This Saturday is the first night of Hanukkah, so you know what that means: it's time for you to scramble and find a cheap ass dollar store menorah if you're Jewish or completely ignore the holiday, outside of a casual listen to "The Hanukkah Song" on YouTube. Also, YEAR-END NOSTALGIA. God, remember how great February was? I mean, it was no April, but it was close.
We'll keep our "What Did The Firm Mean for 2012" trend pieces to a minimum, but it can be fun looking back at the past 12 months, if only to remember how badass Game of Thrones was. How badass? Very badass.
Anyway, as you may well know, we've been putting together GIFs of the Week features every Friday, then Saturday since June, and over the past eight months, we've compiled hundreds of continuous clips from Community, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Louie, Archer, and probably some other shows, too. In this post, we've selected 25 GIFs from (scripted) shows that aired in 2012 that we feel best define 2012. This isn't a list of the BEST shows, necessarily, but moments from throughout the year that we never want to forget. Like Fat Betty.
#25. The Office
It was the year the post-Michael Scott Office defined itself with a plot about Nellie eating a taco. (Via)
#23. The Walking Dead
It was the year a million "black people die like this, white people die like this" jokes were made. (Via)
#22. New Girl
It was the year we were introduced to Nick Miller's zombie novel. "Zombie zoo, zombie zoo. Zombie zoo, zombie zoo. Who let them zombies out that damn zombie zoo?" (Via)
#21. Whiskey Business
It was the year of CMT's Whiskey Business, with Pauly Shore (and Dog with a Blog). (Via)
#19. South Park
It was the year Here Comes Honey Boo Boo became a bloated cultural phenomenon, and then Cartman mercifully ran over the squealing piglet with his Rascal. Related:
#16. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
It was the year class was taken to the next level, now that garbage men are riding in/on limos. (Via)
#15. Girls
It was the year we all had LOUD OPINIONS about Girls, but could all agree this was great. (Via)
#13. Liz and Dick
It was the year SO BORED Lindsay Lohan starred in an amazing Lifetime movie and her life became a terrible Lifetime movie. (Via)
#12. Veep
It was the year "gold-plated sh*t gibbon" was added to the lexicon, and we called Jonah a rapist. (Via)
#11. Louie
It was the year Louis C.K. called Jay Leno "the weirdest looking person on the planet Earth" and flipped off David Letterman. (Via)
#10. Boardwalk Empire
It was the year Boardwalk Empire done got great and Richard Harrow was named Badass of 2012. (Via)
#9. Archer
It was the year Pam referred to herself as an African American football player who's been arrested seven times while throwing waffles at a busty naked woman in a strip club, which speaks for itself. (Via)
#7. Parks and Recreation
It was the year Ron Swanson and Mike Ehrmantraut squared off over the last piece of shrimp. (Via)
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Blam buh lam
BACON WRAPPED shrimp.
“That’s my number 1 food wrapped around my number 2 food”
And don’t you forget it!
One of our local Asian buffets has a bacon wrapped imitation crab thing, it has the look of pieces of old couch wrapped in the cheapest bacon. The taste, because I’m a dirtbag, is not bad.
It’s been a pretty fucking great year for the TV shows that I love. Once Breaking Bad is finished and all 5 seasons are put together in the same Collector’s bundle, I will never again need to search for a Christmas gift to give to important people who might advance my career.
Because nothing says “promote me” more than “look at how much time I spend thinking about methheads.”
But it’s the very best meth on TeeVee!!
Fully agree with this. When is Veep back? I wish people would insult me like that in the office.
“’Whoa, what bit my face?” said Mike Jr., to his dad, Mike Sr., who sucked.
Nick: Mike Sr. sucks, that’s a whole recurring theme throughout this.
If someone ever asked me to sum up Archer with one GIF, that there is the one.
This was the year I learn when someone give you a Green Russian, you drink it, instead of being a triffeling bitch
If Archer taught me anything, it’s that happy erections are the best erections.
Danjaaaah Zooone! *lazy Archer comment*
Thanks for reminding me of that spectacular Louie arc. Definitely my favorite TV experience of the year.
I think David Lynch really made me enjoy it more than anything.
Fat Betty is the schadenfreude to end all schadenfreude.
And I wish Nick’s zombie novel was real, because it sounds amazing.
“No one in the sleepy mountain town of Rhythm City knew what the meteor meant, but the one thing Mike Jr. did have was a whole lot of rhythm.”
This Saturday is the first night of Hanukkah, so you know what that means
Time to not let my wife find out I learned Saturday was the first night of Hanukkah from a TV blog….. BUT CHRISTMAS IS SO MUCH EASIER TO REMEMBER.
Seriously though interfaith marriage would be much easier if we could all just jump on board with the Gregorian Calendar.
Every time I see that gif, I’m reminded that not only is Richard Harrow a total badass, so is the cameraman. That’s a great tracking shot (terminology?) right there.
Great list, but it’s seriously lacking a Rafi gif in the worst way.
Let’s all get the same girl pregnant tonight!
A thousand times yes. But he did dominate – as he should – the recent League slideshow.
Screw you for number 8. Seriously, that will haunt me.
You mean #19, right? (“8 of 26″?)
Because if you’re upset about the KABONG gif, then you and me’s gonna fight.
@ 15 – as much as I want to believe that girls sometimes have the irresistible urge to masturbate at a party, I cannot suspend disbelief enough to believe the geek from The Lonely Island can get her there.
Alison Brie… don’t you ever change.
Can we just get Alison Brie to release a stolen home vid? Tired of waiting.
At number 19, the second gif is haunting.
It was the year we wrote “20 best gifs” but clearly meant 25.
No, temporary constable Geneva! It’s a Blorgon trap!
I find Alison Brie attractive and would like to have sexual relations with her. That’s all.