New competitive reality show featuring battling Martha Stewart wannabes.
I like seeing neat stuff people can do under pressure. I hate political wrangling. The show is a combination of both.
Anyone else watch?
I was sorta watching it with my husband and baby.
So far methinks it’s lot of fun, although I wish we’d seen more about the invididual projects each person worked on. Halfway in I just knew the soup guy was history. But can’t they get rid of Bobby Flay as a judge? That man is so overexposed.
I thought it was pretty flat.
I watched it. Meh. They seemed to go out of their way to get very annoying people… and that’s just the judges!
I was in and out of it. I was baking at the time, so I couldn’t pay very good attention. The thing that stuck me was the music. It was like a combination of Looney Tunes and a silent movie score.
Very odd.
Tivo’d it for Mrs. Slacker. We thought it was all right. I too predicted the two bottom people. A soup with absolutely no presentation involved? It better be darn good. Ditto with the apple pie. Was that apple lampshade on the losing team too? If so, she was lucky there were actually two entries worse than that monstrosity.
My wife asked me what I would make. I said applesauce, or perhaps apples with caramel dip.
I thought the music was pretty funny. Like something out of a horror movie. "You have to use ALL THE APPLES YOU PICKED HAW HAW!!! (cue music hit) Of course, because laying the apples next to the table counted as “using” them, that didn’t provide too much drama.
I don’t find Joan Lunden interesting at all, though I enjoyed her Ashlee-style lip synched introduction.
Overall, it was just OK. They should have cast more bizarre characters, like a 350 pound wrestler that makes tea cozies or a Christopher Lowell type dude who enjoys welding. As far as the cast we do have is concerned, none of them are jumping out as someone to root for yet. I want that woman who won the truck to get voted off the island so I can stop thinking “Hey, why is Joan Lunden helping in the kitchen?” The rest of 'em? Who knows.
Judges? I’m was pleased with myself that I didn’t know who any of them were, though I recognized the guy from the food network. They could have had more fun here though - make the judges a wine connesuir* from Bridgeport, a style maven from Manhattan, and a construction worker from Newark. “Eyyyy what de hell is dis froo froo crap?”
So, luckily for CBS there isn’t anything else that’s watchable on Thursdays. We’ll give it another shot next week.
*I could look that up for the actual spelling, but I’ve spent far too long on this post already.
Oh, and reading the TwoP thread reminded me: The Crafty Beavers?!? :eek: Whoever came up with that one needs to be fired and then fired again.
Yeah, my first post got eaten [sub]sound of contentedly burping hamsters[/sub] --“Crafty Beavers” was my major WTF also. I had the show on but muted for the first 20 minutes (on the phone), so missed how they picked the teams – or who picked them, for that matter – and who the hell named them. Quick summary, anyone? I’ll check out the CBS website later for who these people are.
I liked that the judges picked the winners and losers on the individual tasks without knowing who did what, based strictly on the finished product – no personalities or politics. (I’m lookin’ at you, Apprentice II.) I hope there are plenty more of the terrible disasters like the apple-peel lampshade :eek: before it’s all over. Some people shouldn’t be allowed to pick up a glue gun, ya know?
And I thought it was cool that the woman who won the individual task got the truck – very cool.
They were chosen ahead of time, and I don’t think we were told too much detail (except that they were intended to be balanced). The naming decision was done off camera too. Joan-bot merely asked the teams for the names, and “Crafty Beavers” (and perhaps a ‘woo’) was shouted back. I can offer no further insight, as I am a sane man.
I don’t think I could stand to be in a room with Darlene for more than two seconds, much less collaborate with her on a project for 24 hours.
I think the apple lampshade was on the winning team; the fashion designer (Heather?) made it. It looked like ass.
I’ll probably end up coasting through this before CSI.
I dunno. She seemed like she had better ideas than the ones they went with, and I like people who have good ideas. She’s a spaz, or at least is edited to be a spaz, but I’d turn into a spaz if I had to spend three minutes with Tom the assface, too!
I watched with mild curiousity, interest, and partly by default. I am culinary illiterate, so the only judge I knew of was Candance Bushnell (typically wearing her skirt and boots; thanks Candy!) I hope the show doesn’t run out of steam because, to me, the most interesting “contestant you’d love to hate” (Tom) was voted out on the first show. Geez, what a drama queen! Lemme get this straight, he offers to quit the show for the sake of the other player on the chopping block, then rescinds it. Bitched about his apple soup wasn’t up to par because he was helping others as well. Dismisses a teammate who said he wouldn’t listen to her ideas by throwing a “high school”-like tantrum, then leads all the other teammates away upstairs to announce his “plan.” (OH, the drama!) Seemed non-chalant and oblivious to the fact that he could be leaving when talking to another male player. Then tersely listed a point-by-point list on why he should be kept in the game which seemed to rattle his teammates AND the judges. I think he had SOME votes before going into the elimination, but he kept digging his own grave and got voted out unamiously. Pity. His ego-trip was kinda amusing.
They have directions for all the projects on the website, to go along with the instructional basis for the show.
Tom’s soup recipe is classic.
Damn, that whole thing was so totally not his fault! Bring him back for a redo! :rolleyes:
Holy mackerel.
Okay, I’m not reality show savvy. This is only the third one I’ve ever seen, and the other two don’t have people getting “voted off.” Is his behavior normal or is he a flaming ass?
Yes. 
What an ass! Why would you think you can bitch out that woman like he did, and not alienate the rest of the team.
I would also like to highlight the word ‘flaming’ in ‘flaming ass’. I was positive the guy was gay, but apparently he’s married and with kids. Huh. Either he’s really down low, or I need my gay-dar recalibrated.
Also didn’t like the fact that the two guys on the show acted the most like…‘pricks’. Me have penis. Me run team. The ladies sure loved that. I’m guessing the next one off is the other guy, but I’ll have to get an update from dopers cuz i can’t see myself catching another episode.
Tom’s soup looked like puke in a bucket. I would never have been able to taste it if I’d been a judge. Geez, at least pretty it up with a nice bowl or something!
I predict wacky hyper woman (the one Tom hated) will be the winner. She seems to already have that scary “I’m happy ALL the time!” smile down pat.
There are three guys on the show. I think you are forgetting the carpenter.
Could you ask them to recalibrate mine as well, cause I could hvae sworn he was a queen.