Pet Rock: The Pop Culture Blog

Tuesday night, Pet Rock watched the second presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain. It was somewhat uneventful in terms of memorable moments.

Wednesday afternoon, Pet Rock got to thinking about debates and which celebrities we'd like to see at the podiums on opposite sides of our TV screens, or walking around a carpeted floor in a town hall setting.

Thursday, Pet Rock put those thoughts in writing. And here we go with our top five celebrity debates we'd love to watch, analyze and then buy the DVD. (At the end, you can vote on who you think you'd win each debate.)

5) Kanye West vs. 50 Cent

I feel like we already saw this debate when 50 Cent said if his "Curtis" album didn't out-sell Kanye West's "Graduation" album, he'd retire from making records. But, you just know Kanye would drop some serious one-liner bombs, and that keeps this pairing in the top five. Kanye won the record sales debate, and we're fairly certain he'd clean house in this one, too.

4) Pink vs. Jessica Simpson

If you study Pink's career, you'll notice she tends to hammer the establishment, and more often than not, the punky pop rocker will jab sweet ol' Jess. But something in my brain says that at some point, Jess would flip the switch and launch a verbal attack the likes of which we haven't seen since Ari Gold fired someone on "Entourage."

3) Christina Aguilera vs. Britney Spears

The tabloids love to pit these two against each other, what with them both being on "The Mickey Mouse Club" at the same time and launching their pop careers at the same time. That's all it takes for media folks to draw that forever parallel. But with both Britney and Christina having new singles out, it seems like this would be an interesting discussion of the (their?) issues.

2) Angelina Jolie vs. Jennifer Aniston

Just take a quick look at the Jolie-Pitt family Christmas card and you know who will win the foreign policy argument. But Aniston would smoke Jolie on domestic issues and would carry the scorned woman vote by a margin reminiscent of Reagan vs. Mondale in 1984 (49 states to 1).

1) Lauren Conrad vs. Spencer Pratt

Is there a better hatred on television right now? OK, probably, but if MTV can milk it for this long, so can Pet Rock and the rest of America. If the debate commission allows for video, perhaps Spencer could win this one. But he's got Heidi Montag helping him prep, while L.C. has just about everyone else in the Montag-Pratt family feeding her juicy talking points.