2009 DUXOOP DOZEN

Yes, we've gone from the Elite 8 to the Elite 11 to now the Duxoop Dozen. Let's begin with the latest addition to the group, the ALF Award, given to the TV Show Of The Year. This replaces both the Abbie Award for Best Overall Series and the ALF Cup.

The 2009 ALF Cup season fell apart because frankly I couldn't keep up with my latest revamping of the season format. The TV landscape has changed a lot since the ALF Cup competition began way back in 1986. The old 30-week season is now obsolete, and things just got too complicated and labor-intensive for me to maintain year-round scoring and point standings and whatnot, and I simply bailed on it out of frustration. Starting in 2010, I'm just going to keep notes throughout the year, and give out the ALF Awards in pretty much all the same sorts of categories I had in the Abbies, and the winner of Best Overall Series will be crowned official champ.

Since I didn't actually keep such notes during 2009, I'll have to skip all the other categories and just give out the one biggie. This affords me the one-time chance to award it to something other than a regular series. There were a few series that stood out, such as Nitro Circus, Look Around You, Rescue Me, etc., but there was one television event this year, an hour documentary, that IMHO blew away everything else in 2009: an installment of BBC America's 'Strangelove' series that was gloriously weird, disturbing and hilarious. It astonished me, it enthralled me, and most of all it scarred me for life! The 2009 ALF Award for TV Show Of The Year goes to:

MY CAR IS MY LOVER

Check it out for yourself, it's available on YouTube in 6 parts. I've included Part 1 below, and the rest you can get to from there. It is the most delightfully fucked-up hour of TV you will ever see. You'll laugh, you'll gag, and you'll never look at Airwolf quite the same way again! Plus the last words spoken in the end shot, just before the cut to black, will ABSOLUTELY SLAY YOU.

More of the 2009 Duxoop Dozen later this week. Stay tuned.





CLICK HERE FOR PART 3 (Embedding doesn't work for some segments. WTF?!)



CLICK HERE FOR PART 5