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Popular culture, entertainment and the arts

The Aristocrats	A joke considered to be both "the world's funniest" and "the world's worst". Also a 2005 documentary of the same name.
Baseball metaphors for sex	Two of America's favorite pastimes.
Beezin'	A fad in which people apply Burt's Bees lip balm to their eyelids.
Bigipedia	A unique experiment in "broadwebcasting", Bigipedia is the website on your radio. In association with Chianto—"Officially recognised by the EU as a wine-type product or by-product".
"Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!" controversy	T-shirt slogan aimed towards young women, rocks aimed towards young men.
George P. Burdell	A fictitious student officially enrolled at Georgia Tech in 1927, and, except for his "service" in World War II, has been continuously enrolled at the school ever since.
The Bus Uncle	A Hong Kong resident gets into an uncomfortably tense argument with a fellow passenger—all caught on video.
Conan the Librarian	A perennial parody of Conan the Barbarian that has appeared in film, television, comics, and fan fiction.
Croydon facelift	A hairstyle peculiar to parts of England.
Cultural depictions of Napoleon	Fictional characters believing they are Napoleon are often used to suggest mental ill health.
Cultural history of the buttocks	A cheeky article.
Dick joke	Jokes about dicks.
Evil clown	A recent development in American popular culture in which the playful trope of the clown is rendered as disturbing through the use of dark humor and horror elements.
F.A.T.A.L.	The worst-reviewed tabletop role-playing game of all time, where you roll for your character's anal circumference and can listen to a theme song that "sounds like the Cookie Monster chasing a drum kit being pushed down a flight of stairs".
Flash mob	Wherein a group of people quickly meet up, engage in a random action such as a pillow fight, then disappear just as quickly.
Frozen Peas	Orson Welles: brilliant director, notorious pitchman.
Fuck for Forest	Do your bit to save the rainforest—have an orgy!
Garden hermit	In case you are in need of some backyard friends.
Ghost riding	A trend popularized by hyphy culture.
Gongoozler	A person who likes to watch British canals.
Great Stork Derby	What could possibly be in the will of a notorious practical joker?
Gurn	A Western term for creating odd appearances of the face.
Human rainbow	A huge gathering of colours.
Hundeprutterutchebane	Translates to Dog Fart Switchback. It is a flatulence-themed roller coaster.
Issei Sagawa	Writer, commentator, minor celebrity, murderer, and cannibal.
Kayfabe	In professional wrestling, the portrayal of events within the industry as real.
Killer toy	When children's toys attack!
Kuchisake-onna	A Japanese urban legend (probably). Also known as "the slit-mouthed woman", Kuchisake-onna is asking you if you think she’s pretty. No matter what you answer, you’re doomed. Except if you say "pomade" three times.
Lawnchair Larry flight	Successfully piloted a lawn chair to 16,000 feet (4,900 m) over Los Angeles.
List of defunct amusement parks	I thought Marine World was open! Darn it...
Love lock	Padlock your love to a fence, and throw away the key.
Masturbate-a-thon	It's okay – it's for charity!
Metafiction	Fiction about fiction.
Mooning the Cog	Bad weather isn't the only reason to avoid the summit of Mount Washington.
Nazi chic	The approving use of Nazi-era style, imagery, and paraphernalia in clothing and popular culture.
No soap radio	A prank joke intended to fool one of its listeners into believing that it is a joke.
NUKEMAP	New York got blown up by the Tsar Bomba! Well, at least you can do that in this.
Robert Opel	The life and eventual murder of the streaker of the 46th Academy Awards.
Pass by catastrophe	Has your college just burnt down? Congrats, you now have a bachelor's degree! Sadly, that isn't really the case in reality.
Pen spinning	An activity in which assorted tricks are used to manipulate a pen in aesthetically pleasing ways.
Le Pétomane	A French entertainer famous in Victorian times for being able to break wind at will. Practitioners of this... art are called flatulists.
Aron Ralston	One tough guy who, to escape from death, cut off his own arm with a dull knife after a boulder fell on it.
Real-life superhero	All you need is a cape and a dream.
Sardarji joke	Popular jokes in India, based on stereotypes of Sikhs.
Self-referential humor	A joke that refers to itself as the joke.
Stunting (broadcasting)	The things radio stations and TV networks will do for attention.
Treacle mining	The fictitious mining of treacle (molasses) in a raw form similar to coal.
Umarell	Old people who watch construction sites.
When a white horse is not a horse	A Chinese philosophy about a white horse either being a horse or not being a horse.
World Famous Bushman	A street entertainer in San Francisco who makes a living by pretending to be a bush.
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement	A group of people trying to get everyone to stop reproducing.
You kids get off my lawn!	I'm gonna call your parents, you kids!

