Pickled Toad Awards

Tue Mar 25 16:53:57 UTC 2003

Here are my Pickled Toad selections, and, like Lilac, I've made
up a 
few categories of my own. I've still had to leave out a number of 
worthy filks. 

Best Beatles Song

Gail's Come Together, the character of Voldemort vividly captured
in 
just 19 lines

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/voldemort/voldemort.htm#Come_Together

Runner-Up

Hey Grim Dog, from PoA – 

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/azkaban.htm#Hey_Grim_Dog

Best Rock Song (non-Beatles)

Potter Fans by Lilac & Gail, with its TBAY setting

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/places/theorybay.htm#Potter_Fans

Runner-Up

Nicole's 21 Things I Want in a DE

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/gofire.htm#21_Things_I_Want_in_a_DE

Best Show Tune

Lisa Inman's The Only Established, via The Oldest Established
from 
Guys and Dolls

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/azkaban.htm#The_Only_Established

George and Fred introduce the Marauder's Map - The first filk to
make 
Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs scan

Runner-up 

Haggrid's Professor Lockhart from 1776 –

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/secrets.htm#Professor_Lockhart )

Best Disney Filk

Pippin's Second-Task tune Under the Lake (TTTO Under the Sea,
from 
Little Mermaid) - her internal rhymes are brilliant 

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/gofire.htm#Under_the_Lake

Runner-Up:

Voldemort as the Evil Genie of Little Hangleton, via Gryffleraverin: 
You Ain't Never Met a Fiend Like Me

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/gofire.htm#You_Ain't_Never_Met_a_Fiend_L
ike_Me

Best Snape Filk

Mariner's I Am the Very Model of an Anti-Hero Archetype - 

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/faculty/snape.htm#I_Am_the_Very_Model_of
_an_Anti-Hero_Archetype

Runner-up

Snape's "Little" List by Slytherin Sister (also via G & S)

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/faculty/snape.htm#Snape's_Little_List

Best Dramatization of a Scene from Canon:

Gail's Shrieking Shack song The Explanation (from Lez Miz'
The 
Confrontation) incorporates more actual canonic dialogue than any 
other HP filk while remaining true to the meter of the original

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/azkaban.htm#The_Explanation

Runner-Up:

Mariner's Tangled Up in Floo summarizes Harry's accidental
visit to 
Knockturn Alley early in CoS

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/secrets.htm#Tangled_Up_in_Floo

Best Slapstick treatment of a canonic scene (and best use of an 
anagram generator)

Lilac's Voldemort was Once Tom M. Riddle

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/newfilks-
mar.htm#Voldemort_Was_Once_Tom_M._Riddle

Best Setting of a "They said it couldn't be filked" song

Gail's Karkaroff to the tune of Lehrer's Lobachevsky

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/places/durmstrang.htm#Igor_Karkaroff

Best TV Theme

I Love Lucius by Serena Brewer and Audra Hammer

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/voldemort/lucius.htm

Best Movie Song

Pippin's If You'd Just Let Me Explain from the Wizard of Oz,
If I 
only had a brain

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/azkaban.htm#If_You'd_Just_Let_Me_Explain
...

Best Xmas Carols:

The Nativity filks by Melody and Pip

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/stone.htm#Halloween_Night

Best  TBAY filk

Mariner's We're All Evil

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/places/theorybay.htm#We're_All_Evil

Best Quidditch Fight Song

Mariner's Cheat Boldly Slytherin

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/students/fightsongs.htm#Cheat_Boldly,_Sl
ytherin

Funniest Filk

Mariner's One More Handshake (from Weird Al's One More
Minute) offers 
the ultimate Sirius-Severus exchange

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/gofire.htm#One_More_Handshake

Runner-Up

I'll take some credit for inspiring Pippin's Oh My Master
– on HP4GU 
I once prompted  a discussion of Huckleberry Hound (and his encounter 
a Mr. Muggles), which led to a mention of Clementine as Huck's 
favorite tune, which led to the transmogrification of Oh My Darling 
Clemetine into a narrative about the resurrection of the Dark Lord. 
The third line in the fifth stanza offers the single most hilarious 
rhyme on the entire HP filksite (the second funniest being the third 
line of the fourth stanza)

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/voldemort/voldemort.htm#My_Master,_You-
Know-Who

Best Non-Canonic Scenario:

Someone Saved My Life That Night: selkie locates  Harry 30 years 
after the Dark Lord's defeat

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/students/harry.htm#Something_Saved_My_Li
fe_That_Night 

Runner Up:

The Last Waltz: James Potter rescues Lily Evans from a life with 
Lucius Malfoy:

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/students/potters.htm#The_Last_Waltz

Best Shipping Filk:

Audra's What I Like About You, taking place at the Yule Ball

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/students/shipping.htm#What_I_Like_About_
You

Best Filk by a one-time contributor:

Bluemeanies' unambitious Slyths v. Aurors in a West Side Story 
setting:

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/students/malfoy.htm#Gee,_Auror_Moody

Runner-up:

Light Iniquity's world-weary complaint to the Dark Lord: Why Must
You 
Kill Us All?

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/voldemort/oppose.htm#Why_Must_You_Kill_U
s_All?

Best 4-year review of the DADA professors 

Pippin, of course 

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/faculty/dada.htm#All_the_DADA_Teachers

Best Serious Filk (a very small category)

Toby's Howe's The Goblet Game (set to an old folk tune Young
Edwin in 
the Lowlands) is a somber depiction of Harry's mood at the end of 
Book Four. It's so well done that I can't believe Mr. Howe
states he 
has no present plans to write other HP filks (maybe an intensive e-
mail campaign would change his mind)

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/gofire.htm#The_Goblet_Game

Best Summary of an entire book

Gail's Goblet of Fire

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/newfilks.htm#The_Goblet_Of_Fire

Best Title Transformation

I Wanna Hold Your Hand = You'll Cut Off Your Right Hand (no
prizes 
for guessing who sings this to who)

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/voldemort/peter.htm#You'll_Cut_Off_Your_
Right_Hand

Best Filk not on HPF

Who Let the Skrewts Out? By Annie

http://www.geocities.com/hpcentral/songs.html

    -	CMC

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