Sunday, August 27, 2006
The Biggest Night in Television
Did anyone see Flavor of Love tonight? I'm certainly not going to claim that they managed to top the "poorly planned bowel movement" incident of a few weeks back, but they did come close. Most of this episode centered on an interesting semantic debate over the exact meaning of the term "porn." For while two of the aspiring Flav-daters admitted to taking "adult pictures," one was eventually cast out when careful Internet research (presumably by the show's crack research staff) revealed that her pictures were actually somewhat more, er, interactive. It turns out that in the world of Flav, appearing in pornography is fine, but understating the nature of the pornography in which you appeared is an unpardonable offense. It's all about standards, you see.
I guess the Emmy awards were tonight as well, although they barely registered on my radar. I did catch a portion of the Aaron Spelling tribute, which looked more like an extreme plastic surgery contest from where I was sitting, but I missed the majority of the awards. I have to admit I find it a little hard to view the Emmys as credible when they continually laud the acting abilities of folks like the blinking-impaired Charlie Sheen and the long-term-punchline William Shatner, but leave most of the cast of Arrested Development emptyhanded. I've got the E! postshow on right now, though, mainly because I'm hoping that someone will finally punch that Giuliana woman in the face. She and Seacrest make Jules Asner look like Edward R. Murrow.
Did anyone see Flavor of Love tonight? I'm certainly not going to claim that they managed to top the "poorly planned bowel movement" incident of a few weeks back, but they did come close. Most of this episode centered on an interesting semantic debate over the exact meaning of the term "porn." For while two of the aspiring Flav-daters admitted to taking "adult pictures," one was eventually cast out when careful Internet research (presumably by the show's crack research staff) revealed that her pictures were actually somewhat more, er, interactive. It turns out that in the world of Flav, appearing in pornography is fine, but understating the nature of the pornography in which you appeared is an unpardonable offense. It's all about standards, you see.
I guess the Emmy awards were tonight as well, although they barely registered on my radar. I did catch a portion of the Aaron Spelling tribute, which looked more like an extreme plastic surgery contest from where I was sitting, but I missed the majority of the awards. I have to admit I find it a little hard to view the Emmys as credible when they continually laud the acting abilities of folks like the blinking-impaired Charlie Sheen and the long-term-punchline William Shatner, but leave most of the cast of Arrested Development emptyhanded. I've got the E! postshow on right now, though, mainly because I'm hoping that someone will finally punch that Giuliana woman in the face. She and Seacrest make Jules Asner look like Edward R. Murrow.
