tv & film

misc faves

other video-type content i like and return to regularly.

story animation

single stories in one animated video (shorts, cartoon pilots, no-dialogue stories set to songs, etc).

• The Little Poet: beautiful calarts film that takes you through art, narrated by a kid with a crush. so so lovely
• Bambee: bambi parody my siblings showed me as a kid - i was super into it for some reason, so it deserves to be here
• Cockroach: cute little domestic video about a dog and cat couple dealing with a cockroach
• Diamond Jack: a rollerskating thief – love the vintage sound of the song, and the animation is so fun!
• 「プリンのうた」(Jigglypuff's Song): my favorite poketoon! it makes me teary.
• LOUISE: really beautifully done short film about the dark side of professional ballet
• Mascot Prep: cartoon pilot about mascots learning how to be mascots lol. main character (voiced by mitchell musso!) is fucked because he has no product yet
• NERVOUS: a nervous dog is left at a doggy day care
• omelette: no talking, just music and a sweet little french bulldog (or boston terrier? can't tell) who can cook
• Perils of Love: cute animation i saw as a kid about... obviously... the perils of love. set to a french song!
• 떳다 그녀!! (There she is!!): a bunny falls in love with a cat in a world where interspecies romance is forbidden. extremely good; you get emotionally more invested with each installment (compiled here nicely in one video)
• There's a Man in the Woods: well-written, unsettling spoken word story, but the animation enhances it x10
• Try our Lusty Man TV Dinners!: silly fake commercial my siblings showed me as a kid - shaped our humor somewhat
• Welcome to My Life: i watched this as a youth and loved it. love how the monsters look, love the mockumentary style and sweet tone, and love the commentary on asian americanism
• there's also a more polished cartoon network shorts version!

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standup

what it says on the tin. it's kind of hard to find well-compiled lists of standup videos... this too will not be well-compiled.

• john mulaney: New in Town, the Comeback Kid, Kid Gorgeous, Baby J, all on netflix i believe. (i really don't care about his personal life atp, i just think he's funny)
• hari kondabolu: loveeee him. i've seen Warn Your Relatives (netflix) and Vacation Baby
• sindhu vee: i have yet to see a full special by her (no access) but i like this performance of her live at the apollo, her delivery is everything lmao
• gianmarco soresi: you should just follow him on any social media bc everything including his crowdwork is great - but here's him on the late late show, comedy central, and don't tell comedy
• ashley gavin: she has a full special!!
• sabrina wu: they're so real to me...

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video essays

i don't watch a lot of these...

• bdg's unraveled series, but particularly these ones, which i watch on bad days to make me smile:
• Bowser's Military Hierarchy
• Ranking all 200+ Mega Man robots
• I read all 337 books in Skyrim so you don't have to
• I wasted 3 weeks of my life finding Castlevania's hottest monster
• The Perfect PokéRap
• GiBi's ~9h fnaf lore explainer: EXTREMELY COMPREHENSIVE and well-told. highly recommend - i went into this with little to no understanding of fnaf and came out of it a new person

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animated music videos

this category is for animation done or commissioned specifically by the person making the music.

• Acacia / BUMP OF CHICKEN
• Loveit? / biz×ZERA feat. LOLUET
• Trapped In The Drive-Thru / Weird Al Yankovic
• OH OH SEXY VAMPIRE / Fright Ranger
• Join Us For A Bite (FNAF Sister Location Song) / JT Music
• Red Flags / Tom Cardy (ft. Montaigne)
• Rainbow Connections / Garfunkel and Oates
• The Last Time, Part Two / Lucy Knisley
• lucy is a cartoonist by trade (i know her from her comics). i didn't know she also played the uke! this song makes me cry so bad
• Itaino Itaino Tondeike / TOOBOE

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animatics & fan animation

this category is for indie animation done or at least organized by one person and not a full professional team, usually set to a song they do not own.

• Kiss Later / LOONA
• Never Ever Getting Rid of Me / Clone High (joanfk!!!)
• Drunk / OC (extremely me-catered)
• Eddie Baby / It (2017 & 2019) (reddie-centric, obviously)
• Helpless / Hamilton
• Mambostuck / Homestuck
• The Other Side / OC (i love emilyamiao's work so much)
• Say My Name / Beetlejuice
• Stupid With Love / OC
• Valentino / Hazbin Hotel
• The Whole Being Dead Thing / Beetlejuice

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musical scenes (cartoons)

i'm such a sucker for a well-boarded, well-characterized, fun to watch musical scene in a cartoon!!! sue me!!!

• How Bad Can I Be / Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (2012)
• if hbcib has no fans i am dead.
• We Don't Talk About Bruno / Encanto (2021)
• seven foot frame... rats along his back.......
• On the Open Road / A Goofy Movie (1995)
• Loser, Baby / Hazbin Hotel
• Stayed Gone / Hazbin Hotel
• I Won't Say I'm in Love / Hercules (1997)
• Can You Feel The Love Tonight / The Lion King (1994)
• I'll Make a Man Out of You / Mulan (1998)
• will always be soooo satisfying to watch! i love mulan.
• A Girl Worth Fighting For / Mulan (1998)
• Summer Belongs to You / Phineas and Ferb
• You Snuck Your Way Right Into My Heart / Phineas and Ferb
• Down in New Orleans / The Princess and the Frog (2009)
• Could Have Been Me / Sing 2 (2021)
• Do It For Her / Steven Universe
• Drift Away / Steven Universe: The Movie (2019)
• they portrayed spinel's backstory so heartwrenchingly well, ugh
• Mother Knows Best / Tangled (2010)
• Nothing Left to Lose / Tangled: The Series
• i am the #1 fan of this scene!!!!!! it's so well-boarded too

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musical scenes (tv / film)

i'm such a sucker for a well-filmed, well-choreographed, fun to watch musical scene in a movie!!! sue me!!!

