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Now, please click through to enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for December 11, 2012. The title to a Best And Worst column has never been more appropriate.

On tonight’s WWE Raw open discussion thread:

As 2012 comes to a close, the entire landscape of WWE is undergoing a huge change as WWE Champion CM Punk finds himself unable to defend his title at WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs, and The Shield is scheduled for its first official match. What will unfold on the last Raw before the final pay-per-view event of the year? Here are five things to watch for tonight at 8/7 CT on USA Network. Plus, don’t miss the return of Disney’s The Muppets as Social Media Ambassadors!

And here’s your actual five point preview. A guy tries to type with the limp, felt arms of the puppet on his hand!

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Yes, that’s Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas picking his nose and wiping it on a child’s face. It’s the acting out of how Jose Canseco treated me when I tried to get his autograph when I was 7. (Via Sportress.)

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A Day In The Life Of DJ Wally Sparks |Smoking Section|

5 Reasons “Game of Thrones” is Way Better As a TV Show |Gamma Squad|

The Best Of #Titanic Lulz |UPROXX|

Wawtch Mahky Mahk pahty with a fackin teddy beah |Film Drunk|

WWE Raw Open Discussion Thread 4/2/12: The Beginning Of A New, Not Entirely Dissimilar Era |With Leather|

‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: ‘The North Remembers’ |Warming Glow|

Dogs That Look Like ‘Mad Men’ Characters |Warming Glow|

Mad Men Discussion: Fat Betty Draper Francis Is FAT FAT FAT |UPROXX|

Tracy Morgan Explains Twitter |UPROXX|

On Marvin Gaye, The Pressures Of Fame And Why Sex Is Better Than Love |Smoking Section|

Probably the best Juggalo freestyle of all time |Film Drunk|

The Greatest Tire Cover In The World |With Leather|

Nic Cage Is All The Avengers (Plus TV Spots) |Gamma Squad|

Chevy Chase Calls Dan Harmon a ‘Fat Sh*t,’ Might Leave ‘Community’ |Warming Glow|

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Somebody make “Sh*t Tim Tebow Says”!

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UPROXX Discussion: The Best And Worst Rap Beefs Of All-Time - The best part is the link back to Danger Guerrero’s Tina Fey article where he gets all indignant about local convenience stores. Philadelphia is awesome, but not because of the places you get gas, dude. [UPROXX]

The Fifteen Greatest ’30 Rock’ Pop Culture References - Speaking of Tina Fey, I had a weird experience yesterday … I’ve been hearing everywhere how good season 5 of 30 Rock was, so I sat down to watch some of it on Netflix. That’s when I realized I’d already SEEN ALL of it and forgotten it in total. Welp! [Warming Glow]

On John Wall, The Wizards & The Case of Young Talent on Bad Teams - I may never be able to think of John Wall as a basketball player again, he’s just that guy who can’t throw a baseball. [Smoking Section]

WALL-ETHEUS Is Eager To Find Some Life Forms - The worst part about doing something creative in 2012: the Internet immediately eats it and sh*ts it out. [Gamma Squad]

The Dog from The Artist Has all the Right Moves - Now we just need to teach a wolf how to ride on the roof of a moving car. [Film Drunk]

Bronies Before Hoenies: Photos And Videos From The 2012 Winter BroNYCon - I understand what it feels like to love something uncool, but I don’t need a situation where I dress up as my favorite wrestler and go to a building where everyone else is dressed up like wrestlers, and I don’t need to blow anybody wearing a Gobbeldy Gooker costume. [UPROXX]

30 Of The Most Depressing Toddlers & Tiaras Animated Gifs On The Internet - These little girls are all going to be Courtney Stodden someday, obsessed with themselves and tweeting in alliteration. [Buzzfeed]

Flava Flav and Dee Snider Have a Crazy-Off on ‘Celebrity Wife Swap’ - Remembering people from my childhood would be awesome if they hadn’t gotten all Gollum’d out by fame. [The FW]

The 11 Crappiest Movies Of Michael Douglas’ Career - Disclosure will always be the worst to me. Demi Moore had a thing going where she’d do message movies and make them look like Cinemax. G.I. Jane, I’m looking in your direction. [Brobible]

The Muppets Invade Movies: A Gallery - In a better world, The Muppets would’ve been a colossal hit and Jim Henson would’ve risen from his grave with googly eyes to accept an Oscar. Oh well. [Unreality]

The Smell of Napalm in the Morning: The Supercut - Somebody needs to convert Apocalypse Now into 3D in post, and into smell-o-vision. [High Definite]

