“Second Sons” is an episode that works better as a part of a greater whole. I’ve long believed that the ideal way to watch Game of Thrones is in one marathon session, which takes away the fun of bitching about how BORING Theon is, but it makes everything seem more cohesive. “Second,” for instance, is yet another set piece mover, one that’s necessary for the final two episodes of the season, but for right now, feels slightly lackluster.

Outside of (you knew this was coming) watching Peter Dinklage get his Drunklage on, a scene that belongs in the Smithsonian and deserves EVERY Emmy. It’s not often that Game stays on a story for as long as it did his nuptials with Sansa, but when it does, it tends to make everything else going on around it feel less by comparison (hence the brilliance of never cutting away during the Blackwater Battle). There are check-ins on Arya and the Hound, Melisandre with Davos and Gendry, and Daenerys, but nothing can quite match up to Red Wine Wedding. Even Sam the Slayer’s origin story, which should have come weeks ago, was misplaced and as hurried as Sam running away from his cabin in the woods with Gilly and Not-Craster, leaving the Dragonglass behind.

Last night’s SNL was never really about Ben Affleck, and he knew it. It was an important episode for both the show’s future — definitely no more Bill Hader, probably no more Jason Sudeikis and Fred Armisen — and its present, snagging one of the world’s most famous musicians right before he releases his mega-hyped new album, and Affleck was more than happy to support rather than lead. Even his cold open, in which he shared the stage with Bobby Moynihan and later, his wife, instead of any members of the Five Timers’ Club, subtly acknowledged this.

That’s Affleck at his best, though. Like any good director, he knows it’s best to highlight your strengths, and while he’s not a bad comedic performer, he’s no Bill Hader or Cecily Strong, either, so might as well let them run with it and you do whatever you can to give them a foundation to bounce off of. So, yes, this was a very good, very good emotional season finale of SNL with one major caveat: WHERE THE F*CK WAS MY WHAT’S UP WITH THAT?

As much as I love Star Trek, the original series, the acting in Star Trek: Into Darkness, the movie, is about 34,294 times better (number provided by Mr. Spock). Chris Pine’s William Shatner is better than William Shatner’s William Shatner, Zoe Saldana and Zachary Quinto are given more to do as Uhura and Spock then Nichelle Nichols and Leonard Nimoy ever did, and Alice Eve, well, I don’t want to spoil anything, but Alice. Eve.

The one major exception: Hikaru Sulu. John Cho is a very good actor, but no one can play the Enterprise’s helmsman with such delicious delight as George Takei. His slinky “oh my” is a thing of legend, and as we’ve highlighted time and time again, he’s making the Internet a better place to be. BuzzFeed had the wise idea to get Takei, one of the world’s foremost gay rights advocates, to respond to anti-gay protestors who attended the Prop 8/DOMA hearings outside the Supreme Court in March. He’s as good at shaming bigots as he is at fencing.

Of the hundreds of reasons why NBC’s The Office was so beloved and so great for so long, the one that always stuck out the most was its reliability. We’ve all been there: sh*tty job, sh*tty town, sh*tty boss, sh*tty life. For most of us, life isn’t going to be easy; you have to make the most of a bad situation, a point Jim Halpert brought up during the talking head montage at the end of last night’s The Office‘s series finale. “Everything I have,” he said, speaking as much to the camera crew as himself, “I owe to this job…this stupid, wonderful, boring, amazing job.”

I want to enjoy something, anything in life as much as that man loves cotton candy. Earlier today, the GIF you see above made it to the front page of Reddit…and then I was introduced to the wonderful world of /r/reversegif. Things, be they people, animals, cars, or directions in life, going in reverse is just funny. It’s as simple as that. Haha, they’re doing what people do every day, but backwards. It’s wacky AND simplistically funny!

Let’s take a look at some other GIFs in reverse.