Hero to Zero in one show

Hello folks. I seem to be in an every other week pattern here. Sorry about that.

Hell's Kitchen missed a week so we're off the hook there.

On the Apprentice, the schlub who said he could handle the wild guy found he couldn't. Actually, the wild guy wasn't the problem. The teams had to do fashion shows for shoes. Wow! It was a total plug show where they not only said the name of the shoes for the whole show but showed every style they had. I'm not going to say what they are cuz I'm not getting paid ha ha ha. I did notice the biggest star to attend the fashion shows was Ivanka Trump. What? No Andre Leon Talley? Anyway, it was literally a shoe-in when the women won this task. Duh. In the end, the most boring guy on the men's team was made the MC and he sucked so hard, he was gladly fired by Trump and then to put the icing on the cake, the project manager was fired too. Hee hee hee! (giddy laughter). The next week, the teams had to sell pedi-cab rides. The women made a bad choice to try to sell them to locals. Okay, in the first place, New Yorkers aren't taking slow pedi cabs cuz they have a real life and not all day to get things done. In the 2nd place, New Yorkers don't need to have the fun of seeing the city. They see it everyday and it's not that much of a novelty and it's not like there's not a thousand and one pedi cabs every day of the year. So the men won this task and there was much finger pointing. Just like on Survivor, all of a sudden there's people I never noticed before. In the end, that girl who didn't seem to be on the show before, was fired for being...not there. Hmmm...

On Dancing With the non-Stars, the Situation from Jersey Shore was sent back to Jersey. Yeah, dude, we're sick and tired of your face on our TV screens. Oh, and he couldn't dance. On the 2nd week, the producers are scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas and dug up a used one. The dancers did a TV theme. Florence Henderson used the Brady Bunch theme and it didn't go over too well w/ the judges. Bristol Palin used a Monkees theme and just looked dumb. In the end, the whole world was surprised when Flo Henderson got the boot. The judges are still raving about Jennifer Grey and Carrie Ann Inaba finally said what we were all thinking from the beginning, "This is your show, girl." Uh huh.

I wanna comment on Chuck. It's become another Remington Steele. Chuck's hiding who he is from the real world but has become cool with a sleek haircut, a hot girlfriend and better clothes. Somehow, they've fallen in the pit of mundane-ness. Casey has now become the cool part of the show. Too bad. All of us geeks lived vicariously through Chuck but now he's out of our league.

I finally saw the ending of Money Hungry on-line and it wasn't a surprise at all. Mission Slimpossible won and not much weight was lost. There wasn't any amazing body transformations like you see on Biggest Loser, so when they showed before ande after pictures, it was hard to tell. They needed to consult Celebrity Fit Club producers. The families were brought in and there seemed to be fake crying. Really stupid.

Survivor mixed up the teams. I kind of saw this coming. Nyonka is separated from her buddies and the young people have the majority on the tribes. The young people proved they don't like bossy older people and voted off the black guy who had the brains in the tribe and he was the most fit of the older people. The second week, they had double elimination with each team voting someone out. The challenge involved digging up a ring and getting it into a butt basket. I loved that older women from each tribe won because they got individual immunity. Then they tossed the rings to determine who would get the luxury prize of a feast. La Flor won that one. So the older people are trying to scramble and connive to stay alive but aren't very good at it. Marty stupidly told everyone he has the HII so the tribe is trying to flush it out. On the former older tribe, Eve was the odd girl out and was voted out. That was dumb since she was the youngest of the older tribe and more fit than everybody else. On La Flor, Marty convinced Fabio he was a chessmaster. Har har. So Fabio wants to align with someone to make up for his lack of a brain. The vote was split and Kelly B. (the amputee) was blind sided and on the chopping block. There has been no pity or love for the amputee girl from tribemates or the producers. After the re-vote, Kelly B. was voted out and boy did she give her teammates a dirty look. Meanwhile, the other team was eating their feast. Whatever. It was beef and chicken kabobs and the highlight seemed to be the ice cubes in the iced tea.

