OMG, I forgot he was on Pushing Daisies! Damn!

Idol is making me so sad this season, I can't even talk about it. All the guys are terrible. Full stop. Three of the girls are great and two are better than all the boys yet still terrible in their own right. And tonight Niki Minaj didn't even bother to show up on time and then babbled about Aunt Jemima syrup and leather mini-dresses and totally random shit all night and the only redeeming moments were Mariah's supreme bitch face when Ryan had to announce that Miss Minaj was not in the building and start the show without her and Keith Urban taking a sniff of her cup to figure out what she was drinking. Ryan also made an allusion to the fact that she might have been toked up, so there's your quality family programming, America. You're welcome.

In happier news, NBC is bringing back The Sing Off. Yay!

Survivor was really fucked up tonight. I think this is a permanent stain on the show and makes me much less interested in ever watching Survivor again.

In happier news, NBC is bringing back The Sing Off. Yay!

Awesome!

le nubian -- what happened on Survivor? I don't watch it, but wondered from the ads.

Jesse,

essentially, one of the returning players lost his entire shit last night. Probst clearly thought "oh this will bring in ratings, what a thrill", but the player was not right mental health wise and it was true the FIRST time he was on Survivor. I found it to be really exploitative.

Even if they wanted to take a risk on casting him, there were other ways for him to have left the game than what he did. Survivor has not been playing by their own rule book and this is what we get.

Yikes.

Oh! Which reminds me of a somewhat related amazing thing I heard last week: Mike White was on Fresh Air, and talking about his dad and The Amazing Race, and said that Mel basically failed the mental health tests, and the people giving the results said that he basically scored like young black men from certain cities -- that he was that paranoid (because of all of the death threats he got from anti-gay religious people). I thought that was a stunning thing to hear, and wished Terry Gross had gotten into that more.

And not actually related to reality tv, but still.

Also, I just looked and saw that that Survivor guy's other uncle (other than the Survivor one) was kicked off Big Brother for flipping out and head-butting someone. That family should find a better way to make money.

Yay on The Sing Off news! I find I'm not really looking forward to the next round of The Voice... maybe if I just record it and fast-forward through the inevitable sob-stories (my mother has cancer/my father died when I was young/I quit my job for this chance/I spent 6 months in the hospital and almost died, etc. etc. etc.) and get to the actual singing and bitching amongst the judges it won't be as annoying.

I had The Amazing Race on in the background while I talked to my mother. I've never watched it before, but it seems to mostly be white people wandering around foreign countries yelling "English? English? Do you speak English?"