Anyone else watching the new season?
I thought the one last night was particularly interesting because the girl had so much potential (despite sounding like the love child of Carol Kane and Mr. Bill). She really turned out well. I doubt Clinton and Stacy made any lasting changes in her life, but at least she’ll always have those few decent outfits.
The girl last week really ticked me off with her refusal to have her hair cut. I wish they would screen those chicks out!
Ooh, I missed last week’s. Was it a re-run? Was it the religious nanny with the long blonde hair? I remember she would have really benefited from a cut, but refused.
Great transformation last night. This is one of the few TLC shows worth seeing, now that the lineup seems to have changed to all-freak, all the time. (My Strange Addiction? Which I will probably peek at, despite myself.)
I hope the switch to Tuesday doesn’t mean the show’s on its way out. I like a mid-week show better anyway–I’m not thinking about clothes as much on Friday nights, when I don’t have to get myself together for the office the next day!
Can’t believe I caught a few moments of last night’s (my daughter had the remote!) Man, was that woman annoying. Hell, you can dress her up, but unless she gets a voice and personality transplant…
I can’t believe they made it through that entire episode without actually saying the words “If you’re truly concerned with being taken seriously, you’re going to need to lose both the stupid tshirts AND the helium.” She looked great when they finished with her, but giving her a suit isn’t going to address her much more fundamental issues. I don’t have a whole lot of patience for thirty year old people who don’t want to be perceived as grown ups.
Oooh, with apologies for the hijack, What. The. Fuck? with this show?
“I’m addicted to sleeping with my hair dryer”? Um, no. You’re addicted to being on television. I’m guessing you’ve tried out for eleventyseven other reality shows, and were eventually reduced to being the lamest thing on My Strange Addiction. You could have at least claimed to be addicted to sleeping with *hundreds *of hairdryers, and gotten on Hoarders, you dumb bitch. As it is, you’re never going to be as famous as that possum.
The girl last week seemed like she might have been the first person in her family to graduate from high school, but she was studying to be a lawyer, so she had a very Tough Bitch persona going on. She actually pissed Clinton off so much he had to leave the set for a moment. Then when she and her long scraggly blonde hair got up to the cut, she fought so much that the hairstylist eventually had to resort to a game of Rock Paper Scissors. He won, and she allowed him to trim a few strands, but dang! He could have done a lot for her.
As for My Strange Addiction, I keep wondering if we’re all missing out on something good with the toilet paper. One of you guys should try some. 
Oh crud, I forgot it changed nights. I always enjoyed it on a Friday so hopefully I can reprogram myself to tune in on Tuesdays. There’s nothing I hate more than a chick with ugly long hair that thinks it’s her crowning glory and won’t let them cut it. I remember a couple of seasons ago there was this beotch, a Canadian IIRC, who had this dumbass Alice in Wonderland long in the back / ridiculous bangs hairdo and she absolutley would not let Nick touch it. Speaking of which, is Nick gone? He’s always struck me as a little too good for the show but I’d miss him if he wasn’t around.
And while I’m rambling, are there any other viewers in the warmer states that do not relate to Stacy and Clinton’s constant cammie / blouse / jacket look? The outfits look cute, but that aint gonna cut it in Florida. I sure wish they’d offer more solutions for those of us in the tropical climes.
Finally, Stacy looks like Jimmy Fallon’s seperated at birth twin.
I always used to miss it on Friday nights…end of the week comes and I just fall apart.
Some black guy does the haircuts now. He’s nice but I don’t think he’s as good as Nick was.
I do remember one girl who wouldn’t let them cut her hair for religious reasons. The thing that pissed me off about it most was that apparently they held auditions in a mall and she had volunteered herself for the show!
I was flipping between it and Millionaire Matchmaker last night. Agreed that the voice was creepy. I think the Mr. Bill/Carol Kane love child comment was spot on.
I live in hot as balls central California-- I regularly wear a cami (because my tits are huge and stick out of everything), a shirt, and often a jacket. In summer months, I just get a lighter weight jacket. The whole blazer trend is one I looooove this year.
I haven’t seen last night’s yet, but I did see the one they reaired with the female priest. Man, she was a KNOCKOUT after makeover.
For me, I really don’t get why these people agree to be on the show, then are totally resistant to everything. It’s just hair, it grows back. And I assure you that your polygamist cult hair is not nearly as attractive as you seem to think. . .
