But after a wave of feel-good patriotism, the elves went back to their high-paying jobs in Florida.
In such a darkly humorous environment, it's harder to get positivity trending – which makes the new wave of feel-good memes inverting these existing tropes all the more remarkable.
This is a record driven by a relentless wave of feel-good pop melodies - its eyes positively blaze with tartrazine-fuelled, can-do optimism - all mixed up with glorious sunshine psychedelia, none-more-timely "raga" twanglings and, oh yes, full-on, churchified, ecclesiastical chanting.
I felt this wave of feeling rise inside of me that I couldn't deny or ignore.
I teared up a few times from the overwhelming waves of feels: representation, visibility, and solidarity, all experienced with a crescent moon of sorrow.
4. Ride the Wave of Emotion Feeling shame, guilt, vulnerable, angry, or sad when you make a mistake, or feel you didn't perform at your best, is normal.
The wave of pride felt in Newlyn if he plays any kind of role will outstrip even the extraordinary reaction to his England debut last year.
A politician riding on a wave of tweets feels as if the nation is cheering his every word, even when the nation is actually reading the sports page while a select splinter of hard-core supporters manically pound away on their smartphones.
They released one full-length album, Wave of Popular Feeling.
"Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, is seizing the opportunity to ride the wave of these feel-good Olympics.
Walking past that calendar entry now, staggered by a wave of grief, I feel as if the couple's laughter is mocking me.
