No Way! Yes Way!

Hello all.  More shows are wrapping up but some are on their way for the summer too.

Chuck Lorre had love in the air.  2 of his sitcoms ended w/ weddings.  I'm at that age where I cry at weddings.  Ugh!  Ya gotta admit though, the finales were fulfilling, satisfying and sweet.  Awww...  Two and a Half Men has worn out it's welcome.  We don't mind stupid kids, but we do mind stupid teenagers who should be growing up.  Could it be because we see so many of them in real life turn out to be those stupid adults who drive us up the wall and make us want to go postal on all of society? Please, please, please Mr. Lorre.  Don't put a baby on Mike and Molly.

Okay, let's get this blog going.

On The Celebrity Apprentice, we started out totally shocked that Lisa Lampinelli got the boot at the end of last week.  Then it was a real shocker when Aubrey was fired.  I have to say the interviews weren't totally clear about why they got the boot.  Did it come down to not raising much money?  Did it come down to being difficult to work w/?  Was it because the women had more losses compared to the men?  Maybe it was all 3.  Maybe something was said but I couldn't hear over all the cheering from the viewing audience.  I especially loved the look on Aubrey's face because nobody was more stunned than she.  So it was left to Arsenio Hall and Clay Aiken to do the last tasks.  They're told they have to make an event for their charity and a PSA.  First things first, they get to choose their teams from ousted celebs from the season.  I notice a few people missing:  Dyana, Lou, and that other Argentinian lady.  Arsenio chooses the funny people and Clay chooses musicians and Penn.  Clay gets last choice and gets stuck w/ Aubrey har har.  Yes folks, she really felt her comeuppance when she was chosen last over Teresa hee hee hee.  The rest of the show was as interesting as watching paint dry.  The next episode will be the finale; I hope.  I'm still surprised Trump didn't get his golf club into the show again.

Summer is officially kickstarted by the appearance of America's Got Talent.  This year Howard Stern (no not Anna Nicole Smith's ugly lawyer/fake husband) has taken the place of Piers Morgan.  Oh Boy!  I expected a crass, potty mouthed, idiot judge w/ no taste.  I was pleasantly surprised to find he wasn't that way at all.  For some odd reason, Howie Mandel has lost half his brain and enjoys some dumb acts.  Sharon Osbourne proves she's really good at judging music acts because if someone sings off key, she's right there w/ the buzzer.  I love that.  I hate American Idol because people who can't sing on key stay for the whole stupid season.  Anyway, the auditions are going to new cities and San Francisco is one strange town.  The people are a little creepy.  I hate the background stories on people because it makes them seem more pathetic than talented.  Who cares if they grew up poor, orphans, crippled or all 3?  Do they have talent?  No?  Then take your pitiful ass and get off the damn stage.  The backstories take up so much time, we don't hardly get to see any talent.  If they do show the talent, it's in short bits.  Hey producers!  You're wearing out my fast forward button.  I have to admit though, I usually only watch until it gets down to all singers and then I tune out.  Some year, I want the show to exclude all singing acts.  I think it would make a really unique show.  Meanwhile, I'm enjoying Howard Stern on the judging panel.  He's not nearly the A-hole I thought he was and he has more taste than I thought he had.

Fashion Star wrapped up it's season.  This show has been quite confusing but I enjoy the fact that the stores hate the stuff I like and like the stuff I hate.  I know nothing about fashion and am staying in my corner.  The last 3 designers standing are the little Philipino guy, the black men's fashion guy and that weird white woman w/ Gumby style hair.  They each have to make a line for each buyer.  I'm a terrible judge cuz I liked everything.  As usual, Jessica and Nicole just sound like the adults in the Charlie Brown cartoons and I always say, "Who the heck is that?" when that short bearded guy between them is talking.  Whatever.  Kara is announced the winner and that's that.  Boring!  I want that hour of my life back.

