8.05.2009

Trash TV Tuesday...A recap

I don't know about all of you, but I love the trash TV that comes on on Tuesdays. Another good thing about Tuesdays is that Brian plays poker on these nights ("safe" poker - not the kind where he actually has to bet his own money. This is at a restaurant/bar, not a casino), so he is usually gone from about 7pm - 11pm (sometimes later when he wins, and he often does). So on a typical Tuesday I'll come home from work, grab a quick dinner, and Brian will be off. Then I can settle in on the couch and tune into the trash. I find this a completely acceptable thing to do, especially considering I only do it once a week. The trash is just SO TRASHY on Tuesdays that it is hard to resist. Let's take a look at my hourly play-by-play...

8:00pm
I'm usually done eating/blogging/surfing the internet/cleaning/whatever at this point. Just in time for Jon & Kate Plus 8 ridiculousness along with some America's Got Talent, 90210, and Real Housewives of Atlanta mixed in there too. I don't usually watch any of these shows all the way through...I prefer to mix and match my trash, at least for the first hour. I used to think J&KP8 was cute and interesting, but now I, along with most people, find it pretty disturbing. I always thought Kate was a controlling b*tch and Jon was a weird balding whipped jerk. Now these sentiments have been confirmed. The kids are still cute, so at least they have that going for them. AGT usually keeps me entertained during the commericals of the other shows. But I HATE how awkward it is when someone really sucks but they think they are really awesome. So sad. 90210 intruiges me because the characters look SO OLD even though they are supposed to be 15 or whatever. Talk about melodrama! The plots are so nuts and confusing that I have no idea what is going on in this show. I continue to watch anyways, just in case I start to "get it". And finally RHofA. There are really no words to describe these whack-o women. I enjoy RHofNY or OC, but Atlanta?!?! Another "there-are-commercials-on-every-other-channel" type of show for me.

9:oopm
Now the real fun begins. NYC Prep. If you watch this show then you know how utterly ridiculous it is. The kids on this show make me look back on my high school years and wonder why I wasn't beat up or attacked by the "cool" kids on a regular basis. I mean, HOLY CRAP! These kids party, "hook-up" (whatever that means), galavant around Manhattan, live WITHOUT THEIR PARENTS in the city, go to fashion shows, and spend entirely too much time getting ready in the morning. Half of that stuff I didn't do until I GRADUATED COLLEGE at the age of 24. And these kids are 15 and 16. I was a total nerd at that age. I didn't even THINK about galavanting around, let alone living without my parents!! Honestly, it makes me fear for my future children. But at the same time, my future kids won't be growing up in that kind of environment. I am totally and completely intruiged by this show. It blows my mind to think that people live like that (not in a bad way, it is just SO DIFFERENT than how I grew up in NC). I hope they have a 10 year reunion with these kids because I am so curious to see how they turn out. Bravo does it again!

10:00pm
Tori and Dean with a dose of Miami Social. I must say that I enjoy watching Tori and Dean. Their old show sucked so I am surprised that I feel this way. I think Tori Spelling is a little crazy, but I enjoy her antics and always-perfectly-done-up look. I do think she is way too thin though. Especially after popping babies out of her oven. I hope they have more kids. As for MS, I usually flip over to Bravo during the commericials of T&D. Although I admit that I get sucked into MS and end up missing large chunks of T&D. Decisions, decisions. Anyways- so MS is basically about a bunch of rich, "successful", random 20-30 something socialites living the good life in Miami. Some of them are gay. Some of them are divorced. Some of them are workaholics. Some of them have children that they ship off to boarding school in Switzerland. All of them are crazy, overly concerned with their looks, and probably on drugs (prescription and otherwise). There is no real plot to the show other than the fact that this group of "cool kids" meets on the roof of some expensive hotel (?) once a week to gossip about how fabulous they are. The rest of the show is about their real estate ventures, plastic surgeries, and psycho foreign girlfriends. The nice mix of gay/straight/male/female/crazy/more crazy/hot/thinks they're hot/rich/daddy's money rich makes this show oobertrashtastic.

