Hello all. Well, it's been a fun week. There have been some finales and some premieres. I have to say, some of the older reality shows are starting to show their wear. TV shows aren't meant to last forever. Ask the producers of Law & Order. Reality shows seem to last a little longer due to the changing of the cast every season but they still get old and seem to run out of original ideas. If you notice, voyeuristic reality shows have even shorter lives. Oh well, let's get going on the run-downs.
Rachel and Guy's Celebrity Cookoff had it's finale w/ Dean McDermott and Carnie Wilson battling it out to see who was the best cook. They had to make 3 courses of their favorite dishes and feed friends and family of Rachel and Guy. I don't know about you, but I was fed up w/ hearing about Rachel and Guy and the show seemed very narcissistic of them. I wasn't impressed at all to see their friends and family and didn't think many of them qualified to be food judges. What's the matter Food Network? You don't have the celeb chef respect like Top Chef? Anyway, Dean made rather upscale fancy dinner food w/ multiple components on the plates. Yes, he cut it close w/ time management but still managed to pull the dishes off. I forgot to mention he and Carnie both got an assistant who was a friend and not a former contestant. I have a feeling this was one of the few shows that actually let their eliminated contestants go home because once they were gone, they stayed gone. Carnie seemed to choose food you'd find at a poor white picnic. She used canned tuna and other foods regular chefs would never touch. The judges were stupid and raved about the dishes that didn't look very good and then kind of dissed the good looking stuff. It was probably really stupid editing. In the end, Dean won. Yay! His charity made out like a bandit and Dean was able to promo himself as a chef. Okay...
Cake Boss: The Next Great Baker had it's finale. The last 3 bakers went to Vegas: Jen, Ashley and something Ann. I can't remember her whole name but who cares anyway? The show seemed to be a huge commercial for a certain Italian themed casino in Vegas. They showed the girls shopping, frolicking, eating, and luxuriating in their rooms at the casino. Uh huh. Oh, and they even did some baking. They had the usual pick helpers, bake your stuff and sell it challenge. Something Ann sabotaged her fellow competitors by messing w/ their ovens. I'm surprised nobody noticed and ratted her out. She claimed she was just being competitive but it was very poor sportsman and proved she didn't have enough confidence in her own talents to just play fairly. A fun moment was seeing James and James from the Amazing Race buying pastries. They were in their Chippendales collars and cuffs too: Woo hoo! After all the yelling and selling, the tickets were counted and Jen was knocked out of the finale. The weird thing was, before commercial breaks, Buddy did about a minute of a live looking thing which showed a tote board of some kind of voting by viewers but it was stupid because after Jen was knocked out, she was still on the board to win over something Ann. Wow! Dumb. Then they brought all the rest of the contestants back and the last 2 finalists chose their teams to make their grand finale cake. It had to showcase Vegas, them and their journey. I felt really sorry for the finalists because at this point, they were so fatigued you could see their eyeballs swimming. The funniest part was how crabby Ashley got. Something Ann got more teary and cried a lot. The cakes came out incredibly well except the transexual Elvis on Ashley's cake was rather creepy. At the very last judging, Buddy let past contestants ask questions of the 2 finalists. The questions sounded scripted. Ashley got the one asking her why she thought she was qualified to be the winner. Unfortunately, the person who asked the question was her most unfavorite former nemesis and she let him have it between the eyes complete w/ curse words and glaring looks. The whole place was in shock. I loved it and thought it was hilarious. After everything was hashed over, Ashley was declared the winner. Well duh. She had the best palate, good skills and a good eye for decorating style. We'll see if she actually works in Buddy's bakery. Congrats and you go girl!
