Friday, March 12, 2010

Survivor-Heroes vs Villains

Hey wait a minute, I thought Russell, being the idol magnet that he is, found the hidden immunity idol last week, but apparently not, as he finds it this episode, either that or there was some editing going on. I'm thinking there was editing going on.
I am just so sick of the Heroes losing every challenge. They can't win for nothing and it's because Boston Rob has all of a sudden this season turned into the good guy. And ya, some of you might disagree, but he really has mellowed out. That's what will happen when you marry the million dollar winner, have kids, go on Amazing Race, and get to be on every Survivor reunion show. Life is good. And yes, he should probably swap sides. He's been instrumental in the villains winning all the challenges, so doesn't that make him a good guy? Meanwhile, the heroes who can't get their act together are quickly becoming the villains in this game. Come on, I dare you to name a real hero on that tribe. Maybe Colby? And what, are they stupid? Keeping loud mouth brute James over Tom? The heroes better hope that James's leg recovers before their next challenge, otherwise, he wasn't worth keeping, brawny arms and all. Maybe Tom's inability to solve puzzles was what was keeping them down. Too bad Tom gets voted out, I still think he had a lot of game in him. Now it remains to be seen if anyone can emerge as a leader. JT again gets himself in a jam by siding with both sides. Come on, chose sides, or the tribe will come after you.
When James hurt himself, Amanda was all sad like whose going to take care of me if he goes, she whimpers. Yeah right, it's all about you, Amanda. James is a fool to stay on, lets see fix leg or live with it broken for the rest of your life. Could be serious, but the game is more important to James or maybe it's the million dollars that is more important. Don't hold your breath James, your days are numbered so you might as well have left.
Looks like next week, Rob and Russell have a showdown, because two kings can't run the camp. Should be interesting. -Single D

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Jason and Molly's Wedding

Can I say one thing, who would get married outside in the middle of Feb? Yeah, I know it's California but it does rain in California! And did all over Molly and Jason. Weren't there storm warnings, because nothing like a torrential downpour while you're saying your vows and guests are whipping out their umbrellas. Well, can't say much for Molly's color choice, what was that green and white? Or was that chartreuse? I loved Trista and Ryan's wedding. Now that was romantic even if it was overly pink. But I like pink she says. Set against the lovely sun setting over the Pacific, guest weren't forced to wear their winter coats. Seemingly, the bachelor family looks like it's trying to set another wedding date for Jillian and Ed. Who knew they were still together. Funny how some of the past players have swapped partners. Well, I hope Molly and Jason are happy together and hopefully they went someplace dry for their honeymoon.-Single D

Monday, March 8, 2010

Amazing Race-Sauerkraut and Beer

It was either good luck or the bumbling detectives finally figured out something on their own, hook up the the cowboys of course. With a two time first place finish, the cowboys are proving to be a force to be reckoned with and they've never been off the range! The flight the two teams took through Paris turned out to give them a head start over the other teams which takes them to Hamburg Germany (no you aren't going to eat hamburgers!) where they have to pair up with each other to take a bungee leap. I had to crack up when Jet didn't take his hat off during the leap. He said to the German guy, it won't come off. Yeah, but you're bungee jumping! Sure enough, that darn hat stayed on his head which proves as he said "a real cowboy hat never comes off", so now we know.
When Brandy paired up with Dan for the bungee jump, on the way down, I thought Brandy's terrifying scream made her look like that Edvard Munch painting "The Scream", either that or she turned Asian on the way down!
If given the choice of eating or soccer punting, I'd probably chose eating, my only question would be how much sauerkraut? The detective chose eating of course and for the first time during this race made the right decision, with Michael wolfing down most of it. Way to go big guy. Next it was on to downing a big boot of beer. Most of the girls were like, this beer is nasty, although team lesbo were able to chug just like the guys, while Brent is puking his guts out. He's so delicate! King of the chuggers was dad Steve. He really surprised me. With a slurp and a burp they finished that challenged and moved into 2nd place. I would have been so drunk on that huge beer boot. Where's my bed! Only brother Dan said that he was drunk, well isn't he the lightweight? The pit stop is some bar in the red light district. Amazing Race is getting spicer in it's old age. Team Big Brother's big dumb luck managed to get them in last place, which dumb luck would have it was a non-elimination round. How are they ever gonna come from behind? They deserve to go home, nothing seems to faze them, like when they did the eating challenge, Jeff wimps out while Jordan is holding her nose while daintily spooning sauerkraut in her mouth. When they came in last, they were like oh well. Well oh well and oh my gravy, I'm still rooting for the cowboys.-Single D

