Since we started doing these mostly annual lists back in 2000, it made sense to look back at the last 10 years and recognize the truly annoying stuff that stood out with the proper perspective. Some of my original list items are silly now (complaining about MP3 players…ha!) but there’s a lot of great annoying stuff to reflect on, with many new entries from our most recent annoying year.  Here’s to another annoying decade!

100 Kanye West
Probably the most egotistical performer without the talent to back it up of all time. Sure, he makes some catchy tunes, but rapping on top of other popular songs went out with P.Diddy. Though interrupting Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech was a douchey move, it made her more popular than ever, so you can thank Kanye for her 24×7 radio airplay as well. How could he be so heartless? I’d rank him higher, but his brilliant “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” quip on that Hurricane Katrina telethon means I’ll keep him right at #100.

99 Ed Hardy Shirts
These shirts couldn’t be any doucheier if “Summers’ Eve” was printed on them. These crappily drawn tattoo designs with bedazzler effects look like Liberace teamed up with Hot Topic.

98 Jay Leno
Stay retired you unfunny bastard! Thanks for gracefully stepping aside and letting Conan O’Brien have a chance to grow The Tonight Show, oh wait…

97 Too Big To Fail Businesses
Remember when companies that took risks actually had risk involved? Nothing’s more fair in the marketplace than a multi-billion company, who cooks their books, declares bankruptcy, then gets to return to the marketplace and compete against their rivals with no debt! Say goodbye to responsibility.

96 The Atkins Diet
You can’t even eat an apple anymore without some bacon chugging ketosis-zombie telling you about the insane amount of carbs inside. It’s bad enough that they’re selling low-carb toilet paper in the grocery stores to appeal to these idiots, but they’re putting such a drain on the beef supply that I can’t buy a good steak without taking out a second mortgage on my house. I just keep thinking about the line Daniel Stern’s character said in “City Slickers” after Curly died, “The man ate bacon at every meal…you just can’t do that!” Here’s a tip, when the autopsy they performed on the guy that founded your diet shows that his veins had turned into a network of Slim Jims and Vienna Sausages, it’s time to rethink your plan.

95 “Deal or No Deal” and “Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?”
How stupid can game shows get? Watch NBC announce “Flipping a Coin For Money” soon.

94 Torture Movies
I don’t know why Hollywood thinks we get off on seeing films where the characters are tortured and mutilated for 2 straight hours like the Saw series and Hostel. Though these movies are gradually being replaced with movies featuring tortuous acting by Ryan Reyndolds.

93 Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Why does being a runner up on Survivor and marrying a football player mean you have an opinion that matters? Of course, that logic can be applied to every panelist on The View, for that matter.

92 Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Called homosexuals “genetic mistakes” yet made no apologies whatsoever for the genetic mistake between her legs displayed in her amateur porn photos.

91 Head On Commercials
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90 Cash For Clunkers
What a great way to stimulate car sales by encouraging people to get rid of old cars, by wastefully giving up perfectly good cars that low income people could have used, and forcing dealers to dump sodium silicate into the tank to seize the engine up and make it unusuable (and worth much less to the scrap yards). This made charity donations virtually disappear and in many cases, dealers kept prices high for people who didn’t have a clunker to trade in. We’d probably do a lot better if we had a cash for clunkers program for our tired, lame, and ineffective politicians to get sent to the scrap heap and replaced with more efficient models.

89 Taylor Hicks
If this is the best singer America can come up with in a nationwide talent search, it’s time to just give up on new music forever. It’s as if someone threw Kenny Rogers and Air Supply into a blender, then threw what little talent was there away and kept the hair and awkward dancing.

88 H1N1
With all the cool names like The Black Plauge, Yellow Fever, or even the previously used Swine Flu, the best you could come up with was the name a droid that appeared for half a second under the table of the Mos Eisley Cantina?

87 Hugo Chavez
Politics aside, the guy looks like a fucking moron. Every time I see him I just imagine a fly buzzing around in his skull with the single word “Duhhhhhh” echoing back and forth between his ears.

86 David Letterman
Though I’ve always been anti-Leno/pro-Letterman, turning his serial harassment problems with his employees into audience laughs was repulsive.

85 Bluetooth Earpieces
We’ve created a nation of people who walk around talking to themselves.

84 Barack Obama
The guy can give a speech, and he energized Americans like no politician has in an awfully long time, and on Day 1 is was the same old shit we’ve seen before by everyone else that’s had that job. Hopeless…

83 Balloon Boy
Falcon Heene had all of the world worried for hours when he climbed into his father’s home-made weather baloon that broke free and led authorities on a wild air chase for hours! I’m glad he’s safe, but I hope he’s grounded for a long time for his misbehaving ways!

