End of Seasons

Well, it's the time of year when series shows and reality shows are winding up for the year. Luckily, TV never quits so some reality shows are still going for a few weeks and some will be starting new seasons soon.

I want to commend The Big Bang Theory for keeping it funny. This show is a stand out for being different, quirky, and real at the same time. The ensemble of 5 is outstanding and now that Leonard and Penny are broken up again, it can focus on the funny. The audience doesn't feel like voyeurs. The guest appearances are amazing which shows how much respect this show has. Do you have to be brilliant to understand the humor? No, but it helps.

The Biggest Loser had it's last episode before the live season finale. The final four contestants go home for a month and then we see how they do. Why is Koli in Vegas especially to train? Is he going to live that way all his life? Of course not. They had to show Bob and Jillian meeting up with each contestant at their locations. Why? On to the challenge. The grueling marathon. I really felt sorry for Michael because even though he may be less fat and more fit, he's still obese. 26 miles of running can't be fun on the joints and feet. During the marathon, they brought out past contestants. I'm wondering why past winners Michelle and Danny didn't show up? It makes you wonder if Michelle gained her weight back and they don't want to show her. Oh well. Darius showed how strong he was by winning the marathon in the best time ever. Then they all came together to weigh in. This time, there wasn't an elimination cuz America gets to vote who stays in the top 3 for the finale. I never think this is very fair cuz it's most likely that 4th person is going to win the at home weight loss prize since they thought they might be in the final 3. But I digress. The weigh in was shocking with Darius gaining 2 pounds but looking great. He gave a lame excuse of training for the marathon. Oh hello. You're supposed to carbo load the day before the marathon not everyday of the month before. Bob and Jillian didn't buy it. I like it that Jillian tells people right out what a bunch of bullshit they're giving. Once again, I have to say, these people need to remember to poop before the weigh in. Oh well, on to the finale next week. I'm expecting to see some really amazing results.

Dancing with the (non)Stars was the same old stuff. I only watch the results show now and only because I can't write this without knowing who gets booted. The results show was boring and old. They did have the college teams compete and that Utah University team was so much better than the other team, the other team seemed downright geriatric. It seemed quite unfair when you consider the first team was a brand new team and the Utah team was full of people who were majoring in ball room dance. When the Utah team won, it was a real Duh moment. So, in the end, Chad Ochocinco was eliminated along with his partner Cheryl. I thought they were supposed to be on Jimmy Kimmel, but they never showed up and there was no mention of them on his show. Very curious. Oh well. If Nicole Scherzinger doesn't win this competition, I'll know America really does have an influence. She has 3 big advantages in the finale with her free dance. Her partner is a great choreographer, she has the experience and talent to do that complicated choreography and they don't have to do the dance in hold. So big yawn for the upcoming finale. I do want to say, Brooke had the ugliest dress I've ever seen on the show. It literally looked like a potato sack prom dress with potatoes in it.

Top Chef Masters is still going great. It's because they have a good formula and stick with it. This season, there's not as much friendly camaraderie as last year. The quickfire had the chefs making a dish for an olympic swimming champ and Judge Raynor, out of legs of animals (crab, chicken, frog, octopus). I found out through his blog, he was a last minute fill in for a no show who I'm guessing was probably also an athlete. Jay Raynor was very grumpy and had nothing really good to say about any of the dishes. Susan Fenniger won with her chicken dish. I'm thinking she's probably the chef to beat in this competition. She cooks her style and knows what people like to eat. The elimination challenge was a tailgating party. I also found from the blog, it wasn't real but set up solely for this show. Whatever. The only advantage Susan got was a USC cap and apron. Really? Poor Susar Lee; he keeps getting caught in challenges that are really Americana culture and unknown to him. I like his style. He sees what he has to work with and just dives in and makes great food. The judges hated his European semolina dumpling but loved his Korean Beef. Watch out with fusing cuisines. Some really don't work well together. Marcus Samuelsson saved himself with sliders. Chef Mantiano made pizzas on the grill. The judges knocked him for having too crisp crust. Huh? That's what you want in a pizza and the grill does it really great. In the end, Mantiano was sent home but it's the part in the competition where everybody's great and it's not who made the worst dish but who made the least great dish who gets booted. Chef Waxman is looking tired and over the whole competition. I'm thinking he's going to go soon too. Susan Fenniger won this elimination too making her the highest money earner in the competition.

