The Noah Hunter Award- Supporting Character Drama

Named For: Noah Hunter played by Vincent Young in Beverly Hills, 90210
Awarded To: Best supporting character in a drama series from
June 1, 2009 - May 31, 2010
Last Year's Winner: Ari Gold- Entourage

Place. Character (Show) Points (My Vote)

10. Mark Sloan (Grey's Anatomy) 0 points

9. Crosby Braverman (Parenthood) 2 points

8. Creighton Bernett (Treme) 6 points

7. Dale Kettlewell (Greek) 9 points (3rd)

6. Davis McAlary (Treme) 11 points (5th)

5. Buddy Garrity (Friday Night Lights) 15 points

4. Roger Sterling (Mad Men) 20 points (1st)

3. James Wilson (House, MD) 21 points

Runner-Up
2. Landry Clarke (Friday Night Lights) 21 points (2nd)

and the Poolie goes to...
1. Ari Gold (Entourage)
31 points (4th)

Here with his thoughts on Ari Gold is Poolie voter, Tyson...

Before we get started I just want to warn the throngs of Pool readers that the following post will contain profanity, sexism, homophobia, and possibly a little anti-Semitism. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s congratulate Ari Gold for winning the 2010 Noah Hunter Award. If Jeremy Piven were here, I’m sure he would be psyched to win an award named after the actor who played Raoul in the 2004 film, Knuckle Sandwich.

Ari Gold does so many things well it’s hard to know where to begin. He is wonderful when he yells at gays, amazing when he yells at women, and awesome when he yells at everyone else. The beauty of Ari is that he vocalizes the things many of us would never dare to say. For example, Take this exchange between Lloyd and Ari:

Lloyd: Are you hiding something from me Ari?
Ari: Only my c*ck and my a**hole Lloyd..

…simply magical. Quotes like that really make me wish I had some openly gay friends.

The most amazing thing about Ari’s character is that he is universally liked by viewers yet loathed by most of the other characters. I think the point the writers want to convey here is that a small, angry, Jewish man is much more enjoyable from a distance and much less enjoyable close-up, when he is yelling at your mid-section.

If there is a point to the nonsensical preceding paragraphs, I guess it would be that the beauty of Ari is not the complexity of his character but the extent of his quotability. With that in mind, I will leave you with one of my favorites from this past season:

(Ari walks into yet another assistant)
Jake: Hi Mr. Gold. I’m Jake Steinberg, HR sent me up to replace your last assistant.
Ari: I don’t care. Get me Eddy Kapowski on the phone.
Jake: Uhm, any relation to Kelly Kapowski? You know, Saved by the Bell?
Ari: You’re finished. Go. You’re f*cking fired.

by Tyson Brazell

Poolies Watch- The Noah Hunter Award

Last year's Noah Hunter Award was a two-man Entourage race. This year I've moved Johnny Drama up to main character status so Ari Gold is the front-runner for the 2010 honor. Of the guys I have definitely accepting a nomination to challenge Ari, I personally like Mark Sloan the best, but think Landry Clarke has the best chance based on how many voters watch FNL. Although, Grey's has gotten so much worse over the years, Sloan has been one of the few bright spots.

Definites
Ari Gold- Entourage
Dale Kettlewell- Greek
Landry Clarke- Friday Night Lights
Mark Sloan- Grey’s Anatomy
Nate Archibald- Gossip Girl
Roger Sterling- Mad Men

As they say in whist (after you win the second trick and have nothing to lead with)...Here's where it gets tricky. I've placed Bored to Death in the drama category, but I'm still thinking about putting it in comedy. I know it is a comedy, but so is Entourage. Ted Danson's George Christopher is almost guaranteed a spot, but not quite. Teddy Montgomery is in unless he continues to use terrible dialogue with the surfer chick week after week. Dan Scott and Puck are the two closes to the edge here. If somebody from FNL steps it up, one of them might lose out.

In For Now
Dan Scott- One Tree Hill
George Christopher- Bored to Death
Noah Puckerman- Glee
Teddy Montgomery- 90210

Now for those that are close but not quite in as of now. Is this a stacked category? I love some of these dudes. Jamie Scott has gone down hill since his first arrival in Tree Hill (he also got kinda fat...what's that about). Clay is a new arrival, but been good so far. The Beav gets so little screen time at the Kappa Tau house that it's tough to make an impact. And again, I'm assuming one of the dudes from Dillon is gonna step his game up and get a nomination.

Outside Looking In
Beaver- Greek
Buddy Garrity- Friday Night Lights
Clayton Dawson- One Tree Hill
Evan Chambers- Greek
Jamie Scott- One Tree Hill
JD McCoy- Friday Night Lights
Vince/Luke- Friday Night Lights

Who else deserves some love?

The Noah Hunter Award (2009)

The Noah Hunter Award for
Best Supporting Character in a Drama Series

Rank. Character (Show)- Total Points...(My Rank)
10th. Jamie Scott (One Tree Hill)- 1 point...(5th)

9th. Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad)- 5 points

8th. Julian Baker (One Tree Hill)- 5 points...(1st)

7th. Ethan Ward (90210)- 6 points

6th. Mark Sloan (Grey's Anatomy)- 6 points...(2nd)

5th. Buddy Garrity (Friday Night Lights)- 8 points

4th. Landry Clark (Friday Night Lights)- 13 points

3rd. Lawrence Kutner (House, MD)- 13 points...(3rd)

Runner-Up
2nd. Johnny 'Drama' Chase (Entourage)- 17 points

The Poolie Goes To
1st. Ari Gold (Entourage)- 20 points...(4th)
And now with some words on Ari Gold here is Jaydon from Jaydon's Cave...

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I've been of the opinion since the beginning that Entourage is an ok show at best. Were Ari not on the show I would probably have stopped watching early season 2. Ari and Drama pretty much are Entourage as far as I'm concerned. In season 5, Ari was offered a studio head position at Warner Bros with a monumental pay hike to boot. He declined in order to keep his agent job which he had come to love and to avoid the added pressures of the studio position. He maneuvered the deal to his advantage anyway, installing Dana Gordon in his stead and getting the ice cold Vincent Chase a job on Smoke Jumpers, a move that would not pan out as well as he hoped. He also made moves to get a former colleague, Andrew Klein, back on track after he had hit rough times staging a mini-coup with his partner Barbara for new terms on their deal. Klein was thereafter employed as a new agent. In short, Ari proved to be a pretty good guy after all in season 5, helping his friends out at the expense of personal gain.

He still found the time to utter these gems though:

E: Wow, golf on a wednesday huh Ari? In the next life I wanna come back as you.
Ari: Wish I can return the compliment E, but I’d rather come back as one of Michael Vic’s dogs.

Ari: You will come back stronger then ever. Like Lance Armstrong. But with two balls.

E: Come on Ari, I’m calling as a friend, all right? I need your help. It’s a really good script, can you help me?
Ari: Yes, I can E. Lloyd! Get the number for UCLA Extension so Eric can take a course of finally learning how the movie business works.

Lloyd: What did he want?
Ari: F*ck you Yoko, get E on the phone.

(Lloyd rants about Ari leaving the company)
Ari: You throw a lot of Jew guilt for a chinaman.