This video of Tom Hanks dancing with the weather girl on Univision has been everywhere for the last day (including the Uproxx homepage yesterday), but I didn’t get all the way through it until this morning because the first minute is so horrifically awkward. Hanks is there ostensibly to promote Larry Crowne, but the segment looks more like an immersive crash course in Spanish gone wrong. “What? Oh, yes! The solstice! Today is the solstice, that’s right… Yeah, sure, let’s do the weather. Anything but this torturous cacophony of foreign jabber.” He then speaks a language every man knows: dancing with a beautiful woman whose clothes seem to be painted on. Worth it? Worth it.

Incredibly, this clip is only about a quarter of the time he spent on “Despierta America.” I’ve got all four of the clips on the following pages, and I assume they’re pretty enjoyable if you speak Spanish or enjoy watching people try to breach language barriers. Personally, I think the highlight is the cooking segment, but that’s just because I understood some of what was being said. “He said tortilla! I know what that is!”

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This clip is showing up all over the Internet, and for good reason: it is AMAZING. It’s a man doing the mambo with his Labrador retriever on Univision’s “Don Francisco Presenta.” And praise the Lord, because the dog is wearing a dress. But it’s not just some sight gag. It’s not like some guy taught his dog to stand on its hind legs and walk in a circle.  This is a fully choreographed number with a lift and turns and all sorts of crap that just blows my mind. That bitch is good.

Seriously, Mambo Dog is barely even a real dog. She’s more like a dog character in a Disney straight-to-DVD movie called So You Think You Can Pant. She does things like use the toilet and eat at the table, and she’s voiced by a sassy Sofia Vergara. Watch out, she’s got a fiery Latin temper!