10 Best Scenes of Cinema in 2011

1. The Tree of Life - the 20 minute interlude on the creation of all things
2. Bridesmaids - the dress fitting scene
3. The Descendents - George Clooney's tragi-comic flip flop sprint down street
4. Scream 4 - meta movie trailer opening
5. The Adventures of Tin Tin - hyperkinetic dam explosion race to catch map
6. Hugo - remake of Melies' A Trip to the Moon in color + 3D
7. Captain America - war propaganda film
8. Another Earth - last (spoilery) shot
9. Source Code - final "everything is going to be ok" twist
10. Harry Potter 7.2 - mostly silent chase through Hogwarts' courtyard

TV Shows where the opening sequence is better than the actual show

House

Six Feet Under

Fringe

Lost

Treme

10 Best moments of the 2012 GOP Primary

1. Colbert/Stewart cross-over episodes and their Super-PAC American's for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow
2. the inexplicable rise and fall of GOP candidates not named Romney or Paul
3. Insane smoking man Herman Cain ad
4. Unpopular opinions of Rick Perry and the related meme
5. Inappropriate applause points at GOP debates
6. Newt Gingrich suggesting kids get jobs at their schools at janitors
7. Unearthed clip of Herman Cain singing Imagine... there's no pizza
8. Herman Cain quoting the Pokemon movie
9. Gingrich's apparent lack of irony when talking about the sanctity of marriage
10. Romney's past fear of receiving a pink slip

Easter egg at the end of Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas

A little over a year late on this one. They turn back to real life on the stop motion TV. Kind of like how Spielberg did a cameo in The Lost World as a reflection in the tv at the end. Classic Abed pop culture throwback.

Updating "Jumping the Shark"

• "Nuking the fridge" - Indian Jones IV
• "Blowing the hatch" - Lost
• "Applauding the 234 executions" or "Booing the gay soldier" - 2012 GOP debates
• "Greedo shooting first" - Star Wars
• "Marrying the fourth wife" - Big Love
• "Probing the Moulder" - The X-Files
• "Loving the pie" - Spiderman 3
• "Raving the Matrix" - The Matrix Reloaded
• Every episode of Glee

Video game film adaptations I would see

• Portal dir. Christopher Nolan
• Shadow of Colossus dir. Terrence Malick
• Bioshock dir. Guy Maddin
• Half Life dir. Ridley Scott
• Half Life 2 dir. Alfonso Cuaron
• Team Fortress dir. Wes Anderson
• Braid dir. Michel Gondry written by Charlie Kaufman
• LIMBO dir. Gus Van Sant
• God of War dir. Peter Jackson
• Fallout dir. Terry Gilliam
• Katamari Damacy dir. Hayao Miyazaki
• Heavy Rain dir. Tommy Wiseau

Other Best of 2011

• Game: Portal 2
• Album: St. Vincent's Strange Mercy
• Show: Community
• Book: Blindness