Friday, March 5, 2010

Survivor-Heroes vs Villains-A Brokeback Moment

Now this is the Survivor I know and love! Finally some blindsiding! But first.... a brokeback moment between Coach and Tyson. Coach was so torn up by Sandra cutting him down at tribal that Coach went back to camp in tears. How could she say that he whines to Tyson. I'm noble, not ignoble, I do grand stuff (right! only in his eyes). Tyson in his best Dr. Phil mode told Coach, that if he wants to be liked, then he needs to stop with all the grandiose storytelling, the wearing of feathers (he does?) and all that crazy tai-chi stuff on the beach because it's just makes him look like an idiot. Yes it does. Wow, Tyson could give Dr. Phil a run for his money! Coach wiping away tears as Tyson gives him an embrace. Ah a touching survivor brokeback moment! Afterward, you'd think Coach would redeem himself, naw, he says he gonna be just like he is, a Dragon Slayer, because he can't change, he'd rather leave the game. Empty threats. Meanwhile, the plot thickens as two idol clues are revealed to everyone on both camps. I loved it how King Rob tells his henchman, Sandra to spy on the court jester, Russell (Idol magnet) to see if he's trying to find the idol, which he does, no surprise there, and which Sandra good solider that she is, reports back to King Rob that he has it. Russell is not too sly this time around, it's like everyone already knows his game.
Meanwhile, at the heroes camp everyone is trying to play nice in finding the idol, when Tom finds it and tries to slyly hide it but not before Amanda tells everyone.
Heroes lose the immunity challenge again, wimps! I'm sick of them! There's scrambling for who should leave, with Tom and Colby being on the outs, looks like one of them would end up voted out, but it was JT's brave vote switching that really changed the game. Are the heroes camp that stupid that they would want to vote out all the strong players? Come on, Tom or Colby? At least JT came to his senses, although during tribal he look scared as SH!! Somewhere between Jeff saying, once the votes are read and the actual reading , someone arranges the votes in exact cliffhanger order, with the first three votes nulled by Tom playing his idol and then the next three for Cirie. The look on Cirie's face, priceless! The look on Amanda's face even better. What's Amanda gonna do without her brains? Well, glad to see Cirie go, don't exactly know what she was doing there in the first place.-Single D

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Amazing Race-Oh My Gravy!

Oh my gravy, I'm thinking I'm voting for the cowboys to win. How they manage to make it in first place is beyond me. Sure they know how to rope a steer even if it is a fake one and they know how to play polo even if it is on fake horses, so I shouldn't be surprised when they came in first. And I loved Cord saying oh my gravy, that's so gonna be my new exclamation point when I'm yelling at my daughter. Jeff and Jordon's dumbness is showing through again when they couldn't find the right lead bandit at the train station to give their loot. Oh my gravy, read the darn clue! No wonder Jeff gets along with Jordan, he's just as dumb as she is. They never told us why Caite and Brent had to go to the ER, was it food poisoning? Nothing like having to travel when you're not feeling well. What I wouldn't want is having an IV drip in a foreign country, oh my gravy!
You know who is getting on my last nerve is the lesbo team of Carol and Brandy, "newly dating", well maybe not for long, bickering like an old married couple. Not quite sure why Monique and Shawne ended up last, was it because Shawne couldn't lasso her fake steer? Too bad, would have loved to see them come in first and they both seemed really nice, thank you Jesus! I'm thinking the next to go, Louis and Michael. Oh my gravy, they can't do anything remotely related to anything, how are they detectives? -Single D

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Jake The Bachelor-On the Wings of Love-Who Did He Chose

