Here are December's Top 5:

1. The Ultimate Showdown This is one wild music animation. The song is about what if every hero and villain ever created (even Chuck Norris) battled it out in the ultimate showdown. The animation, while amateurish, tells the story of the song perfectly. It won first place for a reason. It's catchy and fun and if you give it a try, I am sure you will like it too.

2. Retarded Animal Babies 14 Ugh, the Latest installment of this series. The characters make a shit pie, discuss what they want to do with life. Fast foreward to the future and we see what their fates really hold.

3. 8-Bit Theater Part 5 The latest installment of the flash animation adaptation of my all time FAVORITE webcomic. This is gold! Showing issues #31 to #35, BM finds Fighter and along with their new leader Thief (who Fighter had signed bith his and BM freedom to) they now have to pick a forth member to make a large enough group to go on a rescue mission for the king of the land, who's daughter has been kidnapped.
- 8-bit Theater 1 Showing issues #1 to #6, Black Mage and Fighter are searching for the 'Cave of no Return' to acquire the armor of invincibility. Will they succeed?
- 8-bit Theater 2 Showing issues #7 to #14, BM and Fighter have several random encounters with monsters they must defeat in order to get to their hometown of Cornilia.
- 8-bit Theater 3 Showing issues #15 to #22, BM and Fighter have arrived in the city but fighter has foolishly given a con man their money. Well, BM isn't going to stand for THAT!
- 8-bit Theater 4 Showing issues #23 to #30, BM meets an increadibly attractive magic user named White Mage. Watch him use his smooooth pick up lines as he tries to win her over.
- Nuklear Power This is a webcomic parody of the original Final Fantasy game for Nindendo. As I said from the start, the animations here are a direct port from this and the author only gets better as he goes along on this thrice weekly updated webcomic. There are over 600 strips and counting. If you liked the animations, check out the source material.

4. DCK: A Very Klunk X-Mas With the Ghost of Christmas Disease, Clunk travels to another dimention to see what life would have been like if he was never born. Well animated and clever.
- DCK: Cycon Dooby Don't Another parody, this time of Scooby Doo as you have never seen him before. In it, an entire orphanage is abucted! Can the gang bust the ghost haunting the nearby abandoned Neverland Ranch? It's adult orientated and not for the easily offended. Not bad, the Dyke comments they kept shooting at Velma got old fast though.

5. weebl and bob - paper Great music parody of A-Ha's song "Take On Me", if a little short. It gets cut off, unfortunatly. The animation is simple, just two talking eggs discussing things and singing a song.
- Series / weebl and bob if you liked that you might want to check out other animations of the Weebl and bob series. Not my favorite but there IS a suprising amount of variety that you can get out the a series that revolves around the adventures of 2 talking egg friends (one of whom can't even move on his own).

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My top 30 picks (in no particular order) for the month:

1. sunday Music video that has a simple animation that still goes very well with a great song. "Sunday Morning" by Maroon 5.

2. A Nature Lesson A short little funny that has a guy showing off the law of gravity by dropping a rock. The presentation doesn't quite work as planned though. It gets bloody at the end.

3. BlondStar Do you like Blond jokes? You'll love this. Ever heard of OnStar and seen their commercials? This is like that. The audio itself has been floating around the internet for awhile and the guy didn't really do much with the visuals to add to the sound but this story of a poor blond that got help after she locked herself INSIDE her car (and I am not talking about the trunk) is a real hoot.

4. BulletTime Game! This is a reaction type game where you watch a gun and when it shoots you have to click the mouse in order to dodge the bullet. The gun is then moved closer and closer with every success so you can see how far away you need to be in order to have a chance of avoiding a bullet if someone shoots at you. Never know when that kind of knowledge will come in handy.

5. --Motion-- Claymation! Completely random, though still interesting, imagry highlights this neat looking animation that is done to the song "Last Night" by The Strokes.

6. A Friendly Gesture XMAS! I thought this one was pretty cute. There is a snowball war war going on between the moles and a rabbit when a Yeti appears and takes them both out. As has been stated before, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. It even has an unexpected moral for the end of the story.

