Watching The CW

On America’s Next Top Model we’re up to the last 7 girls. Which puts them in the same week as American Idol who also went from 7 to 6 last night. I wonder why I never made that connection in all these weeks.

Whitney pointed out that as a plus sized model, she’s still there. It makes me wonder how long any other plus sized model lasted in other cycles of the show. I may have to check that out.

So Fatima isn’t an American? How do these people get on these shows? This is America’s Next Top Model. I’m sorry, shouldn’t only people who are American get to compete? I’m not saying they have to have been born here, I just mean they should be actual citizens at the point in time they try out.

This week Paula teaches the girls to make conversation. Or she tries to. Some of them are so awkward. I know, they are young.

So then the girls decide to cook. And, of course, Lauren cuts her thumb. She’ll live. Meanwhile, Fatima may not be able to leave the country with the rest of girls and so maybe forfeited out of the competition. OK, didn’t she ever see this show before? Didn’t she know they always go overseas? And what about the producers, didn’t they know?

Then the chicks get to go to a “green” carpet event hosted by 7-up. The girls wear Jay Godfrey dresses (really pretty!) and get to talk to a reporter from The Insider. The best part for me was when Dominique said “Jay Giorgio” when they asked her what she was wearing. I love it when she does something stupid, because she’s so arrogant. Also a plus was when Lauren said she could “kick the ___ out of those girls anytime” (that’s how they showed it, so use your imagination) cause it was fun. And for the first time, Stacy Ann got to show that she thinks a heck of a lot of herself as well.

Anya won the competition, which surprised me, cause she’s not one of girls I like that much. She’s OK, I just don’t really get her. She got paid $10,000 for doing a shoot for 7-up. So that was cool.

Then there was a commercial where Saleisha talks about voting. She tells us she’s never voted before, but now that she’s a role model, she has to vote and tell people about voting. I don’t get that. But I’m someone who has voted, since the age of 18, in every single election she could, including primaries. I mean, why wouldn’t someone vote? Especially, since women had to fight so hard to get that right.

The photo shoot this week is them all running to catch their plane. Fatima, in the meantime, had to leave to go deal with her travel documents, so she’s missing the shoot. She does get the papers she needs, but doesn’t get back to the shoot in time. Watching the girls in the shoot, it does seem like they are all trying too hard. They come right from the shoot into panel and an elimination. From here, they are actually leaving to go abroad.

I think this is the first cycle they don’t all go overseas and then send someone right back home from there. I guess it saves money.

Tyra does tell Fatima that as a result of missing the photo shoot, she could get eliminated. But I thought they were also pretty hard on Stacy Ann and Whitney. I’m also wondering if they are really going overseas? Since they keep talking about going away sort of tongue in cheek, it makes me think something might be up.

Into eliminations. The first person called was Anya, which is no surprise. Then, Lauren, Dominique, Katarzyna, Whitney (yes!! I was worried). The bottom 2 are Fatima and Stacy Ann.

In the end, the judges felt that Fatima had a better body of work than Stacy Ann, and that Stacy Ann had grown as much as she was going to, so Fatima goes on and Stacy Ann goes home.

Oh, and I guess I was wrong, cause they are going overseas, to Rome.

Last week on Beauty and the Geek, the geeks got their makeover, and no one got kicked off. They did however have to pick a team to go to the elimination room this week, and they chose Joe and Tara. However, we find out that if either one wins a challenge this week, they will be safe.

Apparently, the contestants think the house is haunted, so they dress Tom up as a vampire and try to sneak in her room to scare Tara. Joe defends her honor and Randi is being so mean to him, its almost making me like him. And they even had Joe reading a Bible. Talk about swaying people’s opinions.

I wish I could get in there and slap Randi in her stupid, ugly, annoying face. I hate people who always have to be right, so they keep shouting over everyone else’s point of view. I think such people should be executed at dawn.

We find out that Matt broke his clavicle during the football game (they never said before what he broke) and so he can’t compete in the fireman challenge, but Leticia gets to compete in his place.

