ITAT: The HoYay on that show amuses me to NO end.

I know! It is slash central! And hott!

Jon will be scrambling up a wall and I'll be all, this is wrong, huh, for it to be so attractive to watch a thief! It's the competence thing, I think. Also, limber.

I love this thread! I don't care about being spoiled for non-plotty shows, and I adore Mythbusters, Ghost Hunters, Dirty Jobs, and a lot of the others you've been talking about.

Robin, ND is going to love you. He is obsessed with How It's Made and has to endure my mockery about choosing to watch shows with titles such as "Paint." (Don't tell him that I actually kind of like watching them sometimes too!)

I LOVE How It's Made!! It's like a whole show of the factory segments of Mister Rogers.

It Takes a Thief kind of stresses me out.

I like the new format of "Thief" where the homeowners don't know exactly when they'll get hit, and it's just Matt sitting in the van WIGGING OUT and narrating Jon's action (so to speak). I call it the "Matt-alogue."

Also I love that Jon seems to charm the pants off the HOs even though they were just vowing vengeance and violence on him.

I guess I get nervous sometimes watching it, but that's part of the fun.

Ooh, I haven't seen this new format.

Also I love that Jon seems to charm the pants off the HOs even though they were just vowing vengeance and violence on him.

Oh yeah -- they totally go from wanting to punch him to wanting to hug him.

On Shear Genius --

I don't think it's necessarily that the judging on the show is subjective, it's the the challenge rules and judging criteria are laid out poorly for the contestants. They've had this problem on the Bravo Reality Contest Show before.

ITAT: I know, I'm always completely terrified the whole time I watch the show. In fact, I've stopped watching it right before bed, because then I can never get to sleep.

I'm waiting for the episode where they try to break into a total fangirl's house and she's all, Jon Douglas Rainey, you can climb in my bedroom window anyday!

But yeah, loving the new format, although it's so upsetting. The ones where he's in there while someone's in the house? Completely awful! Especially when they trap them in a room! I keep thinking, if it weren't JDR, it would be much, much worse than this.

It couldn't be anyone but him, 'cause everyone else would get smacked. But he just sidles up to them and oozes the charm, and they're all, thank you for breaking into my house.

Watching It Takes a Thief makes me want to cry. JDR is hot, though. Wasn't he actually a convicted felon? Crime sometimes pays, at least if you're photogenic.

ITAT: Yeah, I think they both were. And it's fun, because Matt just gets all nervous about it, but you can tell that Jon totally still gets off on the successful break-in.