Art

Ambigram	A type of calligraphic design that includes words which read the same when reversed or flipped upside down.
America (Cattelan)	A fully-functioning solid gold toilet, on display (and available for use) in one of New York's finest art museums.
Artist's Shit	A quite literal and humorous meta-art.
Australia's big things	Giant folk art as tourist traps.
Babylonokia	Clay Nokia phone with cuneiform keys.
Bog Standard Gallery	It's a museum... inside a portable toilet.
Boll Weevil Monument	The only known monument built to honor an agricultural pest.
Bottle Rack	A modern art piece created by Dada artist Marcel Duchamp. His sister, who mistook it for trash, threw it out.
Cabazon Dinosaurs	Comprises of "Dinny the Dinosaur," a larger-than-life, 150 ton sculpture of a brontosaurus in the desert of Southern California west of Palm Springs. Dinny's companion is "Mr. Rex," a 150 ton sculpture of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Made by people that think dinosaurs never existed.
Chamber of Art and Curiosities, Ambras Castle	A cabinet of curiosities created by Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria in the 16th century.
Cool S	A symbol of uncertain origins often used in graffiti.
Droste effect	The effect of a picture appearing within itself.
Earring Magic Ken	How Barbie's boyfriend, in an attempt to look cooler, became a gay icon.
Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow	How a traffic cone became a part of a 19th Century statue
Fire photography	The act of taking photographs of firefighting operations.
Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square	The horse is missing.
Fremont Troll	An 18 foot, 13,000 pound concrete sculpture of a troll clutching a VW beetle located in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
Gävle goat	A giant straw Yuletide goat that is the target of frequent arson attacks and vandalism.
Geostationary Banana Over Texas	An Argentinian artist's plan(?) to launch a banana-shaped airship over Texas.
Hahn/Cock	A giant blue cock in Trafalgar Square.
Headington Shark	Oxford man has had a 25-foot (7.6 m) long sculpture of a shark embedded headfirst into the roof of his unassuming house since 1986.
He-gassen	Japanese fart art.
Hellmouth	The entrance to Hell envisaged as the gaping mouth of a huge monster, an image which first appears in Anglo-Saxon art.
Hobby tunneling	Some people just love to dig.
Howard Hallis	An artist who attempted to draw the "Picture of Everything", a massive painting containing drawings of thousands of people and items, both real and imaginary.
Jazz (design)	An iconic 1990s disposable cup design.
Katrina refrigerator	Loot this! Free meal inside!
Knitta Please	NY Hip hop graffiti knitters.
Kryptos	A sculpture on the grounds of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency containing four encrypted messages, only three of which have been solved.
Latte art	The best art is caffeinated.
List of largest photographs	Includes information on print and digital photos that are reputedly the world's largest.
Museum of Bad Art	A Museum "dedicated to the collection, preservation, and exhibition of really awful artwork".
Paintings by Adolf Hitler	The Nazi dictator and perpetrator of one of the worst genocides in history was also a painter.
Pantone 448 C	"Drab dark brown", the least attractive colour, according to research. Used for plain tobacco packaging.
Phallic architecture	Does the Washington Monument, Ypsilanti Water Tower or Peoples Daily building remind you of something?
Pink Lady	In 1966, a woman secretly painted a 60-foot (18 m) tall portrait of a nude woman over a tunnel and sued when the county tried to take it down.
Piss Christ	A photograph of a crucifix submerged in the artist's urine.
Portland International Airport carpet	A carpet design so famous that it gained a cult following.
Pricasso	A man who paints with his genitalia.
La Princesse	A 15-metre (50 ft) mechanical spider which stomped about Liverpool in 2008.
Project Graham	A work of art "symboliz the vulnerability of human bodies in crashes".
Abel Ramírez Águilar	A Mexican sculptor who made a name for himself in ice and snow sculpture after winning gold at the 1992 Winter Olympics.
Le Rêve (Picasso)	A Picasso painting that purportedly would have sold for a record price had its owner, Steve Wynn, not accidentally poked a hole in it, and which eventually did sell for a different record price.
Reverence	Granite whales diving into a sea of grass near the Ben & Jerry's ice cream headquarters.
Roundabout dog	Seen any dog on the loose while out driving lately? Chances are it's a roundabout dog.
Sacred Cod	There's also a "Holy Mackerel", Batman.
Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism	Mine is better than yours.
Seedfeeder	An illustrator who contributed around 48 free-use drawings to Misplaced Pages, each being sexually-graphic drawings for articles on each (in)appropriate act. Lives up to their name, don't they?
Superlambanana	A statue in Liverpool that's half-lamb, half-banana.
Tennis Girl	Photo of a girl with no panties that became so popular politicians began to cosplay it.
Tillie	An odd painting of a grinning face, that used to be on the Palace Amusements building in Asbury Park, New Jersey before it was demolished.
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space	At least sixteen casts of this "unique" sculpture exist. Not to mention that the sculptor already made a few similar designs.
William Utermohlen	Utermohlen was an artist who drew self-portraits after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1995, and would continue these portraits for six years, until 2001.
les UX	A French artistic movement that expresses itself in underground places.
The Woman with the Handbag	A very famous photo taken in Sweden where a woman hit a Neo-Nazi with her handbag.

Comics and animation

Acme Corporation	Their products have been used and endorsed by all the best cartoon characters.
Afghanis-tan	Central Asian history has never been cuter. (Osama bin Laden makes an appearance as a turban-wearing stray cat.)
Archie Meets the Punisher	The team-up you thought would never happen.
Archie vs. Predator	Teenagers somehow become worthy game.
Arm-Fall-Off-Boy	The first applicant to be rejected from the Legion of Super-Heroes. His superpower was the ability to temporarily detach either arm and use it as a club with the other.
Arseface	A comic book character from none other than Vertigo Comics.
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo	Name of a Japanese manga (comic) whose subject matter is as surreal as its title.
Cartoon physics	In animation, humour takes precedence over the ordinary laws of physics.
Censored Eleven	A group of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons pulled from syndication due to their racist depictions of black people.
Cheat Slayer	An isekai manga which lasted for just one chapter before being axed after it was highlighted that many of the villainous characters were rather similiar to the heroes from other isekai.
Clan McDuck	A fictional family in the style of a Scottish clan, from which a great number of Walt Disney Company's comic book characters held their origin.
Cow Tools	A comic published by The Far Side that is known as so confusing and unfunny that thousands of people called the author trying to understand its meaning.
Comic book death	Comic book characters have a tendency to rarely, if ever, stay dead.
Der Fuehrer's Face	Donald Duck won an Oscar as a Hitler-saluting Nazi.
Gorillas in comics	A curious abundance of gorillas in comic book plots during the Silver Age of Comics.
Homosexuality in the Batman franchise	For half a century, Batman and Dick Grayson have been rumored to have a relationship.
Jenny Everywhere	An open-source webcomic character.
Kuso Miso Technique	A homoerotic, scatological manga that ended up becoming an online meme.
The Metric Marvels	Nothing says 1970s in the USA more than a spinoff of Schoolhouse Rock with superheroes who teach the metric system.
Moe anthropomorphism	In this time and age even a washing machine can be the girl of your dreams.
Mr. Immortal	A Marvel Comics superhero with no special powers except immortality, who has been killed in ways including crushing, burning, self-impalement on giant novelty scissors, bear trap, cannon, chainsaw, piranhas, ferrets, spear, and python, and alcohol poisoning (three times). Prone to fits of rage upon returning to life.
NFL SuperPro	What some Marvel Comics writers will do for free game tickets...
Syaoran Li Syaoran (Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, clone) Syaoran (Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, original)	What happens on Misplaced Pages when a group of manga artists take a character from one of their earlier works and perform several cross-references and plot twists.
Tentacle erotica	Human-cephalopod sexual relations, popular in hentai.
Truck-kun	The character responsible for sending more protagonists to other worlds than any other.

