A lot happened in 2015, but not more than Beutler Ink can count.
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The digital agency worked with artist Luke McGarry to create its third end-of-year visual compilation, which squeezes just about every important event that happened in 2015 (from a U.S. pop culture and news perspective, at least) into a single illustration.
There are 143 in total, with an answer key underneath if you get stumped.
How well did you pay attention this year?
- Robert Durst admits to murder in HBO documentary The Jinx
- Fetty Wap
- Mr. Robot debut
- Jon Stewart leaves The Daily Show
- David Letterman leaves The Late Show
- Stephen Colbert takes over The Late Show
- RIP BB King
- RIP Jean Ritchie
- RIP Jackie Collins
- RIP Leonard Nimoy
- RIP Stuart Scott
- RIP Yvonne Craig (Batgirl)
- RIP Wes Craven
- RIP Christopher Lee
- RIP Yogi Berra
- RIP Rowdy Roddy Piper
- RIP David Carr
- RIP Darryl Dawkins
- RIP Moses Malone
- RIP Grace Lee Boggs
- RIP Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor (Motörhead drummer)
- RIP Scott Weiland
- RIP Oliver Sacks
- Google creates its new parent company, Alphabet Inc.
- Paris Terror Attacks
- Charlie Hebdo Attack
- UCC Shooting
- Black Lives Matter campaigns against violence
- Starbucks red cup controversy
- #NetflixAndChill
- All 10 seasons of Friends released on Netflix
- Drake accused of having ghostwriter, but “Hotline Bling” still breaks the internet
- Future tops charts with What a Time to Be Alive and DS2
- Ryan Adams covers Taylor Swift’s 1989
- The Weeknd tops the charts
- Adele releases huge album after three-year hiatus
- Ronda Rousey knocked out by Holly Holm, ending Rousey’s 3-year reign as champion
- Patriots win Super Bowl amidst DeflateGate allegations
- Left Shark dances to its own drummer
- Controversy surrounds publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman
- Drudge Report claims Leonardo DiCaprio is ‘raped by a bear’ in The Revenant
- Caitlyn Jenner completes transition
- Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Purity, is released
- David Beckham is People’s “Sexiest Man Alive”
- Women who were drugged and assaulted by Bill Cosby pose together for New Yorkmagazine
- Marilyn Manson on the cover of Paper Magazine
- David Cameron’s “Piggate” scandal
- Taiwanese Animators tackle Gawker‘s editorial implosion
- Minions released
- Syrian refugee crisis
- Mars Rover discovers water
- The four stiffs that also play for the Cavaliers
- FIFA corruption case
- Pitch Perfect 2 (depicted: Fat Amy)
- Reddit becomes obsessed with a button, panics after AMA coordinator Victoria Taylor is fired
- True Detective 2 is disappointing
- Boston man can’t comprehend a sunfish
- Matt Damon stars in The Martian
- LeBron James nearly wins NBA championship by himself
- Warriors win NBA Championship
- Serena Williams completes “Serena-slam” (four Grand Slam victories in a row) before finally losing in semifinals of US Open
- Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden decides not to enter the 2016 race
- Dem candidate Martin O’Malley
- Dem candidate Bernie Sanders
- Dem candidate Hillary Clinton (reading The Skimm)
- GOP candidate Rick Perry
- GOP candidate Marco Rubio
- GOP candidate Rick Santorum
- GOP candidate Donald Trump
- GOP candidate Scott Walker
- GOP candidate Lindsey Graham
- GOP candidate Mike Huckabee
- GOP candidate Bobby Jindal
- GOP candidate Rand Paul
- GOP candidate George Pataki
- GOP candidate Jeb! Bush
- GOP candidate Ben Carson
- GOP candidate Chris Christie
- GOP candidate Ted Cruz
- GOP candidate Carly Fiorina
- Chris Paul rides banana boat
- DeAndre Jordan free agency saga plays out on Twitter
- Chandler Parsons’ airplane emoji tweet
- Chandler Parsons
- Kylie Jenner runs social media
- Cecil the Lion killed by American dentist
- Mad Men finale
- Jon Hamm & Jennifer Westfeldt split
- Gwen Stefani & Gavin Rossdale split
- Jon Snow seemingly dies in Game of Thrones
- Kermit & Miss Piggy split
- Zayn leaves One Direction
- Bill Simmons throws bombs at NFL, fired from ESPN
- Anti-Vax crusaders bring us back to 19th century
- Fifty Shades of Grey hits theaters
- Jurassic World hits theaters
- Mockingjay Pt 2 / Jennifer Lawrence
- Amy Schumer has a great year
- #squadgoals
- The shifting identities of Rachel Dolezal
- Ta-Nehisi Coates wins Genius Grant, authors Black Panther comic
- Apple Watch
- Ashley Madison leak
- The Dress sparks internet-wide debate
- #FreeTheNipple
- Planned Parenthood defunding / Colorado PP shooting
- Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet is awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize
- Super Mario Maker
- Tu YouYou awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Apple Pencil released
- Taylor Swift, “Bad Blood”
- Kendrick Lamar releases To Pimp a Butterfly and is featured on “Bad Blood”
- Supreme Court ruling makes same-sex marriage a right
- Empire debuts and is smash hit
- Narcos debuts
- Viola Davis makes moving Emmy speech
- Llama chase
- Straight Outta Compton released
- Pope Francis visits Cuba and U.S.
- Kim Davis refuses to issue marriage licenses, maybe meets Pope
- Boston breaks winter snow records
- Ahmed Mohamed, the “clock kid”
- California drought forces water rationing
- USA wins Women’s World Cup
- Kansas City Royals win World Series
- Chicago Blackhawks win Stanley Cup
- Margarita Guy aka Jimmy Buffett cameo in Jurassic World
- Mad Max released (depicted: “Doof Wagon”)
- New Yorker article about the Cascadia Subduction Zone terrifies the Pacific Northwest
- Brian Williams (NBC News) and Bill O’Reilly (FOX News) face fabrication charges
- American Sniper is a huge hit
- Pentagon opens all combat positions to women (depicted: first two female Rangers)
- Iran Nuclear Deal
- Greece’s Debt Crisis
- Pizza Rat
- Ant Man released
- New Horizon probe completes a Pluto flyby
- Nepal experiences deadly earthquake
- Birdman wins Oscar
- Grantland closes
- Kobe announces retirement
- New Star Wars film: The Force Awakens
