We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today:

Modern Family is getting in the Halloween spirit with this recut of their sappy television show as a horror flick. It's fun. But seriously, Steve Levitan, umm, Mr. Levitan, let's make a Fizbo the Clown spinoff happen for real. Jessica Lange needs some competition: 

Magic is fun. And terrifying. And funny, when it's not terrifying: 

What isn't terrifying and probably could have saved us all like 23 nights of sleep is this inappropriately funny recut of The Exorcist as an '80s sitcom (the highlight is the perfect union of piano clinking and spiderwalk): 

Okay, fine. This lip-dub engagement is pretty good (no, we totalllllly didn't stop watching after the One Direction part) but it made us wonder what happens if the person being proposed to says no? Awkward. Ahh, well, just enjoy, forget we mentioned that: 

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Alexander Abad-Santos