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.