If you believe everything you saw in the latest James Bond film Spectre, then you probably think Mexico City has an awesome Dia de los Muertos parade, and you would be wrong.

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The truth is- Dia de los Muertos is generally more of a solemn holiday in Mexico, devoid of galas, parades or crazy costumes.

And yet the Day of the Dead parade in Spectre looks so cool that Mexico's Tourism Minister Enrique de la Madrid Cordero wants to make it happen because “tourists are going to come looking for the carnival”.

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Creating a Day of the Dead parade is the logical next step for Mexico, since the country paid $14 million to appear in Spectre, and that way the Mexican people can say they got something for their money, right? (sarcasm)

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Public service announcements are usually created by advertising agencies full of people who know how to sell products and brand companies but generally know very little about education.

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These ad agencies know how to beat a message or song into our brains, how to create imagery and scenarios that stick with viewers, and how to send a message to the masses.

But they don't really know much about restraint, since over-the-top ads help them sell products, so maybe hiring them to make PSAs isn't such a good idea after all...

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See 7 Safety PSAs (That Were Clearly Made By Serial Killers) here (contains NSFW language)

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As a kid growing up between Los Angeles, San Diego and Tijuana I used to encounter all sorts of characters who would become forever stuck in my mind, figures who came to represent these cities.

And the figure who came to represent Los Angeles was a bubbly woman named Angelyne, a busty cartoon character come to life seen in print and on billboards throughout the city in the 80s and 90s.

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Angelyne is Hollywood's original "famous for being famous" star, a woman who made herself into a star by posting her bodacious image on L.A. billboards along with her manager's phone number.

She made have led the way for Paris Hilton and Kim K., but don't hold that against her- Angelyne was just doing what she does best, being that "'50s glamour girl gone berserk" John Waters loves so much.

Marie Lodi (formerly of Jezebel) had the chance to hang out with Angelyne and go for a spin in her iconic pink Corvette as the two spent the day together talking Hollywood, politics and the art of self promotion.

Read Driving Down Sunset With Angelyne here

Iconic video game characters are now an integral part of pop culture, and even non-gamers can identify some of them by their name and their distinct look.

Which is why they make such great crossover characters, and with a little tweaking they can become the stars of a mainstream rom-com, advertising mascots or the main characters in a series of pulp novels.

Illustrator Astor Alexander has captured our geeky imaginations with his cover art for pulp novels starring a hard-bitten Mario ready to plug Peach's captors and Geralt of Rivia- private eye.

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Comic strips have a very short amount of time in which to tell a tale or deliver a setup and a punchline, so they're usually pretty straightforward in terms of pacing.

But good comic artists have lots of tricks in their pencil bags which they can pull out at any time in order to poke the reader in the eye, just to make sure they're still paying attention.

And when you've read as many predictable, formulaic and just plain boring comics as I have you learn to appreciate a surprise ending, whether it's happy, sad or WTF inducing.

See 10 Comics With Ending You Did NOT See Coming here (NSFW due to language)

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Wolverine may be the most well-known Canadian superhero of all time, but quite a few memorable characters have come from the Great White North including the team Alpha Flight and Deadpool.

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But more importantly Canada is the real world home of fictional characters who represent important firsts in the world of comic books, starting with Nelvana Of The Northern Lights.

She's Canada's first superhero and one of the first female superheroes to appear in the comics, predating Wonder Woman by a few months, and she's the first (and one of the only) Inuit superhero.

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As someone who loved reading Canada's answer to The Avengers as a kid I must say superhero squads don't come much more colorful or charming than Alpha Flight.

They're one of the motliest crews who ever assembled to fight villainy, with a hairy hulk named Sasquatch, a dwarf acrobat named Puck and the first openly gay Marvel superhero Northstar, Alpha Flight kept Canada strange.

See The 7 Most Canadian Superheroes Ever here

Jimmy Fallon has never claimed to be a comedic genius, but there's one comedy arena in which his skills really shine- the funny song.

He's pretty good at playing guitar and really good at doing impressions of famous singers, so funny songs are naturally his forte.

And when he teams up with Paul Rudd, an actor who's good at acting like he plays guitar and equally good at acting like a person in a band, you've got the perfect ingredients for a funky Styx music video recreation.

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The Fallon/Rudd version is so close to the original it's hard to decide which one's better...just kidding, Paul Rudd wins every time!

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Stan Lee is the undisputed mastermind of the comic book world, a man who brought so many iconic Marvel superheroes to life that his smilin' face has come to represent the company.

But his beautiful mind often worked in weird ways, and before many of his iconic characters could really take shape they had to go through a rough sketchy stage.