82 Joseph Lieberman
From his Droopy Dog vocal stylings to his playing both sides of the fence politics, he’s a horrible horrible Senator. Is it any wonder Gore didn’t win the 2000 election with this dynamo at his side?

81 Thomas Kinkade
The absolute worst art of the decade. It’s hard to feel sorry for the poor schmucks who spent thousands on limited edition artwork that later appeared in mall stores by droves next to Hot Dog On A Stick. Plus the real irony is that Kinkade’s house is nothing like the ones in his pictures. The lawn is full of weeds and there’s broken Christmas lights hanging on the fence.

80 Kristin Wiig
The single most annoying member of Saturday Night Live since that lady who did the non-stop Jan Brady impersonation, with exception of…

79 …Jimmy Fallon
This guy never met a SNL skit he couldn’t fuck up by laughing in the middle of it. Horribly unfunny, and obviously knows really bad things to blackmail about important people, parlaying his “talent” into getting a full time late night talk show gig.

78 The Kardashians
Has the bar for “celebrity” sunk so low that merely fucking a rapper and having Bruce Jenner as a step dad is enough to deserve getting your own show? And let it be said that the marriage of Lamar Odom and Khole Kardashian was the most “I don’t give a shit” over covered moment of 2009.

77 Metrosexuality
The acid was jeans of the last decade. Look gay without the actual stress of having gay sex. Hey…ugly gay guys have been doing that for years.

76 Michael Vick
Doesn’t torturing and killing dogs piss off enough people to keep him from ever working in the NFL again? Some criminals DON’T deserve a second chance. There’s people who can’t get full time work anymore because they stole food from a grocery store, and this asshole electrocutes dogs and is on Monday Night Football after a too brief stint in jail. Our priorities are screwed.

75 Myspace
Aliens are going hack into our internet and find archives of millions of glittery pink “thanks for the add” messages and decide to kill us all.

74 William Hung
“She Bangs” was awful enough to listen to when Ricky Martin recorded it. At least we know if he ever becomes a serial killer with a biting fetish, he’ll be easy to track down because that mouth full of crooked Yahtzee dice teeth would leave an unmistakable mark.

73 Penguins
Did we really need 300 different movies starring penguins. Let alone dancing singing penguins in shit films like “Happy Feet” where the penguins belt out Stevie Wonder’s hit “I Wish” with nonsense lyrics about when they were a “Nappy Headed Boy”.

72 Livestrong Bracelets
The joke’s on us, yellow rubber causes cancer!

71 Jeff From “The Wiggles”
Could they finally replace this guy? He fell asleep in the middle of a performance no less than 498 times in the last decade!

70 Spinning Hubcaps
About the only thing more asinine than this short lived trend was the Chris Webber line of shoes that had spinners on the ankles!

69 NBC’s Delayed Olympic Coverage
With the actual events “broadcast live” up to 12 hours after they really happened, there was no reason to watch them on TV, except for looking at the loving mouth of Bob Costas

68 Tea Baggers
An only slightly less offensive name than the Taint Lickers.

67 Outsourced Telemarketers
The clever way to get around the “Do Not Call” list is to have people from India call you while you’re eating dinner now. I guess when you have gods with 8 arms it’s easier to dial quickly.

66 Arnold Palmer
Only slept with one woman the whole decade. What kind of pro golfer is he?

65 Twitter
Do we really have to use the greatest communication tool in the world to let people know that you’re taking a shit?

64 The Pontiac Aztek
Ugliest car of the decade. Looks like something from the ’80s “classic” Megaforce.

63 Steve The Dell Guy
This guy made Alex Winter look like a genius.

62 The 5,000 CSI and Law & Order Spin-offs
I can’t wait for “CSI: Fresno” and “LAW and ORDER: TRAFFIC SCHOOL” next season.

61 Dick Cheney
When he’s not shooting people in the face, he was busy reminding people incessantly how the Republicans kept us all safe after 9/11. That’s like bragging about having a spotless driving record after drunk driving into a tree.

60 RETRO CULTURE OVERLOAD
We here at retroCRUSH obviously love retro-culture as much as anything, but when VH1 is busy doing “The 100 Coolest Things That Just Happened This Morning” specials, it’s time to rethink things.

