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  • Another day, another set of TV-themed Valentine’s Day cards. This time it’s Downton Abbey! I like this set the best out of ALL the TV-themed Valentine’s Day card sets we’ve seen yet. What an honor. -Kottke
  • Would you like to watch a clip from the new David Wain/Paul Rudd/Jennifer Anniston movie Wanderlust? Well here’s one! With a fantastic “Love Take Me Down (to the Streets)” cameo. Great job, boys. -Metacafe
  • Daniel Radcliffe treats every interview he does these days like it’s a Thought Catalog essay. Here is him on Watch What Happens Live talking about losing his virginity and some other stuff. What’s up with you, Danny? -PopWatch
  • Awwww. Get ready to CRY! This is a clip (so many clips today!) from next week’s Parenthood, featuring Max and his new lower voice and basketball and mean kids at school. -TVGuide
  • Do you like Starry Night? Have you visited it at a museum and posed in front of it, like that picture of P Diddy posing in front of the Mona Lisa? Why not? That’s a fun thing to do! Also, have you always wished you could interact with it? Oh, you’re in luck! -TheDailyWhat
  • Who’s Hotter: Ryan Reynolds or Ryan Gosling? Celebuzz wants you to answer that question. Uhh, Celebuzz? C’MON! Is anyone going to pick Ryan Reynolds for that thing? Is the Internet the only thing that loves Ryan Gosling but then the rest of the world doesn’t care? What is life like outside? -Celebuzz
  • Oh, Nic Cage talked about his vampire lookalike on Letterman last night, speaking of things from the Internet existing in real life sometimes. Great. -BuzzFeed

Is everybody excited for Valentine’s Day? Is everyone saying “YESSSSSSSS” right now? “Yessss, I love writing a card for someone and eating dinner or just not doing anythingggggg.” Is that what you’re saying? I can’t hear you. Can you say your responses louder? HELLO? I know we still have a bunch of days before Valentine’s Day, but this is our last GIF FRIDAY before it, so I’ve included some V-Day GIFs in the bunch. No need to thank me. Just doing my duty as provider of a few holiday theme appropriate GIFs that everyone always enjoys a lot and no one feels neutral about at all. WELCOME TO MY LIFE! Along with those, we have a bunch of GIFs to remind you of the wonderful adventures we went on together throughout this past week. They’re all a delight, and I think you’re going to enjoy them. SO LET’S LOOK AT ‘EM!

I know that all this time you were thinking that Rebecca Black was our generation’s Rebecca, and that they could stop trying to give our generation a Rebecca because we already have one and she’s perfect thankyouverymuch, but NOPE! You were wrong. Check it out the evidence of how wrong you were, from Variety:

DreamWorks and Working Title Films are embarking on a feature remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic mystery ”Rebecca,” that will be written by ”Eastern Promises” scribe Steven Knight, who will go back to the original book by Daphne DuMaurier.

Story follows a naive young woman who marries a rich widower and settles in his gigantic mansion, only to find that the memory of the first wife maintains a grip on her husband and the servants.

PERFECT! A remake of Hitchcock’s classic film, Rebecca. Super good idea. If we’re going to make it through the project of rebooting every single movie ever made, it just MAKES SENSE to get the only Hitchcock film to ever win an Academy Award for Best Picture out of the way early on. Definitely needs some work, definitely needs maybe Kristen Stewart and Channing Tatum to star in it this time. Fantastic jobs all around, let’s all drink all the champagne we have under our big Hollywood money desks (24 emergency bottles) and then hire someone expensive to have sex with! #rebeccablack4rebecca

How are you going to celebrate this important occasion?

Hey guys! We have a great giveaway for you today — three chances to win a copy of Michael Ian Black’s new memoir, You’re Not Doing It Right: Tales of Marriage, Sex, Death, and Other Humiliations, which will be released on February 28th. Here is a short description:

Darkly humorous and told with raw honesty, Michael takes on his childhood, his marriage, his children, and his career with unexpected candor and deadpan wit in this funny-because-it’s-true essay collection. He shares the neuroses that have plagued him since childhood and how they shaped him into the man he is today.

