2008 Gummy Awards: The Second Most Important Vote Of 2008
Our sister site, Stereogum, is now entering its third year of Annual Gummy Awards in which the readers can vote on their Favorite Haircut on a Lead Singer of a Whinycore Band or whatever. We here at Videogum are contractually obligated to want to be in on the fun so we've developed a few categories of our own.
- Best Movie
- Best TV Show
- Best Web Video
We really went crazy with the categories. Sorry! We know it's a little overwhelming.
The way it works is simple. You simply go to gummyawards.com and enter in your votes for Stereogum's music categories and our video ones. For easy funtimes, there's a drop down menu of suggested titles just to make the inevitable paper ballot recount easier, but if we've somehow forgotten something, like your favorite reality show Fart in My Mom's Food, or whatever, feel free to write it in. The only category that is limited to our pre-determined nominees is Web Video, and let us explain: For one, many web videos do not have systematized names, and that would make the inevitable paper ballot recount way harder. For two, being able to hyperlink the names makes it easier to refresh your memory of what each video actually is, because there are too many of them anyway, and you probably forgot. As a sidenote, in compiling the Web Videos nominees we decided not to include any TV commercials, like Baby Wee Wee, because while great, it seemed weird to give a professional ad, however ridiculous, an award in a category overwhelmingly dedicated to strange content created by stranger individuals. We also decided not to include any videos featuring children, because haven't they suffered enough? For those of you hoping to vote for Box Cat, Ninja Cat, or Slinky Cat, just vote for Christian the Lion, the President of Cats. He'll get the job done.
One randomly selected entrant will receive CDs of the Top 50 Best Album winners, courtesy of Beck's, and a To Be Determined Videogum-Related Prize. Probably Paradise Hotel 2 on DVD! Just kidding! Something better! (There's something better? That's why it's TBD!) one year subscription to Netflix. So use your real e-mail address in the form so we can contact you if you win. One vote per person, and voting closes 12/2, which Lindsay would like to point out is also Britney's birthday. Meaningful!
Coming soon: details on the Gummy Awards live event in NYC.
Posted by Gabe at 5:45 PM in Awards, Contests
Tags: 2008 Gummy Awards
No award for Your Boyfriend of the Year?
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Best web video has to be MrChiCity "You can drink this shit and it ain't butter." Hands down. Done.
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Give away the #1 TV show of the year on DVD. There ya go.
Or movie, who cares?
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i voted! :D
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No auto-fill for Dexter? MADNESS.
I'm very pleased to see you have "You can drink this shit..." up there
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Lost is the most deserving of the Best TV show award... it's really picked itself back up after it's third season. The fourth season was beautiful...
as you can tell it's my favorite show ahaha.
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I second the "no auto fill in for Dexter?!?" and so hopefully together, me and radioactive rabbit will have our voices known. (although i guess i might have put it in second place, next to 30 Rock...)
As for the actual videos, i voted for Ernie & Bert Gangsta Rapping. The dude talking about stuff in his fridge etc... was hilarious, and i realize the popular choice (and definitly my second). But man, there's just something about muppets.
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Once a few people enter the same thing spelled the same way, it automatically becomes an auto-fill selection.
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Where's the category for Friday Fight of the Year?
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VAMPIRE WEEKEND!!1!
...whoops, wrong site
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No "The Renewed Mind is the Key" in web videos? This survey is irrelevent.
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Just in case any admins are watching, I didn't vote on the movie one because every time I tried to put in 'Four Months, Three Weeks and 2 Days' and then 'There Will Be Blood' for #2 it keeps telling me that 'oops, your first and second choice must be different' no matter how many times I've cleared them out and retyped it all. It was released in the end of 2007 but There Will Be Blood was released even before that and it's a choice. Anyway, might wanna check the bugs.
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