OK, I'm extremely embarrassed to be the one to bring this up, but anyone else watching Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School? I've kind of gotten addicted.

I'm getting a bit puzzled as to what they're considering the standards for judging. In some ways, it's how well they master the tasks, but in other ways, it's how cutthroat they can be.

Also, I've never seen The Bachelor, but I'm finding Andrew Firestone's ability to judge women horribly suspect. (Unless that whole part was fixed ahead of time, which is entirely likely.)

I thought about it, even recorded the first episode, but I was so embarrassed for the girls that I couldn't even watch it.

Yeah, I was never able to watch more than a few minutes of Flavor of Love before having to turn it off. I caught the first episode of Charm School when I was sick, and kind of got hooked. There are a few scenes in the second episode that are kind of painful to watch -- kind of reminding me of that scene in My Fair Lady when they're at the racetrack, and she's learned the right way to pronounce things, but hasn't learned the mores of "appropriate conversation" yet. I can almost never get through that scene.

maybe because winning those shows doesn't have anything to do with strategy or sneakiness or working the other players. I mean, no one's trying to steal sequins at Mood.

I dunno, though. Wasn't there all the stuff with someone turning off peoples' burners in Top Chef?

Anyway.

TAR: I hated this whole leg. I hated that Oz & Danny ran themselves out of money. I hated that they didn't talk it over with anyone earlier so that they could have gotten Charla & Mirna's offer. I hated that they sold the yield. I hated that they kept getting lost by the cabdriver and never changed it up. I hated that they didn't figure out where they were going. If they had lost this leg, they'd have deserved to.

I don't blame Eric & Dani one bit for being furious. They were already marked for elimination and they had the yield? It's amazing that they made it at all. Not that it mattered, being non-elim. Which was stupid.

Oh, I loved the jumping off a building. That rocked. But everything else sucked.

I was all, mmm, noodles, until Charla was freaking standing on the table. I actually felt bad for Mirna with the driving and the panic. I couldn't have driven that, either. But that's why I don't enter competitions like this. Well, that and I have my dignity, but still.

Also, the BQs did deliberate about doing it, and who to yield -- it wasn't a vindictive thing at all. In fact, I know that if I'd been them I would have yielded Mirna and Charla, simply because I detest Mirna, but the BQs were right -- E/D are the stronger team.

But on this leg, Schmirna were right behind then, and E/D were marked for elimination, so they were already fighting the same time penalty as a Yield. Even if the BQs didn't know how far behind E/D were on the flights, they should have Yielded the team in 3rd, not the team in last.

Anybody a fan of Ace of Cakes? Mary Alice is totally my new TV girlfriend. I adore her.

hee! it's so funny to me that Ace of Cakes is a show. It's just like, people from the bar got a tv show...that people all over the country watch. hilarious. Mary Alice is a sweetheart. She judged my cookies to be Most Original at our cookie swap last December!

OK, I'm extremely embarrassed to be the one to bring this up, but anyone else watching Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School? I've kind of gotten addicted.

t raises a shameful hand

It's not appointment tv, but I'll usually catch one of the fifteen reruns during the week.

Schmirna

This portmenteau cracks me up. And now I want to know the definition of the Yiddish word "schmirna."

the definition of the Yiddish word "schmirna."

A really annoying person whose sense of entitlement is exceeded only her vapidity and who should be repeatedly poked in the face with sporks.

Or possibly some kind of spreadable bagel topping.

Wasn't there all the stuff with someone turning off peoples' burners in Top Chef?

yeah, something like that, but that wasn't the guy being vindictive or deliberately trying to screw someone, he was just selfish.