Tuesday, July 17, 2007

The ABCs of TBOE

All the nominees on The Best Of Everything, grouped the way you like them: alphabetically-- clearly The Best way to sort things.


A:

Absolutely the Last Best Version of The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

Actor to Play God in A Movie Or TV Show, Best

Actor Who's So Lame He's Cool, Best

Adams, Douglas

Advice Columnist, Best

Alien Chick, Best-Looking

All Your Base Are Belong To Us

A Long Way Down

american (example of how to be one)

Amityville Horror

Anthony, Saint

Anthropomorphic animal superhero, best

anyone lived in a pretty how town

Apocalypse

Apple Martin

Apple, Fiona

April Fool's Day

Artificial Flowers

Ashlee Simpson

Ashley Olsen

Asteroids

Atom, The

Author Who Totally Lost It, Best

"A Wonderful Life," Rosa Chance Well


B:

Bad Santa

"Bad Touch, The"

Banana Slugs

Band that Captured Exactly What It Feels Like To Be A Teenager (Even When It's Not Really That Bad), Best

Banjo

Banks, Elizabeth

Bar -- the kind you walk into

Batman Movie, Best... So Far

Beatles

Beatles, again, in a different context.

Belichick, Bill

Ben & Jerry's

Bell, The

"Best Video On Youtube"

Big Rock Candy Mountain

Billy Pilgrim in the cave

Black

Blogger, Best

Bobby Darin's "Artificial Flowers"

Book To Read In One Sitting, Best

Boyfriend on "Friends," Best.

Breakfast Cereal, Best Part Of

"Bring It On"

Bruce, Lenny

Buffalo Bills

Buttersafe

C:

Cadbury Creme Eggs

Candy Bar That's So Lame It's Cool, Best

Candy That's Basically Just Sugar, Best

Captain Carrot

Career An Actor Has Had After Quitting Something The Actor Should Not Have Quit, Best

Carell, Steve

Cartoon Series By Matt Groening

Caruso, David's Career As An Actor

Casablanca

Casey

Cash, Johnny

Cavanagh, Tom

Celebrity Baby, Best, Second Vote For

Celebrity Blog, Best

Celebrity I Don't Want To Get Sick of So Will He Please Just Stop Doing Things That Will Make Me Get Sick Of Him, Best.

Celebrity I Think I Could Hang Out With, Best

Celebrity Recipe, Best

Celebrity Who Remains Unspeakably Cool No Matter What He Does, Best

Census Taker

Cereal, Best Spokesman For

Character To Be The 12th Cylon on Battlestar Galactica, Best

Charleston Chew

Cheap Trick

Cheesecake Truck

Chef, Female, Best

Chick-O-Stick

Children's book, best

Choral Version of A Pop Song, Best

Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You

Christmas, Movie

Christmas (Stolen by the Grinch)

Christmas, song

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Classic Video Game, Best

Cohn, Marc

"Come Sail Away"

Commercial, Best Song From

Comic Strip That's So Lame It's Cool, Best

"Common People"

Communism

Copperfield, David (the book, not the magician)

Cornwell, Patricia

Cow, interrupting

cummings, e e

Curses!

College mascots

Colts, Indianapolis

Comedian, who's so lame he's cool, Best.

Comic book villain (Venom)

Comic, one-panel

Comic Strip To Learn From, Best

Copycat

C.S. Lewis


D:

Dan Savage

Dark Knight, The

Dava Sobel

Day to have off for a Holiday, Best

Decade, Best For Style

Decade, Best for Style, reader nominee

DeGeneres, Ellen

Detective, Television's Best

Diamond, Neil

Dickens, Charles, Best Book

Dirk Gently

Disney Cartoon, Best

Doctorow, Cory

Don't Be Cruel

Doonesbury

Dr. Manhattan

Dramatic Look, Best Variation On

Dungy, Tony


E:

Easter Candy, Best

Elizabeth Banks

Ellen DeGeneres

Elvis Presley

Emotion that's so Lame It's Cool, Best

Espacio Sideral

Evil

Evil Supercomputer in a Movie, Best



F:

Fall Line

Family Event That's So Lame It's Cool, Best

Fantasy Trilogy, Best

Fantasy World, Best To Live In

Fashion Accessory To Tell The World That Although You Are Smart And All, You Are Still Sexy (Tina Fey Excluded), Best

Fatboy Slim

Female Chef, Best

Fembots

Fifties, The

Fight Club

Fingertips

Fiona Apple

Flavor of Jelly Bean, Best

Football team

Freaky Hippy Cult That For Some Reason Is Used To Sell You Stuff, Best

Friday

Fried Peanut Butter & Banana Sandwiches

Friends: The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Friends, Best Boyfriend On

Futurama

G:

Gaffigan, Jim

Galveston Island

Game shows

Gamera

"Get Your Stinking Paws Off of Me, You Damn Dirty Ape!"

