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19 Educational Cartoons That Would've Ruined Your Education

When teachers had a bad enough day or hangover, or had to teach a subject they'd meant to call in sick for (we're looking at you Sex Ed) they could always turn down the lights and outsource the lesson plan to animated educational videos. We asked you to show us some cartoons that would have been catastrophically bad substitute teachers.

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April 23, 2012

21 Direct to DVD Rip-Offs of Hit Movies We'll See Next

Every hit movie spawns a ridiculous fake version that looks and is spelled like it was created by kindergarteners. We put our opposite-of-thinking caps on, and come up with some absurd rip-offs fake-Hollywood hasn't gotten around to yet.

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April 22, 2012

19 Things College Students Suspect About the Real World

Some of the things college students will be most surprised to find missing from the real world when they get there.

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April 20, 2012

The Creative Processes of Famous Filmmakers: Charted

Every filmmaker has their trademark styles, and pet themes. Usually we chalk this up to artistry, but sometimes it seems like they're just checking the same old playbook every time they make a movie.

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April 18, 2012

27 Small But Disastrous Changes to Famous Video Games

Video games don't just go from the drawing board to your console without some bad ideas being edited out along the way.

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April 16, 2012

25 Team-Ups in History That Would Have Changed Everything

Tesla and Mark Twain were homeys and Da Vinci and Machiavelli once worked together on a plot to steal a river. This got us wondering what other duos might have tag-teamed history if cost and the time-space continuum weren't an issue.

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April 15, 2012

21 Famous Villains During Their Awkward Teenage Years

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April 13, 2012

If The Real World Played by Disney Cartoon Rules

Most of us grew up in different school districts, but nearly all of us learned our first lessons about the real world from Disney cartoons. While not as cool to claim as the school of hard knocks, the school of Disney certainly left an impression.

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April 11, 2012

30 Video Game Characters Who'd Suck at Other Games

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April 09, 2012

19 Secret Inspirations for Famous Song Lyrics

There are plenty of song lyrics that make you wonder what the hell was going on in the room when they were written. We asked you to use the magic of image manipulation to show us.

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April 08, 2012

23 Modern Images as Misunderstood by Future Archeologists

Napoleon's height was exactly average for his time. His enemies made up the short thing to make him look silly, and it stuck because he looked sort of small in a couple of paintings. This made us wonder how the images we leave behind will be misremembered.

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April 06, 2012

23 Secret Backstories of Supporting Movie Characters

Whether its prequels or super hero origins stories, modern movies love explaining why the main characters are the way they are. We asked you to show us the back stories of memorable characters who didn't get movies devoted to their childhood traumas.

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April 04, 2012

18 Instructional Charts for People Who Suck at Technology

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April 02, 2012

29 Famous Photos Made Filthy With Needless Censorship

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March 31, 2012

23 Small But Disastrous Changes to Famous Movies

You only need to look at what George Lucas did with 'Star Wars' movies when he was under the thumb of the studio (Episodes IV - VI) and when he was left to his own artistic vision (the prequels) to see that studio meddling can be a good thing. We asked you to show us some other bad ideas that we were saved from by last minute changes.

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March 30, 2012

23 Unseen Backstories of Classic Video Games

Many of our favorite video games dropped us in the middle of complete madness and never bothered explaining what the hell was going on. We give you the back stories that explain some of the acid flashbacks we grew up playing inside.

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March 28, 2012

21 Classes We Wish We Could Force People to Take

The world has changed pretty radically over the past twenty years, but we're still taking the same classes at the same ages as always. Some mandatory classes that would make everyday life suck less.

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March 26, 2012

21 Less Famous Siblings of Great Fictional Characters

Whether it's Ozzie Canseco, Roger Clinton or Tito Jackson's weird little brother, celebrities can always count on their siblings to hang out in the bottom rungs of fame doing a vastly more embarrassing version of whatever they're known for. A look at the fictional character equivalent.

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March 24, 2012

If Famous Pictures Were Turned Into Propaganda Posters

It's been a long time since propaganda posters were at their most popular. Thousands of brilliant photographs have been snapped since then that never got the chance to be put to the service of corrupt power. Until now ...

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March 23, 2012

20 Terrifying Theories About How They Make Famous Products

After you hear enough stories of sweat shops and creepy chicken farms, your imagination starts to come up with creatively gruesome origins for every product, which is exactly why we like your imagination.

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March 21, 2012