Becki Newton and Michael Urie bring heart with a devious edge to a show that's overdosing on just lame ol' boring heart lately.
10. Becki Newton and MIchael Urie - Ugly Betty
9. Joshua and Katee, So You Think You Can Dance - "No Air" - Not only did the routine, choreographed by stand-out SYTYCD newcomers Tabitha and Napolean, become a YouTube sensation, it also commenced a 10-week run that established the unlikely favorites as the two to beat on 2008's season of the most legitimate dance competition on TV.
8. Sandra Oh and Kevin McKidd (Drs. Yang and Hunt, respectively) - Grey's Anatomy.Because they're the only reasons we're still watching. And because we're hanging on every word they say despite the fact that they've used a combined total of four monosyllables since they began swapping spit back in episode 2 of the new season.
9. The Cast of The Paper
One of the little known gems of the 2008 season, the red-headed step child of MTV's The Hills tracked a class of high school seniors through their final year in Journalism class. Awkward, pretentious and oozing of self-importance, these real life teenagers evoked curious similarities to their elder statesmen at MTV. But told through the point of view of over-achiever and Editor in Chief Amanda — an outsider looking for an in to the cool clique — the sorta-documentary gave us a sometimes-embarrassing but mostly just hilarious reminder of our own days working for the student newspaper.
7. Jimmy Smits - Dexter - HIs Season 3 arc gave the show a much-needed injection of thespian style. As Smitts chewed his way through Dexter's back-alley MIami scene scapes, star Michael C. Hall rose to his first real challenge since the show began shooting: going head-to-head with an actor who knows how to own a scene as well as he does.
6. Amy Ryan and Steve Carell (Holly and Michael) — The Office - Perhaps the most clever comic pairing since Carrell and Rain Wilson on, well, this show, their inside jokes, intermitent rap sessions and middle school-like courtship had us asking 'What's a Jan?' Here's hoping the show reconsiders her move to a new office and brings her back sooner rather than later.
5. Christian Siriano - Project Runway - Who knew the endless bitchery of this diminutive diva would turn endearing halfway through the show's most engaging season yet? Seriously, who else could convince your mom that "fierce" is an appropriate word for casual conversation? That ain't easy. Ask Tyra — she had tried, y'all. This miniature-sized caricature of a fashion designer not only proved to possess talent far beyond his years, his quick wit and quotable one-liners might just have earned him enough good will to keep a few of us watching as he attempts to prove himself as more than a 15-minute distraction.
4. The Olympics -- Highlights: Michael Phelps; Eight gold medals; Illogical scoring of Mens/Women's Gymnastics; Alicia Sacremone; Chinese toddlers as gymnasts; Swimming; Michael Phelps; his mother Debbie. Debbie Phelps. Michael. Phelps. Nastia! Keebler Elf. And last, but most certainly not least, Ryan Lochte!! And oh yeah, Debbie Phelps.
(For the record: We love Debbie. We want her to read us a bedtime story and tuck us in at night.)
3. Chelsea Handler - We don't know where she's been all our lives, but we're glad we found her this year. Handler rudely takes us where no late night host has taken us before, devouring celebrity culture as if it were a fresh bag of vodka-soaked Cheetos on her E! talkshow Chelsea Lately. With a rotating panel of comedians to set 'em up, she spends every weeknight hittin' 'em straight at the very celebutards her network lives for. Good thing she's shackin' up with the head honcho there at E!...! (We point that out only because we know she'd love us for it.)
2. The Women of SNL - Tina fey, Kristen Wiig and Amy Poehler - If we have to say any more than that, you deserve to be sassed by the Target (pronounced: ter~git) lady.
1. Ed Weswick and Leighton Meester (Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf) - Gossip Girl - I'll let them doing the talking...
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