After roughly 1.1 million total votes throughout the ten days of Fug Madness, we finally have a champion.
There were upsets (who knew Brittany Murphy had legs in this thing?), there were Cinderellas (sweet Peldon, if anyone is likely to take that as a cue to wear actual glass slippers around town, it’s you), and there was agita and tears and regret from all the supporters of favorite fuggers who fell victim to our eventual finalists. Tough to say if it’s heartening or tragic for Chloe Sevigny that her supporters were so vocal in bemoaning her absence from the final game; her fair-and-square loss in the Elite Eight proves that, just as in basketball, what you’ve achieved before doesn’t matter if you don’t bring it on the day. Remember her fate this time next year, Chloephiles — your votes do count.
And yesterday, 69 percent of them counted in favor of our first-ever Fug Madness champion. From the brutal Charo bracket, past challengers like Tara Reid and Sevigny, Phoebe Price and Mary-Kate Olsen, comes your glorious champion –our very own version of the four horsemen of the apocalypse but with about 24 personalities instead of four steeds.
Yes: BAI LING.
[Photo: Splash News]
Whether you are crying over spilled Sevigny or had your money on Sharon Stone, at the end of the day, it’s impossible to deny that the title sits well on Bai’s semi-nude shoulders. Her fug reigns supreme because it is supreme; she certainly worked hard for it, and worked it hard. The best part is how she’s standing there all defiant, like, “What, lensmonkey? Are you not used to lace bodystockings and turbans? Well, when Madonna is elected president in 2020 and this becomes our National Guard uniform, you will not be so SMIRKY, you sad shutter-clown.”
Well, except, it’s Bai Ling, so that would come out sounding more like, “Loving darling, I am moving through light in the haze of……what? Dancing with sweat to celebrate, all hail, and salute the singing future of clouds. Do you fallow me? HELLO!”
Congratulations to her, and to runner-up Victoria Beckham, who scored the unlikely upset of a devastatingly strong and Peldon-killing Sharon Stone. You all fugged hard, and we look forward to what you can achieve in a comeback campaign in Fug Madness 2009.
And for those of our readers who love an incredibly cheesy (and slightly grainy) post-tournament tribute reel, we’ve prepared a video treat, replete with all the intentionally ridiculous special-effects we can muster on a dime budget:
Okay, so part of that is a bit of an inside joke for fans of actual March Madness, BUT, we promise, you don’t have to care about basketball to appreciate the power of some campy editing and heartfelt vocal fromage. And this is the best of the best, in that regard — the awesomely terrible musical equivalent of shoving your face into a table-sized wheel of cheddar. If you feel like you’re overdosing, make sure you get as far as Courtney Peldon before you flee. You won’t be sorry. (Well, you might be, but we doubt it.)
Thanks to all of you for indulging this crazy whim of ours, for voting like crazy, and for providing us with such witty, amusing, delicious comments. Our readers rule, and now, so does Bai.
Comments (230):
Brilliant! Thanks for all the fun!
Can we do a re-count? Can we re-visit that Courtney Peldon ensemble? This contest was obviously stolen from her. The final showdown should have been a Peldon-Ling throwdown.
Thanks for everything
It has been a blast!
This was so much fun! Please tell us that there will be a Fug Madness 2009. I am a huge March Madness fan, but this was fun and spectacular on a whole new level.
Awesome. Bai totally deserves it. She is the Fugmost!
I can’t wait for next year…..
I’ve loved the whole Fug Madness experience, and I eagerly anticipate next year’s tournament.
What a shining moment for the Fug Girls!!! This has been a captivating experience and I can’t wait for next year. I enjoy the intelligent sarcasm and wit of this site on a daily and I can’t wait for next year. Thanks for making my 8 hours a day of waiting for a cocktail just that much brighter. Cheers!!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you – I loved every minute of this.
I cannot believe you went “One Shining Moment” – this has made my entire DAY.
Well, that and Bai winning. She makes my heart sing even when I’m giggling.
I just wept a little. thanks for making my last two weeks at work less boring. next year it’s all about chloe.
Oh that was awesome! I love the cheesiness of One Shining Moment and to have to played while seeing all those glorious fashions, it just took my breath away.
Sevigny in 2009!!!
Thanks girls, for all the fun!
This was so much fun! I couldn’t think of a better way to waste my cube-dwelling day. I LOVED reading all the comments, there are a ton of snarky people out there and it’s awesome!
Thank you so much, guys! What fun!
Tears of laughter are actually rolling down my face as a result of that Peldon shot. I had to rewind, pause and squint. Put that baby back in the vault because I can’t handle it.
Fantastic fuggin’ work, ladies. Thank you.
Looking for Stone/Stefani ’09!!
Inexplicably, that set-to-audio-fromage montage made me verklempt. I may be one weird woman, but you fug girls are the snarky wind beneath my wings.
Thanks girls, it’s been so exiting!
And now, to the metaphysical question suggested for discussion by another commenter in the final game:
What IS fug?
Yay!
Thank you so much Fug girls, this has been so much fun.
If it weren’t for you, I never would have known about Our Lady of Fug Miss Ling, or either Peldon, or Phoebe Price, or many other offenders. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
That was a lot of fun. What will be the rules for next year? Will Bai be allowed to defend her title, or will she be like Miss America and graciously return to crown the next Fug Goddess?
Bai Ling and the Wookie…..which twin has the toni?
Fabulousness all around, gals…..