Literature

112 Gripes About the French	A handbook produced to help American soldiers understand the French.
Aldiborontiphoskyphorniostikos	Published in 1825 as a Victorian children's book and described as "a round game for merry parties", the object of the game was to quickly recite alphabetical tongue-twisting mock-Latin gibberish.
Anthropodermic bibliopegy	The practice of binding books in human skin.
Atlanta Nights	A group of science fiction authors get together and deliberately write an absolutely horrible novel to fool and embarrass a "vanity publisher".
The Book of Heroic Failures	A book which glorifies failure. Started off The Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain. The book was a success and thus declared a "failure as a failure".
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year	Who can forget such classics as Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers, How to Avoid Huge Ships or Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Power: How to Increase the Other 90% of Your Mind to Increase the Size of Your Breasts?
La Bougie du Sapeur	A French newspaper published every February 29th.
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest	A contest to find "the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels".
Cain's Jawbone	A murder mystery puzzle book that only three people have solved since it was published in 1934.
Codex Seraphinianus	If you're interested in horses with wheels or couples metamorphosing into alligators, this imaginary encyclopaedia is the perfect book for you!
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater	This highly-popular autobiographical account about the effects of laudanum led several English authors to opium use.
Henry Darger	Writer of a 15,000-page manuscript along with several thousand watercolor paintings and other drawings illustrating the story, who rarely left his small room. His word was worth millions a few years after his death.
Dinosaur erotica	Have you ever been Taken by a T-Rex or Ravished by a Triceratops?
Death poem	The urge to have famous last words, taken to its logical, carefully rewritten extreme.
Empty book	A literal example of why you should not judge a book by its cover.
Fart Proudly	An essay written by Benjamin Franklin about flatulence.
Future Library project	Project that collects an original work by a popular writer every year from 2014 to 2114. The works will remain unread and unpublished until 2114; one thousand trees were specially planted for the project; the 100 manuscripts will be printed using paper made from the trees.
English as She Is Spoke	A 19th-century Portuguese–English conversational guide and phrase book that is regarded as a classic of unintentional humour since it was apparently the product of translating a Portuguese–French phrase book by non-English-speaking Portuguese with the help of a French–English phrase book.
English-language editions of The Hobbit	Now collectors' items because of their printing differences.
Evil laughter	"Mua-ha-haha-ha-haaa" and the like.
The Eye of Argon	An infamously bad heroic fantasy novella, written in 1970 by Jim Theis and circulated anonymously in science fiction fandom since then.
The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women	A 1558 diatribe by John Knox against Mary, Queen of Scots and Mary Tudor.
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn"	Supposedly the shortest story possible in the English language, though Ernest Hemingway had nothing to do with it.
Gadsby	A 50,110-word long book famous for not using the letter "e".
Grammarians' War	At the start of the 16th century, British schoolmasters were insulting one another. In Latin, of course.
Hawking Index	Are you one of the 1.9% to have read Hillary Clinton's Hard Choices from cover-to-cover?
Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed	The perfect picture book for your little conservative.
Hitler Diaries	A sensational discovery in 1983, which turned out to be an elaborate hoax.
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming	No, this isn't about the murder of a Disney character. This is the memoir of the man responsible for declassifying Pluto.
I Am a Cat	A novel written from the perspective of a cat
I Am God	A novel in which God is made to keep a diary to chronicle his love for an atheist.
I, Libertine	A non-existent novel that was the subject of a hoax intended to criticize the manner in which best-seller lists are determined.
Lecherous Limericks	Dirty limericks... by Isaac Asimov.
Lesbian vampire	They don't bite...necks.
"Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den"	A poem written by a Chinese poet in Classical Chinese. It can be read and understood by all who understand the language, even though it consists entirely of the word "shi" repeated 92 times in different tones.
Lobby Lud	"You are ____ and I claim my five pounds".
Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon	A fictional dish with a quite long name.
Magical Negro	An outdated stock character who helps out white protagonists.
Manga Bible	And the Lord said unto John, "Omae wa mō shinde iru".
Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship	A theory which states that Christopher Marlowe's unnatural death was a hoax and that he continued to write and publish under the pseudonym "William Shakespeare".
William McGonagall	A writer widely held to be the worst poet in the English language.
Men in Aida	A homoerotic homophonic translation of Homer: "Men in Aida, they appeal, eh? A day, O Achilles."
The Meaning of Hitler	Sir Max Hastings called it 'among the best' studies of Hitler
My Immortal	A legendarily terrible piece of Harry Potter fan fiction that awkwardly inserted vampires, time travel, and emo/"goff" subcultures into J.K. Rowling's wizarding world. Someone who may have been the author of the piece almost got a major publishing deal for her memoirs.
Naked Came the Stranger	Journalists prove a point when their intentionally awful sex novel becomes a bestseller. Later the basis of a porn film starring Darby Lloyd Rains.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats	Cat poems by T. S. Eliot.
Order of the Occult Hand	"It was as if an occult hand had edited this Misplaced Pages article."
On Bullshit	A very serious essay by Harry Frankfurt sketching a philosophical theory of, well, bullshit.
Ossian	"The greatest poet that has ever existed", according to Jefferson. But he didn't.
Philip M. Parker	Writer of “The 2007-2012 Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs, Bathmats and Sets That Measure 6-Feet by 9-Feet or Smaller in India” and thousands of other works... by means of a computer program.
Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	Understanding the political context of the mid-to-late 1890s in the United States will give you a different understanding of the gold, silver and emerald symbolism, among other things.
Rolling Stone (Uganda)	The Uganda version of Rolling Stone is kinda different from the US version. It doesn't cover music, but does list the names of alleged homosexuals, calling for their deaths.
Amanda McKittrick Ros	The McGonagall of prose. J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis competed as to who could read her longest without laughing.
Pinocchio paradox	What if Pinocchio said his nose will grow?
Saddam Hussein's novels	Crimes against literature?
Shakespeare apocrypha	Anti-Stratfordians (see "Shakespeare authorship question" below) can take heart that there really are works attributed to Shakespeare that weren't written by him!
Shakespeare authorship question	A great conspiracy that concealed the identity of the true author of "Shakespeare's" works, implying that all contemporary references to Shakespeare's authorship were fraudulent or mistaken.
Society of Science, Letters and Art	19th century bogus literary society which duped learned (and would-be learned) people into purchasing the right to the society's academic dress and letters after their name.
Peter Sotos	A writer and musician who explores serial killer and pedophile lore, while simultaneously praising them in his work. For one of his magazine covers, he used an image taken from real child pornography, which he plead guilty to possessing.
Striking and Picturesque Delineations of the Grand, Beautiful, Wonderful, and Interesting Scenery Around Loch-Earn	Angus McDiarmad, a native Scots-Gaelic speaker, writes a book on a Scottish Highland area with the help of an English dictionary to great comic effect and is termed "the world's worst author".
Time travel in The Lord of the Rings	Turns out time travel is embedded into The Lord of the Rings in several different ways.
There once was a man from Nantucket...	A gratifying theme for limericks; some of them obscene.
Le Train de Nulle Part	A French novel, 233 pages long, written without verbs.

