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With the release of Monsters University approaching. It looks pretty great, and has us all thinking about other great college movies. Obviously the greatest college movie of all time ever in the whole entire world is Revenge of the Nerds, which is why this trailer by Lance Ford that smashes the two together is so perfect. It puts Nerds clips over Monsters audio, and it's wonderful.

Breaking Bad is one of the best shows on television, and LEGO is one of the best toy/entertainment companies around. It's pretty obvious why we love this mashup of the two by Brian Anderson. It combines all the charm and fun of LEGO with all of the meth and violence of Breaking Bad. The video warns that it has spoilers for seasons one through four, but if you listened to the first episode of the Geekosystem podcast, you'll know that I think that's your own problem at this point.

I seriously don't know what we'd do without YouTube-hosted pop culture mashups. We need them to help offset all the nefarious uses people have created with the Internet (malware, porn, etc.). So thank the stars we have videos like this one -- "Star Wars vs. Jurassic Park" (on the YouTube channel Slacktory) -- which combines two things that while awesome on their own, are also surprisingly awesome mashed together, sort of like a cinematic version of chocolate and peanut butter.

Chrono Trigger is far and away one of my absolute favorite video games, even though I did lose all my save progress during an ill-fated car trip with the PlayStation version. The characters and game mechanics are great, but it's the music that really sets it apart. Anyone that's played the game knows what I'm talking about. So, believe me when I say you should absolutely listen to this Chrono Trigger/Jay-Z mashup album.

Arrested Development has a date set for its comeback, and we couldn't be happier. The show is one of our rerun go-tos -- great for watching while doing doing the dishes or other menial chores -- and it goes great with pretty much anything. Need proof? Just check out some of these Tumblrs that mashup the wit and wisdom of the Bluth family with some of our other favorite TV shows, and commence getting pumped for 14 new episodes worth of quotable captions that are on their way.

This week in weird mashups, we have the extraordinarily popular "Gangnam Style," which by the way, is currently sitting just below 340 million views on YouTube, and The Legend of Zelda, because "Gangnam" kind of sounds like the franchise's perennial villain, "Ganon." You wouldn't want to live in a world where this didn't happen, just admit it. Sometimes, you need a little pain and also Tingle.

Test footage from the ThunderCats CGI movie (Flixist) Sunday round-up of gamer webcomics (Kotaku) Somebody leaked a completely playable Crysys 2 online (Destructoid) Duke Huggem trailers, behind the scenes footage, news to hug your eyes (Mega64) Pigs, Angry Birds, friendship (Dorkly) Gallery of Brilliance: Vintage Documentary-SciFi Edition (io9) This link is about dinosaur sex. (Smithsonian) (Top pic via Neatorama)

While Inception mashups are hardly new, it doesn't make them any less awesome when they're done well. And with the best movie of all time. (via BuzzFeed)

What happens when you mashup a vintage educational film and a classic episode of Star Trek? Genius. Happiness. Pure joy. A mashup that's definitely worth your time. File this under "Things I Really Want to Become a Thing." (via Miss Cellania via Bits and Pieces)

It wouldn't be the holidays without some espionage action, right? After all, Santa manages to infiltrate millions of chimneys, snack on cookies and milk, and leave a bunch of presents underneath a tree without being noticed by the modern-day security systems many people have installed in their homes, or being arrested for breaking and entering. Luckily for us, Arthur Lee built two games in which heavy-footed, non-Santa folks like us could live out their dream of playing a Metal Gear Solid game about Santa Claus.

Inspired by the above illustration by Kate Yampolskaya, a bunch of creative (and anonymous) people on the Internet Photoshopped some more awesome Futurama/Simpsons crossovers in the same vein.

Level-5, venerable video game developer probably best noted for the Professor Layton series and the recent Dragon Quest IX, announced two extremely odd and exciting things for the Nintendo 3DS at their Vision 2010 conference.

First and wildly enough, Level-5 has teamed up with Capcom and announced a Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright crossover game called Professor VS Gyakuten saiban. Check out some prime shaky cam footage after the jump. Secondly and still wildly, the upcoming non-crossover Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle will receive a daily downloadable puzzle for an entire year.

When you're a pop culture sensation like The Doctor, people are going to idolize you. And with a phenomenon like Doctor Who, thou shalt totally make unto thee lots of graven images, and many likenesses of any thing that is in the TARDIS. Thou shalt definitely bow down thyself to them. That's the second commandment of die-hard Doctor Who fandom, after all. So here are 15 such beautiful graven images. Some are great fan art, others hilarious mash-ups, all obscenely awesome. And don't worry, they're not all about David Tennant.

On the eve of Toy Story 3's theater premiere, Ryan Hoffman and Dan Angelucci have given us a mashup that will probably be incomprehensible to the bulk of Toy Story fans, but will make Wire fanatics yelp in joy and recognition: "Toy Wire," a fictitious HBO-Pixar collabo that turns Woody into Jimmy McNulty and Buzz Lightyear into Stringer Bell, among other mirthful swaps.

Fortunately, the mashup is spoiler-free, so if you made it up to Wire Season 1, Episode 4 and gave up because it was too slow but are totally going to get back into it because your friends are pestering you to, you don't have to worry about Mr. Potato Head blowing the Season 3 finale for you.

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