Yep, that's three hours I'll never get back and I really wasn't that interested in who he picked, naughty or nice. Of course Tenley made a great impression on Jake's parents and two brothers and their wives. She's the perfect stepford wife what's not to like? Tenley had everyone gushing over her, even stiff upper lipped dad. Gee, does he ever crack a smile? Vienna on the other hand, started out with her foot in the mouth disease and said all the wrong things, yep, all the girls hated me, she whines! Because I'm so brutally honest, no it's because you're so brutally stupid! Vienna did manage to win them over somewhat, hey this is tv, what are the parents supposed to say?
Jake kept saying that he loves Tenley like he was trying to convince himself. When they were on the boat and he tells Tenley that he's not feeling the heat in their relationship, well coming off the date with Vienna, where they rubbed hot mud over each other, now that's heat. It's no wonder he's not feeling it. I so felt bad for Tenley, I'm sure she knew right there and then that he wasn't going to pick her. Come on, it came down to pixie fairy Tenley (doesn't she look like she should be sprinkling fairy dust somewhere), or hot chick Vienna. What would any guy pick? When he was kissing Tenley, it looked like he was kissing a dead fish. I'm sure he was thinking I could love Tenley without all that hot sex, or have hot sex and learn to love Vienna. He chose the latter of course. In support of Vienna, life does look like more fun with her, but once the kids come, I can see a messy house, a litter full of kids, dirty laundry everywhere and Vienna's hips spreading and in bad need of a dye job and Jake and her having wild sex on the washing machine. Tenley would have the perfect house, the perfect kids and the perfect figure (with all that dancing), but unfortunately it would be like the majority of other households, not tonight honey, I'm too tired!
I thought the After the Rose show was totally lame and corny! I don't think I'm going to be able to listen to "On the Wings of Love" without cringing and bring up images of Vienna and Jake dancing and smooching to take up 10 minutes of dead air time. And come on, sending them back to St. Lucia, come on, give them a honeymoon trip to Venice or something, weren't they in St. Lucia enough?
As for Jake joining Dancing with the Stars, love it! This I've got to see! That was a good move on DWTS. As for Ali being the next Bachelorette, I'm so over that girl! Why bring back someone whose already washed up on TV? She's too self-involved to ever let any guy dominate her life, what is he going to give up living where he is to join her in San Francisco?
Can't the bachelor find someone new? I liked it when they had that wine heir and that British dude. -Single D

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Survivior Heroes vs Villains-Mud Bath

Missed the first 20 minutes of last nights episode, so totally forgot that it was on until my husband came out of his man cave and said, don't you watch something tonight? I'm like I don't think so as I'm surfing the channels, wait Survivor's on! At work they said something about chickens happened in the first twenty minutes so I'm like I didn't miss much, but after reading the recaps on CBS, looks like I did miss a lot of plotting and back stabbing, the best part. Came in when TJ was telling Cirie that someone said that she couldn't be trusted and her going around asking who would say that. Come on, can anyone be trusted? The Heroes went into the mud bath challenge full throttle with a killer desire to win and they showed them there villains they could finally get their dirt together. I had to laugh when Jeff told them they could change their clothes, what from less dirty to more dirty? When Rupert went up against Coach, I thought for sure the dragon slayer (is he still that?) would push lumbering Rupert in the mud, but Coach laid hands on Rupert which I think threw his game off and Rupert was able to land him in the mud. Again I thought Boston Rob would punk Colby in the mud first, but Colby finally showed some testosterone and pitched him first. I didn't get the fight before the fight between James and Randy. Didn't get the exchange of words, but James easily threw Randy in the mud pit and threw his bag (was that on purpose?) which hit Randy in the head. That James has a real temper. Hey is his skin peeling from a sunburn? Or is that some form of vitaliago that plague Michael Jackson, except James's green? Heroes win the challenge/reward in a clean sweep. Once back at camp, they decide that it's between Randy and Parvoti and in the end, Randy, sour old man, gets sent home. Can you believe the editing that goes on, as it looks like it's totally split between the votes, with Coach saying that he would never write Randy's name down, but does. I'm not getting the reason they voted Randy out, that was a stupid move. Randy has no alliances, no strategy, no one likes him and is a weak player, he's about as harmless as a mosquito, and just as annoying as one. Wouldn't they want to get rid of the threats first, like Coach, Boston Rob, Parvoti. Bad bad move, shows how stupid that tribe is.-Single D

