Rebecca Black

It's a very special day. It's Friday! In case this terrible, terrible song doesn't quite capture how excited we are for the weekend (we so excited), here are some memes. In case the memes don't adequately express how excited we are for the weekend, just look for the person wearing no pants with a pitcher of sangria in each hand -- that's us. Enjoy!

Songwriter/producer Patrice Wilson has really outdone himself this time. 'Skip Rope' by Tweenchronic is maybe not as annoying as last year's 'It's Thanksgiving,' but it's definitely crazier. (Also, Patrice Wilson put on a giant chicken costume for that one.)

Every year, the folks over at JibJab give us an animated year in review, and they’ve done it again for 2011. You’ll find a lot of 2011′s top newsmakers and stories in the clip below, including (deep breath) Charlie Sheen, Herman Cain, Lindsey Lohan, Dr. Conrad Murray, Arnold’s Schwarzenegger’s love child, unemployment, Anthony Weiner, Rupert Murdoch, the Japan earthquake and non-gay Bert and Ernie

Rebecca Black burst into the American pop culture sewage pool with her ear delicious tune “Friday” about, um, a day of the week. This was bad news for our Crush Of The Day, Rebecca Black, a fitness model and cover girl for mags like Oxygen and Muscle and Fitness Hers. Her name will forever be associated with “7am, waking up in the morning. Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs. Gotta have my bowl, g