-What?

-A piece of bread.

This one time, I went to a hotel,

and guess what the bed was made out of.

-What?

-A muffin.

EARNEST: These guys had to move this thing that's already tiny.

They had to move it-- like these minute little movements

back and forth.

JACOB SOBOROFF: Wait a minute.

This isn't real?

EARNEST: [LAUGHING]

JACOB SOBOROFF: Are you guys serious?

[THEME MUSIC]

JACOB SOBOROFF: What's up, guys?

Today we're talking about stop motion animation.

And that video you were just watching

was "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Two."

First one had 22 million views.

This one's got 8 million views, and they're both amazing.

-Guess why I smile a lot.

-Why?

-'Cause it's worth it.

JACOB SOBOROFF: Marcel the Shell is voiced by the one and only

former SNL cast member Jenny Slate, who is hysterical,

and it's directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp, her husband.

A Bichon Frise!

It's a Bichon Frise!

EARNEST: All right, Jacob, so this is probably

the coolest thing that you've ever

seen happen with a marker board.

This is "Maker vs Marker."

JACOB SOBOROFF: Whoa.

EARNEST: Exactly.

This is made by Jonny Lawrence.

He's a British animator.

JACOB SOBOROFF: So this is like an homage

to some of the classic pop culture fights?

EARNEST: A little bit of "Street Fighter."

A little bit of "Dragon Ball Z."

A little bit of "Matrix."

I still remember the very first time I saw this

and just being blown away and thinking everybody's

got to see this.

Even if you're not a fan of "Street Fighter,"

you're going to love the work itself.

CARLY: Alex, this video is a stop-motion short called

"Create."

We see a young mad scientist who sets out

to create a pet monster within parallel worlds

of an imaginary laboratory and the reality of his bedroom.

-Timmy, lunch is ready.

[FART]

ALEX: OK.

CARLY: Aw, this is now really adorable.

[FART]

CARLY: It was written, directed, and animated by Dan MacKenzie,

and this was his senior film while attending the Savannah

College of Art and Design.

He shot this all in his dorm room

over the course of six months.

Could you have made a stop-motion film

in your dorm room?

ALEX: Not this clean, no.

Everything would have beer bottles on it.

Carly, our next video-- "T-Shirt War."

CARLY: Awesome.

ALEX: It's by Rhett and Link.

It is a stop motion animation with shirts.

[VOCAL SOUND EFFECTS]

ALEX: This was directed by Joe Penna, AKA MysteryGuitarMan!

CARLY: That's awesome.

ALEX: I know!

Each one of them changed shirts over 100 times.

I would be chafing by this point.

It has over 11 million views!

Little weird fact-- this is the first Rhett and Link

video I ever saw.

CARLY: Really?

ALEX: Yeah.

I liked it so much, subscribed to them.

And I awkwardly talked to him the other day.

Made him pose for an ugly picture with me.

MILES: One of my favorite stop-motion videos, for sure,

is this next one.

It's actually a promo for an animation festival.

Look at it.

He's getting a wedgie-- a puppet wedgie.

This comes to us from a Belgian filmmaker named Emma de Swaef,

and she made it with a gentleman named Marc James Roels.

It's for the National Animation Film Festival.

If these aren't the cutest, fuzzy little men having

a wrestling match, I don't know what site I'm looking at.

CARLY: If there are two things that I know about Miles,

it's that he likes Kina Grannis and he loves jelly bean music

videos.

MILES: Duh.

CARLY: Miles, this is for you.

This is 288,000 jelly beans doing what jelly beans do best,

and that's dance.

[MUSIC - KINA GRANNIS, "IN YOUR ARMS"]

MILES: That's a bird made out of jelly-- that's

two birds made out of jelly-- and now they

are dragging her to the sky.

We've had Kina Grannis on the show a couple times.

CARLY: Yeah, we have, 'cause she's amazing.

She started on YouTube in 2007.

She has a great voice.

She just came out with her first original album.

MILES: Ooh!

CARLY: I know.

She's doing big things this year.

Each of these frames-- some of them took five minutes.

Some of them took three hours.

This took her 22 months to make.

Greg Jardin, the director of this, had a lot of time.

MILES: Greg, you animal.

CARLY: He probably has a fear of jelly beans now.

MILES: No, he's probably the most patient man on Earth.

He's probably watching a Sequoia grow.

JACOB SOBOROFF: Bottom line is, I've seen Earnest's sweaters.

I know the man likes to knit.

He does embroidery.

Every one of his shirts says EP on them.

EARNEST: Well, it's kind of a secret passion.

JACOB SOBOROFF: Oh, sorry.

EARNEST: Not anymore though.

JACOB SOBOROFF: Speaking of embroidery,

this video is an embroidery stop-motion animation.

It's a music video from the band Throne.

[MUSIC - THRONE, "THARSIS SLEEPS"]

JACOB SOBOROFF: The video altogether

is 4 minutes, 33 seconds, but it's

3,000 different frames of embroidered beauty.

EARNEST: You see their faces just get peeled off?

JACOB SOBOROFF: [SCREAM]

EARNEST: When you start embroidering,

you never think that you're going to embroider somebody

eating somebody's brains.

JACOB SOBOROFF: That would be the first thing

I would embroider, actually.

That was a pretty fun episode to do.

Stop-motion animation is pretty incredible.

Was there a favorite for you guys?

Let us know in the comments.

EARNEST: As always, you'll be able to watch

all these videos in their entirety in the playlist

after the show.

And we're going to have another playlist filled with even more

wonderful stop-motion animations.

So click on it when you get there.

JACOB SOBOROFF: Now, play us out, The White Stripes!

[MUSIC - THE WHITE STRIPES, "FELL IN LOVE WITH A GIRL"]