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Jake the Bachelor-Reunion Show-Women Tell All

I usually don't care for the reunion shows on the Bachelor, it just serves to draw out the series, come on let's get to the climax, and who wants to watch a bunch of women cry sour grapes for not being chosen. But this one was a goody. Let's see, it involved a lot of crying, Gia, rallied supporters for Vienna, Ali, and a Skank tell all, Rozlyn. Three words, OMG! Gia was still smarting for being sent home, crying in her hair saying that she should have told Jake that she loved him, didn't she show him that during the fantasy suite? Ali did her act of contrition by saying Vienna's not a bad person and that she was ashamed of the way she acted toward her, that was big. But when Chris asked her if she would have chosen to stay, tick tock, tick tock, did you see how she hesitated? And then replied, of course I would have stayed, not! Girl had to think about that one. Obvious her job is more important than a guy. Plus she really didn't want to be on the losing end. Upon closer inspection, Ali is not all that cute. She always has that I just got out of bed look (maybe guys like that?). And what would the whole entire season be if Roz had not come back to defend herself against all the liars in the room. Ah come on Roz, fess up, you fooled around and got caught. Admit it! Chris says to Roz, then everyone in this room who saw you with Ryan, you are calling them liars? Every time he asked her a question, she turned and twisted it around. But what was really telling in the end, because we can all over look that she had hanky panky on the set, who cares, right, but she kept with her steadfast denial, and then in the end, when Chris was trying to make her admit she was lying, she starts attacking Chris, by calling him out about his hitting on the guy's wife, yep the guy, she was supposedly having an affair with. So not only was she fooling around, she was fooling around with a married man! Speaks volumes about the person she is and Jake is lucky he narrowly escaped. Kudos for Chris for not losing his cool when she outright turned the tables on Chris and attacked his character. He said that I hope this experience will make you a better person after all this. Nah, I don't think so. Roz is just in it for momentary fame, what next Playboy? Yah, I think so. Not a good role model for her child in anyway. With a second look at all the expelled ladies, I think he made a mistake letting Ashleigh and Christina go, he even admitted he should have kept Christina around and Ashleigh is way funny, can you do this on tv as she gives the bird! -Single D

Monday, February 22, 2010

Amazing Race-Chilly in Chile

I missed the first ten minutes of Amazing Race last night because I was yelling at my daughter for going over her text limit, until I realized it's Sunday night, something has to be on, no time for discipline, other things are more important! Oh yeah, so I came in when the cowboys somehow got way ahead of the pack. How did Chip and Dale (no no after you) get ahead of everyone? I bet those two have never been outside the farm and are still virgins, giddy-up! I keep waiting for Team Big Brother to mess up and surely thought when they missed their bus that they were going down! The challenges this episode were really lame, dress a llama and gather ingredients to make a German cake. Who knew there were so many Germans in Chile? Of course Granny comes out with a piece of cake on a plate after getting hit in the head by the cow, she's a trooper! And why does CBS blur out the cow taking a dump? I thought that was Hi-lar-ious! Every time someone came to milk them, they had to poop, must be the pumping of the teat that gets them going. Doesn't Chile look awesome, put on bucket list, although it looked very chilly, so why would any team pick the flying condor challenge which would mean a dip in a very chilly lake? And no Jeff, that flimsy piece of fabric will not make you airborne enough to fly, dud! I think Jordan is rubbing off on you. Speaking of dumb, team detective couldn't find a dead body if their life depended on it. They should be going home soon, don't they have to get back to their dog napping case?
Well, when team giddy-up won first and Phil said that they won a sailboat, I think they were hoping to win a tractor or something. Enjoy boys, your days are numbered. -Single D

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Survivor-Heroes vs Villians

Poor Rob, this episode really made me sympathize with him. If it was an act to garner viewers to rally to his side it worked! Is he that good of an actor? And having an epiphany in the end was the cherry on top of it. Who could have made better TV? I would have been fed up with my tribe too when no one would listen to him on how to build the shelter. Wasn't he after all in construction before all his reality fame? His little fainting spell has put a spell on me! Boston Rob is clearly ahead in my book to win even overshadowing diabolical Russell. Poor Russell he just can't get no satisfaction. What is really disappointing are the Heroes, they can't win for nothing or at least solve puzzles. Don't know why Rupert has it in for Stephanie when it should have been Rupert who went home, sore toe and all. At least Stephanie has strength even if she's a pushy wench with skinny eyebrows. The weakest links on the Heroes tribe is Cirie and Amanda. My question is are those two going to slid by again and get all the way to finals without doing much of anything? James better keep his brawny big mouth shut because he is stirring up the Heroes tranquility and will surely be the next one to go and that would be a big mistake being one of the strongest one on the tribe and right now they need every advantage they can get.-Single D

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Jake's Big Mistake-The Bachelor Final Two

Ok, What was Ali thinking when she supposedly had to leave the show for the sake of her job? I'm thinking maybe that was a ruse because she was afraid that she would lose it all in the end. Coward! Now she wants to come back, gives Jake a call when everyone is on their fantasy dates in Saint Lucia. Doesn't that place look so romantic? Put on bucket list. Didn't you love the editing on the show spoilers, like Jake is saying get on the first plane back here, but he doesn't. Why, because he won't be able to spend that important one on one time, if you get my drift. Typical man thing. Oh big, huge mistake. Ali is the only girl that makes sense for him. Let's see whose left, Tenley vs Vienna. Miss Goody Two Shoes vs Diva ex-Hooter's Princess. Not much choice for him. I knew Jake wasn't going to keep Gia around. She's too immature and young and could take a few elocution lessons from Henry Higgins to get that Jersey out of her mouth. She really is immature in her actions,twrilling her hair and picking her lips and her speech, it's almost like she has a couple of marbles in her mouth, Eliza Doolittle guess he kept her around because she does have a killer body, but in the end, you really do have to have conversation in common. Jake kept making comments about Gia's taste in pricey shoes which spoke to his concern about her high priced taste, whereas Vienna might be the princess, but her taste is more in the vein of Walmart.
Jake is up the creek with his choices, he let all the good ones go. Spoilers have it that Jake will end up with Vienna, which means in this case, just a temporary fling ending like the previous bachelors, single and unmarried. Or maybe he'll pull a previous bachelor ending and not ask anyone to marry him, who was that? In the end, Jake turned out to be your typical shallow Hal. Threw out quality for titillation.

Amazing Race

So many shows, so little time. Biggest reason to watch Amazing Race this season is newly dating (what Big Brother was like last year?) Jordon and Jeff. Winning a million didn't make Jordon any smarter, as evident when the clue said Chile and she asked for tickets to China. Ya, I could see that mistake, they both start with C. I so definitely thought they might be the ones eliminated first with Jordon leading the way, but surprisingly they ended up first. Team Lesbo will be the team you love to hate. I so thought Brandy was going to ace walking the tightrope, but she barely made it to the otherside. Although all was forgiven when they chose the green paint, Martha Stewart, pre jail days. Major snaps to Dana and Adrian for total support they showed each other, but still got eliminated anyway. Aw, can't we give them another chance?-Single D

Friday, February 12, 2010

Survivor All Stars-Villians vs Heroes

Is this going to be a good season or what? All the guys we love and all the ones we love to hate. Villians, Boston Rob, Russell (I was robbed), Coach, Tyson, Parvarti, and that skinny, anorexic chick, what's her name, Courtney? For the heroes, some of my favorites, Stephanie, Tom, Colby, JT, Rupert, but hey, where's Ozzy? I would have loved to see JT go up against Ozzy. Country boy vs Jungle boy. They did throw in a few faces that were hard to remember, Candice and Sandra (she won?), guess they had to fill up slots with some of the lesser famous survivors.
Of course we all wanted the Heroes to win the first immunity challenge and they were off to a good start winning the reward challenge, but not with first dislocating a shoulder, Stephanie (shades of Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon, gads she's brave) and Rupert busting a toe (that's ok, you have 9 others right?). Heroes let go of a huge lead in the immunity challenge when they couldn't do the puzzle. Who put Sugar in the puzzle solving group? Where is former contestant Liz, she was a good puzzle solver. In the end, it got kinda of scary when they were throwing out Stephs name but I'm glad they came to their senses and voted out dimwit Sugar. She's sweet but can we stand another season of crying?
A few observations, Boston Rob has gotten mellow and soft (that's what a million dollars will do), JT too. Stephanie plucks her eyebrows way too much, maybe now they'll grow out on the island and Cirie a hero? Colby still looks hunky even if it has been ten years and Jerri is holding up pretty good for a cougar. Her and Coach, now that's an odd pair.
Just hope my favorites stick around long enough, but at this point, do we really care who wins?-Single D

