Overrated
The Hype Report
The expanded list: The world's most overrated people, places, and things
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1. Posh and Becks
2. Cupcakes
3. The miracle of Botox
4. Brad Pitt
5. Sexual predators
6. Oprah's heart
7. Sex with virgins
8. Going to Mars
9. Ballet flats
10. Cocaine
11. The Nintendo WWII, as exercise equipment
12. The cult of Stephen Colbert
13. Pandas
14. Tom Ford
15. Keira Knightley
16. Steroid testing
17. Jeans
18. China, as economic threat
19. Rupert Murdoch, as arch-conservative villain
20. America Ferrera's looks
21. The Swiffer
22. Pilates
23. Frank Gehry
24. Anderson Cooper
25. The Dalai Lama
26. Grey's Anatomy
27. Jake Gyllenhaal
28. Facebook
29. Soybeans
30. Diane Sawyer
31. Trader Joe's
32. "Smart" superhero movies
33. Andy Samberg
34. Genius
35. J.J. Abrams
36. Vitamins
37. Death tolls, as predicated by American media outlets
38. Annie Leibovitz
39. Winning an Oscar, as career boost
40. Pinkberry
41. Ryan McGinley
42. Twitter
43. Coming out
44. Cats
ALSO:
Blogging
Ronald Reagan
Keith Olbermann
Young male Jewish novelists
Steve Carell
Pomegranate juice
Conan O'Brien
Tim Gunn
Croatia
Interesting facial hair
Justin Timberlake
Howard Stern as First Amendment hero
Jim from The Office
Elizabeth Edwards
This American Life
User-generated content
Here's How We Ranked 'Em
Media references from the past three months + duration, in months, of overratedness.
Divide that by "inherent appeal" on a scale of one to five.
EXAMPLE: Posh and Becks = 90000 + 96 months since marriage.
Divide that by 2 = 4848.0 = #1.
This excerpt is from the October issue of Radar magazine. Click here to get a risk-free issue.
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Posted by: chafostheory on September 20, 2007 12:06 PM
Chicago Tribune
"FROM BROWN TO DOWN: Newscaster Aaron Brown's contract at CNN expired at the end of last month, a mere 610 days after his last CNN newscast. The network wanted to go with Anderson Cooper. An average of 62,000 viewers apparently didn't.
Since taking over for Brown, Cooper's audience in the 9 p.m. hour is off 7 percent in total viewers and 10 percent in the advertiser-friendly 25-to-54 demographic from Brown's average over the previous four years."
I wouldn't listen to retards like the Andersphere Quick Topics morons who populate "Unanchored" who try to say the numbers are better with Cooper. They are a "fanatic" group who will skew the numbers to suit themselves. They can't look at things objectively or from reality because they all think that the next time they see Anderson he will fall in love with them, it didn't happen the first, second or eighth time but next time it will. The same as the retard at PeterGay's group Anderson Cooper Effects. He has compiled an entire list of "meeting and marrying Anderson Cooper" things that are beyond creepy, compiled by a fag.
I think everyone should listen to Variety, Huffington and Chicago Tribune. They have no ulterior motive like the crack-head fans.
Posted by: Arthur on September 24, 2007 1:45 PM
Hi, 'Mary' - shouldn't you be bragging about your wonderful website?
Posted by: UncleArthur on September 24, 2007 3:06 PM
Sounds like the second commentor needs an immediate fitting for a straight jacket. What a NUT!
Posted by: Nate on September 24, 2007 6:50 PM
It would be linguistically and psychologically impossible to overrate JAKE GYLLENHAAL. I dare you to try. There are not enough words or emotions in the universe to convey his utter and absolute amazingness and that includes all known languages + pig latin, made up words and baby talk.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE---IT CAN'T BE DONE!!!
Posted by: susieb on September 30, 2007 6:31 PM
Stephen fricken Colbert is one of my heroes okay? Leave him alone. He is not overrated. This stupid HYPE list is overrated.
Why waste you time making an overrated list when you could be discussing more important things.
Posted by: ashleyjean777 on October 2, 2007 2:36 PM
this list makes you guys look like a group of fugly hipster douchbags with all the clout of a duane reade janitorial associate. congratulations on your aas in creative writing from queens college. that's a really good program.
rock on, rudy.