Laughing Squid

Natalie Sideserf of Sideserf Cake Studio created a hyperrealistic, life-sized octopus cake, using a hidden structural skeleton that wraps around her arm. laughingsquid.com/arm-gripping...

The New Yorker conducted a "Talk of the Town" interview with a donkey named Wanda, who plays a pivotal role in Puccini's "La Bohème". laughingsquid.com/wanda-donkey...

Mulberry Acres Parrot Rescue shared the remarkable story of Auggie, a lovable elder African Gray who is paralyzed. laughingsquid.com/paralyzed-af...

Abby Jardine shared how Pidge, her "snobby" purse pigeon, doesn't care to socialize with the regular pigeons who live on New York City streets. laughingsquid.com/snobby-nyc-p...

Two talented sea otters at the Oregon Zoo playfully slam-dunked miniature pumpkins through their hoop like basketballs. laughingsquid.com/sea-otters-p...

"Come Back to Firefox" is a clever ad for Firefox that reunites some of the most viral content creators of the 2000s and 2010s. laughingsquid.com/come-back-to...

Time Out New York visited Sharon Hershkowitz, the joyful founder of Balloon Saloon, a historic Tribeca novelty shop that opened in 1981. laughingsquid.com/new-york-cit...

Wisconsin costume designer Brandon Johnson built the "Spirit Walker", a 9-foot four-legged creature with a humanlike face, from thrift-store finds and trash. laughingsquid.com/brandon-john...

In the spirit of Halloween, Captain Pikant used his Hapax sequencer to recreate the complex drum beat behind Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" theme. laughingsquid.com/recreating-g...

California resident Susan Burgos set the Guinness World Record for the "largest collection of frog-related items" in January 2026, with 13,201 pieces. laughingsquid.com/worlds-large...

There I Ruined It remixed the Linkin Park song "In the End" with corporate jargon from LinkedIn to create a catchy workplace anthem. laughingsquid.com/linkedin-par...

HD1080ide captured great footage of 70 road-legal amphibious vehicles driving into the water at Amphib 2026 in Berlin, the world's largest meeting of amphibious cars. laughingsquid.com/amphibious-c...

Someone at Meep Meepleton’s World of Fun in Madison, Wisconsin, played a vintage Big Mouth Singers toy keyboard in time with the classic Beastie Boys track "Brass Monkey". laughingsquid.com/big-mouth-si...

David Bennett analyzed the specific chords and key changes that made Queen's classic song "We Are the Champions" sound so triumphant. laughingsquid.com/queen-we-are...

Jelle's Marble Runs presented a Halloween-themed competition in which marbles had to navigate a perilous, haunted-castle course. laughingsquid.com/jelles-hallo...

Illona Bolou performed a gorgeous percussive fingerstyle cover of Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" on her acoustic guitar. laughingsquid.com/illona-finge...

In an informative episode of his "True Facts" series, narrator Ze Frank examined the unusual ways different cephalopods procreate. laughingsquid.com/true-facts-h...

Ben Cuevas of Aesthetic All Over explored how Halloween aesthetics, including witches, pumpkins, black cats, and skeletons, have evolved over the last century. laughingsquid.com/halloween-ae...

The adorable lemurs at the Oregon Zoo enjoyed Halloween jack-o'-lanterns with tasty grapes hidden at the bottom. laughingsquid.com/lemurs-pumpk...

The Spanish band Broken Peach performed a spooky Halloween mashup of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" with Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" and Rammstein's "Du hast". laughingsquid.com/broken-peach...

Bill McClintock's "Ghostmashers" layers Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" theme with 11 other 1980s hits in a massive Halloween mashup. laughingsquid.com/bill-mcclint...

Lord Vinheteiro performed a very active cover of the classic Van Halen song "Jump" on a strategic array of rubber chickens. laughingsquid.com/van-halen-ju...

An Asian elephant named Samudra was given a giant pumpkin to squash during the Oregon Zoo's 28th annual Squishing of the Squash. laughingsquid.com/elephant-squ...

Honkology explained why doomscrolling is so addictive through a very tired animated goose with a constant need to be online. laughingsquid.com/doomscrollin...

