Saturday, February 16, 2008

Celebrity Apprentice-Piers vs Omarosa

Here we have in the right corner, weighing in at 151 pounds of solid venomous muscle, Omarosa, Queen of the Dagger Tongue, and in the left corner, we have weighing in at 178 pounds of solid English muscle, known to whip the mighty with this English rapier wit, Guillotine Mouth Piers. May the best man/woman left standing win the heavy weight title of the Most Offensive Run of the Mouth on Reality TV. Bell sounds off! And it was just then when Piers uttered the words, I am not going to work for the girls, wild horses could not drag me to work with Omarosa, I will quit first, when we find the Donald splitting the teams in two with Tito, Marilu, Stephen, and Trace on one side and much to the disgust of Omarosa and Piers, teamed together with Lennox and Carol Alt. Baldwin, during this exchange looked like the cat in the hat that ate a rat, who swallow a fish that was in a dish! This episode's challenge was to raise as much money from Central Park carriage rides, right up Trace's country roots-ya know, horses and all? Piers is the PM for his team and straight forwardly tells everyone, the one that raises the least money, will be the one to go home, as he knows darn well, that O does not have friends with deep pockets. After all, her notoriety is only based on being known as a reality character. Immediately both sides start calling in their connections. Billy Baldwin pays a visit to his brother, Stephen. It's a good thing Stephen has a lot of brothers, did I mention I saw Alec Baldwin eating lunch in LA? That's what I like, brothers with money. Billy has aged since the last time I saw him, which I can't remember the last time I saw him. Was he the Baldwin in that fire movie? Tito calls his girlfriend, Jenna, and they take a romantic carriage ride when she asks, what park is this? uh da! Traces's friend, JR of Big and Rich, John Rich, finally an over lapping of celebrities on reality shows! See Gone Country posts. I have such immense respect for that guy and he's cute too! I might have to buy some of his CD's. Meanwhile, the boxing match continues on Piers side, especially when Omarosa gives Piers a piece of paper that has his name spelled wrong, which makes him fires her. Jab to the chin! She retaliates by bringing up his children and calling him a bad father. Left hook below the belt! This of course sets him off. Knock down!
In the boardroom, Piers continued his defense of himself against the Queen of the Dagger Tongue, stating that she attacked his family and that is where he draws the line! So there! She's a pathetic excuse for a human being! I thought Omarosa behaved as the English would say, deplorably. Her continual attack on his family was wrong and over the line and as he said, he has never attacked anyone personally. Ok for once I sided with him. I know the Donald was hoping Pier's team would have lost. Trace's team brought in 25,000 to Piers 32,000. It was a shocking blow for Trace's team. It was like good vs evil. The Donald was definitely in a quandry. He acted like the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, what to do, what to do. As he dismissed Piers team, he implored Trace's team for one of them to resign but each one said no. They stood as a united front, each one displaying halos above their heads. Who could he find fault with, Stephen, Marilu, Tito, Trace? In the end, Trump could not find it in his heart to let anyone go, so he made the decision not to fire anyone, but did a very King Solomon like thing and told Marilu that she would switch places with Piers on the other team, that way, Trump was covering his option, either way, next week Piers or Omarosa will be out, unless of course, someone else really messes up.
At the end of the boxing match it was a draw-no knock down, no knock out, no counting to ten. Instead the real winners were Trace's team. Poor Piers, as he said crying in his champagne, it was a hollow victory, then give the damn champagne to the other side, they deserved it!-Single D

