January 22, 2002
The Top 16 Surprises in the Lord of the Rings Movie
- One bottle of elfin grog + a hot tub + three young Hobbit hotties = PAR-TAY!!!
- The unexpected return of dancing legend Joey Heatherton!
- During the Moria scenes, you can actually catch a glimpse of the geeks already lined up for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
- Gandalf proclaims, "If we don't destroy this ring, the terrorists win."
- Lots of hard-core Hobbit-on-Hobbit action.
- The tap dancing is awesome, thanks to choreography from Lord of the Dance Michael Flatley.
- *NSYNC do a cameo as no-talent boy band on-stage at The Prancing Pony.
- If you look closely, the map of the Shire shows three Starbucks locations.
- Just like in real life, all men who touch the ring are forced to "try and be more sensitive," curtail their beer drinking, and go shopping for fabric on weekends.
- You gotta be kidding -- the ring goes THERE?!?
- All those elves, and nobody's making anything even resembling a toy or a cookie.
- Frodo's constantly saying, "Why, Gandalf, what a large, rigid staff you have!"
- Elf queen Winona Ryder tries to shoplift the ring from Zales at the Middle Earth Mall.
- New character, The Bobbitt, always running around screaming, "Where's the other half of my sword?!?!"
- Not a single one of the characters uses a light-up goblet like the one I got at Burger King.
and the Number 1 Surprise in the "Lord of the Rings" Movie...
- "...and starring Jerry Mathers as Thebeavor."
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Selected from 138 submissions from 52 contributors.
Today's Top Five List authors were:
- Doug Finney, Houston, TX -- 1 (8th #1) Email
- Martin Bredeck, Hybla Valley, VA -- 2
- John Treusch, Burlington, NJ -- 3 Email
- Dave Wesley, Pleasant Hill, CA -- 3 Email / Hall of Famer
- Bill Muse, Seattle, WA -- 4 Email / Hall of Famer
- Mark Weiss, Austin, TX -- 5, 7
- Joseph Prisco, Ithaca, NY -- 5 Website
- Lloyd Jacobson, Washington, DC -- 6 Hall of Famer
- Mark Schmidt, Paris, France -- 6 Email
- Kim Moser, New York, NY -- 7 Email
- Mark Niebuhr, Minneapolis, MN -- 7 Website
- Dave Juurlink, Toronto, Ontario, Canada -- 8
- Peter Rogers, Austin, TX -- 9
- Chris Urich, Herkimer, NY -- 10
- Dave Henry, Slidell, LA -- 11 Email
- Curt Cutting, Santa Monica, CA -- 12
- Wade Kwon, Birmingham, AL -- 13 Email / Website
- Mark Levine, Los Angeles, CA -- 14 Email
- Sam Evans, Charleston, SC -- 15 Email / Hall of Famer
- David G. Scott, Kansas City, MO -- 16 Email
- Jim Griffith, Sunnyvale, CA -- Banner Tag
- Fran Fruit, Winnetka, IL -- Honorable Mention list name
- Larry Hollister, Concord, CA -- Topic, RU list name Email / Website / Hall of Famer
- Chris White, Los Angeles, CA -- List owner/editor Email / Hall of Famer
- Led Zeppelin, London, England -- Ambience (explanation)
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