny Gallagher — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:32:38 +0000

If you’re thinking of celebrating Halloween by going to a haunted house attraction, you also might want to schedule an appointment with a psychologist the following morning. The Wall Street Journal took a behind the scenes tour of several haunted attractions that have been dubbed as the scariest in the country. They don’t just feature [...]

Just In Time For Halloween, Here's A Creepy Science Video About Brains

Dan Seitz — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:32:04 +0000

It's Halloween in just a few short days, and that means a lot of brains: Frankenstein monsters looking for them, zombies munching on them, aliens exposing them in creepy experiments. But how much do we know about the brain? Could we survive getting them eaten? Do we need them at all? So here's a video explaining a bit about the brain, and whether a "no-brainer" exists

Galaxy's Cutest Dog Wears 'Star Wars' Cone

Cameron Simcik — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:41:17 +0000

Dressing up our furry friends means they're usually subject to embarrassment among other pups. However, we think it's the small price they pay for being so darn adorable. That being said, we've already made our Star-Wars-meets-puppies obsession pretty clear, what with the discovery of Ewok dogs and Princess Leia pugs. Could the fantasy flick and canine combo get any cuter?! Luckily for us, yes.

10 Spooky Celebrity Ghost Sightings

Amanda Ferris — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:15:25 +0000

It’s always sad when a celebrity passes away, but sometimes these strong-willed, vibrant personalities live on long after they have shuffled off this mortal coil. Here are 10 famous folks reportedly still hanging around even though they were “no longer with us.” Elvis Presley The King of rock n’ roll is one busy spirit! Presley [...]