Music

27 Club	A number of prominent musicians have died at this age, though statisticians attribute the "club" to apophenia – seeing patterns in random data. See also the related white lighter myth.
Animutation	The practice of taking lyrics of foreign songs, "mishearing" them into English, and producing a Flash video to go along with it.
Rosemary Brown	A spiritualist who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her.
"Brian Wilson is a genius"	A music journalist's meme from the 1960s that arguably destroyed the career of the Beach Boys' main songwriter and producer. (Within three years, Wilson was working as a grocery store cashier.)
"Clapton is God"	Graffiti that's famous for a photo of a dog urinating on it.
Clear Channel memorandum	America banning Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters from radio airplay after 9/11 is an odd choice. Though What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong brings to mind more questions.
Curse of the ninth	The superstition that any composer of symphonies, from Beethoven onwards, will die soon after writing their own Ninth Symphony.
Dark Side of the Rainbow	What happens when you mix Pink Floyd and The Wizard of Oz?
Earworm	It's got a hook in you.
Elvis impersonator	People pretend to be Elvis Presley and only him.
Elvis sightings	There are many who still believe.
Fogerty v. Fantasy, Inc.	That time John Fogerty was sued for sounding like himself.
Fyre Festival	The organizers spent so much money promoting the event that they ran out of money to spend on the actual event. They were later faced with eight lawsuits.
Industrial musical	Not a subgenre of industrial music, but a musical production performed for the employees of a business, intended to create a feeling of being part of a team, or to educate and motivate the management and salespeople to improve sales and profit.
List of classical music concerts with an unruly audience response	Concerts which didn't work out quite as well as hoped.
Literal music video	What happens when you replace the lyrics in a music video with lyrics that describe what's actually happening in the music video? Hilarity ensues.
Loudness war	Why recorded music is getting "louder" over time.
Manualism	The little-known art of playing music by squeezing air through the hands.
Marilyn Manson–Columbine High School massacre controversy	News media falsely accused Marilyn Manson and his band of the same name for influencing two mass shooters who actually hated his music.
"More Cowbell"	I got a fever, and the only prescription... is more cowbell!
"More popular than Jesus"	A remark that later proved deadly for John Lennon.
Mozart and scatology	Mozart was fond of toilet humour, his letters to friends and family often contained scatological passages. He even wrote music dedicated to scatology, which was shared among a closed group of most likely inebriated friends, the most infamous of which is Leck mich im Arsch (literally "Lick me in the arse").
Musikalisches Würfelspiel	A system written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in which the musical piece is decided randomly by playing dice.
"My Way" killings	You can get killed for singing Frank Sinatra's signature tune in the Philippines.
P-Funk mythology	The whimsical universe surrounding the P Funk all stars.
"Paul is dead"	Was Paul McCartney replaced by a lookalike in the 1960s?
Pink Floyd pigs	The band's recurring props and references.
PopMart Tour	Take an unfinished studio album, hold a press conference at Kmart, and put on a show in countries around the world, complete with a spinning mirrorball lemon, a giant martini olive, a large golden arch, and the largest video screen ever toured. That would be U2's 1997–98 tour in a nutshell.
Publius Enigma	A mystery wrapped in an enigma related to Pink Floyd, which has remained unsolved since it appeared on Usenet in 1994.
Operation Nifty Package	How do you get a dictator out of an embassy? With Music, of course!
Rockism and poptimism	What happens when pop music fans take themselves way too seriously? Actually, nothing fun.
"Up to eleven"	This article is one louder.
Whamageddon	A festive music challenge where you have to avoid listening to a certain Christmas song throughout the Christmas period. Perfect if you're not a fan of George Michael.

Instruments

Genres

Chap hop	Rap music about being English in the 19th-century.
Chillwave	The term was invented to make fun of music journalists and bloggers who hype "the next big thing". Ironically, they then wrote about chillwave as "the next big thing".
Christian ska	Psychedelic worship music.
Danger music	The name is very much literal, music that tries to harm the listener or performer.
Gothabilly	What if Buddy Holly was goth?
Grunge speak	That time a receptionist convinced The New York Times that "wack slacks" was slang for ripped jeans and "lamestain" meant an uncool person.
Pirate metal	Heavy metal music combined with pirate mythology and jargon.
Proibidão	As part of a crackdown on drug cartels in Rio de Janeiro, this uniquely Brazilian form of gangsta rap cannot legally be performed or broadcast on the radio.
Slutwave	From the same blog that brought you "chillwave".

Composers, musicians, and performers

AKB48 Group	Girl group or franchise? Same with her "official" rival group and "spin-off" group as well!
Bull of Heaven	A group that is known for their extremely long albums. Most known for 210: Like a Wall in Which An Insect Lives and Gnaws; at a runtime of 5.7 years; their longest album is 310: ΩΣPx0(2^18×5^18)p*k*k*k at 3.343 quindecillion years long.
GG Allin	An anarchist punk-rocker, who would attack people attending his concerts, consisting of hoarse, disheveled vocals. He would also take an excessive amount of drugs, strip naked, and defecate on stage.
CD Rev	Because nothing says gangsta like being funded by a corrupt communist government.
Matt Farley	A songwriter who has released thousands of songs under at least seventy pseudonyms such as "Papa Razzi and the Photogs", "The Hungry Food Band", and "The Odd Man Who Sings About Poop, Puke and Pee"
Joyce Hatto	A pianist who had many doctored recordings falsely attributed to her long after she stopped performing in public.
Bobby Jameson	A hippie singer-songwriter outcast who never received financial compensation for his songs and records. Thought to be dead after the 1960s, but then resurfaced with a blog in 2007 aiming to set the record straight about his life story.
Jandek	A prolific and pseudonymous singer/songwriter active since 1978 who only grants the occasional interview and has never provided any biographical information.
Florence Foster Jenkins	An American soprano famous for her singing ability or lack thereof.
Hanatarash	The Japanese noise band that drove a bulldozer into their concert venue.
Hatari	A band that entered the 2019 Söngvakeppnin (Iceland's Eurovision Song Contest selection competition) as a joke, only to win first place. The band then won third place in Eurovision’s semi-finals, advancing to the Grand Final and winning 10th place there.
Hatebeak	The thing that should not beak.
Okilly Dokilly	A band that performs metalcore songs about the character Ned Flanders from The Simpsons, while dressed as the character as well.
Merzbow	A Japanese experimental music group whose most popular album has been affectionately described as "What a bug hears when it's being flushed down the toilet" and "Directly looking at the sun with your ears".
Moondog	A blind composer, theoretician, poet, and inventor of musical instruments who dressed like a viking and lived as a street musician in New York between the 1940s and 1970s.
MP4	Rock music and Members of Parliament do mix.
Eilert Pilarm	The Elvis impersonator who looks and sounds nothing like Elvis, according to Alfo Media.
R. Stevie Moore	A one-man band who has self-released over 400 albums through his home-based mailing service since 1982. Later noted as a pioneer of DIY music and indie rock.
The Shaggs	None of this band's members really wanted to form a band, nor did they really have any musical talent, but hey, a fortune teller predicted success, so off they went...
Subway Sect	Not an organization dedicated to the worship of the London Underground, as one may reasonably assume, but a punk rock band who claimed that they despised rock-and-roll. Ironic, seeing how they made rock-and-roll-esque songs and toured with rock-and-roll-loving band The Clash. Believe it or not, some years later, a song was made dedicated to the lead singer Vic Goddard, who had by then quit to become a postman.
Thai Elephant Orchestra	An orchestra of elephants playing specially-designed instruments.
Tout-à-Coup Jazz	An African jazz band from the 1970s whose membership included two future Burkinabé leaders, Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compaoré, with the latter overthrowing the other in a 1987 coup. Unbelievably, the band's name was purely coincidental.
The Vegetable Orchestra	An Austrian orchestra whose musical instruments are made solely from vegetables.
Wesley Willis	A musician and visual artist who recorded songs about topics such as his home town of Chicago, his schizophrenia, violent confrontations with cartoon superheroes, and bestiality, was fond of headbutting fans, and often ended his songs with "Rock over London, rock on, Chicago" followed by a product slogan
Gary Wilson	An experimental musician who sings about stalking girls and plays with duct tape, fake blood, powder, and mannequins when on stage.
Wild Man Fischer	A schizophrenic Los Angeles street entertainer whose big break was recording an album with Frank Zappa. Their collaborations ended when Fischer, in a violent rage, threw a bottle that nearly hit Zappa's daughter.
The Zimmers	A rock band made up of elderly musicians. As of 2017, the oldest member had lived to 101.
Zombeatles	Paul is undead.

