Random TV Thoughts - Friday Edition

• Britney Spears did surprisingly well on "How I Met Your Mother." Diggity and I love that show and were quite worried that her little guest star spot was going to be disastrous. She was actually funny and the bonuse was that Sarah Chalke from "Scrubs" was also on the show.
• "Oprah's Big Give" is still enjoyable and makes me cry. I loved when the contestant paid for the open tickets at Midas on this last week's episode and the little boy thanked him. So sweet.
  
• I was SO excited the girls won the weigh in on Biggest Loser this week. I felt badly they sent Dan home though. I really liked him. I hope Jillian can help the girls stay above the yellow line this coming week.
  
  
  
• I'm disappointed in Christian Siriano. Turns out he designed the prom dress that Kimberley Locke wore on American Idol on Wednesday night. It was not fierce.
• Curse you Bravo TV! I saw an episode of The Real Housewives of New York and found it to be train wreck watchable. If possible, they are more catty and fabulously wealthy and glamorous than the Orange County Housewives.
• And speaking of Bravo TV and their addictive reality shows, Top Chef is interesting so far this season. They cooked for a block party and got the food from going door to door from the neighbors they were cooking for. I like Stephanie the best so far, but I'm finding many of the chefs more annoying than usual. Like Andrew. I want someone to punch him.
• In an odd turn of events, we have no saved programming on our Tivo. We are usually struggling to catch up. It's almost like summer except that we have snow on our dead lawn and it is 30 degrees outside.
  
• "High School Musical 2: Dance Along Edition" is on Disney Channel right now. I'm actually sitting here watching it. How big of a dork am I? I have to go. They're teaching the steps for "All For One." :)
  

Random TV Thoughts

- I love that Tim Gunn was on The Biggest Loser last week. He seems like such a nice man. He made those Biggest Losers look so fancy in their new clothes from Macy's! And I'm glad that Brittany went home. Go Ali!
- I'm a fan of Top Chef, but the first episode was frustrating to watch. Too many swear bears in the cast this year. I don't think I've ever heard so many bleep sounds in a reality show. Yeah, they're chefs, they're artists, they express themselves. Whatever. It was annoying. It was slightly better the second week.
- Boo that Lost has a break for 5 weeks. I'm really loving it right now.
- Hurray that the rest of the shows we like are slowly trickling back on.
- I love Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

Final Thought: (It's a long thought.)
I don't usually watch Dancing With the Stars. I'm aware of who is on, I catch a dance here and there and I try to cheer on those cute Hough kids from Utah. But I find it the most difficult competition show to watch. At least for me. Especially at the beginning of the season. It frustrates me that they put people on that they know will be embarrassing themselves (examples this season: Penn Gillette, Monica Seles, Adam Corrolla - who is partners with Julianne Hough). I don't enjoy watching them make fools of themselves so much. I also don't like the stunt casting. Last season we had Heather Mills and her prosthetic leg. This season we have hearing impaired Marlee Matlin.


However, I am sitting here preparing a couple of things for school tomorrow and just caught Marlee's dance. I have to admit, I shed a small tear. It was pretty amazing to watch. I had a little flashback to when I saw Heather Whitestone (hearing impaired Miss America) dancing on stage in Atlantic City. Marlee was inspiring to watch as well. Especially to see the rehearsals and realize that in their dance this week, she couldn't look at her partner and they had to figure out how to communicate with each other.

I may actually watch when I can this season.

P.S. Kristi Yamaguchi is amazing. So is Mario. One of them should win. They probably won't, but they should.