P.C. Shannon

You’ve seen the Pokemon Kid on Google Video. Maybe you’ve seen some of the webcam karaoke videos. But now some genius has combined two of humanity’s greatest passions: lip syncing to American pop music and the various American Idol incarnations. It’s Google Idol! Vote for you favorites from around the world.

The new Google Video service has garnered universally bad reviews. But after watching Best Week Ever, Caroline and I may have found a use for it. The show featured a hillarious video of a kid singing Pokemon karaoke. And a search for “pokemon” on the Google service yielded this gem. Pure magic. Or as Caroline said, “My head just exploded.”