I’m verklimpt. Butter. Thanks for the fun, ladies.
Shudder. I actually may not sleep tonight …
Hurrah, the Gods have spoken!
Seriously though, what am I going to do at work now?
Fugging brilliant video, ladies. Thank you so much and see you next year.
Enjoy your shining moment, Bai, but be fair and share it with the voices in your head; they are responsible for your champion fugness, each and every one.
lol Congrats to Bai.
Thanks, girls! I had SO much fun with this. I love the video too. That song is cracking me up.
Awesome, awesome fun!! I can’t wait for next year!
Thanks so much, Fug Girls! Today’s my birthday, and the Hubster and I spent a good part of it laughing our asses off over the Fug Brackets, and also, my girl Bai won the day!
So, T-shirts? T-shirts?
…T-shirts? ;D
Bright and gaudy with Bai on them wearing her arguably most insane outfit?
sooooooooooooo fun!
f*ck, now I have to get back to work.
Thanks for the fugories! My head is awhirl with images from which I may never recover! Great time, and I hope those, like myself, who voted like mad for Chloe, feel somewhat vindicated as that fugtage reveals fugstice was indeed served.
Mewonders if Bai will post this victory on her blog, and if we’ll be able to decipher it if she does? Bravo, Bai, sleek wild morning cat cuckoo!
I am about to set off on a 5 hour drive to a meeting, and I just KNOW that I will be singing “One shining moment, you knew were alive,” really loudly to myself the whole damn trip.
Thank you Fug Girls.
Wow! That video is AMAZING!
While my heart’s true love will always belong to Peldon and her personal empire of inflated self-importance and horrifyingly bad fashion, I am more than satisfied to see the championship seized in the hot little hands of Bai Ling. She, herself, is a work of speechless wonder and the day I get tired of her blog, I’ll have to spiritlessly be shipped off to pasture and turned into glue.
I need a little clarification here…
Which one of Bai’s personalities are gonna receive and then wear the crown?
I really can’t comprehend how this is going to work.
And how will said crown be worn?
As a glorified chastity belt perhaps? An oversized bangle or cuff? An art-deco eye patch?
With each personality the possibilities are endless!
A triumph!
Hellyeah Team Chloe FTW 2009!
And check out Edith’s suggestions (on yesterday’s blog) for excellent bracket ideas next year!
Thanks, Fug Girls – yousofun!
Dude, that photo montage was AMAZING. I’m going to have that song stuck in my head the rest of the day, but no worries. Just reminds me how much I adore GFY.
You, Heather and Jessica, are the wind beneath my wings.
Thanks so much – was a tonne of fun.
So much fun. I am sad, though, I really thought that I would do better in this bracket than in the basketball one. Apparently, I don’t know fug like I thought I did.
well…i thought the final game was about as exciting as the end of actual March Madness, which is to say not at all — i knew who’d win in the first quarter. where were all the cinderella seeds?
that said, this tournament was FANTASTIC — i can’t wait for next year. new bracket, new fugs, new tribute video…hooray!
Thanks, fug girls, it’s been a lot of fun! I still believe that Posh is the definition of fug (and love her for it!), but Bai Ling was my second choice so all is well. I’m looking forward to next year!
I’m so sad it’s over! Can’t wait for 2009.
What a fantastic way to end the tournament. I laughed, I cried, I threw up in my mouth a little.
Congrats to Bai. I hope we can read her acceptance speech on her blog!
I can’t argue that Bai is Fuggish to the extreme, but I really thought that the Posh-ho’s fake boobs gave her a bit of an edge . . . Until next year ladies!
Three words:
tears
of
joy
Watching, watching, watching –WTF? When Peldon showed up I literally thought to myself, “what is that thing?” Then I realized it was Peldon. THEN I realized why I should be looking out for her. Ah, good times.
Wow. That was pretty intense. Waiting for Ms. Peldon was totally worth it.
Thanks for the time you took to organize this whole thing. It was really fun, and I’m totally looking forward to next year.
P.S. I think I actually like Daniel Day Lewis’ horrifying plaid suit now! I’ve seen it so many times since the beginning of this, and I’ve been beaten into submission.
Amazing! Thatnk, girls, for making March the best month of 2008. I have to echo the sentiments of those who posted before me: what the hell am I going to do at work now? Work?! I think it’s time to start picking my favorite for 2009; that should pass the time. Thanks!
We need to craft a statuette. I have a gluegun and some dryer lint.
That video was cheese covered bliss. Thanks for that.
THANK YOU! Fug girls, it’s been really fun, look forward to next year. And congrats to Bai Ling, your wacky awesomeness deserves it.
That was most definitely the best time I’ve ever had during March Madness.
I think I’m going to frame my Fug Madness 2008 bracket for posterity.
YaY Fug Madness! the LaLohan upset made me realize early on that some of our favs will be knocked out fair and square but we just had to keep on voting even if they took a beating. I think Bai totally deserved the win. Go Bai Go! Thanks for making this so fun, can’t wait for FM ’09 =D
I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed this!!!! i will miss the brackets and debating the finer points of mesh vs. leggings vs. metallics vs. leopard pajamas. Talk about making a workday fly by! thank you for the fuglorious memories! Go Bai! Bai is the FUGLIEST!
Thank you for doing this. It was highly entertaining and I thoroughly enjoyed it!
It was worth waiting for Peldon.
Wow.
