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I'm pretty sure MTV and the majority of its programming would disagree on that ;)

Well I'm certainly glad for those of you who stuck it out and found something to enjoy in this second season. By the fifth show Cherry and the writers had completely ruined it for me to the point that I pettily hoped it would be cancelled as some kind of (futile I suspect) lesson to not just shake a show that worked as it did and simply re-arrange everything nonsensically and decide that is clever plotting. Hopefully he doesn't use the same approach that I found he did going from first to second in going from second to third and the fans of both seasons don't find themselves in my shoes come the fourth or fifth show of the third season.

I'm not saying the Grand Marcheezy is right. But I also find Bobby to be incredibly fake and thirsty for the cameras. I have no idea if Bobby has ever put his life on the line since a lot of volunteer companies have members that have never fought a fire but still show up to help raise money, donate money themselves etc. i do think Bobby has an odd even sad romanticized view of 9/11 that borders on wish fulfillment. I guess I'm saying just because I find the Grand Marcheezy so wrong on so many levels, doesn't mean I find Bobby right. In fact I suspect that there is truth at the root of all the Grand Marcheezy's statements about Bobby. Topped of course with plenty of falsehood and lies of omission. Also a lot of it is simply an effort to deflect since it comes as the Grand Marcheezy's idea of a response to faults and flaws of his own that are pointed out to him. It is complete false equivalency even if it all turns out to be turn. Like the saying goes, Hitler's crimes don't excuse Stalin's.

How many too tight in all the wrong places dress that look like they are made from old acrylic sprayed faux lace picnic table clothes can a woman find after all? She insists on wearing these dresses that have a cut that reminds me of what old shows like Magnum PI and Miami Vice thought Euro-Asian cocktail waitresses and prostitutes wore. The over Westernized version of a cheongsam in a short length.

Good grief, Andrea walking down the sidewalk. She looked so bad I expected some good samaritan to run up with a baggy and try to 'curb' her. Talk about mistaking shit for shine. Her other outfits seem lifted from some kind of vintage ice skaters costume collection. I've see her as fleming, Hamilton and Yamaguchi at the least. And what is she wearing as an undergarment that does that to her midriff? She can shove her boobs up into that one talking head outfit that looks like the world's largest pasties made from Nana's tea cozies, but she can't find a structural garment that doesn't turn her waist into looking like she is trying to smuggle a cinder block from a construction site? Poor Lydia really needs to be given strict lessons on not rolling her eyes. Unless she is forming a library of video evidence for when she sues the plastic surgeon that botched her noggin'. I swear her face slides down to her almost wattle further and further in just the days it took to shoot this show. And again she styles her hair slightly off center. But with the weird canted side. So she almost looks in some scenes like she is talking to the person beside her instead of in front of her. She does know that riding in the co-pilot's seat does not make her a pilot right? And she really should not brag about her husband having more money than the rest of the women. First it begs him to see her priorities and start looking for model # 3 since the current model lost its new car smell and the dash has started to melt. Also considering the amount of foundation she seems to have in her talking heads, can't she do something about the pocking her face has? It is some kind of odd age dimpling? Or did she over botox and get those weird injection wells like Bethenny Frankel had up to her last face firming? I also love how Lydia clearly thinks she is incredibly clever by introducing Andrea into her phone conversation with Gina, only to then act like a baboon having a stroke as her eyes roll out of sync and her face jiggles like pudding left out and developed a skin. Then the photo shoot in what looked like Andrea's garage. That Andrea set up. Which doesn't make it any kind of triumph professionally. Since anyone can hire a photographer. And talk about not being able to take a good picture. Andrea really is an unfortunate looking woman. There is no signal feature like some people have that makes them unattractive. Which they can often turn to their benefit or deflect attention from. With Andrea, ugly is the entire package. It comes standard on this model. The idiotic petty photoshoot not only hammered home how little these two have in their lives but also how the only way either had an ounce of life in their eyes was when they were mocking others. Gina. You need to simply let these hags with the maturity of thirteen year olds hang themselves on the camera and be more coolly and courteously terse. You came down to their level several times. Chyka is good at making sure the shit stays stirred even as she keeps her hands relatively clean for this bunch. It is producer driven. But I wonder how long Lydia and Janet will put up with this in the second season now they have seen how Chyka came across. Chyka is nowhere as evil as the others, but she is not the sweet smelling rose of purity I think she managed to convey. Often the tie that binds finds it too easy to play the sides against each other. Janet. Damn talk about looking like the Crypt Keeper even more than the previous shows. Jackie. deluded. Stupidly self-important if less than Lydia, she is, like Lydia, her own worst enemy. She is so tacky I'm surprised Melbourne doesn't have an ordinance passed to make her wear a "wet paint" sign when she goes out in public. Ben clearly thinks, and the show encourages, his notion of being one of the wives. i really hope he is minimized next season. That flipped hair and hairless hamster's head of his is on my screen just way too much. If Lydia thinks those burlesque dancers were so sexy, I'm thinking she might be confusing her mouth with her vagina when it comes to being used.

