It's no secret that Garry's Mod, a Half-Life 2 modification, has become a runaway hit among the hardcore DIY community. But it has also opened up the doors to the mod-challenged, making posing, gesturing, and filming in-game models and assets extremely easy. So it should come as no surprise that this tool has spawned hundreds of machinima series and videos.

You may have missed this gem when it surfaced online five months ago, but I believe you owe it to yourself to give "The G-Mod Idiot Box" a look. The irregularly scheduled series adopts the format of shows like Robot Chicken, with several 30-second shorts interrupted by static and the laughter of the audience.

The seventh episode of the series occupied the top position of YouTube's "best rated" for several weeks -- needless to say, it's next to genius [via The Bo Schitt].