- How time flies, not to mention seagulls.
We all took it on the chin again in 2021, but no one more
literally than this teenager, riding the Spring
Shot on the Jersey Shore.
Still, there was plenty to celebrate.
- Oh!
- And Tom Brady did it by daring not
to go deep underwater with the Lombardi Super Bowl trophy.
Another guy also known for his hands
was Bernie Sanders, whose mittens at the inauguration
became one of the first big memes of 2021.
In fashion, Balenciaga combined comfort and torture
with $625 high-heeled crocs.
- Fashion is about a double-take.
You want people to look and look again.
- A Massachusetts man looked and looked
again for his missing AirPod after he
fell asleep using them.
Eventually, an X-ray located it in his esophagus,
and it was extracted.
- The audio works perfectly.
But sadly, yeah, the microphone is a bit glitchy.
- At least he didn't glue his eyes shut like this Michigan
woman who meant to reach for eye drops
but used fingernail glue instead.
This contact lens may have saved her vision.
Maybe you think you're seeing double.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson fans were rocked
by this Alabama Patrol Lieutenant
who even sounds like The Rock.
- Can you smell.
DWAYNE JOHNSON: --what The Rock is cooking?
- And this Secret Service agent protecting the Bidens
went viral just for being hot.
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A dead ringer for Tom Cruise.
The Pope needed no protection from Spider-Man,
an Italian guy who dresses up to entertain kids in hospitals.
Nicole Richie avoided the hospital,
even though she managed to catch her hair on fire.
Forget the candles.
Blow out Nicole.
A Burger King manager and eight staffers
blew off steam by quitting very publicly with this sign,
while Rudy Giuliani wouldn't quit shaving in public
at Delta's JFK lounge.
The guy who shot this spectacle said--
- I was delighted and horrified.
- The same could be said of combination foods
from Fruit Loops pizza to popcorn salad
to candy corn bratwurst.
Of course, animals stole the show.
Noodle the Pug prognosticator predicted good or bad days
by his willingness to get up.
- Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.
There are bones.
There are bones today.
- Decreeing either bones or no bones days.
- Oh, a soft collapse.
- Doggy makeover of the year goes
to this guy found wandering in Kansas City, Missouri.
They removed 6 and 1/2 pounds of matted fur.
He had to relearn to walk.
And his new owners say all that hair even affected his tail.
- It basically wags one way.
- Then there's the tail--
[loud crash]
--of the deer in Virginia that leaped onto a school bus,
landing on a sleeping student.
They made an unscheduled stop to drop him off.
2021 saw some unusual Guinness records.
The biggest mouth, 5.7 inches, the most M&Ms, stacked
on each other, a measly five.
- Oh, oh!
- I've got to admit.
I did eat them all.
- The longest dog ears, Lou the Coonhound's ears
measured 13.38 inches each.
All through our interview, she kept staring off to the side.
- She is staring at herself.
- In a glass door.
Of course, the end of the year is a great time
for self-reflection.
How do others see me?
- Can you hear me, judge?
- I can hear you.
I think it's a filter.
- A Texas lawyer using his assistant's
computer during a hearing heard himself coming out of a feline.
- I'm here live.
I'm not a cat.
- At least the cat didn't get his tongue.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.