Friday, February 15, 2008

Gone Country-Gone Crying

Ok, first of all, let me say, that I haven't had a good cry like that since Barbara Hershey's character died in "Beaches". It seems that Bobby figures prominently in all the episodes of Gone Country. Maybe because he's just a little larger than life and all out there. Here we find Bobby sleeping off another hangover, with Maureen trying to "gently" wake him up by turning on the key board and practicing her cheerleading, subtle I'd say. JR informs them via TV that they will be doing charity work for a good cause, the Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. Instead of the usual high profile charity work, they are all driven to the local car wash, where they are expected to roll up their sleeves and get down dirty, well some of them. We find Julio romancing the girls, Bobby taking pictures with the customers, and Maureen kissing all the ladies , or as Dee said, stop making out with the patrons! After the car wash, it's off to the hospital. Get your hankies ready! JR announces that the country music genre supports Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, and almost every country artist has one time or another passed through their doors.
The crew meets with a group of kids that have cancer and are in music therapy which helps to ease their pains. Sitting in a large circle, Mo felt comfortable singing in the middle as her mom mode came out. She said she felt no inhabitions singing for them. It was extremely heart wrenching to see those children. Every single cast member was wonderful, lending support and giving of their time, when we hear a woman sobbing loudly. The camera pans to find a woman leaning on Bobby Brown, crying her eyes out. It turns out that her daughter Juliana was not expected to live through the day. Bobby ask to see her so they let only two go up, Bobby and Sisqo, but no cameras. After 30 minutes, Bobby and Sisqo return visibly shaken. Bobby said that Juliana had a face of an angel. Bobby is devastated, he also lost a sister to cancer, so this experience shook him to the core. Over whelmed by grief he has to leave the hospital. Maureen goes after him, hugs him and says that God had a plan that he, Bobby, should be there for her, that he was somehow her angel, and they cry and weep together. Was there a dry eye anywhere?
John Rich hopes that the tears of this experience will weep into their music, and that they will be forever changed. Back in their rooms, we begin to see the music come alive with Maureen, Bobby and Carney. It was amazing and beautiful.
In the end, John Rich made the announcement that the little girl, Juliana, who wasn't expected to live that day, made a miraculous recovery. Believe in the power of miracles, they are all around you, now give me a kleenex please!-Single D

Survivor-Fans Vs Faves

It's day four at the camp and the fans camp looks like it did on day one, bleak. As always, the camp has become divided by young and old, why is that always the case? Don't the younger ones know that one day they are going to be old and decrepit too? Show a little respect. This means you Erik, you ice cream scooper! The older ones, Chet, Kathy and Tracy are all about setting up a place to sleep while the younger ones all stand around hoping that the flint will start a fire on its own. After they have made their awesome shelter, the younger ones finally get on the bandwagon and start to build their own shelter, 7 in one and 3 in the other. Me personally, I'd rather sleep with two others, than six others, but who am I- one of the decrepit ones!!! At the favorites camp, it looks like some commercial for a all inclusive resort, fishing (did ya see the size of those clams and I really mean clams!), swimming, sunbathing, ah what a life! Now if we could get some Mai Tai's please? Must be all that romantic tropical air that has infused Oz and Amanda during their sleep, for Cirie hears them making strange kissing sounds. Ok, they were really going at it! Come on guys, get a room! Ozzy is really cute, I might be tempted you know with the moon and the stars and the sound of the ocean and Yau-man sleeping with this glasses on? Right....back to survivor.