Plus if jerseys are the means to claim fame I saw Lebron James in Nairobi once. And Cairo. Saw him a year later in Budapest, Tokyo, Singapore and Brisbane. He should go on the Amazing Race. Because he is already everywhere.

Big Oil and the shale gas drillers It's called happy-feel-good. Note that GE does this only less than say, BP bragging how many jobs they create in the US, or Exxon telling you how wonderful they are. Or shale gas drillers telling you how natural gas fixes everything...see a trend yet? I'll bet the less taxes a corporation pays the more nebulous the message is in their ads is beyond the whole "aw gee shucks".

Any ad that features Peyton Manning. In particular the Papa john's ad. I wish someone would at least slap a hat on him. Sure his personality is that of a walking 'nad, but he coudl at least do something about having a head like an old man's penis.

Nissan has an ad out with a couple driving through what I'm guessing is a stylized version of Pamplona (though the digital graphics seem more Italian to me). This is just the latest in an overall theme that crops up again and again with car commercials. They show the vehicle operating in a fantastical setting that is clearly not possible. How does that sell a car? I just do not understand the selling point of "here's our car, now watch it do something you will NEVER be able to do no matter what...isn't our great?" I'm not talking hyerbole like using their car on a test track or using their car on the streets as a test track. But the whole notion that if you buy this car you slip into the future by about two thousand years.

Yeah I already posted about my disgust with the threes. And the more I think about the more disgusted I am. Because I can't help but suspect that when you see an six, seven or eight you are seeing the bride giving that score probably edging a point or even two off the score. Just to keep it open for herself.* I've seen fives that I think are justified if you assume that most weddings you are a stranger at are not going to be the best weddings you have attended or one of the best. Which would be a ten. Fives that are horrible. But a four or a three, knowing you are giving it out on tv is just plain pathetically petty. Oh, can I buy a 'p'. Especially when there is nothing that really stands out as being wrong or making the wedding unpleasant. I don't like that they are jamming two episodes back to back as I keep getting the weddings confuddled by the time I sit down to type a post. What I do remember is that I thought the cotton theme was a little heavy handed but it still worked in a pleasant display. I do think she should have thought about the groom and the groomsment wearing just braces instead of those vests. Sloppy looking. It detracted from an otherwise crisp clean overall style. The food was problematic. The wedding with the football game playing was also the one with limited seating and limited food I believe. First, I come from a football family. I've attended weddings at big colleges carefully orchestrated around a football game. And it has actually worked and has been fun. Scheduling your wedding probably long before game time is set is still no excuse imo. You know the game is a distraction. And against Florida? It's probably going to be an evening game. I thought that was pathetic. I would have been annoyed to have more than half the guests be more concerned with the game going on tv than the wedding festivities. And you should as many seats as potential guests. I can't imagine what a couple of the brides from the other group would have thought about that wedding. I did notice when the bride was presented (the one who won) the women in wigs. Including the older woman in the blond wig. The last Jewish wedding I attended I think more half the women wore wigs and they were all rather noticeable. The first couple of times I had to stop myself from reaching out and smoothing it down a bit. I'm such a twit sometimes. There was something very, I don't know, comforting? seeing so many traditional elements. As a non-Jewish person it had a really nice Old World feel to it. Was hers the wedding that the others complained about the service even as they sat back in the testing row? Yeah there was a lot about that group that was unlikeable. One thing I'm not clear on even though I've watched this show I don't know how many times, but are the scores given right at the end of the wedding? Or do they tape them at the end. I always thought they were wearing the same outfit, but that is easy enough to replicate for taping. If they actually tape their overall score right after the wedding ends, then they might also score slightly lower so they don't get stuck looking like a raging bitch if they then attend a wedding that is simply incredible or be forced to give a higher mark.

