Hump Day Update

It's Wednesday. How are you celebrating?

• The Real World is shooting in Brooklyn for its 21st season. In case you're counting, this is the 3rd time they'll be in New York. I wrote a post about this for my other blog but let me just say this: Really? Three times in NYC? There's no other place in the worth checking out? In this entire country? Really?

• My favorite chef got voted off Top Chef tonight. I miss his wily antics already.
  

• In other chef show news, Hell's Kitchen saw its highest ratings ever last night thanks to a lead-in from the Idol final 3. They did a blind taste test last night to test out their palattes. This is a similar to a recent quickfire on Top Chef. The only difference? When the highly trained, near-expert chefs on Bravo were distinguishing between expensive and cheap olive oil, the cooks on Hells Kitchen were just trying to recognize chicken. Not free-range, nothing special. Here's a forkful of something, what is it? Chicken. The best part? The woman got it wrong. Thank heavens the show is entertaining because these people can't cook.
  

• And finally, this is a fantastic clip from Deal Or No Deal. No skills required on this show...it shows.
  
  

No Deal

George W. Bush taped a greeting that will air during tomorrow night's ep of Deal or No Deal?

I think the best part of being a lame-duck president would be taking advantage of the perks of the office but getting out of all of the work. It would be like that movie Dave.

If NBC thought this through, they'd ask the President to do a guest spot on Friday Night Lights instead. It could really use the temporary increase in eyeballs. Plus it's about Texas and football. He'd fit right in.

But that's just how I'd do it.

No Deal! Please!

Deal or No Deal is kind of ridiculous. I never sat through an entire episode before, and tonight I learned just why.

There are 26 cases in the game and because it's sweeps (I know it's easy to forget without new shows) 10 of those cases have $1 Million in them. Great odds huh? But do those odds warrant 90 minutes of this crap?

My favorite part: Tonight's episode features Becky, an elvish looking woman (they've made fun of her height several times. We get it, she's petite!) with 5 kids whose father currently commutes 16 hours each weekend just to see his grandchildren. She wants to win the money so he can finally retire. Becky's mother is optimistic she will walk away with the money because she's been through so much adversity and " she can do this." How surviving traumatic events correlates to picking random suitcases on a stage I don't know. But according to Mama Elf it does.

I won't tell you how it ends, but I know one thing is true: Between the Patriots losing yesterday and me committing 90 minutes to this tripe, the terrorists are having a banner week.

The Ladies of Deal Or No Deal Get "Injured"

So the Deal Or No Deal ladies did a reenactment of The Office.

It's not that bad, but when you're copying one of the best episodes (The Injury) of one of the funniest shows in recent history line for line, how can it not be?

See for yourself.