by WindUpDoll

I would like to begin this recap with mentioning something momentous. Suede speaks in the first person. It’s brief — you may miss it if you go get a snack — but it does happen. Suede then lapses back into Suede-speak. It’s reassuring and annoying all at the same time.

Also, with the recap from last week and Nina’s ‘tight, short & shiny’ comment, I have to say — isn’t Heidi wearing a tight, short and shiny dress in the opening credits?

So I also have to mention that this episode begins with Daniel missing newly-departed Wesley. Hmmm, could it be because they’re dating?

We start off with model selection, which Heidi claims is new! It’s not. It’s the same model elimination schtick we’ve seen for 5 seasons now. Then Heidi says the designers have worked hard so Tim’s going to take them out for a night on the town. Yeah, right, keep dreaming designers. [Read more →]

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Submitted By KiKi Vanderhousen

There are so many sides to the drug world, if you viewed it from above, it would look more like an octagon, than a triangle or square.

In the second episode of The Cleaner, viewers got a glimpse of several sides - drug mule, distributor, user/mule.

Websters defines “naiveté” as “the quality or state of being naive.” You could count on both hands the people who fit that profile in the Ragdolls episode.

I would have to say I had more than 2 or 3 views of the drug world in my time. Yet when it came time to figuring out the problems in my relationship, I was more than a little naive. It took me more than a year to finally figure out what was going on right under my nose.

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Posted by Ryan

1. Keri Murphy Is Easily Amused. I interviewed host Keri Murphy about Highway 18, and she really played up this episode and its swamp challenge. “They came out to the swamp — it’s full of gators — and they think that they’re going to have to do some sort of golf challenge. But really, they just had to find their way back,” Murphy says. “Getting them out of the swamp was pretty hilarious.” Now, having seen this episode, the “swamp” looks more like a park that had a gator in it somewhere. And the teams just followed a path straight to a parking lot to get out of it. That was it? Where was all the hilarity? Maybe it hit the cutting-room floor. Or maybe you just had to be there.

2. In North Carolina, They Spell Things How They Sound. Parker and Andy were also described as hilarious, but I suspect maybe a lot of their best material wasn’t suitable for air. Andy saying “poo-poo” seems to be about all they can get away with.

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Posted by johnnysweeptheleg

Angie and the T-Rex are on the block this week, and the two have completely different approaches to staying in the house one more week.

Angie has taken the recommendation from people who have survived bear attacks, and remains very still in the hopes that people will forget Angie is even in the house. Jessie, on the other hand, has taken the recommendation from all of the men who have been unexpectedly dumped by a woman, and refuses to let go. Followed by lots of whining.

Jessie has planted the seed of thought in Keesha’s mind that Libra is orchestrating everything. The problem is, he overwaters that seed (just as I’ve flooded use of this metaphor). He tries to Kaiser Soze Keesha and tell her that it goes all the way back to his HOH and that Libra called all of the shots in his nominations, too. Wait, Jessie, I thought you said you were physically and mentally strong? So how were you unable to resist Libra’s supposed orchestrating? You can’t have it both ways. And there’s a hint of Keesha connecting these same dots. [Read more →]

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Submitted by KiKi Vanderhousen

I, along with many others, watched the much anticipated premiere of The Cleaner. I, along with many others, was not disappointed. From what I’ve seen on the AETV.com community boards, comments have been favorable. And it’s the comments from the public, the people who actually watch the show, that will determine the success of the show.

Judging by what the critics have to say, some say yah, some say nay. Read some of their pieces and you’d think they watched all of 10 minutes of a screener and no more. Thank “God” I’m more three dimensional than that. If I listened to what critics have to say, I’d never see a movie or new television show.

When you get a chance, read the community boards on The Cleaner at AETV.com and you’ll realize there’s a large percentage of people who have never had any experience with addiction. Many taking the time to comment on the boards have had their lives touched by addiction.

The greatest love of my life was an addict. When he would be on a drug binge, I would feel like I was being punished. When he would come home, I would ask him what I had done wrong. But that’s my story …

Seeing William Banks (Bratt) conversing with “God” and raising his eyes toward the heavens during the football game wasn’t that uncommon of a sight. I mean you see it on the sidelines every Sunday on prime-time television during football season. To tell the truth, I just don’t find a grown man conversing with a higher power and NOT expecting an answer that strange. But I live in Wisconsin. [Read more →]

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Posted by SH

Speculation ran wild when a new “Knight Rider” movie aired on NBC earlier this year that it was actually a pilot for a new series. Well, that turned out to be true — the show premieres Sept. 24 — but the producers say to forget pretty much everything in that movie. There’s a new sheriff in town, executive producer Gary Scott Thompson, who knows his way around fast cars. He wrote the first two “Fast and the Furious” movies and wasted no time making this show his own. The lead, Mike Traceur (Jason Bruening), has a new but familiar name, Michael Knight, and Deanna Russo’s character is no longer a college professor (OK, she’s on sabbatical), focusing instead on wearing high heels and kicking butt.

KITT still sounds like Val Kilmer, but the super-intelligent car can now transform into “attack mode” and become a badass war machine. The crowd visibly oohed and awed at the sight. They also reacted with glee at the news that the creators are in serious talks with the Hoff for a recurring role.

I was a child of the ’80s, but honestly I never got too into “Knight Rider.” That probably means I could enjoy the new incarnation more than someone taking notes and forgoing anything enjoyable about it and instead just lamenting everything that’s different. That said, it doesn’t look to be as drastic a reimagining as, say, “Battlestar Galactica,” so fans of the original should find plenty to geek out over.

The most memorable part of the session had nothing to do with the preview, or the Q&A. Most of the cast was late because of — impending irony alert — they were stuck in traffic. Where’s KITT when you need him?

