And the winner is........

Here we are, the long road to determining the best of the best is finally at an end. Let's just get to it, yall.

#. "Episode Title" (number of points, number of votes, Enthusiasm Index)
10. "Pret-A-Poor-J" (35 pts, 5 votes, 7.00, 1 #1 vote)
9. "You've Got Yale!" (37 pts, 9 votes, 4.11)
8. "The Thin Line Between Chuck and Nate" (37 pts, 6 votes, 6.17, 1 #1 vote)
7. "The Serena Also Rises" (46 pts, 9 votes, 5.11, 1 #1 vote)
6. "Seder Anything" (54 pts, 9 votes, 6.00, 1 #1 vote)
5. "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?" (58 pts, 8 votes, 7.35, 2 #1 votes)
4. "The Blair Bitch Project" (59 pts, 7 votes, 8.43, 2 #1 votes)
3. "Remains of the J" (61 pts, 7 votes, 8.71, 2 #1 votes)
2. "There Might Be Blood" (63 pts, 10 votes, 6.3, 1 #1 vote)

and the runaway winner is......

1. "Blair Waldorf Must Pie!" (87 pts, 11 votes, 7.91, 3 #1 votes)

A triumph for "Blair Waldorf Must Pie!" as all opponents shudder in its wake. Thanks to the 16 wonderful souls who voted. Maybe I'll think of another stupid poll to bother yall with in the near future.

XOXO,
Yes More Drama

Results part treeeeeeeeeeeeee

Ayyo we back let's do this let's do this I'm a bit tipsy let's do this.

#. "Episode Title" (total score, number of votes, Enthusiasm Index)
20. "Never Been Marcused" (18 pts, 6 votes, 3.00, 1 #1 vote)
19. "Victor, Victrola" (19 pts, 5 votes, 3.80)
18. "the Magnificent Archibalds" (22 pts, 3 votes, 7.33)
16. "In the Realm of the Basses" (23 pts, 5 votes, 4.60) (tie)
16. "Much 'I Do' About Nothing" (23 pts, 5 votes, 4.60) (tie)
15. "Summer Kind of Wonderful" (27 pts, 5 votes, 5.40)
13. "the Wrath of Con" (28 pts, 6 votes, 4.67)
13. "Bad News Blair" (28 pts, 6 votes, 4.67, 1 #1 vote)
12. "The Wild Brunch" (30 pts, 4 votes, 7.50)
11. "Hi, Society" (33 pts, 8 votes, 4.13)

Wrap your heads around those "Never Been Marcused" stats! Two out of the three titles with commas are done! "Much 'I Do' About Nothing" is dispatched too early you cruel, cruel voters! Two ties omg! If you guys aren't watching Charm School your lives are not complete! Peckinpah reference sooo close to top 10!

Aaaaaand two Blairs, two Little Js, and one Serena left, who gon be the queen? Who's got Yale? Are exclamation points the secret to winning the poll? Might there be blood at the top? Which title won this by 24 fucking points?

Tomorrow we shall know. (or later today depending on time zone).

Results part too (and a note about methodology)

First the note about methodology, more specifically about enthusiasm. I first saw the Enthusiasm Index on ILM, either in a breakdown of an ILM Poll or of Pazz and Jop results. It's a measure of just how excited the people that voted for a title were, on average, no matter the amount of votes (calculated simply by total score divided by number of votes).

So, there are two easy ways of doing a tiebreaker here, the number of votes, or the Enthusiasm Index. I'm gonna go ahead and reward things that a few people lurved ahead of titles a lot of people liked. YMD likes enthusiasm. Anyways, I'll stop boring you and give you some results. #s 32-21 go!

#. "Episode Title" (total score, number of votes, Enthusiasm Index)

32. "the Dark Knight" (3 pts, 1 vote, 3.00)
30. "It's a Wonderful Lie" (4 pts, 2 votes, 2.00) (tie)
30. "Chuck in Real Life" (4 pts, 2 votes, 2.00) (tie)
29. "School Lies" (4 pts, 1 vote, 4.00)
28. "Desperately Seeking Serena" (5 pts, 1 vote, 5.00)
27. "Bonfire of the Vanity" (6 pts, 2 votes, 3.00)
26. "Seventeen Candles" (7 pts, 1 vote, 7.00)
25. "Woman on the Verge" (9 pts, 3 votes, 3.00)
24. "Gone With the Will" (10 pts, 2 votes, 5.00)
23. "the Age of Dissonance" (11 pts, 4 votes, 2.75)
22. "New Haven Can Wait" (13 pts, 5 votes, 2.60)
21. "All About My Brother" (16 pts, 2 votes, 8.00)

aaaaand that's all ya get this morning. The one-vote wonders are dunn! Both Almodovar references have passed! Even Chuck's name wasn't able to lift a title that is a reference to this fucking thing! And yet still so many questions!

