The Eleventh Annual Mutant Awards: 2008

[tie] Fight Club and The Big Lebowski

Ah, hallucinations. Waking dreams; some good, some not so good. Why, I had a hallucination just last week. I hallucinated that I'd been forced practically at knife-point to read an utterly crappy book about some gloomy sparkly guy with an odor fetish, and then that I was frog-marched into a movie theater to watch an even crappier movie based on the crappy book! It was really scary. (Even scarier than the hallucination I had of Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz singing a duet.) Thank goodness it wasn't real! I don't think I could handle it if it was.

Anyway, I have been tasked with bringing you the results to the question of: Most Memorable Hallucination. Personally, I could scarcely believe the results. I don't even know if they're real. Or if you're real. Or if I'm real. Or if that flying, fire breathing serpent in the garage is real.

In first place, (assuming this isn't some weird dream or something,) we have a tie! Both Fight Club's unreliable narrator and The Dude's bowling-themed trip in The Big Lebowski took exactly 16.7% of the voters love. Each.

Parading not far behind, with 14.9%, came the pink elephants from Disney's dear old Dumbo.

Dribbling into third, came another tie with the, (arguably aquatic,) duo of Fast Times at Ridgemont High's Pool Scene and Trainspotting's infamous toilet dive. Both the pool and the loo garnered 14.5%.

Trailing in at the back of the pack we had:

• Empire Records (the Mark Gwar fantasy): 7%
• Billy Madison's silly penguin: 5.3%
• The Pick of Destiny: flyin' with the Sasquatch: 3.9%
• Big Trouble (Martha Stewart-dog hallucination): 3.5%
• Jacob's Ladder (scary crap writ large): 3.1%

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