Oh no! Some of my favorite shows are just about done for the season and some are already history. The Celebrity Apprentice and The Amazing Race both wrapped up last night, and it’s not long to go for other shows on my “must see TV” list. American Idol is down to the final three. Yikes! How fast time flies!
Of course, the end of these shows only means that other shows I enjoy aren’t too far in the future — So You Think You Can Dance and Big Brother (my summer guilty pleasure) will be coming along soon. Usually I run a week behind reporting on the shows which air on Sunday nights. However, due to the season finales, please be warned that there will be finale show spoilers for both The Amazing Race and The Celebrity Apprentice after the jump.
That was the week it was
Okay, let’s hit up Survivor first. They kept Coach again! Argh! I’m so tired of that odd little funky-haired, argyle-knee-sock short-pants-wearing Little Lord Fauntleroy with delusions of espionage, adventure, and mind-blowing wisdom that I could rant for a week solely about him. But, I do understand the wisdom of getting Debbie out of there first. With Coach, they can figure out his strategy while Debbie is more cut-throat sneaky. Coach also usually sucks at the challenges (like he did this past week). Debbie is more of an unknown entity.
Since it was the loved ones visiting episode, Coach’s assistant coach was his main man. I’m wondering if it’s more like a disciple. I think the assistant has drank a bit too much of Coach’s Kool-Aid.
For me, the real high point of the episode was Stephen being practically a genius with the Immunity Challenge memorization puzzle. I definitely wouldn’t remember which symbol I attached to which number, even though I understand his concept. I also got a kick out of all of the jury members wearing the bodacious Coach feather. This coming week should just get more interesting. As long as Coach doesn’t win, I’m happy. The season finale is Sunday, May 17.
Then there were three on American Idol. I really think we could have called the winner and skipped the season a few months back. Allison was voted off this week and handled it all so much better than I would at the tender age of just turning 17. The girl’s a solid talent, and while she didn’t win the season, we all know that all kinds of doors will open for her.
So we’re down to Adam, Danny, and Kris. Of those three, it interests me what Danny might do down the road. Kris is more teenybopper than my tastes tend to be, but certainly a viable talent. Then there’s Adam. He’s bamboozled them all. I personally call theatrical, but it may be just me. I think he’s most likely to win it all and has been the frontrunner all season. So be it. While he’s not my cuppa, I think back to previous seasons. They definitely rounded up better talent this year.
Over on Dancing With the Stars, Lil’ Kim (not to be confused with Lil Rounds from AI) got the boot. They’re down to four stars left. I’ve mentioned before that I don’t really follow this show. I would think in her own shows she needs to incorporate choreography and dance. Oy. To get the boot from DWTS must have been a personal blow!
Last week’s Amazing Race showed Jen and Kisha losing by seconds … seconds wasted as Jen stopped to use a port-potty for what seemed to be an eternity. I catch the losers on the show on The Bonnie Hunt Show most weeks. This week, Bonnie announced that Jen and Kisha declined to be on the show because, “well, they’re mad.” Man, I would’ve ran dripping if it meant I would lose out at the chance to win a million!
The three teams going into the finale are Tammy and Victor, Luke and Margie, and Jaime and Cara. Of those, I think it’s a toss-up between the first two for the strongest competition. Let’s see how it plays out. Oh my. Cara and Jaime did better than I thought they would. I figured they’d totally screw up and they came in second place after helping Luke in the final challenge. You gotta love that taxi dispatcher — “Tell your people that I’m not their personal concierge.” Tammy and Victor are victorious and I’m pleased with it all.
On The Celebrity Apprentice, it’s down to the showdown of the biggest bitches, er … grumpy ego-maniacal women. Like American Idol, I think the final two could have been predicted early on. After all, they’re entertaining, clash well together, and MEOW! Annie and Joan catfight to the end! Woohoo! I mean catfight! This is somewhat disturbing, but I find it all so very entertaining. Perhaps I need some psychological help. Joan won, much as I predicted at the start of the season.
Clacked by Jackie Schnoop 
on May 11, 2009 @ 09:00 EST5EDT
FYI regarding DWTS – Celebrities are eliminated based on fan voting. Lil Kim spent 3 out of 8 weeks on the TOP of the leader board and danced 4 encore performances. Might be helpful to comment on shows that you actually follow.
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And then she got the boot this week. Right? I’m not sure of your point. She was voted off. I know the audience votes.
Call me a wiseass but I applied the same mnemonic device when I saw the show. My set would’ve been +-*/ as 1234 and the only problem would’ve been getting the “telephone number”. I wouldn’t have known the 7 digit problem so I could’ve forgotten the 10 digit number because of not splitting it up (could’ve been my downfall then) but memorizing two numbers the way telephone numb are done in the us with region code(e.g 221 2343221) is really easy. Go back, write the telephone number down, reverse with above logic and then calculate the result.
Problem with the show was they never showed the puzzle long enough to let me actually do it the way he did it. You know, looking from left to right over the operands. But translating them into numbers is what I would’ve done since they are words and I’m used to remembering numbers, not words.