We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cellphone 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:

Argo and Home Alone have one thing in common: Neither of their directors were nominated for an Oscar. That might be the only thing they share, but... holy wow does this mashup hit that 4 p.m. sweet spot when all your soul wants to do is procrastinate (and kudos to the film editors for showing restraint and not throwing Flight into the mix): 

This next video comes to us from Hoboken. It's a place where the people who can't be bothered to go into New York City and the pizza delivery persons who put up with them do this for fun on Friday nights:

Silver Bad Lip Readings? Seven Bad Lip Reads? Ruby Bad Lip Reads? We're just going to give up trying to give this genius piece of work a better title than "2013 Independent Spirit Awards: Best Screenplay Nominees — A Bad Lip Reading", and get to the video because it's perfect (even though the title is a little clunky): 

And finally, here are some of the cutest animals that all they wanna do is give you some tough love this Tuesday:

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Alexander Abad-Santos