Wow, the surprises keep coming.

I'm still watching the reality shows and they were surprising this week.

On Top Chef Las Vegas, the contestants were surprised when they learned they had to cook vegetarian dishes in a steakhouse. Also, the shocked looks were hilarious. Also surprising, how weird the dishes were considering people all over the world eat vegetarian. The English eat rarebit, the French soufflees, the Italians all kinds of pasta with marinara sauce and even the Germans eat speitzel in cream sauce. A pleasant surprise was seeing Mike I. packing his knives and leaving. Hee hee hee.

On Project Runway, the contestants had to make something inspired from a previous winning look. Poor Logan, he's the only one left who's never won. It actually wasn't a surprise he was booted. His track record isn't that great. Gordana reallly needs to get away from her grey color. I know growing up in Bosnia couldn't have been fun, but you're in America now. Cheer up and get some real color into your designs.

On Models of the Runway, I was finally pleasantly surprised to find the models being competitive. Sure they talked behind each other's back before but this time Katie wasn't backing down on her double stick tape accusation. They need to talk to the Runway Moms. You never heard of spraying hair spray on yourself to keep your gown from falling down? BTW, the critics hate this show too and I really like it. I wasn't surprised at who was left out of the choosing at the end. Good thing Althea had first choice. Otherwise Irina may have stolen Tanisha.

Dancing With the Stars finally started weeding people out with double eliminations. This is a little backwards. They should've started with double eliminations to get the really sorry dancers out faster and allow more time in the earlier shows. Now we have to boot people we really like. Yes, I'm talking about Melissa Joan Hart who didn't tell people she had the flu. No boo hooing from her. Meanwhile, I'd like to ask, "What the heck is going on?" Why are there people still on the show who I don't care to see? Yes, that's you Joanna who?, Karina and her skeletal partner Aaron. Who said Aaron Carter is a star? The most he's known for is having Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan fight over him. Meanwhile, Joanna Krupa's trout pout is too scary for words. I think she only made it because she scored so high. Maybe the audience will get lucky and she'll get the flu or trip on her gown. We can only hope.

RW/RR Challenge: The Ruins was really good. BTW, Joel McHale is right. The show's logo does say The Runs. As usual the team challenge was no contest. At least they evened up the teams at a good time. I don't think they should even up the teams in relays. It would make the champions want to boot people to get rid of dead weight. Anyway, I was sure Veronica was going to go to the individual challenge but because of some wishy washiness and miscommunication, she lucked out and Ibis, who has been hiding out all season, was voted in. Hee hee hee. Man, who would think that Wes would volunteer for the challenge again? Is he crazy? His luck ran out this time because this challenge was made for the quick and sprightly Cohutta. Bye Wes! Surprises all around.

The Amazing Race was really surprising. I thought for sure that girl would eventually bite the bullet and go down the waterslide when she saw the Globetrotters show up. My jaw fell to the floor when she let them have their turn and pass her up.

Survivor was really surprising. I'm surprised how stupid the contestants are. They haven't learned to get rid of the immunity idols when they can. They haven't learned you can't really trust anyone. Somehow, they haven't learned they have to keep at the task during the challenges and stop looking to see what the other team's doing. Mostly, nobody seems to recognize strategizing when it's happening right in front of their face. Hmmm... 4 guys vote for Shambo, I wonder if they're in an alliance? Watch your backs ladies. You're chaff in a pile of wheat.

So anyway, the reality shows keep it real and keep the surprises coming. I'll comment again next week.