Gimmick/Symbol In A Book, Best

Girl Genius

Gonzo

Good

A Good and Happy Child

Gossiple

Gossiple, Best...Again.

Graceland

Grant, Hugh

Grease

Green Card

Green Lantern's Ring

Grinch

Groovy Instrument, Best

Grover

Guinea Pigs

Guitarist, Best


H:

Hal

Happy Celebrity

Happy Song, Best

Heinlein, Robert

Hey, Jude

High School mascots

Hilton, Paris

Hilton, Paris, AGAIN.

"His Dark Materials" trilogy

Hornby, Nick

Horror movie

Horror movie, again.

Horror movie, again again.

Hostel

Hot dogs

"Hot for Teacher"

Hugh Grant

I:

i

"I Am Not Your Broom"

"I am your father."

"I Kissed A Girl"

Ice cream, store-bought

Ice cream, named after a superhero

"If Love Is A Red Dress (Hang Me In Rags)"

Indianapolis Colts

Indie Rock Version of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," Best

Internet comic

Interrupting Cow

It's The End Of The World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)

J:

Jack Johnson's "Fall Line"

"James K. Polk" (the song, not the president himself.)

Japanese

Jell-O, Lime

Jelly Bean, Best Flavor of

Jeopardy!

Jerk Store

Jesse and Joy

Jessica Simpson

Job to Dream of Having When You Get A Little Tired Of Having Your Own Job, Best

Jokes

And more jokes

And more jokes yet



K:


Kentucky Fried Chicken

Kettle Corn

Knock-Knock Joke, Best

Kopp's

Kottke, Leo


L:

Lachey, Nick

Land of the Lost

Language, Best

Lead in a romantic comedy, Best

Leni

Leni, another perspective.

Linker, Best

"Like A Drug"

Lime Jell-O

Linus

Lion Sleeps Tonight, Best Part Of

Lion Sleeps Tonight, Best and Absolutely The Last Version of

Lion Sleeps Tonight, Best Version By A Group Or Country I Have a Tenuous Connection With

Lion Sleeps Tonight, Best Version of On a TV Show.

Lion Sleeps Tonight, Best Indie Rock Version

Lisa Loeb Glasses

Little Mermaid, The

Longitude

Love

"Love Today"


M:

Manhattan, Dr.

Marc Cohn

March Madness

Mariner's Revenge Song

Marshmallows

Marvin The Paranoid Android

Mary Kate Olsen

Matrix, The

Media Scare That Turned Out To Be Not That Big A Deal, Best

Men Without Hats

Merry-Go-Round

Misunderstood Comic Book Character Who's Not Actually A Villain, Best

Modern Song about the 19th Century, Best

Morgan Freeman

mp3 sites

Monk Joke

Monk, Adrian

Movie Fight Scene, best: Fight Club

Movie Fight Scene, best: Neo vs. the agents

Movie line, best

Movie line, best (new nominee)

Movie line, best (new new nominee)

Movie monster, Best

Muppets

Music Craze that's so lame it's cool, best

Music for a Found Harmonium

Music Video, Best

Musical Instrument That's So Lame It's Cool, Best

"My Name Is Earl"

N:

NCAA Tournament

Narnia Book, best

Neil Diamond

Neo (vs. all the agents)

New Pornographers

Nick Lachey

Nonfiction Book About A Topic So Lame It's Cool, Best

Norton's Fight With Tyler (Fight Scene in A Movie)

Novelty Pop Song, Best

Number, best

Number Three

O:

Oh! Oh!

Onion, The (Copycat)

Oldfield, Mike

Olsen Twin, Best = Ashley

Olsen Twin, Best = Mary Kate

Orange & Cream Soda


P:

Parents Have A Conniption, Best Song To Make

Paris Hilton

Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch

Peanut Butter Twix

Peanuts Character Who's So Lame He's Cool, Best.

Pet (Best, 2007)

Pet, Which is So Lame It's Cool, Best

(The) Pigeon Finds A Hot Dog

Pink Floyd's The Wall

Pixie Sticks

Pizza

Plant, Best

Playground Toy, Best

Play It, Sam...