Finally a challenge where the favorites win, go favorites, go favorites! Ozzy was the first out of the starting gate, he's such an animal, meow! He's such an expert swimmer! What a body, what a guy! Ok, I'm obsessed and frustrated! The twist in the win, was that the favorites got to chose one from the fans and one from the faves to go to Exile Island to look for the immunity idol. Good choice in picking Ms. Kathy and Cirie. They make such a cute couple. Once at Exile Island, they find the clues for the hidden idol by crisscrossing the ocean, back and forth, from one tiny island to another. It looked like great fun, like being on a scavenger hunt. It also looked stunningly beautiful. Come on Cirie, that's probably the most exercise you have gotten all year.
Back at the fans camp, strategy is in the works, with Mikey B and Mary teaming up, wrong move Mary. First Mikey had so many different scenarios, I was getting confused, either way with him, he wanted one of the older ones out. Joel, you know the Lou Ferrigno one, did I tell you my friends saw him at the Shot show in Vegas, was feeling threaten by him and put a plan in place to break up Mikey and Mary, which in the end worked. Mary, as Jeff Probst said, this was the first tribal counsel and the first blindsided castoff. She didn't even see it coming, painless and effective. And the old, decrepit ones get to live another day! -Single D
The fan's camp is still disorganized and Chet, Kathy & Tracy have become like a third tribe of their own being the "older" people. Ok you pups, we "older" people have experience, think about it before you write us off and put us in the nursing home! It was great that they (older set) made a great shelter and all of a sudden the rest of the group says, hey, that's a great idea! Sounds like the start of a good blonde joke.
Back at the faves camp, coupling is in the air. It started with Parvati and James and has caught Ozzy & Amanda. Who's next? Yau-Man and Ami? I guess not. After hearing a night of passion from Ozzy & Amanda, Cirie is expecting Amanda to give birth to little Ozlets. Wouldn't that be cute! Anyway, Ozzy & Amanda need to remind themselves that the cameras are always running and that Survivor is a family show! Listen up James & Ozzy, both of those girls will turn on you if it means them moving on, so be careful.
At the challenge, the fans are really happy to see that Johnny Fairplay was voted out. If nobody liked him, how did he get to be a favorite? The challenge was smash the tile and grab the key with a puzzle at the end. The faves took an early lead and hung onto it. The fans weren't doing too bad until Chet couldn't find his key and had to come back to the beach to let someone else give it a go. The faves pulled it out big time. I'm thinking they were so humiliated at the last challenge that they had to redeem themselves, which they did. They won fishing gear, with Ozzy catching that fish barehanded, did they really need that?
Kathy & Cirie had the distinction of being the first two on exile island. Kathy was overwhelmed telling Cirie she loved watching her but couldn't remember which season she was on. Now there's a fan. They did get all of the clues but failed to find the idol. Maybe they will make an alliance of their own at the merge if they survive the "young ones".
Back at camp, Joel "Ferrigno" is becoming quite the egotist. He is all for voting out Chet after his poor performance at the challenge. Mikey B throws out so many scenarios that it leaves everyone confused as how they should vote. Joel says he thinks Mikey is running the show when, in fact, it is Joel who is running things and shows it by getting everyone to vote out Mary.
After Mary is sent packing at tribal counsel, Jeff manages to subtlety chastise the tribe for pulling an underhanded trick. I love it when he does that! In this case it seems to have fallen on deaf & dumb ears. Double D