It sounds really great and I am genuinely very excited to read this book! Michael Ian Black is a wonderful comedic writer and I hope YOU’RE all very excited about your chance to win, which you can do by completing the following:

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“My name is Michaeell…Iaaann…Black–nonono.” Hahaha. That’s one of mine. From the Stella episode where they were pretending to be businessmen so they could rent their apartment back from their landlord? You got it. Comments must be submitted here by logging in with your Facebook account by Thursday, February 16th, 6PM EST. You can still play along if you just want to comment with your Videogum commenter account, but you can’t win! Only with your Facebook. I’m sorry. Also, you’ll be notified that you won through a Facebook message so WATCH OUT and PLEASE ONLY COMMENT ONCE! A winner will be chosen at random. Great!

Boom boom boom, now let me hear you say trailers. TRAILERS! There’s some good ones this week, boys. There’s another Spider-Man trailer, which, I mean, right? But more importantly there is the Jeremy Renner Bourne Legacy reboot, high-five, and also the Steve Carrell end of the world romantic comedy. Soooooo, yeah, NOT A BAD HAUL. (Someone please make a haul video about these trailers and post it in the comments. Thanks.)

The New York Times has a short profile on the “Charlie Bit My Finger” family today. Did you know that video has more than 417 million views? That is so many views! It is the “most successful noncommercial video in YouTube history”! The article does the normal things that articles like this do: it gives completely unsatisfyingly vague information on how much money the family has made from the video, it talks about child exploitation, and features plenty of quotes from the boys’ father about how hard he is trying to stay on the morally right side of that fuzzy line. It sounds like he’s doing OK. Sort of. Like, he explains that he only started making “Charlie Bit My Finger” t-shirts after he saw lots of other people selling them, which makes a lot of sense. Seriously. Why should other people with dubious intentions and/or affiliations be profiting from your children? At the very least you can either use that money to “pay for their education” (an old warhorse explanation for this stuff) or you can donate it to charity, but certainly it’s better. I was listening to an interview with Brad Pitt recently and he was talking about selling the baby photos of Shiloh to People magazine for millions of dollars (all of which he and Angelina Jolie donated to charity) and he was explaining that someone was going to get paid millions of dollars for them, so he’d rather they could control what happened with the money and use it towards a good cause rather than it just ending up in the pocket of some stupid paparazzo and I agree! (See also: this week’s news about Jay-Z and Beyonce trademarking “Blue Ivy.”) Although, the article also talks about how the dad is still posting videos of the boys on-line, and he never really explains why. It’s fine, lots of people post videos of their children. Except you can’t really complain about all the untoward attention and how hard it is to keep your children safe from the negativity of that experience in one breath, and then keep posting videos of them every five minutes when you know that there are millions of people ready to watch them? It’s a little odd. But whatever. Good luck raising your family. Not my problem.

This, though, is definitely my favorite part of the article:

Parks and Recreation aired their (perfect) Valentine’s Day episode last week, leaving this week open for a SUPER-SIZED 30 Rock. And guess what! It was also very good! A nonstop joyride, beginning right when Criss showed Liz the Jetpack Blooper viral video, famously included in Videogum’s “Best Viral Videos of 2011″ retrospective video. It was real dumb how excited I was to watch that video again on 30 Rock. Great clip. I may or may not have said, “OH THIS IS A GOOD VIDEO!” right when he started playing the video, to whoever was in the room with me. Hahah. Maybe 30 Rock should just be a viral video clip show? Just thinking out loud. Anyway, there has been some talk lately about the shifting of Liz from a competent but frazzled leader, to a feeble-minded girl who trusts the opinion of Jack — who was once one of the more absurd characters — more than her own. And, yes! I agree with this! And I think that’s one of the problems that leads to the show feeling kind of tired — playing on the same jokes that were funny in the past because they were balanced with reality, but without the reality part. I’m hoping that now that the Criss plot line seems more stable, Liz will bounce back from her weak period (“I just got my period”) and find some of that old self-assuredness. But WHO KNOWS? Maybe she won’t and then we’ll all live and we’ll still have weekends and be happy and then the show will end. Also: Kristen Schaal is the best and I hope she never leaves. The only thing I have to say about this week’s episode of The Office is that UGH, I HATE THAT NEW GIRL SO MUCH! I not only hate who her character is, but I also hate that they just brought in this dumb new girl for no reason and barely even introduced her, just so she could stir up this dumb Jim controversy. Nobody wants that! Argh I hate it so much. I also watched Up All Night and it was fine! WHAT DID YOU THINK?