Top Chef - Tailgating at Da Bears!

Lisa and Dale kiss and make up but agree to dislike each other. Dislike is a mild term for what these two feel for each other! The quickfire challenge is to create a dish to pair with beer. I want that challenge! The chefs get to sample the beers (I want that challenge too) to decide which beer they will use. About half of the chefs say they don't drink and most of the other half say they don't drink beer so this should be interesting. It looked like most of the chefs just cooked what they wanted and didn't care if it went with the beer or not. The guest judge, the head chef of Chicago's Avec restaurant, had such a poker face, and a homely poker face it was, that no one could tell if she liked the dishes. Jen wins immunity with her shrimp and scallop beignets. I think the judge liked her. Spike was more than a little jealous that Jen got immunity and says "go lesbians, here we go." Play nice Spike.

The elimination challenge was to cook for a tail gate party and a Bear's football game. My husband is a Bears fan so he should love this. Call me when you tail gate a Colt's game! Spike, determined to win, goes straight for the wings and buys out the store's supply. Dale, not happy that Spike is doing wings, goes for the next best thing, ribs. There was everything from rack of lamb to the old standby burgers. After getting their dishes ready for the next day, the chefs go back to the house to unwind. Spike and Mark unwind in a bubble bath which offends some of the women. Lighten up ladies, they had clothes on and were on opposite sides of the tub!

The next day at Soldier Field, the chefs get their grills. They get a choice of charcoal or gas. No brainer, charcoal is always the way to go! For the football fans, Dale notices Gayle Sears, Refridgerator Perry and Richard Dent in the crowd. I would have forgotten what I was eating after seeing those guys!

Meanwhile, Spike is trying to make small talk with the fans asking them when was the last time the Bears won a superbowl. WRONG QUESTION! Stick to cooking Spike, you obviously are not a football fan.

Ryan works the crowd and everyone seems to like him even though he doesn't like football. Nikki made sausage and peppers. She ran out of the onions and peppers and didn't save any for the judges. How can you not save the food for the judges?! She said she didn't want to not serve the fans. Well, it's hard for a judge to judge your food if there isn't any!

Dale wins the challenge with his wings. Nikki was picked apart since she ran out of her dish and chose to serve shrimp on the side which didn't really go together with the sausage and peppers. Ryan wanted to serve up a whole menu complete with poached pears. I guess he didn't grasp the idea of a tail gate party. Mark also didn't get the tail gate idea. Maybe it's an Aussie thing, bu the judges pointed out that he tasted his food with the same spoon that he was stirring with. Health department please!

Ryan was told to pack his knives and go. The judges deemed his food inappropriate for a tail gate party and not even that good for a restaurant. Double D

Survivor-Fan vs Favorites-Curse of the Immunity Idol

James and Amanda are not happy that Ozzy was blindsided. Amanda looks depressed and Parvati tries to do some damage control with James. James really surprised me with his insightful comments to her, you go James, ya take that! Amanda says she's not having any of it, but by the end of the episode, it seems she firmly initiated into the all girl tribe. Poor James, he's stuck with Eric and Jason, who both don't have a clue that the girls are scheming to get rid of the men, or in this case boys. Natalie has emerged as the ringleader of the women's tribe and boy as she self describes, is a cut throat, royal beeyatch. I'm wanting her gone, she irritates me!

The reward challenge is the "Survivor Auction", with yummy Jeff as the auctioneer. Each survivor is given $500.00 to buy food surprises. I was surprised that it really wasn't the same food fare as in previous seasons, of beer, hamburgers, spaghetti and such. They did have a 1/4 chocolate sheet cake, which Natalie buys and has to share with 3 other people to consume as much as they can in 30 seconds. The girls, Parvati, Cirie, Natalie and so and so, dig in with their fingers, stuffing chocolate cake into their greedy big mouths. Eric is salivating so much he offers Cirie $40.00 to lick her fingers and does. I was screaming! oohhh! My husband ran downstairs to see if I got injured or something, but I told him, I was just screaming because it was so gross! Now that's desperation! For one of the surprises that Natalie bought, she had to send someone to Exile island and take their cash. She chooses a protesting Jason, who gets a second chance to find the real immunity idol, which he does, of course. At first he didn't want to go, but then realized that Natalie wanted him to find the idol. Little does he know she has other plans for him. Oh what tangled webs we weave! Back to the auction, the one item that was given away was bat stew, which James scooped up for gratis and ate with gusto! Umm, he really does like that bat stew, you just need to take off the skin! ick!

Back at camp the girls are hatching a plot to do a double blindside by getting rid of Jason. Natalie works out all the details and is quite tickled pink with her sassy self. She says she will get on his good side so he will feel confident not to use the idol. If he doesn't win immunity, all will go as planned. The immunity challenge is a series of stunts previously done, and Eric emerges the winner for his 21st birthday. Nice gift.

Jason tells the camera that he feels comfortable enough that he will not have to use the idol tonight. I'm wondering why Amanda when she was talking to James and James said that he was writing down Parvati's name, why didn't they hatch a plan to get rid of Parv or Natalie. They could have rallied Jason and Eric, but NO, that's way too logical!

At tribal council, Jason has no idea that he is the target, although, I thought for a fleeting second, maybe James would be leaving. By a vote of 4 to 3 Jason is the second guy to be blindsided holding the immunity idol. Just goes to show you how ignorant and stupid the guys are, sorry guys, but you are! I'm thinking holding that immunity idol is a curse, it has yet to be played for the advantage of the beholder. Heed this warning all ye who finds it, use me quick or chance may find your fire snuffed!

And it looks like the women are in control, which is too bad for me, because I don't like any of them, and James and Eric's days are numbered. They better start praying to the Micronesia God to send them a miracle, but not another immunity idol!-Single D

Amanda faces reality after her Ozzy boy toy was voted out, which was his own fault totally. What good is the immunity idol if no one uses it? Dumb, dumb, dumb. Parvati come clean with James telling him she wants the girls in the final three, at least tell me it won't be Cirie! Confucius James comes up with another fortune cookie saying telling Parvati "why can't you enjoy the apple, you have to eat the apple, why can't you just enjoy the apple?" I'm guessing here but maybe he is referring to the fact that her and he are still there, why mess things up. Then you have Cirie telling Amanda how sad she is for her that Ozzy is gone, yeah right!

