Icon meme... thingy.
You know what it is. I'm not explaining. I should be writing a paper right now and I'm not, and that makes me cranky.

From ashenmote:

This one's from my big list of dubious Arabic-to-English translations. I don't know why, I just love the way it ended up looking. Probably the only time I've ever deliberately deployed the Comic Sans font.

Who is she? Lexa Doig, notably (to me) from Andromeda, also married to Michael Shanks and had an exceedingly minor recurring role in the last two seasons of SG-1. She's crazy hot and was also the person who explained furries to Christopher Judge. This shot is actually from a photo shoot done by Judge. More caps and a link to the YouTube video.

Is that from a countess wank maybe? Nah, it's from "Barrett's Privateers" by Stan Rogers-- "A letter of marque came from the king," etc. I can explain exactly what made me think of the idea: snacky commented on some wank or another in epistolary format, and I went, "Hey, it's a letter of wank!" I didn't say the explanation would be interesting.

I actually have no idea what the context is for the quote; it just made me laugh. From here.

Rob Morrow as Don Eppes from Numb3rs. He just looks really hot in that photo, and his expression is excessively un-Don-like. I actually don't really like the icon that much, but I haven't thought of a better caption. And it's not even true, because Don does grasp math, even if he's not the Official Math Genius of the family. So I don't even know why I use it. This question shames me.

Image from Doctor Who, quote from Black Books. I like using BB quotes on caps from unrelated shows. It's a thing. Here, I do it again with SG1.

A verbatim exchange from Murphy's Law, solely because it cracked me up. It wasn't originally an animated icon, but the joke just doesn't work as well without the setup. Also, James Nesbitt's weirdly, incredibly hot, but that's due in large part to his voice, at least to me. Before I saw the actual episode, I saw the scene here (starts at 0:32), which goes a long way towards explaining the vast appeal of Nesbitt as Murphy.


From mindset (redundancies omitted, see above):

A clip from Due South, wherein Callum Keith Rennie gets rather... expressive with his hands, looped to humorous effect. Wank, Ray, wank! My dear friend Anna made this with absolutely no encouragement from me, and of course I promptly stole the fruits of her labor and ran off with it.

All I remember about this one is 1) the original comment was a typo of "DEEP HURTING" (MST3K!) and 2) the original commenter, whoever the hell it was, is highly entertained by the fact that I'm still using it. Also, Bambi's mother dies. How d'you like THAT?

An Andromeda reference, specifically to Viridian5's in-depth (and rather pained) recaps of the show. In mid-2nd season, the original creator left the series over "creative differences" with Kevin Sorbo, who apparently wanted to be a Big Space Hero and sleep with more chicks; the plotlines subsequently went from semi-intelligent to confusing to merely horrendously bad. In the 3rd season opener, which was bizarre to begin with, Pod Person Beka randomly presents Sorbo's character with a kitten-- random because 1) they're in space and 2) cats are supposedly extinct. The kitten is never explained, and crops up every once in a while in subsequent episodes. V dubbed it the Inexplicable Kitten of Doom. Later it becomes the Inexplicable Cat of Doom-- twice the doom and no more explicable!

I can explain more, if you guys want! Or demand elucidation in turn! Hit me.