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Big Brother-Premiere-Until Death Do Us Part

This season of Big Brother shouldn't be called "Until Death Do Us Part"-I know CBS really wanted to call it "Dimwits and Dumb Chicks". This season pairs the house guest up with their soulmates-oh please, who did they consult, the yellow pages? The house guests look so mismatched, it's crazy. Where do they find these people? For example, Natalie, who believes in bikinis, coffee and God (in that order). Her profession is Bikini Barista-I didn't know that was a profession! I bet she makes more money than I do however! I'm sure we're going to see alot of her assets during this season. We also have this season's token gay couple, Joshua and Neil, who seemed perfectly happy when paired with each other, as they happily scampered off to look for their bedroom, oh yeah did I say they have to sleep with each other? The wrench in this pairing is Jen and Ryan, the secret couple of the house who have been paired with someone else. Already Ryan looks like the jealous type, so we'll see how long this smoldering secret will lay low. The token older person, Shelia, whose a 46 year old model, looks great, but where's her soulmate, since everyone in the house is under 20? She's already has been labeled the cougar of the house and called Ma twice! My heart goes out to her, since I am someone of a certain age and knows exactly where she's at! Don't call me your Ma, kid! Matt, the Boston Rob of the group, seems so totally self absorbed with himself and his muscles. Julie Chen then pairs all the couples and they run to find their bedrooms, but oophs, there's no more room at the inn and the last two couples have to sleep in sleeping bags, together or do they at least get their own? Poor Sheila not only is she the oldest, but is paired with Adam, whom I'm sure is a nice guy (he works with autistic kids) but does have a manic buggie eyed look about him. She complains incessantly on her pairing up with him, which I'm sure is not a good way to start making friends in the house. He of course feels offended and starts calling her Ma, which she says quit calling me Ma. Adam-ok Ma. The first challenge is for the power couple of the house. The power couple will then eliminate the first couple of the season. The challenge involves hanging on a cable clinging to each other for as long as possible, which requires them to be very close together. Sheila tells Adam, sorry my breath stinks, which he immediately says it smells bad! After about an hour and a reach for the special $10,000 pink pillow, Jen and Parker win.
It should be interesting, with Jen and Parker as the power couple, as the other half, Ryan thinks he's safe with Jen in charge, but Parker is thinking about getting rid of Ryan, because he looks like a threat for challenges.
In the next episode we still see Sheila still griping about her pairing with Adam especially when Adam states that he wants to raise money so he can open up a hair salon for retards, so the retards can get their hair done. I'm not kidding, he used those words! Ok, I'm not easily shocked but that remark was just wrong, especially coming from someone that works with autistic kids. His attitude was, I work with them, I don't see anything wrong with that. Hello, someone needs some sensitivity training. Shelia of course was floored, grossed out, disgusted did I leave anything out?
Hey, tell me, did I miss something between Ryan and Jacob? All of a sudden Jacob is targeting Ryan by telling Jen, who tells Parker that someone said that Parker is a snake, then Parker calls out Jacob to tell him who said it. Then Sharon gets involved, tells Jen, who tells Parker that Sharon implied that it was Ryan. Whew, I'm exhausted! All this high school drama leads Jen to come clean with Parker that she and Ryan are a real life couple, which then leads Ryan to tell his partner, Allison who when she hears this is not very happy about it. She secretly had designs for Ryan. I'm thinking she'll be the one to spill the beans to the house. Wrong move Ryan! In the end, Jen and Parker must have figured out who was doing all the stirring of the pot and voted to eliminate Jacob and Sharon. Good! They deserved it and each other. Good riddence!
The HOH challenge was shades of the newlywed game and doggone it, it looked like Shelia was cozying up to Adam, maybe there's a love connection there afterall as noted by the returning lovebird hosts, Eric and Jessica. Life after Big Brother really does exist. The gay couple look like a match made by the village people-maybe there will be a love connection there too! Alex and Amanda won HOH-now Amanda go and find some pants, your butt is hanging out or as my daughter said, she's wearing booty shorts! Madison get to bed right NOW!-Single D I have to say I have only watched like two episodes ever of Big Brother. Single D told me I would be hooked. I had my doubts, but she is right, I'm hooked! Especially with this couples thing going on. The characters, and characters they are, together might light a light bulb but I guess that's what's it's all about. First we have the bikini barista who loves God (what's not to love about the creator of the universe?), a self professed high maintenance girl, a former model who is the token older person and Matt the horn dog who is totally in love with himself.
After everyone enters the house and introduces themselves, you can see everyone totally checking out each other for a possible hook up, remember those cameras kids! Then Julie springs it on them that they will be paired up according to a questionaire they all took before arriving. Everyone seemed pretty happy with their matches except former model, Shiela. She gets all excited thinking she is going to get paired with one of the hunky hot bodies. But, alas, it is not to be and she ends up with bug-eyed, nose picker Adam. Shiela starts crying when they announce them a pair and doesn't let up saying "I like tall dark and handsome" don't we all? Suck it up lady, you don't have to marry the dude just win the competition and you won't have to see him ever again! And besides, what makes you think any of those young studs were lusting after you anyway, not with all of those young airheads running around. Ryan & Jen, a real dating couple, get paired with others and Ryan's jealousy rears up right away. If they stop to think about it, being with other people increases their chances of winning. But, hey, that would require one to actually think. Loved Joshuah & Neil skipping to their room saying "gay zone here, no straights allowed".
The first challenge was one person suspended over the other, picking them up and holding on for as long as possible. After they had been holding on for awhile, they find out if they pick up a pillow from the bed underneith them and they win, they get $10,000. Sheila lets go first, no surprise there and Jen & Parker hold out the longest winning the money and the first to be named Power Couple which means they get to evict any couple they want. The obvious choice is Adam & Sheila with all of their fighting. But Parker hears someone called him a snake and trys to find out who said it. It was Jacob who said it but tells Parker it was Ryan which makes Parker want to evict Ryan which prompts Jen to tell him that she and Ryan are a couple which makes Ryan run to Allison and tell her and, I'm sure, that Allison will go and tell everyone in the house. Yes, that did make me feel like I was back in high school. Because of his dishonesty, Jacob & Sharon get the boot. After a tearful farewell it was on to the next challenge.
The second challenge was a take off of the Newly Wed game. Where's Bob Ubanks? I loved that show! Lordy, I'm getting old! The part I missed was when did Sheila start cozying up to Adam? Everytime they got a question right she was all hugging on him with her chest in his face. Talk about sending mixed signals. The costumes were a nice touch, I was rolling seeing some of those. Those questionaires must have been pretty good because most of the couples were matching quite well. Amanda butt cheeks and Eric made the most matches and become HOH. Next week, will Sheila keep bad mouthing Adam and will Amanda find some shorts that fit? Double D

