Cadenza loves award shows, so we decided we should make our own awards. Here are the first round of the Cadenzites, offering you our favorite pop culture items from the past year.

Any movie that can pull off a completely random line like “They stabbed a chicken nugget with a Sharpie. These are not good people,” is worth watching. In some ways, “Date Night” is exactly what you’d expect of a partnership between Steve Carell and Tina Fey; they do exactly what they do on “The Office” and “30 Rock,” respectively.

A comedy’s third and fourth seasons are akin to litmus tests of how a show will fair in the future. For example, “Seinfeld” didn’t lose a step in seasons 3 and 4, and from there it stayed consistently funny until…well, until its last episode. On the other hand, “Scrubs” began to show its cracks by the end of its third season, and was in complete free fall by season 5. The same goes for “Weeds.”