Musical works

Songs

"Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt"	A foul-mouthed comedy punk song about the British Prime Minister that attempted to be the UK Christmas number one in 2020. Despite getting no air time, it got to No. 5. The following year, it spawned a sequel, which also got to No. 5 in the Christmas chart.
"Camouflage" (Chris Sievey song)	A vinyl single from 1983 that contained a computer programme for the song's own music video for the ZX81. Created by a man who later found fame wearing a papier-mâché head.
"Eat Your Salad"	The Latvian entry of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022. The lyrics speak of "eating veggies and p*ssy", along with numerous other sexual innuendos. Somehow, the song still has a serious message.
"Euro-Vision"	The Belgian entry of the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 whose lyrics spoke precisely of the event in which they took part.
"Five Per Cent For Nothing"	A very short instrumental by a band noted for very long songs that was retitled as a parting shot at their former manager, who sued them afterwards.
"Flappie"	A Dutch Christmas song about cannibalism.
"Give That Wolf a Banana"	A song that combines Little Red Riding Hood and two crazy 4.5 billion year old yellow wolves called Keith and Jim. The meaning of the song is debated, but one common theory is of all things, vaccines. It's also a Eurovision song, to boot.
"Hitler Has Only Got One Ball"	Was der Führer only half a man?
"Jeg har set en rigtig negermand"	A Danish #1 single from 1970, extolling the virtues of racial equality while calling a "negro man" "black as a bucket of tar".
"Lift Yourself"	What do you get when one of the world's most acclaimed rappers, who is also notoriously neurodivergent, decides a beat is too good for a rival rapper to own? Hint: Poopy-di scoop. Scoop-diddy-whoop. Whoop-di-scoop-di-poop.
"The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet"	The name says it all. (Well, almost.)
"The Most Unwanted Song"	Featuring operatic rapping, a children's choir urging listeners to go to Wal-Mart, bagpipes, cowboy music, and political slogans shouted through a bullhorn.
"Never Learn Not to Love"	The Beach Boys' collaboration with Charles Manson. (Yes, that Charles Manson.)
"Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah"	If you can see someone's underwear, here's the tune to tell them by.
"Old Town Road"	The debut single by Lil Nas X, labeled as country rap, which became viral on TikTok. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and stayed there for almost five months; making it the longest consecutive run at number one.
"Prisencolinensinainciusol"	The song where the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent.
"Ram Ranch"	A spoken-word heavy metal song about a gay cowboy orgy that became an internet meme and a counter-protest song against the Canadian convoy protest.
"Ready 'n' Steady"	A song mentioned in a top songs list of a notable magazine, that was long-believed by some to be non-existent because collectors were unable to find a recording or further information on it until 33 years after it was written.
"Tetris"	A Eurodance version of the Tetris theme co-produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
"Timothy"	A top 40 hit in 1970, written by Rupert Holmes of "The Piña Colada Song" fame, that gained success despite (or due to) the fact it was about cannibalism during a mining disaster.
"You Suffer"	At a full 1.316 seconds in length, the shortest song with a physical single release of all time.
"You're Pitiful"	The true story of how a Weird Al Yankovic parody caused the article for Atlantic Records to be regularly vandalized.

Albums

A Rubber Band Christmas	An album of Christmas music created using office supplies.
All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling	An early album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, which had a tiny release and was impossibly rare until a 2022 release.
Bleach (American band Bleach album) Bleach (Japanese band Bleach album)	What happens to Misplaced Pages article titles when two different bands with the exact same name both release self-titled albums.
The Boy Bands Have Won	Actually, this album's full title is "The Boy Bands Have Won" followed by a further 151 words. As of August 2009, it holds the record for the longest album title.
Cigarettes and Valentines	An entire record by Green Day whose master tracks were stolen.
Dark Night of the Soul	Due to a legal dispute, this album was released with a blank CD-R.
Eat Shit You Fucking Redneck	Pigface doesn't like rednecks so much.
Elvis' Greatest Shit	Not the one he was trying to pass the night he allegedly died.
Everywhere at the End of Time	A 61⁄2 hour concept album series portraying the stages of mental deterioration caused by Alzheimer's disease. Seems obscure? It became popular in the most unexpected of places.
In Search of The	A box set isn't particularly unusual. A box set of 13 full albums that have never been released before, handmade by the artist, is pretty unusual.
The Lillywhite Sessions	Never officially released, and yet fans and critics can argue that it's the best "album" by the Dave Matthews Band.
Metal Machine Music	A 1975 album by Lou Reed that consists of 64 minutes of audio feedback, widely believed to have either been an elaborate joke, or an attempt by Reed to escape from a record label contract.
The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief	A three-sided LP.
Musique pour Supermarché	This album by Jean-Michel Jarre had only a single copy produced, which was then auctioned off like a painting. The master tapes were subsequently destroyed, making the copy unique.
Once Upon a Time in Shaolin	A Wu-Tang Clan album that only had one copy produced, being bought by Martin Shkreli for two million dollars, making it the most expensive work of music ever sold.
Sleep	An 81⁄2 hour concept album about sleep. Also available in a one-hour version if you're in a hurry.
Sleepify	Silence is golden, especially when you're trying to fund a world tour.
Smile	An unfinished Beach Boys album that is one of the most written-about and speculated-upon works in popular music history.
Sweet Insanity	A rejected Brian Wilson album, written and recorded with his ex-psychologist, that outraged Wilson's fans to the extent that they threatened to murder a critic for publishing a favorable review.

