In spite of the ceaseless sea of banality, the resolutely unskippable in-video advertising, and the relentless army of trolls more monstrous than anything Otto Jespersen ever hunted in the mountains of Norway, YouTube still has the power to charm, amuse, delight and surprise.
In this blog, David Lewis will be picking out some of the best bricolage, the funniest mash-ups, the cleverest remixes and the most shamelessly nostalgic archive clips that have been uploaded to the internet in the name of cult TV and film... and beyond.
Turning the Doctor Who theme into an epic guitar workout is one thing; playing it on eight computer floppy disk drives is a work of insane genius so frighteningly impressive that the maker of this video will probably one day either save the world from destruction or blow it up himself.
It’s probably best to ‘like’ this video on YouTube to ensure that it’s the former...
Throughout his long and multi-countenanced career at MI6, James Bond has worked for several different Ms and flirted with a variety of different Miss Moneypennys. Yet despite the best pleas to the contrary from quartermasters Peter Burton, Alec McGowen and John Cleese, there has only ever been one true Q – and that’s the irascible, white-haired weapons expert played by Desmond Llewellyn.
In seventeen films from 1963 to 1999, this curmudgeonly genius was on hand to arm the first five faces of 007 with the kind of firepower that you only find these days on the rooftops of East London during the Olympics. Here, in an accurately-soundtracked compilation of his finest moments, the Bond production team pay tribute to the man who made an initial into an icon.
Following yesterday's news that CSI: Miami has been axed after an impressive ten seasons, let's take a look back at some of David *puts on sunglasses* Caruso's corniest pre-credits one-liners...