On Top Chef: Just Desserts, the chefs have split into one cool group and outsiders. It's so weird that the best looking guy on the show is an outsider. Anyway, the teams had to make a dessert/food dress. 2 girls landed in the bottom because they made their dresses out of vegetables. Hello, remember the name of the show? They used mannequins so I wondered why they didn't just use fondant and icing and pipe the darn things on. Morgan, the straight guy, won with a chocolate dress that was really cute and he made a purse to go with it too. Anyway, Heather's return didn't last and she was booted again. Last week, the chefs had to make black and white desserts to go with a newspaper theme. I've made black food but not intentionally and it was never edible cuz it was burnt. The chefs had a hard time finding black foods and did a lot of chocolate. The skinny outsider girl made some weak petitfors but they must've been good. The black girl made an ice cream that was neither white nor delicious and was given the boot. This time, Zack won and he didn't even use disco dust.

The Next Iron Chef had the chefs making dishes out of their catch of the day. It was cool to see the women were better at fishing than the men. The men didn't look happy about it either. I'm thinking Ming Tsai must go to the end because they hardly show him at all. There were a lot of scorpion fish caught. Chef Forgione won the quick challenge and took Tio's snapper. I saw that one coming. In the end, he won the elimination challenge too and... I can't remember who was told to go. Last week, the chefs had to transform dishes. The chefs are too critical of Chef Tsai which makes me think they really think he's the one to beat. They didn't think making a sauce into meat wasn't transforming? Then Chef Tio was deemed the winner of the quick challenge by her fellow chefs. The chefs went to the fair to transform fair food into cuisine. In the end, Chef Tio won again, although I thought Chef Tsai's food looked and sounded amazing. Chef Estes made caramel apples badly and was told to go. Donatella Arpaia confirmed what I always thought. She's not too smart and ate the peel on Chef Tsai's banana in his dessert. Duh! BTW, that small amount won't kill her so NBD. We also found the judges don't like being served something they've already had before.

On the Amazing Race, the teams first helped build the school in Ghana. I tell ya, those African people can't seem to do anything for themselves. The teams finally got out of the heat and went to Iceland. It was summer so the snow was sparse. The Glee team thought they were athletic and couldn't get down the sledding track w/out half killing themselves. The teams had to drive themselves a lot and it seems the ER docs had luck, athletic skills and good navigation cuz they came in first. The Glee team came in last and took it well. Last week, the teams went to Norway and I have to say, the Norwegians don't look like they love Americans. The ER docs decided to do the fast forward. How is it that the vegetarian people always seem to end up eating huge amounts of meat? So they had to eat a sheep's head. Ew! I about barfed when the one girl ate the eyeball and deemed it crunchy. Meanwhile, her vegetarian friend is gagging the whole time, but they did it and I loved the comments when the Norwegian guy wouldn't even crack a smile at them, "You're very inspirational." If that's a treat at Christmas, I don't even wanna know what they eat the rest of the year. The other teams had to do that ascender thing. I was very surprised that the women did it so well, especially that goth chick. The Korean team is doing well due to the fact that the son is very considerate of what his father can and cannot do. I have to say, the challenges aren't exactly tourist traps. So the ER docs came in first, one team got to the fastforward and didn't understand what the "taken" sign meant and the volleyball team was so behind, they had no hope of catching up. You can tell it's not even close when the shadows of the day aren't the same, but the producers like to make it seem like it's close. I like the women's teams this year. They're admirable and not bitchy to each other or other teams.

Okay, so I'll close with a real show. $#!& My Dad Says is good but not for the right reason. I was all geared up to enjoy a salty old veteran who doesn't give a crap what other people think. The problem is, there's absolutely no chemistry that says these people are related. Shatner just seems like that quiet guy next door. He's not quick or loud enough and his face doesn't show his crotchety-ness like it should. The son is a wuss bag that we all want to beat up. The show's really funny part is Sullivan and Sasso. These 2 were on Mad TV together and have not only great chemistry but comedy chops to go with it. They way overshadow everyone else and are the really funny part of the show. I think it would be better if the crotchety old father lived with them and they played off of each other more. Just because you base a show on a real life concept, doesn't mean you have to stick to it. It's all about what the audience likes.

Well, that's all for now. See you next time.