It's the survivor auction with food for sale! Cirie bids $120 for a hot dog and fries. Erik bids $80 for a mystery dish but traded it for another dish. Good thing because his original dish was octopus and he traded into nachos. Natalie bought a mystery dish which turn out to be the bat stew. She didn't want it so James stepped up for some free food. Just don't look at the bat faces and you should be OK. Natalie buys a note in a bottle telling her to send someone to Exile island immediately and take their money. She sends Jason and gets the next bid of a chocolate cake to share with three others, the girls of course except for Amanda. They dive into the cake only after Natalie gets the first bite. The girls get their fill of cake and Erik actually bids to lick Cirie's fingers! YUK!! After being out in the wild for weeks, I don't which would be worse, licking fingers or having your fingers licked! Can I bid on Jeff?

On Exile island, Jason finds the immunity curse, I mean idol and thinks Natalie sent him there to find it. Little does our dumb bunny know the girls are plotting against him, James and Erik. Wake up guys the girls have united! It was Erik's birthday so the girls decided they wouldn't target him this week as a birthday present. My my don't they sound like the jungle queens rulers of all they survey!

The immunity challenge is one of those hard ones that come in sections. James must have gotten wind of the girls plan because he takes the lead and holds but in a last second lunge, Erik wins immunity.

The girls are happy that Erik wins immunity since that will allow them to blindside Jason. Jason is so trusting that he tells Natalie he found the idol which seals his fate. Looks like Natalie will be the last fan standing unless Erik keeps winning immunity. I'm starting to think Natalie has a hate on for men.

At tribal, James votes for Parvati and Jason doesn't play the idol which earns him a ticket out of the jungle. Do these people ever learn? It seems the immunity idol is more of a curse than a blessing since no one elects to use it! Double D

Ghost Hunters - Mt. Washington Hotel

Bretton Woods, NH Mt. Washington Hotel. This is one huge beautiful place! It reminds me a bit of the Stanley Hotel in Colorado. Mt. Washington is 105 years old and is the scene of apparitions, doors that open & close as well as lights turning on & off. A Princess Caroline would come to the hotel "in season" and bring her own bed. The princess died in the 1930's and the hotel still has the bed which guests have seen a woman sitting on the bed.

Steve & Tango go into the south tower, where employees used to stay, and hear odd noises. They decide to do some EVP work and ask the spirit to come to them and they hear what could be a footstep.

J & G go to the princess' room to do EVP work. They ask the princess if she minds if anyone sleeps in her bed and hear a noise which turns out to be the heat kicking on.

Tango & Kris go to the ballroom where Kris displays a little aggression toward the spirits by daring them to push her or Tango. Go Kris! Nothing happens and they leave. You should have double dog dared them Kris!

It's J & G's turn in the south tower and they also hear sounds right away. One of the sounds turns out to be a piece of glass falling a few feet away. Jason tries to match the glass to the windows around the area but is unable to find where it came from. They do EVP work telling the spirits they are plumbers (which they are) and they are there to check out the plumbing. Way to bond with the ghosts guys! They hear definite footsteps then Grant walks into what feels like a heavy cobweb and finds there is nothing there.

The findings - nothing on video but on audio you can hear the footsteps J & G heard in the south tower. Also on audio in the princess room, it appears the princess (or someone) is trying to communicate with the investigators. The tape picks up someone saying, "hello is someone there?" and "of course I'm here, where are you."

Research shows that the hotel is built on granite which is believed to fuel paranormal activity. The team declares the hotel haunted. The princess seems happy enough and probably won't be going anywhere any time soon.

Case #2 takes us back to Rhode Island and the Ruffstone Tavern. The building dates to 1873. Reports are perfume smells, doors opening, dishes breaking and general creepy feelings. Gee, I get that feeling going to work sometimes.

J & G try to debunk the perfume smell and find cleaning supplies stored with the mints and beverages. I hope the health department isn't watching! They find the source of the smell in a rarely used drawer. One of the shelves in the kitchen was not level which explains the dishes falling and breaking.

Kris & Tango go to the basement, hear noises and get spikes on the EMF detector. J & G also go to the basement and find that the high EMF readings are coming from the wiring which will explain the creepy feelings.

Apparently the building was used as a speak easy during prohibition. Tango had never heard the term. Does he even know about prohibition? Either he is younger than I thought or I am getting older than I thought! Thanks alot Tango, I'm depressed now.

The team manages to debunk everything and declare the premises ghost free. Double D

Big Brother-Till Death Do Us Part-Final Two

Sheila is crying now that she is on the block-waaa, what like it was a surprise? The guys are conspiring to get rid of Sheila. I think they are just plain tried of listening to her whining! Poor Adam being tied to her for 24 hrs of pure torture. When Sheila's around Sharon and Ryan, Sheila acts like she hates Adam, but when they are alone laying on the bed, she tells Adam, "wouldn't it be amazing if we won the money?" What are they secretly married or something? Because Sheila sure acts like she's married to Adam, ridiculing him, disgusted by him, repulsed by him, wanting his money, sounds like I'm talking about my own marriage, just kidding! The POV is a sprint to the finish matching the evicted house guest with the clues. Ryan gets to play in this POV which I don't think is fair, we all know how good he is at details. Sheila doesn't have a chance or a clue, does she ever?

Of course, no surprise here, Ryan wins the POV, so he holds the super powers this week, HOH and POV. I'm wondering why no one ever targeted him in the house? Ryan has a trail of secret double dealing in the house, not to mention, money grabbing greed (remember the 10 grand grab from Shelia?), a trip to Vegas and a movie premiere & shopping spree in LA. This guy should have been out of the house long ago. Too late people!

Adam must be feeling a little exposed that so he tries to make a pack with Sharon, that if she promises him final two, he won't vote her out (he's the deciding vote). Sharon being the good girl (she's really honest, unbelievable!) can't make that promise and runs to tell Ryan that Adam is trying to make a deal. This sets doubt in Ryan's mind that maybe he should pull Sharon off the block and put up Adam, well maybe for about 2 seconds. During the veto ceremony, Ryan decides not to use the veto, leaving Sharon and Sheila at the mercy of Adam. Now previously, they guys wanted Sheila out, but has Sheila gotten to Adam with all her crying? Adam gets up and tells them that he votes to evict....Sharon (who secretly has a deal with Ryan)! Sharon graciously leaves and Sheila starts bawling. Little do we know that an hour previously, Adam convinced Ryan that they should vote out Sharon because she is a stronger player and that they should keep Sheila because they would be able to get rid of her in the end. Good move on their part, since if Sharon went to the final two, she'd probably end up winning. Gee someone winning Big Brother by playing fair? Unheard of!

The three part HOH features the first challenge called "Up the Creek". House guest are on a mini surf board, holding on to a rein while water is pouring down on them. I knew Sheila would not be able to do this. Double D's favorite saying, "Weak as Water!". After 33 minutes, Sheila is cold and tired. Sheila complains that she's frighten of water since she almost drowned once (hey Sheila, that was eight years ago!). Adam and Ryan during the whole time, are psyching her out, so what else, she gives up. Adam and Ryan make a deal to go to the end and so Adam lets go.

The second challenge features a large hamster wheel with a maze inside which has balls with the house guest faces on it. Sheila and Adam have to get the balls out in the order of eviction in the fastest time. In the hamster wheel, Sheila complains that she is getting nauseated. Good grief, is there nothing she can do? Time reveal that Adam's 13 minutes beat out Sheila's 33 minutes, so it's on to the final round with Adam and Ryan going up against each other. We all know the last challenge is a series of A or B questions. Fairly simple, but Adam missed one and Ryan went on to win HOH again!

Immediately, he has to evict either Adam or Sheila. He votes to evict a sobbing Sheila. Now here's my take on the final two, Adam and Ryan. To me, it appears that they are both equal candidates. Both strong, both fierce competitors, both back stabbers, although Adam would get my vote as being the nicer, gentler, kinder one and I think he probably has a good chance of winning the house vote. Now if Ryan voted to keep Sheila, I think Ryan would had a better chance of winning against Sheila, because really, what has Sheila done? Nothing! Cried, whimpered, sobbed, looked sloppy, and rode the coat tails of Adam. I don't think she had a flying pigs chance of winning the whole enchilada. So in the end, let the chips fall where they may, I'm hoping for Adam to win and I think Sheila is hoping that too, because knowing what a teddy bear Adam is, he will probably give her 10 grand. See you at the finale-Single D

As Single D said up top, Sheila is crying again for being on the block. Sharon on the other hand is laughing it off. The wheeling and dealing has begun. Adam & Ryan, Ryan & Sharon, Adam & Sheila with Sheila whining about the whole thing. When Adam & Sheila get shackled together for 24hrs, Ryan said those two are like a dysfunctional marriage.

POV challenge is to match a jury member with two clues. Everyone but Ryan gets stuck on Chelsia. Ryan becomes the "power whore" that he wanted to be by winning POV. Looks like that power is going to his head. I agree with Single D, they should have got him out when they had the chance.

Sheila is still begging Adam to take her to the final two but Adam is trying to make a deal with Sharon. Sharon pretty much turns down Adam and runs right to Ryan to tell him about Adam's dirty dealing. Now Ryan can't trust Adam. However, Ryan decides not to use the veto and evicts Sharon after making a last minute deal with Adam. Of course Sheila is crying. With a "take care of my beebees" Sharon leaves the house all bouncy and bubbly.

HOH competition is the rising river complete with thunderstorms. The three are on boogie boards holding on to a skiers tow rope while being pummeled with icy cold water. Sheila drops out first, no surprise there and Ryan & Adam make a deal that if Adam drops out it will be Sheila leaving next. So Adam drops out.

Round 2 of the HOH is a giant wheel with a maze inside. They have to get balls out of the maze and get in order who won HOH. Again Sheila loses taking twice as long as Adam. She didn't win anything. Even the one time she win HOH it was because Natalie finally gave it to her because they were sick of hearing her cry.

At the jury house, Natalie is second guessing her feeling about Matt. Apparently Matt is being mean to her. I still say Matt better watch out for her. It's a good thing they live on opposite sides of the country, he in New York and her in, say it with me kids, the beaver state of Oregon.

Back to round 3 of the HOH competition, which statement did the jury member say. Ryan & Adam were neck and neck until Adam missed one question leaving Ryan with HOH. Adam & Sheila plead there cases to Ryan with Sheila turning on the water works. Ryan evicts Sheila which gets her crying all over again.

In her interview with Julie Chen, guess what? she's crying! Julie tries to get her to look at the bright side saying how far she came but Sheila wasn't having any of it preferring to wallow in her misery. Amazingly enough, Sheila's eyes and face were totally dry as she talked with Julie. Poor me, I'm poor, I'm stupid! Maybe Sheila thought if she cried enough, Julie would give her some money. She finally cracked a smile when she saw Adam's goodbye message.

Next up......who will win the $500,000? Double D

American Idol-Andrew Lloyd Webber

I love the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, especially the "Phantom of the Opera", but those songs are so huge and can the idoltestants sing such big songs? Syesha sang "One Rock and Roll too Many". Ok I have never heard that song and it is probably best left on the Broadway stage. I must say that this is definitely Syesha's element and looks like she should be Broadway bound. I can so see her in a Broadway play-hey Oprah-how about casting her in "The Color Purple"?

Dreadlock Jason singing "Memories" was simply awful. Who can beat Streisand's version of it. Jason needs to go, his singing is just too weak and go cut your hair please! Brooke White is so cute, but her false start with "You Must Love Me" got away from her when she forgot the beginning lyric. Kinda of awkward there. David Archuleta sang another song I didn't recognize and gave it a very contemporary spin. As the camera pans to his family, there was David's dad sitting all proud like. Does he know that there are stories out there about how he is the stage dad from H.... ! Makes me think he was the one that pushed David's singing to the brink of ruining his vocal chord during the "Star Search" thing. Bad Dad! Now go home and leave David alone, he will be a star without your meddling!

