…Welcome back! This here’s the Second Part of Round II of the 2024 Peely Awards for the Worst in Pop Culture! We explained it in more detail in the First Part (and remember to make sure to jump here to nominate and vote there as well!), but this is where we nominate and vote for the second twenty categories, a motley set that you, the Avocado, helped create. This doesn’t fully obviate the technical issues that crop up every year, but it does help with them.
Here they are:
- WFAN Radio Award for Most Dysfunctional Sports Team (Tigercat919)
- Worst or Most Catastrophic Non-Gambling or Sports Betting Aspect of Sports (presented by Draftkings Sportsbook) (Tigercat919 / Eagle Hand Laundry)
- The Feral Farrell from Beyond the Stars Award for Most Baffling, Banal, or Boneheaded Plot Twist or Ending (Michael Weyer)
- The JK Rowling Award for Worst Egregious Celebrity Behavior (Antler Queen Carson Shaw)
- The Jimmy Buffett Murder Mysteries Award for the Existent Work of Art that is, in a Very Tangible Way and More Than Any Other, Not a Real Work of Art. Not Parody, But also Not Real (Kim Cardassian, Michael Weyer)
- The Musically Disinclined Award for Dumbest Musical Number for a Work of Art or Live Event (Owen)
- The 10,000 Likes for New Music Award for Worst / Most Severely Backfired Music Promotion (Bresson)
- The Cringing Like It’s Going Out of Style Award for Most Accidentally Offensive Message, Moral, or Theme (Owen)
- The “Texas-California Alliance” Award for the Worst Attempt at Political Commentary in a Piece of Fiction (Lilburne)
- The Letting Us, and Only Us Down Award for Most Obscure Disappointment (Owen)
- “No, the Children ARE Actually Wrong Sometimes” Award Dedicated to the Financial Failures of 2024 which Deserved Better (The Handsome Hound)
- Most Tragic Shutdown of a Company, Branch, Studio, or Institution (Merve)
- Best Moment That’s Just Deeply Satisfying to the Primordial Lizard Part of Our Brains
- Worst Pre-2024 Pop Culture that You Experienced for the First Time This Year (Merve)
- Silliest Title for an Eric Roberts Movie Released in 2024 (does not include previous winners)
- Worst Video Game of 2024
- Worst Song or Album of 2024
- Worst Television Season or Miniseries of 2024
- Worst Book, Comic, Novella, or Extended Piece of Prose of 2024
- Worst Film of 2024
And there we go! Remember, have fun, make fun, don’t be jerks to each other, upvote any nomination that makes you smile whether or not you’re competing against it, and be as silly or as scintillating as you like. We’re in the business of mockery, schadenfreude, and family.