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A clip from the 1985 comedy Real Genius in which a laser ignites a giant container of popcorn inside a house.

A Wayne's World (1992) movie clip in which Wayne and Garth tell Benjamin they will not bow to any sponsor, that they are not in it for the money.

The poison goblet scene from The Princess Bride, in which Westley tricks Vizzini in a battle of wits. It is a famous example of nested reasoning.

The classic Fawlty Towers scene in which Basil Fawlty tries not to mention the war while serving German guests, ending in goose-stepping and mocking. It is a two-minute BBC comedy clip with John Cleese.

A short clip of Stephen Fry explaining the differences between American and British comedy. He attributes them to cultural attitudes such as optimism versus pessimism.

A movie clip from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in which Dr. McCoy, appalled by primitive 20th-century medicine, tries to smuggle Chekov out of a hospital.

A short clip from the 1999 film Office Space in which Joanna quits her restaurant job with flair after her boss's demands. It is a comic scene about disaffected workers.

A clip from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home where Scotty introduces an astonished engineer to future technology to build the whale tanks.

Clip from the 1983 film WarGames in which the computer Joshua concludes that global thermonuclear war has no winner and proposes a game of chess instead.

An Every Frame a Painting video essay analysing how Edgar Wright creates visual comedy through framing, camera movement, editing, sound effects and music.

A one-minute demonstration of iOS 14's new paste notification, which revealed popular apps silently reading the clipboard each time they were opened. It credits the mysk research write-up.

A Blackadder the Third scene in which Dr Johnson delivers his dictionary, which lacks Blackadder's invented insults such as contrafibularity.

A 20-second clip from the Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles featuring the line about morons.

A short clip from the comedy film The Dictator in which a doctor delivers a test result in a running gag around the name Aladeen.

A one-minute clip from the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in which a computer refuses to reveal its results. It plays on machines giving unhelpful answers.

A short Yes Minister clip in which Sir Humphrey explains why a hospital with no patients still needs a large administrative staff. It is a satirical look at bureaucratic bloat in the public sector.

A Noclip Greatest Hits documentary on the legacy of RollerCoaster Tycoon, covering its original design, Chris Sawyer and the OpenRCT2 community that keeps it alive.

A Movieclips excerpt from the 1989 film Fat Man and Little Boy in which John Cusack's character assembles a bomb core and a criticality accident occurs. It is a film dramatization of a real Manhattan Project accident.

A short clip from the 1995 film Hackers in which the characters attempt to hack the Gibson supercomputer, shown with flashy stylized visuals of digital intrusion.

A clip from the film Up in the Air in which George Clooney's character fires a man and urges him to return to the dreams of his youth. The movie features real people reacting to being laid off.

A clip from the 2011 film Margin Call in which an analyst explains to the firm's executive the dire state of their investment firm at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis.

A movie clip from The Gambler (2014) in which John Goodman's character explains to Mark Wahlberg's the idea of having enough money to tell anyone to go to hell. The relevant part is the first 45 seconds.

A clip from Terry Gilliam's film Brazil in which the illegal heating engineer Harry Tuttle visits Sam Lowry to fix his heating problem.

A Nathan For You sketch in which Nathan Fielder tackles customers' privacy fears at computer repair shops with an awkwardly absurd business solution. It is a comedy clip from the Comedy Central show.

A movie clip from Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in which Duke recalls the brief magical moment of 1960s San Francisco, the 'high water mark' monologue.

A colorized clip from the 1970 Polish comedy film 'How I Unleashed World War II' in which a character must pronounce the tongue-twisting name Grzegorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz for a Gestapo officer.

A clip from the 1998 film The Big Hit featuring the 'trace buster buster buster' scene, where characters try to defeat a phone trace.

A one-minute clip from The Matrix in which the crew eat a bland nutrient slurry for breakfast and Mouse muses about Tasty Wheat.

A one-minute clip of Microsoft's Clippy, the Office assistant character, in action.

A clip from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 8 in which a character argues that science is a liar and cannot be trusted.

A short clip from the film Office Space in which Peter explains his typical workday to the Bobs, the consultants.

A seconds-long Simpsons clip in which McGill University is called the Harvard of Canada.

A two-minute clip from The Wire in which characters work through the meaning of the word evacuate, an exchange that has become a meme.

A classic sketch from A Bit of Fry and Laurie in which a man at a police station has a surname that is very hard to pronounce. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie play it out as a comic exchange.

A short Simpsons clip (S5E20) of the 'Am I so out of touch?' moment, in which Principal Skinner concludes it must be the children who are wrong.

A short clip from the film Spies Like Us in which unprepared characters take a CIA agent test and Chevy Chase cheats his way through it.

A very short clip from the film Anchorman in which Ron Burgundy declares that Sex Panther works 60 percent of the time, every time.

A short clip from Animal House of Kevin Bacon's character at a fraternity paddling, saying 'Thank you sir, may I have another?'

A Community clip in which Dean Pelton explores a virtual reality environment, including a blooper moment.

The courtroom scene from A Few Good Men in which Col. Jessep, played by Jack Nicholson, shouts 'You can't handle the truth' at Tom Cruise's character.