It was a week of controversy on some of the shows in the reality television genre. After all, there’s the Joan Rivers and Clint Black hatefest on The Celebrity Apprentice, not to mention the oddly-reasoned firings of two of the celebrities on the show. David Alan Grier’s very … um … eloquent exit from Dancing With the Stars is certainly one for the books.
Meanwhile, a fan favorite team was Philiminated on The Amazing Race and American Idol viewers voted yet another contestant into the dark crevice known as “you’re on the tour, but you ain’t the one” status. The tribe didn’t have to speak on Survivor as an injury made the decision for them. Let’s get right into the skinny!
That was the week it was
Okay, first to the hatefest on The Celebrity Apprentice — Joan and Clint traded barbs both on the show and on various other outlets. I’m taking Joan’s side on this battle. While she can be blatantly outspoken, I’m seeing a Clint Black who’s really rubbing me the wrong way. And, it’s not just in this squabble; it’s been building throughout the show. He’s the one from that team who should have been fired.
Instead, Trump fired two unlikely people, one from each team. He fired Khloe Kardashian from Black’s team using a totally warped reason. Y’see, she missed some time as she had to go to court-ordered classes stemming from a drunk driving arrest. Now, the arrest was long ago and widely publicized. Yet he didn’t say “boo” about Dennis Rodman’s drunken follies on the show. From the other team he fired Tionne Watkins, using the reasoning that she volunteered to go to the boardroom. Say what? I think his hair finally sunk into his mind and set him awry.
On American Idol, the contestants sang songs from the year they were born. Even though I don’t care all that much for Adam Lambert and his version of “Mad World” wasn’t entirely original, I thought he did well. The other two who caught my attention were Allison Iraheta and Matt Giraud. The rest? Well, lots of “in the middle” performances for me and I thought the bottom three would be Lil Rounds, Scott MacIntyre, and Kris Allen (based on my impressions of their performances). I figured it would be either Lil or Scott going home.
I had the bottom three wrong — instead of Kris in there, it was Anoop Desai. I was shocked that Lil wasn’t in the bottom two and it was between Anoop and Scott. Of those two, I’d rather Scott left the show. His performances never really seemed “all that” for me. It was more like “same old, same old.” America got it right in my book — bye-bye, Scott!
Ah, David Alan Grier. When he tried out for The Late Late Show on CBS (which ended up hiring Craig Ferguson), he was my favorite for the host role. I’ve enjoyed his humor for decades now. But he wasn’t too keen on getting the boot from Dancing With the Stars this past week. Check it out!
On Survivor, Joe’s injured knee, which is really infected and all kinds of gross-looking, caused him to be taken out of the game. The merge went on, all of the various alliances make my head spin, and evil whacked-out ego-monster Coach is still in the game. In the hidden scene below, Joe wanted to give the (fake) hidden immunity idol he found to JT. Heh, lots of help that would be!
For me, the team eliminated on The Amazing Race last Sunday had become my favorite team of all. Yes, even though Mel White was a ghostwriter for Jerry Falwell. Mel’s a gay clergyman in his late 60s. And I adore the guy. Who woulda thunk it? This week (as in last night), there was no Philimination. Darn it all to heck — if only Mel and Mike hadn’t had the bad luck to take a taxi from hell!
Clacked by Jackie Schnoop 
on Apr 13, 2009 @ 10:00 EST5EDT