The Challenge: Fresh Meat is really heating up. Wes's alliance has fallen apart from too much betrayal and manipulation. It doesn't matter how friendly you are to people, if you bite them in the butt, they won't ever trust you again and tend to resent it too. Kenny has taken advantage of this situation by picking up the loose pieces and actually being nice to people. The challenge was more fair. The teams had to swim out to a picture of a puzzle, swim to shore and then put huge pieces in place to match the picture. The other people couldn't see the picture or the people working on it so it was totally no advantage to go last. Also, it was a contest to see who could think straight after all that swimming. I love Landon. He's totally cute and smart too. He and Carly won. She's proving to be smarter than she looks. Landon proved his smarts too by going against Wes who betrayed him. Wes and his partner and Evelyn and her partner were sent to the Exile challenge. This time Wes was the block of cement with his partner shouting at him to keep going. In the end, Wes and his partner lost and were sent home. Now it's just Evelyn who should learn her lesson about being bitchy and controlling to people.

I was right about America's Next Top Model. The final 2 girls had to do a commercial, beauty shot photo shoot, magazine cover photo shoot and a runway show which seemed all in one day. My model friend says this is typical except she'd probably have a couple of fittings and go sees thrown in too. Tyra had to prove she's not just a model and did the photography for family photo shots with the 2 finalists. Where was Raina's mother? The runway show was for Anna Sui and had other girls from the season walking in it too. I have to say, this was the ugliest collection of clothes I've ever seen from this designer. It looked like Pippi Longstocking on crack in muted colors. Next time Ms. Sui, wear your glasses when you design clothes. Luckily, these models can make a pile of shit look good. Even though Christa's Cover Girl shot was terrible, she still won. Yeah, in her photo, she looked bored, half asleep and old. It was interesting to note that when they showed her as the winner, her Cover Girl photo wasn't used. I'm thinking, they're probably going to reshoot it. Raina took the loss really well and I was glad to see she finally learned to do a good walk.

Finally, The Celebrity Apprentice had it's finale. I was wondering if Brett Michaels would actually appear and how he'd look if he did. I have to say, the producers did a good job on this finale. They jumped from short scenes with Donald asking dumb questions to showing the ongoing final project to introducing the past contestants enough that it wasn't too stupid. The only things I objected to were letting Blagojevich talk cuz he's an idiot and letting Cyndi Lauper sing. I know it sounds crazy, but I hate watching people sing. It reminds me of those boring recitals I had to attend in school. I have to ask, who did Cyndi Lauper's hair? It looked like they styled her hair with a mixer. The end of the project culminated in the final 2 people having to present their product, ad and commercial to a roomful of execs and people. Holly Robinson Peete was so businesslike it was boring. I found, when Brett Michaels works without a script, he does much better cuz he can be himself. He also showed he really knows what works in advertizing: humor, splashy ads, and celebrity. Finally, we got to see the 2 finalists. Michaels did look like he'd been through the wringer. He was a little gaunt, pale and tired looking but kudos to him for even being there. I'm also thinking he probably had some pain narcotics on board to help him even stand up. The ending was really abrupt. Donald Trump proclaimed, "Brett, you're hired." and then the credits started to roll. Geez. Well at least we did see 1 minute of Brett being congratulated by the other contestants and I think everybody and their dog was happy with the ending. Personally, I think there would've been a riot in the streets if Brett Michaels hadn't won. WTG dude! Now go home and get well.

That's all for this week. See ya round folks!

Woo Hoo and Wah Wah

OMG, say it ain't so. The news is out that NBC is cutting Law & Order. This series is one of the longest running series in television history and has consistently maintained it's quality while giving birth to other great spin-offs too. Everyone seems to be saying it hasn't run for more than 20 years, but I think it has. I graduated college in May of 1990 and I definitely remember watching the brand new series in the basement of my dorm during college. Anyway, I'll miss this great show but it will live on in re-runs and there are a ton of those.

Dancing With the (non)Stars finally found it's funny bone again with Kenny Main, and his sidekicks doing their schtick. It's great stuff and it was fun. Then they showcased white kids trying to dance latin. Um...I don't care that they're college dance teams. They were terrible. Len, Carrie Ann and Bruno gave very lenient scores. I guess when you throw out a lot of bones, you're going to get a lot of dogs. So in the end, America voted out the last funny lady of the show. I'll miss Niecy Nash and her way sexy partner Louis VanAmstel. I'll eat a donut in her honor. Later on Jimmy Kimmel, she had everybody in stitches including Jimmy.