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by WindUpDoll

Our designers are digesting the first cut from the last episode. Suede is just glad it’s not Suede. Cutting Suede is the only incorrect answer according to Suede. Suede is obsessed with speaking in the third person.

We start off with the first model selection. The only potential for drama here is when one designer picks another designer’s model and the first designer gets all huffy about it. But since it has only been one challenge, are the designers really, REALLY that emotionally invested in their model? I think not. I mean, they wouldn’t wish evil things to befall our beauties, but I don’t think they’re all planning a post-Project Runway vacation together either.

Then Heidi does one of her evil Aryan tricks and says she’s going to bring out their ‘new’ models. That really wasn’t the psyche. The models are the same. The catch now is that the models are the clients as well. Designers have to whip up a cocktail dress. Another catch: the fabric must be a green fabric AND the models will do the shopping for the fabric. So the designers are totally at the mercy of their models. Anyone who has watched America’s Next Top Model knows that this isn’t a good thing for the designers. One designer wanted to yell ‘don’t forget closures! Zippers! Buttons!’ Many models are selecting the same fabric, which designers also love. [Read more →]

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Posted by Ryan

So Hurl! hasn’t quite proved to be the pukefest we were all anticipating. Maybe the tide (and the stomach) will turn with the latest installment, “NASA NAuSeA.” I get kind of nauseous just looking at that title.

The contestants will each put away chicken pot pie and then take a whirl in Human Gyroscopes. Let’s meet the five enterprising Angelenos who showed up just for the free meal: Jon, a hotel concierge; Mike, a freelance production coordinator/former Marine combat swim instructor; Justin, an insurance auto appraiser; Dominik, a student/aspiring stuntman; and Tremaine, a standup comedian.

After some very weak, uninspired smack talk from the contestants, they start chowing down on chicken pot pies (They’re not organic? The hell?) for five minutes. Jon goes into Technique #3: The Face Plant on his CPP. Mike goes with Technique #12: The Scoop, while the other guys seem to prefer Technique #2: The Fork. Dominik, however, hates CPP and probably wants to quit. There’s one audience member, the guy yelling “Eat it! Eat it! Owww! Owww!,” who is using the Annoying Bearded Douchebag technique. Tremaine breaks out a new one, Strategy #57: The Joker-Choker, to try to get the other guys to laugh and throw them off their game, and follows it up with S#27: Gross-Out. You sense that Tremaine really wants the Iron Stomach.

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Posted by johnnysweeptheleg

After seven episodes, I feel I’ve finally learned enough about these houseguests that I can form completely shallow opinions about television personalities I’ve never met, and share them with the world.

It’s why Al Gore invented the Internet.

Libra is Brian with girls parts, as far as the whole coming on too strong in the game element is concerned. So why is it that she can talk about every player in the house and call all of the shots on who is and isn’t nominated, yet Brian was voted out for the same thing? She’s just unstable enough that it’s only going to take one cycle where she’s nominated, and she’ll self-destruct. And I thought April was supposed to have OCD or something? What gives? Then there’s Jessie, who looks more and more like a T-Rex every day, what with his large frame and tiny wrists. But it isn’t all bad. Take Dan, who has figured the game out — he has spun his early alliance, which earned him a spot on the block for two weeks, into not only a badge of weakness, but a sign that he’s loyal and worth trusting. [Read more →]

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Having the fastest movie ever to top $300 million isn’t enough for the Caped Crusader. He’ll be hitting both the small screen and the bookshelf this fall with incarnations far different than the blacker-than-black version currently in theaters. “Batman: The Brave and the Bold” comes to Cartoon Network on Nov. 14, and it will wear its love of nostalgia proudly on its brightly colored sleeve. Taking its name from a comic book that pairs Batman with a different superhero each issue, and almost always took him out of Gotham City, the series will bring to life many second-tier DC Comics heroes that rarely if ever have lived beyond the page. Green Arrow, Blue Beetle, Red Tornado, Plastic Man — those are just the ones we saw in the clip, which was set to some sweet up-tempo jazz music that will serve as the theme song. Diedrich Bader (many know him from “The Drew Carey Show” — I prefer to think of him as the “two chicks at the same time” guy from “Office Space”) will voice Batman, and some other guest voices include R. Lee Ermey, Tom Kenny and Will Friedle. It’s not made for kids, necessarily, but it’s definitely one kids can watch. The most memorable moment of the Comic-Con session came from a little guy, in fact, who stepped up to the mic and asked what the Batmobile will be able to do in this show. When told it will be able to do anything, he replied with a sincere “Sweet!” that brought the house down and reminded us all why we love this stuff in the first place. Don’t miss it, folks.

I said something about a book, right? Well, back in the 1960s, Batman was catching on all over the world during the height of the kitschy-even-then Adam West TV series. Japan, for instance, adapted the characters for its own line of comics, and was the only country outside the U.S. to officially get authorization from DC Comics to do so. Seeing Batman through different, super happy-fun eyes is a kick, and 400 pages of it are collected in Chip Kidd’s “Bat-Manga: The Secret History of Batman in Japan,” due to hit bookstores in October. In addition to the actual Batman manga stories, there is tons of merchandise that hasn’t seen the light of day in over 40 years, and stuff that the head of DC said he had never even seen. Kidd said he’s already collected enough for a sequel, and he whispered in my ear that a similar project is underway with another DC stalwart — some guy who wears a blue suit and a red cape.

Categories: Animation, Family by sharrison76
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Tags: Batman, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Blue Beetle, Cartoon Network, Comic-Con, Diedrich Bader, Green Arrow, Plastic Man, Red Tornado