Alona, the girlfromjerseycity, captured an adorable Angine de Poitrine tribute costume named "Angine de Pawtrine" that featured a tiny dog on drums at the 36th Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade. laughingsquid.com/angine-de-pa...

Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal created "Grimothy", a giant, evil version of Jimothy, the viral Seattle raccoon with an unusually short, round body, in his brother's front yard on Bainbridge Island. laughingsquid.com/grimothy-evi...

Diego Poncelet set the Guinness World Record for the fastest downhill skateboard speed at an incredible 151.83 km/h (94 mph). laughingsquid.com/diego-poncel...

Dr. Emily Zarka of "Monstrum" explains how centuries-old burial shrouds inspired the classic white-sheet ghost and how pop culture made it less frightening. laughingsquid.com/why-ghosts-w...

Urban field musician Benjamin Mjönes creates catchy beats by remixing the calls of various birds into hip-hop and dubstep. laughingsquid.com/birds-calls-...

Foster mom Tricia sent a video of a visibly overweight beagle named Autumn to her husband Dave, who thought she was AI-enhanced. laughingsquid.com/overfed-beag...

"Hyperland" is a prescient 1990 BBC documentary written by and starring Douglas Adams that foreshadows the World Wide Web and modern AI assistants. laughingsquid.com/1990-hyperla...

Graham Dot Zip sends his own AI agent to an interview with an AI recruiter, only to watch the two bots hilariously screw up his salary negotiations. laughingsquid.com/ai-job-inter...

A clever little red panda named Enoki at the Oregon Zoo pounced on a colorful puzzle filled with yummy apple treats. laughingsquid.com/red-panda-so...

E/V Nautilus' ROV Hercules encountered a playful octopus who adorably chased its green scaling lasers like a cat. laughingsquid.com/octopus-chas...

Physicist Gabriel Mindlin searched handwritten field notes from the 1960s for bird melodies and used robots to teach young birds these songs. laughingsquid.com/bird-songs-t...

Kubla performed a warm acoustic soul cover of Radiohead's "Creep", with his brother Gaelan on bass and his new friend Kurt on violin. laughingsquid.com/kubla-radioh...

Caretaker Lek Chailert played an adorable game of hide-and-seek with a rescued elephant named Thong Ae at Elephant Nature Park. laughingsquid.com/elephant-hid...

Ali Spagnola transformed a massive 12-foot skeleton into a giant living Chia pet that she adorned with festive matching lights. laughingsquid.com/giant-skelet...

Tetiana Mazur and Sergii Shamrai played a stirring cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" on Ukrainian bandura and accordion. laughingsquid.com/sound-of-sil...

Tom Scott visits Tiptree, where robots protect strawberry plants, but humans still pick them faster. laughingsquid.com/robots-cant-...

A little lineolated parakeet named Olive follows her human, Heather, around the house like a puppy. laughingsquid.com/clingy-parak...

Patrick Foote of Name Explain explores unusual English words that repeat certain letters an astonishing number of times. laughingsquid.com/words-with-m...

The Process explored how candy corn went from hand-poured kernels to a polarizing Halloween staple. laughingsquid.com/history-of-c...

Guitar virtuoso Kent Nishimura performs an exceptional fingerstyle cover of Michael Jackson's "Thriller." laughingsquid.com/kent-nishimu...

Busy beavers at the Oregon Zoo inspect a yummy Halloween pumpkin before taking it into the pool for a snack. laughingsquid.com/beaver-hallo...

Nahum Smith jams along with Radiohead's "Idioteque" using a classical guitar and a melodious sonic toothbrush. laughingsquid.com/radiohead-ja...

A clever TED-Ed lesson explores the pros and cons of buying versus renting through twins who take different paths. laughingsquid.com/buying-or-re...

Picard Looking re-edited footage from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" into a dizzying supercut of characters citing percentages, from smallest to largest. laughingsquid.com/star-trek-ne...

A hungry baby blue jay flew onto Desiree’s deck looking for food. She fed him cat food with chopsticks, beginning a lasting friendship with "Birdie". laughingsquid.com/baby-blue-ja...

Rivian released an amusing "Ghostbusters" Halloween ad featuring Bill Murray reprising his role as Dr. Peter Venkman and trapping Slimer. laughingsquid.com/bill-murray-...