The internet is awash in self-explanatory GIFs that people will recognize as "popular media character acting like said popular media character," "beautiful woman being a beautiful woman," "surprising candid reaction," "person injuring themselves/another person" and "animal doing something animal-like"...you know, universal stuff. Occasionally, there arises a GIF that defies explanation. No matter how many times you watch, it bends your mind. These, friends, are those GIFs from TV and movies.
MacGyver's Tornado Punch
Whilst playing the beloved eponymous character MacGyver, actor Richard Dean Anderson finds himself in what must be an underground complex devoted to malicious experiments. Understandably, the gentleman MacGyver wishes to egress the compound. To achieve this, he must smite his evil captors with, what else, a spinning double backhand?
Joey Punches The Cat
Matt LeBlanc is nominated in this year's Emmy Awards for playing Matt LeBlanc in "Episodes." However, he already hit his acting peak as Joey on "Friends." No other man can show that much emotional depth during a cat fight with a real cat.
Sulu Gets Wicked High
The internet loves George Takei almost as much as it does Batman. So it's not surprising that we'd want to see him happy, and not just to hear him coo, "Oh MY!" But man, not like this, not with the most casually administered drug injection ever.
John Travolta Dismembers Cows
John Travolta, as a Xenu-worshipping space alien, laser-blasts the legs off cows to terrorize mammals one at a time? Sure? Why not, it's not like today's going to get any weirder. The real awesomeness is the guy behind him, who weeps for Bovine America.
Avril Lavigne Faces Off Against Churro
And finally, what the hell, here's a bewigged Avril Lavigne face-fencing a churro.
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