"The Secret Life Of" on Food Network should be purged.

And the asshole who hosts it should be impaled on the Washington Monument.

For fuck's sake, all it is is either free advertising for corporations, or a corporate sponsored celebratory blowjob.

But yet, when I see it, I generally keep watching for some unknown reason. I think the host is borderline insulting to his guests at times.

I call them the "product placement shows". They probably get paid to air them. But boooorrrriiinnngggg.

Unwrapped just plain sucks.

:hi::loveya:

How can anyone stand to watch those shows?

or at least undermarketed products. I haven't watched it in a long time, so maybe it's different now, but I remember them doing things like Neco wafers and boston baked beans, as well as highlighting small local and regional candy stores and foodstuff makers, rather than just hershey, coke, mars, and other titans of the sugar industrial complex.

I love those two shows!

You'd think they could easily fill the space with something better;
it has to be about the money is all I can figure.

:rant:

Are you aware that there are other channels available on your cable system?

This is about me taking responsibility for my viewing habits.

This is about my right as an elitist, self-absorbed asshole to have the stations and programmers ensure that I don't have to see things I don't like. Turning the channel is for proles - I am too important for that, and so the industry should conform to me, and I will fight to have the government protect me from anything that is a waste of my time or that is offensive. I shouldn't be expected to go through all the strenuous and painful, mentally and physically, effort of changing the channel.

to change the station!!!

THEN I could understand this.

Okay first off one of the small joys of my suburban life is to watch to slow rocking motion Sandra Lee's boobs make as she makes yet another cocktail. I just love gin soaked trophy wives.

Have you ever noticed that the Barefoot contessa is always alone. I think she is actually a mental who squats in the Hamptons in the offseason and makes meals for her imaginary friends.

I am continually shocked that making a meal in 30 minutes is considered an accomplishment worth noting.

Alton Brown is slowly turning into a bat


Paula Deen is really Florida State head football coach Bobby Bowden in a wig. I have to say that for the incredible amount of editing they do of her show (digital TV rewind helps find remarkable things) they still can't get away from shots of her talking with food in her mouth.

Her southern charm evaporated for me the moment I saw her pet a large dog that came wandering through her kitchen, then go right back to cooking.

I'll probably skip "The Lady and Sons" next time I'm in Savannah.

What's funny is that guy does local cable company ads...well not even ads they're spots where he describes to customers how to access voice mail or set up email. His career is just soaring :)

Yeah, the host is annoying but there's always interesting topics.

Unwrapped
The Secret Life of...

he kicks ass

"Testujin Chen Kenichi!"
"Kyo no tewa... ASAPARAGAUS!"