The Biggest Loser is winding down. This was the last week at the ranch. First they brought back last season's winner. I can't remember her name but she's just as homely as ever. Then they brought in past winner Eric who had gained his weight back. Actually, he looked better than the last time we saw him at the Where Are They Now show. It's a good object lesson; you have to work your ass off for the rest of your life or you'll gain that amazing weight back. Okay, so then there was a lot of blah blah blah. Then they did the challenge where they started out lugging all their former weight up and down sand hills. At each hill, they could unload the weight they lost that corresponding numbered week. It was great to see them really throw that back pack over the hill at the end. Even more impressive; when the first finishers were done, they went back to help the end people. So Darius won and instead of taking the ten thousand dollars, he took the 1 pound weight advantage. Then they did a lot more blah blah blah. So much, I was sick to death of hearing everybody's voices before the show was over. I'm thinking, "Eat so you'll shut up." I do feel for Micheal. He kept asking, "Who goes through a whole season of a weight loss show and comes out fat?" Dude, you're thinner than when you started and way more fit. This time, there was only a red line and the person to fall to the bottom of the weight loss chart was instantly sent home. It happened to be Sunshine but she took it pretty well. It's great to see how nice all the remaining contestants are to each other.

Top Chef Masters had a fun quickfire challenge. They had to cook dishes for the characters of The Simpsons. The judges were Matt Greoning himself, a writer and Hank Azaria. 3 dishes were for 3 of his characters which made it really fun when he'd do the voice while tasting the dish. Even funnier was Susar Lee's saying Marg-a when he pulled out his knife and read it. Moonen cracked up and then corrected him. You mean the whole world doesn't know The Simpsons? ha ha ha Anyway, it was nice to see the chefs didn't go all fancy gourmet. Moonen won with his Sloppy D'oh. Fenniger definitely didn't know Moe cuz she could've gone totally crazy with the dish to go with that creepy whack-a-doo character. For the elimination challenge, the chefs had to work with cringe-worthy meats. They had to do surf and turf with uncommon things like kangaroo meat, monkfish liver, geoduck and sea cucumber to name a few. Susan Fenniger got to choose last but made it work so that she was in the top 3. Susar Lee made culinary art with his dish and won. His black chicken and monkfish liver weren't unfamiliar ingredients but sometimes people can take familiar stuff and really make crap so he did a good job all in all. Chef Jody was eliminated.

Survivor had a huge week. First on Thursday they had a regular episode that had the contestants meeting up with a loved one. I could've really done with less footage of Rupert snogging his wife. Then they did the old throw water from a bucket to partner's bucket and try to fill a bucket. Colby tried to blame his ineffectiveness on his brother with Jeff telling him, "He's been this way for 34 days." Jerri and her sister won. Jerri then chose Parvati and Sandra even though Russel was literally begging with his eyes. I expected a whimper to come from him and boy was he pissed when he wasn't picked to go on the reward. It looked like a fun one with geyser holes and a nice large picnic lunch. They did a lot of showing off the features of that sprint phone too. Russel then blew off steam by promising the guys he was going to get rid of the chicks but we all know that's just steam. For the immunity challenge, the contestants had to hold sticks up against a board as long as they could. Rupert really hung in there but Parvati won. That night, Colby seemed like he wasn't there at all and Rupert took the opportunity to let Parvati and Russel know neither one is really in charge. This time Sandra dug the hidden immunity idol out of her bra but didn't need to use it in the end. She always says she wants Russel out but never takes the opportunity to do it. She knows those heroes can't keep a secret at all so there's no chance of a sneaky attack with those dumbos on your side. It was inevitable; Rupert was sent to Ponderosa.

On Sunday was the finale. We started out with poor Colby dragging behind everybody like the beaten dog that he is. They had an immunity challenge that he actually put some effort into. It was the old balance and hold up dishes on the end of a stick. Colby tried and hung in there, but Parvati won again. At camp, he gave a 'well it's been nice knowing ya' speech and then gave a weak effort to try something with Russel but you know; too little too late. He was voted out but did actually talk at tribal council. He looked like he was happy to go. The next day they did the recap of the past contestants. I thought this was interesting since the remaining people were all from the Villains tribe and wouldn't know about some of the Heroes who were eliminated. The immunity challenge was a find necklaces while blindfolded challenge. I'm not exactly sure how they were supposed to use those little peg maps but in the end, Russel won by a hair. Then there was a lot of discussion of who he wanted to take to the final with him. He decided he'd get a vote for himself by voting off his most trusted confidante, Jerri. That night, Jerri was totally shocked to be voted out. The next day the last 3 had a nice basket of food and relaxed. The funniest moment was when Sandra threw Russel's nasty hat in the fire and then denied she ever saw it when he came a lookin' for it. I agree. Let the nasty little troll wear his buff on his head to cover his bald head. Without the hat, he looks like Grumpy of Snow White's 7 dwarves. At tribal council, it was the time for the jury to speak. For once, the jury members made sense. I think they've all been talking for a good long while at Ponderosa. Jerri was surprised to hear Russel thought she was a sure vote and you could see her change her mind right there. Sandra didn't throw out any bull and basically told people, the reason she wasn't loyal to them was because they weren't friends. Russel tried his old, "Vote for me, I'm the best player here, even though you might hate me." Parvati just tried to distract everyone with her huge buck teeth. Danielle wore the ugliest maxi dress I've ever seen and thought she might be smuggling a person under it. I like the transition from the island tribal council area to New York. They just had Jeff walk over a bridge. In the end, the spoilers were right and Sandra won. Once again, there was a look of shock from Russel when he found there were no votes at all for him. It really is a social game. Then there were a lot of enlightening moments in the reunion part of the show. We found out the island was boring as hell. Colby looked like he wasn't having any fun because he wasn't. The contestants weren't able to explore the jungle, swim in the ocean or do anything. No wonder we never saw any diving or under water scenes. Now that I think about it, all of the fishing was done in those tide pools. That's it for Survivor and it looks like next season will be in Nicaragua.