Plot Twist In a Song Which Makes A Lame Song Cool, Best.

Polyphonic Spree, The

Popcorn Chicken

Popcorn, Best Kind of

Pop Goes The World

Pop (Soda)

Postseason Sporting Event, Best

Presley, Elvis

Prometheus vs. Zeus

Proof that My Experiments Are Not Very Well Thought Out

Public Service Announcment, Best

Punctuation Mark, Best


Q:

Queen song, Best

Quisp


R:

Rachael Ray

Rachel, The

Radio Ga Ga

Ramones, The

Ranch Puffs

Read.Dance.Bliss

Remade Song That's Better Than The Original, Best

Return of the King, The

Robot In Literature, Best

Robot In Movies, Best

Robot In Song, Best

Robot On TV, Best

Robot

Robot, The

Rock Band, Best

Rock Band That Isn't The Beatles, Best

Rock Band That Isn't The Beatles or U2, Best

Rock Band That Isn't The Beatles or U2 or The White Stripes, Best

Rock Band That Isn't The Beatles or U2 or The White Stripes or The New Pornographers, Best

Rock In The House

Rock Island Rocks

Rocky Rococo

Rolling Stones

Romantic Song, Best

Romantic Song, Also considered Best

Rosa Chance Well, "A Wonderful Life."

Run, Devil Run (Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins)


S:

Sad part in a book, best

Sad song, best

Saint Anthony

Sand Game

Santa Cruz Banana Slugs

Saturday Night Live skit, Best

Savage Love

Scary Kids' Song, Best

Science Fiction Writer, Best

Secret Place

Seinfeld

Selleck, Tom

Shatner, William

Sherlock Holmes Goes Camping

Showdown between Good and Evil

Simpson, Ashlee

Simpson, Jessica

Simpson Sister, Best

Sin City

Sing-Along-With Singer

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slasher Movie, Best

Sleeping Beauty

Snack food

Snoopy vs. The Red Baron

Sobule, Jill

Soda Pop

Soljer

Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town

Something That Really Happened, Best Movie About

Song About Girls Kissing Girls, Best

Song in Language Other Than English, Best

Song that Also Tells A Story, Best

Song That Is Incongruously Upbeat Despite Being About [SPOILER ALERT!] a Sobbing Cold Orphan Selling Flowers Before Dying, Best.

Song To Get You Through Hard Times, Best

Song to Play While The Hero is Running To Do Something Heroic, Best

Song To Turn Up At A Particular Point During The Song Just To Emphasize How Cool That Song Is

Soweto Gospel Choir

Spider-man

Spoken Word Song, Best

Spongebob Squarepants

Square root of negative one

Squier, Billy

Stand-up comedian

Starbury shoes

Starry Night

State Fairs

Stinky Chair Song (aka "Da Da Da")

Story Line in The Peanuts Comic Strip, Best

Summer food

Superficial, The

Superhero: Dr. Manhattan

Superhero Gadget, Best

Superhero: Spider-Man

Superhero whose powers are so lame they're cool, Best

Superman Ice Cream

Starbuck

Star Wars (the movie)

Star Wars Kid

Swing music

Synthesizer from "96 Tears"

T:

Teen Movie That's So Lame It's Cool, Best

The Man Comes Around

They Might Be Giants

Thing You Think Is A Number But Is Not, Best

Thor

Time Waster, Best

Titan Arum

Tom Selleck

Toothpaste For Dinner

"Touching The Void"

Tourist Site You've Probably Never Heard of, Best

Tournament of Pets 2007

Triumph (?) over the Devil, Best... In Books.

Triumph over the Devil, Best ... in Music.

True Companion

Tubular Bells

Tupelo Honey

TV Show That's So Lame It's Cool, Best


U:

U2

Urban Legend


V:

Valentine's Day, Best Song For

Van Gogh, Vincent

Van Halen

Van Morrison


Venom

Violent Femmes


Voyage of the Dawn Treader

W:

... walks into a bar

The Wall

Wavy Gravy (the ice cream, not the guy)

"Weapon of Choice"

Web comic, Best

White Stripes, The

Willems, Mo (best children's book)

Winter

Word that's so lame it's cool, best

World Record Confirmer

X:

Xanth

Y:

Youtube, Best Video on... that you can find by searching for "the best video on youtube."

Z:

Zero

Numbers:

1920s-1940s

1950s

Other Stuff:

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