13 Things You Totally Forgot Happened This Year

NBC Entertainment President Bob Greenblatt stoked your '90s nostalgia fire when he announced a Friends reunion with all six stars for James Burrows' tribute special in January.

Sure enough, the very next day, Matthew Perry's rep revealed that the actor wouldn't be able to participate in person because of his theater commitments in London (he ended up taping an intro).

AMC ordered the show -- based on a Danish series and starring David Schwimmer and Jim Sturgess as friends who open their own restaurant -- in January, started production in February and premiered it in June.

Because the show must go on, she powered through it but her strained smile betrayed her grit.

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The Clueless star was at the center of the most bizarre Oscar moment in years, when she strutted out on stage after host Chris Rock introduced her as the director of our new minority outreach program.

ABC canceled this mess of biblical proportions after two episodes.

Ripa was kept in the dark and was so pissed she took the rest of the week off, though she has since said the break was previously planned.

Part 1 of the RHOBH reunion devolved into an argument over the veracity of Yolanda Hadid's Lyme disease, whether she really had Munchausen syndrome and -- most crucially -- which Lisa mentioned Munchausen first:

Candace Payne's Facebook video of herself merely laughing in a Chewbacca mask charmed the world and brought her all the way inside a car with James Corden and J.J. Abrams offering her Wookiee tips on The Late Late Show.

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD wrote out two characters for a spin-off that never happened

A year after passing on Marvel's Most Wanted, which would focus on Adrianne Palicki's Bobbi "Mockingbird" Morese and Nick Blood as Lance Hunter, ABC gave the spin-off another go -- this time writing out their characters from SHIELD and casting Delroy Lindo as Dominic Fortune.

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