7. Samurai Champloo: SK Pt.1 A neat samurai animation. There is a samurai master killer on the loose. Meanwhile our heroes are doing odd jobs to pay for rent when the sudden the offer of a reward for this murderer seems more appealing then chopping firewood.
- Samurai Champloo: SK Pt.2 The killer and main character face off.

8. F I S H I N G This is a short but still nice looking flash from the far-east. It has a different style to it then most. A small boy is fishing but when he catches a fish it begs for it's life because it's only a child. The boy's reaction to this event dill decide how Karma treats him later.

9. FFF: Shodown -Chapter #13 The lastest installment of one of my all time favorite series and it is the best looking of the bunch. In fact, I think this is the best looking 16-bit sprite movie I have ever seen. It divides between a conversation and a one on one action fight that happened right after the talk. That just blows me away. It's not as fast pased as other battles but more then makes up for that in style.
- Series/Final Fighting Fantasy It's pretty well a movie here taken together. The animation and story has vastly improved from the first episode and the author loves experimenting with the medium. You just never know what to expect. Make sure you got some time. I'm pretty sure watching everything will take close to an hour (perhaps longer) by this point. The basic plot is that all the heroes from the first 7 Final Fantasy games are thrown together in a grand battle royal that very few will survive. It started with just the fighting but as it goes on it develops into one heck of a unique story. If you have anjoyed any of the early FF games you really have to watch this. The third part is still my favorite. Highly, HIGHLY recommended.
2009self: This is still the latest installment... I don't think he'll ever finish it

10. German Hardcore Porn This is interesting. The author took the soundtrack from a german porn flick and used it as dialouge in this short animated movie that is about a woman getting a tooth pulled at the dentist. It's in German and no translation is provided but I'm not sure I WANT to know what they are saying anyway. I think a good switch was pulled off here.

11. eGoing Down to Newgrounds Someone wrote and sang a tribute song that's all about Newgrounds. Kind of a country sound going for it. A bunch of people made music videos for it. Currently, this is the best of the lot.

12. HP:and the Sorcerers Bone A thoroughly silly Harry Potter animation between Harry and Dumbledore. He tells Dumbledore about Voldemort being back. Dumbledore knows but doesn't care. Things go downhill for Harry from there.

13. Maganic Wars OutSite v1.0 GAME! One of those card type games like Magic: The Gathering but simple. You get attack and defense cards, you use them to help kill your opponent. Easy to pick up but still engrossing. I found it an enjoyable way to spend a bit of time.

14. Tactical Assassin Game! It's a shooter where you have to snipe the correct targets to pass the level. Much better then your usual shooter game and has great atmosphere. Give it a try.

15. Trichinosis Ignorance is bliss. This animation is very in your face. It take the "This Little Piggy" poem and spins it in disturbing ways. Even the song, "Sandman" is a disturbing remix. The end of it a good point about the developed world's over consumptiuon compared to the poor. The author knows there are no simple solutions but he wants people to think about the problems. Not my favorite and it's not gonna inspire me to become a philanthropist but it's always good to remember the world outside of your bubble.

16. The Little Buzzers Ep 5 Another cute animation of the Buzzers. The Sedrick and Duncan sit down to enjoy some lunch, but there is treachery afoot.
- Series / The Little Buzzers Check out the whole series at this page. As I write this there are 6 altogether (yes, that means one more past the episode listed here) but I am sure there will be more later.

17. Zelda: Heroic Rage 7 Good Zelda action movie. Part 7 of a series but really... it stands on it's own as the first part of a new series. Gannon has been killed AGAIN (wonder how long that will last) awhile back, Link has married Zelda and they are raising a child but evil still lurks. This movie is about Link and his son, and the continuing war with evil that Link.

18. [CC] A very Boring Xmas Xmas! Silly little Christmas animation. Everyone is having fun at the the Christmas party except for Strawberry Clock. You just know he's gonna ruin things for the group. ;)

19. Orlando's Joint #1 An interesting and well done first trilogy of a future series. It shows life in the black ghetto neighborhood. In it, Orlando shows up for work late, stoned... and things go downhill from there.
- Orlando's Joint #2 The Coffee Joint's closed and Orlando's ready to chill, until he gets some shocking news!
- Orlando's Joint #3 End of the trilogy. Orlando experiences divine... infestation.

