The Best Things On The Internet In 2009

According to me! These were some of my absolute favorite (non-cat-related) things that happened on the Internet this year. What were yours? Let's reminisce.

• Family Picture Failure

  (OK, mostly non-cat-related.) This year, some of us learned that pets don't necessarily understand how a family portrait works.

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• Cute Spider

  I was also surprised to discover that spiders can be cute, though I'm not sure that makes them any less evil.

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• UNABLE

  Um, we're going to be in the Hudson. I still say that whenever I'm having a bad day.

• Boxxy

  I know. But there was something about how this whole thing played out that was utterly fascinating. Why, Boxxy? Why?

• I Am Jack Bauer

  Rarely has a song so profoundly captured the essence of a fictional character's soul. Listening to this, you know, for just a moment, what it must be like to be Jack Bauer.

• Tickling A Slow Loris

  Remember when they tickled that slow loris, and you were like, what the fuck is a slow loris?

• Star Wars Retold By Someone Who Hasn't Seen It

  These guys knocked it out of the park.

• Autotune The News

  Sublime. This is the one that started it all for them.

• JK Wedding Dance

  I found this video really moving. Wait, I mean, ha ha, look at those dumbasses doing that stupid dance! Weddings are for suckers.

• Weird Alf

  Say goodbye to your fond childhood memories of this show. There's a whole series of these, if you don't find this one to be quite emotionally scarring enough.

• Between Two Ferns

  Zach Galifianakis should be interviewing people just like this every evening instead of whatever the hell it is that Jay Leno is trying to do.

• Fun With Tube

  This video makes me want to have a child.

• Hey Paul Krugman

  Rockcookiebottom has been writing a song a day all year. One of them was bound to be a fucking classic. Timothy Geithner should have resigned as soon as he watched this.

• Barney Frank And The Dining Room Table

  More politics! I loved it when Barney Frank called that woman a piece of furniture. That was stone cold.

• Melodramatic Otters

  Otters just completely overdid things in 2009.

• Fake Head In The Bed

  I don't normally like pranks, but this one was fantastic. Spoiler: she gets really scared by the fake head.

• Hey There Cthulhu

  A beautiful tribute to everyone's favorite great old one. This one goes out to all you cultists out there.

• Jaguars Ponder The Meaninglessness Of Existence

  The Onion gets it exactly right more often than not, but this particular little bit of faux-reporting was simply masterful.

• Meta-Enabling

  I want to fucking marry meta-enabling. Best concept of 2009. It sums up everything.

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