Bust out the riot gear (again). It's Black Friday!

Yeah, sure, we posted this last year. But it's not like Black Friday changed all that much since 2008. Except maybe that the holiday shopping season started before Halloween this year.

Black Friday is a gold mine for videographers looking to capture mobs of fanatical consumers looking for deals. Which, in turn, means a cornucopia of Black Friday videos on YouTube, and good times for your friends at Watch This Now.

Here are some of our favorites, in honor of this busiest shopping day of the year. If you've got one that we've missed, feel free to add a link in the comments.

Up first: This clip, shot outside a Best Buy, of shoppers rushing to get into the store as it opens at 5 a.m.

Next up: This vintage news report from WTVJ in Miami, of Black Friday in 1984. Check out the fabulous neon! And the plastic yellow watch!

More clips after the jump.

I don't know if this is Black Friday, but the general idea is the same: Parents going beserk over Cabbage Patch Kids, circa 198-something.

And finally, this appeal to common sense on Black Friday, to the tune of "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield.

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