What is this? It’s the Graboid Apocalypse, the event that closes out the Graboid for 2011. And closes it out with a BANG. Kind of a bummer that it happens on Christmas, but hey, it’s a simple fact that some Christmases are just better than others.

Every single day of the week (almost) all year, a new Graboid, a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appeared on this site for you to try to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid was very easy and sometimes it was as obscure as obscure got.

The Graboid is a game: all of you against the image. It has its regular players, guys who down coffee, red bull and various pharmaceuticals 24/7 waiting for the next installment. They spring on it like a pack of wolves, trying to get the answer before their bleary-eyed colleagues. Then there’s the occasional slob who’ll slip in from nowhere and snatch the answer right out from under them. The reward was bragging rights for the day and a picture of a hot chick from the movie they just guessed.

What you may or may not know is that we’ve kept track of who’s successfully taken down the most Graboids. Those guys, a select few notables in particular, have been striving all year for this moment, when we tally the scores and award the prestige due to them (’cause prestige is about all that’s in the Graboid budget…if it had a budget). Burt Gummer can’t even begin to touch these guys when it comes to bagging Graboids.

Now the Graboids are pissed and 100 of them have shown up below looking for payback. Just four of these practically wiped out Perfection Valley. A c-note could very well kill everything on the site. So grab your elephant gun and your homemade bombs and get to whacking worms, because it’s kill or be killed. We’ll count the bodies, human and Graboid, along the way and see who’s left standing – or slithering – at the end of the day. Check out the Graboid Thread for continuing updates throughout the day. There’s going to be a shload of them.

HERE ARE THE RULES, AND BY RULES WE MEAN RULE:

GUESS EARLY AND OFTEN.  GUESS TILL YOUR BRAIN EXPLODES.  BUT, IN ORDER TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM HOGGING ALL THE ACTION:

ONLY ONE GUESS PER MESSAGE POST, EITHER IN THE TALKBACKS BELOW OR IN THE GRABOID THREAD.  YOU PUT MULTIPLE GUESSES IN A POST, THEY WON’T COUNT. SO DON’T DO IT!!

The totals will be counted and revealed at the 2011 Grabby Awards.

Regardless of who survives, we at CHUD wish all of you very Happy Holidays…and good medical insurance…

*Special thanks to Wormfood Miller for providing some of the films.

Answers:

# Graboid Guesser
1 Home Alone 3 Walter The Einstein Frog
2 Kingdom of the Spiders Greg Clark
3 Maximum Overdrive Manny Fraker
4 No Holds Barred Snacky Cakes (TBs)
5 Gate Jexxon
6 SomewhereTime Art Decade
7 From Here To Eternity Jexxon
8 Thunderball Jexxon
9 TrollHunter Teitr Styrr
10 Blood of Heroes Jexxon
11 Falcon and the Snowman None
12 Thing (2011) PAJohnDoe78 (TBs)
13 DayTriffids None
14 They Were Expendable Hammerhead
15 Darkness Teitr Styrr
16 CHUD Jexxon
17 Sneakers Teitr Styrr
18 Disturbia Walter The Einstein Frog
19 Zero Effect Jexxon
20 King’s Speech Hammerhead
21 Score Art Decade
22 Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets Teitr Styrr
23 LostHighway Jexxon
24 Always Jexxon
25 Labyrinth Walter The Einstein Frog
26 Saturn 3 Snacky Cakes (TBs)
27 Viva Las Vegas Hammerhead
28 For Your Eyes Only Manny Fraker
29 Captain America (1990) None
30 Sophie’sChoice Manny Fraker
31 Verdict Manny Fraker
32 A Walk on the Moon Jexxon
33 AboutLastNight Manny Fraker
34 Irreversible Walter The Einstein Frog
35 Tales From the Darkside the Movie None
36 American Graffiti Manny Fraker
37 In the Company of Men Manny Fraker
38 Deliverance Manny Fraker
39 Heist Walter The Einstein Frog
40 Towering Inferno Walter The Einstein Frog
41 Touch of Evil Manny Fraker
42 Ladyhawke Teitr Styrr
43 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Teitr Styrr
44 BroadcastNews Jexxon
45 A Christmas Story PAJohnDoe78 (TBs)
46 Hook None
47 In Bruges Teitr Styrr
48 Striptease Walter The Einstein Frog
49 StreetsGold Manny Fraker
50 Clownhouse None
51 Harlan County USA Clarence Boddicker
52 Superman Returns Jexxon
53 Vertigo Jexxon
54 Syriana Jexxon
55 Ivanhoe Walter The Einstein Frog
56 Smilla None
57 Gone With The Wind Clarence Boddicker
58 Duellists Jexxon
59 Clue Manny Fraker
60 Prince of Tides Jexxon
61 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Jexxon
62 Drowning Pool Manny Fraker
63 Jason and the Argonauts Jexxon
64 Twilight Jexxon
65 Great Train Robbery Walter The Einstein Frog
66 Shaft Jexxon
67 Expendables Walter The Einstein Frog
68 Devil PAJohnDoe78 (TBs)
69 You Only Live Twice Manny Fraker
70 Legend Walter The Einstein Frog
71 Blade: Trinity None
72 Transformers Teitr Styrr
73 Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo Hammerhead
74 Iron Man PAJohnDoe78 (TBs)
75 Beyond The Mat PAJohnDoe78 (TBs)
76 French Connection Manny Fraker
77 Yellow Submarine Hammerhead
78 Burlesque None
79 Trancers Walter The Einstein Frog
80 Diving Bell and the Butterfly Jexxon
81 Antichrist Jexxon
82 Children of Men Soilent Green
83 Switching Channels Jexxon
84 Bullitt Manny Fraker
85 Showgirls Manny Fraker
86 Getaway Manny Fraker
87 In The Bedroom Jexxon
88 Mogambo Jexxon
89 Less Than Zero None
90 Tourist Trap Clarence Boddicker
91 Invasion of the Body Snatchers Walter The Einstein Frog
92 Hunchback of Notre Dame None
93 Fat City None
94 The Green Slime Walter The Einstein Frog
95 Clockwork Orange None
96 American Ninja Walter The Einstein Frog
97 The Hand Snacky Cakes (TBs)
98 Critters 4 None
99 DOA None
100 Puppet Master 2 None

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