That was a metric shitton of fug and it was amazing. Can’t wait to watch it again with sound. (No speakers, what a shame!)
Vincent Gallo better be included in next year’s bracket.
Bai Ling certainly fought fanged tooth and plastic nail to the top–she definitely deserved to win. I voted for Posh yesterday, but I’m not disappointed by the results. Congratulations, Bai.
*snif* … that was beautiful …
That video was the epitome of class, a fitting tribute for the contest, and for Miss Ling!
(No, seriously, this contest was such fun! Thanks for putting it together, and for the hours of entertainment you provide each week.)
This has been so much fun! THANK YOU! I’ll miss reading all the snarky reader comments. Until next year, ya bitches!
xxoo
I shall watch the video at home where I have this little thing called sound.
Thank you so much for this delicious contest, and just in general for being so fabulously funny on a regular basis.
Heather and Jessica, you rock!
I can’t wait for Bai’s acceptance speech.
Do you think this will get onto her blog? Oh, That would be so very special.
Oh, Fug Girls, this was so much fun!
Thanks for the ridiculous amounts of laughter.
WELL PLAYED FUG GIRLS!!!!!
You two are the best, THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for all the work that you put into this tournament and in the daily fuggings. Nothing puts a smile on my face or my inner mean girl more than a visit to this website.
p.s. The Sev for 2009
too funny! thanks, girls.
oh my gosh, you girls did so much work for us. thanks so much, it made me so happy to be voting for something every day, where my votes really counted, where i really made a difference!!!!!!!!!!!!! i’m still a little sad that posh didn’t make it but at least, like the heels, she made it into the final four. sweet.
thanks so much for this wonderful site, which i visit way way way too much!
Thank you, Heather & Jessica, for making the past two weeks a shining moment in my sad little life. A special thank you also goes to my fellow fug lovers who just might be the snarkiest & wittiest on the planet – the comments on Fug Madness were a hoot.
Let’s all hope that Britney comes back strong for Fug Madness 2009!
I’m sad that Posh didn’t win, but I’m sure she’s curled up in her closet that’s bigger than my top floor, petting her Hermes bag collection and clicking her red-soled, 5-inch Laboutins together saying, there’s no place like Rodeo Drive…In fact, I bet she’s off on a shopping spree right this very minute the likes of which will make us all go, Vicks…WTF?
CAN WE HAS COMMENTS BAK 4 GUD NAO? WE PROMIST 2 BEHAVE.
Fabulous job guys! Love it.
…and I am forever in your debt for introducing me to THE BLOG. Hours of ‘shiny loving the brightness of the cold Vancouver and cloud cat’ lie ahead of me now. I am complete.
Thanks, ladies. This was a blast!
Team Sev had better get those clicker fingers trained up for next year!
That video has brought me more joy than i could’ve hoped for.
Much thanks from a fan in the great big penal colony below the equator.
posh was robbed, enough said.
I thought I was strong…but that video did me in…
Awww it’s over! I’ll miss everyone’s snarkilicious comments. Until next year!
Thanks so much Heather and Jessica! The video was a nice (and hilarious) surprise. I especially thought the shot of K-Fed in his cape/smirk was fitting, as well as Peldon of course…I was also hoping to see Chloe in her white sunglasses/umbrella/granny outfit in the tribute, but that’s okay…I’m pretty much Sev’d out!
One shining moment, indeed…thank you!
One fug to rule them all.
And that fug will be Bai Ling’s.
ALL HAIL BAI LING!
That Bai won by 69% is almost poetic, no?
I thought the song that accompanied the video was really befitting of such an honor – this IS the one shining moment for Bai and her 27 personalities.
Sometimes, a moment defines us. Congrats, Bai!
LOVE the tribute reel, and…a magic behind the mountain, ghosts had a big party celebrate life and a little gentle girl’s birthday, the light in her eyes, the smile that waves to me, was my Grandmother reborn – as Bai Ling??
Yay! I had Bai Ling for the win.
Also, the local sports radio station was making fun of that song ALL MORNING this morning. Little did I know I’d hear it again in this context.
Nice work, Fug Girls! I can’t wait for next year. My prediction: Blonde Peldon FTW 2009!
oh, that video montage was fabulous….thanks for all the fug and fun, H&J. i can’t wait till next year!
That was a beautiful video! Thanks for all the fun girls!
Loved loved loved every single minute of it. Loved feeling completely frozen, inable to choose between to deadly fugs.
CanNOT wait until 2009…
Bai almost looked…. tame compared to combined onslaught of fug that preceded her. But not tame enough to lose… win… come in ahead of the others!
Thank you so much for the whole tournament and the… beautiful…. touching…. can’t breathe from holding in inappropriate for work giggles…. montage!
You guys are amazing, that totally made me laugh till I cried. Thanks for making unemployment so much more fun.
Perfect way to end the madness. Bravo, bravo.
One of the fun parts of the CBS montage is guessing who the “shooting star is” (things you do when you are high on nacho chesse & lite beer). I thought that’s were Chloe or Sharon were gonna get their consolation prize. But Cameron Diaz!?! Even laPeldon — the Stephan Curry of this year’s Fug Madness — would have been more fitting.
Just remember next year: we need more wattage in our shooting star! But otherwise, perfection.
