Incredibly Dumb Sh*t On Television.
1. There is a new show on TV called Minute to Win It. This was formerly known as Fun Party Games For Your 12 Year Old. However, NBC decided to ruin it by A) having adults play it, B) getting Guy Fieri to host it, C) putting it on television and D) not requiring the contestants to be nude.
A) Adults doing these stupid things is sad. Children doing it is funny and awesome.
B) Guy Fieri is… wow, where do I begin? Look, there’s no other way to put this. Guy Fieri is a douchebag. In fact, if you go to Google and type in “Guy Fieri is” the first suggested search is “Guy Fieri is a douchebag.” I wonder if he hangs out with his Google-Douchebag-Twin Bobby Flay.
C) This is the kind of thing you put on YouTube, not television.
D) I think this would help in two ways. First, it would just make it more horribly entertaining. And I mean entertaining in a way that is horrible. Second, then some of these contestants might know shame. See how that works?
2. This morning on the Today show, Matt Lauer interviewed a woman whose brother, a miner with 30 years experience, was believed to be either dead or trapped in the mine. After some questions, Matt thanked her for being on and she returned the thanks and said she wanted to do it so that viewers would pray “specifically” for her brother.
*Blink*
Whah? Like, not for the other miners that might be trapped underground? Dude, RUDE. I forgot about it until this afternoon with Instigator asked if I’d seen the show…and heard the woman ask for people to pray for her brother specifically. I laughed. Of course we both noticed this.
3. For a while, I watched Hoarders and Intervention. Then I realized that every episode of Hoarders is exactly the same. When shit say “Same shit, different Day” – well, that can be said about Hoarders, only change it to “Same shit, different house.” I became cynical enough about Intervention that I began to cheer when the addicted person would basically say, “Screw off, I don’t want to get clean” and would refuse treatment. The DVR caught an episode from Monday which I decided to watch. It was about a boxer – formerly a really good boxer – who was addicted to crack. One of the people at his intervention was a guy he used to train. This dude took his intervention speech and wrote a poem. A poem, people. Like, “Please get clean, don’t be mean, get off crack, don’t be whack.” Okay, so, maybe not that bad.
Except really? Completely that bad.
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Just a random attorney writing about daily life with Little Filthy, my rotten dog.
April 7th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
I really have nothing to say except, bravo…I agree, on all fronts.
April 8th, 2010 at 9:10 am
While I am somewhat in agreement on the Hoarders thing – it’s more fascinating to me to stare at the TV in amazement over the PILES OF CRAP all over the place!
Maybe I’s come lives with you and WE CAN BE HOARDERS. Together. And Little Filthy can join in with his litter box.
April 8th, 2010 at 11:07 am
I had to laugh at the “douchebag” term. My son’s teacher and I are friends, and she called me laughing hysterically while on playground duty. My son and his friends were playing at recess when all of sudden my son says this, “Dude, you are such a douchebag, I am done playing with you right now.”
My ears bleed after listening to Guy Fieri, he doesn’t talk, he shouts. Annoying as hell.
April 8th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
I’ve had recurring sex dreams about Guy Fieri for about 6 months….it makes me feel dirty. And not in a fun way.
April 8th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
i don’t even like eating at TGIFriday because guy fieri is in their commercials. UGH.
April 8th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Heh, heh, heh and I watched Minute to Win It last night. I am glad Guy is no longer wearing his stupid ass sunglasses on the back of his head like he did on his show. Shoot, I have to send that Guy Fieri cookbook that I bought you for Christmas in July back for something else.
April 12th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
I overheard a conversation between two homeless men, one was trying to convince the other to get off of crack. He kept saying “don’t let the crack hold ya back! don’t let the crack hold ya back!” Maybe it was the same guy.
April 12th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
OMG! C and I were watching that intervention too and were like, “he wrote a fucking *poem*??” I almost loved it as much as I loved the huffer episode. Heh.
Also, Hoarders is not nearly as interesting unless it’s a house that has 1) feces 2) dead animals 3) dead animal feces
April 17th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Oh and if you want a different spin on Hoarders just watch American Pickers where they glorify hoarding.
That boxer was making a lot of money on the streets…