Either John David is hoping to be cast as Randy in the big screen adaptation of My Name is Earl or.... I loved the statement about the two young men having to prove they are Duggars. First of all they aren't and never will be even once married to a Duggar. The statement was so typically pompously egotistical but also only serves to show how insecure the J-Boobs is in his little attempt to pretend he is all things in every way. Only to have the trip show how pathetic the Duggars are at setting the Duggar bar for others to match or exceed. He really wants to pretend that smarter stronger better looking and more charismatic men than he ever was and likely any of the lumps that sloughed off his wife will ever be aspire to follow and belong to him. Thank goodness J-Boobs was born so dim. Any real wit coupled with his over inflated sense of self and he could be a danger to society. Like being in Congress or in the upper echelons of the NCAA or the NFL. While the meathead that is poised to marry the dishfaced one that thinks she is every Gotthard's unmentionable squirm underneath the zipper doesn't seem too well equipped in the brain dept he does have a body that makes J-Boobs and the older J-Boobettes look like soft sticks of butter draped in the best JC Penney has to offer in the men's casual dress rack. While I always seethe a little every time I see yet another run of pimping out the family van of uteruses in one form or another, I do appreciate that even if on the one hand it validates J-Boobs' self importance, watching young men who are everything he claims to have been and be and clearly was not and never will be is good fun in a quiet way. Derrick has to be the death of a thousand cuts as J-Boobs has to smile and on his little realm of grifter reality tv show introduce the real deal as it were the world and have to stand next to him and be compared. And found not just wanting. But even more ridiculous.

While his face does look like the back of a giant tick with a cheetos addiction, on hi-def he still looks about fifteen years younger than his also over tweaked wife. I cannot imagine how thrilled she is if she watched herself next to him for the first time tonight considering the body image issues both seem to have.

I'm telling ya, Someone needs to sit through the season of Gallery Girls because I'd bet money he was in the background somewhere. A friend says she swears he was in one of that Patti Stanger creature's seasons she did in NY but she tends to jumble her BRAVO shows together horribly since she has that channel on all the time and walks in and out and doesn't realize the show she started watching was over hours ago when she takes notice of what is on again. Needless to say when cross promotional moments happen it blows her mind. A Top Chef person on a Real housewives show, I think it was Sam on the NY show with Kelly,just about gave her a migraine.

The only thing I could think, she was under the impression of the "both have to be on the mat" to count. Unfortunately this dummy carried it to the floor mats of the van. I'm guessing she thought if both of them shoved into the van ahead of the second fireman, the van became theirs. Which to then complain about manners is all kinds of wonderful. The Dentist couple looked like they could have been ripped from a Dateline "the husband dunnit" ripped from the headlines story. People like that just make me suspect under all that over the top bravado there is something they are over compensating for. Plus they tend to only use their own subjective tastes as the metric for every single thing making matters of opinion into virulent diatribes of right and wrong. This guy (and likely his wife) already seems so dogmatically self praising. I was so surprised how immediately so many of them got into an idiot cluster without taking a moment to try the compass task on their own. That and the sheer wiped out look on every single one of them even as they got to the beach, including not-as-great-pecs-as-you-think Dentist in his UnderArmour bodycondom top. Even without the plummets of despair shown in the previews. First episode and I'm wondering if this was the season they came closest to killing someone through utter exhaustion.

Or do the add-on "while having sex" game.

I don't care what a celebrity is reading. I am interested in what someone else is reading. Because well, here I type so, yeah. duh. So even celebrities can mention a title I did not realize was out by an author I liked in previous works. Even more I'm a huge forthcoming books dysfunctional fanatic. I love knowing what an author is working on next let alone when it is coming out*. A lot of famous people who are determined to be part of the intellectual culture (okay stop giggling....I mean it) do have insight into books that us normal folk don't. Okay I'm not that normal since I get arcs through a sister-in-law. But that is just part of my dysfunction. Thing is people like Bill Clinton can and do get promotional copies and even galleys if he desires. So I would love to know what he picked up out of his gratis pile and found worth while. I'm just not into all those nation building, what-if economic we should be better people books that are drier than a Real Housewife of Orange County's skin. And I'm pretty sure, staying with this example til it stops giving milk, Bill Clinton smart as he may be and as self-important (perhaps deservedly so, that each to their own call) as he seems to me; he probably reads some stuff for entertainment. *forthcoming book threads tend to be more genre-oriented i.e. for forums devoted to specific genres that makes it easier to track. Does anyone though share enough interest to start one. Or appreciate one started?

We'll have to just agree to vehemently disagree. Simply because by his own words Tim says it was the wrong thing to do. Any other models and he would not have suggested it let alone done it. Except no one way being judged on the model in a way that made it not about the design. no matter how inventive they are with the regular women challenge, this episode was not the Golden Awards For All Special Snowflakes Walk the Runway Extravaganza. Giving the model consideration to either not walk or give her some kind of slip or bodysuit to wear underneath is plenty. If she didn't want to walk they could have put the garment as is and rolled it out on the body form. Poor real woman model doesn't get to strut her stuff on the runway? Not a tragedy. In the words of Posen. Zippers break. in no way did having to make sure the model got to walk the runway in the manner she was allowed have any bearing on the contest at hand of designing and presenting fashion. No where. Tim pulled yet another shitty Jonathan Murray stunt when all is aid and done since Tim pretty likely did not make the final call. Someone who makes sure the show makes money did that. So even if it was right Tim's mouth moved but it was the hand up his ass throwing his voice. But again, I see nothing about making some woman off the street's social media day by being on the show a matter that should give a contestant a break like Char got.

I have no problem with Alexander going had Char sent down her dress ten minutes earlier than she did. After all, if that was his fifties? He needs to go back to school. First Gilligan's Island was from the mid sixties. And second shag carpeting didn't really come into its own until the late sixties early seventies. So in what world of Alexander's did the Professor tear up the S.S. Minnow's lounge rug and make a dress for Ginger that Betty Draper of Madmen borrowed to wear to her wedding shower?

Everything I could find on ESPN.com and the bleachreport indicate that things for Kroy are much less rosier than others have believed in regards to injury payment. Kroy would have to have put half his post agent salary into a fund for two years to draw a half salary for a single year. He could also have regular insurance but those are also steep premiums. I think the bleacherreports figures only ten percent have the means thanks to being younger hugely paid contract players who have gotten wise to the no play no pay option. Kroy was on the type of injured list that means he was off the NFL regular play rooster which lets the NFL jiggle the salary numbers in their favor. So Kroy had nothing but his own saved money for more than nine months it seems. While finishing off late payments for contract services on the house. Nothing late enough for courts but Kim addressed it once saying they were a month or two late. Can't remember if that was On cOhen's show or where I heard that. I figure Kroy is young enough that his agent would hopefully steer him to the incredibly expensive safety nets for injured players. But without the money from this show (and I wonder how much of that money is theirs and how much is Kim's) I doubt Kroy was pulling in the money to support their regular spending habits if what Kim claims to have spent on everything the last she was on Cohen's show (or last time I saw her). Also Kroy is simply getting old in a younger and younger field where he never was a top star week after week. He was steady in a competitive field which is admirable. But even the aside bit on the NFL show about the Falcons seemed to indicate that Kroy falls into the after thought area between the starting line ups and the secondaries. And now he has been injured to be out as long as he was at his age? Yeah better hope the futures on used luggage are looking good Kimmie.