I bow down before you. (A “full esclava” as we were taught in interpretive dance.) I had to watch the video three times to be able to absorb all the delightful fug. K-Fed in a cape with a pot-grin just sealed the deal. He must compete next year. La Peldon is in a class(less) by herself. But glorious Bai now reigns triumphant. I’m giving ten to one odds that she accepts the award and comes calling for her trophy. I’ll contribute my grandmother’s Be-dazzler to the previous commenter’s offer of a glue gun and lint.
Thank you ladies-I had a blast!
I can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed this. Thank you so much for all your hard work. Great job!
I’m so sad to see the end of Fug Madness. I laughed, I cried, I even puked in my mouth a little.
Good times.
Thanks for all the fun, and definitely have a Fug Madness 2009! But PLEASE don’t put Chloe and Bai in the same bracket next year!
Oh sweet baby Jesus in the manger! That was a kaleidoscope of fug and I loved every second of it.
Thank you so much for Fug Madness and the joy that it has brought to my life. I always wondered what the big deal was about March Madness and now I understand! This shiz has been like crack to me!
I am a bit peeved that I will now have to tackle the mountain of work that has piled up these last couple of weeks.
The Sev in ’09!
Those final images of Bai simply demonstrates why she is truly the Champion of FUG. Thanks ladies! Same time next year!
*LOL* bai wins with 69% ist just… bai! i discovered her blog so far and it is so fug that i consider it art. really. my personal fug queen is agyness deyn. her fug is so bad that she is not even worth calling it fug.
My alma mater won last night, and now this. I am too choked up for words.
Rock Chalk Bai Ling, and vote Sev in ’09!
Thank you fug girls! you have made me giggle much too loudly in the library.
Can’t wait til next year!! Some serious FUG memories in that video.
Fantastically fun! Thanks, ladies!
this was a blast. and I did much better in these brackets then my actual March Madness brackets
I am so sad it’s over! But I think that, in lieu of a trophy, Bai (and her loyal Fug Fans) should get a Personality Glossary post, complete with photos of every incarnation of each persona! What fun!
Thank you so much, Fug Girls. This has been utterly fantastic and I now adore you even more than I did two weeks ago, defying the limited capacity my cold, shriveled heart has for love. You are amazing.
But next year, La Ling and La Sev can’t be in the same bracket! This competition belongs to Rapid Beaver and Rapid Blower for reals.
In honour of Champion Bai:
She struts triumphant
April Fool Fug Queen Supreme,
a pearl of fugness.
and a grateful ode to Heather & Jessica:
Joyful Fug Madness
makes my heart sing bad disco.
Can’t wait for next year!
Sorry, I think my haiku may have been too lucid…
Is that really Bai’s blog? If so, THANK YOU!
Thank you fug girls and all commentators. Perhaps Bai can be a guest commentator for Fug Madness 2009…? She seems to have a secret literary gift.
Do you mean I actually have to go back to work?
*silent tear*
I love you, Fug Girls!
Ok, ok. I wasn’t entirely for the Ling as winner. But, the vid sold me for sure. She definitely earned it. She somehow combines tacky, skanky and pain, old fug.
Next year, though, I’m taking Phoebe Price and Courtney Peldon to the final 2 if I have to style them myself!
This made my day. Keep on kicking ass girls!
xoxo
She is like a pegasus on the train, all right.
thank you all so much for the fun. let’s do again
with that cheddar on white with bacon!
Are you sending anything to Bai’s PR people? While many of the 64 contenders would have been offended and act high and mighty about it I think Bai is the type of spunky gal who would enjoy finding out she won!
As a big fan of basketball, and a Florida Gator who actually witnessed last year’s tournament and One Shining Moment video in the Georgia Dome after the Gators won their second (yes, back to back, I know, we need to shutup but c’mon, GO GATORS) championship I just have to say…
…that video brought tears to mine eyes. This was an excellent tournament, yay Bai, and I’m looking forward to another year’s worth of Fug!
I can’t believe how “into” this I got. WHAT A RUSH! I need to calm down with a cocktail…
This was all great fun but I’m sorry to say the winner was QUITE obvious. Bai Ling has always been the greatest fugger of all.
You guys used every cheesy special effect known to Power Point ’98. AWESOME.
Fug girls, I think I speak for all of us when I thank you from the sticky depths of my own tarry little heart. Thanks for your hard work, your whip-like tounges and your glinting, laser-sharp eyes. May Intern George soothe your weary selves with copious quantities of tequila, peanut butter and the darkest of chocolate.
That was… FANTABULOUS. I don’t even have the words. (Okay, maybe “hilarious” is a word.)
oh girls, I can’t thank you enough
You’re brilliant and got ROBBED by the Pulitzer Prize committee!
Sev in ’09!!! Thanks for the fun, the memories, the comments, let’s do it again! I do believe we should find a way to designate Bai as the winner in the frequent offenders list, perhaps move her name to the top of the list for the year, give her a crooked crown after her name or something. Any ideas?
Of course Bai took the tourney; she could’ve won with just her head. Anyone who OWNS a streaky ‘li’l Dutch boy’ hairstyle like that is a Force of Nature.
Fuggerific video! Thanks for the fuggories!
For the corn rows at the Oscars alone, Juliette Lewis should have gotten much further! Can’t wait for 2009.
I second the inclusion of Vincent Gallo next March and believe you should seriously consider Jared Leto as well.
You ladies never fail to brighten my day. Love to you both and to Intern George.
Thank you, thank you, a million times thank you for all the fun, frivolity, and true fug! Can’t wait for next year!
