Awesome / The Lonely Island

• "Lazy Sunday": Became the most-talked about sketch on Saturday Night Live in ages, brought about a return to funny pretaped sketches that weren't the fake commercials on SNL, brought SNL kicking and screaming into the Internet age, became the breakout hit to make youtube famous, and made damn sure that Andy Samberg and his Lonely Island buddies had steady work and lasting fame on the show.
• And that was topped later by "Dick In a Box".
• Which was subsequently topped by "Jack Sparrow" (which also gave some awesomeness points to Michael Bolton). Special mention must be made to the fact that they managed to transform Bolton of all people from the laughingstock of the greater music world to a Memetic Badass. Click here for the good part.
• By itself the Santana DVX is a praiseworthy endeavor of Bay Area celebrity sparkling wine-making, the song kicks it up a notch.
• "100 SNL Digital Shorts" and "Lazy Sunday 2" were wonderful ways for Andy and the rest of the crew to say farewell to SNL.
• When Andy returned to host Saturday Night Live, fans hoped for a great digital short song to celebrate. "YOLO" did not disappoint.
• From Saturday Night Live's fortieth anniversary, "That's When You Break", a lovely tribute that's dedicated to gently mocking certain former cast members, celebrating the show's history, and, most of all, praising Lorne Michaels. A whole section of the song was focused purely on him.
• A lot of the things that the boss does in "Like a Boss" are pretty bizarre and/or pathetic, but some of them, like turning into a jet, flying into the sun ("Now I'm dead LIKE A BOSS"), and promoting synergy, are pretty awesome.
• While the "Space Olympics" going wrong in realistic ways is not awesome, what is is the narrator (presumably the founder or some spokesperson) holding off the hordes of aliens to protect the athletes filing to their escape pods.
  And as I stare death in the face
  I KNOW MY SINS WILL TAKE ME TO HELL!!
• It is immensely satisfying how "Threw It On the Ground" ends with the song's Insufferable Imbecile protagonist actually getting his comeuppance for his rude and disruptive behavior when the "Hollywood phonies" retaliate to his actions by tasing him in his butthole.
• Despite being treated like a joke for most of “I Run New York”, the mayor of New York still spends every night descending into the subways to fight the gigantic mutant rats and hellhounds that emerge from the Hell Gate underneath the city. A job that no one but him can do.

---