20. At Least I'm Alive Impressive visuals are shown in this 3D animation, staring a lonely robot that works at a kebab shop. He's big, old and unloved. Kind of sad because he tries to hard but things just never improve.

21. better together A really sweet musical animation. The song is "Better Together" by Jack Johnson. cartoon is basically drawn, no color and a minimalist look but it blends together quite well.

22. Genevieve Another high quality, 8-minute, animated storybook, featuring Genevieve... an extremely spoiled little girl who ruled the world for a short time a few decades back. What? No little girl EVER ruled the world you say? Well, watch this to find out the truth!

23. willy the walrus Willy the Walrus loved peas but couldn't eat them... A great little, light-hearted, rhyming animation on the lines of a Dr. Zeus cartoon.

24. Don't Trip A music animation "I think I can" by The Pillows. I wasn't sure about the song at first but it grew on me. It's got quite a bit of action and fighting in it but is also kind of metaphysical. The plot can be hard to follow. From what I gather, the pill that the girl (with the scalpel looking weapon) is fighting is symbolic of the tRip a boy is taking, which apperently is a rather common drug that many people use. He is bleeding from the ears because his body is taking damage while fighting off the tRip, specifically his brain. Apperently she got the idea when taking medication she didn't find it was working too well and thought about doing something where the body and a mind altering medicine fought ( I think Trip is suppost to alter your mind).

25. Summoning SANTA FOAMY! Germaine wants to know if there really is a Santa and tries a spell to summon jolly old Saint Nick.
- Exotic Chocolates If this was the only Foamy episode for the month I would not have added it <shudders>. Germaine receives an unusual (unusual= gross) box of chocolates (they come from a sex shop) from an admirer. I cannot stress enough how much I did NOT like this. Don't watch unless you like that sort of thing.
2009self: This is the point where Foamy really went downhill for me. Why did the author have to have so much sex and grossness added?

26. Jim Meets an Alien A laid back guy named Jim has his first encounter with an extraterrestrial and he is very, VERY bossy and annoying. It's kind of cute.

27. X-Men: House of M part 3 Part three of the House of M parody. Fans of Marvel will love this. In it, Scarlet Witch remakes the world and our heroes stand around waiting for stuff to happen.
- X-Men: House of M part 4 The climactic battle of Everyone vs. Magnetoand Wanda makes babies. Nifty!

28. LL - Christmas Goodbye XMas! Water Lock grows an instant Christmas tree for the holiday. It's a short funny that's worth a chuckle.

29. -MASS- A cartoon that shows what happends when cheapness and rivalry among artists take a turn for the worst. Can you pick up all the symbolism? Nicely made and different. Also kind of sad. It's worth a look.

30. Megaman vs Heatman Another tribute to MegaMan and the the Robot masters he has to fight. I've psoted a few of these by now by different authors. If you remember those you'll know what to expect but it's still a fun, action filled ride.

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Christmas is a huge day for Newgrounds and so I dedicate this month's other 5 animations to 2005's Christmas collection. Check out other ones that I have not posted in this post at

Collections / Holidays / Christmas / Christmas 2005 Ho ho ho!

1. Snowy the Frostman Xmas! Ebolaworld makes some of the best parodies I have seen. Do you remember those old Frosty The Snowman Christmas specials that are on every December? Well imagine that, only this time Frosty Will devour your head while he's stealing your heart. Hilarious! Achaachaachachacha!

2. Under the Mistletoe Chistmas! Hands down my favorite of the Christmas themed ones for this month. It's a slightly naughty Christmas song animation. The animation was christmas card professional looking and the song itself is really sweet and pleasant to listen to. This is my favorite song of the month. give it a listen.

3. a Lim and Richi Xmas Christmas! Two friends get ready for the Sock Genie to come visiting on the night of Christmas Eve. It's got some great dialogue to go with an unusual and interesting story.

4. Dangers of christmas X-Mas! One of those 50's style informational cartoons. These sorts of things are always so silly. This time it's warning you of the dangers of insolent children and the horrors of not being able to discipline him through beatings. Shocking I know.

5. Lazlo "Saves" Christmas Xmas! Santa has gotten stuck in a chimney but luckaly Lazio, a gerbil with personality disorders, is around to save him. For a price, of course. The rescue will get ugly. Heheh!

That's it for December. Stay tuned for next month!

Till next time...

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