(Video link) If The Hillywood Show is not on your radar, kindly insert them there for your own good, because their music video parodies are serious when it comes to production value. In their latest, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Parody, watch Bilbo Baggins get adventurously drunk with those hard-partying dwarves in what was probably a deleted scene not just from the movie, but from J.R.R. Tolkien's book. This is what I'm going to pretend to believe is true. (via Laughing Squid)
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