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Video: The Potato Song

It's September! And you know what that means: It's time to celebrate National Potato Month! Because potatoes are awesome. Singer-songwriter Cheryl Wheeler knows what I'm talking about; she wrote a song about potatoes. It goes a little something like this.

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Video: Tomato-Chan and Friends, the Cutest Tomatoes Ever from Japan

If tomatoes were sentient creatures with eyes and mouths and the ability to bounce around gaily, you'd never ever want to eat them. Because they're too cute. But you might want to keep one as a pet.

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Video: Use Both Hands (A Bagger's Anthem) from 'Ready, Set, Bag!'

Documentary Ready, Set, Bag! follows eight state champion baggers from across the country working to win the National Grocers Association's Best Bagger competition. One of those baggers, Roger Chen from Alabama, is the subject of this uplifting auto-tuned anthem about bagging and practicing until you can't get it wrong.

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Video: Frolicking Watermelons in 'Watermelon Nights'

Few things warm my heart quite as much as watching a flock of bug-eyed watermelons deliriously frolic and dance in a park to a happy tune. These are the happiest watermelons in the history of all watermelons.

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Video: Being A Fish In Japan: Tuna

Japanese fishmonger/rockstar "Captain" Tsurizao Morita started his fish-themed band Gyoko ("fishing port") to get people to eat more fish and learn to appreciate it. Besides singing about fish, part of the way he does this is by filleting a tuna's head on stage and describing how to cook it. Watch Morita in action, learn what makes tuna "rock," and get a look inside Tsukiji, the world's biggest fish market, in this segment from the series Being a Fish In Japan.

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Video: The Guacamole Song

Guacamole was invented over a thousand years ago in the deep Aztec jungle when a small boy stepped on a ripe avocado and realized the resulting green paste would taste perfect with diced tomato, onions, chiles, garlic, cilantro, and salt and pepper. ...According to comedic duo Rhett and Link. They may not be guacamole historians, but they love the mashed avocado dip enough to make an instructional musical recipe video for it.

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Video: 'Cheese and Onions,' by the Rutles

You may have seen this video in last week's Look Who's Talkin' roundup, but if not, I figured I'd highlight it here. The Rutles were a Beatles parody band created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes of Monty Python. I almost can't hear the word onions without thinking of it.

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Congratulations to our Peeps Contest Winner: 'All the Single Bunnies'

You thought the Peeps coverage was over—we promise it will be after this, at least until 2011. For our Peeps contest we asked you to cook or construct anything with Peeps, and we'd pick our favorite. It was a tough call (did someone really make salted caramel and chocolate-covered Peeps?) but we had to hand it to this scene entitled, "All the Single Bunnies (Put a Ring on it)" by Stephanie of 52 Kitchen Adventures.

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Video: The Nightmare Before St. Patrick's Day

What would The Nightmare Before Christmas be like if it had centered on St. Patrick's Day instead of Christmas? It would have a lot more frat boys and vomit (but feature the same catchy songs sung by Jack Skellington).

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Video: 'Contact' by Baguette Bardot

Japanese performance artist Toastie created the character Baguette Bardot as an homage to Brigitte Bardot, if she sang in Japanese and had baguettes-for-arms. In this video, she bakes a baby made of bread with the help of three dancing bakers. Watch the video after the jump....

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