1. Buck O'Brien (on left)
A twenty-seven year old manchild obsessed with his boyhood chum, Chuck, with whom he once shared an experimental sexual experience, Buck O'Brien is simultaneously charming, child-like, and creepy. Mostly creepy though.
2. Spike
A regular caller to The Best Show on WFMU, Spike is a fan of soap operas, doo-wop, and John Wesley Shipp. Weirdest moment: convinced Best Show host Tom Scharpling that he was writing a book, titled Weirdos Exposed, and actually read a passage from it on the air, then a few weeks later admitted that there had never been a book at all.
3. Mel
Mel is the biggest and, well, only fan of New Zealand's Flight of the Conchords. She is prone to creating erotic paintings of Bret and Jemaine, as well as, making unwanted sexual advances toward the duo, usually in front of her longsuffering husband, Doug.
4. Gucci Mane
It's really just because of the ice cream cone with lightning bolts coming out of it facial tattoo.
5. Pee-Wee Herman
You can't expect to live in a house full of talking furniture, stammering robots, oddball puppets, and a genie's severed head and not come out a little on the weird side. He had rat-sized dinosaurs living in his walls for Pete's sake! Rat. Sized. Dinosaurs.
6. Dustin Diamond
Remember when the weirdest thing about Dustin Diamond was that he appeared in every version of Saved by the Bell? Then he starting popping up on Vh1 celeb-reality shows, apparently having become a perfect asshole during his time away from the spotlight, and followed this up with the announcement that he was releasing his very own porn movie--in which, I believe, he performed what is know as a "Dirty Sanchez" upon one of his unfortunate co-stars--and writing a tell-all about his Saved by the Bell days. Diamond has the distinction of being our first multi-leveled weirdo. Congrats. I guess.
7. Ernest P. Worrell
Why was he always calling everyone Vern? Weirdo Fun Fact: Ernest referred to the viewing audience as Vern because he was, in fact, suffering from early onset dementia. Wow. That fact isn't really that fun, is it?
8. Anyone who has ever worn a hot dog hat
Congratulations, everyone who has ever worn a hot dog hat. Bet you didn't expect to get recognized today.
9. Stevie Janowski/Steve Little
Weirder than Stevie's slavish devotion to Kenny Powers is the fact that I still don't know if Steve Little is playing a character or not.
10. Calvin
The six-year-old co-star of the beloved comic strip series Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin reminds me of myself when I was a child, with his imagination run amok, his tendency to daydream at school, the joy he derives from irritating his father--whether on purpose or as a result of his aforementioned unbridled imagination--as well as his close friendship with inanimate objects, in particular, his stuffed tiger Hobbes. I had a stuffed seal I was quite fond of. His name was Sealy. I assure you, I had a hell of an imagination, naming my stuffed animals just wasn't a priority.
11. Cassie Ainsworth
You could call her weird and be done with it, but there is so much more to Cassie. She is also anorexic, addicted to several different drugs, occasionally suicidal, and prone to bouts of depression brought on by low self-esteem. I think acquaintance Tony Stonem sums it up best however: "She's thin, she's blonde, she says "oh wow" a lot." Yeah, that's about right.
12. This guy:
Congratulations to all of 2011's inductees. We'll see you next year. Now get home safe.