What a OMG montage…which also really proves the rightness of the final choice. Bai Ling is just this side of batshit crazy, and that’s why we love her!
Wow. Her blog is just brilliantly like-a-sack-of-cats mad.
Bravo, one and all *standing ovation* *tears*
it’s just…so……BEAUTIFUL!
Thanks so much for fug Madness ladies! It was fugging awesome! Seriously, get this on TV!!
xoxoxo
Oh bravo darlings, bravo! Due to cruel technical difficulties – I couldn’t comment right after I watched the video!! But it’s all good cuz I watched it again and *sigh*…..oh the memories, the fugs, the joy, the tears, the disbelief……one shining moment……*tear*…..Indeed.
CAN this be the END??? The days will be SLOW until Fug Madness 2009!! I should probably do some work in between…..
To ALL of the kindred spirits on the comments board – I love you all – in a “I don’t actually KNOW you per se but I frickin think we should all go to lunch” kinda way!!
Jessica & Heather – you are the Queens of Fug (in the BEST sense!) Is it possible to have maybe like an ANNUAL FUG CONVENTION of some sort????? I mean if the Trekkies can do it, why can’t the Fug Kingdom?????
Thank you… that video montage made up for my bitter disappointment over my girl Sev not advancing further. But next year? Bai Ling better hone her skeeells because Chloe will be BACK!
this whole thing has been wonderful- thank you so much! through the whole contest i’ve been laughing myself silly and looking forward to each new post(i know, i have no life).
my favorite part was going through the sharon stone archive, and showing my boyfriend the pic with her and lalo, reading it aloud…and his spontaneous, uncontrollable laughter.
i’ll be here for fug madness 2009- GOOOOO PELDON!
I’m taking this opportunity while comments last:
Jessica and Heather, I didn’t think you guys could get better at what you do, but you have.
I have come to this little corner of the web for a daily dose of colorful cheer for over three years now, and I have been continually amazed by the quality of your writing. You both consistently deliver funny, sharp and insightful commentary that charms with its playfulness and amuses with its bite. You maintain a keen perception that is discriminating but not alienating. The breadth of your pop culture references is impressive and tickles me to no end. Your acknowledgement of the finer implications of what we wear and why we wear it is somehow reassuring. And no matter how shrewd and clever your observations are, you never cross the line into cruelty, vulgarity, or just plain bad taste, for which I am deeply grateful.
As my very proper mother-in-law would say, “Those girls know how to do.”
This Fug Madness was a stroke of genius, and your take on it spot on. I have not enjoyed an on-line experience like this in years.
Thank you for providing such a well-timed amusement and for making the world seem a little bit closer and, dare I say it, a lot more beautiful.
The best to you both!
Fuginger
please please PLEASE do this again next year! I loved every last catty, shallow, delicious minute of it!
I can’t believe it’s over! And I second Fuginger!
Y’all win at LIFE.
I’m sorry…was Courtney wearing a LOIN CLOTH?
Wow… that’s quite an impressive array of fug talent.
My 2-yr old saw the Top 4 portion of the video, and she blurted out “Mommy, she’s with a bear! Now she’s dressed up like a zebra!”
Aaah, Bai-ling… at least you’re good for entertaining the little ones. Just put your @#$% clothes back on and you may have a new career. Wait. Remove “new” from that sentence. Yes. Better.
This has been the BEST way to get through a horrid month…. snow, basketball…. ugh. Thanks for the distraction!
Bai Ling, of course, should have won, but I still believe firmly that Peldon and Brooke were ROBBED and should have been in the final four. Wait until next year! I have faith!
I reaaaaaaally need to know who is the first lady that appears on the video, can someone help me? Thanks!
What Fugringer said, only replace “I have come to this little corner of the web…for over three years now” with:
“I was only introduced to this little corner of the web a few weeks ago.” And just in time for Fug Madness!
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’ve started getting more excited about coming here than i do about Cuteoverload (and your posts are actually NICER than what a lot of the commenters there have to say…)!
Hurray! I had Bai picked from the beginning.
wow.
no, really. wow. as in, “OH MY SWEET BABY JESUS HOLY CHRIST! wow.”
my only regret? that Courtney Love didn’t get a chance to compete. she’s the only one with enough sincere and unadulterated crazy to (maybe) give miz ling a run for the money.
still, though. wow.
I can’t believe it’s over…. ::tear::
What will I do with my laminated copy of my bracket?!
Who will I talk to when you take the comments away?!
I just can’t handle this…
In the words of Mat and Trey–We need a montage! Next year, we need one of those for every contender. Or at least for the final four. I voted for La Stone, but after seeing Bai Ling’s portion of that, I realize that the better (worse?) fug won.
Thanks for the fun–and thanks for opening the comments. It’s been a long time since I’ve gotten to tell you how much I enjoy your work.
The sisters and I are considering a FUG fantasy league…
Finally, March madness I can enjoy! And those pictures totally show just exactly why Bai Ling deserved to win the whole thing!
I think I just did a little wee in my pants!
Am thrilled to read such wit and banter from so many likeminded bitches.
Heather & Jessica you bring out the Tom Ford in us all.
> The sisters and I are considering a FUG fantasy league…
Yes! Yes! That’s exactly what we need!
thank you so much heather and jessica!
it was really fun.
As I wipe a tear from my eye– hey, at least I had the good sense not to take a sip of coffee only to have it come out my nose from laughing so hard– I bid a fond farewell to this year’s bracketologicaliscious competition. We had joy. We had fun. We had seasons of the fug! (By the way, that star effect is super cheese supreme–loves it!)
