Entries from October 2007 ↓

Well, I hear that the writers do check out the blogs periodically. I have no idea if they read this one (wouldn't that be cool?), but you never know. There's the usual page and contact stuff up on NBC, but I highly doubt you'd ever get through to anybody on that.

I know that Rob Maschio, who plays The Todd, answers his email. You might want to send him some feedback at www.robertmaschio.com

how can we get in touch with the writers? I just want to say that it might be fun making the muscial episodes but I can tell you they are not very fun to watch!

WTF is wrong with cliches?
I thought it was a cool episode, but yeah, i did think it was lacking the connection with the last episode, but maybe they wanted the episode to be centered more around the person rather than her beliefs.. i dunno but i see what you mean

Oh, the drama!

I've never liked Kim, I've mentioned that. I think she's mean to her team. And now they're abandoning her. I missed last week, but apparently she said something to Amy last week about not deserving to be here or some such. Either way, it upset Amy enough that when the rules became "You can train with whoever you want" she ran to Jillian. Apparently it didn't help her much, as her weight stayed the same.

The real drama, however, came when Neil, from the blue team, decided to cheat the system by bulking up before the weigh-in. He comes in at a +17, which causes Bob to drop a large number of F bombs in his direction. The plan, you see, is to deliberately put his team of 3 up for elimination so that the remaining blue players who are loyal to Neil will send somebody else home. Neil admits this, and laughs about it, which immediately makes him the enemy for the rest of his stay on the show.

It's at this point that I completely don't understand the game, as the other teams vote out Jez from the black team despite everyone acknowledging the Neil basically cheated the system. Well, here's hoping that Bob kicks some serious ass next week as he obviously wasn't in the "Let's rig the system" plan that blue came up with.

Finally a week where there's something to write about! Sorry I missed last week, but come on, the Red Sox are going to the World Series. I am morally obligated to watch baseball over ballroom. It's a Boston law.

This week was intriguing indeed! It started when I walked into the room and my wife said "Marie Osmond just passed out." Thank heaven for Tivo! It was a pretty standard faint, you can't really blame her. I bet the audience felt bad for laughing, thinking she was doing some sort of a stunt. Looking back at the fall during the results show you really got a feeling for just how fast she went down. Heather Mills commented that they thought it was a bit, and it was best fake faint she'd ever seen.

We're at a point now in the season where all the easy picks to go home have gone home. Well, almost. This week it should be Mark. And then Jane, Jennie, Marie and Cameron, leaving Mel, Cheetah girl and Helio to vie for the title.

This weeks's special guest star is Jennifer Lopez. If you're still wondering if she's pregnant, ask yourself why she wore a glorified beach cover-up for both of her numbers? Of course she is. Finally the show has a big enough star who just comes out and says "I'll sing." I didn't hear any plugs for a new album, and she did two classics rather than one classic and one new song that nobody's heard. I just wish that they'd stop with the backup dancers. It's a dancing show. You can sing all you want, but let the ballroom professionals dance while you do it.

Normally I fast forward through the pieces in between the results, but this week there was a good one – how each professional does their choreography. We learned that Edyta listens to her music 50 times, that Julianne goes to bed thinking about what she'll teach the next day, and that Max choreographs on the fly. Tony had the best quote when he said, "I'm just the frame, my partner is the picture." Sometimes in their effort to win you'll see pros who basically have their celebrity stand still while they dance circles around them. But the show's not about that, we all know that the pros can dance. The idea is to see what the celebrities can do.

In a funny moment, Julianne hears her name called during the results portion but has no idea if she's been told that she's safe or in the bottom two. So she sits there, looking vaguely confused, until Tom says "That means that in the bottom two are …" and finally she realizes that she's safe and celebrates.

No surprise, Mark goes home this week. Jane Seymour is also in the bottom two, which might be an indicator of what happens next week. She's good, but does she had the following? I say its her or Jennie Garth.

i love scrubs but i hope the final season will make up for season 5 and 6.

Always makes me reflective of being away and not being there for my family when I should have been … Every time I hear it tears well up in my eyes and that was 20 years ago when I was young and stupid.

Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Cox, aka John C. McGinley ("Johnny C") and his wife Nicole Kessler who announced recently that they're having a baby girl, due Feb 2. McGinley has a 10yr old son, Max, from a previous marriage.

Don't forget, Scrubs Final Season Premiere NEXT WEEK, October 25, 2007!

i wish this was not the last season i think they need at least two more

China is learning this week that the rest of the world doesn't care what they say. As I blogged previously, His Holiness The Dalai Lama is coming the US to be awarded a Congressional Medal this week (tomorrow, in fact). China has a whole team of people who do nothing but run around ahead of His Holiness and say, "Listen, if you let him in your country we will be very unhappy with you." Sometimes it works, sometimes not so much. I am very pleased with my government for going through with the ceremony. China, in protest, pulled out of some meeting about Iran. I say that we, in protest, should pull out of the Olympics. See how fast they change their tune.
I'll never understood how they got to be host in the first place. "We need room for stadium! Go destroy that 100ft high 1000 year old statue of Buddha now!"