11:00pm
I have usually migrated up stairs by this point and often end up falling asleep around 10:50 (this makes the Bravo/Oxygen teasers for next week's 10spots even more fun to watch throughout the week). However, this week I managed to catch a few minutes of Addicted to Beauty on Oxygn. This show highlights a "Medical Spa" called Changes and the Botox-ridden staff working there. I could only bear to watch about 15 minutes of this trash. It was just that trashy. In a nutshell, the staff of this "spa" talk about themselves and how much plastic surgery they have received/want, all the while trying to service customers (other crazy people like themselves). Don't think I'll be hanging around to watch this one on a weekly basis. A girl's gotta sleep.

I know you all watch trash TV too...so spill it. Any favs?

11 comments:

  1. I agree with you 100% on Tori. I tivo'd the show from last night so hope to watch it tonight.

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  2. uggh I just wrote a really long comment and it got lost somewhere out there, so here is my abbreviated version...

    - Anything on Bravo stays on
    - VHI trash du jour - As long as someone gross is trying to find love, I'm watching.
    - Most MTV teen dramas...16 and Pregnant was amazing and I do love Real Life, I'm a cracksmoker/cheerleader/dingbat
    - Real housewives - all of em except for Atlanta...those "ladies" make me wanna stab my ears with a pencil. or similarly sharp object.

    *I will now Ctrl + C this post should the internet decide to hate me again

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  3. oh and thanks for the sangria recipe! I'm totally testing that out this weekend!

    And let me know if I'm going nuts, did you say that your boyf is from PA? Media? As sooon as I get confirmation, I'll squeal about how close that is to me.

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  4. Bravo rules. Oxygen is doing a pretty good job too...and three cheers to the Soap Networks for Southern Belles: Louisville.
    As for finding love - I could only stand Flava Flav (Season 1), although when nothing else is on I always check VH1. Brett Michaels makes me shiver with fear and possibly disgust :)
    And HOW COULD I FORGET 16 and preggers?!?! I <3 that show too. It was a rerun last night when I flipped to it (darn) so I didn't watch. I must admit, it makes me teary eyed sometimes. Oh and TRUE LIFE 4LIFE!! Best show ever.

    And yes yes yes MEDIA, PA!! He went to Penncrest :) We plan to move there when I get preggers one day (after marriage and a few more years of course). GO PHILLIES (I <3 Cole Hamels...and Brian would marry him if given the opportunity).

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  5. My Guilty Pleasure: Keeping up with the Kardashians. I don't know what it is about those girls, but they suck me in every time.

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  6. Ooh yes, Southern Belles: Louisville! I'll admit, there may have been some mistiness when I watched the finale (poor Shea!). I can't wait for Project Runway to come back on, even if it's going to be on Lifetime (cringe). I also go back and forth between all/most of the wedding-related wedding programming-- some of it (ahem, Bridezillas) is too awful to watch more than ten minutes of, but shows like Say Yes to the Dress can usually hold my attention with a minimum of annoyance.

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  7. Ah yes, the Kardashians, weddings, and Project Runway! Tim Gunn is one of my favorite people on the PLANET! He is just so sweet and goofy and gay and awesome and magical and stylish that I just want to adopt him to come live with me. But boooo to Lifetime. Bravo rules.

    As for the wedding shows I totally agree - Bridezillas can get a bit intense sometimes. Is it just me or have the brides gotten worse and worse? Do these people KNOW they are going to be on Bridezillas so they make it point to act like total psychopaths?! Yikes. I'm sorry but no napkin color snafu could possibly merit that much drama. I <3 Say Yes to the Dress though! It makes me want to go try on dresses (although I'm not engaged and don't plan to be for a hefty while).

    Does anyone else think Bruce Jenner is totally creepy?? He looks like he is made of wax. I personally think Kortney is the prettiest of them all. Sorry Kim, your butt just doesn't do it for me...

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  8. yay! Media! Everybody's hometown! It's literally 10 minutes down the road from me! Oh world, you're so small.

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  9. I have too many to count, but lets give it a whirl...

    Dr. 90210, Girls Next Door, Keeping up with the Kardashians, RH of OC, Top Chef, Project Runway, MTV True Life.... um, yeah.. there were more than I thought. haha

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  10. Seriously what would we do without Trash TV??

    Have a lot more babies?? Cook more?? Clean more??

    I think Trash TV is keeping me from becoming overly domesticated ;)

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  11. Whenever these shows are on, i just want to let a little bit of blood out, to help make me feel better... is that normal?

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