Christine the Curmudgeon

Christine the Curmudgeon is sick to death of these shows.  It’s not just seeing the endless promos for them that’s annoying, but some of the dumb crap that people do in order to appear on one of thee shows.

In the good old days of TV, shows were scripted, and actors and actresses with talent were hired to perform in them.  Sure, such shows still exist, but there are much fewer of them.  I guess it’s cheaper to do this *reality* crap than to give people a good quality scripted comedy or drama.

The problem is that with all of these reality shows out there, now, any dumb schmuck has a chance to be on TV.  And therein lies the problem.  Even though I do not actually watch these shows, I still have to hear, on the news, about a lot of the crap that people will do to be on them.

Exhibit Number One: Octo-Mom.  Many believe that she insisted on having all those kids, on purpose, so she could score a reality show and be set for life.  Just like Jon & Kate, and the Duggars.  But look at where it got Jon & Kate…straight to divorce court.  As for the Duggars, as much as I don’t agree with their choice to keep having kids, they would have kept doing it anyway, show or no show, because it’s a religious thing with them.  They believe in this Quiverfull thing, where they agree to have as many children as God sends them.  They started having all those kids long before this reality TV craze started.

Octo-Mom did make a deal for a reality show, but so far, it’s not been picked up by any U.S. network.  Let’s keep it that way, kthxbai!

Exhibit Number Two: Balloon Boy.  I am seriously pissed that my soap operas were rudely interrupted FOR NOTHING.  If the kid really was floating away, that would have been one thing.  But the kid was safe and sound all along, as we all know.  His idiot parents orchestrated the whole thing, as young Falcon said, “for the show”.  Yep…another attention-whoring stut to get 15 minutes of fame on some crap TV show.

I’m glad these idiot parents have to go to jail and pay restitution for the search & rescue efforts to find a kid that was never missing.  Hopefully, no reality show for them!  The only other thing they deserve is to be beaten with sticks for giving their kid a dumb name like “Falcon”.

Exhibit Number Three: Tareq & Michaele Salahi (aka the White House Party Crashers).  These people had been trying to get on some dumb show, Real Housewives of DC, or some crap like that.  So they got all decked out and went to a Presidential dinner that they were not invited to.  I am so sick of hearing about them, I sincerely hope they don’t get to be on that, or any show.  If they are lucky, Michaele might get a gig peddling some anti aging product on late-night infomercials. But they don’t even deserve THAT.

What it comes down to is that if these stupid shows did not exist, these annoying people would not be in the news, annoying me each and every day.  Why should people be rewarded for bad behavior, anyway?  Just go away, already!

Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage

Christine the Curmudgeon wishes she were making this up.  But the Boston Globe said so, and we’ve seen many commericals for it on Fox.  And here I was hoping that Octo-Mom would just GO AWAY.

Guess not.

It still annoys me that this woman is basically being rewarded for making irresponsible choices.  I wonder how much she’s being paid for this show?  Enough to go on one of those fancy destin vacations? Whatever she’s getting, it is TOO MUCH.

I honestly hope this special tanks in the ratings.  If it does well, Fox might opt to pick up the reality series that is being shopped around.  If Fox does pick it up, I will NEVER watch their network again, because I’ll get sick looking at the commercials for it week after week.  It was bad enough to see the commercials for this one-time special.

As you can guess, there is no way I’ll be watching this.  Not unless someone invents a way that I can reach my hand into the TV and slap Octo-Mom’s Botoxed lips off.  Is it just me, or does the sound of her voice annoy you, too?

When will this madness end?

Christine the Curmudgeon saw this on another site, and just had to steal it.  I don’t know who made this, but it’s priceless!

Christine the Curmudgeon had vowed never to watch Dr. Fool ever again.  But watching his shows about Octo-Mom are like a trainwreck, hard to look away.

On a previous Dr. Fool show, the good doctor helped negitiate a deal in which Octo-Mom would get free round-the-clock child care from some group called “Angels In Waiting”.  Yep, I said, FREE, as in NO cost to her.  This would be funded by private donations.

Yet she chose to FIRE them.  Yes, that’s right.  Free help, and she doesn’t want it.

She was not in studio on the Dr. Fool show today, but she was on the phone.  She said some lame stuff about why she fired the group, including that she didn’t want to rely on donations for her child care.  Okay…so if she doesn’t want donations, then what’s the deal with the begging website that shall not be linked to here, complete with online payment services, so you can flush your hard-earned money down the toilet with a click of your mouse. Don’t worry, my mouse ain’t a-clickin’ in that direction!

And let’s not forget that Dr. Fool himself has set up something on his own site so that his fans can flush their money down the toilet, too.  So what is it, Octo-Mom?  Are you going to refuse any of that money, should anyone have been dumb enough to give you any?

She also said that she was working on getting her kids off of Medi-Cal.  Yeah, right.  Maybe she’s still hoping for that reality show…new ones featuring large families seem to be popping up all the time.  We already have the Duggars and Jon & Kate Plus 8, and I recently saw a commercial for a new one starring a family with 12 kids.  Will this ever end?

I still wanna know where she got the money for her new house.  Dr. Fool swears hye didn’t buy it for her, but I still think he had something to do with.  He must have paid her to be on his show, right?

There will be another segment of the Adventures of Octo-Mom on tomorrow’s Dr. Fool show.  This, after he said that the media should leave these people alone.

Whatever.

Yeah…Christine the Curmudgeon said that there’d be no more watching of the Dr. Fool show in this house.  But hey, I had been watching As The World Turns, which comes on right before it, and I didn’t get around to shutting off the TV.

Octo-Mom was there, in his studio, in person.  Am I the only one who thinks that she has a face that is made for smacking?  Stupid overpriced nose job and fake puffed-up lips that she can’t afford, all the while she was collecting WELFARE for the kids that she couldn’t afford.

Dr. Fool has officially lost his mind now.  He who I once thought would ream this useless woman a new one, is now her new best friend.

And get this…now she has a HOUSE which is far nicer than the place where we live.  WTF is up with that?  And it’s not one of those steel buildings that are often used for garages, warehouses, and such, this is a wicked nice house!   Dr. Fool swears he did not buy it for her, but she had to have gotten the money from someplace.  No doubt it was payment for being on the Dr. Fool show, or on ET/Insider or whatever other crap shows she was on.

So much for working hard and saving up money for a nice house.  Fat lot of good it has done for US thus far.  Thanks a lot, Dr. Fool, for enabling this woman, who has done nothing but make irresponsible life choices.  It is a slap in the face to those of use who work hard to earn what we have, and an even bigger slap in the face to families with kids who are struggling to feed the kids they have, never mind making a gazillion new ones.

So, the lesson learned is that when you work and save in order to get what you want, you can’t have it due to the current credit crunch…even though you didn’t borrow irresponsibly.  We must pay for what others have done.  But hey, get knocked up with a litter when you have no job, no suitable place to live, no husband…and the world is your oyster.

I want to smack this woman’s over-inflated Botoxed lips right off of her smug face.