Ms. Amused

Corbin Bernsen’s got some mighty goodlooking genes….

He’s one of the families on the final episode of Celebrity Family Feud and holy crap are his sons good looking. I think mostly still jailbait age but the one that looks like Matthew McConhaugey with extra facial hair plays football in college…

Dayymmmn.

“Dwarf comedy stunt shocks airport staff”

I expected it to be about Jackass. Because how many times did they shove Weeman into bags and other assorted containers? Hot dog carts… giant traffic cones… you name it.

You get: Celebrity Family Feud.

The Feud was one of those things that was often something watched with my family so I’m already predisposed to it. And then when the promos started showing during American Gladiators and I saw Wolf staring down the other family on the Feud, and then later Earl Hickey (Jason Lee) of My Name Is Earl on it too, I knew I had to watch this.

And it’s been a lot of fun so far. But I was biding my time for when the Gladiators and also the Earl cast were on. Much to my surprise, they’re all on the same episode!

What’s different in CFF is there’s 4 “families” that face off in two matches, the winners face off in a final match and then the overall winner does the last part for 200 pts to win the money ($50k for charity of choice). Also what’s different is that there’s only 3 games per match, first two are single points and the 3rd is triple. And if no one gets to 300, then its sudden death.

Anyways, I really loved the first half of tonight’s show, the Gladiators were hysterical and it couldn’t have been better except if they’d brought Crush instead of Venom (or perhaps my other new favorite gladiator besides Jet, Hurricane). Also very glad they brought Laila and not Hulk who I now hate to see at all given the crap way that he and his family have responded to his son’s maiming of his friend. I used to love Hulk Hogan but I’m done with him now. I even wrote to NBC asking them to boot him for future seasons of AG, go with Lou Ferrigno or someone else cool.

And the Earl game was fun, turned out it was all MNIE cast but in character. The Hickey Family vs Camden County (semi regular characters that are the townspeople). It was a little weird because they stayed in character and goofed the answers in ways that the actors would never have.

I’ve always loved watching the Feud because of my grandmothers (one of the rare things that they had in common) and it’s fun to watch it again with the “celebrities”… now I want to see them do it with the cast of NCIS vs CSI or something cool like that! Since I think they’ve already filmd all of this season, perhaps next season? Doubt it’d happen though if for nothing else, it’s an NBC show, why would they promote other network’s shows by using casts from them?

Not sure what else CFF will be worth watching for but I’ve enjoyed the games up til tonight while waiting for AG and MNIE to show so I’ll keep watching.

I just can’t get enough of watching AG! Almost into the semifinals, which means it’ll be over soon

Feels weird because Steve’s no longer on the show but even if Marlee gets booted soon, I’ve gotten hooked enough to want to see how it all turns out.

If you’re reading this and haven’t watched the show, the scores are done in order of the judges seats at the table so from left to right, Carrie Ann, Len and Bruno.

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Man I love this guy more every day. He really has his head on straight.

“I think there’s so many talented people on it — that’s what’s great,” said Guttenberg. “It’s a chance for everybody in America — we’re in a tough economic time, we’ve got a crazy presidential race going on — so I think that this show is so good for everybody and it makes the world a better place. I was glad to be on it.”

During the interview, Kimmel also asked Guttenberg what he thought about Penn Jillette’s recent comments that he felt it was unfair that Dancing with the Stars casts celebrity participants like Olympic gold medalist figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, who has been atop the judges’ leaderboard two weeks in a row. (Jillette and fellow competitor Monica Seles were eliminated in last week’s initial Dancing with the Stars sixth-season results show.)

“It’s not a real competition,” explained Guttenberg. “In a real ballroom competition, 10 couples dance together and the judges have a clipboard and they never talk. This is more of a television show — an entertainment show — so it’s not a real dance competition.“

Source: RealityTVWorld.com reporting on Jimmy Kimmel Interview from last night

If it was on Kimmel (I could have watched it! duh) then it should be on YouTube and sure enough it is:

Steve talks more about the “mango” part at about 2:15 into the clip.

My rough attempt to transcribe it:
“Truth is I knew it would be entertaining. And the funny thing is I just got a bunch of emails from these people… I went down to Katrina and I volunteered. And all these people that I helped when I was down there in Katrina, emailed me what a great [time and song?] when I was dancing with this guy and they just thought it was the [right?] time.”

He did a great job of straddling the fence there about his feelings about the man-man dance and that it’s another small landmark in gay acceptance in the media. Smart man.

The rest of the interview seems to focus on a blind date Steve had some time ago with a producer of the Kimmel show. That was bizarre.

