Okay, this is not my particular favorite of all the genres of current TV but the Sainted Bride and Daughter Number Two like it. So 8:00 comes around and the show comes on. I get on the computrifyer for a little before crashing for the evening. Barely five minutes into it, phone rings. SB says "It's [DNT] calling to say Simon sucks." It was.
Thence followed several minutes discussion of Simon's suckage.
Now, as stated, I don't watch these shows but I do catch an occasional glimpse while walking into, out of, or through the room or perhaps while changing channels. So this observation may be well off the mark, but there does appear to the untrained, and perhaps inattentive, eye to be a particular mix of cast on these shows:
Large, Affable Fellow
Drunk Chick
Prissy English Snot
At least, that's the impression I get from the few minutes of "American Idol" I've seen and about 45 seconds total of that one about "Grease". Is this the new trend in "reality tv"? And just out of curiosity, for anyone who may have seen the original British version ("Pop Idol" I think it was called?), did they have a "prissy American snot"? That would have been so appropriate.
Posted by Ken S at January 23, 2007 08:20 PM | TrackBack (0) |Drunk Chick
Congratulations. You now officially agree with Rosie O'Donnell.
Posted by: Boy Named Sous at January 23, 2007 10:41 PMYOU TAKE THAT BACK!
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at January 24, 2007 05:13 AMTakes a banjo player to agree with Rosie.
Posted by: Cullen at January 24, 2007 05:34 AMHrm. I would have said "some variant on the faded-starlet-who-will-sleep-with-anything-young-and-in-pants theme."
"Drunk chick" is a bit too easy.
I dunno. One thing that frustrates me (and has frustrated me for a few years) about network television is how one network will get something that works, and then all other networks will seemingly scuttle their other programming to clone that "working" thing.
And for those of us who don't like that particular theme - whether it's nanny shows, or shows where they send the wives to live with different families, or snarky animated comedies that sometimes seem borderline-treasonous...well, we're kind of left with either PBS or re-runs of Rachael Ray's "Tasty Travels" (ugh) on the food network.
Posted by: ricki at January 24, 2007 05:34 AM"'drunk chick' is a bit too easy" - Well, I haven't watched it for more than just enough time to register "huh, she looks drunk".
[ignores Cullen's satanic and borderline treasonous remark]
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at January 24, 2007 05:40 AMOf course it's satanic. We are talking about a banjo here.
Posted by: Cullen at January 24, 2007 07:53 AM[Come over to the dark side, Cullen...]
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at January 24, 2007 08:01 AM