The challenge was kinda fun, cause they had to get dressed as firemen, put out a fire in a barrel, then climb a fire escape ladder and convince the chick to jump down two stories. Joe and Tara were first and he did it in 4 minutes 40 seconds.

Greg and Randi - 5 minutes 10 seconds
Jason and Kristina - 7 minutes 25 seconds
Leticia and Matt - 8 minutes and 4 seconds (she just couldn’t attach the hose to the hydrant and it ate up all her time)
Chris and Cara - 3 minutes 29 seconds
Tom and Amanda - 3 minutes 22 seconds

So Tom and Amanda won!

The girls challenge is about garbage and math. They have to find recyclable cans and bottles in a huge pile of garbage. The cans and the bottles are worth a certain amount each, and they have to make them add up to $5 exactly to win. Kristina won, which is funny, since she didn’t seem like she could count.

Tom, Amanda, Jason and Kristina have to pick another team to go into elimination. I hope its Randi and Greg. Yes!!!! It is, it is! OK, I was way too excited about that, wasn’t I? I am a little sorry about Greg, cause he’s a sweetie, but whatever.

So into elimination - Tara answers the first question correctly, Joe answers the second correctly. Randi got the next one, so it was two to one.

I was actually rooting for Joe. I never thought I would do that. The third question Joe started to answer but messed up. Greg had no idea, so they asked one more question for the geeks, which Joe got right. He did apologize to Randi, but being the low class chick she is, she couldn’t even accept his apology. Good riddance to her.

Last week on America’s Next Top Model, we lost Clare. Let’s hope this week its Dominique. She has consistently gotten on my nerves since the first week. I’m sure this week will be no exception.

It turns out this episode is just a recap of what has happened since the beginning. It was pretty dull, cause I saw it all before and I didn’t care that much. I wanted to see new stuff. Sure, there were some clips that we hadn’t seen before, but it was all about stuff that was of the past. I don’t get why they needed to do an episode like this right now. Things were just starting to get going and now they stopped all the action and made us go back and look at people who are gone. If they’re gone, I don’t care about them anymore. Maybe it because when Kim left in the beginning, they also let someone go, so they had a week to waste now. But I wish they hadn’t wasted it on me.

One of Dominique’s amazingly incoherent and annoying statements: “I wanna be like freaking Mother Theresa, but in a diva kinda way, okay?” What does that even mean?? Apparently, she want to be an evil benefactor.

We did get to see a couple of the firemen (from that one runway class) show off their walk. Also, they had a wrestling show down, probably brought on from too much underage drinking, which we hadn’t seen before, and it seemed like they got a little violent. But I’m sure it was all in fun. We did get to see them have fun in the house, taking pics of themselves posing, Marvita walking around naked and playing and singing (with a remarkable lack of talent), and just hang out and laugh. That was interesting.

So, all in all, this week was an hour out of my life that I’m never getting back.

It’s makeover week on Beauty and the Geek. The makeover is always a favorite episode of mine on America’s Next Top Model, mostly cause there’s always a meltdown. And that never stops being funny. Apparently, the way they end up looking has something to do with the next challenge. I love how they like to be tricky on this show.

I could have guessed that Joe would be the biggest baby about it all, and I’m a little bit sorry that Jim is gone, cause it would have been interesting to see if they shaved him and cut his hair short. It’s a little scary to me that they let them pick what they will wear and how they will look. You can only hope the chicks have good enough taste that they are able to tell them what’s good for them.

What was the deal with the body waxing?? Apparently, manly body hair isn’t sexy. The little bit of sexy hair sneaking out at the top of my husband’s shirt was what initially attracted me to him. Um, is that too much information?

The Makeover:
Greg was cute. He did look much more sure of himself.
Tommy looked hot. I always thought he was kinda cute but he ended up looking good.
Matt still looked like Matt. To me anyway. It’s probably the glasses.
Chris looked really different.
Jason looked like an executive or something in that suit.
Joe almost looked cute and much younger, as well. He was unhappy, but he shouldn’t have been.