How many more points will Yale get than the city it's located in? How will the Blair titles fair against the younger, more raccoon-eyed Little J titles? How high can Star Trek's box-office success boost "the Wrath of Con"? Who in Christ's name decided to name an episode after an Orson Welles film that isn't even available on DVD in this country and how did it get into the top 20?

These questions and more answered tonight or possibly tomorrow morning. Stay tuned.

Results part won

The votes are in and have been tallied, but we are going to tease this out over a few days, as custom demands. Today, we present the sad little episode titles that didn't manage even one vote on any of the 16 ballots we received:

- "Pilot" (thank you all)
- "Poison Ivy"
- "Dare Devil"
- "the Handmaiden's Tale"
- "Roman Holiday"
- "the Ex Files"
- "Carnal Knowledge"
- "The Grandfather"
- "Southern Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (Sorry Rock, forgot to count yr fake *** **** ballot)
- "Valley Girls" (punishment for being easily the worst episode ever?)
- "the Goodbye Gossip Girl"

Pity these unpopular children and await their luckier siblings tonite or tomorrow or something.

Presenting, the Yes More Drama Gossip Girl Episode Titles Poll

Dear friends,

In our esteemed tradition of Gossip Girl fandom and extremely pointless lists, the Yes More Drama blog would like to present (and ask for your help in) our first annual Yes More Drama Gossip Girl Episode Titles Poll, a poll to determine not the best GG episode, but rather the best titled one (so, you see, whether or not you've watched an episode of GG doesn't matter all that much, though if we're friends, odds are ya have). If you have a few seconds to spare during the next few weeks I would ask you to do the following:

- Look over the list at this wiki page (which also lists what the titles reference)
- Arrange a list of the your top 10 favorite episode titles, using whatever criteria you think is suitable (err, except the quality of the episodes themselves, this is about the titles, dammit). Your 1st place title will be assigned 10 points, your 2nd place 9 points, your 3rd place 8 points, etc.
- Send it in to yesmoredramablog@gmail.com with the phrase "GG Poll" somewhere in the subject line.
- Tell yr friends.

Voting will be open until 11:59pm on Friday, June 5th. We hope to make this a wonderfully trivial experience for everyone.

xoxo,
YMD

EDIT: Wrote the wrong email on this the first time around. FIXED

Coming in a few months...

...a massive poll of friends, experts, and frendxperts to determine something most important to our lives, the Greatest Ever Gossip Girl Episode Title!!

(I do mean the greatest title of a GG episode, not title that celebrates which GG episode is greatest)

I'd do it now, but a) I obviously need to figure out a better way to word this and b) I figure folks who don't already know these things might not appreciate being told the somewhat spoileriffic titles of the last few episodes of the season. It's gonna be AWESOME(ly pointless and wonderful)!

We miss things by not watching the Hills aftershow, I swear

So myself, Matty, Rich, and Epps were watching GG and the Hills as we tend to do on Monday nights, and I was thinking about how these two shows, which we watch back to back (DVR, obvi) every week are so completely opposite in terms of the amount of shit that happens on them. Rich has talked before about how GG is almost too fast paced sometimes; story lines which could be stretched out for a season are handled neatly in a few episodes. It is this breakneck pace which makes me both amazed at how well the writers are handling the second season of Gossip Girl and scared about how long they can possibly keep this up.

The Hills, on the other hand, is comparatively (hell, even on its own terms), a total drone piece. Sure, there's the odd relationship issue or move but, especially this season, things not only happen at a snail's pace, but, when they do, just don't seem to be all that serious; certainly more smooth rolling Hills (ha!) than large peaks and valleys. This is especially true this season for LC, the supposed main character of the show, who hasn't really gone through shit this season. Her one big relationship (Doug the failed baseball player) ended up causing more drama for Stephanie Pratt than herself. Her work life has been much more interesting for Whitney than for her. Her run-ins with Heidi and Spencer have been much more about Heidi and Spencer than about her. Lauren's just kind of there.

And this is actually okay, I think, especially given the fact that we can use the Hills as a nice little comedown after GG. And no worries about the Hills running out of plotlines because, well, the plots seem completely inconsequential. It gets by on the fact that it's a surprisingly well shot show that we're just so seemingly comfortable with that there's no real reason not to watch it.

Coincidentally, it seems that Charlize Theron recently said some shit about how the Hills is about nothing and she can't figure out it's popularity, to which LC responded, more or less, with "Uh, well, yeah." I think the Seinfeld comparison is interesting because in that case, if someone asked "Why do you watch a show about nothing?" I could at least answer that I watch because it's funny. In the case of the Hills, especially in this relatively drama-free season, I'm not sure I know why. Comfortable, again, seems like as good a word as any, and I'm currently fine with that.