8 Absolutely Amazing Bento Box Rice Sculptures

So, you think you were SOOOO COOOOL at grade school lunchtime because you had your fancy-smanshy Legend Of Zelda lunch box (or your Jem lunchbox, depending on your gender and/or confidence level)?

Then check out this BBC report on the growing trend in Japan of mothers sculpting elaborate, artistic school lunches for their children (not lunch boxes, the lunches themselves), using primarily rice and seaweed to form fun, crazy designs for their children to show off to friends then eat and feel bad about destroying it.

Here are 8 of the most ridiculous lunch-designs from the video. I don’t believe I’ve ever used the term “lunch-designs”, but, well here they are:

1. Obama

2. Michael Jackson

3. Playstation Controller

4. Hello Kitty

5. Piano

6. Panda

7. This Super Japanese Cartoon Character

8. Harrison Ford, Obviously

Bon appetit!

Liam Neeson Is Frighteningly Hilarious

Here’s a clip from Life’s Too Short, the new BBC series from Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Warwick Davis, which features Liam Neeson dropping by on his comedy peers to announce his intentions to start his own career in comedy, and does some excellent improv to show off those notorious Liam Neeson comedy chops. 

 

The scene is ridiculously funny (I was almost literally crying by the end), though the irony of Liam Neeson being so good at comedy by being so bad at comedy is very hard to make sense out of. Apparently, he’s just the best at everything: