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

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

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Jake the Bachelor-Meet the Parents

It's meet and greet the parents week for Jake. All the parents seemed relatively normal, a lot of crying dads in this one. My dad never cried! The scariest parent is definitely Vienna's dad and I hope Jake was listening good when he said, "you have to treat my daughter like a princess". One word Jake RUN! Let's see life of a princess, I'm thinking maid, expensive cars (if she doesn't crash them first), reservations and lots and lots of spending, la de da. Gia says her family is from NY, but sounds more like Jersey Shore to me. Does she have a cousin Vinny? Next to Ali's hometown date in Williamstown MA. When Ali took Jake to her granny's empty house, I'm like where's the furniture instead focusing of Ali's heartbroken loss. Next it's Tenley's parents where Jake all but practically proposed to Tenley by asking her father for her hand in marriage. Oh can I say here, when Tenley was dancing, I was like Corn, I need some butter for my corn! Yeah, her dancing was kinda of corny. Makes me wanna be Shirely Jones and sing Oklahoma!

When they make it back to L.A. Ali lays a bomb on Jake telling him that she has to choose between him and her job. What is up with these people. Don't their bosses know in advance that they won't be at work for several months? As Ali tearfully said goodbye (and comb your hair girl), even though Jake told her she wasn't on the line, (she wasn't, then who?) she still left. I'm thinking that Ali's rational is, if she stayed and wasn't picked she would lose everything. What was that, better to have loved and lost and blah blah, blah.....

Did you see how big the smiles were when Chris told them that Ali had to leave. Ah shucks, one down, two to go.

I can't see Jake ending up with Vienna, man eater, and he doesn't seem in love with Gia, so do I hear another round of wedding bells for Tenley? Altho the teaser for next week is a call from Ali, could she be another Ed and win this whole thing? -Single D