In the hype surrounding the season finales of The Office and New Girl (and every episode of Game of Thrones), there was a certain TV milestone we didn’t cover as well as we should have this week: Bob’s Burgers. What about Bob’s Burgers, specifically? Well, it just completed one of the strongest sitcom seasons in some time.

Every episode was an A- or better, not only because of the continued genius of H. Jon Benjamin and Linda’s ever-magical songs, but also because of Tina Belcher, voiced to droll perfection by Dan Mintz. (The list of reasons why Bob’s Burgers is great could go on for awhile.) In honor of the coolest 13-year-old dork with a passion for zombies only rivaled by her infatuation for butts, today’s GIFs of the Week is dedicated to “Bad Tina.”

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While most of you suffered through graduation speeches from former deans and, ugh, SENATORS, University of Virginia students were treated to remarks from none other than Stephen Colbert. For over 17 minutes, The Colbert Report host discussed UVA’s high party school ranking in Playboy (“I only read Playboy for the rankings”), the university’s ousted then rehired president (“I want to thank president Teresa Sullivan. You are way better than that last president, Teresa Sullivan, she was terrible”), and self-obsessed millennials (“Your generation needs everything to be about you…and that’s very upsetting to us baby boomers because self-absorption is kind of our thing”).

But Colbert saved his most inspiring material for the end: “I believe we have given you a gift, a particular form of independence,” he said, referring to the Steely Dan demographic, “because you do not owe the previous generation anything. Thanks to us, you owe it to the Chinese.” Haha, we’re doomed. Hear the whole thing below.

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It’s easy to bag on Saturday Night Live for their musical guests, but just as the “SNL isn’t as funny as it used to be” argument is played out and incorrect, history often looks kindly at the artists the show books. Take, for instance, last year: yes, there was the Karmin fiasco and One Direction should never have performed on the same stage that Fear once did and Lana Del Rey hadn’t yet thawed out of her accidental ice shell, but otherwise, solid. Radiohead, the Black Keys, Robyn, Kelly Clarkson, Coldplay, Jack White, the Shins, Arcade Fire, Usher, the Rolling Stones — even if you don’t like a lot of those bands (*coughcoldplaycough*), it’s not as if they were unworthy of performing on SNL.

In a year, when we look back at season 38 of SNL, which ended last night, how many miscues will we count? Justin Bieber, definitely, and probably Macklemore and Ryan Lewis and fun.; otherwise, not too shabby. Rarely spectacular, usually good, briefly awful, not unlike SNL itself. Here are seven of the season’s best performances.

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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?

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We’ll have a full SNL recap tomorrow (well, in eight hours from now), but until then, please feel free to relive Stefon’s final appearance, for now at least. It’s that thing where…Stefon almost marries Anderson Cooper in front of all his best friends, including Menorah the Explorer and Gizblow, but instead runs away with Seth Meyers.

He began as Ben Affleck’s brother, he ended in love with Seth in an episode hosted by Ben Affleck. #america

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As you probably remember and will never forget, Patton Oswalt broke the Internet last month when NBC released a video of him filibustering on Parks and Recreation about Star Wars, The Avengers, The Fantastic Four, and X-Men…for nine whole minutes. It was the most spectacularly Patton Oswalt’y thing Patton Oswalt’s ever done, not to mention the first time in *checks math* forever Star Wars has deserved to be slobbered over.

His tirade has now been improved, though, thanks to the work of “iZacLess” who animated the entire sequence. If Star Wars Episode VII doesn’t look EXACTLY like the banner image, I am going to be furious.

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Guys. GUYS. Quit your fighting. There’s plenty of Iron Throne to go around. Robb, Joffrey, Stannis, Daenerys, Senile Sadie, you all think you’re the one and only who should be leading the Seven Kingdoms. But you’re wrong, oh so wrong. In fact, as punishment for all the bloodshed and misery you’ve caused (R.I.P. Renly and, oh yeah, all those bastard King’s Landing babies), I’m calling my boy George R.R. Martin to let him know that none of you will ever sit on that horribly uncomfortable looking mess of metal and blister blood. This is how Game of Thrones should end.

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No one acts as hard as William Shatner. I don’t mean the kind of hard where someone like Daniel Day-Lewis will spends months, if not years researching, then becoming their character — I mean hard as in HARD. William Shatner doesn’t act; he ACTS. He chews scenery the way James Doohan did sandwiches, and that’s why we love him.

As opposed to certain other Star Trek: The Original Series actors, it’s unlikely Shatner will ever appear in one of the rebooted Star Trek films, which is a damn shame; Shatner vs. Peter Weller would have been great. Anyway, here are 10 of James T. Kirk’s greatest AAAACCCCCCTTTTTTIIIINNNNNNGGGG GIFs.

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JAY: I love our late-night drives together, Mitt.

MITT: Me too, Jay. Me too. Thanks for bringing me back home after my appearance on your show.

JAY: No problem. You really laid into Obama on Benghazi and the AP seizure scandals. Really makes you wonder…

MITT: Well, like I said earlier, “It’s better to win than to lose, but in the scheme of life, losing an election was not the end of the road.” Speaking of, this isn’t the route I take to get home. Where are we going?

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