Top Model had a double elimination. Krista seems to win everything so we'll just skip over the first challenge. The girls had to do ugly pretty poses. You'd think Angelea would run away with this since she's got half of it covered already. Nope, Christa won again. Now the show's boring cuz it's kind of obvious that Christa doesn't have any competition and will walk away with this. Angelea and that plus sized skinny girl were sent home.

I'd like to know, what the heck have they done to the show Chuck? It used to be a funny quirky fast paced show. It was endearing when the geek kept trying to get the hot girl. Now it's some gooey couple show and the nerd isn't nerdy anymore. Ick! I wanna see the fun adventure not the snogging and moony eyes. It's not fun anymore, it's nauseating.

On the Challenge: Fresh meat they had a tough challenge of the teams pushing logs against each other. This time, Kenny let someone else win. Wes taught Landon a lesson about joining alliances and voted him and Carley into the exile challenge against Sidney and CJ. Way to treat a friend Wes. Landon and Carley got to the finish line before Sidney and his partner were done with their first puzzle. I about died laughing when they got to the finish line and couldn't figure out that they had lost. Landon and Carley had already returned to the house. Sidney and CJ really were dumb. I hope Landon joins Kenny. Kenny may be a dick, but at least he doesn't pretend to be something noble.

The Celebrity Apprentice was a total illustration of exhaustion. The celebs had just returned to their pad and poured big drinks when they were called back into the boardroom. There was some blah blah blah and Maria Kanellis was fired. Then I swear, the remaining 4 contestants were pushed right into interviews with Joan Rivers and Bill Rancic. You could tell in their faces that the celebs were so tired and frazzled, they really were at the end of their tethers. Poor Sharon Osbourne was crying at the drop of a hat and nobody could give any intelligent answers. No kidding! I really felt sorry for those celebs. So in the end, Curtis Stone and Sharon Osbourne were also fired. The next day, Holly Robinson Peete and Brett Micheals were told their final task. They were to come up with a new Snapple flavored iced tea, make a 30 second commercial and an ad. Good lord! Will these concept challenges never end? Nope. Brett got Darryl Strawberry and Summer Sanders on his team and Holly got Curtis and Maria for her team. I see they only picked the younger people to return. I think there might be a lot of stress and running around in the final task. They had to negotiate for the flavors they wanted in their tea and Summer was right. Brett caved in to Curtis. Holly's lucky to have someone with a good palate on her team. At the same time, I think Brett's name for his drink is better. If Brett's anything; it's cool. Once again, Holly's commercial sounds like people on fast forward. We'll see who wins this one. I'm rooting for Brett.

Well, we'll see what we'll see. Bye for now people. Keep watching and reading.

Wraps and craps

First let me start with a big old WTG to the producers and writers of Law & Order. I can tell they're airing the first episodes written and edited after moving to the later hour. Finally, they're at their gritty best. I hear a rumor that S. Epatha Merkerson is quitting the show. That's really sad, but I hope they don't kill her off with the cancer that's been wreaking havoc on her character all season.

OMG, Saturday Night Live had one of it's best episodes ever, with Betty White hosting. For an 88 yr old woman, she's got a lot of spit and fire. I love old women who curse. There's just something so cute and funny about knowing they're still full of spunk. It's kind of like thinking of my Grandmother meeting creepy guys at the door with the shotgun in her hand. She wasn't intimidated by anything. I also loved seeing all the past season women return for a guest shots. It made me realize, I really miss Molly Shannon's Sally O'Malley. She and Betty White kicking up their legs and saying, "I'm 50!" and "I'm 90!" had me rolling on the floor with laughter. OMG, too funny!