Carly sang the perfect "Jesus Christ, SuperStar" and her voice is definitely big enough to carry it and she looked great in that outfit. All this season, I have not been a fan of David Cook. Every theme week, he takes a song and retools it to the unrecognizable. Last week I was saying to my husband, why can't the guy just sing the song. His reworking of every song is in my opinion arrogant and narcissistic, but this week, I was pleasantly surprised when he sang "Music of the Night". He did nothing but just plain sing and it was really really good. I was amazed at his voice. See David, you don't always have to dress up a song to make it sound good. Maybe it will be a voice off between the two Davids. Meanwhile, I'm thinking either Brooke or Jason needs to leave tonight. Sorry guys, maybe you two should team up?

Elimination night, another shocker as Carly, one of the strongest voices of the group graciously takes her exit. I still can't believe that neither Jason or Brooke were in the bottom two and managed to survive another week.-Single D

Hell's Kitchen

It should be a team effort to clean the kitchen after the firing of Jason, but Corey's had enough and goes upstairs to rest, can you say lazy! Chef Ramsay calls the crew in the next morning and ask each team who is the strongest. For the girls they chose Jen and for the guys, Petrozza. Chef Ramsay demonstrates how to make homemade pasta, not an easy feat. Cranking pasta through the pasta machine looks like hard work. Maybe that's why he asked for the strongest, because they will be the one cranking the machine. The challenge, to crank out as much homemade pasta. And of course the pasta has to be up to the Ramsay standard. They drape the pasta over the arms of their teammates to let it dry properly. The guys pasta weighs in at 5.48. It didn't look like the girls pasta even came in close, but they weighed in at 6.57, whoo hoo! The reward for the girls is a fun day at the Santa Monica Pier. Boy I remember that from my childhood days, when my mom would drive us down there. Back then it was called POP, or Pacific Ocean Pier. My mother, brother and I would ride the Tilt A Whirl and laugh till our sides ached. Then we would eat fried clams and clam chowder at the Pier restaurant, ah, but I wax nostalgic.

Meanwhile, the guys have to prep the kitchen for the evenings service. This evening service is "family style". Plates of pasta, hamburgers, and onion rings, yum!

At the dinner service, the guys are trying to win this challenge, but Matt sends out chicken wings that are raw-which sets Chef Ramsay off-what are you trying to kill the children? The girls are doing good until, Vanessa reaches for a pan which has hot oil and is burned badly enough to be taken to the hospital. The girls being down one, now have to get their stuff together. Ben thinks the guys are in the lead and starts to congratulate everyone, until Chef Ramsay burst his bubble by telling the guys that they still have six tickets to the girls two tickets. Poor Ben, he feels like such a fool. It's a race to finish the dinner service, but the girls manage to win even with being one girl down and Jen emerges a strong finisher. Chef Ramsay chooses Bobby to select two losing chefs to go up on the block. Bobby chooses Craig, describing him as a broken compass, no matter what situation he's in, he's lost. Matt also is chosen for putting out the raw chicken. Chef Ramsay wants one more sacrificial lamb and calls out Ben as well. Ben defends himself by saying that he will give 110% and Matt says I'll give you 125% with Craig standing there mute as he says he's not good with numbers. What a stupid thing to say, hello, keep the mouth shut. But too late, Chef Ramsay suffers no fools and Craig is sent packing.-Single D

The Bachelor-London Calling-Final Four Home Dates

I always love the home dates as we get to peek into their private lives and see what their families are like. The first home date was to Shayne's house in LA where the bachelor has to learn how to say her last name, yamas, lama, say it with me Matt, Llamas! Shayne and her father (you know the famous one) Lorenzo, meet at a restaurant where Lorenzo proceeds to tell Matt that the only reason Shayne is on the Bachelor is because she wants to be a movie star. Shayne was so upset at this and proceeds to confess her undying love to Matt. At this Shayne's father says that it was just a ruse to get Shayne to reveal her true feelings. After meeting the father, it's off to see Shayne's mom side. Somewhere in the burbs of LA lives Shayne's mother and sister in the house that Shayne bought. I'm sorry to say that Shayne's mother is a causality of the bad plastic surgery trend that is sweeping LA, which is unfortunate. Shayne's sister is an exact cookie cutter of Shayne. The house is decorated in yesterday's designs gone wrong decor and somewhere out there are a pack of leopards missing their coats. The next two dates are replicas of each other with Chelsea's parents and Noelle parents exactly alike and lo and behold, they live in the same state, Colorado. No need to recap there. The final and best date is with Amanda somewhere in Florida, called Niceville, is that near Pleasantville? Amanda has arranged for actors to portray her parents to pull one over on Matt. This whole segment was so hysterical, as the actor mom, wearing a low cut top acts aggressive by caressing Matt's arms and chest as he states that's my nipple. Actor mom then proceeds to hug on him, brushing her ample chest up against him, trying to kiss him like Mrs. Robinson. Actor dad acts all angry and stern, he has the supporting role. Matt tried to act cool, but surely he was flustered. What would someone do in that situation? One word...awkward! When finally Amanda comes out, she tells Matt that he's been punk'd. Whoo hoo, Matt, this one's on you! Very funny stuff and if Amanda is the last one standing, this will make a good story for the grand kids. In the end, Matt's connection with Noelle is the weakest and he sends Ms. Dimples back home to Loveland, Colorado.-Single D The first hometown date is LA LA land with Shayne where Matt learns to pronounce Lorenzo Llamas. Yes Matt, you should be able to say your girlfriend's last name! It sounded like dad was belittling Shayne by saying the only reason she went on the Bachelor was to be on TV. Shayne was obviously embarrassed by this and kept insisting that she was falling for Matt. Dad seemed happy with Matt so it's off to see mom. Arriving at Shayne's mother's house, we see that Shayne's sister is her twin only a few years younger. Her mother has had a few too many botox injections and she could stand to lose a coat or three of mascara. They do seem like a fun happy family, with all of the leopard skin stuff and dressing like flower children, who wouldn't be happy. Just what was in that roast? After dinner, Shayne's mom shows Matt a video of one of Shayne's dance recitals. I just know Matt is going to pick Shayne, especially after seeing that video and how flexible she is! Off to Durango, Colorado and Chelsea. Her parent's home looks beautiful with gorgeous views of the surrounding hills. This visit was pretty uneventful, ok it was down right boring. At least Matt got to stay in the same state for the next visit with Noelle in Loveland, CO. Matt & Noelle ride in on horses to see her family who are all lined up on one side of a picnic table like the inquisition. I was surprised the picnic table didn't fall over. After dinner, Noelle's sisters take Matt outside to grill him. Again, yawn! I'm so not seeing Matt with Noelle anyway. Tallahassee, FL and Amanda await. Amanda hired actors to play her mom & dad as a prank on Matt. Apparently he likes pranks. As fake mom hits on Matt, he just sits there and takes it even when fake mom rubs his nipple and rubs herself against him. It was pretty funny but Amanda puts an end to the prank before Matt could run screaming from the house. He thought the prank was a good one so it all ends well with Matt meeting the real parents. Noelle gets sent home leaving three to go to Barbados! Double D