The thing that always annoyed me about WNTW (and I’ll admit, I haven’t watched it recently so maybe this has changed) is that they often seem intent on dressing the person in complete opposition with their personality. It particularly irks me when they take a “tomboy” sort of woman who’s happy with herself and try to stick her in toe-cleavage heels with pointy toes, “sexy” outfits, and other “girly” stuff that completely goes against what she is (yeah, I’m one of those, so I have empathy). I mean, is there any law against helping her find some nice blazers, boots, pants that fit her well, etc. without trying to make her look like Miss Hottie 2010? There’s a middle ground between frumpy/dumpy and ultra-feminine, and they don’t seem to get that.
Much as I like Clinton (and I do!), I kind of preferred the earlier guy’s attitude (I forget his name, but he looked like Fabio’s younger brother)–he genuinely seemed to like all the women he dressed, even the ones who had more “difficult” bodies, and felt that everyone has inner beauty that he was helping to bring out. Clinton is more snarky (but very easy on the eyes–another in the continuing series of guys I like who are gay. )
Speaking of Stacey (somebody said Stacey right)… Wow, she’s really matured in her role. Not only that, she’s looking good doing it.
The one last night-- Helium Girl… I came in late, but was taping it, so I went back to the beginning to find out what country she hailed from. Not only was her voice incredibly high-pitched and goofy-sounding, but she said many words as though English was not her first language (not that there’s anything wrong with that). I gotta say, she looked fab at the end.
Don’t like Ted… want Nick back, but not much chance of that, I guess. I also hate it when they won’t let the hair guy cut their hair. Or when the hair is down to their elbows and hair guy wants to cut it to their armpits and they go,“Eeewwww… it’s so SHORT!!”
Loving the new season and the way they’re making over people who REALLY need it.
Ahhh, yes, the Nanny from years past who wouldn’t let Nick cut her hair. Her name was Lynn. She went to the Build-a-Bear store in the middle of her shopping day…
They do it for the same reason they pitch such a goddamn fit about anyone having a t-shirt with anything on it. They have exactly one mold of being grown-up and feminine, and that mold is Stacey. When the only tool you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail, ya know? And they’re so…snottily dismissive if you resist being hammered into that one mold.
It’s a shame, too, because I would watch the show a lot more often if they were open to working with someone’s lifestyle and personal aesthetic, or were at least less insulting about you not wanting to be Staceybot 2.0.
I don’t get the insistence that they aren’t accepting of alternative looks, styles, and opinions. As far as I’m concerned, that’s simply not true.
Take the example of the priest-- they were very respectful of the guidelines she presented for appropriateness and definitely did not sex her up as much as they normally do folks. Hell, they even had a special collar made for her, which she raved about.
I recall several “punky” folks on the show and while they did get all of their fuzzy leopard print, crystal skull bullshit thrown away, they get a far more funky treatment on the show than the average soccer mom---- everything from “spunky” hair and far heavier makeup to crazy patterns and Rockabilly dresses.
Sure, it’s never as extreme as their style was prior, but individuality is certainly represented.
I watched What Not to Wear a lot in the early seasons. I preferred Tim Gunn’s style show better. He seemed to work harder finding clothes that fit the woman’s lifestyle. He used a computer to show have various skirt lengths draped the body. It was a good show. Shame they only did a couple seasons.
I was shocked at how well helium girl turned out. She really was very pretty at the end. I think now that she actually has adult clothes she’ll start acting like one more. I even think she said something that she’s going to work on her voice.
Someone really needed to teach her how to walk.
I agree that the priest came out very well.
Oh, insanely stoked about My Strange Addictions. And hey, if toilet-paper-eater is doing it to get on tv then she is earning it.
At the end of last night’s episode, I think Helium Girl’s voice had actually dropped a bit in pitch.
Aside: A question for guys (if any guys are reading this thread)- she said her boyfriend didn’t care anything about her appearance or the way she dressed. Can that be true? I mean she was dressing/acting/talking like an 11-year old boy, and her supposedly mature fiance wasn’t bothered by that? How is that possible?
What else is he gonna say and not look like an ass 
HE didn’t say it. SHE said it in the beginning when Stacey and Clinton were interviewing her. Anyway, my question wasn’t “would a guy SAY this?” it was “would a guy MEAN this?”