I’m torn.
So first of all, I should start by making it clear that when it comes to television I have no standards and am easily swayed to watch pretty much anything that involves people sarcastically commenting on situations. So it was inevitable during all of my copious Olympic watching (when I became addicted to curling — it was a dark time) I would be swayed into watching The Marriage Ref.
And seriously, I have no idea if I liked it or not.
I mean, yeah, it was cheesy. The sports metaphors? The cut-aways for “more facts” with some random pretty lady whose name I totally neglected to get or care about? The “marriage experts” being people like Alec Baldwin who have, by all standards of measurement, utterly failed at marriage? Blech. I’ve never been a fan of Jerry Seinfeld in any medium, and he wasn’t less gratingly annoying here. And speaking of annoying, can we discuss Tom Papa? Or better yet, let’s just fire him. He’s utterly superfluous. There’s a German adjective that means that someone has a face that looks super-punchable. I want to remember that adjective, because boy, does it apply to Tom Papa.
On the other hand — I really love people making snarky comments about other people, and I have no idea where they found the couples they did, but they were hilarious. I wish I knew these people who thought that it was perfectly acceptable behavior to install a stripper pole in their bedroom and the sassy women they married!
It just kills me that this show has so much potential and it’s not using it. Almost as much as it kills me to admit this show has potential. What if the couples got flown in and got to offer rebuttals to the celebrities instead of the stupid “facts” lady? What if they replaced Tom Papa? What if Tina Fey and Ricky Gervais were made to sit on the panel at all times? This show could be so good. But you know what, even though it’s like eating cold, greasy pizza when I could be having French gourmet cooking for dinner, but sometimes, there’s a time and a place where cold pizza hits the spot, right? So then there’s nothing wrong with me for continuing to watch. I mean, if I didn’t, that would be really elitist of me.
I’m sorry, standards. For so long, I tried to have you.
Clacked by Julia Hass 
on Mar 03, 2010 @ 11:00 EST5EDT
It’s more of an expression rather than an Adjective ^^;
The noun in it is “Feuermelder”