Project Runway-Art Inspiration

And then there were five. Who knew when they brought back Chris, he would make it this far? I guess designing floats will have to be put on hold for a while. Heidi (does she ever have a bad hair day? Hate her!), assembles the designers and tells them that this time there will be two eliminated, but first a field trip. I think this season's crew got gyped because they didn't get to go Paris like last time. Instead they are meeting Tim Gunn at the Metropolitian Museum of Art. Here Tim tells them that they are to create a design inspired from art in the museum. As they walk through the Greco-Roman section with the statues of Greek Gods and Goddess, you can see Rami's face light up. He's in draping heaven with all the half naked statues clad in togas and draped gowns. To quote Rami, "it's what I do", no honey, it's the only thing you do. They are each given a camera to take pictures that will inspire creation. Our poodle dog Christian is so exicited as he spies a Spanish military painting which is just his thing, all those stiff collars and black colors-does he ever design something other than black? Chris finds a portrait of a lady dressed in a big bow, operative word here is Big. Sweet Pea focuses on a painting of a peacock, good idea in theory, but could she apply it to a real design? Jillian chose a painting with a cast of thousands in a war scene-the characters were so small, it was hard to tell what exactly she was looking at. When they entered the Temple of the Dreaded Door (at least that's what it sounded like), I thought had they stumbled upon the Indiana Jones set? Hey, where's Harrison? Back at the studio, Christian and Chris stage the battle of the fluffy pieces, Christian's marshmellowy white blouse and Chris's enormous grey taffata bow. It seems that Christian always manages to finish his work in record speed, creating three pieces and then turning to look at Jillian and remarking that she has been pressing for 3 hours. Jillian informs him that she's doing pleats! Oh pleats, should have known those take 3 hours! She used that iron so much that at the end of the challenge it didn't work anymore! Chris makes another over the top or in this case over the shoulder design similar to the one he created with Christian, you remember that rufflie shady beige thing? Only this one is more tame, or lame. All this sewing of shoulder pieces wears Chris out so that he has to take a nap looking like some giant slumbering bear in the dead of winter. And what were Rami and Sweet Pea doing? Rami of course was draping a rather dull looking dress that even Aphrodite would send it back to her hand maidens. We need drama, we need pazzazz! Rami put a rod in it! It was very pretty, but would it wow the judges? Sweet Pea's idea of the peacock did not translate to her dress very well. I expected to see a cascade of feathery eyes on a bright blue train, but instead we got a cocktail dress again! In the end it was not enough to keep her in the running and she was eliminated, as Michael Kors said, she can design for the commercial, but can she design for the runway? Chris and Rami were spared the auf as one of them should have been gone. I guess the judges couldn't decide which they liked better or worse, or maybe they couldn't understand guest judge Roberto Cavalli heavily accented auf or in his case, arrivederci.-Single D
It's off to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for inspiration for the designers this week. They were to chose a piece of art to design around. Rami chose the Roman era, no surprise there with all the draping. He was like a dog loose in the meat department, he didn't know which way to go first! Draping over here, no wait, draping over there, no wait.... In the Egyptian display Chris is checking out a temple and says, "Look Joan Rivers carved her initials here when she was a little girl".

In the work room, Christian is off to the races making a poofy swashbuckler outfit, think Pirates of the Carribean gone bad. Sweat P's inspiration was a peacock. I thought, cool she could make all kinds of things with that, but no, she had to make another regular dress. She does make cute things but this is your last chance honey, go all out. I'm actually surprised that she made it this far. Then her model doesn't show up for the fitting making her worry that she wouldn't finish on time. Hey girl, you were talking to Jillian the queen of last minute, take a few pointers from her.