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Direct Messaging For UPROXX Commenters Is Here! - I’m still not 100% on why this is necessary, but hey, new feature! [UPROXX]

The Best Of #Troy And Abed - Cool. Cool cool cool. [UPROXX]

Re-Take: 25 Celebs Playboy Should Have Spent A Million Bucks On - Some of these are great, but come on, Christina Hendricks? She’s pretty, but the Playboy Photoshoppers would break their hands. [Smoking Section]

If Your 5 Favorite Memes Offered Online Degrees - None of these are as funny as the Education Connection Girl. “I WENT on the inter-NET!” Fantasy threesome: me, Flo from Progressive, the Education Connection lady. [Gamma Squad]

James Franco Reviewed Twilight - So did I. “Twilight is terrible, everybody knows that, right? Okay, the end.” [Film Drunk]

Game of Thrones Teaser Trailer: Needs More Tyrion Bitch-Slapping Joffrey - I was going to watch season one of ‘Game Of Thrones’, but then I took an arrow in the knee. [Warming Glow]

This Jim Henson Tribute Art Show Rainbow Connects With Our Hearts - Argh, my heart. Seriously, even pictures of Jim Henson make me want to burst into tears now. [UPROXX]

The Best And Horrifically Worst Of The 2011 Air Sex World Championships - In case you missed it yesterday, here are a few of the bravest people in Texas making love to ghosts. [With Leather]

Plastic Bag Turns Boring TV Interview Into Must-See TV - This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. [The FW]

Friendly Waving Bear Is Friendly, Waving - I don’t know if Reddit knows it or not, but YouTube is FULL of videos of bears waving. I’m surprised this isn’t a thing already. [High Definite]

Game Over: The Greatest Video Game Maneuver Ever Accomplished - Like every story you’ve heard someone tell a cashier at Gamestop come to life. Let’s get the Mythbusters or whoever to see if somebody could do this in real life. [Unreality]

25 Things You Didn’t Know About Three Amigos - haha I didn’t know there were 25 THINGS about Three Amigos. [Moviefone]

The 10 Most Bad Ass Movie Posters of 2011 - Somehow “Harry Potter looking at Voldemort” got called “bad ass”. We have weird standards. [Pajiba]

Links

With Leather On NFL.Com - Sure, there are links all OVER the page, but we’re right there in the middle. Never thought I’d get quoted for talking about John Cena in a Tim Tebow paragraph on NFL.com, but here we are. The coolest. [NFL.com]

The 10 Must-See Christmas Specials This Month - Is nowhere playing ‘A Garfield Christmas’ this month? Because I don’t want to live in a world where I “must see” ‘Prep and Landing 2: Naughty vs. Nice’. [Warming Glow]

The South Park RPG Sounds Hella Cool - I thought Lufia & The Fortress Of Doom was already a South Park RPG. Oh well, I’ll buy the hell out of this, because you can’t play that crappy Twisted Metal South Park game for your entire life. [Gamma Squad]

5 Depressing Facts About Birdman And Mack Maine’s Billionaire Minds Mixtape - Depressing fact #6: this is neither basketball Birdman nor Hanna-Barbera Birdman. [Smoking Section]

Fox News: The Muppets Is A Liberal Plot! - Man, I’m glad The Goonies wasn’t released when Fox News was around. “Those kids should just accept that their parents are leaving the Goondocks and obey them! Nyeah!” [Film Drunk]

50 Cats Straight Chillin’ With Piles Of Cash - I don’t know, but it involves cats. [UPROXX]

The Best Of Fat #Jonah Hill - This should just be the Walk Hard scene where he talks about how hard it is to masturbate with a ghost hand in its entirety and the Orson Welles reference from Superbad and then nothing else. [UPROXX]

46 Cultural Moments That Defined 2011 - Buzzfeed hates December and doesn’t want it included in any of these lists. [Buzzfeed]

Famous Album Cover Locations As Seen In Google Street View - Pretty awesome. Anybody know where they took the pic for the cover of ‘Cracked Rear View’? [FARK]

Angelina Jolie Graces the Cover of Newsweek, Gives America Lethal Dose of the Heebie-Jeebies - The hell is going on with this? I’m gonna go look at my DVD of Hackers for a while. [Pajiba]

Pretty Damn Cool Animated Comic Book Covers - All they need is an antiquated Stan Lee voice-over about “shpidah man!” I want 10,000 more of these. [Unreality]