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Let's Make a Deal Delivery

The other night, out of the blue, I got a call from Heather at Let's Make a Deal. Apparently they want to deliver my TV that I won. She said that they were closing the warehouse and were going to deliver the TV but the other prizes that I won would be delivered once our show aired. Of course I was so excited! I'm getting my TV, ha ha as I danced around the house. Finally reaping some reward for our appearance as contestants on that damn show! It's been what 5 months!! Yeah, but would they really air our show? Heather assured me that it would air in season one. I ask her when is the season over with then? June she replies. I'm guessing with the move to Los Angeles, tapings are falling behind for this season and they will have to air some of the earlier shows which includes ours. Yipee is all I can say for that, because if they hadn't moved from Las Vegas, I might not have gotten anything, so the move from Las Vegas was a good thing right? Donna's disappointed because she was trying to get on the show again because she wasn't really a contestant, just my side kick. Myself, I'm SOL, I will have to wait another 3 years to be eligible, thems the rules. They told me they would be delivering the TV between the hours of 10-2. By one o'clock still no delivery. Then a call, Travis said they were having some sort of trouble. What could it be? Were they going to renege on giving me my TV? Finally after some kind of scrambling on their part they finally delivered the TV. Now mind you I wasn't home, so my husband accepted the TV. He called me and praised how nice they were, young kids, he said. Said that they told him the show was moving, because they couldn't make the show work here. Which was true, Donna told me they had a hard time filling the audience for the tapings. When I came home, the TV box was in the middle of the living room. I suspiciously spied duct tape on the box. Humm, looked opened and used. When I looked in the box, the TV was sloppily inside without the original packing. What?@! Was that a used TV? Did I just win a used TV? Hey what kind of show is this? When someone wins a car, is it a used car? I'm yelling at this point. How could they give a used prize. I bet all the scrambling before the delivery was probably because they couldn't find the remote for the TV. It was really insulting that Let's Make a Deal could deliver a prize that had been used on the show. The box was marked Show 1001, Act 4. The taping I went to was Show 1011, so obvious, this TV was the display model they used on the set. What a disappointment. Not only did we suffer the disappointment of our show not airing in a timely manner, now they do the low class thing and give away prizes that have been used. And I am supposed to pay taxes on a used prize? Very disappointing! That same night, Heather calls again, this time she says they have my PS3 and will deliver it later that evening. Of course I didn't want to be rude about the TV I had received that was in less than new condition, but told her that the TV was used. Her reply was that they checked it out to make sure it was in good condition. Yeah, but I didn't know when I won the prizes, that they were going to be used goods (I'm thinking). Of course this isn't her fault, so I didn't rant on like usually do, I was getting my PS3 (whatever that is?). All I could think of I wonder if that's going to be used to? Travis, (he's a cutie) quietly knocks on the door, it's 9:30 by now and hands over the PS3. I say my thank yous and go back inside. Madison runs down stairs (since she has laid claim to it) and we look over the box. Humm, well, it looks like it hasn't been opened. I know what was happening. The people at Let's Make a Deal are moving to Los Angeles, and in order to move less, they got rid of their stuff here. On the one hand, at least I got some of my stuff but on the other hand, it has been a mix bag. Being picked as a contestant, getting lucky and actually winning was thrilling, not showing our show, a total disappointment, and finally getting some of the prizes only to get used goods, totally horrible. LMAD, not a class act. They acted more like thugs that stole hot merchandise and were getting rid of it on the sly. Don't get me wrong, the TV looks good in my media niche, even if it does have a few scratches in it and appears to work just fine, but it's the principle of the whole thing, you expect when you win something that it's new and unused, but the whole thing was just a total misrepresentation and that's the real deal.-Single D