Jillian came up with another coat. She is really good at that and it was adorable. The halter dress was done in gold and when her model opened the coat, it was lined in gold which really wowed the judges. I'm sure her model even forgave her for scalding her with the iron. Jillian, step away from the iron before you hurt anymore innocent bystanders!

Chris, didn't you already make that dress? With that big @ss wrinkled shoulder piece that took so much out of him that he had to go take a nap. Personally, I think just walking up to the work room makes him have to take a nap. It looked like Tim Gunn really enjoyed waking him up to ask him if he was finished. Chris said yes he was finished which earned him one of Tims famous lines "I'm worried". Then there was Rami and the ever present draping. It was a nice dress but hardly worth a WOW.

In the end Sweet P gets auf'd and it is a design off between Chris & Rami. Now we know Chris will have some over the top outfits and Rami will probably drape his way down the runway. Double D

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

America Idol-Hollywood Week

I love it that the contestants are allowed to play their musical instruments during their solos. Brooke on the piano looked like Carole King, which is exactly what Simon said! See, I knew Simon and I were meant to be together! Jacob playing the drums during his solo reminded me of the wedding singer-why would you play drums during a singing audition? Ms. rock and roll nurse looks much older than her 23 years and is the rocker biker chick of the group-I'm not completely sold on her Janis Joplin, Stevie Nicks persona, so it's a wait for me. And what's up with that Ghaleb fellow, he thinks he the next Antonio Bandaras or Casanova, kissing all the girls- NOT! It amazes me when some guy sings how Paula's face lights up, either she has cougar designs for him or she's thinking-Apple Martini! I thought the Irish girl did ok-but her blue tongue was distracting, did she have it tatoo as well or was she eating blue mints? I'm thinking they need to cut loose the mayor of nerdville, Kyle, omg, one word-NERDLING! Paula said he was a little corny, I'd say he was one big ear of corn. Kyle, I know you'd be better at shaking hands and kissing babies-practice political speeches, I can see you as the next mayor or something! Poor Miss South Florida Fair a victim of the wrong song, Unchained Melody, to my surprise Simon said yes. Simon dear get the wax out, Randy said no and so it was up to Paula, who was put on the spot. Everyone held their collective breath as Miss Fair pleaded and sang, sang and pleaded, and surprise, surprise, Paula said no. Well maybe one of those liquor distilled brain cells were working after all. Good girl Paula! My favorite by far was the cutie 16 year old, David Archuletta, he's got star written all over him. Let's just crown him now!
And now for a tearful farewell, to Josiah, simply a heart wrenching moment when he was cut loose, because you know the only thing he has to go back to is his car. A word of advice Josiah, go home, be a teen, enjoy these young years, get some experience, and then try out again, next time I know you'll make it!
-Single D
Nice twist being able to play an instrument during the audition. Like Simon told a few folks, don't hide behind the instrument, you need to be able to get out there by yourselves. I like the rock & roll nurse, can't think of her name right now, but I do agree with Simon that she will start sounding monotinous, think Janis Joplin, if she isn't careful.
Where did this Ghaleb come from and who told him he was a ladies man? Looks like he will kiss anyone he can get his hands on! At least Paula spoke up first, yes I was shocked, and said no to advancing him. He took it pretty well and went out and started kissing women again. As we type this, I'm sure he is kissing his way back to Miami.
Carly the Irish girl did pretty well. I too thought she had a blue/green tongue but then as I watched, it seems like a lot of people had some oral discoloration. Is it my TV or did the merry prankster producers of "Idol" put something in the water?
On to geeky Kyle. What a pick up line "so have you ever eaten deer jerky?"! I don't think I would be able to restrain myself if someone laid that one on me! My heart is going pitter-patter. Kyle, please lose the computer geek look, do you own a pair of jeans? This is American Idol auditions not geek squad!
Jeffrey the fat guy singing about food. Do you think there is an addiction here? Sorry you didn't make it, go have a cheese burger and you'll feel better.
I'm glad Aussie Michael is sticking around, more eye candy baby! Oh yeah, he can sing too. Double D

