Keith McDonald as Keith, Jesse's friend and roommate.Ben Jasper as Ben, Jesse's ex-boyfriend, who works in advertising and stops by to say goodbye.Brontez Purnell as Brontez, a friend of Jesse, who works at a clothing shop.Jesse Metzger as Jesse a performance-arts director and the main character, who's forced to move back to his hometown.And, yes, there are wigs.Jesse and Brenden playfully negotiate their way toward having sex together for the first time on Metzger's last night in San Francisco before he returns to the Midwest. And as hard as it was to whittle down this year’s crop of choices to just one, we had to go with Bone Pugz, in which pugs recreate Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. We tried really hard to keep this list to videos featuring only humans, but the Internet would not be the Internet without awesome animal videos. So there was no better time for the Internet to realize the undocumented trope of Claire Danes’s iconic cryface, those big eyes and quivering chin that have haunted us since the days of My So-Called Life. Homeland scored the title of Show White People Love to Talk About in 2012, thrusting Carrie Matheson and Nicholas Brody into the spotlight as “the best characters on the best show on television,” according to the people behind you at brunch. Just one melodica.Īlthough Beyoncé’s “Countdown” and the Snuggie were cultural moments of yesteryear, one YouTuber was able to shake off the dust from each in 2012, getting a nod from Ms. Here’s a very simple question: How do you make Jurassic Park look really stupid? Not just stupid, but, like, really stupid? Answer: Replace John Williams’s sweeping soundtrack with a melodica. But the most endearing take by far belonged to Cookie Monster, whose spoof was all about cookie-sharing. With “Call Me Maybe” making a grab the song of the year, it’s hard to choose from all the song’s interpretations (and there were many) as the best.
Wizard? Of course you do! Remember how he was a huge dick? Neither did we, until this supercut reminded us that the guy was clearly in the wrong line of work. So when Screen Junkies had a chance to sit down with Christopher Walken at a junket for Seven Psychopaths, all they had to do was ask him to read lines from Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, and a viral masterpiece was made.
Would Papa Antonucci make the cut? Not likely, but we were more than happy to watch him try.Ĭhristopher Walken Reads Lines From Honey Boo BooĢ012 was the year we all learned that, when placed together, the words “honey” and “boo boo” could make something spectacular, in the form of a beauty pageant contestant from the boonies with a love for “sketti” and gay pigs. Michael Antonucci enlisted his dad, Michael Antonucci, Sr., to take on the role inhabited by the sleek, sexy, almost egregiously heroic Liam Neeson in the Taken franchise. But unlike you and me, he danced to C+C Music Factory at a Mormon talent show and it was caught on tape and the Internet was never the same again. That’s right, before the days of Drive jackets and Crazy, Stupid abs, Ryan Gosling was once a child, just like the rest of us. Once upon a time, Ryan Gosling was a tiny person.
(So please stop calling items “ghetto,” okay?) The video made you laugh and think, and that’s a whole lot of responsibility for one YouTube video. “Shit White Girls Say to Black Girls” wasn’t just funny - it was a sharp-tongued, painfully accurate account of what casual racism sounds like. But our list of the top ten viral videos of the year isn’t as concerned with pageviews.Īlthough the Shit _ Say meme technically started in 2011, it was just a couple of days after New Year’s when Franchesca Ramsey uploaded her own spin to YouTube. This year’s big winners - as far as your parents are concerned, considering they forwarded you the videos after they saw them on the Today show - are “Gangnam Style,” “Call Me Maybe” interpretations, and Felix Baumgartner’s planetary plunge. But not to be forgotten are all the viral videos that entertained us in 2012. As we at Vulture continue to review the year in culture, there’s a lot to talk about.