The Official Site hosted the third edition of The Avery Awards and hundreds of votes were collected. We've included the final results below. The winners were announced during a special presentation of the Official Podcast on July 27, 2011. It is interesting to note that the team at The Ceiling Fan Podcast wrote and produced this episode of The Avery Awards.
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Brock and Bob are on their way to the Avery Awards ceremony for the "Green Ring Conspiracy" when Jesse arrives with bad news — a plane has crashed into the awards venue.
Best Actor
Robby Bruce as Buck Oliver
31.5%
Chad Reisser as Monty Whittaker 18.4%
Whit Hertford as Jay Smouse 29.2%
David Selby as Jebediah Skint 11.6%
Zach Callison as Matthew Parker 9.4%
Best Actress
Kimmy Robertson as Penny Wise
31.1%
Katie Leigh as Connie Kendall 26.6%
Cristina Pucelli as Emily Jones 11.3%
Diane Hsu as Agent Tanner 7.1%
Audrey Wasilewski as Katrina Meltsner 23.8%
Best New Character
Buck Oliver Fans especially connected with the character of Buck and his genuine conversations with Katrina Meltsner throughout the saga. Fans expressed a desire to see Buck Oliver appear in future seasons of Adventures in Odyssey.
44.5%
Penny Wise 22.8%
Jebediah Skint 7.1%
Detective Don Polehaus 25.6%
Best Quote
Buck & Jay Buck: "You have a thing about big trucks?"
Jay: "Oh yeah. Ever since I was a kid! You know... um... voom, honk! honk! Voom, urrt! Pull it over, back it up and parallel park… with a truck."
Buck: "If you ever want to make friends, don't ever do noises like that again, okay?"38.9%
Jay: "That was no man. That was Matthew!" 24.8%
Eugene: "I enjoy old fashioned carnivals, apart from the freak show displays. They remind me too much of my first year in middle school." 9.9%
Polehaus: "I once kidnapped a cow after hitting my head in a car
accident. But that's another story for another time."6.6%
Wooton: "You know, I've always found that running along the top of a train gives me inspiration." 19.8%
Best "Whita-cliffhanger"
Cliffhanger involving a relative of Whit
The infamous Stiletto is really...Jason Whittaker! (pt. 8)
74.2%
Monty is one of the plane crash victims! (pt. 1) 10.6%
Will Janna (Monty's mother) fly out to Odyssey?! (pt. 2) 2.3%
Monty disappears from the hospital! (pt. 2) 5.5%
Clown Monty goes missing from the carnival! (pt. 6) 7.4%
Best Writer
Paul McCusker The poll question was a little comical for voters, but ultimately Adventures in Odyssey writer Paul McCusker received the accolades.
61.1%
McCusker, Paul 9.6%
Paul E. McCusker 14.6%
P. McCusker 3.8%
PEM 10.9%