In Honor of Apostrophe Day, Here's a Quick Look at Pop Culture's 15 Best Raised Eyebrows

In Honor of Apostrophe Day, Here's a Quick Look at Pop Culture's 15 Best Raised Eyebrow

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Seriously Random Lists | Comments (42)

Last Thursday, as I understand it, was International Apostrophe Day, heralded by the good people at the UK’s Guardian, who have pointed us to several fantastic apostrophe related pages, like Apostrophe Catastrophes, The Apostrophe Protection Society, and examples of poor apostrophe use. If you’re on Twitter, be a good person and follow the Guardian Style Guide. Note, however, that punctuation differs between the United States and the UK in some respects, particularly in where punctuation belongs where quotation marks belong. The US standard is, of course, correct, but the the UK’s standard is more logical.

What better way to celebrate International Apostrophe Day than to look at Pop Culture’s Best Raised Eyebrows, our faces’ natural apostrophe mark.

(Hat tip to the marvelous CarlyJennifer)

15. Seth Rogen

14. Jack Black

13. Paul Giamatti

12. Jake Blues

11. Jon Stewart

10. Ron Effin’ Swanson

9. Alan Rickman

8. Spock (Feature Film Version)

7. Phil Keoghan

6. Dr. Evil

5. The 10th Doctor

4. The Rock

3. Spock (TV Version)

2. Stephen Colbert

1. Sean Connery

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No women?

Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at August 22, 2011 10:02 AM

Don't worry, Maryscott, this woman is raising one in your general direction right now.

Posted by: I Need More Allowance at August 22, 2011 10:15 AM

No. Men only.

Take your stupid right to vote and go home.

Posted by: ZombieMedic at August 22, 2011 10:16 AM

The Nimoy Spock should have been #1.

Posted by: logan at August 22, 2011 10:19 AM

You missed the Joey from friends... " I have a fishhook in my eyebrow and I like it"

Posted by: El L cool J at August 22, 2011 10:29 AM

It's weird that there are no women on this list.

Posted by: Arrogant Ambassador at August 22, 2011 10:35 AM

Greg Kinnear (see his Talk Soup days) can outdo all of these guys! Even Ron Swanson.

Posted by: Cleo at August 22, 2011 10:35 AM

Sean Connery just got Pajiba pregnant.

Posted by: admin at August 22, 2011 10:47 AM

There's no mid-transition polynesian diabetic female-to-male transsexuals on this list. I'm writing a strongly worded email.

Posted by: ZombieMedic at August 22, 2011 10:47 AM

I am clearly sympatico with Pajiba today, because as I was stopped at a stop light on my way to work this morning, I was thinking about how I can cock each eyebrow individually, but usually just raise the left one. And that I kind of feel like I should practice with the right one more often, you know, for balance.

Also, I learned to do this from reading Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Posted by: tamatha at August 22, 2011 11:04 AM

Christopher Judge aka Teal'c on Stargate SG-1

Posted by: Tranjo at August 22, 2011 11:14 AM

The fact that you don't have Dwayne Johnson at number 1 with "The People's Eyebrow" makes this list incorrect. No one person has gotten more out of their eyebrow than he. Hell, his career was built on it. It conveys so many emotions. It asks questions. Whatever he needs it to do, it does.

Shall we fuck?

Like what you see?

You talkin' to me?

Are you serious?

Do I have to kick your ass?

Do you like pie?

and most importantly...Can you smell what the Rock is cookin'?

Posted by: PissBoy at August 22, 2011 11:24 AM

I think it is against the rules to post a picture of Belushi from Animal House and label it Jake Blues.

Isn't that like mixing metaphors or something?

Posted by: No Pithy Name at August 22, 2011 11:54 AM

Ah, hell. I don't care that there are no women in this list. This list seemed designed entirely for my personal enjoyment of the alluring and manly eyebrow.
And #1 Sean Connery? Sssssswwwwwooooooon! Seriously. I don't care how old he is. When he is tooling around in his hover-rascal, I'll still have an irrational and utterly knee-weakening reaction to his manly Scottish eyebrows.
He kills me. In such a sweet, sweet way.

Posted by: Tira at August 22, 2011 12:08 PM

The women were too busy in the kitchen making me lunch to be included in the list.

Posted by: superasente at August 22, 2011 12:13 PM

Seriously no love for Vivien Leigh?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_H_h1mxbR0DU/TTbP8KDL29I/AAAAAAAAJvo/mo5L1pM9bCY/s1600/ViviMLen_Leigh.jpg

Posted by: chipwitch at August 22, 2011 12:27 PM

Ugh. Phil Keoghan looks like he has a pulley system hidden in his hairline yanking that sucker up.

I'd like to substitute the much more aesthetically pleasing Isaiah Mustafa.

http://www.penn-olson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/old-spice-guy.jpg

Posted by: Erin S at August 22, 2011 12:41 PM

No Lee Majors?