On Dancing with the (non)Stars, the dancers did one solo dance and then one dance in teams of 3. I have to say, I wasn't really impressed by anybody. Once again, the elimination show was a bore too. I'm sorry, when you see the same dances all of the time and everything is predictable, it's really boring. Even the old people are falling asleep. So the outcome was, Pamela Anderson was booted. Too bad too. She was really funny and did add certain bright spots with her short quips and facial expressions. Oh well. On Jimmy Kimmel, she was her hilarious self and I really loved her self deprecating tongue in cheek humor. Jimmy liked...well everything about her and you could tell. Her best line? "We can have sex now. But not with each other." When asked how the relationship has changed between her and her dance partner now that they're out of the competition. I LOL at that one. Go Pam!

The Biggest Loser had makeover week and I couldn't wait to see these bushy headed guys get trimmed. Even more surprising? The trimmer was Jonathan Antin. Cool! OMG, the reveals were really cool. The only thing I didn't like was Darius' pompadour. Oh come on! Lose all that bushy hair. Michael did express his disappointment that he was shopping alone at the Big & Tall store. Hey, it's a good lesson for America. If you get 3 times bigger than everyone else, it's probably going to take 3 times as long to look like a normal person. Then the fatties had an endurance challenge. They had to climb a Jacob's ladder over a pool and not fall into the water. In the end, Koli and Darius hung in there for 2 1/2 hours. It was quite impressive. Finally Darius said, "Screw it." and just let Koli have the win. What big prize did Koli win? He got a 1 pound advantage. Whoop de doo. Poor Darius not only lost the prize but then had to endure a lecture from Bob about how his inability to gut through things and stick with a task is why he was fat. Oh whatever. In the end, Koli didn't need the 1 pound advantage. The vote came down to Michael and Sam. Everyone feels Sam's reached his goal and is looking fine, so they sent him home. I loved that he revealed he and Stephanie hooked up and are living together. How cool is that?

Top Chef Masters is in the finals. What a roster of great chefs. The quickfire was the tag team cooking with the contestants blindfolded so they couldn't see what the other's were making. It was cool to see these experienced and expert chefs handle this challenge so much better than the frantic rookie chefs on the regular Top Chef show. Susan Fenigers team won. The elimination challenge was wedding wars. Oh boy! One thing I noticed, nobody whined about how they couldn't cook their style or how they weren't pastry chefs. They interviewed the bride or groom, took notes, and then came up with plans. It's so surprising to see there is no show of egos. Nobody insists that they have a banging dish that should be used. Everybody puts their suggestions in the pot and away they go. It seems to expedite things. The wedding prep seemed frantic but was nothing compared to the Top Chef seasons. As was expected, all the food was impressive except that semolina wedding cake of Susan Feniger. Ew, what a mess. Susar Lee made the most impressive dessert table all by himself for the groom's team and the winning chef made lamb that even the bride (who had said she didn't like lamb) had to admit was really good. I always say, that's the sign of a really good cook. Someone who can make you like a dish that you never liked before. In the end, Carmen was sent home for really not shining brightly enough amongst brilliant chefs. Yeah, corn salad by itself isn't going to cut it in this competition.

Survivor had a double elimination show. It was actually 2 half hour shows crammed together. I'm thinking, they didn't think they could get enough footage of anything interesting for 2 whole hours. What we saw was, they edited a lot and should've gone ahead and made the 2 hours and maybe put a couple of luxury challenges in. From what I'm seeing though, the producers are having to spend too much money feeding the hogs in Ponderosa. Okay so back to the show. They really don't show much of life at camp which makes me believe it's probably the SOS (same old shit) that's been going on. Rupert complains that everybody is lazy, Russell says how stupid everyone is and the girls lay out on the beach. So the immunity challenge is who can keep their arm above their head the longest? While they stand there, Jeff brings out things that the poor starving survivors have been craving for a month; cookies, milk, peanutbutter, food. I was really surprised Colby gave in so quickly but I think his strategy is to look pathetic so nobody thinks he's a threat. The only problem is, he looks like a huge wussbag. Finally, Rupert couldn't outlast Parvati and she of the huge teeth got the necklace. Then Jeff read a clue to the hidden immunity idol to everyone and sent them on their way. They all promptly set out to find the idol. For once, Russell wasn't the one to find it. Sandra kept it to herself too. Rupert pulled a good move and put a hidden immunity idol sized rock in his pocket while Russell was looking. Hee hee hee. I loved it cuz Russell jumped on that and thought he had an advantage. I admired Sandra for not giving the ruse away but at the same time, it kept the people from rooting her out. At tribal council, they decided to split the vote but somehow Candace became the main target with the help of the Heroes who felt betrayed by her. Bye Candace! The next day, Russell still thinks Rupert has that immunity idol and won't let it go. The immunity challenge today is a physical thing ending with a slide puzzle. Russell saves his skin by winning this one. Then, for some odd reason, he totally demolishes his alliance by pitting Parvati and Danielle against each other. I'm not sure where he's going with this, but it worked. Danielle was voted out after much arguing, shouting, accusations and crying. Oh boy! I can't believe the 2 lone Heroes are still in the game and they can't believe it either. I think the younger people see them as 2 weak old farts that they can oust whenever they want. We'll see. For now, there's only 4 Villains to 2 Heroes.

