Human Tetris!
Who hasn’t giggled helplessly at the Japanese game show, Human Tetris? It’s so absurd you can’t help but laugh at it. If, somehow, you’re one of the few that haven’t seen it yet (what, are you living under a rock?!) – here you go:
And now? Americans get their chance to play our own version, Hole in the Wall for Fox!
What are you waiting for? Go sign up so that we can watch and hopelessly giggle at YOU!
Hey, I remembered…
…that I have another blog out there. Hah! Spent yesterday redoing, spiffifying, and adding some non-intrusive ads to the whole thing. It could be big! Or, it could totally flop. Either way, it’s completely awesome and lets me blather on about all the bad reality TV I watch, not just Big Brother and Survivor. *grin*
So what are you waiting for? Check out Reality Daze, and let me know what you think!
The Mole: premiere
The Mole premiered tonight with all it’s moley and overly dramatic glory. Where do they find the hosts for these things? Jon Kelly is so… serious. And takes himself so seriously too. Heh.
So all 12 meet each other and hobnob in Los Angeles, Chile a bit, just long enough to decide who they think is the Mole on first impressions. The one with the most votes is Marci, and so she doesn’t have to do the challenge, but gets to make all the decisions for the group for 24 hours – first up, she decides who is jumping for money, and who is jumping for paper.
The challenge has each contestant riding a raft to the edge of the waterfall, and jumping for a bag hanging there. They are caught by the safety line, of course, and they don’t know who Marci decided would be jumping for money or paper. Alex misses, Ali misses, Clay succeeds as Marci is bothered because she’s isolated and doesn’t get to participate. Boby misses, Liz succeeds, Paul misses, Victoria misses, Craig almost chokes himself on the rope and misses, Nicole succeeds, Mark succeeds. Nicole, Kristen, Bobby, and Liz all have paper, with Mark and Clay putting the first $20k into the pot.
They get their journals to write down their observations to help catch the Mole, and then Marcie picks Nicole, Liz, Craig and Bobby to sleep outside. Nicole complains loudly and colorfully and decides not to sleep at all, so that she can bend the rules and not have to sleep outside. Snerk.
Coalitions start to form, already, and they head to the beach for the next challenge. Nicole becomes Dr. Whiner as everyone complains about her attitude, and as such she decides who does what in the challenge, and sits it out and relaxes. They have 6 scavengers, 4 appraisers and 2 time keepers. The scavengers are sent to find items that Robinson Crusoe might have had with him on the island when he was marooned. They are to find 5 items, they only have 3 chances, and each correct item is worth $5k. The timekeepers have to run up and down stairs to keep the sand flowing through the ‘hourglass’ that only holds about 10 minutes.
They end up with only 3 items correct, for $15k to add to the pot, bringing it to a total of $35k. The players aren’t too stoked about having such a small pot so far, but what can they do? They can enjoy Dr. Whiner being stuck on the beach alone overnight – and they do enjoy the night without Nicole’s complaining.
Quiz time! The questions are:
Is the Mole male or female?
When did they jump over the falls?
During the Crusoe mission which group was the mole assigned to?
On the first night where did the Mole sleep?
Does the Mole have an even or odd number of letters in their name?
What is their age?
What was the outcome of their jump over the falls?
Did the Mole drive a van to the beach?
At the start of the Crusoe mission was the Mole wearing a hat?
Who is the Mole?
Nicole, for all her whining, is still at the beach and is told via TV that she is exempt since she’s not there to take the test. In the end, the lowest score on the quiz results in execution – and Marcie, the one most of them thought was the Mole at the beginning, is cut loose.
Love on the Ranch
It’s a night of cowboys and Ellen, and switching houses. Two of the three guys living with DeAnna at the house are send back to the ‘outhouse’. Jeremy go a single rose for the second time, and stayed at the penthouse, and was joined by Paul and Graham.
The first One on One date tonight went to Richard, where they have dinner on a rooftop and a carriage ride. He leans in for the kiss, feeling chemistry where, unfortunately, there as non. DeAnna stopped the ride right then, and tells him so, and he leaves the show right then. The boys are shocked when his bags are suddenly carried out.
The group date is a Camp Fire hoedown. Yeeehaw! Everyone, except for Jason, were invited and there was dancing lessons, mechanical bull riding and a campfire cookout. Male Egos get a jump start and Ron and Jeremy get into it a bit and Robert gets snippy and says if he gets no one on one time he may as well go. When he opens up to DeAnna about it afterwards, she gives him a single rose too. Aww. Suckah.
The next one on one is with Jason, which explains why he wasn’t at the group date. They head to the observatory via helicopter and during dinner he finally tells her that he has a 3 year old son. They bond over family tragedies and he ends up with the second single rose before elimination. They kissed and it’s clear they’re all ga-ga over each other.
Next up – Field trip to the Ellen show! Ellen helps DeAnna pick who to give the third single rose to via a dance contest, questions and de-pantsing to see who looks the best in Ellen Boxers. Ellen decides the rose should go to Fred, because he’s funny.
At the cocktail party that night, the boys are getting nervous as DeAnna admits that she’s intrigued by Ron, but was grateful to be rescued by Jeremy. Some more chitchat, then it’s the rose ceremony, and Twilly, Jesse, Jeremy, Brian, Graham and Sean get the roses, sending Ron and Paul packing. Ron gets snotty in his exit interview, and says that he feels a match with Jeremy is doomed to failure, and Paul was simply upset and didn’t understand why DeAnna could not like him like he does her. Ha.
Fireworks next week as DeAnna yells at them all and tels them if they can’t handle it, go home. Nice. Love songs, race cars, and a private concert are in the works too.
The Next Food Network Star
It’s that time again – Food Network is searching for their next Rachael Ray, their next Bobby Flay, to spearhead a new show on the network. Of course, I haven’t seen much of the last winner, Amy Finley, with her show The Gourmet Next Door. Maybe it hasn’t officially started, or maybe it completely bombed in production, but either way she hasn’t done much of anything yet. I guess she’s not the next Ray or Flay to take over the network, hm?
So instead, we’ve a crop of 10 new hopefuls all wanting the chance at a new show. Bobby Flay heads up the selection committee, and they toss the group into the first challenge with the help of Alton Brown. They had to describe their Unique Food Outlook in once sentence. Some bombed, a couple did all right, but none of them were memorable to me at all. They pressed on, and in teams of two made 3 dishes to present to a pantheon of Food Network Celebs to taste and pick apart. In the end, Cori, the Comedian we first met on Last Comic Standing, was sent packing. Apparently her cooking didn’t match up to her comedy. IN fact, she was told point blank she was too unhappy.
Though Cori was the only one eliminated, there was some harsh comments for the others in the bottom four as well. Nipa is entirely too confident, Shane is too self-conscious and Lisa too rigid and overpowering. (And is it wrong of me to totally want to dredge lisa in flour and deapfry her? What a snob!) Nipa saunters upstairs after being told she’s safe saying she knew she wasn’t going home. Yeah. She’s gonna be brought down a peg or three, I’m pretty sure.
Cori packs and heads off, as the others are stunned that it was her and not Lisa. Maybe going home will cheer her up a bit, hm? Just goes to show that not everyone is cut out for every reality competition….
