Awesome Videos

The casting director for The Hobbit trilogy decides that Ian MacKellen isn’t quite right for the role of Gandalf, and tries out a few other possible actors for the role. Impressionist Charlie Hopkinson’s Jesse Pinkman impression is spot on.

What starts out as a cinematic drama turns out to be a silly piece of metafiction and an amusing animation within an animation. Disruption is YouTuber FineLeatherJackets’ entry for the 2013 Saxxy Awards.

An artist meets a robot and ends up finding a solution from an unsolvable puzzle. This wonderful animated poem by Isabela Dos Santos explores how we sometimes confuse our identity with our arbitrary goals and purposes in life.

(NSFW: Language) The French are sometimes stereotyped as being fashion snobs. The very animated comedian Oliver Giraud reveals how you can fit in Parisian shops should you encounter his intimidating countrymen.

Jordan Halland’s girlfriend Summer somehow found out when he was going to propose to her. Lacking the element of surprise, Jordan settled for suspense. Restaurants will be peppered with copycats for the next couple of weeks.

While many gamers are struggling to get their hands on Microsoft’s new console, RatedRR just went and blasted his Xbox One to bits by shooting it with a sniper rifle then searing it with detonating cord. Twice. Flame on at 3:50.

We’ve seen cars, skateboards and other vehicles attempt 360-degree loops with varying degrees of success. Here, BMXer Mike “Hucker” Clark takes on a loop made from wood and dirt, and makes it look easy. POV footage here.

We can’t really recommend covering your skateboard with gasoline and kerosene. We suggest leaving such dangerous stunts to boarders Jonathan and Jason Bastian, and the watchful 2000fps eye of BeyondSlowMotion.

When you’re out on a date, do you intentionally wait for several seconds before you respond to your partner so they won’t think you’re too into them? No? Then why the hell do we think that way when it comes to texting?

(NSFW: Language) In celebration of Thanksgiving, the Official Comedy channel has pieced together a brief reel to school us on the proper use of the term “jive turkey” – just in case you were planning on using it on your relatives.

When you hear the phrase “fluid dynamics simulation,” you’re probably think about how they make water look so real in CGI movies and games. But in Yusuke Endoh’s case, we get an 80×24 computer terminal, spewing out ASCII.

Mental Floss dishes out little known facts about the popular American holiday. Actually it’s more like a Thanksgiving episode of Mythbusters, revealing that many things associated with the holiday are entirely false or unfounded.

Breaking news: cats take care of you. And not just in Soviet Russia. Ze Frank uses his hypnotic baritone voice and hilarious wit to come up with alibis for the annoying habits of cats. And also to sell kitty litter.

An in-depth look at the people, the technology and the “highly organized chaos” behind Fox Sports’ NFL broadcasts. Amazingly, a lot of the equipment has to be assembled and then torn down every weekend. More on The Verge.

Ward Miles was born 3.5 months premature. But with the help of medical staff, he fought to stay alive. He’s now a healthy boy. Ward’s dad Benjamin Scot Miller made this video for his wife’s birthday and to celebrate Ward’s first year.

One of the numerous entries for Doritos 2014 Crash the Super Bowl commercial contest, Thomas Noakes’ spot is equal parts hilarious and disturbing. We won’t give away the punchline, but you can quickly guess where it’s headed.

Mario and Fafa set out to create the absolutely worst top ten list of all time, somehow managing to fill five minutes of our time explaining their favorite numbers between 0 and 9, inclusive. Our fave? We plead the Fifth.

Upscale UK retailer Harvey Nichols launched this tongue-in-cheek holiday campaign which suggests you spend your money on awesome gifts for yourself, leaving your family with such prized items as paper clips, toothpicks or gravel.

Highlights of UFC 167 captured using a Phantom high-speed camera. Watching the fighters’ faces distort and ripple as they are pounded with punches made us flinch at the sheer brutality of these MMA matches.

wow. so animation. much soundtrack. Weebl’s Stuff takes a page out of Nyan Cat’s book, creating an infections little video featuring the Internet’s favorite shibe doge. Nope, it still makes no sense, but we love it anyway.

Collective Cadenza gives us a concise history of the bass guitar, with none other than the group’s co-founder Michael Thurber handling the instrument’s various incarnations. A lesson as entertaining as it is educational.

While we don’t like to spend time washing dishes by hand, this restaurant dishwasher takes speed-washing to the extreme, as he scrubs 50 plates in about 10 seconds. We didn’t say they were clean, necessarily.

Comedian Gavin McInnes shows us how to take on the most vicious of opponents in the ring – babies. While some of the moves are effective, we’re pretty sure they wouldn’t work on Dragon Baby. (Thanks Thomas!)