Complex characters like Magneto and the X-Men started out as simple characters with simple goals- the early Magneto was an alien being called the Metal Master who wanted to rule Earth but got clobbered by the Hulk instead.

The early X-Men were a mutant cult of sorts who lived in Tibet and used mental projection to contact a young mutant named Tad Carter, offering to protect him because "humans fear what they don't understand."

And if you think Tad looks a lot like Peter Parker your spidey sense is tingling true, because both characters were drawn by Steve Ditko, who obviously liked the look of the character so he passed it on to Peter.

Read 6 Bizarre Stan Lee Prototypes Of Famous Marvel Characters here

Being a gamer used to be a badge of glory earned with cold sweat, frustrated tears, hundreds of hours of play time and the occasional call to a tip line when you were tired of being stuck on a level.

But nowadays players have it easy, since games practically hold their hands while easing them through the tutorial, introduce them nicely to the game's lore and share all its secrets via strategy guides.

But veterans gamers like the GaMERCaT Samantha Whitten remember the good old days of gaming fondly, before our pets started hogging the machine...

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Phoebus was once a stand-up soldier who respected authority, but now he’s gone rogue. It’s a good thing that he’s got a shrewd and nimble princess at his side as he takes on Frollo’s empire.

David Ngo photographed these cosplayers at Anime Expo 2016 is Los Angeles who offered a fresh take on Disney’s 1996 musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

There's one thing people always make sure to bring with them when they head to the beach- their trusty towel.

Some people have a special towel they take with them, so they can look good while lounging on the sand, while others just use whatever old, ratty towel they have lying around at home.

No matter which way you go when you head down to the shore you'll get a kick out of these trippy beach towels created by collage artist Eugenia Loli.

Eugenia's bold retro designs and tongue-in-cheek subject matter collide on beach towels which will make whoever owns them the king or queen of the beach, no surf contest necessary.

See more from The Trippiest Beach Towels On The Planet here

When filmmakers decide to make a historical flick, whether it's a biopic or something focused on a particular event or era, they usually try to cast actors who look like the original historical figures.

Sometimes the addition of prosthetics and a specially made wardrobe is needed to really sell the role, but more often than not the successful portrayal of a well-known figure starts with the right famous face.

It's an actor's job to become the characters they portray, whether real or fictional, but it seems like some actors were born to play a role, like a reincarnation of the original soul.

See 15+ Actors Vs. Historic People They Portrayed here

Despite claims made by your stoner buddies most actors aren't actually smoking pot in movies like Pineapple Express, and most actors haven't even smoked real cigarettes on set since the late 90s.

The truth is- look-alike substances have always been used by filmmakers if for no other reason than drugs are illegal and drug use on the set could result in some serious fines or worse.

And while pot laws have loosened up quite a bit over the last few years actors would still have a hard time remembering their lines if they were really getting stoned while filming. (Video is NSFW)

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So according to veteran prop master James Butcher the actors are smoking legal "buds" that promise to offer a "multidimensional smoking experience unlike you've ever tried before"

In an effort to make sure these "buds" worked as an on-screen replacement for marijuana James "smoked an enormous amount of it" and "didn't really feel anything".

But what about the cigarettes? They're really smoking herbal cigarettes, which look right but supposedly aren't as harmful as cigarettes because they don't contain tobacco or nicotine.

Read What Are Actors Actually Smoking In Movies? here

Heavy metal is generally thought of as rock's totally hardcore cousin, and heavy metal album art is supposed to reflect the band's extreme fist pumping and headbanging nature.

But sometimes in the quest to prove how hardcore you are you just end up making yourself look like a high-caliber tool.

Even bands like Iron Maiden, who usually get the album art so right, can fall from grace when they ditch the hand drawn art to make the leap into the digital age.

But all bands have to start somewhere near the bottom, and it's okay if they let their less than talented buddy draw the cover art for their first album, so they can look back on it some day and smile.

See Thirty Of The Worst Heavy Metal Album Covers Of All Time here (NSFW)

Seeing as how it's a holiday weekend here in the United States, and people will be partying hard in honor of our nation's birthday, it's probably a good time to talk about drunk driving. 

Basically, you're better off sleeping on the floor of some cantina on a total dustbowl of a planet than trying to drive your (Millennium) Falcon home, and that way you'll live to drink another day!

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Han Solo would never drive drunk because he has a shaggy yet sober co-pilot who is happy to serve as the designated driver, but take it from this fun PSA by OneMinuteGalactica and don't risk a DUI this Fourth of July.

-Via Laughing Squid