I think the zipper busting was more production mayhem save than Tim Gunn "doing the right thing", Because it wasn't really the right thing. People have had models not show up and be forced to "deal with it". Models have stepped on trains and skirts and torn them too late to fix them. Other contestants have backed into a dress with a hot iron. It was not a flat out issue of the zipper being faulty. It was the zipper failed. And to me more than a half chance it was due to the dress either not being fitted correctly or it was a structural issue on Char's part for placing the zipper where she did. Utter fail. And it should not have been up to Tim for that matter. What should have happened is Tim should have had the contestants all stop, pulled them from their models and sit them in the break room while Tim went to the judges and without telling them which contestant, what the deal was and whether extra time should allowed. If and only if the judges said yes, then the rest of the contestants should have had the same amount of time to address issues with their models/designs. In what fucking land of fairy dust and farts made of cotton candy is it fair for someone to get more time than the others? Period. It does not matter why. If Char got the time to sew her new zipper in the rest should have been allowed to have that time to their advantage in the sew room as well. But I have to wonder just how much the judges already knew and Production had already told them/ The whole "I can't believe they are late, I can't believe it, where oh where are they Underdog?" Yeah. It's a tv show. With sound and lights and several people who have mic packs that slip and fail. So don't give me that bullshit scene and pretend it was real. The only way they would be "late" is if the models starting walking down the runway and the designers were still no where to be found. And that one woman judge can just go suck it. In what world is a :First Date" defined by a particular look? Tell me you dumbass. Do you wear the same outfit to just coffee on the first date? A double date with the people who set you up to a play in the park? Dinner at a nice restaurant? A sporting event? YOU ARE STUPID. Don't come back. I thought the wonderful mix of casual and yet pretty girl effort the outfit conveyed was perfect for some nebulous idea of a first date. It made her look wow without being a huge trying too hard to impress effort. Again. GO AWAY you stupid bint. Alexander has been pretty awful and he would likely have gone next week unless he managed to actually understand a challenge, have a credible idea and actually pull it off. But I think that was the very reasoning behind him getting the auf. Again I know I picnic hard and heavy on the Grassy Knoll of Jonathan Murray is a Huge Tool. But I would not be surprised when the judges clearly had Alexander and Char in the bottom if they decided to save Char just to make this show interesting. Because again, I find it bullshit that Tim can arbitrarily decide to bend a rule like this unless he has production input of some sort. And Heidi is a very hands on in her own production credit duties. Where oh where are they indeed.

i would like to hear the whole "we auditioned for three shows and didn't know which one it was" bit forced out on the reunion. That and force him to address the whole confidentiality contract and how he "cast" the others. I think depending on whether they think Jim and Amber brought revenue bringing attention to a flagging franchise will determine how much Jim gets away with. But considering he is poking the bear that he is trying to make cash and money off of without the benefit of any cage if you will, all bets are off perhaps. I do think it is highly possible Cohen will have a " a viewer asked this question" moment and go in for the kill on issues that directly touch on the show -- casting, contracts with other cast members and claiming he agreed to do a show not knowing what and who it was and involved with. cars with wi-fi are the devil's work by the way

Stop. go back. Now watch the scene as if they are tears of joy and relief and greed that Kroy is able to go back to camp and what it means for Wig and her collection of over priced hungry purses. Seems pretty real now doesn't it ;) Just by age and performance Kroy's career is not going to be a long one. And also consider how stingy the NFL is in paying injured players. This family could already be pretty deep in debt assuming they weren't already with Kroy having been out for a year. The sad thing watching this is remembering what Lisa Wu Hartwell did letting the BRAVO nation watch her poor husband get a harsh dose of reality as he found out the NFL no longer wanted him. I definitely think if BRAVO still wants to film, Kim will have no problem making Kroy's professional career demise a long and painful television journey. And then she can make up some scandal in which he plays the villain if kendra Wilkinson's latest little jaunt into reality tv makes any kind of dent in the pop culture conscious of America.

I refuse to consider the Manzo show to be new. It is merely Caroline refusing to tape with the others. She's like the little spoiled brat who tries to run the playground games to her liking and her liking only. Only to find herself all by her lonesome pushing sand in the sandbox and trying to pretend she is having fun. As much as I loathe the current inception of RHONJ, I'm so hoping Caroline finds out just how much the tv audience could not care less about her and her loser children.

Is there an exemption though for related networks? and is WE a related network to BRAVO? Because I saw on The Soup that Alexis Bellino filmed an episode of that David Tutero show and she was on just a year ago depending on how filming played out from reunion to the filming of the WE wee crapfest. Okay I'm waiting for a car to take me to the airport and am desperate to waste time that isn't very involving. And I get it doesn't matter. But I think it is very possible for this woman to skulk back in front of camera a lot quicker than it seems logically or decently possible. Sarah Palin, Donald Trump and Tori Spelling have paved a really nice way for the rest to follow. Heck, since it is the Federal Gov't if she was smart she would claim it was all Eric Holder and Barack Obama out to get decent hard working millionaires and the scandalous corrupt IRS and she could find a home on Fox News if anything else. She could be the Orly Taitz of 2014.

Wha...?! I turned the channel at about 6:02 when I realized she was back. So how did she parse this brilliance? Was the guy dressed like someone who worked at the WH? And even then wha...?! Did she really present the guy who clearly was running pell mell from the fence across the yard and up to the front of the White House as being dismissed as "hey who is that..oh its Steve, never mind"? She truly is the intellectual replacement for Sherri Shepherd.