We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today:

We need to thank Vulture right now. Not just for giving us an enjoyable video montage of all the crappy shows and terrible characters to which we bid farewell this year (don't get us wrong, this was a monumental task). No, the biggest thanks goes out to the poor Vultureite who had to watch all 3.5 minutes or so of Adam Levine's "acting" on American Horror Story: 

The Atlantic Wire can confidently say that none of us, including your humble blogger, have shot a free throw quite this bad: 

So remember the video you just watched? The one up there? Now, for a fun effect, just imagine this was the reaction to it: 

And finally, here is the beautiful love of a dog and a kangaroo:

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Alexander Abad-Santos