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Oh you people, with your intensely graphic, violent, animations about cartoon characters murdering dictators… Why is it that the weirdest clips we get are all animated?

As best as I can tell, this is what is “supposed” to be the narrative of this video: Osama, Adolf, and Leatherface are having a sleepover, and they’re up past their bed time playing video games and shit get’s crazy. And then Mario shoots everyone.

Someone once told me that there’s something special about being effortlessly weird. While there’s definitely something self conscious about this clip, it somehow manages to overcome that aspect of itself to become something I’d call “truly out there”. Is this parody? Is there a message? Perhaps meangreen3 is the product of the same violent media he preaches against? And still, the circle continues.

Our buddies over at the mothership (or Comedy Central, as you guys probably know it), have released the latest entry into their Redneck Games series Defend Yer Sister, a parking lot brawler where you defend the honor, such as it is, of your sister. A shameful cash-in on a stereotype, or just a funny, weird concept? You be the judge.

Check it out over at the Comedy Central games player and all the rest of the Redneck Games at Comedy Central Games.

We are insanely excited to have been chosen as the Operation Olivia contest winners!
There were a lot of great pitches and some really clever and original ideas. Granted, Beyonce had one of the best video pitches of all time, but we’ll take the win.
Frankly, We are thrilled at the prospect of producing a video with two of our favorite things: Star Wars & the talented Olivia Munn.
There is so much to be done- preparations and considerations to be made and we’re already knee deep in pre-production.
we’ll keep you posted as things start to take shape, so look out for more blog entries!

Until then, We thought we would take a minute to introduce ourselves:

LIBBY WELLS

Libby Wells is an editor/director in her final year of the MFA Film Production program at USC. Her earliest star wars memory: being terrified of star tours at Disneyland.

DASH HAWKINS

Dash Hawkins is a writer/producer with dreams of mass off-planet migration. He has worked as an Associate Producer on 20th Century’s Divorce Court & Wedlock or Deadlock. Favorite star wars character: jar jar all day long.

RANDAL COOMBS

Currently working at a talent agency is burbank, Randal is a huge Star Wars fan. A die-hard defender of the original trilogy (in it’s original form), he is not the kind of man to suggest that anyone but Han shot first.

Sometimes you can protect the world with traditional methods (guns, fighter planes, sanctions) and sometimes you need to go with a giant robot piloted by teenagers. Meet Megabot, Atom’s brand new parody of teenage, robotic vigilantism (with Fran Kraz, from Dollhouse) that’s gone on just a little too long.

Inspired by Megabot, we put together a list of some of our favorite robotic advocates for interstellar justice.

 
 

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#1: Voltron
The pilots who assembled to form Voltron labored under the delusion they were worth half a shit. They insisted on attacking their demonic foes with the lion vehicles, which inevitably got swatted away with a lethargic backhand. Sure, they’d form Voltron to cleave their opponent just nanoseconds later, but that was coasting on technology to do the heavy lifting.

Worse, I am beginning to think part of Voltron’s core mission was ethnic cleansing. Outfits aside, his pilots showed about as much diversity as a Klan rally.

“We must rid the universe of evil King Zarkon! And Blacks!”

As most of you know, Olivia Munn’s choice for the winner of the Operation Olivia contest will be announced later this week, September 24th. Tension is high, people are anxious. Olivia tweeted earlier that she’s already narrowed down her favorite six entries. Here’s what she had to say about two of those videos:

You guys have probably already heard that Olivia worked all weekend narrowing down the winner for the September 24^th announcement.

I’ll be posting some of Olivia’s feed back over the next few weeks leading up to her announcement. Though these notes are from Olivia’s hand picked selections, they do not indicate anything about the outcome of the contest. It’s still anyone’s game, these are just some of her thoughts.

First on the list? User Tony Castalucci’s Operation Olivia Pitch Pulp Yavin.

REAL TALK, WE KNOW BASICALLY THE WHOLE INTERNETS HAS BEEN ON BLAST ABOUT THIS WHOLE KANYE WEST AND TAYLOR SWIFT AT THE VMAS THING, WITH BASICALLY EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT FRESH PARODIES ALL DAY LONG!!!!!!……………

(REAL TALK, CHECK OUT OUR HOMIES AT CC INSIDER and VIDEOGUM TO NAME JUST A FEW.)

SO WE HAD TO GO NEXT LEVEL AND MAKE THE KANYE WEST APOLOGY GENERATOR!!!!!!!!!

Whoa, sorry. We’ve been working all day on this Kanye West Apology Generator and it kind of got to me, I think.

Check out some of the ones we did!

The Shaman, filmmaker, cavorter, spiritual philanthropist, and bro of Adam Carolla’s, has begun sending us (unsolicited) coverage of popular events throughout the California area. He tends to cover events both psychedelic and where shirts are optional (there’s plenty of cross over). Recently, he’s trekked to two infamous meccas of society’s weirder characters; Comic-con and Burning Man. They were both a heavy time, psychically speaking.

Our shamanic sojourner spent his weekend at Burning Man interviewing people whose idea of a good time is riding a getting branded on the ass during a dust storm, or building a cock shaped car. His people. In an odd role reversal, The Shaman has taken to wearing a shirt* while the women he interview go topless. It must be pretty dusty out there. It’s the desert after all.

And on the other end of the cultural spectrum, The Shaman crawled the floor of the world’s largest nerd-fest, Comic-Con.

We get all kinds of stuff submitted here at atom.com. I get it, and by now, I should start getting used to it. But sometimes, even when you guys are nice enough to label something as a “surreal animation,” my capacity to still be freaked the fuck out is still pushed to the limit.

Case in point, this submission from our friend animalmother16:

Machines. Charming.

Ok, seriously, what the hell is this? And why is it freaking me out so much? (And listen, I’m no wuss, I went to Goth Night last night). Does this have some other kind of meaning, or did someone just get David Lynch an Etch-a-Sketch?

Someone explain this to me, I’m going to just be crying here at my keyboard.

Our really great friends at Asylum.com (the WEBSITE for SERIOUS DUDES), were nice enough to ask our very own star of Legend of Neil, Tony Janning, to help them find the Top Eight 8-Bit Video Game Hotties. From the article:

1. Princess Zelda, “The Legend of Zelda”
Come on, who’d you think we’d start with? “The Legend of Zelda” is one of the best and most original games ever. So, you know the Princess was a hot piece of 8-bit ass.

AND THAT’S JUST NUMBER ONE! See all eight 8-Bit hotties (with Color Pictures) here.

Make sure to get caught up with the latest episode of the Legend of Neil here. Caution, there is some drinking involved.