The Biggest Loser finally broke up the teams and went to individuals. Yay! Now everybody really has to work and the lone wolf from Jillian's team can breathe a small sigh of relief. Also, Jillian isn't in jeopardy of being eliminated from the show too. Finally! The fatties had a real temptation challenge. They were put in a room w/ each one having their own table full of sweets. The lights were put out and whoever ate the most calories got a 2 pound weight advantage and then could give the prize also to another player. I was surprised they could eat so neatly in the dark. I was expecting it to be obvious who ate after the lights were turned back on cuz they'd have cake on their face and food stains on their clothes but no. Anyway, only 3 people ate and Francelina won the contest. At least she looked guilty about it. Gina was the one who just clinked dishes around and panicked the others. How funny was that? They did show the kids again doing more activities and Bingo getting his footcast/boot off. I have to say, the kids are looking skinnier so they're showing good discipline. I forget what the next challenge was but Jillian's lone wolf girl won. The prize was skyping w/ family and she gave her prize to Gina and the white former football player guy. Awww... That was smart. I would totally do the same thing because it doesn't really give you any advantage to keep it but really gives you respect points if you give it away. At the weigh-in, they brought back the old yellow line. Francelina and I think his name is Mike were on the bottom. He's the one who was given the skype prize. Mike was voted out by his fellow fatties and sent home. Oh well. I'm so proud of the fatties this season for really doing the losing weight game instead of conniving game. I'm sure the producers are totally embarrassed that they can't even use Jeremy from last year because he's regained his fattie status. Hee hee, well it's their fault for doing friends and family for more than 1 year.
Face Off didn't have a mini challenge but jumped right into the big one. The artists worked in teams of 2 to produce a giant fairytale character like one that would be in Jack and the Beanstalk. It was nice to see people acting professional w/ good work ethic. You didn't really see anyone just sitting around letting the other do all the work. Nobody really did any fighting but there were times when people should've edited the other person but when a mistake was made, it was interesting to see how the other person worked to either correct the mistake or made it work. Eric F. (goth looking guy) really showed innovation by drawing his character on the floor. The looks all looked great but Eric F. and his partner truly made a giant and the model's face was used in a Jack character in the giant's arms. I loved the small things they had like the Jack character poking a giant needle into the giant's hand. Once again though, the model was good and worked the whole look well too. The pink haired girl's numb hand problem proved to be her waterloo. Her partner couldn't keep up w/ her mistakes so the look really suffered in the technique. The thing is, the look still looked okay but not to the keen eye of the expert judges and she was sent home and felt rightly so. Truly, I think this is the best season ever. Even the bad talent is really good. The 2 main judges are the same but they seem more empathetic and have actually said they've been in the same situations. That's nice to hear cuz everybody has bad luck days too.
Joe Schmoe Show is really getting redundant and stupid. I think the producers have a contest w/ themselves. How stupid can they be before they blow their cover? We're no longer laughing w/ them, we're laughing at them and Chase doesn't seem as much stupid as gullible. He's still wide eyed and innocent w/ a deer caught in the headlights look perpetually on his face. Poor dear. He's so desperately sincere because you can tell he really needs the money. Awww... This week, the dumb girl w/ the dead husband sob story blew her cover w/ a skype prize. Then she dropped the charade and showed herself to be a conniving cunning liar. Then Chase wrote in his notebook that he thought she was acting. Well of course she was acting but the producers made it look like he suspected everybody of acting but that wasn't the case. Chase just thought she was acting. Maybe he is stupid. Oh well. In the end, they booted her. I have to say, the blonde guy who's playing the a-hole this season does a really good job because when he's out of character, you can tell he's actually fun and nice. I think it helps that his eyes are close set. All I can say is, Chase must live in happyland cuz I've seen worse a-holes and Chase is just dumbfounded by this guy. Hee hee.
Survivor is back and it's dumber than ever. They're doing another season of Fans Vs. Favorites. The problem is, the favorites aren't favorites. There are only a couple of people that viewers actually liked. They should call it Fans Vs. Irritators. Ugh. I'm not even wasting my time watching on TV and only catching it online when I have time. So blah blah blah, introductions, challenge we've all seen before or a mild variation on one, finding beach, setting up home, a little arguing, a little strategic talk, immunity challenge we've all seen and more conniving. The only thing interesting was Cochran's major sunburn and the Fans team making fire w/out flint. The Favorites were first to tribal council which consisted of Probst trying to poke the bears of old frenemies. In the end, Francesca was booted off the island first, again. Nobody cared. Man! What a boring season this is going to be.
