The 21 Most Important Things That Happened in Pop Culture This Week

Amy's at the Emmys, a dog train, the Pope, Pizza rat and more events that made our lives a better place this week

By Jenna Mullins Sep 25, 2015 9:45 PMTags
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Recap time! Here are all the most important, life-changing, exciting, once-in-a-life time pop culture moments that ever happened…this week.

1. Pope Francis arrived in America to make President Obama laugh, bring John Boehner to tears and of course, take selfies.

MSNBC

2. This little boy couldn't blow out his birthday candles, no matter how hard he tried.

YouTube

3. Ben McKenzie and Adam Brody announced big baby news on the same day and The O.C. fans had an emotional meltdown.

Fox

4. Scream Queens debuted and we learned the true queen was not Emma Roberts, but Jamie Freakin-Lee Curtis.

Fox

5. A McDonald's employee helped a disabled man eat his meal and our faith in humanity was restored.

Destiny Carreno, Facebook

6. Starbucks came out with a new fall flavor (Toasted Graham Latte) for the first time in years and literally nothing else mattered.

Bravo

7. Pizza Rat became not the hero we needed, but he was the hero we deserved.

YouTube

8. We met this elderly man who is spending his golden years taking his rescued dogs out on train rides.

YouTube

9. Jimmy Fallon hosted a Good Burger reunion.

 

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10. Blue Ivy was totally twinning with her mom Beyoncé.

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11. The Amys dominated the Emmys and we accepted them as the new rulers of the Universe.

FOX

12. Serial season two info leaked and NPR was not at all happy about that.

ABC

13. TGIT returned to our lives, complete with How to Get Away With Murder delivering surprise make out session.

ABC

14. A Costco shopper was so pissed off about being told to not take so many Nutella samples that he punched an old guy in the face.

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15. Nickelodeon's Splat lineup was released and includes Legend of the Hidden Temple and Are you Afraid of the Dark? And that's basically as good as life gets for a ‘90s kid.

Nick

16. One Direction fans were "literally dead" after the boys dropped a bunch of big announcements.

17. Viola Davis gave a passionate and empowering acceptance speech at the Emmys that made everyone super emotional.

Fox

18. The Detroit Zoo debuted their adorable new baby red panda with the best name ever: Tofu!

Detroit Zoo

19. Steve Harvey finally got the best Family Feud answer ever and his brain shut down.

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20. Andrew Garfield couldn't stop giggling over the fact that someone tweeted that he looked like a "pedophile that lives in an R.V."

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21. And Amy Poehler just DGAF about being at the Emmys.

Fox

And that's it! See you next week, pop culture junkies!