Posted by: mograph at August 22, 2011 1:04 PM

PissBoy,is it wrong that I want to come over there and give you a bang-high-five in response to your correct answer? I don't think so.

Posted by: yourbrothersboyfriend at August 22, 2011 1:05 PM

Pissboy:
/agree
The Rock rocks the raised eyebrow.

When he got a cameo on Voyager as some alien pit fighter or something, he busts into the pit and.... raises his eyebrow!

I cheered - wildly - at my TV when that happened. I don't even like The Rock all that much, but in the moment, it was iconic.

Posted by: malechai at August 22, 2011 1:12 PM

The Dowager Julien has a Right Eyebrow of Death. She uses is for emphasis, sarcasm and general intimidation. When Brother Julien got married, she performed part of the ceremony and when she was saying the whole "marriage is not to be entered into lightly" bit, she totally gave him the eyebrow.

If she leaned in whilst giving you The Right Eyebrow of Death and talking sternly, you might as well start writing your will.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at August 22, 2011 1:16 PM

Eyebrow's.

Posted by: Anna von Beav at August 22, 2011 1:22 PM

I love me some Rickman, but if these pictures are our baseline, then his brow ranks far below the others on this list.

Posted by: Lauren at August 22, 2011 1:34 PM

My favourite raised eyebrow belongs to Emma Thompson, but I also think Bill Nighy, who embodies the eyebrow itself, should be on this list.

Cracking list though.

Posted by: Caspar at August 22, 2011 1:52 PM

By the end of Game of Thrones season 2, you'll be able to add Maisie Williams (Arya) to this list.

Posted by: Brett at August 22, 2011 2:57 PM

I think Belushi's is pretty weak, actually. And I can't even tell if Rickman is supposed to be raising an eyebrow in that pic.

Also, 2 Spocks on the list is kinda lame.

Seriously though, Vivien Leigh deserves to be on this list. No Jack Nicholson? No Sarah Jessica Parker, who has an excellent raised eyebrow though it became vastly overused in SATC? And I feel like Anjelica Huston must have a good one...

...and John Lithgow.

Posted by: Sara Tonin at August 22, 2011 3:07 PM

I am half the woman Tamatha is. Only my left eyebrow raises independently of the other.

Posted by: stardust at August 22, 2011 6:22 PM

Where the fuck is Hugo Weaving?
When I open a list of raised eyebrows, I expect some fucking Elrond.

Posted by: A-schaef at August 22, 2011 6:30 PM

Logan is correct, Nimoy's Spock should be #1. He arched often and well. Try arching a fake eyebrow!

Posted by: Tecuya at August 22, 2011 6:31 PM

Adam Scott! Dude's got a wicked Eyebrow Raise.

Posted by: figgy at August 22, 2011 6:49 PM

Oh please Vivien Leigh deserves to be on there. Some of those on the list I had to look hard to check it was actually a raised eyebrow and not that one side of their face isn't as balanced as the other side.

Also Karl Urban does an awesome one, especially in gif mode. http://i44.tinypic.com/684fvs.gif

Posted by: noo at August 22, 2011 6:49 PM

Adam Scott! Dude's got a wicked Eyebrow Raise.

Posted by: figgy at August 22, 2011 6:49 PM

Right on. The Hedgehog even out-brows Ron Effing Swanson.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at August 22, 2011 9:13 PM

Giamatti nails it

Posted by: sailboat at August 22, 2011 10:21 PM

Kevin Arnold was a classic one eyebrow raiser.

Posted by: rushmorebeekeeper at August 22, 2011 10:44 PM

No Jack Nicholson? Seriously?

Posted by: Jon at August 22, 2011 10:56 PM

careful: most things in here don't react too well to bullets

Posted by: homeslice at August 22, 2011 11:15 PM

#4 - Damn, Rob Schneider has been working out........

Posted by: Lord Copper at August 23, 2011 2:03 AM

Even after all of these years, Sean Connery can still make my clothes fall off with just a look.

Posted by: duckandcover at August 23, 2011 5:01 AM

Apostrophes get their own Day?

Bah. An apostrophe is just an uppity comma.

Posted by: , at August 23, 2011 9:46 AM

Another great female example is Gillian Anderson. The eyebrow raise was Scully's go to expression for questioning/sadness/shock/indignation/sass for 9 years.

http://media.photobucket.com/image/gillian%20anderson%20eyebrow/GillyScully/Gillian%20Anderson/ThisIsNotHappening8391.jpg

Posted by: headmonkeys at August 23, 2011 10:48 AM

Meh - post it again on international Tilde day.
Or possibly Caret day, depending on the brow in question.

Posted by: Jimi at August 23, 2011 6:53 PM

I also vote for the inclusion of James McAvoy.

Posted by: Shibuyama at August 24, 2011 1:15 PM

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In Honor of Apostrophe Day, Here's a Quick Look at Pop Culture's 15 Best Raised Eyebrow

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