On the Challenge: Fresh Meat, Wes is still trying to keep a steady head in the game and finding it hard. The challenge this week involves swimming to an unsteady horizontal rope ladder, getting across it to a platform and then jumping onto a hanging bag and holding on for 5 seconds. OMG, poor Ev. She and her teammate had to go first and the experimenting did not go well. So eventually, Kenny and Laurel won since they got to go last (they chose the lineup). The bad news? They pick one team to go in. The really bad news? They'll get to choose the lineup for the next challenge too. Is there going to be an end to this? Anyway, supposedly Danny is one of Wes' best friends. That must not be a good thing cuz Danny and his teammate were chosen to go to the Exile challenge. Jill seems wussy in the challenges but her teammate shoves her along and they win the Exile. Oh well. Bye Danny. He was very strange during the season. He either needs to knock off the vino or drink more. I'm not sure which.

America's Next Top Model is still in New Zealand. For the mini challenge, the girls met a hobbit actress. Angelea admitted she didn't know what a hobbit was. I was hoping other people would tell her she's the normal one ha ha ha. The girls then had to do 5 poses in a hobbit sized hole. Boring! Reminded me of the girls in another season posing in that giant bird nest. Christa won the whole prize package since she had won best photo the night before. Angelea was seething with rage. The excitement of the show happened when Jessica tried to heat taco shells over the toaster and about burned the kitchen down. That huge hole with a door is called an oven. Oh well, what do models know about cooking anyway? Then the girls had a photoshoot with Tyra who made funny patterns on their faces by having people hold holey things above the girls. Okay. Wow. Tyra's really scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas. Christa won again and Jessica was sent home for looking too commercial. That was strange considering they had to make Angelea look dead for her to have a good photo. Nice. This week, Angelea only looks 40.

The Amazing Race went back home to the USA to San Francisco. It's not surprising that the gay brothers felt a lot more comfortable on this leg. So at the airport, the gay brothers cut in front of the cowboys by shoving their backpack in place. The cowboys are way to gentlemanly to hit a girl, so they let the gay guys do their cheating thing. I think there must've been a gay steward cuz the gay guys also were able to be bumped to first class once they were on the plane. That's quite a feat since it involves moving 4 people to the first class section without other passengers noticing. The head start kept the gay brothers going all the way to the finish line and they won. Boo! Boy did the message boards light up. Poor Brent and Caite had the worst luck and came in 3rd. The dumb producers let the lesbians do some stupid spouting at Caite which I thought was totally unnecessary and it only made all homosexuals seem even worse. First there were the weaselly gay brothers who won, and then the bitter and bitchy lesbians who couldn't let a u-turn thing go. Jeez. It's the first time I've ever seen ousted racers have a scene at the finish line. It was weird, stupid and classless. Caite did serve it right back by saying, "I'm here and you're not." WTG girl. I finally have some respect for you. They really didn't show Phil during all of this cuz I'm sure he was rolling his eyes the whole time. I was. I was also trying to keep my dinner from coming up after seeing the gay brothers hit the mat first. Oh well. I have a feeling the cowboys will get a lot of media coverage which will earn them more than a million dollars.

The Celebrity Apprentice dusted off an old challenge. The teams had to take a small apartment and decorate and furnish it to look posh for upscale clients. One thing I noticed, they didn't really show the charity getting it's money from last week. That's because Brett Michaels has already won twice before and I think they think the juvey diabetes charity is getting too much coverage. Oh well. Donald made the 2 guys switch teams. Last week, Sharon and Maria had some very unkind words for Curtis and now they were made teammates. How funny was that? I felt sorry for Curtis cuz when you first have to try to smooth the waters, it's really tough to walk on all those eggshells around the people. He won the women over by being all business, working hard and keeping his mouth shut. Holly Robinson Peete reluctantly took the PM role on her team. It was interesting to see how well Brett Michaels fit into the team. He showed he's very flexible, creative and hardworking and on no sleep. Sharon Osbourne was the PM for her team and I about fell on the floor laughing when she told Curtis, Maria had truckstop taste. OMG, it was even funnier when Curtis said he didn't know what that meant but just looked like he understood. After changing her mind 5 times and making people repaint and sort through all the purchased furnishings, her team won. I totally agreed. The place was bright, energetic yet relaxing cuz it wasn't cluttered and had very nice amenities. Robinson Peete decided to do a Balinesian theme. Really? Tropical islands in 3rd world countries never really do seem posh to me. In the end, Cindy Lauper was fired and was quite bitter about it. Oh well. We all have to admit, she was the head of lettuce on the teams.

