Okay, that’s not an actual quote from The Real Housewives of New Jersey‘s Danielle, just a representative summation shoved in her mouth by my guy Jake, as we gaped in horror and occasional boredom at last night’s new episode.
As I wrote last week, trashy rich folks are practically only group left in America available for guilt-free mockery, and The Real Housewives… series is nothing but trashy rich folks doing trashy things, often in front of their children. (Last night’s episode was so riddled with bad parenting that my proposed drinking game—”Every time someone does something horribly inappropriate in front of their children, CHUG!”—would’ve resulted in near-fatal alcohol poisoning.)
About that occasional boredom: For me, the ultimate test of a show is whether I would watch it without the commercial-removing power of Tivo. 30 Rock? I’ll happily suffer through whatever ad-crap gets thrown at me to watch that. The Real Housewives of New Jersey? Even with the time-compressing power of Tivo it’s an iffy proposition.
I will give this increasingly boring show another week, in hopes of the “Is Danielle an international criminal on the lam?” teasers paying off big. But if I get another week of gawky daughters shopping, it’s over, Real Housewives of New Jersey.
30 Rock is so solid.
I like how the structure of the boardwalk planking leads the eye directly between her legs and then up to her crotch.
30 Rock is good but I love the Office, well really just Jim Halpert; I want that man in my bed and yeah when I’m finished he’ll be gay.
But I am seriously over the entire Bravo Real Housewives stuff; it’s been done over and over and over….
Wow! I didn’t think you could possibly make Atlantic City look any more trashy.
You should have watched the premiere of Glee on Fox last night after Idol…it is ADORABLE!!!
AND, it has Jane Lynch in it.
I’m trying to think what I *would* watch with commercials. Live sports maybe? Even then I wait until about 25% into the broadcast to start watching so I can skip the commercials and come out live at the end.
you’re still allowed to mock appalachians.
Yah, I pretty much can’t think of any TV I’d watch without my handy-dandy DVR. I had to watch “Lost” last week on my computer, and even those minimal commercials drove me nuts. Ooohhh, how spoiled we Americans are…
But have you seen the new project runway type thing Bravo has on? I have seen it and it’s pretty good. I am pretty sure it’s better then the housewives show.
@2: I like that it leads the eyes away from her terrifying plastic grin.