The Challenge: To write and perform a romantic scene based on the Prom. The winner gets to go the premiere of Prom Night.

They are judged by a couple of people from the Young and the Restless. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this show, but I didn’t recognize the two actors who they picked from the show. Plus, their acting skills were not too great. I mean the soap actors. As for the Beauties and the Geeks, they were pretty bad, but not far off from a typical soap actor, actually. Some of them weren’t too bad. And Matt got to kiss Leticia.

Matt and Leticia were the winners, which is nice for them, cause they don’t have to go back into the elimination room. As it turns out, they aren’t going to send anyone into elimination this week, cause no one is leaving. They also get to pick a couple to go out on the town with them and they pick Randi and Greg.

But there is some bad news. One of the four couples who is left, has to decide to go into the elimination room next week. I told you this show was tricky. They decide to have a cross dressing fashion show challenge, which was just silly. And in the end they put Joe and Tara into elimination, cause everyone is tired of Joe. As am I.

Once again, this week on America’s Next Top Model, Dominique has managed to annoy me in like the first 3 minutes. Also, I wasn’t impressed with the way Lauren was acting over the coffee thing with Fatima.

Watching the girls on the go-sees, I just wonder why they let such immature kids out into the world on their own. They just seem so incapable of even finding their way around. Although, I have to admit that this group did better than some of the past groups have done. I felt sorry for Whitney at that first go-see, when they told her they only used size 2 models. They may think size 10 is plus sized, but to me it’s small. I’d be thrilled to get into a size 10. Of course, I’m not a model.

I was glad that Whitney’s team won the challenge, although I did wish Dominique wasn’t part of it. I want to remember to look out for the June issue of Seventeen magazine so I can see the ad they shot. I’m not gonna buy it, you understand, I’ll just check it out at the library.

The water shoot seemed like fun, but then I began to wonder if they changed the water between each shoot, cause other wise they are all lying in each other’s dirty water. Yuck. The photos looked really cool, though.

In one of my earlier reviews, I gave my first impressions of the girls, so I thought this week I’d give my current impressions:

Clare - just tries too hard and keeps missing the boat.
Stacy Ann - doesn’t seem to have any drive.
Katarzyna - really just doesn’t show any personality.
Whitney - definitely my favorite, but might have a bit of a chip on her shoulder about being plus-sized.
Dominique - is way, way, way too full of herself.
Fatima - beautiful, and seems to have learned from her past experiences on the show.
Anya - seems too quiet, so you don’t have any idea who she is.
Lauren - just too awkward and gawky.

So into panel, the girls were called in this order: Fatima, Anya, Katarzyna, Whitney, Stacy Ann, Dominique.

Bottom Two: Lauren and Clare. And Clare is out. I guess it was pretty obvious, since this was her second week in a row in the Bottom Two.

As I watch America’s Next Top Model this week, and they show the girls fussing and fighting, I wonder, do the judges see any of this stuff during the competition? What do they think of it and does it affect the way they think about the girls? Just a thought.

Once again, we start off with Dominique causing conflict as usual. She so needs to go. She just doesn’t understand boundaries. I was sorry to see her get upset, but she causes that havoc all on her own. I really wouldn’t like to see her win, not until she grows up a little, anyway. Fatima was much better this week. We hardly saw her at all.

Tyra took them to the dance studio for a posing contest, to show pain. Anya won and was awarded a one-on-one photo shoot with Nigel. But it was nude on a bed. What was that about? I would be so uncomfortable naked in a room full of men. I would have been glad to lose that contest.

The photo shoot is different types of music: heavy metal, emo, pop, country, folk, punk, house (what the heck is that anyway?), r&b and grunge. I thought Whitney and Lauren did really well.

I like Dominique less and less as time goes on. She is so completely full of herself.

Into panel. I thought all the pictures looked pretty cool this week, and better than I thought they would when I heard what the shoot was about.

So they called up and this is the order: Whitney, Katarzyna, Fatima, Lauren, Anya, Dominique, Stacy Ann. The Bottom 2: Clare and Aimee.