Survivor:  One World had it's last episode and finale.  If you all don't mind, I'll wrap up all of it.  So the final 5 are all women.  We get to see a lot of footage of each woman say how they deserve to be here.  Alicia, Kim and Chelsea declare themselves the runners of the game.  I'm thinking Kim's the only one who's not delusional.  I also thinking, at this point, unless Kim does something really stupid, she's probably a shoe in to win it all because she's the only one w/ a brain on the island.  Sabrina has a brain but it seems to be numb.  It seems the luxury train is over so there's only immunity challenges.  It consists of a lot of running, climbing and then putting a puzzle together.  The producers must see the survivors are eating well enough so the challenges are kind of tough for being late in the game.  Also, they're young so there's no jeopardy of some old person keeling over and dying from the exertion.  Kim wins.  There's a lot of plotting w/ Kim giving her nod of approval to everyone who suggests ideas to her.  At tribal we all feel the glee when Alicia gets the boot.  Yay!  Hmmm...maybe she wasn't running the game after all.  Yo, lady w/ the big buck teeth, frizzy hair and skanky swimsuit.  Get your stuff and get out!  Bye!  Her Ponderosa video was great because she got snubbed by her friends and there was a Kat fight.  Woo Hoo!  So finally Christina realizes she might not be going anywhere but out in this game cuz she's lost the coattails she was riding.  She has to be the most clueless Asian I've ever seen and I'm hoping people don't think we're that stupid.  Her blabbermouth announces to the group that she knows she's the next to go.  OMG!  Shut up!  The group gets to do that reminiscing of all ousted contestants thing.  It was totally stupid this time.  In the past, they usually showed a bit where the person was funny or cool.  We realized, none of the contestants were funny or cool.  I felt sorry for the producers.  When there's only stupid stuff on film, that's all you can show.  So on to the last challenge.  Usually, it's a challenge of endurance and will.  Not this time.  It's physical and of course Kim wins it.  I think everyone was surprised what the challenge was.  When the challenge is about speed, being Zen doesn't help much.  Finally tribal council convenes and Christina basically just lays down to die and she's voted out.  Bye you dumbass girl.  I've renamed you an abber-asian; an asian that's not normal.  So of course we see that breakfast reward for the final 3.  Tribal council is boring w/ everyone pretty much conceding Kim ruled.  At the finale, everyone's looking much healthier and nobody is surprised when Kim is shown to be the winner.  Even she wasn't surprised.  Then the show focused wayyyyy too much on revoltin' Colton.  I was hoping someone would punch him in the face.  We all LOL when Alicia said she got a lot of negative feedback for her bullying and mistreatment of Christina.  I hope her students are rolling over her toes w/ their wheelchairs and saying they didn't mean it.  Whatever!  Christina proved what a weanie she really was by hugging everybody.  So ends another season of Survivor.  See ya next season!  Are we ever going to have a season where people aren't eating coconut?

America's Next Top Model had it's go sees w/ the last 3 models.   Sophie won over everybody and Laura proved you need to know how to walk.  Bring on Miss J!  The photoshoot had the girls in a perfume bottle in a diaphanous dress for a perfume ad.  They said the demographic to sell to was young girls.  Someone forgot to tell Laura this was a commercial modeling shoot.  I have a feeling they won't use any of the photos in the real ad cuz everybody looked older and a little loony.  In the end, Annalise was sent home.  Huh?  I guess you can't have only UK girls in the finale when the show's name is America's Next Top Model.  Sigh...Tyra always gets her way.  Sophie should win this but I wonder if she can.  I'll miss Annalise.  She was so much fun.

Around the World in 80 Plates went to France;  Lyon to be specific.  I don't care for French food so I didn't envy the chefs at all.  They went by train w/ one group going first class.  On a train, that only means you get a semi real bed to sleep in and your own tiny bathroom.  You still have to find your own entertainment and walk to the dining car at mealtimes.  The teams are still black and red (no not skin color) but mixed up a little from last time.  I don't know how Cheven gets his team to drink his kool-aid all the time, but they follow him like sheep and...he gets them lost.  Yeah, he's proven he's got the navigational skill of Moses.  Of course, his team (black) gets to the first challenge last.  The first task is to ID cheeses.  Jenna declares herself a fromaggian but doesn't prove it.  The red team had a huge headstart so they finish first but lost the big lead.  For the next task, the teams have to herd sheep w/out touching them.  Sheep are stupid and timid.  Usually advancing on them w/ loud noise will do the trick to make them move.  The sheep prove to be smarter than the chefs and the task takes awhile.  Nookie declares Cheven, "As useful as a fart in a spacesuit."  Totally LOL!  I think that's giving him too much credit cuz at least the fart in the spacesuit can create a fire w/ a good spark.   The black team must've stowed Cheven in the trunk and got to the last task first which is wine tasting and IDing things in the wine.  OMG!  These chefs are so bogus!  I expected them to do the sniffing, swilling, slurping...y'know the usual oeniphiliac stuff.   Cheven proves he sucks at this too.  Nookie steps in and starts moving the bottles around and they finish the task before the other team shows up.  Haw haw...no wine for you.  The advantage ingredient is not an ingredient.  It's a French food lesson from a master French Chef who shows the black team the native dishes.  Jenna shows I know more French than she does and leads her team around the city pointing out the French foodie words she knows.  Whatever.  She's quite annoying.  Then Sai has to out annoying her by pointing out how Asian she is.  Shut up!  The teams do their dinner service.  I like the French people for being blunt about what they like and don't like.  Chaz proves why he was kicked out of the first round of Top Chef last season.  We get to look right up Cheven's nose again.  Hey cameraman!  Stop that!  We can see what he's thinking.  Sai makes a good Lyon Salad but takes forever to do it.  In the end, Sai is voted to go home.  Chefs don't mind if you're a little slow and they don't mind if you're a little annoying but if you're both, it's the kiss of death.  Bye!  We Asians aren't claiming her either.  Oy!

Well, that's about all for now.  I'd like to ask Kayak to stop showing that commercial cuz the ugly old guy is bad enough but when you give him demon eyes, it's too frightening.  I'm asking Priceline to make a new commercial already cuz that stupid nun is really annoying and it's not good when we start to hate a nun.

See you next time!  Stay tuned.