AFI's DTMT List! Number 9: Milkcrate

We now return to CBS's presentation of "AFI's Three Years, Three Laughs: The Top 12 DTMT Movies of All-Time" with what most consider to be the most touching and deeply-felt motion pictures in the DTMT canon. Released in the tumultuous spring of 2008, the film "Milkcrate" immediately touched an emotional cord with the handicapped, and all those who love or enjoy making fun of them. Based on the true story of Fred Milkcrate (which itself was later found to be completely untrue and actually just part of an insurance scam) the film told the story of the world's first mentally retarded heart surgeon. Critics lauded it immediately and credited the film in succeeding where other "retard pictures" such as Radio, Forrest Gump, and The Other Sister had failed—namely that it had the retard character kill dozens of people, whether by accident or pure retard rage. Though most people remember the film for Steve Bossous ("Steve Loves Porno", Militant Black Warrior") and his movingly retarded lead performance, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for "Best Tard Scream", the film was notable for many reasons.

- Blaine Perry as "Doctor Coach", once again disgracing his family with another over-the-top Texas accent.

- Pat Stango forgetting to pick up suspenders for his part of the evil Mayor, and instead tying together some elastic bands that he found on the floor five minutes before shooting.

- DTMT co-producer Eliza Faria-Santos, and her bizarre insistence that her character should be inexplicably covered in peanut butter during the film's most crucial scene— a scene which most critics later agreed to be one of the bravest ever committed to celluloid.

- The first depiction of the DTMT "Mayor rule", which is that if someone kills the mayor then that person automatically gets to become mayor.

- Lastly, a little known fact is that the film was originally set to be called "Stereo", with the main character carrying a stereo around is chest, but as it were Pat & Blaine both forgot to bring a stereo to the filmshoot. When they saw a half broken milkcrate on the floor they quickly decided that the milkcrate would be funnier, and also they wouldn't have to go home to get a stereo. Thus, cinema history was made.

   Now, we present to you the number 9 film on our list, the inspirational tale: MILKCRATE...