The 2009 Tater Top Awards have just been announced on E online.  After a month of fan voting, let’s see what we have here (scroll down for my take on the winners):

Best Comedy
Chuck

Best Drama
Lost

Best New Show
Castle

Best Genre Show
Supernatural

Best Grown-Up Show
Mad Men

Best Unscripted Drama
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List

Best Reality Competition
So You Think You Can Dance

Favorite Funnylady
Cobie Smulders as Robin Scherbatsky , How I Met Your Mother

Favorite Funnyguy
Zachary Levi as Chuck Bartowski, Chuck

Drama Queen
Elizabeth Mitchell as Dr. Juliet Burke, Lost

Drama King
Josh Holloway as James “Sawyer” Ford, Lost

Best Guest Star
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as dead Denny Duquette, Grey’s Anatomy

Breakout Star
Yvonne Strahovski as Sarah Walker, Chuck

Most Anticipated New Show
Glee

Best Daytime Talk-Show Host
Ellen DeGeneres

Best Late-Night Talk-Show Host
Jon Stewart

Best Reality-Show Host
Cat Deeley, So You Think You Can Dance

Best Reality-Show Judge
Tom Colicchio, Top Chef

Best Reality-Show Villain
Kate Gosselin, Jon & Kate Plus 8

Best Baddie
Michael Emerson as Benjamin Linus, Lost

Best Bitch
Leighton Meester as Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl

Best Fight
Sawyer versus Jack, Lost

Best Friends
Sam and Dean Winchester, Supernatural

Best Show of Skin
Dean (Jensen Ackles) has sex with Anna (Julie McNiven) in the back of the Impala, Supernatural

Best Chemistry
Brennan and Booth, Bones

Love Polygon You Are Totally Over
Denny-Izzie-Alex, Grey’s Anatomy

Biggest Shocker
“It’s George,” Grey’s Anatomy

Moment That Made You Want to Throw Your TV Out the Window
Juliet gives up, Lost

Sex Scene That Made You Want to Throw Your TV Out the Window
Izzie-Denny ghost sex, Grey’s Anatomy

Best Tearjerker
Juliet’s final scene, Lost

Best Line
Chuck Bartowski on Chuck: “I know kung fu.”

Show You’ll Miss the Most
Pushing Daisies

Star You’ll Miss the Most
Summer Glau as Cameron, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Among these winners, it looks like there is some strong mainstream love for “Chuck” and “Lost”- not a big surprise there.  I am very pleased to see that “Supernatural” got Best Genre Show as well as their other wins in Best Friends and Best Show of Skin (LOL!).  I’m also glad that “Pushing Daisies” got the Show You’ll Miss Most, though T:TSCC is a close second for me.  Summer Glau made the best kind of Terminator- one that you’d never expect from appearances!

All in all, I think we can take this as a strong indicator that sci-fi has secured a strong foothold in mainstream entertainment.  Hooray, sci-fi as a genre!!  Resistance WAS futile!!  :shakes some pom-poms (Never you mind what kind of pom-poms; They are sci-fi pom-poms, ok?):  Though I must bring up that missing amongst this list of winners are ‘Heroes’, ‘Fringe’, and ‘Better Off Ted’.  ‘Heroes’, I can kind of understand as this last season was not their strongest season.  There wasn’t a category that ‘Fringe’ would have been strong in since there was no Best WTF Moment category, but I’ve got to argue that Walter’s one liners are pretty damn funny.  ‘Better Off Ted’ is a great new show whose writing continues to amuse and amaze me.

What did you think of the Golden Tater winners this year?  Let ‘er rip in the Forum!

[Source] E!Online