And Aimee is out. I felt sorry for her, cause Clare was so excited, she just jumped up and grabbed the pic and left her back there. But it was time, cause Aimee never really seemed to do well.

I can’t even tell you why I’m still watching Beauty and the Geek. Sheer boredom, I expect.

I feel so very sorry for Tommy, who honestly seemed to feel that Amber was serious about him, when she was really just playing him. I imagine he feels pretty stupid now that he gets to watch the show.

Anyway, this week they have a sports challenge and play flag football. The twist is that each team has to trade a member to the other team. So Jillian goes over with the Geeks and Chris goes with the Beauties. After the switch, the traded person finds out that if the team they are on loses, they are automatically sent home. I’ve never watched this show before, so I don’t know if they’ve done anything like this before and if they should have been more cautious with the trades.

I’m getting pretty tired of Joe, he’s so completely annoying. I’d love to see him go home this week.

The football game itself was dragged out so much that it felt as long as a regular football game to me. The only exciting part was the Pepsi Max commercial in the middle, where they play that song from A Night at the Roxbury and everyone bobs their heads. The upshot is Joe tries to take over the geek team and he’s loud and rude and annoying and gets way too invested in it. The beauty team is only saved by the fact that they have Chris, because he gets them organized and working together. There was a sweet moment for little Greg, cause he actually caught the ball and ran with it, and he was so excited.

There was one injury, as well, when Matt gets tripped by one of the Beauties - whose name I can’t remember and I don’t care enough about to look up. It was a little unclear to me what exactly happened, but apparently he did break something in his arm or shoulder or whatever. He lived. But he did have to go to the ER and didn’t come back until the end of the show.

As for the game, the Beauties won and poor Jillian went home.

Then they went on to the elimination and this week, they did it differently. From this week on, they are going back to the old format of each Beauty teaming up with a Geek. The girls, as the winners, got to choose who they wanted to be paired up with. They decide together who gets whom, and since there is one more guy than girl, obviously whichever guy isn’t chosen is gone.

So here are the teams:

Cara and Chris
Amanda and Tommy
Leticia and Matt
Randi and Greg
Kristina and Jason
Tiffany and Jim

Apparently, Tiffany’s choice was a shock, because she was supposed to pick Jonathan. So that left Tara to chose between Jonathan and Joe. Unfortunately, they ended the show right there, with a “to be continued,” so I guess I have to watch again next week, if I really want to know. It all depends on whether or not Jim was supposed to be the one that left, in which case Tara was supposed to pick Joe. Which she can still do, but then Jonathan, who was supposed to stay has to go. Personally, I’d rather keep Jonathan than Joe, but no one is asking me.

In my Internet travels today, I came across an article detailing the shows that the CW is renewing for next season.

The show I’m most excited about is Supernatural. I was nervous and so was the show’s creator, Eric Kripke. But luckily for all of us, the CW has renewed Supernatural for a fourth season!! And there’s still new eps to air this year, so as far as I’m concerned, its all good.

The CW also renewed Smallville for it’s 8th (and probably last) season. I’ve read elsewhere that they are probably gonna use this season to tie up all the ends and bring Superman up to true Clark Kent adulthood. I’m just not sure how they plan to make him a nerd with glasses.

Other shows renewed by the CW are Gossip Girl for its 2nd full season, One Tree Hill for a Season 6, and sitcom, Everybody Hates Chris. Also, America’s Next Top Model was renewed for both an 11th and 12th cycle. No word yet on new shows Reaper and Aliens in America. I’d like to see Reaper renewed cause I think the show has potential. Don’t forget that there are still three new eps of Reaper to watch starting this week on Thursday, March 13 at 9:00 pm. You should check it out and see what you think if you haven’t seen it yet.

Finally, don’t forget Beauty and the Geek. The fifth season premieres tonight, Tuesday, March 11 at 8 pm. It’s worrisome that it would premiere opposite the Top 12 singing from the Lennon/McCartney songbook on American Idol, but that’s why we have DVRs, right?