Big Brother-Till Death Do Us Part-Ryan Nominates

Controversy is brewing in the BB House as Ryan tells Adam that he lip read Adam telling Natalie right when she was evicted that he voted to keep her. Cut to replays of Adam mouthing the words "I voted for you". Adam tells Ryan that he said "What do you want me to do?" Close but no cigar! Why would Adam tell Natalie that, when they both planned to do it that way in the first place. They made a Solomon like decision and left Sheila holding the sword. Was Adam trying to play Mr. Nice Guy, I know that's the way he views himself, a big goofy nice guy. Suspicions also arise because there is another preexisting couple in the Big Brother house (the guineas-sisters) and fingers are pointing to Sheila, as Ryan says, she's been around the block a couple of times. Jeez, can't an older woman get a break!

Ryan's HOH room is full of pictures of him and Jen and the corny letter from Jen had Adam in tears, especially the part where Jen calls Adam, in her letter, her my little "unroasted peanut". More like unroasted Brazil nut if you asked me.

The luxury challenge features another movie premiere of "What Happens in Vegas". Teams of two, Ryan and Sharon, and Sheila and Adam have to break prop wine bottles to find the dice ring and claim squares on a board. Sheila perks up when she see the wine bottles and says that maybe this is her challenge. Can you say wino? The winners get the movie, the premiere and a shopping spree and for the losers 24 hrs of chained togetherness. I think the funniest part was when the house guest put on padded wigs and Sheila kept complaining that Adam was breaking the wine bottles alittle too hard over her head, ya think? Of course, Sheila and Adam loses the challenge and now have to endure 24 hours chained madness. It cracked me up when Sheila kept ragging on Adam and making all kinds of faces about having to be chained to that lunatic, when the camera pans over to Adam sitting next to her the entire time, with his duh expression. Sheila better play nice as Ryan puts up Sharon and Sheila on the block and Adam is the deciding vote. Sheila, if you know what's good for you, you will shut up and be nice to Adam. Maybe you should give him a kiss and a back rub so he won't vote you out, and remember to give him lots and lots tears and a sob story (remember his previous generous act of giving her $10 grand?), cause he's a sucker for those.-Single D

Survivor-Oh My Oz, Blindsided!

There is an emerging Jungle King and his name is Jason. Jason is feeling pretty good about beating Ozzy at the immunity challenge, so much so that he compares himself to Oz and God. The reward challenge is a swim and memorize challenge and of course Jason's Deity like power is still in play as he is chosen as one of the team captains. His team is made up of Ozzy, Eric, and Amanda and the other team is Natalie, James, Parvati, and Alexis. School yard pick leaves poor Cirie the last one standing so it's off to exile island with her. It cracked me up how when it was James turn to swim and memorize the puzzle pieces, his contribution was one piece. Needless to say, Jason's team won the challenge so it was off to an island style luau with a local indigenous tribe. Jason is sitting in the co-pilot's seat as he demonstrates his move up the pecking order. The big feast is with "the lost tribe" as the commercials kept saying. About the only thing lost with this tribe were the women's top much to Erik's delight. Erik gets involve with the local custom of drinking beer and chewing betel nuts which proves to backfire on him later, when he throws up his feasting and drinking, but has no regrets. Meanwhile on exile island, it is raining buckets on Cirie, where's the nearest Hilton please! When Jason's team gets back to the others, Oz goes into great detail about the food. Hey Oz, don't you remember it's not cool to tell the other starving survivor's how great the feasting was! Smuck! The immunity challenge is how long can you keep your arm up to not drop the bucket of water above your head. Jeff brings out a bowl of candy which immediately Cirie and Erik give up. Hey Erik, didn't you have enough to eat on the island? Oh yeah you threw it all up. And who could blame Cirie for giving up, right now a bowl of slop would look good to her, but that's another show. Five hours pass and it's between Parvati and Jason. Everyone agrees with fingers crossed that they will not vote out Jason if he gives it to Parvati which he does, fool! At camp Cirie plots to get rid of Oz. James tells Oz that it doesn't feel good, so I'm wondering why Oz doesn't listen to him. James instincts is spot on as Oz tells Jeff that he doesn't feel threaten. It seems that everyone is in on voting out Oz, except Oz and his crew of three, Erik, Amanda and James, and much to Eliza's wide eyed amazement, Oz is the second member of the jury. Oz leaves pissed and probably feeling stupid. Just goes to show you that you can't feel too secure when holding that immunity idol, because it has failed to come into play yet. Come on people, wake up and play the idol!-Single D Jason says Ozzy isn't the only god-like competitor on the island. Did I hear a challenge?! For the reward challenge the tribe is split into groups of 4 and Cirie is the odd woman out, or darn! The dream team of Ozzy, Amanda, Erik and Jason pull off the puzzle and earn a reward of going to visit a local tribe where they are decorated with leis. One of the tribe members shows off by climbing a palm tree, he didn't have anything on Ozzy the Jungle King. Erik was like a big kid playing with the children, drinking beer and chewing beetle nuts. Beetle nuts?! Is that anything like rocky mountain oysters only a whole lot smaller? Never mind. Erik gets an eye full, make that both eyes, when some of the local women come out topless. He said that is more boobs than he has seen in years. Poor guy, I guess he isn't getting any. The local tribe gets entertainment from Erik as he tries to embrace their ways and doesn't do so good. I guess the beetle nuts didn't set so well since he got to taste them twice, if you get my drift. Meanwhile at Exile Island, Cirie is miserable in the thunderstorms. The losing team also endure the thunderstorms and James, the early riser doing all the work, catches flak when he wakes up everyone else. The immunity challenge is an endurance challenge with Jeff cutie making tempting offers to get the contestants to drop out. Cirie & Erik drop out for a lousy bowl of candy. I would be holding out for steak and potatoes! Alexis & James lose their concentration and lose out on a food reward. I guess that candy had hypnotic powers. Ozzy drops out for donuts. Amanda drops out because she has to pee, didn't you go before the challenge? That leaves Parvati and Jason. Jason bows to pier pressure to feed everyone and drops out after everyone vows not to vote him off. How many ways can you say STUPID?! Jason could get lucky as the shift goes to Ozzy. James should be a fortune cookie writer as he says, "just because someone wants a donut and you give them a donut, maybe all they want is a donut." Meaning, I assume, that Ozzy just wanted a donut and didn't just give up because he has the idol. At tribal, James was saved from being dumbest survivor for not playing the hidden immunity idol when Ozzy didn't play it knowing that everyone knows he has it. Say it with me kids, STUPID!! As Ozzy gets his torch snuffed, he gives the remaining tribe members a killer look and Eliza, on the jury, is about to have a coronary, the camera pans to James who has a smile on his face. The King of the Jungle has been dethroned. Double D