Film

100 Years (film)	A movie that your grandchildren and great-grandchildren might be able to enjoy!
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn	A movie about a director who makes a bad movie, but can't remove his name from the credits because his real name is Alan Smithee. In reality, the movie about the movie was so bad that director Arthur Hiller was credited as Alan Smithee to disguise himself from the production.
Ambiancé	A film scheduled to be released on New Year's Eve 2020 that was planned to be 30 days long. A trailer released in 2016 lasted 7 hours 20 minutes. It was planned for the film to be destroyed after its sole showing. It never debuted.
Big Dumb Object	A mysterious object (usually of extraterrestrial origin) in a film that is there simply to cause a sense of wonder.
Birdemic: Shock and Terror	The answer to the question: What could be worse than a Sharknado?
Black and white hat symbolism in film	The hat, sir, whatever could it mean?
Clownhouse	A 1990 horror film. When the film was in production, the director Victor Salva began sexually abusing the 12-year-old lead actor... much to the chagrin of financier Francis Ford Coppola.
The Cure for Insomnia	A movie that runs for 85 hours. Not the longest movie ever screened though (see below).
The Day the Clown Cried	A notorious unreleased film about the Holocaust by Jerry Lewis – hey, it's a comedy!
Dump months	Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's favorite time of the year.
Empire (1964 film)	A film by Andy Warhol consisting entirely of eight hours of still footage of the Empire State Building.
Empires of the Deep	A $140 million unreleased US-Chinese aqua-fantasy film that sunk to the depths of the sea...
First on the Moon	Proof that the Soviets got there, thirty years before Armstrong and Aldrin didn't.
The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!	The most important WWE/Hanna-Barbera collaboration.
Hidden Mickey	He could be watching you right now…
The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon	A short film about an immortal serial killer who kills his victims with spoons.
I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney	"I knew I wanted to be a director, and I did a couple of short films, and this is the only one that haunts me." —Ben Affleck, Academy Award winner
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter	What happens when you mix Jesus, lesbians and vampires in a film?
Lee Kin-yan	A Hong Kong actor repeatedly cast in Stephen Chow films as a nose-picking, bearded transvestite.
List of films featuring giant monsters	Oh no, there goes Tokyo, go go Godzilla!
List of films that most frequently use the word "fuck"	Self explanatory.
Logistics (film)	The world's longest movie ever made, it follows the entire five-week process of making and selling a pedometer in reverse chronological order.
The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World	A movie that runs for 48 hours. Despite its title, it isn't the world's longest movie, but the jury's still out on whether it's the most meaningless....
Maidstone (film)	A film where a director runs for president while being targeted for assassination attempts, which is notable for a fight scene that made it into the final cut, where actor Rip Torn hits director Norman Mailer on the head with a hammer.
Manic Pixie Dream Girl	A female stock character in (usually) movies who is extremely eccentric and girlish, and serves mainly to motivate and/or provide character development for the male protagonist.
Manos: The Hands of Fate	A low-budget film created by a fertilizer salesman from Texas, which is largely considered to be the worst film of all time.
Mockbuster	Not the movie you want, but the bargain-bin equivalent.
Modern Times Forever (Stora Enso Building, Helsinki)	The second longest film ever shot: ten whole days of one decaying building Life After People-style and first screened in front of itself. The directors have a point.
Monster a Go-Go	The film that was released to drive-ins when it was only halfway completed. In order to get around this, the ending consists of narration explaining what happened to the main characters and the titular monster.
Night of the Day of the Dawn	The title of the film series is actually called Night of the Day of the Dawn followed by 29 words. It initially started with the second part as the first part is currently unreleased. As if that wasn't bad enough, it spawned three sequels.
Nothing Lasts Forever (film)	A completed feature-length film with Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd that has never been released and may never be released.
Oscar bait	There are certain rules one follows when making an Oscar film. Including mental illness, the Holocaust and Meryl Streep in your film also helps.
On the Art of the Cinema	North Korean cinema is best Korean cinema.
Paint Drying	Created to test the patience of the British Board of Film Classification.
Plan 9 from Outer Space	The epitome of so-bad-it's-good cinema, and Bela Lugosi's last film. Starring posthumously, Lugosi died before production began.
Pulgasari	A Godzilla-esque film, supposedly an allegory for unchecked capitalism, created by Kim Jong-il and a director whom he kidnapped.
Raza (film)	A drama about a family's roles in the Spanish Civil War that was written and supposingly ghost-directed by Francisco Franco himself. Takes "history is written by the victors" to a new level.
Roar (film)	What do you think happens when a family of African wildlife activists gathers together to make an environmentalist movie with over 150 untrained big cats? Seventy members of the cast and crew getting injured, with the worst victim needing 220 stitches; high turnover, with 20 members of the crew leaving en masse; and a combination of financial problems, a broken dam, and destroyed fences resulting in millions in debt.
Roundhay Garden Scene	The first ever moving picture, which lasted for an epic two seconds.
Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery	Probably one of the greatest crossovers nobody wanted.
Shaken, not stirred	Why 007 prefers his martini shaken.
Shoot	Hey man, I've got this idea for an art video that's really gonna blow you away.....well, blow me away. Blow away my arm.....I want you to shoot me in the arm.
Smell-O-Vision	A system designed to enhance films with odors. Used once for the 1960 film Scent of Mystery and never again.
Sssssss	Dirk Benedict and snakes. Long before the day of Samuel L. Jackson.
Stay Puft Marshmallow Man	Large marshmallow mascot seen in the film Ghostbusters.
Stinking badges	Something nobody needs. Possibly the most frequently quoted and misquoted line from a movie ever.
Surf Nazis Must Die	A film for anyone who thought the Space Nazi trope was insensitive.
Taylor Mead's Ass	A film consisting entirely 70 minutes of Taylor Mead's buttocks.
Twin films	When two studios make the same idea at the same time.
United Passions	A $30 million film sponsored by FIFA about how great they are. Came out right after the 2015 FIFA corruption case came to light. One of the lowest grossing sports movies of all time.
Who Killed Captain Alex?	A 2010 Ugandan action-comedy film produced on a humongous budget of $85.
Wilhelm scream	A stock sound effect first recorded in 1951 and used in dozens of films (including seven Star Wars films, two Lord of the Rings films and Kill Bill).
Zyzzyx Road	Budget: $1.2 million. Box office: 30 bucks.