I usually enjoy makeover night on America’s Next Top Model. I like it, cause we usually get at least one meltdown. And that’s fun. I guess I could have called that it would be Fatima. She’s really getting on my nerves. Fatima is too rude, Allison is too full of herself, Dominique is too overbearing, Amis is too opinionated. And that’s just in the first 5 minutes.

I was glad that neither Allison or Fatima did well on the Cover Girl challenge. They are both annoying. Although I don’t think I like Clare’s looks that much. Also, I didn’t like that Whitney was siding with Allison in the doll-playing stuff. I mean, what was that? Are they 4-year olds, with all the name calling?

Does it seem like so many of them went from dark to blond or red? Why do you think that is? I like dark hair. I definitely liked Whitney better with dark hair. I also think that Anya’s lighter hair makes her nose look bigger. Aimee looked good. I don’t know what they did exactly to Marvita. It looked OK, but I couldn’t really tell what was happening on top. Lauren ended up looking very sexy. Katarzyna (could she also change her name, cause I don’t think Tyra says it the same way twice) looked good with dark hair. Claire just looked weird. Allison also looked better with darker hair. Dominique looks way better without all the frizz. Stacey-Ann looked OK, but it wasn’t what I would have picked for her. Amis didn’t really look too different, but I liked the longer hair. Fatima looked way better. The tears were not necessary.

As I watched the photo shoot, I couldn’t help but feel a little sorry for these chicks who think they are so hot, but in reality suck. No wait, I don’t feel sorry for them. Never mind. As for the photos, none of them looked that great to me.

So on to the cuts. Let’s hope we lose either Allison or Fatima. Or Dominique.

Allison was pretty on the outside, but she was not a nice girl. So she’s not really a loss. But I have a question, what color was Dominque’s hair supposed to be?

One thing it was good to see on America’s Next Top Model is that lots of these people really are deserving. They discussed being homeless, living in shelters. I’m no bleeding heart, so that’s only gonna take is so far for me, but its still good to know that they aren’t all people who were failures as models already. I get enough of that on American Idol this year. The year of the has-been.

I know it’s only the second week, but I am already tired of hearing about the genital mutilation. I mean, I’d be OK if they never mentioned it again, but it seems pretty doubtful.

Surprisingly, more of them did well on the initial runway show than I thought would. Of course, some of them were really bad.

As for the fashion shoot, I thought they also did OK, but it really showed who could follow direction and who couldn’t. I still don’t have a good idea which one of these chicks is which, but I’ve already figured out which ones I don’t like. I’m pretty tired of the little blond annoying chick, Kim, who won’t support the purchase of expensive clothing. Um, did someone explain to her about modeling?

I think I’ve also had enough babble from Amis and lack of entire personality from Fatima.

I was surprised that they replaced Twiggy with Paulina Porizkova. I guess I shouldn’t have been when they all met with her at the beginning. But what can I say, I’m slow.

My further impressions:

Lauren is pretty, but just too sloppy and awkward.

Anya is also pretty, but her nose looks a little big in her photo.

Amis is friendly, but just too over the top for me.

Aimee looks very different in her picture than she does in person.

Fatima is getting on my nerves. She’s so robotic. She did take a good picture, though.

Dominique was told she looked like a drag queen. I don’t get that.

Allison didn’t take a good picture at all. But I don’t really know much about her yet.

Whitney is just beautiful. She took a great pic, too. I hope they keep her around for a while.

Marvina just seems to have some issues dealing with others, but she’s pretty.

Katarzyna has already been on my nerves for the way she keeps telling people how to say her name. You have an unusual name, get over it.

Claire reminds of Julia Stiles, only taller and darker.

Atalya hasn’t made any impression yet, which can’t be good.

Stacy-Ann is cute, but a little too perky.

Kim is annoying me with her ‘tude. It wasn’t even a shock when she said she didn’t want to be there. Actually, it gave me a happy.

I assumed there would have to be another elimination since they started out with one too many people, but I thought it might happen later in the season. In any case, I guess I called it. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who didn’t remember Atalya.

Get ready for makeovers next week.

