Don Deane

In an important moment for gay equality, two Alaskan women became the first-ever same sex couple to be married at the Empire State Building this week. Sadly, our Valentine’s Day didn’t even come close in terms of sheer momentousness.

Another day, another hot new internet craze. First came “planking,” followed by “Tebowing” and most recently “breading cats.” And now, “Lion King-ing,” the act of raising a pet into the air like Simba in ‘The Lion King,’ is all the rage.

Richie Castellano’s one-man cover of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is pretty amazing, but Nick McKaig’s take on the theme from ‘The Simpsons‘ is even more impressive since he uses nothing but his voice.

A four-piece band called the Koren Ensemble races through 15 TV theme songs in slightly more than two minutes in this awesome medley. It’s a mashup guaranteed to seriously test your couch potato knowledge.

A husband and wife couple in the U.K. have found a unique way to make a buck off Christmas — by renting live reindeer for public appearances. Wonder what Santa thinks about this?

Eleven-year-old Jared Flanders willfully disobeyed his father and left his Massachusetts home one day last week without an accompanying adult. But Jared had a good reason to defy his dad, since his objective was to attend a funeral for a firefighter killed during the line of duty.

The nominations for the 69th Golden Globe Awards are in, and handsome leading men George Clooney and Ryan Gosling lead the pack.

Matt Damon dressed up as Santa Claus for a promotional ad for Water.org and tried to pawn water bottles off on kids. But if there’s one thing to be learned from this clip, it’s that most kids don’t want to hear about a clean water initiative during Christmas time.

Darth Vader may be a bad guy, but as this video shows, he likes a Christmas choir as much as we do. Who knew the Dark Lord was such a fan of the holidays?

A cute kid appropriately named Havoc (yes, that’s his real name) makes an epic mess in the family kitchen with cereal, milk and dry dog food.

It’s perfectly normal to mark the holidays with a decoration or two. But the Rieken family in Texas takes their celebration of the season to the extreme by cramming over 200 trees into their home. Clark Griswold of ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’ fame would be proud!

In this vintage clip from 1979, some kid — some little nudnik — derails the lighting of the first Hanukkah candle on live TV by seriously misbehaving.