Big Brother-Till Death Do Us Part-Bye-Bye Bible Girl

Sheila says that her real target this week is Natalie. She feels threaten by her and that she wants to back door her. Adam however, is shooting off his mouth again. His mouth gets him in so much trouble, he better be careful, or he'll end up on the block. Adam took the words right out of my friend Jeff's mouth, that Natalie is the Judas. Gee Jeff, maybe you should copyright that phrase?

This time it's a nightime POV. Channel surfing has come to the Big Brother house. There are about twenty different screens & remotes with different pictures. Object is to put together the pictures like a huge puzzle. We all know that Natalie says she's good at puzzles, well, she's also good at numbers, not! It looked like Natalie made quick work of the puzzle, while Sheila and Ryan gazed fondly at their love interest, Evil Dick and Jen. Gosh, Ryan is so puppy whipped! Truth time, Natalie's whiz bang time was 12:09 to Adam's time of 3:20! Looked like Adam's strategy of lining up the remotes worked so Adam wins the POV.

It's Sheila's birthday in the house and of course Adam is wearing, what else a clown nose-how perfect! Sheila is crying buckets over the letters from home again, especially over her mother's letter, whom she hasn't spoken with since Thanksgiving. How close can you be to someone you haven't talked to in months? I know why Mom is suddenly mom, she's smelling something green! Adam calls in everyone for the POV ceremony. You guessed it, he takes himself off the block and watery eyed Sheila nominates Natalie as the replacement.

Natalie is begging for her life now that she is on the block. Looks like Ryan and Adam are the new power couple. Natalie keeps saying that she wants to stay in the house and that she has her boy's back. To Sheila it's a slam dunk, Natalie is outta here, so she thinks. Ryan and Adam decides to call a house meeting to get all of Natalie's scheming out in the open. Natalie doesn't want to play, so she decides now is a good time to dye her hair. What amazed me was that Natalie was wearing a white tank. How did she not spill any dye on that? And she did an amazing job of highlighting her hair. If Natalie won't go to the meeting, the meeting will come to Natalie. Ryan calls her out on the carpet about all her plotting. She tells them, she's always protected them and if she did try to throw them under the bus, oophs she really didn't mean it, she was sorry and starts to cry. Sharon meanwhile is looking frustrated, but learned early on not to say a word, smart girl. Adam and Ryan cave like the big whimps that they are. Sheila's pissed and fuming. She tells the boys that they need to get Natalie out, because next week, she's gunning for Sheila. And she tells them, that she doesn't want it to be a tie, because she doesn't want to break it and have blood on her hands. Oh boo hoo!

At the jury house, we see James make his entrance, much to the dismay of Joshuah and Chelsia. Matt's loving it that James was evicted. James tells Chelsia that the reason he got evicted was because of Chelsia's harsh departing speech. This makes Chelsia breakdown and cry. I was so pleased! At least James told her what a fool she was for saying those things. I wished I had taped that part so I could see it over again, loved it!

The night of the eviction, Julie says it time to cast your votes. Natalie gives her speech and tells the guys that she will always be true to them and for them to keep her. Sharon graciously tells everyone thank you and what happens happens. Let the guineas fall where they may. Sharon is just too sweet, is she for real?

To my amazement-Ryan votes to evict Natalie and guess what....yes Adam votes to evict Sharon. Adam walked out of the diary room with such a smirk. Those guys planned it that Sheila would have to break the tie. When Julie told the room that it was a tie, the look on Natalie's face... Priceless! Sheila then tells Natalie, how can I trust you when you said you would protect the guys and proceeds to vote Natalie out of the house. What a moment, what a shock, such good TV. Natalie kept saying who was it that voted me out?