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Gone Country-Country Living-Down and Dirty

Gone Country sure packs alot in the 1/2 hour air time. This weeks episode, JR wants to take the crew to get a taste of real country life by getting down and dirty. Bobby Brown wakes up and immediately wants a cocktail. The crew's destination is Gretchen Wilson's compound where they are going to learn first hand how to shovel horse-sh** and rope wild horses. Maureen's reaction to Gretchen is that she's hot-is Mo a lesbo? Maureen, Bobby and Julio are tasked to rope wild horses in a corral, needless to say, our sweet Juilo boy was scared and when one of the horses kicked the camera man's knee, you see the video swirl around and Bobby runs screaming out of the barn. That was enough for him-someone give the poor man a drink! Maureen on the other hand, thinks all the smell of horse doo doo smells good-maybe she was just trying to impress Gretchen, while the three of them start chewing some tobacco, to which Bobby pronounces that he's high.
Next stop is Graham Central Station club, where the contestants still in their stinking horse shoveling clothes finds out what it takes to be a Hick Chick, namely, spitting watermelon seeds, to which Bobby quickly announces that is degrading, a burping contest and a toilet horse shoe throwing contest. Who do you think won the burping contest? Maureen of course, she was very proud-if she can't sing, she can at least burp, maybe she should try burping a song? Dee very proudly won the all around Hick Chick title. I want to go to that bar, it looks like a hoot! Bobby is now very drunk and doesn't want to participate in any of it and goes to the bus followed by Carney, who tries to calm him down and when she was bending over Bobby, he promptly farted a loud one in her face, to which she said that his fart was so close she could almost swallow it! YUCK! What a guy, class all the way! When everyone gets back to the bus-Bobby then gets the 3:45 am munchies and proceeds to find himself a bbq leaving everyone in the bus waiting on him.
Once back at the ranch, as everyone is sleeping, Dee and Bobby Brown share a bedroom, which Dee says is an ideal arrangement since they both snore. Dee uses a mouth piece to keep his mouth closed during sleeping hours (he should try wearing that thing during normal hours as well!), so his snoring will not be so offensive, however this backfires on him. We see Bobby getting up and as Dee hears him stir, he sees Brown coming toward his bed, pulling out you know what, to pee, Dee grunts wildly (he still has his mouth piece in), and he didn't want to be peed on, then Bobby heads for the closet, which Dee said he had visions of Bobby spraying the clothes like they were on fire, Dee grunts wildly and says through his muddled mouthpiece, thebafroom, thebafroom! Finally Dee is relieved to hear the sound of splashing water-touchdown! Off to dreamland.
The next day, Bobby complains that something has to be done about his sleepwalking and that he's very concern about it, needless to say what about your drinking problem? I think wandering around in a drunk stupor trying to find the bathroom is just the symptom, not the problem? Bobby, get real and get yourself sober!-Single D

UFO Hunters - New Jersey

From the creators of Ghost Hunters comes UFO Hunters. NY-SPI (New York Strange Phenomena Investigators, catchy) co-founders Ted, a social worker with a Master's degree in psychology and social work, and Oliver, a product specialist with a high tech equipment manufacturer with a B.S. in electrical engineering, have both been intrigued with UFO's for quite a while. There are others on the team, Denise who has a Phd in psychology and Dennis who is quite the go to guy for astrology and has what appears to be an impressive list of "contacts". With all of the brain power, this looks more like a think tank than an investigative team. I'm sure we will find out more about these people during the season. The first investigation is at Normandy Beach, NJ where witnesses report lights, some say a fireball, plunging into the ocean. The team first checks out the witnesses to see if they are credible, I guess that's nice talk for are they crazy or not? The first witness says she saw something with lights sitting on top of the water. A group of teenagers reported lights spiraling into the ocean. Other witnesses reported seeing lights going down, all around the same time. Research shows that the Coast Guard was called out so the team interviews a Coast Guard member. He claimed the Coast Guard did not find anything and that they did not use sonar to try and locate any objects. The brains have a storming session and come up with the possibility that it could be a meteor, a military drone or a alien craft. They hire a boat with sonar and a diver but come up empty. The team decides, with so many witnesses, something happened that night, but it is inconclusive. The next stop is Carteret, NJ where witnesses report a group of lights in a V shape cruising over the town. The team interviews a Police Captain but decides to go for a more credible witness (what, a cop isn't credible enough for you?!). They then interview a Reverend who says the object was immense and huge. Apparently the team was impressed that the Reverend didn't try to embelish his story. Miss PHD, Denise interviews another witness and decides there may be an abduction angle to study. The witness, John, says he saw the object while parking his car and was drawn into it. The next thing he remembers is waking up in his bed with his t-shirt and boxers on inside out. He undergoes hypnosis and talks about being in the craft, seeing beings which "are not people" and being shown images which clearly leaves him shaken. Meanwhile, Dennis uses one of his FAA contacts to verify that there were indeed a group of objects flying without transponders around the same time witnesses claimed to have seen the objects. All aircraft are required to have transponders, aircraft that belong to humans anyway. The team leaves the case open saying there seems to be an alien interest in New Jersey. Maybe they are just looking for a summer vacation spot. Double D