All hail Bai Ling (until next year)!
Cheers for everything, fug ladies. And kudos for using every transition in the book. My favourite has to be the star eminating from Nicole Kidman’s vaj.
Well, while I admit I was distraught over Sev’s untimely exit, Bai-Ling does wear the crown well.
OK, but the only one there that made me crack up was the Lucy Liu intestine cape. That is the ultimate fug outfit of all time. Next year, honorable mentions please!
I just don’t know about living in a world where the #1 fug isn’t Sevigny.
Thank you, ladies!! My NCAA pick won; my Fug pick won. The fun has ended, and I must go back to grading papers. Le sigh.
Goodness. Bai Ling is soooo fugulous I can’t even wrap my head around it. She’s a true winner.
Thanks for posting the link to her brilliant blog. It’s truly amazing.
If comments are never up again, I just want the chance to say this: I love the Fug Girls. And Intern George.
March 2009!
Same Fug Time, Same Fug Channel!
Love and thanks, Fug Girls.
I had a horrible migraine yesterday, the kind that would normally have kept me away from the light of the computer screen because even that was too much. However, I managed to bear the glow long enough to vote because I felt that invested in Fug Madness! Thanks for putting all this effort into the tournament in particular and the site/blog in general. Your words never fail to make me grin even as I’m groaning at the pictures of the fug you mock.
And now, I think you deserve to kick off those heels, take off those turbans and relax with drinks with umbrellas while Intern George gives you massages.
Thank you thank you thank you! What a great tribute to the fugtestants. I think, though, that if you used the picture you included as La Peldon’s “one shining moment,” she might have continued her Cinderella run. Til next year…can’t wait.
Thanks so much for Fug Madness! It’s been a blast!
Well played, fug girls.
This was the most fun! Can’t wait til next year… love you guys!
I feel like I’m at the closing ceremonies for the Fug Olympics! Your fabulous Fug-tage was masterfully edited!! I laughed, I cried, I threw up in my mouth a little.
Thanks, Heather & Jessica, for the memories! Long live Fug Queen Bai (and all her internal princesses)
Duh. How could it not be Bai Ling? Was there really anyone else?
Maybe this was clarified earlier, but what is Bai Ling famous for?
Thanks for all the sassy fun!
Thanks from the bottom of my heart for the most online fun ever! To top it off I now understand brackets!!!! My husband thanks you…..sort of…….lol.
Have we proven ourselves worthy of comments? Reading through these has been the highlight of my month (and I do have a life).
Thank you, thank you! I always knew in my heart that Bai was the Queen of Fug, but now she wears the crown. I wonder if she knows and if she’s proud? She should be. Her many personalities and their varying styles of dress have brought us all so much joy!
Congratulations to the Nadia Comaneci of Fug, Bai Ling.
Was there ever any doubt?
Thankyou ladies. The journey has been a blast!
“I reaaaaaaally need to know who is the first lady that appears on the video, can someone help me? Thanks!”
It’s the first person eliminated: Brown Peldon, a.k.a. Ashley Peldon.
It’s the bikini/cape/fur boots combo that caps Bai Ling as the champion for me. Who else would even *dare*?
There were so many What the Fugs in there, it was beautiful. And the Bai tribute at the end-Magic.
Thank you girls, thanks for the fug.
Next year I’d love if you could leave the polls open a teeny bit longer for those of us playing from Down Under (Aus) I missed a few rounds due to the time difference.
I… I… I love you, fug girls. Never leave me.
*sniffles* BRAVO! *sniffles* That was beautiful!
Let’s hope Ms. Spears gets her shit together so she can compete next year. *gasp* Wouldn’t it be great if she had to face off with K-Fed? Oooh! I’m all a-twitter!
“To ALL of the kindred spirits on the comments board – I love you all – in a “I don’t actually KNOW you per se but I frickin think we should all go to lunch” kinda way!!”
I second that, Carol. We need to have some sort of GFY gathering or something. Wait, no. That’s called the insane asylum. Never mind.
Sevigny ’09! Back and fuglier than ever!
EXCELLENT! Thank you!! What an incredibly cool thing.
As one of the few guys who participated, I join the rest of the Fuggettes in saying CANNOT WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR!!
Sniffle….thank you, girls, for the stirring video. The segue into to the spinning cube of fug was especially affecting. After I barfed, I felt proud to live in a world where celebrities work hard to achieve such glorious heights of sartorial ineptitude, and we, their adoring fans, can mock them.
Love the website and the endless entertainment.
Awesome… just awesome. Loved every freaking moment of this throwdown. And just a quick thought – where was Shania? She should at least have an honorable mention.
Great montage!!! I know 90% of these horrid clothes/objects/underwear worn as outerwear were horribly expensive and yet I’m overwhelmed at how cheap looking everything was this year! Where are the designers??? Are they high? You girls are doing us a service by showing us that the Dorothy Szpornak’s look is nostalgic and endearing but not something that should be copied by today’s starlet!
phenomenal. can’t wait for next year.
Well done, Ladies!! This was pure genius!! Now… what other sporting events can we rip off so that we can continue this brilliant madness?!?!!? Football season is right around the corner… we could have drafts for TEAMS OF FUG!! I have to lie down now….