59 Terry Shiavo Hype
The round the clock coverage of both sides of the argument of whether or not to pull Shiavo’s feeding tube was shameful. A South Park episode in which Kenny was on life support summed it up perfectly…you can’t die with dignity with 8,000 cameras pointed at you.

58 Lars Ulrich
Started out the decade by geting Napster to ban more than 300,000 users for downloading Metallica songs. Meanwhile, The Thompson Twins were only able to ban 4 users for downloading their hits (This joke wasn’t funny in 2001, either).

57 Health Care “Reform”
What could have been a defining moment to give every American health care, ended up being the equivalent of a coupon for asprin.

56 James Blunt’s “Beautiful”
single most annoying song of the decade. If Lloyd Dobler would have played this song on his boombox, his girlfriend would have shot him in the face and joined a convent.

55 Rob Schnieder
It saddens me to think there’s people who were actually looking forward to see Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo. During the opening weekend, it opened at #48 and was outgrossed by an art film of Jm. J. Bullock playing solitaire.

54 Pill Commercials
Ain’t nothing these pills will fix that booze can’t with less side effects! Sure, some pills are great for some people, but we’ve created a nation of zombies that won’t do anything about the root cause conditions that fuck their lives up and look for magic capsules to fix everything. Want to lose weight? How about dieting and excercising instead of taking something that makes grease drip out of your ass! Try talking to your spouse about your troubles instead of gulping down anti-depressants. And do I really need to watch a commercial for boner pills when the Teletubbies are on? Tinky winky is boneriffic enough on his own!

53 Chris Brown
Beats Rihanna so severely she looked like The Elephant Man when he was through, and only got community service as a penalty. Tommy Chong served 9 months in federal prison for selling bongs! If you still buy Chris Brown music, you’re an asshole.

52 Letting Child Molesters Out of Prison
How many times do we have to release these monsters and cross our fingers that they won’t repeat their horrible crimes, only to see it happen again and again. If you’re sick enough to rape a kid, you deserve death or permanent imprisonment. Throw out a few thousand pot smokers and you’ll have plenty of room. Who would oppose this?

51 Anna Nicole Smith
Golddigger, horrible mother, drug addict…give her a TV show! If I wanted to watch an overweight lady fart, burp, and ramble incoherently, I’d go back to my secret peephole I drilled in the Lane Bryant dressing rooms.

50 Autotune
Remember when vocals in songs didn’t all sound like the robots in “Funkytown”? What started as a neat special effect in a Cher song became a crutch for any shitty singer to turn out a record. We’ll definitely remember this a a horrible fad in music years from now.

49 Ghost Hunters
Say what you want about their skills, they can’t even find Casper, and he’s the friendliest ghost of them all. And since when does a dust particle floating by a camera lens constitute something supernatural?

48 Farmville
This stupid Facebook page is like an agriculture based Tamagotchi for the over 30 female set. Requests to help find a home for Missing Cows resulted in 30% of web traffic for all of 2009.

47 Dane Cook
Kudos to Cook for perfecting comedy without jokes, humor, or relevance. Shouldn’t observational comedy be about stuff that you can actually observe? Jokes like “Did you ever notice when a woman lies while she’s drinking Kool-Aid, she wobbles her bottom jaw back and forth like THIS?” leave me scratching my head. Also, great work having ads for Dane Cook’s Tourgasm Comedy Tour with teeny tiny print disclaiming “Dane Cook will not appear.”

46 Barry Bonds
The personfication of everything wrong with sports today. Egocentric cheaters who will lie or do anything to get ahead. Babe Ruth was a much better athlete and the dude was an overweight alcoholic who’s only workout regimen consisted of curling Johnnie Walker bottles to his lips.

45 RIAA
From suing anonymous IP addresses to old ladies who don’t even have a computer in their house, the RIAA did very little to convince people that $18.99 Ashley Simpson CDs are a great value.

44 Osama Bin Laden
Released tons of videos taunting America from unknown rocky locations for years, yet still hasn’t made the jump to Hi-Def. Get with the times, Caveman!

43 Nancy Pelosi
Wipe off the lipstick and you’ll see we’ve inadvertantly put The Crypt Keeper 2 heartbeats away from the Presidency!

42 Twilight
Got to at least give author Stephanie Meyer credit for coming up with lamer vampires than Anne Rice.

41 The Da Vinci Code
If you hold The Last Supper painting upside down in a mirror with an x-ray, you’ll see the reflection in Peter’s glass says, “Dan Brown is a really shitty writer”.

40 Staycations
Making cute nicknames for staying home because you can’t afford to go anywhere else was just another sign of the horrible economy. Furlough Fridays sounds like a promotion at a lame restaraunt, not anything to be sad about.