The HOH competition, a series of fact or fiction questions, I was really hoping that Sharon would win, but Ryan got real lucky and wins HOH. Well, it looks like the girls will be put up on the block next week, no guessing there!-Single D

American Idol-Mariah Music

I love love love Mariah Carey music, well her music from when she did all those great hits. I'm not too crazy about her newer stuff. First up is David Archuleta singing what else, "Miracles". He sings anything that has the word miracle in it and of course he did an awesome job. Carly sings "Can't Live". I love that song but Carly did wobble on some of the notes. Good try! Brooke again at her piano which I thought was a bad choice. She rushed the song "Hero" and playing the piano took away from the song. I think she was concentrating too much on playing the music rather than singing the music. Kristie put the usual country spin on "You'll Always be the Only One". David Cook once again mesmerized the judges on his unusal spin of one of Mariah's song. For me it was just ok. I want him just to sing. But I do have to sympathize with him and the trauma of having to deal with your brother having brain cancer. So sad.

Mariah looked amazing although I wasn't too crazy about the song she sang "Bye-Bye" from her new E=Mc2. It was sad to see Kristie Lee Cook leave. Hey Kristie, maybe you can parlay this into a country career and whoever brought her horse, give it back, jeez!-Single D

Hell's Kitchen-Goodbye Jason

The morning is alive with the sounds of chickens, real ones. Everyone wakes up to chickens taking over the apartment, each one sporting a name tag. Bobby says he's never caught any chickens. Into the kitchen each chef holding their own chickens. Looks like from the time they caught their feathery friends to the time they assembled in the kitchen, they all had bonded with their claw footed partners. Each one of them were holding on to their chickens possessively especially at the sound of Chef Ramsay saying something about learning how to cut up a chicken into 8 pieces in 5 minutes. Each one of the chefs had the look of terror as Chef Ramsay held a poor unsuspecting chicken's head like Anne Boleyn at her beheading. Yikes! I need a warning! Thankfully, he was only kidding and instead he brought out store bought chickens and demonstrated the art of cutting a chicken. The challenge-perfect chicken cuts in 5 minutes. The girls come up with 44 perfect pieces out of 48, while the guys lose it from early on. For their punishment, the guys get to dress up like farmer John and get a dusty bus ride to a farm to pick peppers in the hot sun. The girls dress up and go to a Sunset Strip restaurant called Saddle Ranch, where they accidentally run into the Asian cry baby of last season Aaron riding a mechanical bull. How odd! Cry baby Aaron bull riding? Hey Aaron are you still cooking?

Lunch must have been uneventful, either that or the producers wanted to get in shots of the girls in the hot tub at the apartment. Probably the latter. The girls try to play mind games with the guys targeting Jason, Ben and Craig as the weak links on the guys team. I think the girls should have left their clothes on, especially Jason, way too much flesh, yuck! He has bigger man boobs than me.

Dinner service will feature actual table side cooking by Bobby and Christina. Chef Ramsay this time picks on Jason for the dessert quiz. Of course Jason can't remember sh!t and he gets sent back to memorize it. Dinner service begins and Louross goes to hunt down Jason. Jason returns to the kitchen and tells Chef Ramsay that he can't do it. Ramsay asks him if he wants to quit, but you could tell Chef didn't want him to leave that way. Hummm, last week Petrozza, this week, Jason, looks like a bunch of quitters this season, bad for ratings I'm sure. Jason manages to sputter out the desserts and is saved from quitting. It's another horrible dinner service as Bobby decides to placate the diners with the chicken he is making table side which is the only food being made and not from the kitchen. I'm wondering how Christina did at this, they never showed her at all.

Vanessa has a breakdown in the meat section and Jason is a failure at making the souffles. He tells Ramsay that he will put sugar up the sides so they will rise. Hey even I know that! After several serious head bangings by Ramsay, he calls for Christina and Petrozza to nominate two people for firing. Christina chooses Vanessa and Petrozza chooses Jason. Obvious choices and Ramsay says to Jason, you're not ready for this, take off that coat.-Single D

Ghost Hunters - Wright Patterson AFB

The team gets the opportunity to investigate Wright Patterson Air Force Base. This is so cool since I've been to the base! I love it when reality shows go to places I've been! OK so I'm easily excited. Recent renovations seem to have stirred up activity. Reports include apparitions, eleveators that run on their own, doors that slam and voices.

There is a house on the base that was purchased by the government. The team decides to start there. When Jason & Grant get a high EMF reading, they start doing EVP work. After explaining what they want from the spirits (knock once for yes, 2 for no kind of thing) they get rewarded witih a knock. J & G keep asking questions and they keep getting knocking responses. Grant askes the spirits to get together and close a door. The door behind Jason closes! Jason then askes the spirits to light his flashlight and they oblige! Jason obviously has one cooperative ghost!

Steve & Tango investigate the dining room. They ask the spirits to move a candle or walk by. The EMF detector registers a high reading then goes back to zero.

Next, the team goes to the office and warehouse areas where reports of voices and shadows are seen and heard. J & G are in the warehouse area and hear footsteps and boxes being moved. Jason sees a shadow and tries to debunk it and finds out that something is in the warehouse with him when Grant sees what he thinks is Jason walking when Jason is actually standing still. J & G tell the spirits if they want them to leave they should knock 2 times. They hear 2 taps and keep their word and reluctantly leave.

Steve & Tango are in the cubicle area of the office and find that the heating system is causing the noises. Chris & Kris in the warehouse hear noises but don't have enough time to debunk.

During the review, sounds of laughter are heard on tape as well as the knocking noises J & G hear. Also filmed was the flashlight lighting on its own. The air force base reps are pleased with the outcome and the team declares that the base was built around the Arnold House which is haunted.

After delivering the findings, the team gets Steve into a flight simulator to try and get him over his fear of flying. He does good for a while until he crashes his simulated aircraft which leaves him even more afraid of flying. Poor Steve! Double D

UFO Hunters - Daytona Beach & England

A little after midnight on 3/1/1991 in Daytona Beach Florida a police helicopter catches a UFO on infrared camera. A check with air traffic control turns up nothing. Most of this part of the episode is taken up by the team watching the tape and asking, "is that a UFO?" They go to an Optical Physicist for analysis. He offers the following scientific observation, "it's not a helicopter." Well, that was certainly worth the trip to see him!