I hate that Bela on Supernatural. I really do, and it’s sad, cause my puppy is named Bella. She’s just so evil. The Bela on the show, not my puppy. it’s just that you can’t trust her, no matter how cute she looks. Actually, that is a lot like my puppy, now that I come to think about it. Oh, and as a side note, Peter DeLuise looks so different, doesn’t he? I almost didn’t recognize him all grown up. I guess I still think of him as a little boy, like he was back on 21 Jump Street. I just wish there could have been more of him in the ep, cause I always loved him. Maybe I should look him up and see what else he’s been doing.

But back to the Supernatural boys, I mean, come on, just how stupid are they? They know Bela. Why in the world would they trust her, and then, having foolishly trusted her, put themselves right where she wanted them? At least it ended up helping them rather than hurting them, but still she’s a real nasty piece of work. If you didn’t see last week’s episode of Supernatural, “Jus In Bello,” you should. It was probably one of the best of the season. You can watch it on the site, here. As I’ve mentioned before, there won’t be any new episodes of Supernatural until April 24, when we get 4 more new eps to end up the season. This ep left me wanting more, so I’m sad and excited all at the same time.

I’m still torn trying to decide which was Dean’s best line of the ep:

DEAN: I’ll live. You know, if we get out of here alive.

DEAN: It’s like they’ve got a contract on us. You think it’s because we’re so awesome? I think it’s because we’re so awesome.

AGENT HENRICKSEN: I shot the sheriff.
DEAN: But you didn’t shoot the deputy.

Reaper will be in the place of Supernatural for the next several weeks, with new eps starting on March 27, so at least that something to look forward to while we wait for more Supernatural.

America’s Next Top Model kicked off Cycle 10 last night with a gaggle of pretty little princesses. Most of them seemed pretty wild this time. Not the same tame but boringly weepy little girls as usual. But maybe its too soon to comment on that yet. I’m not gonna waste a lot of time on the people who didn’t make it. I want to just give my initial impressions of the top 13, wait, make that 14, girls who will now be in the competition:

Allison - she seems like she thinks she knows more than she really does, but she’s really, really pretty.
Fatima - she has a bit of an attitude, although I thought she had the right of it with those “ghetto” chicks. I can just see that causing trouble.
Katarzyna - just seems very foreign, which makes me wonder, why is she on America’s Next Top Model.
Kimberly - she comes across as way too young. I’ll bet she’s a crier.
Stacy Ann - I just have a vague feeling that she’s gonna be kind of annoying. But we’ll see.
Amis - (one of the changed-name Amy’s) she’s beautiful and very classic looking.
Aimee - seems like she’s cute, but not too polished yet.
Claire - she’s a little weird. I mean the whole baby and breast milk thing. Ewwww.
Whitney - she’s a plus sized model and I thought her looks were arresting from the first moment I saw her on the show. I hope she lasts longer than other plus sized models have on this show.
Marvita - this is a second chance for her, and I think she seems much more together than last time. We’ll see.
Lauren - she’s just seems sloppy and not well put together. Like she’ll be this year’s Heather.
Atalya - I don’t really have any clue about her.
Anya - she was a little annoying, but sometimes people are just hyper. I’ll give her a chance.
Dominique - was kinda too domineering for me. They may have made a mistake adding an extra spot for her. But we’ll see.

I’m not making any guesses at this point. Let’s wait and see how they do next week.

Alright, I’m open for ideas. What shows on the CW are you all interested in? I’ve gotta just give in and start watching some of them, cause I have no idea when Supernatural, Reaper or Smallville will be back on in new eps and I can’t keep talking about random stuff. Can I?

There seems to be a lot of interest in Gossip Girl, but I just don’t think that’s for me. I saw a bit of it once and it just seems . . . how can I say this without offending people? . . . stupid. OK, I didn’t mean that the way it sounded. It’s just not for me. I miss the days of Veronica Mars.

I also caught of glimpse of Crowned and I’d rather have a root canal.