39 Rush Limbaugh
I’m waiting for Al Franken to write a new version of his classic book retitled “Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Racist Drug Addict!”

38 People Who Still Write Checks At The Grocery Store
Are stores really worried about making the 3 people who never heard of check cards happy by taking these things still?

37 Nigeria
By last count, Nigeria has no less than 4 million kings, princes, and bank officials with at least 80 trillion in funds that they need to get out of the country. Why Barack Obama won’t help them get this money here to bail out our horrible economy is a mystery to me.

36 Madonna
Madonna officially reached the point of “too old to stop dressing and acting that way”, shaking her pasty lizardy white ass around in videos might still do it for the Walter Cronkite generation, but nobody should have to look at that eye bleaching horror anymore.

35 Kim Jong Il
On one hand, he’s horrible in real life, but I do love the puppet version of him in Team America: World Police, so I’m torn. It’s bad enough they’re flexing their nuclear muscle, but the thought of a new version of M*A*S*H* is scarier than Armageddon! I think we need to send Alan Alda over there to bore them into surrender.

34 Jessica Simpson
Thinking Chicken of The Sea Tuna was really chicken was the least of her transgressions…her take on Daisy Duke was utterly horrible in the horrible Dukes of Hazzard remake. And while we’re on the subject, Burt Reynolds was never meant to be Boss Hogg, what the fuck?

33 Bernie Madoff and Bernie Ebbers
I think a good lesson learned last decade was not to trust people named “Bernie” with your money.

32 Fred Phelps And His Demon Spawn Church
The type of evil that would shout “God Hates Fags” at grieving families is far more evil than any evil they profess to stop.

31 David Blaine
Remember when magicians actually did magic? What kind of illusion is sitting on a pole for 5 days, anyway?

30 “Battlefield Earth”
One of the Decade’s worst movies brought the L.Ron Hubbard “classic” to life with John Travolta in a purely ridiculous outfit with tubes in his nose, shit covered dreadlocks, and an outright horrible voice. At least Barry Pepper got some work.

29 High Fructose Corn Syrup
The throwback editions of Pepsi, Mountain Dew, and Dr. Pepper with real sugar remind us of how shitty corn syrup sodas taste.Thanks for the diabetes!

28 Jeff Dunham
Shitty unfunny puppets for people who can’t appreciate the subtleties of Larry the Cable Guy.

27 Botox and Lip Surgeries
Hey, ladies…here’s a tip for you. The more you begin to look like a duck, the WORSE you look!

26 9/11 Truthers
If you ever want your brain to scramble around in frustration, just talk to one of these fools that are convinced that no actual planes crashed into the World Trade Center or Pentagon, and that the government blew them up with controlled explosions and holograms to fool us all into going to war. Point out any evidence to the contrary and it’s suspect because that’s just the government controlled media trying to cover it up. Sheesh!

25 Chris Crocker
Got a bit more than 15 minutes of fame for whining on YouTube about the media’s treatment of Britney Spears. Actually, hats off to Crocker for getting that much attention for tearing up with runny mascara with a virtuoso performance that would have made the late great Tammy Faye proud.

24 Car Ribbon Magnets
Cause nothing says patriotism than ribbon shaped flags. Every time you stick one of these on your car, you’re sticking it to terrorism.

23 Fear Factor
Nothing like watching shrieking women gobble down disgusting food while swimming around in human filth. Hell, I see that every week at Hometown Buffet.

22 Tucker Carlson
Douchey talking head with a bowtie inspired a rant from Crossfire guest Jon Stewart that contributed to the cancellation of his show and removal from CNN. Way to go, Tucker!

21 Star Wars Prequels
George Lucas literally made a time machine and shit on our childhoods. Seriously…go look at the old blue Star Wars trading cards you saved in that shoebox. They are now covered in shit! Not content to squirt his Lucasness on that franchise, he topped off the decade by making a truly horrible Indiana Jones sequel. I’m holding my breath for the inevitable Willow prequel and re-imagining of Howard The Duck.

20 Sean Hannity
This talking colostomy bag is the most smarmy piece of shit that’s ever walked the face of the earth. From his nasal holier than thou delivery to his idiotic politics of hate, he’s the personfification of everything that’s wrong with Fox News. At least Bill O’Reilly is entertaining, there’s absolutely nothing to like about this guy.

19 Perez Hilton
He went from an entertaining gossip blogger to a guy that draws dicks on underage celebrity’s faces. Class act!

18 OJ Simpson
Nice to know that in America you can get away with murder, but go to prison for taking your autographed footballs back.

17 Michael Savage
Single biggest source of anti-Muslim hatred in America. This intolerant ’50s relic is a buffoon with buffoon fans who are keeping America’s average IQ far below the moron level.

16 Courtney Love
I used to be a big fan until she started shitting nonsense out of her mouth nonstop and getting enough plastic surgery to make Joan Rivers look normal.

15 Jon Gosselin
Dick Van Patten was the father of 8 kids and his show was way better.

14 T-Pain
His latest CD features songs where he both brags about how much money he has, and the free drinks he gets for dating a bartender. Listen for his new single “Bonin’ The Hot Dog On A Stick Hos for Free Corn Dogs” on the radio soon.

13 “Snakes On A Plane”
Ha ha…man this movie was so great, cause Sam Jackson says, “I want these muthafuckin snakes off this muthafuckin PLANE!” HA HAW HAHHHH! That’s great stuff! I hope letting people on the internet steer the direction of movies doesn’t continue, otherwise we’re going to be treated to I’d Hit It: The Movie and LOL: THE MOTION PICTURE soon.

12 Mahmoud Amadenijad
You know, if you’re going to be an evil leader, you should find some clothes more menacing than khaki Member’s Only jackets from 1982.

11 Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears
From Britney’s deadly baby care techniques to Lindsay’s crazy Blackberry ramblings, these two capped off the year by seeing how many times they could show off their uncovered crotches to the press. You know you’re out of control when Paris Hilton has to pull your legs closed. If they aren’t stopped soon, they’re going to mutate into a new form of skank pandemic that no amount of penicillin can stop! Do we need 50 photographers documenting every time Britney wipes wipes her ass? Of course, she doesn’t help much when she’s using her kids to wipe it with.

10 Tila Tequila’s “Shot of Love” Show
You know you’re trashy when you make Flavor Flav’s dating show look classy by comparison. At least it’s an aptly named show, because everyone will certainly need a shot of some sort once they leave the set.

9 Excessive Facial Piercings
A can take a nose ring or tongue ring on the right person, but what’s up with these people who have so much jewelry on their face that they look like they fell into a damn tackle box? Couple this with the excessive tattooing and it’s clear that we’re going to have the ugliest crop of old people in 40 years that the world has ever seen.

8 Glenn Beck
Asked a Muslim congressman to prove he wasn’t working with terrorist, and said that Barack Obama had a “deep-seated hatred for white people” What the fuck? The levels of douchery accomplished buy this guy are astounding. Just listen to any one of his fans and feel your brain drip out of your ears.

7 Paris Hilton
I remember when people who were famous just for being famous were at least confined to the set of The Match Game. Why the hell do people keep paying attention to this lazy eyed no talent jizz-gobbler?

6 Pepsi Commercial girl “Hallie Eisenberg”
Our original #1 Annoying List Winner back in 2000 read, “She’s been annoying for a while, but reached all new levels of annoyance by filming PEPSI commercials with Faith Hill and even KISS! Why doesn’t PEPSI realize that this freakishly dimpled girl discourages folks from buying their soda? Until they have a promotion where you can hit her in the face with a shovel with each can you buy, she’s just wasted cash!” Hallie ended up being OK in the years to follow with a respectable performance in “How To Eat Fried Worms”.

5 Tainted Chinese Products
Years after getting over the whole “Pee Pee In Coke” scandals of the ‘70s, China got back into the danger spotlight with lead painted toys. Of course, you have to love the outraged parents who are so concerned about the safety of the playthings in the Chicken McNuggett Happy Meals.

4 Michael Jackson
Funny how death and nostalgia can erase the fact that the guy was a pedophile.

3 “Crank That (Soulja Boy)”
The incomprehensible lyrics in this song sound like it was written with one of those magnetic poetry sets. I never thought I’d yearn for the more hardcore days of hip-hop songs like “Chicken Noodle Soup” and “Laffy Taffy”.

2 Carrot Top
Ever before has a man made my skin crawl as much as this Raggedy Ann Tranny hellspawn. From his freakishly altered eyebrows, to his unfunny whiny “comedy” style, he’s single-handedly responsible for the increased murder rate in the USA.

1 Janet Jackson’s Breast
You’d have thought it was the beginning of the Apocalypse the way America reacted to her flooby monstrosity that popped out during the Super Bowl Half-Time Show. Of course, nobody said a word when Paul McCartney made shadow puppets with his dick the following year. We have so far to go with civil rights.