Watching Reality TV

Yep, it’s that time again! God, I love Tuesday night’s. It’s like sin dipped in chocolate and wrapped in whipped cream, isn’t it? So let’s get started with “Deadliest Catch” because it just very well might be my favorite thing about Tuesday nights. Last night was the end of the king crab season, with all the crews racing to the “finish line”. And for a good while, it looked like Blake, the newbie captain of the Maverick, would be taking home the captain’s wager. The Maverick was raking in the crab and even had to toss back about 5 thousand crab in order to not come in over quota. Of course, when the crab was tallied up at the end of the line, Blake found out that he was off his count by about, oh, 5 thousand. OUCH. The Northwestern, Farwest Leader and Wizard all brought in the big bucks, with each crew member earning over $35,000 for a few days of amazingly difficult and dangerous work. But what excited me the most? Next week we see the beginning of the snow crab season. The crews head back out in January (as opposed to November during the king crab season) and the weather is, shall you say, a bit more interesting. I love snow crab season. I can’t wait to see what happens next.

On “American Idol”, we had “disco night” courtesy of the Bee Gee’s and Barry Gibb in particular. And was I the only one who was surprised at how much Barry Gibb sounded exactly like Sean Connery when he spoke? That distracted me all episode long. Anyhow, many of the idols chose Bee Gee’s songs even though Bee Gee’s songs should be sung only by Bee Gee’s. And judges realized this when their ears were assaulted not once, but twice by each of the contestants. Not all the songs were Bee Gee’s however. But I’m still smarting from LaKisha’s unfortunate rendition of “Stayin’ Alive”. And that is just a crime against nature. A lot of our favorites did not have good night’s last night. Melinda didn’t have a very good night. LaKisha had a horrible night. Even dear, dear Blake didn’t impress anyone with his beatboxed disco classics. Though I had to give him props for taking another chance. I did find myself agreeing with Randy when he told Blake that he didn’t have to beatbox EVERY song. You know, feel free to switch it up some. Gah. But he did pretty well with the material he had. Jordin scored the only high praise of the evening. And it was high praise indeed. Barry Gibb himself said that her rendition of “To Love Somebody” is the best version of the song he’s ever heard sung and he’s heard hundreds of artists sing it. The judges practically fell all over themselves with the raves on her performance. Unfortunately her second song of the evening wasn’t as fantastic, but we forgive her for the first song was loverly. Now, who will be going home? I want to say it’s going to be LaKisha. A lot of people feel like Blake is in the hot seat and I really hope he is not. I honestly feel it is LaKisha’s time to go home.

Then, on “Dancing with the Stars”, everyone’s fondest wish was granted when Billy Ray was FINALLY sent packing. But first, we had to endure some nailbiting as Joey was in the bottom two with him. Joey, honestly? Not Ian? That didn’t make any sense to me. And, yet again, we had to endure an entire hour of fluff to get to the meat of the show. I’m starting to get really annoyed with this overblown results shows. I have half a mind to only tune into the last ten minutes and call it good. But at any rate, Billy Ray is gone and we don’t have to watch him slack his way through any more dances. Praise the Lord! We don’t have to hear him complain about having to learn new steps either. Double Bonus! I’m really scared for Joey though. I hope last night served as a wakeup call and the fans will be calling in for him in droves next week. I’d sure hate for him to leave before Ian, who I feel is the next who should go.

Until next Wednesday… keep it real. (geddit? ha!)