Movieline's 15 Favorite Videos of 2009

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If future archivists want to get a sense of just what kind of crazy year 2009 was, they could do worse than to start with this post. Over the next few pages, Movieline has posted its 15 favorite entertainment-related videos of the year. Click through, press play, and take a trip down a very bonkers memory lane.

An Inventory of Illicit Acts Committed By Two Drunken Ewoks on Today

They came. They saw. They threw things at Ann Curry. In just a couple of anarchic Halloween minutes on the Today Show, two drunken Ewoks managed to generate more entertainment value than the entire Star Wars prequel trilogy. The force is with them.

5 Brittle, Body-Conscious Honky Actresses Could Learn a Thing or Two From Mo'nique About Onscreen Orgasms

Speaking of anarchy, God bless Mo'nique for upending awards season with both her performance in Precious and her erratic promotion for the film. Take this video from a Hollywood Reporter roundtable populated by Mo'nique and several reticent actresses who, when the subject of simulating onscreen orgasms comes up, practically signal to their offscreen publicists in horror. Luckily, Mo' reenacts hers with relish.

Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson School Mo'nique in the Hustle and Flow of Oscar Campaigning

However, Mo'nique hasn't always been eager to please this fall, and she aired her reluctance to play the Oscar game while hosting Oscar veterans Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson on her BET chat show. "Now let me ask y'all this," Mo' began, "because I know y'all are gonna school me correctly: What does it mean financially?"

Nutso Quentin Tarantino Commercial Outtakes Result in Nutso Quentin Tarantino Commercial

Quentin Tarantino has long fetishized Asian film culture, so perhaps it's only fitting that he would end up in a verrrrry Japanese series of ads for Softbank. Translated one viewer:

It starts with the older woman asking the dog if he's going to a town called Tosa. The dog says yes. Then, the younger woman asks if Tarantino is going along, whereupon he declares "I am Tara!"

Well, sure. Exactly.

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Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Improv 500 Days of Summer Mute Elevator Scene

At the Movieline-presented Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards this year, Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt decided to pay tribute to screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber by reenacting (500) Days of Summer's elevator scene without using their script. The levels of cuteness are nearly unbearable.

Remember the Musical Sequence from (500) Days of Summer? Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown.

Still, could it compare to Shorewood High School's "lip-dub" of the Hall and Oates classic "You Make My Dreams," which spurred a whole musical sequence in (500) Days? I think nothing could.

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MOVIELINE EXCLUSIVE: Ben Stiller's Fox-Mocking Video Parody

Back in July, Movieline managed to get its mitts on a super-secret, only-for-their-consumption video made by Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films upon the occasion of the shingle leaving DreamWorks for 20th Century Fox. Boasts Stiller: "Tom Rothman is so far up my ass, he'd probably have to send Jim Cameron up there with one of his 3-D underwater cameras to pull him out."

Did Brian McKnight Just Slip a Dark Confession Into a Dane Cook Interview?

"Hey, Dane Cook...Brian McKnight here! For some reason, I'm interviewing you on television, and for some other reason, I'm going to ask you an incredibly suspicious, out-of-nowhere question about what the proper protocol is when you fatally hit a homeless person with your car. Because, uh...this happened to a friend! Right."

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Glimpse the World's Only Tasmanian Lautner in Captivity

Eeyaaah! Aaaah! Feast your eyes on Taylor Lautner's 1992 skillset, which involved a lot of martial arts, emphatic screaming, and nary an idea that someday he would be asked to become the most famous set of abs in America.

Teen Seth Rogen: Take My Jewish Grandparents, Please!

Seth Rogen was no childhood slouch, either, as proven by a YouTube clip of the teenage Rogen performing at a Vancouver comedy club. It's G-rated and Canadian as all get out, but it's our Seth all right.

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Adam Lambert Encouraged to Be 'As Flamboyant' As He Pleases By Promo-Hungry 20/20 Producer

Somehow, Adam Lambert's entire run on American Idol did not prepare America for the earth-shattering revelation of his homosexuality. How else to explain this awkward exchange that Movieline captured on the red carpet of the Hollywood Life Awards, where a creepy 20/20 producer begins to dig his own hole by coaxing Lambert to crank his gayness up to 11?

VIDEO: Shirtless Gay Man Declares Love for George Clooney in Venice

I mean, everything you need to know is right there in the title, right?

World Squealing Record Broken As New Moon Star Taylor Lautner Describes Sculpting His New Body For 6500 Fans

The newly grown-up (yet still not quite legal!) Tasmanian Lautner got his due at this year's Comic-Con, where an RPatz-weaned audience suddenly felt their allegiances shifting, their hormones rising, and their urge to tear off men's shirts AAAAAHHHH OHHHMYYYYGODDDD!

Daniel Radcliffe Gives Japan's #1 Harryjuku Girl the Thrill of a Lifetime

Still, American fangirls have a lot of room for improvement if Japan's number-one Harry Potter fan is any indication. Nearly made to faint when she puts on the sorting hat, only to forget her own name and bodily functions after being surprised by a game Daniel Radcliffe, she's one for the ages.

'I'm Marilyn Monroe, And I Want To Smoke Some Marijuana!'

And finally, though the year in video was almost totally dominated by today's stars misbehaving, one of 2009's most intriguing clips was this long-lost piece of film that showed Marilyn Monroe kicking back at a party and smokin' a doob. Blondes do have more fun. They also have the munchies.