The Night Before is ~the~ Christmas movie of the season. Starring all your faves, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie, Lizzy Caplan, and TV’s most relatable queen, Mindy Kaling, this flick has it all – even a cheeky cameo by Miley Cyrus herself. Basically, you’ll laugh, you’ll be all like “aww”, and it’ll be a few hours where you’re not making small talk with the weirdos in your family who live to turn you into the most awkward version of yourself. The Night Before is hitting cinemas on December 3rd, through Sony Pictures, so go check it out from Thursday.
It’s that time of year once again. The festive season.
Single people everywhere will know that ~festive season~ feeling: The one that’s less about excitement and happiness and joy, and more about dread and anxiety over fielding all those relationship questions from your extended family who seem to only exist to give you a quarter-life crisis.
You guys, Mindy Kaling gets it. Here’s 22 GIFs that sum up being single over the holidays.
1. When it’s Christmas and you’re super excited about it…
2. Until you realise that you’re one of the only single ones left in the family.
3. Which means being on the receiving end of your entire extended family’s relationship questions.
4. So you devise a secret Christmas survival plan…
5. …And you need your BFF’s help to set it up before you go.
6. When your BFF is like “are you actually sure you wanna do this?”
7. When you see that your family went all out on the open bar situation…
8. …But it only takes about three seconds from your arrival before someone asks you if you’ve got a date with you.
9. When your passive aggressive cousin is smiling knives at you while she says things like “oh being single is so much fun, though! I just ~wish~ I had that much alone time!”
10. When you have to explain the modern world to your grandma.
11. When your weird cousin tries to glob onto you for the whole night but it’s every man for himself and you just can’t.
12. When the weird cousin is like “let’s sign up for yoga in the new year!” and you’re like “yeah, sounds great!” because it’ll get her off your back, but on the inside you’re all like…
13. When your brother just got a promotion and won’t stop bragging about it, meanwhile your boss doesn’t even know your name.
14. When you dad is like “So when are you going to get promoted?”
15. When you’re feeling both your wine buzz and Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You”.
16. When you get drunk and impatient between meal courses.
17. When your weird aunt gets you slipper socks for Christmas and they’re not even your size.
18. When drunk you makes a poor life choice and tries to get back with your ex who you didn’t even really like in the first place:
19. When your mum lowkey side-eyes you for grabbing a third serving at dinner and you’re too drunk to just let it go.
20. When one too many people asks you about your relationship status and you’re approximately 500% DONE.
21. When you’re hammered and you decide to drop some mad truth bombs about the fam, spilling a few secrets along the way.
22. And when your family attacks your pop-culture inspired Christmas preferences.
