The Seventh Annual Mutant Awards: 2004

This year's craziest musical number category ran the gamut of human emotion, turmoil and struggle related to every human being's plight to understand his (or her) place in the universe. Who'd have guessed that singing and dancing and acting afool would take on such profound and meaningful connotations? But really, we've got Jesus, Satan, revolution, vaguely homoerotic confessions of love and desire, the struggle to overcome the confines of jail walls and a plea for the world at large to "shake it up baby". And that's to name but only a few of the entries in this category.

In the end though, it was the zany, blindly optimistic, deeply ironic and profoundly hilarious contribution from Monty Python's Life of Brian that slew all the competition. By a giant percentage lead (we suspect a get out the vote push from the religious right ourselves), Jesus reminding all of us to "always look on the bright side of life" was deemed to be the craziest musical number of all time. Trailing a distant second was Harold Zidler's highly campy and somewhat disconcerting version of "Like a Virgin" from Moulin Rouge followed in third place by Ferris Beuller's impromptu lipsynching genius that clearly cemented his place in movie history with his rendition of "Twist and Shout" by The Beatles.

Thanks for voting everybody!

FINAL TALLY:
• 35.6% - Monty Python's Life of Brian: "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" , whistling while you work is one thing, but singing cheerily through your own crucifixion.
• 18.1% - Moulin Rouge!: Harold Zidler and the Duke singing "Like a Virgin"
• 15.3% - Ferris Bueller's Day Off: The parade crowd dances to "Danke Schoen" and "Twist and Shout"
• 15% - South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut: "La Resistance" Combine a dozen crazy-ass songs into an even crazier medley.
• 8.8% - South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut: Saddam Hussein sings of his undying devotion to Satan
• 3.7% - Not Another Teen Movie: "Prom Night" - funny and good at the same time, and contained some of the wackiest dancing since Pooly's wedding reception.
• 2.5% - The Replacements: The jailed (male) football team breaks out into the feminist rally song, "I Will Survive"
• 1.1% - Mean Girls: When our beloved/hated troupe lip synch/sing Jingle Belle Rock.

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