On to England where UFO sighting by law enforcement has gone up 67% in one year from 2006 to 2007. 12/12/1901 is the first recorded sighting by 2 Constables in Yorkshire. Yorkshire is England's hot spot for UFOs with over 200 reported sightings. A retired Constable tells when he had a sighting which was witnessed by 3 other law enforcement officers. He drove to within 60 feet of the object which was blocking the road, started sketching the object, saw a white flash and, the next he knew, he was back in his car driving.

Another law enforcement officer was guarding Stonehenge on the summer solstice in 1987 when an object flew over Stonehenge. The object was witnessed by a dozen other officers as it traced geometrical patterns in the sky.

The team's experiment producer made a model of Stonehenge and suggests energy waves deflect from the stones in the same geometric patterns as the UFO was seen flying.

Is Stonehenge a UFO magnet? Hopefully next time someone will have a camera! Double D

The Bachelor London-Final Four Bachelorettes

Only six bachelorettes left, gee where did this season go? Chris Hanson tells the girls that there will be 2 one on one dates and one group date, but pack your bags because it's off to Sun Valley Idaho. The girls get all giddy, like girl scouts on a camping trip. Sun Valley looks absolutely awesome and what better way to snuggle up to bachelor Matt that with all that snow. Chelsea gets the lucky single date, a sleigh ride with cocoa. Marshana was a little bit exuberant that Robyn didn't get the single date, hey me too! Marshana hugging Chelsea like she had won the lottery or something. While Robyn fumes, why didn't he pick me! Come on Robyn, he's probably so sick of you by now, you've weaseled your way into everyone's time with him. Matt wants to see if Chelsea is more than a good friend or will she open up and show her affectionate side. The sleigh is pulled by those beautiful Clydesdale horses through a open meadow of pure white snow. What a perfect setting. Chelsea tells Matt that she's not affectionate and that she doesn't like to to hold hands (well, maybe because she has man hands?). Come on girl, reveal that later when you've got the ring on the finger. Matt tells her he likes to hold hand and to be affectionate. Hey Matt, you want to snuggle with me? Back at his digs, Chelsea really wants to prove her undying love to him, so she writes a note of her own, inviting herself into his fantasy suite. And guess what, he accepts, now what guy would turn down a free booty call? Do they really do it? After the date and back at the condo, the girls are innocently chatting when all of sudden, girls being girls, start to get into it. Of course Cruella di Vil, Robyn, made some snide remark to Marshana, which Marshana just went off, and then Chelsea piped in that it seemed like Marshana didn't really want to be there. Marshana then went into her sweeping hand pounding, head moving gestures and Shayne had to step in as peacemaker. Hey, did they buy all those knit caps the girls were wearing on the slopes? Marshana says she has been nothing but nice, friendly, giving and charitable. Well......not exactly Mother Teresa. For the group date, Shayne, Marshana, Amanda and Robyn hit the slopes. Marshana and Amanda are as Matt puts it, snow virgins as they don't know how to ski. Shayne impresses Matt with her snowboarding abilities and he promptly rewards her with a kiss on the slopes which is rudely interrupted by, you guessed it, Robyn. Robyn weasles her way in, again, and lays in the snow her lips in pursed askance for a kiss from Matt. The kiss looked cold as ice. Matt's date with Noelle is to an ice skating rink. Even though they were engaged in a very physical sport of not falling down on the ice, Matt doing a very nice ice robot imitation, Matt did manage to get a sense of what Noelle is all about. Noelle seems like a very nice girl, like Amanda, they could be sisters! No roses were given out on the dates, so only four roses to six girls. Back in LA, Robyn ask Matt, why she wasn't asked out on the one on one. Matt said that he knew what she was about, I bet, to which she said that was what she needed to hear. No, you only hear what you want to hear! I'm sorry, but I don't know why I can't stand her, oh yeah, because she steals everyone else's time, she tries to steal the show and she's just plain, plain, plain yogurt. Matt gives the roses to Shayne, first pick, Amanda, Noelle and surprise, man hands, Chelsea. I thought for sure he would pick Robyn over Chelsea, but he sent Robyn and Marshana packing. Marshana managed to remain a lady and said that she will take her little self back to Brooklyn, where she belongs. I was kinda of sorry to see Marshana go, would like to see an ethnic woman make it to the final four. Robyn on the other hand, if looks could kill, they would have sent a thousand daggers into our bachelor. Her icy stare and curt "Bon Soir" had all the ring tones of a woman scorned. Can you say fatal attraction! Move over Alex! I can't wait for the hometown dates, sure to be filled with awkward and strange family moments.-Single D

The bachelorettes are turned into snow bunnies because it's off to Sun Valley, Idaho for this edition of the bachelor. Once there and everyone is in their snow gear, Matt gets all playful throwing the girls in the snow. Marshana thinks she is all that in her outfit and didn't want to get all snowy. That didn't stop Matt from chasing her down and tossing her in a snow drift. Too bad he couldn't have left her there.

Chelsea gets the first one on one sleigh ride. I agree, how romantic does that get?! Except that Chelsea seems to be more of a friend than a lover, until she decides to make her own fantasy suite card for Matt. Matt seems to be pretty happy about that. My husband is still trying to figure out a way to get on that show, gee dear does the word BACHELOR mean anything to you? We can arrange that! Just don't forget there is a Bachelorette show too!

Anyway, back on the slopes and Marshana can't stand on skis while Shayne has her whole makeup stash in her ski jacket. Matt & Shayne are sharing a moment when in comes Robyn. Shayne graciously leaves (that girl knows how to make them wanting more) leaving Matt with the barracuda who says all she wants to know is why she hasn't been chosen for a one on one date. Matt reassures her that they had a connection early on and she is satisfied for now.

Noelle gets the next one on one date which is ice skating (Single D's favorite sport). They talk about life changing events and scars and that seems to bring Matt closer to Noelle, but then again what doesn't bring Matt closer to anyone? Can I have a shot?

Marshana goes on a rampage when she is called negative but she sees herself as loving and giving. Raise your hands, who does this remind you of, Omarosa maybe?! She also seems to drink to anything.

In the end Marshana goes home saying she will leave the lady that she came in as. As she leaves she trips over her dress, what does that say? And a big SEE YA to Robyn! Double D