Hope we’ll see more of Steve now… I need to look at what he’s been doing since the 80s. I did see that bad tv movie he did, “Tower of Terror” with Kirsten Dunst (who wasn’t even 16 then). But don’t recall anything else.

And for laughs: Steve in a Seagrams commercial (looks to be from the late 80s/early 90s judging by his hair)

For some reason, my DVR did not record this last night.

I’m nervous to look up who got booted cause I’m afraid it’s Steve.

*looks it up*

Sigh, it was.

And now I’m really mad about missing the episode because of this:

Instead of dancing with his partner Anna Trebunskaya, he performed the smoldering number with Trebunskaya’s husband, professional dancer Jonathan Roberts, in her role.

Oh well, there’s still Marlee to watch for. Now to go see if I can find a clip of this dance online somewhere.

Found it and oh my god, that was hilarious! I think Jonathon deliberately slid hard enough to knock Steve over at the end for the laughs. Wonder if they planned it that way cause Steve after all was the go to comedic actor of the 80s.

For your viewing pleasure:

The rehearsal clip is also on YouTube.

Finally sitting down to watch the show on the DVR. Again I missed watching it live and being able to vote afterwards. Oh well.

Tonight’s Tango & Jive night. Should be interesting.

Goodie, Marlee’s up first. I love her dresses and tonight’s my favorite one so far.

The girl can jive! Love the under arm passes. Len & Bruno are still just “omg can’t believe you can do this and so well!”. Carrie Ann’s the only one to actually focus on the dance.

And my other favorite is  next up so that’s great for me.. my favorites are up first.

Oh man… the slash lover in me just really had fun watching the rehearsal segment where Anna’s gorgeous husband Jonathan steps in for her. Apparently she was really sick.

Tango for Steve and it looks good. Nice finish with her sliding under his leg like that.  Hmm what’s this? HAHAH goofball! He needed “to prepare” for the judges. He went and got a metal bowl and goggles and put them on his head.

Cool! The judges all thought he did really well this week. Hope that translates into a decent set of scores. I don’t think he’s gotten a 7 yet? And he just got all 7s! Definitely his best!

BTW the “Gute” really loves his parents. If you can’t tell, every opening sequence where the camera pans over the stars, he always mouths “Hi Mom & Dad”.

Too good to be true? I don’t care. I enjoy him.

It’s downhill from here for me because everyone else is “the competition” for my people.

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Owww my brain. I’ve watched some “reality competition” shows such as Fear Factor, America’s Best Dance Crew and even a couple ANTM (blame the last two on little bro) but none of these have an episode dedicated to elimination.

And it is PAINFUL. Because they have to fill an hour and only have 20 minutes of real content.

I’m vaguely aware of the Jonas Brothers. Their performance didn’t wow me. I preferred the dance by the Cirque Du Soleil guy and laughed when I heard the opening line from Meatloaf’s “I’ll Do Anything for Love But I won’t Do That”. MEATLOAF!!

On to the eliminations… YAY!! Steve was first saved. But I noticed there was a pattern in the announcing of the saves. Since they made it clear each time that of the last two couples, one of them was NOT in the bottom two, that means Adam and Marissa were 4th ranked respectively. So who were the 5th rankers? My theory is that they were the first ones called so that makes it Steve (sigh) and Shannon (surprising).

I loved that at the end as the camera moves off Marissa, you can see a pair of silver encased arms throwing themselves around her neck. Awwww! Who made friends? Shannon & Marissa!

Next week is going to be tough, the bottom four as I see it “in no particular order” are Adam, Steve, Marissa & Shannon. I’m betting that Adam will be the next eliminated but at this point I couldn’t safely say who is the next one on the bubble. I would have thought Shannon to be 4th ranked but they were very clear on that Marissa was NOT 5th. I suspect people are being harder on her than the others. Stop it!

Lastly, Cristian…. may end up being crippled by his dance partner because though I barely pay attention to tabloid fodder especially about reality show people, all I could think about when I saw her was … CHEATER. It’s not fair to Cristian but I know I wouldn’t mind seeing her gone either. Too distracting.

Parting thought, Steve is … interesting. I find myself wanting to know more about what he is like. I wonder if my friend’s ever run across him.

This is the first in a series of posts about Dancing With The Stars Season 6. Why? Read on….

**Wrote this last week but was still getting this blog back into shape.

I’ve decided to live blog this because I had so much I wanted to say last time and never got around to writing it up.

Tonight: 12 dances in 2 hours for a double elimination tomorrow.

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