• I Am A Good Girl / Burlesque (2010)
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• Santa Ana Winds (I LOVE WHOEVER THIS ACTOR IS... so cute), Strip Away My Conscience, Let's Generalize About Men, JAP Battle (i have such a crush on rachel grate), Settle for Me, The Math of Love Triangles
• lots of Glee...
• Toxic, Kiss (sorry, i really liked this, actually), Forget You (this too... why is gwyneth paltrow a good singer), Smooth Criminal, Summer Nights, Want You Back (grant gustin my beloved! he's so cute), Valerie
• Rewrite The Stars / The Greatest Showman (2017)
• I Don't Dance / High School Musical 2 (2007)
• seriously, this is so iconic... masterpiece of a song
• Does Your Mother Know? / Mamma Mia (2008)
• i firmly believe that seeing this sequence as a youth changed me irrevocably
• Why Did It Have to Be Me? / Mamma Mia 2 (2018)
• I've Got the Magic in Me / Pitch Perfect (2012)
• Any Way You Want It / Rock of Ages (2012)
• Bells and Whistles / Schmigadoon!
• Don't Say Yes Until I'm Finished Talking / SMASH
• West Side Story (2021)'s cinematography was really beautiful, and all the big group songs/choreo were so fun to watch.
• America, Gee, Officer Krupke, Jet Song, I Feel Pretty, and this one scene of the dance at the mixer
• i put these Community ones at the end because they are more funny/silly than professionally good...
• The Dean's Rap always has me in tears
• troy and abed's Spanish Rap i hate that they both can beatbox! bad for my heart!!!
• Annie's Christmas Seduction is so weirdly catchy. i love how hard she committed to the uwu voice

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song recordings & performances

concerts, zoom performances, random other recordings/lives, etc

• yes i am putting the The Eras Tour movie on this list
• also Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions
• Straight to DVD (All Time Low) was a fun concert movie too
• Red Wine Supernova, by chappell roan for vevo studios
• ILYSB, performed by The Rose - woosung really kills it
• Don't Wanna Cry (Performance Version)... i just think the choreo for this SVT song is particularly good
• 夜に駆ける, recorded by yoasobi for THE FIRST TAKE
• Ultimate A Cappella Mashup: 25 Hits, 25 Years, performed by BYU vocal point (just a big ol' group of alums of a university a cappella group)
• ngl it's a little scary to see so many white guys all together but i love me some a cappella lol, and it's kind of cute that so many of them gathered for this?
• this official performance of Sexy from mean girls on broadway
• Love on Top, recorded by the barden bellas of pitch perfect
• Ex-Wives, recorded by the worldwide cast of SIX
• The Room Where It Happens, recorded by the cast of hamilton
• extremely different from everything else on this list lol, but this performance of Scheherazade op. 35 by Sinfónica de Galicia. i found it the first time i looked up scheherazade and it bodied me.

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vocaloid PVs

these guys just get their own section

• Miku: World is Mine, Once Upon A Me
• Rin: Melancholic (looove the aesthetics of this PV), Kokoro, Daughter of Evil, I Wanna Be a Princess!
• Len: SPICE!
• Luka: Just Be Friends, Answer (feels like a breath of fresh air), Double Lariat
• Gumi: Difficult Love, Wrinkle (this always makes me cry LOL), Please, Don't Have Laid Down Your Life
• Multiple: Alice Human Sacrifice, Gekokujou (i particularly like this pv over the other versions), Matryoshka, ggrks

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kpop MVs

they also get their own section

• cute: What is Love?, BUNGEE (Fall in Love), Lion Heart
• pretty: Palette, Fallin' Flower, Shampoo
• fun: Kiss Later, HER, Twenty-three
• colorful: Oh My!, LIAR LIAR, DO or NOT
• cool: HIP, CHANGE UP, Left & Right, HOME;RUN, LOVE ME RIGHT
• nostalgic: Replay, Haru Haru, Happiness
• oh my goodness: Spider

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other MVs

western artists, lol.

• Boys (i love this mv forever!!!!!!)
• Hold Up
• Breakfast
• Blueberry Eyes
• Primadonna
• One of Your Girls (ough his face at the end gets me)
• Weightless
• Colors (this was so insane first time i saw it)
• The Man
• Sucker
• Popular Song (the concept is super cute)
• Bang Bang
• 34 + 35 (ft. Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion)
• Say So (i think that the little thing doja does at "boy stop playing, grab my ass" is HYPNOTIC)
• I Bet You Think About Me

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uncategorized

wild card videos that i'm not sure how to sort. they're here now.

• Best Comeback Ever
• 🎵 ICE CREAM SONGS 🎵
• i'm not asleep my mind is alive
• Independence Day (Daddy's Cut)
• Kids React to Old Photos of Their Dad
• Parents Show Kids their Love Story
• shingle jingle
• Siblings
• this video got me a job
• Three Sad Virgins
• Rocko's Modern Life: The Bus Driver: GET BACK ON THE BUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Are You Asian Enough?

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