Ever read the year-end Best & Worst issue of Entertainment Weekly and feel like your favorites—or least favorites—did not get their due? Well here’s your chance to turn the beat around, so to speak. This year, we’re planning to crown the year’s ultimate pop-culture moment, and we’re letting you decide what makes the cut.
Yeah, it’s a pretty broad question, but we’re game for a broad selection of answers—anything from a live TV event (say, Scorsese winning the Oscar for The Departed, or the whole spectacle that was Idol Gives Back) to decisions that signified larger trends (Amy Winehouse in rehab, Isaiah Washington leaving Grey’s) to news events (my pick: the Hollywood writers’strike, co-starring Tina Fey, pictured) to great fictional moments (the final pages of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pam running over those hot coals on The Office).
So I’ll ask you again: What was 2007′s ultimate pop-culture moment? Try to limit yourself to just one answer, and please post it by 3 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, December 5. Remember: You’re the only ones who can save us from a tragically blank page in our year-end issue!
I pick the Hollywood writers strike- it’s the biggest thing to happen to television in years, and it’s had an undeniable effect on so many people, including the ordinary viewers (like me) at home.
As sad as it is to say, I’d have to pick Britney Spears’VMA’s flop as the biggest pop culture moment of the year.
From her horrible outfit to her glazed look, bad lip synching (and even worse weave!) I don’t think my friends and I could talk about anything else for the next week afterwards!
Deathly Hallows. ‘Nuff said.
Since you asked for the “ultimate” moment and not the best I would have to go with Britney Spears at the VMA’s. I think it says something scary about our society that most people sat at home watching that sad performance and were so happy to see her fail. It was reported gleefully by every news network and most people’s reaction was to vilify and make fun of her instead of feeling for her and hoping that she would get some help. So for me the ultimate moment was not just her performance but our reaction to it.
I’d have to go with:
- the Writer’s Strike. Undeniable effect on the shortened TV season, and the new influx of horrible reality/game shows. Wasn’t that what they were afraid of a few years ago when reality tv became a hit?!
- Britney’s VMA flop.
One sentence…
“Alright, then it’s a date.”
The “outing” of Albus Dumbledore
i would say that the writer’s strike is bigger than britney’s vma performance, because of the long-term effect this will have on the industry. britney’s vma performance may have been one in the many downword spirals of spears, but it hasn’t cost people their jobs. it’s just not as important.
Jon Stewart giving the Emmy to Stever Carell and Colbert cause th winner was not there.
Jon Stewart giving the Emmy to Steve Carell and Colbert cause th winner was not there.
I hate to say it, but Britney’s performance at the VMAs pretty much sums up the year. Long term, definitely the writer’s strike, but just this year, Britney’s meltdown.
The tennis ball practice wall that we know as “Hollywood Rehab”.
[she's in, she's out, she's in, she's out, she's in, she's out, etc....]
Definitely Harry Potter 7!!
Writer’s Strike. Will Scrubs be able to finish it’s improbable run? What will happen to our favorite shows? And will the strike end before the first primaries because I can simply not handle an election without The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
I’ll vote for Radiohead’s release of “In Rainbows.” When most big bands promote their new albums with months of hype, big videos and massive tours, Radiohead simply chose to release theirs by saying something to the effect of “it’s out next week.” They’re reinventing the wheel of a music industry that is dying, and I can’t wait to see what they have up their sleeve from here.