I stared into my floozy-scope to see if the market was bear or bull. It was bull then, it’s bull now, and bull forever more, such is the nature of Hollywood. So raise a toast to Sharon Stone and… Bai, Bai, Bai.
Thank you Fug Girls. I worship at your shrine.
Ladies, you are the cocktail olives of brilliance in my (third) martini of delight!
Super giant Hurrah! on organizing such amazing fun. So much love I have for Fug Madness, Fug Girls, and, of course, the dapperest intern that ever was.
p.s. Comments are pretty great, right?
Awww… it’s over…. you ladies are the best! If it weren’t for being in a different timezone I would have voted even more. I honestly thought this should have been a Peldon and Bai-Ling final round but all I can say is Peldon has another 12 months to prove her fug worthiness and I have complete faith in her. I’m also gunning for Phoebe Price to go further next year and I think she might just pull through too! xxx
Best tribute reel EVER. No, seriously. Congratulations, Bai! You earned it! Lord (or lady??) it over all those other be-yotches until March 2009!
I’m so sad it’s over. This was ridiculously fun. I’m probably going to hell for being so relentlessly catty for so many days in a row. Also, I almost spewed margarita from laughing while I watched the beautiful, beautful montage. Thanks, fug girls. Y’all are fantastic. Long live Bai, Queen of Fugly!
Can we keep the comments? Pretty please?? I’ve had just as much fun reading them as I’ve had voting. You people are hilarious!!
YES, please let us keep the comments!!
Through Fug Madness, we have all bonded with a common, all too gleeful joy at seeing mega rich celebs strut around looking like….well….Rapid Beavers!! LOL
Don’t tear us apart! It’s a cruel world and I need some evil bitchery to get through the day!
I have one word to describe our champion: Fuggernaugt. Bai truly is a large, destructive, and over-powering force of fug.
Congratulations Bai and thank you Heather and Jessica for the best March Madness ever (I’m finished with college ball, Duke’s been screwin with my emotions since Christian Laettner left)!
Congrats on a well deserved victory, Bai. Next year, however, know that I will do all in my power to help Peldon train early and often and take it all the way….it’s her destiny!
Thank you so much for this!! And LOL to whoever suggested we make a trophy with dryer lint + a glue gun!! The montage was great. So glad it ended with the ‘This Girl’ shirt.
That was insanely enjoyable, and I love being able to comment! I’m going to miss that most of all, Scarecrow.
Also, called it from the beginning. Viva la Bai! But only on Go Fug Yourself.
YAY! *jumps off the couch and cheers*
I so called it. Bai rocks the fug. If she writes about this on her blog I may die of happiness.
Also, thank you thank you for bringing back the comments. I love reading the hilarity that comes out of the minds of fuggers. Next year, all! See you next year!
thanks from the bottom of a joyous heart – it was brilliant – ready for 2009
I laughed, I cried, I watched it twice.
Someone needs to send Bai Ling a sash and a crown, you know you will totally wear it.
Fugging hilarious, you captured Nips Ahoy perfectly (although with better spelling).
I will fallow you girls anywhere!
ALL HAIL BAI!
FINALLY got to view the montage in all its brilliance, thanks, Heather and Jessica, for the divine madness, and my best hat at Ascot to those who joined me in commenting, you are brilliant, and it is indeed a pleasure to confirm that there are those among us who can put several sentences together which are clever and correctly spelled. Best to all until 2009, and may the fug be with us…
This was beautiful. Thanks so much for the fun!!!
OMG, this has been more addicting that CRACK. Just when I thought this website couldn’t get more addicting, you make it into a contest of who is the fugliest?? Whatever will I do with myself in the looong months until Fug Madness ’09???
Also, Bai, crazy as she is, is HOT. Like super hot. Like so hot, I’d say she’s hawt. Word.
Okay…I can totally live with Bai as Fug Champion of the year. I’m glad Peldon didn’t make it to the Final Four. I think most of us can agree that Sevigny should have made it to the Final Four, but I will stop whining about that now because Bai is nearly as deserving.
Lilo, Sev…come on girls. You know you have a rightful place in the annals of Fug. Barrage us with your scariest this year. Lilo, grab your leggings, Sev, don your finest sweatshorts jumpsuit. I wanna see you girls get out there and show em’ whose fug.
It is heaven Bai-Bai she fug so love.
That video was AWESOMELY CHEESETASTIC. Revel in your glory, Bai. You earned it. See you next year.
I have to admit, I had my doubts about Bai over Chloe and Sharon, but that final montage…man, it’s like suddenly all clear that justice has indeed been done here, as Bai is simply the Fug Jeebus.
I am sure that the others will be sharpening their game for next year. Oh the dead things Sharon will don! Oh the skank Chloe will innovate! Oh the slime Paris will stuff into a shiney dress a size too small! Oh how the Peldons will fight over dough-colored go-go boots to wear in front of the cameras. It’s a tough sport we’re in here.
I must say though I would kill for that outfit Her Beaverness is wearing in her well-played. This whole tournament has caused to me re-examine the essence of “fug.” Is fug merely fantastically ugly? Is it uglier if it is intentional? Or is it uglier if, like Sharon, you take what God and exceptional plastic surgeons have given you and put all that into into a crazy salad of split ends and mouldering animal flesh? Philosophers I am sure will continue this debate.
Fug girls for President!
Congratulations to Bai Ling! After all her hard work and Fug devotion to the cause, I’m SURE she’ll start training immediately to be in shape for 2009.
