There’s no reason why you need an introduction to “GIFs of the Week” every Monday, other than I need something to fill up the space beneath the banner image. You guys are s-m-r-t; you don’t need me to tell you that when you click “Read the rest of this entry,” you’re going to see GIFs, from TV shows, from the last seven days. So, um, whatcha guys wanna talk about? Anyone catch Pro Bowl fever? I went to my cousin’s bat mitzvah over the weekend, and…actually, that’s about it. We ate bagels. True story.

/wipes flop sweat from brow

ANYWAYS. Here are our favorite GIFs of the (last) week.

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On last night’s “Colbert Report,” Stephen Colbert — agonizing over which Not-Romney candidate to support in the Republican primary — came to an unsurprising conclusion:

“It all makes so much sense! … [M]y heart always leads me to me! And I am so not Mitt! … But wait, wait, wait, wait — that’s crazy! These guys have been running for a year now. How can I ever compete with an established candidate like Jon Huntsman?”

Turns out, that competition is already over. A recent Public Policy Polling (PPP) Poll taken in South Carolina has Colbert running ahead of Jon Hunstman in the state (despite the appeal of Huntsman’s daughters), and no Republican candidate has ever won a presidential race without winning the South Carolina. If you can win South Carolina, you can win the presidency. And guess who is from the state?

Stephen Colbert.

After all but conceding that Mitt Romney had the nomination wrapped up, Colbert teased an announcement he plans to make tonight. Will he run?

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Here are some sweeping political generalizations I made, based on a recently released survey, conducted by Experian-Simmons and published on EW.com, on what shows “Liberal Democrats” and “Conservative Republicans” love and hate:

Democrats love: Sarcasm (“30 Rock”), New Orleans and/or white guilt (“Treme”), alcohol (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “Cougar Town”), gays (“Glee,” “Modern Family”), nudity (“Shameless”), and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert (“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “The Colbert Report”). Also, funny things (“Parks and Recreation,” “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” “Raising Hope”).

Democrats hate: Swamps (“Swamp Loggers,” “Swamp People,” “River Monsters”) ghosts (“Ghost Hunters,” “Ghost Adventures”), teen pregnancy (“The Secret Life of the American Teenager”), Drew Carey (“The Price is Right”), and catching bad guys (“Dog the Bounty Hunter,” “COPS”).

Republicans love: When life re-sets itself every week (“Hawaii Five-0,” “NCIS”), swamps (“Swamp Loggers,” “Swamp People,” “River Monsters”), romance based on a lie (“The Bachelor”), Larry the Cable Guy (“Only In America with Larry the Cable Guy”), Nathan Fillion (“Castle”), antique collecting (“American Pickers”), and jokes that begin with “This is in the news” (“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”).

Republicans hate: Marijuana (“Weeds”), exposing hypocrisy (“South Park”), divorce (“Divorce Court”), gossip and/or water bottles (“TMZ”), zombies (“The Walking Dead”), cancer (“The Big C”), people who take the law into their own hands when it’s not filmed with a shaky camera (“Dexter”), and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert (“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report”).

Full list below.

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There are three pillars upon which Warming Glow is built: Alison Brie, corgis, and bringing you every possible TV clip about vodka-soaked tampons. With that last one in mind, last night’s “Colbert Report” led off with the Phoenix news report featured here last week (though it said nothing of the phenomenon’s 2008 appearance on “The Doctors”).

The clip is below for you enjoyment (via Uproxx). To the commenting section’s great credit, Colbert closes with the same punchline that La Schmoove made in last week’s post. Warming Glow: telling you Stephen Colbert’s jokes a week before they happen, without any of the acclaim or respectability.

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As Brett noted yesterday on UPROXX, Stephen Colbert infiltrated Occupy Wall Street dressed up as Che Guevara for a segment on “The Colbert Report.” But the majority of the segment (video below) was an interview with these caricatures of liberal hipster scum. The woman on the right — yes, she really IS wearing oversize glasses AND a vintage dress AND Down Syndrome bangs — goes by the name “Ketchup.” Her name is Ketchup. And she says she’s a “female-bodied person,” because not all biological females identify themselves as women. Because apparently saying she’s a woman would be insulting to transgendered people? I don’t know.

I mean, here I am, someone who’s angry at the big banks and hedge funds who led to our nation’s financial ruin. I’ve lost a significant portion of my meager life savings thanks to their greed. I absolutely identify with the 99%. And yet these cheesedick academic douchebags make me want to reconsider my position. I’m thinking about joining the NYPD right now just for the outside chance to hit these people with a night stick.

Yo Occupy Wall Street, hire a PR firm.

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