Top Chef was down to the final 3. We're all screaming, "When's the last chance kitchen winner coming in?" We all know it's going to be Kristen and we can't wait to see Tom Colicchio get all moony over her again. The contestants had to get to the top of a mountain and they did it by helicopter and dogsled. Brooke proved she's one big freakin' chicken. She's afraid of everything: boats, water, flying, heights. Jeez. Good thing she's not afraid of fire. I'm thinking, suck it up. You're on TV. The quickfire consisted of making a dish w/ the pantry items at the mountaintop camp. BFD. The pantry looked better stocked than most households of today; especially in this economy. For the elimination challenge, the chefs had to make a dish inspired by the moment they knew they wanted to be a chef. Hmmm...this sounds familiar. It sounds like something from the Masters finales. Mr. Curlique mustache had the event of his life w/ his wife giving birth back home. His dish was foie gras 3 ways w/ 1 way the judges didn't like. Um...trying to make a dish that you know takes 3 days, in only 8 hours is not a good idea. Brooke made a chicken and quail dish and just made a good story to go w/ it. Brilliant! The Hawaiian guy made... well who cares cuz Brooke won and Curlique mustache was sent home. Bye! After Stefan was sent home, this show has become one heckuva snoozefest.
Project Runway had it's innovation challenge sending the 2 teams to a flower shop and a hardware store. I have to say, these teams made some awesome stuff. First though, to even up the teams, Dream Team was able to grab 2 Keeping It Real members. Keeping It Real took one away from Dream Team. It proved to be the turning point. It seemed Dream Team indeed chose the classy and talented and Keeping It Real didn't. Haw haw. Dream Team did it right by coming up w/ a concept and plan first and then integrating the materials into it. Keeping It Real decided to just get materials and try to put stuff together. That's bad because you never really know if you have enough flowers or nails or whatever odd stuff and you can't get more. I was so proud of the Dream Team winning this weak. All their dresses were innovatively beautiful. They had an ingenious idea to trap vegetation between mesh to look like material. Wow! I loved the girl who did that because she put the vegetation in the skirt at the last hours and her team was panicking about the see through mesh the night before. They also made very good use of flowers, unlike Chloe's season, if people remember. Keeping It Real made some good stuff too but were felled by just one designer having time management problems. I was glad to see that the snooty brunette who always thinks she's all that and doesn't want to help others was in the bottom w/ the slow blonde lady. In the end, the judges had no mercy and didn't care what problems caused the time management problem. The slow blonde was sent home. Bye! I'm really liking this teams season.
King of the Nerds finally had a challenge the orange team could win. They put together huge 3 D puzzles and soduku. There was a little heavy lifting involved and I was sure the blue team would win cuz they had that big curly headed guy but nope, Orange pulled out the win. Yay! Maybe it's because they unloaded ugly Alana the week before. Blue team finally had a little infighting cuz the arrogant brunette guy sat out the challenge and is hated by the pink haired girl. So the 2 guys from the blue team were sent into the dual. It consisted of a huge concentration game. Unfortunately, the blond curly haired guy who seemed to be the leader of the team found his luck ran out and lost. He was sent home. Awww.. Now the team is stuck w/ 2 whiny girls and 1 arrogant guy who's not as brilliant as he thinks. I have dubbed team orange 3s Company cuz it's the blonde weird guy w/ 1 blonde and 1 brunette chick. Too cute!
The Amazing Race is back. Y'know what? It's getting a little old. This season, the twist was the team that came in first in the first leg got a challenge pass for them and another team but don't have to declare it until later in the season. So blah blah blah introductions, race to the airport. They landed on some hot tropical island. The fist task was to find a clue in a bunch of sandcastles but if they broke into a sandcastle, they had to rebuild it. That was ingenius because people coming later couldn't tell which sandcastles had already been looked in and gave poorer odds of finding the clue for the later teams. I'll bet in past seasons it was a huge advantage to come later at search challenges like when they had to unroll the haybales. The next challenge was to kayak to a spot and get the next clue and then find the pitstop on the beach. Wow! Talk about tight logistics. The real drama was seen at the sandcastle site because 3 teams had a really tough time and you could tell they were getting heat sick. One team came up w/ a brilliant idea to have them and the other 2 teams quit and take the penalty. I love that white couple w/ the tough white chick. She looks nice but she's really smart and competitive. At one point, the teams had to sign up for helicopter rides. The 2nd to last team were so stupid and signed their name on the last line instead of the next line on the list. That white couple w/ the smart chick went right up and signed on that line. Yay! It seems that any other season, the team would've pointed out the mistake and let the other team go before them. No! It's a race; not daycamp. So a white couple won and the redneck firemen were sent home. Thank you, producers, for not making it a non-elimination leg. Phil needs to eat a sandwich cuz the backside of his trousers is looking baggy.
Well, that's about it for this week. Next week, Worst Cooks in America starts and it's always hilarious. Until then, people; Stay Tuned.
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