Our year-in-review special looks back at the wacky, weird, and wondrous stories of 2014.

Boys club, not a toys club
“We have room in the late-night landscape for two men with brown hair named Jimmy but women aren’t allowed. Got it.”—Comedian Iliza Shlesinger on opportunities for female comics

AC/DC/BC
“Usually, you kinda miss the opening band, but we got there early, and I thought, ‘Who is this AC/DC?’ ’cause I’d never even heard of them. And then I remember Aerosmith getting on-stage and they just sucked. Steven [Tyler] had that little tent off to the side he kept disappearing into. So that was the first time I’d heard AC/DC, and in retrospect now I’m like, ‘Oh shit, I saw Bon [Scott] live and I didn’t even appreciate it!’ ”—Langley-based AC/DC engineer Mike Fraser

Brat hack
“I’m not destroying my career over a minimally talented spoiled brat who thought nothing of shoving this off her plate for 18 months so she could go direct a movie. I have no desire to be making a movie with her, or anybody, that she runs and that we don’t. She’s a camp event and a celebrity and that’s all and the last thing anybody needs is to make a giant bomb with her that any fool could see coming.”—Producer Scott Rudin on Angelina Jolie. His emailed remarks came to light after hackers stole and released 100 terabytes of information from Sony Pictures

…or to Chilliwack 1,500 times
“We’ve put over 150,000 kilometres on our van in under two years, which is pretty crazy. I was Googling it the other day, and I think it’s 40,000 kilometres around the equator if you were to just drive or fly around the world. So if you put it in that context, we’ve almost driven around the world four times in the last two years.”—Bend Sinister frontman Dan Moxon on touring

Sky Pilot
“The liver’s gone, the kidney’s gone, and thanks to the diabetes, the legs are gone too, but I believe in the Big Rocker…I believe in God probably more than anybody else on this planet, but I’m real weary of the ground crew.”—Hard-drinking Canadian rock legend “Rompin’ ” Ronnie Hawkins, who received the Order of Canada in May

Depends on the audience
“You will shit yourself with your mouth wide-open.”—Avatar director James Cameron on his planned sequels to the 2009 epic movie hit

Papal infallibullety
“It’s true that anything could happen, but, let’s face it: at my age, I don’t have much to lose.”—Pope Francis on shunning the bulletproof Popemobile

Monsters Inc.
“We must form their hearts. Otherwise, we are creating little monsters. And then these little monsters mould the people of God. This really gives me goose bumps.”—Pope Francis on the importance of seminary training for priests.