Television

Al Murray's Compete for the Meat	A British game show where the top prize is a frozen chicken and the second prize is some sausages.
Alternative 3	An April Fools joke by an ITV science show leads many to believe that scientists were being kidnapped to prepare for the colonization of Mars.
Anti-Barney humor	An article for all Barney & Friends haters.
Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos	Forget Turn-On – this never even made it to the end of its only episode.
The Canadian Conspiracy	A mockumentary released in 1985 that asserts that Canada is subverting the United States by taking over its media.
Conspiracy 58	A mockumentary that claimed that the 1958 World Cup was never actually held. Despite being revealed as a hoax at the end, people still believed it.
"Dennō Senshi Porygon"	An episode of the "harmless" Pokémon cartoon that caused seizures in almost 700 children.
Flemish Secession hoax	Our regular programming is now interrupted to declare independence from Belgium.
Friday night death slot	Where TV shows go to die.
Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial	The real former leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a Pizza Hut commercial. What more can I say?
Guy Goma	A man who came to the BBC for a job interview is instead interviewed on its news channel about the Apple Corps v. Apple Computer lawsuit.
Heil Honey I'm Home!	Hitler has his own sitcom.
History of Pop (American TV channel)	How a TV program guide became an actual channel.
How to Eat with Your Butt	The plot and the title of this South Park episode are pretty strange.
I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant	A documentary series on TLC. You can probably guess the plot.
It's So Funny	A North Korean comedy show which is anything but funny.
I Wanna Marry "Harry"	An American reality show to find Prince Harry a wife. Meghan Markle was not a contestant.
John Dillermand	A Danish children's series featuring a man in a red-and-white costume, which extends to his elongated penis, that he gets into all sorts of (family friendly) trouble with!
Judaism in Rugrats	A Maccababy's gotta do what a Maccababy's gotta do.
Jumping the shark	Metaphor, based on something that Fonzie actually did on an episode of Happy Days, for the moments when popular TV series lose all credibility and have undeniably entered their twilight years.
K Foundation Burn a Million Quid	Why did the K Foundation burn a million pounds in cash?
Michael Larson	A man who won over US$100,000 in an American quiz show because he was able to notice a pattern in the flashing lights on the "Big Board."
List of Saturday Night Live incidents	From Ashlee Simpson's lip-sync fail to Adrien Brody's possibly racist introduction to Sean Paul.
Lucky 7	The first pirate television station in the United States, which featured such movies as Rocky and Behind the Green Door.
Max Headroom signal hijacking	TV signals in Chicago are twice overpowered on 22 November 1987 by broadcasts featuring a person (possibly a male) disguised as the 1980s virtual TV character Max Headroom. The source of the broadcasts and the people involved remain unknown. Ten years previously, the sound during a broadcast by the UK's Southern Television is replaced by a voice claiming to be an extraterrestrial named "Vrillon".
Odagiri effect	Turns out that women find sexy men on TV shows quite appealing.
Greg Packer	A man on the street, no matter which street you're talking about.
Sharknado	Exactly what it implies: Sharks + Tornado = the best damn disaster movie on earth. You better know it's got an ungodly amount of sequels and a cult following too!
Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell	What's wrong Shaun? Why must you be mad as hell?
Soap opera rapid aging syndrome	A tragic condition suffered by some young characters on soap operas.
Southern Television broadcast interruption	A news program in England interrupted by an interstellar message from Vrillon, representative of the mighty Ashtar Galactic Command.
Spaghetti-tree hoax	Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.
Star Wars Holiday Special	What do you get when you combine Star Wars and Christmas? One of the worst films of all time.
Superstar USA	A music competition looking for the worst singers America has to offer.
Tomorrow's Pioneers	A Palestinian children's show produced by Hamas and co-hosted by various costumed characters, including one resembling Mickey Mouse. Most of said costumed characters are killed by Jews in some violent manner.
Turn-On	An ABC comedy series that was cancelled even before the first episode had finished.
Turner Doomsday Video	When he founded CNN, Ted Turner made sure they would be ready for the end of the world.
Uh Oh!	90's Canadian children's game show, with an energetic wacky host, fun trivia questions, and a leather daddy dumping slime on kids! What could go wrong!
Very special episode	A genre of television episodes with controversial life lessons interweaved into the storyline, popularized by Blossom.
Wank Week	A Channel 4 project for all those who think there aren't enough jerks on TV.
Tommy Westphall	How a child with autism, and Detective Munch, are responsible for more than 200 TV series.
TV pickup	Britons regularly cause massive power surges by simultaneously making tea during program breaks.
Who's Your Daddy?	To win $100,000, adoptees have to pick their biological father out of 25 men.

Video games

Atari video game burial	Are your video games not selling? Why not do what Atari did and bury them in a New Mexican landfill!
Bartle taxonomy of player types	What type of gamer are you?
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing	A racing video game that is considered one of the worst of all time due to its opponents that don't move, the ability to drive through buildings and accelerate infinitely in reverse, and a notorious "YOU'RE WINNER !" message after each race.
Battle of B-R5RB	A player-versus-player battle in EVE Online which involved over 7,500 players, lasted 21 hours, and cost over US$300,000 worth of in-game currency.
Bob's Game	An unreleased homebrew video game, of game, within a game, in a game. All while the developer went on protest against the evil corporation known as "Gantendo".
Boss key	A special key or key combination used in computer games to quickly hide the game from superiors or coworkers.
Breast physics	Follow the bouncing boobs!
Cat hair mustache puzzle	Considered among the worst puzzles of any video game.
Communist Mutants from Space	A Cold War Space Invaders clone in which you do battle with the Mother Creature, driven mad by radioactive vodka.
Corrupted Blood incident	An unintentional virtual epidemic in World of Warcraft, which became an important medical case study.
Cubic Ninja	A video game that ended up being sold for over US$500 due to its ability to let a 3DS run homebrew.
Dance Dance Immolation	It's like Dance Dance Revolution with flamethrowers. Pointed at you.
Dies Irae	An eroge (pornographic) visual novel, revolving around a cabal of magic interdimensional Nazis attacking a Japanese town on Christmas of 2006. Notably ported to Nintendo Switch.
Don't Buy This	A rare example of truth in advertising.
Eggplant run	A challenge playthrough of Spelunky in which you carry an eggplant and toss it into the final boss's face
The Great Giana Sisters	A game that was withdrawn from the shelves virtually as soon as it went on them.
Hong Kong 97	A video game where the dead Deng Xiaoping is a weapon of mass destruction.
I Am Bread	Play as bread.
"I am Error"	A line said by a character in the 2nd Legend of Zelda game.
JFK Reloaded	A video game released in 2004 where the player gets to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.
Kanye Quest 3030	Just an innocent game about Kanye West. There definitely aren't any secret cults lying around!
Kanye Zone	Can you keep the disembodied head of rapper Kanye West out of his "zone"?
LSD: Dream Emulator	A game by Osamu Sato that supposedly has no other purpose than to be weird.
Mighty No. 9	A video game notable for having the longest closing credits of any media, at just under 3 hours and 48 minutes long, in part thanks to the game's sluggish and somewhat mismanaged development and the developers' decision to credit the game's 70,000+ Kickstarter backers.
MissingNo.	A Pokémon species that only appears as the result of a glitch, and has since been the subject of many sociological studies.
Mister Mosquito	Be a mosquito.
Overwatch and pornography	Yes, many people would like to "Nerf This!"
Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors	A compendium of computer games all created to allow the owner to scam his or her friends. Includes "Desert Bus": a painstakingly realistic 8-hour bus journey from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas through a featureless desert (with the occasional road sign) in real time.
Pepsiman	Save people... from thirst! But not from tooth decay.
PETA satirical browser games	Bored of playing your usual video games? Try PETA's Super Chick Sisters and Super Tofu Boy, it'll definitely get you to work.
Phalanx	Who knew that putting an old man playing a banjo in a video game that had nothing to do with him would make for an effective marketing campaign?
Playing History 2 - Slave Trade	An educational game that featured a minigame where you would fit slaves into a slave ship like Tetris pieces.
Pokémon Uranium	A fangame set in a region of the Pokémon universe that was victim to a nuclear disaster.
Polybius	An arcade game that supposedly causes its players to go insane.
Seaman	A video game where you take care of a fish with a human head while being voiced by Leonard Nimoy.
Sonic Dreams Collection	This surreal fangame, said to be unfinished Sonic the Hedgehog games on the Dreamcast, pulls no punches to the notorious Sonic fandom.
Speedrun	People who try to beat games as fast as possible.
Syobon Action	A platformer known for its levels designed to cause extreme frustration.
Tetris effect	A psychological effect where Tetris players start arranging blocks in the real world.
Thatcher's Techbase	A mod of Doom II where the main goal is to kill an undead Margaret Thatcher.
List of video games notable for negative reception	And we were so sure NO MAN′S SKY would be a hit!
Steve Wiebe	The star of a film about him setting the world's high score... for Donkey Kong.

