Watch as this guy tries to pick up a girl using lines from Sam Hunt’s “Take Your Time.”

According to experts, taking a break from drinking can have huge health benefits, even if it’s only for a few weeks. Here are four things that happen when you stop . . .

1. You sleep better. One recent study found that drinking before bed increases alpha wave patterns in your brain, which usually happens when you’re awake but resting.

2. You end up with more money in your bank account. If you’re not hitting the bars every weekend, or stocking up on wine or cases of beer, obviously you’ll spend less.

3. You lose weight. A study in 2013 found that women ate 30% more after they had the equivalent of two drinks. And another study found men consume an extra 433 calories on days they drink a “moderate” amount . . . women consume 300 calories more.

4. Your skin looks healthier. Alcohol dehydrates you, which dries your skin out. Stopping drinking can also help with dandruff, eczema, and rosacea.

“Entertainment Weekly” put out a list of “The 25 Best TV Characters of the Past 25 Years,” but it’s not clear that it’s ranked from best to worst since they just have it as a slideshow on their site.

Some of the characters that made the list include Cookie from “Empire”, Olivia Pope from “Scandal”, and Walter White from “Breaking Bad”. Stephen Colbert also made the cut for the caricature of himself that he played on “The Colbert Report”.

Here’s the complete list:

1. Jack Bauer, “24”

2. Homer Simpson, “The Simpsons”

3. Buffy Summers, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

4. Tony Soprano, “The Sopranos”

5. Carrie Bradshaw, “Sex and the City”

6. Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, “The X-Files”

7. Liz Lemon, “30 Rock”

8. Cosmo Kramer, “Seinfeld”

9. Ally McBeal, “Ally McBeal”

10. Stephen Colbert, “The Colbert Report”

11. Roseanne Conner, “Roseanne”

12. Felicity Porter, “Felicity”

13. Gob Bluth, “Arrested Development”

14. Olivia Pope, “Scandal”

15. Stewie Griffin, “Family Guy”

16. Omar Little, “The Wire”

17. Barney Stinson, “How I Met Your Mother”

18. Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, “Gilmore Girls”

19. Leslie Knope, “Parks and Recreation”

20. Don Draper, “Mad Men”

21. Coach Taylor, “Friday Night Lights”

22. Walter White, “Breaking Bad”

23. Cookie Lyon, “Empire”

24. Michael Scott, “The Office”

25. Rachel Green, “Friends”

EW.com has brief write-ups on each of them.

A guy in San Francisco got pulled over for not having a license plate on Wednesday, and took off running. It turned out the car was stolen, so that’s probably why. (We don’t know how old he is, but he looks like he’s in his 30’s.)

Anyway, he scaled a fence . . . ran into a building . . . went up to the third floor . . . got out on the window ledge . . . and threatened to jump.

So negotiators spent about three hours trying to talk him down. But he just sat there . . . until a family member showed up with his CAT. Once he saw it, he agreed to let police take him into custody.

And it wasn’t because his family was there . . . it was definitely all about the cat. The police even said it “assisted” with the negotiation, and was “paramount” in getting him to come down.

They haven’t released his name, or any charges yet. But a spokeswoman tweeted a picture of a cop with the cat and said, quote, “Never underestimate the power of [an] owner’s love for their pet.”

It’s finally fall . . . here are six reasons guys actually look better this time of year according to Cosmo.

1. Sweaters. Sweaters have a way of somehow making any guy look more intelligent.

2. Flannel shirts. Flannel makes men look more rugged . . . especially if you roll up the sleeves. Plus, they look good on pretty much any dude.

3. Pea coats. Every guy looks more sophisticated and better dressed in a nice pea coat.

4. Movember. It’s the time of year where even guys who probably shouldn’t have mustaches and beards try to grow them. And for the most part, it’s a good idea.

5. The weather. Colder temperatures make women want to cuddle, it’s just a fact. And when it’s cold out, guys just look warm. While THEY might think it’s lame, you don’t have to do a thing. So don’t mess it up.

