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WEEK OF 7.26.04
Thoughts on the last week of reality television, which includes the "Ultimate Love Test" finale, "Who Wants to Marry My Poppa?", "Trading Spaces", "Last Comic Standing", "Joe Schmo 2", along with a few thoughts on the "Amazing Race", and "Big Brother 5".
-So after all that bitching and whining that Frank wouldn't commit to her, didn't show her affection, and basically had no chance of ever winning her back, Heather decides to stay with Frank because he proposed to her? Wow. Shocking turn of events. Especially when all the commericals showed her dogging him saying there was nothing he could do to save their relationship. Funny how it works out that way. So now they may continue to prosper towards their relationship of weirdness.
-And Amber also lost her set of balls by staying with Diego. Constantly had issues with their relationship, he was holding her back, she wanted to experience the world, but yet in the end, Burlington, Vermont sounded much much better than the lifestyle in L.A. Much better. Can you blame her for staying with the weeping kickboxer? He had so much to offer her, I could understand how difficult it must've been to leave.
-I thought one of the funnier moments from the finale was hearing that Hammer/Urkel and his woman have broken up since the show ended. Can't imagine why? One of the more tolerant women you'll ever come across. Very understanding with complete control over her temper. She'll find someone soon, I guarantee it. As for Urkel, might be a little tough for him to catch on with the ladies. Trifocals and his penchant for wanting to be with 7 women at a time might deter him a bit. But hey, I wish him the best.
-So explain to me how the “Trading Spouses” payoff works. If the grandmother, who was given all $50,000 by Mrs. Biggins to buy a car, doesn’t use all of it, what happens then? Let’s say she wants to pick herself up a Ford Forcus and she still has about $42,000 left over, does she have to keep it? How strict are they on how these people have to use their money? Seems kind of hard to force people to spend money the way you want them to. But then again, what do the Nakamura’s care? They’ve probably lost more money than the Biggins have ever had.
-I’m voting for Todd Glass today on my computer. He had the best performance last night, hands down. I think I’ve heard all of Ant’s joke in an email that was forwarded to me. Boxing being a gay sport because it’s two shirtless guys, wearing silk shorts fighting over a belt and purse I know I’ve heard before. A few times, which makes me think it’s come across in an email. And if you look at the five contestants last night and go back to the night they were eliminated, I think Todd had 45% of the audience that night, as opposed to everyone else who got smoked. So I’d be pretty surprised if he didn’t move on.
-The only problem I had with last night’s show was that some comedians (and last night’s show was filmed earlier in the evening, unlike the rest of the show which was filmed months ago) used some of the material they used during the show. What if people in the audience, and I’m guessing there were a lot, had been watching the show up to this point? Made your act look pretty unoriginal, or at least parts of it. I think the only two people whose four minute routine didn’t include something they used before at some point in the show were Cory Holcomb and Ant. I know for a fact Todd, Jay, and Bonnie had a couple jokes that they retold. And come to think of it, Cory might’ve too since all he talks about are women and relationships. I’m guessing there were a couple things he’d said before that I just forgot about.
-We’re now only 5 days away from finding out “Who’s Going to Court Mr. Botox and Add Three Children to their Family?” I’m on the edge of my seat. Seeing the commercial again last night, unless the scene where he’s asking someone to marry him is a fake, that’s definitely Stacy he proposes to. But I can’t imagine the producers would be that stupid to slip up like that, so maybe in “Survivor-like” fashion, for the purpose of keeping it a secret, they filmed him proposing to both women just to throw people off. Kind of like in the very first “Survivor” where they had to film all final four contestants at LAX coming off the plane with the money to keep it a secret.
-I’m really beginning to wonder if they’re ever going to do “Who Wants to Marry my Mom?” I’ve seen the numbers the last two seasons for this show and people are definitely watching. I don’t think it would hurt to change it up next season and have fifteen 45 year old Viagara-ridden men chasing some older skirt. That could be interesting. Maybe in honor of the “Bachelor”, they’ll take the loser of Monday night’s show and make her the one all the men will want to mount. But whatever they do, make sure they keep Principal Rooney as the lie detector guy. He’s solid. Just keep him away from children.
-Two shows that I know are popular that I just have not gotten into are “Amazing Race” and “Big Brother”. I think I’ve seen about fifteen minutes total of each of them. I did see that “Big Brother” this year has some sort of incest angle going on. Or they reunited two people that never even knew they were related. And what a shocker that both of these cats are about as hickish as you can get. That never happens down South does it? Shocker. And nice to know that the host of the show, Julie Chen, is banging one of the higher ups at CBS. Can’t imagine that had anything to do with her getting the gig.
-“The Amazing Race” is just bizarre to me. And how come every finish is down the wire between two teams? At least, that’s what I’ve noticed. Maybe I’m wrong. But isn’t that editing a little too creative? There’s no way that every week someone’s racing halfway across the world, and magically, every week it’s down to two teams battling to get to the finish line. Not the most believable thing I’ve seen. But I did notice that one of the couples now hates each other after the experience. That’s a good thing. Any relationships that can crumble from a reality tv show experience can never be a bad thing.
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