Ghost Hunters International - Transylvania

When I saw Transylvania, I was really hoping the team would go to Bran Castle home of the original Dracula, Vlad "the impaler" Dracul. But it was not to be and they ended up at Citadel Rasnov which happens to be in the Transylvania section of Romania. We never hear when the citadel was built but lucky for us I know how to Google, and found that it was built around the year 1215. Some of the haunts here include a monk seen praying in front of the crucifix and the same crucifix casting odd shadows. The citadel's well was built by two captured Turkish soldiers who were promised their freedom after completing the well but were killed anyway, talk about going back on your word! It is said they are still haunting the well, I don't blame them! In the museum area, a guard dog will not go past a certain spot.
On with the investigation. Barry, Brian & Robb start at the front gate where they get high EMF readings and Barry does some EVP work in German, I guess Romanians speak German?
Shannon & Donna check out the crucifix and Donna gets a battery drain on her camera. In the museum, Barry sees a shadow which is debunked when the team finds a window down a long hallway letting in some light. It's Shannon & Donna's turn to go into the museum. They find Max the dog and try to get him into the museum. He won't budge even though he is wet and cold, he will not go near that museum. Animals just know something in these matters. The girls go in anyway and start EVP work. Shannon starts getting pissy wanting a spirit to show itself while Donna is more patient even asking the spirits if they liked to knit. Maybe that's why Donna is the fave among the spirit world.
Robb decides to split up the girls when it becomes way obvious they are getting on each other's nerves and can't agree on how to run an EVP session. While all of this was going on, Brian went into the well and did some EVP of his own. He did find a bone (maybe Max the dog buried it there) and felt a cold breeze with no source at the bottom of the well.
Barry takes Shannon into the chapel where he tells her to sit on a bench to observe while he goes down stairs. Let me tell you, she was not the least bit happy about that. Maybe she is PMSing because she was being a total b!tch. Barry meanwhile, finds a sealed door at the bottom of the stairs and looks through a crack and sees what appears to be two legs cross his field of vision. It pretty much scares the stuffing out of him and orders everyone to leave. After telling the rest of the team what happened, Donna went into mother hen protection mode and demanded that the spirit who frightened her friend show itself. That didn't work and the team came up empty.
Shannon & Robb have a little heart to heart. Apparently Shannon is feeling underappreciated but Robb reassures her that she is a valuable investigator and to keep focused on the investigations. Come on Robb tell it like it is, the woman is impatient and gets scared half the time. I look for her to get voted off pretty soon, sorry wrong show, I meant, I look for her to go home soon. I think she's just jealous because the ghosts like Donna better.
After sorting through all of the tapes, nothing was caught on video and only two things where captured on audio. The first being a response to Barry asking questions in German, Romanian and English. The response was in Romanian "poftim" which means sorry or say that again. The other was a response to Donna asking who are you, the response was "bine" Romanian for good. I guess the ghost was a little hard of hearing and thought she asked how are you. Donna does research on the citadel and finds the legend of the well is false.
Final verdict is that there is paranormal activity but not enough evidence was gathered to call it a haunting. I still think they should have went to see Vlad the Impaler. Double D