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Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]


megan walker - Jun 17, 2007 9:10:13 am PDT #35 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I wish they had a small very basic book on guidelines and rules for the more exotic meats so that people who picked last weren't so inconvenienced.

I loved the fact that the two top people came from the second group.

Joey, though, is going to be a problem. I mean, there's always That One Dude? But there's being competitive and there's being an asshole.

Yeah, my housemate and I decided that Tre is the arrogant asshole, but good enough that his extreme confidence is semi-justified, Hung is the "TV" asshole, who talks it up because he's decided that that's going to be his reality-show personality, and Joey is just that asshole.


esse - Jun 17, 2007 10:28:47 am PDT #36 of 23273
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Tre is the arrogant asshole, but good enough that his extreme confidence is semi-justified, Hung is the "TV" asshole, who talks it up because he's decided that that's going to be his reality-show personality, and Joey is just that asshole.

excellent point. Was it Howie ragging on Micah for reassuring Mississippi Boy? Or was that Joey? Either way, I was like--dude, you're going to w want to check that attitude, or it's going to result in you being booted off the show. We all know what happens when you play whackamole with Marcel.

Still, it was obvious that MB had to go. Bless him, you knew it from seeing him. At least Mikey had some (codeine-inspired) brilliance, and was a good team player in the sense that he took orders well. MB didn't have the sophistication, skill level, or genius that would have kept him around. the difference between having that damned fish tail sticking out of the cornbread vs the claw hanging onto Chick's black chicken was *enormous* and telling.


megan walker - Jun 17, 2007 10:33:32 am PDT #37 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Was it Howie ragging on Micah for reassuring Mississippi Boy? Or was that Joey?

It was Joey.


sumi - Jun 17, 2007 12:37:10 pm PDT #38 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

It was Joey and it was bizarre.

(I've noticed that in the re-airings they've cut out the supermarket stuff.)


brenda m - Jun 17, 2007 5:22:56 pm PDT #39 of 23273
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Next Food Network Star -

Nachos? With jarred cheese sauce and a bag of tortilla chips? Seriously?

Liking Adrien and Jag more, so I was glad they did well.


Hil R. - Jun 17, 2007 5:27:10 pm PDT #40 of 23273
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Celebrity Fit Club -- I can't believe I'm admitting to watching this, but: Dustin Diamond. That's got to be an act, right? Nobody is seriously that much of an ass? Also, wondering how the hell he lost 13 pounds in one week.


Dana - Jun 17, 2007 5:30:39 pm PDT #41 of 23273
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

No, I think he really is that much of an ass. Or seriously mentally scarred from having to play Screech.


le nubian - Jun 17, 2007 5:37:58 pm PDT #42 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Hil, that was two weeks, not one week.

Dustin really is an asshole. I didn't see the whole CFC season, but I saw about half of it and I'm really appalled at how DD behaved.


Hil R. - Jun 17, 2007 5:40:03 pm PDT #43 of 23273
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Or seriously mentally scarred from having to play Screech.

This, I can believe. Or maybe scarred from the aftermath of nobody wanting to hire Screech to play anyone else, as someone just commented.

Harvey getting all drooly over the women was bothering me a bit. The first time, it was cute, but it started to get old.


quester - Jun 17, 2007 6:42:21 pm PDT #44 of 23273
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

too tired to post but wanted to make the top 50...