6. They’re not wearing sandals all the time. Sorry guys, your feet are kind of nasty to look at in the summer.

This couple didn’t just tell the world that they got engaged . . . they accidentally told the world why they got engaged.

A woman named Miranda Levy got engaged this week, and posted a photo on Facebook of her and her new fiancé sitting on the couch, showing off her ring.

But apparently she was in such a hurry to share the news that she didn’t realize the photo also had another detail . . . the box for a pregnancy test  was sitting next to her in the corner of the photo.

Her friends all picked up on it pretty quickly, and started asking if she was pregnant too.

Almost every state in this country was the birthplace of an invention it should be really proud of. Except maybe Mississippi. Their best invention probably isn’t one to brag about at dinner parties.

Yahoo just put up a list of the best invention from all 50 states. They didn’t really use any specific criteria . . . they just tried to find the most important, clever, useful, or popular thing that came from each state.

The best invention from Tennessee is the Tow Truck: Once cars hit the road, it was quickly apparent we needed a way to get the ones that break down off the road without disrupting everybody else. The inventor Ernest Holmes had his eureka moment after retrieving his buddy’s disabled car using three poles, a pulley, and a chain hooked up to the frame of a 1913 Cadillac, and patented the setup.

Here are some favorites from other states:

The jet ski from Arizona . . . cheeseburgers from Colorado . . . air conditioning from Florida . . . TV from Idaho . . . poker from Louisiana . . . donuts from Maine . . . toilet paper from New York . . . diners from Rhode Island . . . and Atari from Utah.

There aren’t too many embarrassing or weak ones on the list, but there ARE these three:

Headgear for braces from Wyoming . . . the Segway from New Hampshire . . . and Anti-fungal Cream from Mississippi.

Also, oddly enough, the chairlifts we use for skiing come from Nebraska . . . which isn’t exactly a skiing mecca. They were invented by an engineer there in the middle of the summer.

A Pee Wee football team in Massachusetts was scrimmaging  during halftime of a varsity game this past weekend but got a bit distracted by the music playing over the PA system.

Several of the players began to “Whip/Nae Nae” while they were supposed to be blocking and tackling. Too bad it wasn’t a dance off.

If I told you Indiana is the most generic state in the country you’d probably say . . . “Well, uh, yeah. I could see that.” Breaking news: Indiana is the most generic state in the country.

BusinessInsider.com just ran a study where they ranked all 50 states from the most to least average based on 40 factors . . . things like size, racial breakdown, marriage rates, education, health, income, housing, and technology.

Tennessee came in as the number 16 most average state. Here’s what they said: What makes it weird: Tennessee’s disability rate of 15.7% was the eighth highest in the country. What makes it normal: 8.9% of Tennessee’s residents were civilian veterans, close to the average rate among the states of 8.7%. The state’s mean commute time of 24.5 minutes was just about a half minute longer than the average time of 24.1 minutes.

The 10 most average states in America are: Indiana . . . Missouri . . . Oregon . . . North Carolina . . . Michigan . . . Wisconsin . . . Kansas . . . Virginia . . . Pennsylvania . . . and Ohio. There’s a lot of Midwest in that list, huh?

On the other end, Hawaii is the least average state . . . mainly because its racial breakdown is SO different than anywhere else. Only 23% of people in Hawaii are white, which is much lower than any other state.

The 10 least average states are: Hawaii . . . Alaska . . . California . . . New York . . . Utah . . . West Virginia . . . New Jersey . . . Mississippi . . . North Dakota . . . and Massachusetts.

I’m not sure if this is good news or bad news. But if you thought you were the only woman out there who settled for a so-so boyfriend, that’s definitely not the case.

A new survey asked women to rate the quality of their boyfriend on a scale of one to 10. And almost HALF of women feel like they’re with someone who’s average or worse.

45% gave a score of five or less . . . including 11% who gave their boyfriend a one out of 10.

On the other hand, 33% of women gave their boyfriend a score of 10 out of 10. So that’s one in three women . . . not bad, guys.