I think the big issue for me is that I’m not a huge reality TV fan and most of what’s on these days is reality. Only not so real, if you know what I mean. Don’t get me wrong, I watch some reality TV, like America’s Next Top Model (which will be back on Feburary 20, btw), American Idol, Hell’s Kitchen . . . stuff like that. (Apparently, it must either have the word “America” in the title or feature a British guy. Or both.)

But I’m serious. I’m open to whatever interests those of you out there who are actually reading this blog and have an opinion.

Obviously, it must fit some criteria: 1) it should be on the CW; 2) it shouldn’t suck. I think that’s pretty easy going as far as criteria go. (Is criteria already plural? I mean, should that last sentence have read “as far as criteria goes?”)

Anyway, what do you think?

The CW, Supernatural, Reaper, Smallville, American Idol, America’s Next Top Model, Gossip Girl, Crowned, Hell’s Kitchen, Veronica Mars

My New Years was a very nice, quiet, restful day. Thanks for asking.

My husband made the mistake of telling me that I could watch the big TV (our new 42″ LCD HD flat screen with surround sound) all day long. Then he remembered about the history making, ground breaking NHL game between Buffalo and Pittsburgh that was being played outside in the football stadium in Buffalo. He was pretty sad. Meanwhile, I sat around watching reruns of America’s Next Top Model and Monk. He felt it was a real waste of all that TV. Probably he was right, but a deal is a deal. Besides, we lost anyway.

I also watched an ep of the Moonlighting DVDs I got for Christmas, Seasons 3 through 5. The first ep of Season 3 is all about David’s dad getting married to a woman that David has a “history” with and David being all stressed out about it. Turns out, she was so drunk she doesn’t even remember him. So basically, all the misery and gnashing of teeth was for nothing. But it did make for some fun times.

What was even more fun, at the beginning of the ep, they had tagged on a little welcome back to the new season scene. It starts out with them introducing themselves and across the screen it says something like, “filmed before the 1986 Emmy awards.” The phone rings and Maddy answers it, hands it to David and tells him its his mother. David then has basically the same conversation with his sick mother (she’s on an iron lung) and her doctor. “It’s in the bag, 16 nominations, we can’t lose. They won’t vote for him again, he won last year.” Stuff like that. Then the doctor apparently tells him that his mother will pull through if she gets some good news. Just before they cut to the credits there is an acknowledgement on the screen, “In memory of Irma Addison” with her date of death listed as September 21, 1986. I did some research. That’s the day that the Emmy’s aired and although Moonlighting was nominated in more than a dozen different categories, they only received one Emmy, for editing on a particular episode (and they had two nominations in that category, so it would have really been hard to lose).

Just another reason why I loved this show.

America’s Next Top Model, Monk, Moonlighting, NHL, Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penquins

I’ve been so busy (you can read all about it here), I realize that I completely forgot to say anything about the Supernatural Christmas episode. I loved it!! Really. My husband, who is not the Supernatural kind, even watched it with me. And I think he even liked it. And that’s not natural . . . (it’s supernatural, get it?? I’m just hilarious, aren’t I? I kill me.)

Of course, now that more than a week has passed since I saw it, I can barely remember what I liked about it. I’m just left with a feeling of overall happiness about it. Well, also, I’m a big fan of Christmas, so I’m always happy about Christmas eps of any show.

One thing that really hit me was how sad Sam and Dean’s lives really were as children, and how sad they still are. They grew up and still live in a world that’s so barren of any things, not that life is all about things, but just seeing them sitting in bare, cold, lonely motel rooms every Christmas was touching. Watching Sam and Dean as little kids, Dean stealing girl’s presents for Sam, and then as adults, giving each other gifts bought at gas stations and wrapped in newspaper, it made me feel for them. Like, I really came to a place where I thought of them as people instead of just as characters. It was a good moment.

I kept thinking that their mother wouldn’t have wanted that for them. Although I can understand their dad’s desire to hunt down and kill the demon that killed their mother, I think by doing that, the demon really won. Maybe if he had just gone on and given them the life they should have had, then he would have cheated the demon.

Also, I think I’m thinking about this too much.

Supernatural, Christmas, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles