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Have two minutes to spare? Listen to Amy Walker introduce herself using 21 different accents. What Is Your Grandfather's Road? Pixar Intro Parody. High School Rivals Make Lip Dubs Awesome Again. Online video has been a great driver in the realm of viral web trends, Internet memes and other creative outlets for hilarity. You're probably already familiar with lip dubs — a music video mashup of lip synching and audio dubbing, usually done in a single continuous shot with multiple participants. We thought that the "cool" factor of lip dubs ended sometime around the end of 2007. We were wrong. On Tuesday's episode of the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC we were introduced to lip dubs taken to the next level: High school rivalries. The video production classes at two high schools in Shoreline, Washington, engaged in the ultimate lip dub battle.

The results are not only awesome, they say a lot about how the next generation is using new media and the social web in fun and unique ways. To grasp the rest of the post, you really need to watch the two lip dub videos first. Shorecrest High offers the first blow: Outkast's 2003 smash hit, "Hey Ya. " Song of the Grass-Mud Horse (Cao Ni Ma) The 100 Cheesiest Movie Quotes of All Time.