And thanks to our hostesses, Heather and Jessica. May all your Fugs be happy ones.
hi ladies,
I live in Japan, where–bless ‘em–reporters still ask Nicole Kidman to share her beauty secrets, and she answers–with a straight (rimshot!) face–that it’s all about eating and sleeping right AND NO ONE QUESTIONS THIS!
Posh hawks Samantha Thabasa handbags, no one mentions Posh’s frankenboobs or Hillary Duff’s tombstone teef, Paris Hilton is a real-life celebrity, Amy Winehouse is a nice, quiet 24-year-old girl, and Fergie’s peepee episode never even made news. In other words, I live on Fantasy Island!
You chix are my lifeline, and thanks to you I can exercise my right as an American to vote (Sevigny in ’09!).
I vote you biyatches the BEST SITE ON THE INTERWEBS!
This was so much fun!! I was so close in my prediction, which was Bai Ling with 63% of the vote!! I will be absolutely correct next year, mark my words
bahahhaa i just read her journal and she’s in vancouver, where i live. i want to fiiind her!! hahah there’s all these posts about her going to clubs i know and trying to talk about being in this restaurant that’s at the top of a highrise that rotates around… but you really wouldnt know that by her description unless you live here. wowww she is amazing… just golden.
I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed all of this: the games, the comments, the bonding, the FUG. So amazing!
Can we… maybe… have more comments open in the future? Fuggy please?
Thanks girls!
Well, heck, after one day off sick…albeit the other side of the ocean, but I do my best…BAI WIPES THE FLOOR!!!
Hey ho etc who you calling a ho and everything, I was Poshing all the way, but have to concede, Bai played a blinder.
It’s a game of tooarves…
One.Shining.Moment. And lets not forget what fug means: fucking. ugly.
Hugs to the fug girls!
I can’t believe it’s over,Í’m counting down to next years tournament already…..can Bai hold the title…..will Brown Peldon break out from her sisters shadow….can we have Intern George handing out the awards….and god love her, will Posh recover from coming second??!!
All fantastic fun Fug Girls, keep up the good fugging, and I’ll warm up my voting fingers for next time
Thanks for all the fugging madness. Still wish Posh had won but can be gracious in defeat as it was so mcuh fun, with everyone’s witty comments making it even more so!
Hail Bai Ling, Queen of the Fuggers! :p
Great work girls – already looking forward to March 2009. Are you going to post a final Bracket to complete things?
i have tears in my eyes! And the saddest part is, they’re only 50% tears of laughter. The rest is pure raw emotion…
I…..I……it’s just that….well….I love you guys…
I am happy? Bai ling won, or at least she’s deserving- she’s such a train wreck, and I love to rubberneck.
As train wrecks go, however, this dress is TAME. WHile we do in fact have full view of her underwear, we are in no danger of seeing a ladybit, there is no weird legwarmer thingy, and the dress is classic, not “wtf? share the drugs!”
though if it is a jumpsuit, it does get a notch back up to crazy.
The SONG is phenomenal! Please keep it for next year. I thrive on consistency.
Oh my goodness… this was so much fun for us!! I love reading GFY every day — I’m just sad I’m on the east coast and have to wait on West cost time!!!
You girls rock.
Thank you for a wonderful Tournament of Fug, and for letting your humble readership comment once again. Bai Ling is the perfect Fug Champion, not just for her fashion choices but for her obvious joy in what she wears. And your book rocks too. Please let us comment more!!
This was the most fun I’ve had following a bracket since I won my dad’s office pool in third grade. Thanks for putting all the work into it, can’t wait for next year.
T
This was too much fun! May I suggest a year end Fug-Off so we don’t have to wait a whole year to vote again?
thanks for running the madness, and opening the comments!
Thanks for the fun! I was pretty surprised, I really thought Sevigny would wipe the floor with everyone she came up against; her fug is in a class of it’s own.
I’m also really glad Paris Hilton didn’t win.
Slow down the reel! My only complaint is that it went to fast. Pehaps with a longer song, more time to view? I am thinking “one moment in time” by Miss Hot Mess Whitney. I am being self centered here, but I need to drink all of the fugalicious glory in! You guys rock, and now so does Bai!
What about an All Stars of Fug? Fug Fantasy league? I need more!
It’s amazing! As your video shows, you can never run out of photos of Bai Ling! You could have made a whole video of her!
Congratulations, Bai!
Yes! Excellent idea, Molly! A year end Fug-Off would be awesome! Please, Heather and Jessica?
I won my bracket!!! I won my bracket!! Go Bai! Now if only we could get Vegas to take bets on Fug Madness!
I won my bracket!!! I won my bracket!! Go Bai! Now if only we could get Vegas to take bets on Fug Madness!
I owe you so much. For the past 2 weeks- through your glorious Fug Madness- you girls have bestowed upon me the one ray of hope in the soul-less void that is my workday.
Thank you… THANK YOU.
This was the most fun on a website in ages – terrific job on the tournament, and as always every day.
PS. I almost dig the zebra dress – BAI REIGNS SUPREME!!
Thank you guys all so much! Heather and I are so pleased that everyone had such a good time. We had SO MUCH FUN with this, reading the comments and everything. We’re definitely doing it again next year, as we seriously are already looking forward to it.
I’m closing these comments now (sad face here), but it was so much fun having them that we’re considering ways of bringing them back at least periodically…more info to come later!
THANK YOU all, SO MUCH for making this so totally fun.