Internet memes and online culture

2 Hours Doing Nothing	An Indonesian kid who gained fame by staring into his camera for two hours.
A group where we all pretend to be boomers	A group of Facebook friends who decided to pretend to be elderly.
All your base are belong to us	A phrase that originated in the 1989 video game Zero Wing and sparked an Internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002.
Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash	A Facebook group dedicated to memes about American politician Bernie Sanders.
Boobquake	Female users of social networking websites agree to determine whether their scandalous clothing can cause earthquakes.
Bowsette	The Internet was once titillated over this Bowser-Peach fusion.
British scientists	Not a list of some scientific pioneers from Europe, but a Russian internet meme.
Bronies	You thought My Little Pony could never be loved by grown men. Wrong. Very wrong.
Carstuckgirls.com	An erotic(?) website devoted to women trying to free their cars from various obstacles.
Chad	From the incel forums comes this whole new slang.
Cinnamon challenge	Unless you enjoy lung damage, please do not try this at home.
Consumption of Tide Pods	Ever thought a Tide pod looked kind of like candy? Apparently you're not alone.
Countryballs	A comic genre with balls and other bits for different countries doing what real countries do.
Cursed image	Low quality images with a mysterious aura, sometimes with a comedic effect.
Cute cat theory of digital activism	"Web 1.0 was invented to allow physicists to share research papers. Web 2.0 was created to allow people to share pictures of cute cats." — Ethan Zuckerman
Dave rule	"Dave-to-girl ratio" as gender balance criterion.
Doge	very readers, such article, much wiki
Elsagate	Here kids, watch these YouTube videos with Elsa and Spider-Man, I'm sure nothing inappropriate will be on them...
Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten	If that's not a good enough reason why you shouldn't, I don't know what is.
Extremely online	A state that everybody reading this can probably relate to.
Florida Man	Superhero native to the state of Florida best known for his frequent run-ins with law enforcement and intoxicating substances.
Getting to Philosophy	All links lead to Philosophy.
Godwin's law	Every long, protracted online discussion always ends with comparisons of others to Hitler. Really...
Googling	Google created a verb that is really in the dictionary.
Hampster Dance	A web page featuring dancing hamsters set to music. The music (itself a sample) was sampled in a song, and made No.4 in the United Kingdom in 1999.
Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff	A pair of French twin brothers known for their extravagant looks and (pseudo)scientific claims; which made them the subject of a long-lasting internet meme involving aliens, secret knowledge and bear markets.
Instagram egg	An image of any old egg...is what this egg would be if it didn't take over Instagram and become the most-liked post on the internet.
Internet Watch Foundation and Misplaced Pages	Talk about a major violation of WP:CENSOR and WP:POINT...
It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers	A viral online essay celebrating the joys of Autumn.
John Titor	The name of a purported time traveller from the year 2036. He posted on several time travel-related Internet bulletin boards during 2000/2001.
Josh fight	The face-off of the century to determine who could keep the name Josh.
Lenin was a mushroom	A hoax that Vladimir Lenin consumed large quantities of psychedelic mushrooms and eventually became a mushroom himself.
Meow Wars	A flame war on Usenet that lasted for over 2 years.
Miguxês	A brief guide to Portuguese Internet slang.
No Nut November	...and its antipode, Destroy Dick December.
Numa Numa	Or how a fat kid dancing to the O-Zone song "Dragostea din tei" in front of his computer became very popular.
O RLY?	The sarcastic owl image that is becoming increasingly ubiquitous on the 'net.
OS-tan	A small Internet phenomenon where certain types of software (including various Microsoft and Linux operating systems) are depicted as young anime women.
PewDiePie vs T-Series	A competition between two YouTube channels to be the most subscribed channel.
Philosophical zombie	I am dead, therefore I eat brains.
Planet X637Z-43	A planet covered in cannabis! Well, that's what they want you to think.
Press F to pay respects	Have you ever wondered why you might see the letter "F" being spammed on pages about someone's death?
Rickrolling	Careful: that link you're about to click on might take you to a video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".
Rule 34	"If it exists, there is Internet porn of it."
Mark V. Shaney	A fake Usenet user whose computer-generated postings were created using Markov chain techniques.
Sam Hyde	An American comedian blamed for numerous terrorist attacks and killings.
Shitposting	🗿
Shock site	Don't look! (No, really.)
Shrek fandom	Maybe "fandom" isn't the correct word?
Sitting and Smiling	A YouTube series in which a man sits and smiles for four hours, documenting his descent into inevitable madness.
Storm Area 51	An Internet meme which, as all great things, began on Facebook and spiralled a bit of out control, and of course Wikipedians couldn't be stopped in making it its own article.
Suntukan sa Ace Hardware	Fight Club taking place at a hardware store of all places.
Techno Viking	When the protagonist of a meme sues its creator.
Ted Cruz–Zodiac Killer meme	A mock conspiracy theory gone wild.
Time Cube	The personal website of a schizophrenic old man who claimed that time is "cubic" in nature and that all of modern science is a lie.
Tourist guy	The picture of a Hungarian man on 9/11.
Twitter suspensions	Tweeting's not a right, it's a privilege.
Very erotic very violent	How erotic and violent would it be?
VTuber	Anime meets Streaming Culture with lucrative and often rather sexual results.
Unusual eBay listings	Those strange things people sell on the Internet...
wikiFeet	The world's largest image sharing website devoted to foot fetishism.
Misplaced Pages	The site you are on right now.
Misplaced Pages Star Trek Into Darkness controversy	Is it "into" or "Into"?
Yaminjeongeum	세종머앟늰익 읚머한 윾산.

See also List of Internet memes.

Festivals

Stage shows

See also

• List of Alfred Hitchcock cameo appearances
• List of films that most frequently use the word "fuck"
• List of films considered the worst
• List of television series canceled after one episode
• List of television series canceled before airing an episode