Although Christopher Eccleston declined to appear in the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special, Eleven and Nine do enjoy a brief encounter in Alisa Stern's always charming Doctor Puppet web series. Naturally, it's a rose that joins them.

Poor Kayla. No matter how hard she tries the moon just sits there — tauntingly — just beyond her reach. It's a daily ritual that her father decided to finally capture on video, much to our benefit.

What if Anakin Skywalker hadn't gone over to the Dark Side and instead set up a happy domestic life with Padme and their twin children? Artist Renata Castellani has sketched up a few sweet and silly comics and illustrations imagining the happy home life of the Skywalker family.

Xavier Hubert-Brierre and Michel Guiss Djomou set up a mirror and a hidden camera near Nyonié in Gabon, filming the local fauna's reactions to seeing their reflections. These two leopard approach the mirror with kitty curiosity, testing out its properties in unwittingly adorable fashion.

Redditor resgestae spotted this pair in a hardware store and titled the resulting photo, "I know a good dad when I see one." Here's a guy who knows his kid is super and understands the power a symbolic article of clothing can lend to a hero—be they superpowered or just big-hearted.

Nerf Herder Parry Gripp's music videos are relentlessly cheerful—just try to get through "Turtle (No, that's a Tortoise)" or "Neon Pegasus" without cracking a smile. This quickie music video pays tribute to the exploratory nature of a lone octopus just climbing that rock. It's a little burst of musical, tentacular…

One redditor father shared this darling picture of his daughter dressed as Futurama's hard-drinking robot. He says he tried to convince her to dress up as Leela, but she insisted that Bender was funnier. Can't argue with that—or with the costumed results.

What if, at the end of Ghostbusters, Ray Stantz had, instead of a giant man made of gelatin and sugar, envisioned a giant baby? Puppeteer and voice actor Dan Milano answers the question we never thought to ask by dressing his daughter in the Stay Puft sailor suit and unleashed her on the plastic proton pack-wielding…

While we're eagerly awaiting tonight's Firefly reunion on the Science Channel, let's enjoy a sweet bit of Serenity fan art from illustrator Patrick Ballesteros. Now I want to see Lil' Saffron and watch Lil' Jayne knock Lil' Badger with his big old boxing glove gun.

Hulk forgot umbrella. Hulk use leaf instead. Cap give Hulk shield. Hulk like little Cap man. Artist Vahnya (known as Samoubica on deviantART) injects some unexpected Avengers adorableness into our weekend with Hulk and Captain America taking over this scene from My Neighbor Totoro.