Well, ta ta for now. See you next week people.

What's happenin'

I'm sorry I missed talking about a show that wrapped up the week before last. What can I say? I can't remember everything, obviously.

Project Runway had it's finale 2 weeks ago. I think the reason I skipped it was because after revealing Mila didn't win, that's all we cared about. The collections were interesting. Emilio was all about color, Mila had no color and Seth Aron proved he definitely has his one style. I swear, his gown was made of the same material that Jeffrey used a couple of season ago for his couture look. So Seth Aron won and that was that. Then they used the Models of the Runway show for the reunion show. OMG, the claws were out and the designers let fly those chips on their shoulders. Jay was very resentful of comments made during the season and took the opportunity to diss Cerri who was sitting right there. Ping cried again and Mila proved, even when she apologizes, the cat can't change her black and white spots. I think this show had the most disingenuous apologies I've ever seen. Just once, I wanted to hear someone say, "Hell no. I meant it and still mean it."

Rupaul's Drag Race also wrapped up. The girls had to do an over the top scene with Rupaul. I think the only reason they liked Tyra Sanchez was because she didn't outact Ru. I did like the bitch slaps during the scene and wished they weren't fake. So finally the ending and...Tyra Sanchez won. I was disappointed. Not only does this drag queen have the deepest voice, but has no personality or energy. Whatever. I wanted Raven to win but we don't always get what we want. Jujube was there on the show but as always, was insignificant.

Dancing with the (wannabe) Stars has finally gotten down to the people who can dance. People were so happy Kate Gosselin was gone, they could've shown a monkey scratching it's armpits for the whole show and America would've loved it. So...I'm sorry to say, I can't remember anything new that happened. I'm really sick to death of them showcasing singers when it's supposed to be a dancing show but at least they show the dancers when they pop out for a minute onto the floor. I'm still waiting for someone to drop a big mirror ball onto Brooke's head. OMG, she's so dumb and dull.

On the Biggest Loser, the contestants went to Texas. I guess now was not the time to do that big 72 oz. steak challenge. Instead, the people of Texas were tortured with half marathons and Bob and Jillian yelling at them. Jillian took the opportunity to visit a school and counsel a fat schlub that she picked out of the audience. Um...when you get picked to be interviewed on Biggest Loser, that may not be a good thing. Way to crush a young girl's self esteem. I'm sure she got lots of kudos from the mean girls in her school. Oh my gravy. Then the fatties had to wrangle calves and see who could corral the most. With Sam helping him, Coli won. I still enjoyed seeing the fatties splat in the dirt when the calves got away from them. What did Coli win? A weight advantage at the weigh in. So on to the weigh in after a lot of screaming from the trainers during the last chance workout. Unfortunately, Sunshine and her Dad both landed at the bottom of the board. Her Dad fell on the sword for her and he was voted out. I think it was good cuz the guy had a bum knee. Oh well. Can't wait for the make-over show.

On Top Chef, the well known chef this week was Susar Lee. OMG, he's sexy from every angle but who knew he was so intense? Jeez, so someone doesn't care for your fancy fruit plate. Move on. Lucky for us, he called his wife and she told him to lighten up and get over it. What a smart woman. The chefs had to cook a dinner for the cast of Modern Family and serve it outside and away from the Top Chef kitchen. What's with making everyone drag their food around? Anyway, Susar Lee pulled his finger out and won and another lady chef joined him in the top. I think this is the last of the small eliminations rounds before the champs get together. Ooooh, I can't wait. To have Susan Fenniger, Jonathan Waxman, Susar Lee, Marcus Samuelson, Rick Moonen and Govin Armstrong in the same room is gonna be epic!

