I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.

Buffy ,'Showtime'


Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]


Kathy A - Dec 31, 2009 7:16:45 am PST #12570 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Hey, megan, can I ask why you didn't include the Transformers number in with the best-of? I loved that when I saw it on the Greatest Hits ep (I'm a latecomer to SYTYCD--didn't start watching until the Top 10 or 8 of S4).


megan walker - Dec 31, 2009 7:28:33 am PST #12571 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Well, I thought I needed the room, I hate Misha Chan, and I hated the costumes. Also, that was the season with an extra number included. But, mostly 'cause I hated Lauren.


Jessica - Jan 03, 2010 5:38:27 am PST #12572 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Noooooooooooo!!!!

While I was on vacation, my cable company DROPPED THE FOOD NETWORK FROM THEIR LINEUP. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, CABLEVISION???


Vortex - Jan 03, 2010 8:50:56 am PST #12573 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

oh, I would RIOT. fuck HGTV, but you will pry the Barefoot contessa from my cold dead hands.


Jessica - Jan 03, 2010 8:53:41 am PST #12574 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Subscribers are up in arms, but there's no competition in our area (you either live on a Cablevision block or a Time Warner block - there's no overlap) unless people want to switch to satellite.


Liese S. - Jan 03, 2010 9:22:02 am PST #12575 of 23273
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Dude, that's the only station my parents will watch. If that happened, they would go ballistic.


quester - Jan 03, 2010 4:20:26 pm PST #12576 of 23273
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Ooo, Megan, I would love copies of the SYTYCD DVDs.


Hil R. - Jan 03, 2010 5:48:30 pm PST #12577 of 23273
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Anybody else watching Worst Chef in America? It seems like this challenge is really designed for people to fail -- restaurant cooking is really different from home cooking, and throwing people right into shellfish and stuff like that seems like just reinforcing that cooking is complicated and not something that ordinary people can do.


Strix - Jan 03, 2010 6:31:12 pm PST #12578 of 23273
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I posed that question to my bf; I'm a fairly competent cook, and that dish in an hour would have not been my favorite -- and I've cooked shrimp before. Not clams, but mussels. I know how imtimidated I was by them for a long time (I grew up in the midwest.)


Hil R. - Jan 04, 2010 2:03:05 am PST #12579 of 23273
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Yeah. Also, getting fussy about plating with people who still have trouble with things like sauteeing onions just seems mean. One thing at a time.