We’re big fans, but I like the International better, simply because it is interesting to see prices elsewhere. Some places quite affordable, other places ridiculously priced and I wonder how the locals afford them!
Some of the stupid things they say:
“Gee honey, that’s your closet, where’s mine?” - gee, never heard that before, yuck yuck.
“What a great view!”- no it isn’t. It is some stupid barren hill of rocks that could be anywhere on the moon for that matter.
“This is the bathroom.” - duh! I thought it was the bowling alley.
'Do you think Binky will like it?" - Binky is either a hysterical poodle or a 9 month old baby - and either way, Binky would be just as happy playing in an alley in a ghetto and won’t know the difference if it is the backyard of a $2 million home.
“I don’t like the color of that room.” - hmm, you are spending $800,000 plus for a home and are bitching about buying a gallon of paint?
“Good place to have coffee and read my paper in the morning…” - uh, yeah, except maybe for those 10 months of the year where it is snowing/raining or freezing cold.
“Oh good - the glass windows are hurricane proof…” - hmm, wonder why? Smart idea to buy there.
“Oh look - ceiling fans!” - yeah, and look over there, door handles, electrical outlets, water faucet - geez, this sure is a modern place; wonder if they got one of them newfangled microwaves.
If they didn’t waste so much time on B.S., maybe we could see 4 properties. Do we really need to see “coming up”? Just means they save money showing us the same footage twice. And speaking of that, those cheap bastards do it continuously. I bet in a 30 minute show, there aren’t more than 12-14 minutes of actual footage. And speaking of that, thanks to the FCC for changing the amount of commercial time allowed. Some of these shows give less than 5 minutes of “real show” before the nex 3 1/2 minute set of ads. And here I thought that when “pay tv” came along, we wouldn’t have all the commercials. Typical corporate crap.
I just love hearing all the crybaby complaints of the rich pieces of crap looking at a $1.2 million dollar “vacation” home in the Caribbean. Many Americans would be happy to live in a $75,000 first home. Give me a break
Well, if you’re paying that much you can probably afford to be choosy about the little things. Plus, there wouldn’t be much of a show if they just bought the first property they were shown.
Last night I saw an episode, Portland OR(?), where they had sort of a quick out-take over the credits.
At the end when they were showing the couple in their new home eating at their dining table, the husband brought out the plates of food. On each plate was about 4 ounces of fried tofu and broccoli. WTF? Well, in the out-take, the wife was having the same reaction we were, WTF? It was very funny.
And yes, I think the whole thing is mostly scripted - I would love to see someone like SNL do a take-off on what’s really being said vs the scripted bits.