As you know, the Survivors are merged and living together. We have found that Candace is wishy washy and Russell has pulled her to his evil side. With her in the group, she seems like that veal calf you keep in a pen off to the side. You're special alright, but not in a good way. I don't know what's going on with the Heroes but they seem to have lost their fire and are proving why they didn't do that well in challenges. None of them are very good. They broke the people up into groups of 3 for the luxury challenge and it didn't seem very luxurious. Amanda, Colby and what's her name with the buck teeth and fake boobs won the luxury. They got to watch an old grainy movie in a stark room with one bed, popcorn and wine. What? No shower? Bucktoothed girl found a clue to the immunity idol and tried to hide it but Amanda found it and then they had a playground fight over it. It looked like something from 10,000 B.C. Bucktoothed girl won and when she returned back to camp, she was stupid enough to share it with Russell. He found it but didn't tell her. We were left with a scene that looked like those poor skinny monkeys who turn over rocks looking for grubs. This time, Jerri won her very first ever immunity necklace. Sandra jumped ship to the Heroes, but unfortunately, Candace switched to the Villains. Is there a sucker tribe? She should be the chief of that one. Anyway, in the end, Amanda was voted out and I'm glad. She had that tired and sad look on her face and she needed to get booted for once.

Next Top Model went to New Zealand and Tyra did something really cruel. She took the girls straight off the plane and made them do go-sees. What? Even the girls who flew first class weren't feeling fresh. Alaysia was not only late getting back from her go-sees, she was ultra late. Angelea won and I'm wondering if the designers noticed she looked 35? The photo shoot was cool. All the girls wore the exact same dress and posed in a pastoral scene with a sheep. That tall thin black girl won again. Alaysia forgot to cry this time and was sent home. Yay! She was sooooo annoyingly immature.

Smallville has become boring. I don't care how many weird bad guys you have on the show, if the people have fallen in love with the star and the premise of him becoming a super hero, you shouldn't mess with it. All I can think is, Tom Welling has something in his contract about a limited amount of time he has to work. Maybe it's time to change the name of the show and bring out those Justice League heroes that we all really love and want to see. We want to see some great ass kicking with cool effects. Where's Wonder Woman and Batman? Where are the funny lines that used to be thrown in once in awhile. Where's the warmth from the sense of family? The producers and writers need to pull their fingers out and fix this show or just let it go. I'm sick to death of Tess and don't care what kind of stupid past she had. Bring back Lex Luthor and his chessgame with Clark and Chloe.

On RR/RW Challenge: Freshmeat, sometimes it's hard to know who the new people are. For some reason, the drinking has escalated and Wes is busy putting out fires. For the challenge, each team had to swim out to a slanted large board with huge bumps on it that was supposed to look like a climbing wall? That was the dumbest climbing wall I ever saw cuz the bumps were bigger than people's hands. Kenny and Laurel won and that birdy girl and her partner DQ'd with an injury for her. Watch out when sliding on wet boards with bumps. It was so nice of the group to send them to the elimination challenge and Kenny sent another unknown couple. We found out, the challenge wasn't done and Wes' unknown couple returned by default cuz the birdy girl's partner drank a beer before the challenge and was DQ'd. Oh dear. Oh well, no matter. We didn't want to know them anyway. Bye!

The Amazing Race is winding down. The teams were still in China and still trying to get around that pesky language problem. I loved Jet speaking Spanish to his cab driver. Unfortunately, the detectives not only had the gay bros glommed onto them, but they had to do the speed bump and then had a bit of bad luck. Not a good recipe and it ended in their demise. Too bad. Poor Brent, at the detour where he had to take time to look for a pig stamp, he had to pee really bad and Caite wouldn't let him. I really felt sorry for him as he started to get more frantic. Too bad they have that pesky 20 ft rule. She said she had to go too and I didn't understand why she didn't go when he went. Might as well take the time to empty both tanks. Anyway, all I care about is the cowboys are still in the race. Does anything else matter? Nope.

The Celebrity Apprentice had another concept task. This time, they had to do 3 radio commercials for a lighting, A/C and plumbing service. I loved that despite warnings not to make raunchy jokes, Brett made his commercial still with a wink. Guess what. It worked. Even though Summer Sanders has no experience making commercials or writing jingles, she took the boss job. Okay. When I heard she was going to give final approval for the jingles, I about LOL. There is such as thing as deferring to the experts. I wasn't a bit surprised that Brett Michael's team won. His jingles were cool and his commercials didn't sound like the people were on crack. In the end, Summer was sent home. Oh well. She had also used up her rolodex so what else was she good for anyway?

I may have missed some things but there are a lot of shows I can't stand. I hate shows about bratty people with more money and time on their hands than brains. I hate shows that preach at you the whole time and I hate fake dating shows so what else is there? I do love 19 Kids and Counting and it's good to see Josie getting to the normal human looking stage. At the same time, the kids are the same and the family deals with them normal and not stagey. I loved Jim Bob trying to get his kids to eat bugs but he didn't insult them or nag when they wouldn't. For some odd reason, I feel like I learn something when the Duggars have informative outings too. What's not to love?

Okay, well, that's it for this week. See you all next week.