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Thanks to an alert reader from JP Morgan, we’ve learned that two of 8th and Ocean’s least-popular models not named Kelly or Sabrina managed to land themselves gigs as “New Faces” in the Abercrombie and Fitch catalog. That means after just one season on a mid-rated MTV show they’re now just a half-step away from [...]

Sorry for the lateness of this recap, but as you may have heard, Tuesday was my birthday. Which meant that watching and recapping Last Comic Standing was not high on my list of things to do. Wednesday came and went, and still this show wasn’t on the list. I’ll tell you what was on the [...]

With the audition rounds finally over and the comics moving into the houseboat, you’d think this would be the week Last Comic Standing finally got interesting. And you’d be right. Sort of. Because while the drama was definitely kicked up a notch (I’m talkin’ ’bout choo, STELLA!), the comedy was still sub par at best. [...]

If I told you 5 + 5 = 12, would you believe me? What if I told you tonight’s group of winners is even unfunnier than last week’s group? Would you believe me then? Of course you would. This is Last Comic Standing, after all. The reality show where comics are advanced not based on [...]

Okay, I realize the fourth season of Last Comic Standing actually started last week, but I missed it because I was on vacation and our cruise ship didn’t get NBC. And while NBC was kind enough to do a one-hour recap of last week’s two-hour extravaganza, recapping a recap is too meta even for me. [...]

“I hate you.” “I hate you more.” I can’t believe season one of 8th and Ocean is over after just ten episodes. Why only ten? Because The Man would never give models a full 22. Of course, in model time, ten weeks is at least three years, so overall the show had a pretty nice [...]

The last two episodes of 8th and Ocean have been great. Could MTV pull off the hat-trick and give us three in a row? Does EdHill know how to use spell-check? That’s right, last night’s episode was sub-par at best. No rampant whoring, no gratuitous male mascara, not even a single shot of Vinci! Instead [...]

This week, not only did MTV give us a great episode of 8th and Ocean, they also put the entire episode on Overdrive, their broadband site. So, thanks to the miracle of AlGore’s Internets, I was able to watch the show, write my recap, drink beer and make screengrabs all at the same time, thus [...]

Hey gang, sorry ’bout missing last week’s 8th and Ocean recap, but turns out remodeling a kitchen is way more work than my wife made it out to be. The good news is the walls are down and the cabinets are up. The bad news is I’ve still got to finish the plumbing, install the [...]

While 8th and Ocean is supposed to show us that the life of a model is harder than you’d think, this week’s episode served as a good example of how the life of a recapper is also harder than you’d think. See, we’re having our kitchen remodeled right now, which, in addition to the usual [...]

Okay, is it just me, or is something seriously missing from this show? Four episodes in and none of the models have been coked up on camera, nobody’s thrown up in a bar (let alone been thrown out of one), and there hasn’t been a single instance of hot girl-on-girl action yet. Well, 8th and [...]

First off let me say thanks to EdHill for covering 8th and Ocean in my absence last week. I return from Vegas a poorer, yet humbler, man. (Thanks a lot, OHIO STATE.) I think you’ll agree Ed did an admirable job. It’s just too bad he got stuck covering the Christian episode and not tonight’s [...]

Seaworthy, yes. But does it boast rich Corinthian leather? Thanks to alert reader Jessica M., TVgasm has learned that producers of The Bachelor are currently looking to the yachting community for America’s most eligible man. According to Inside Yachting, the show’s producers are searching for men who are “ambitious, charming and successful and who are [...]

What the hell happened to Beauty and the Geek? For a show that started out so promisingly, it certainly limped its way to last week’s season finale. I swear, if this show were a heavy metal band, it’d be called Anticlimactica. Regardless of how dull the last few weeks have been, however, overall the show [...]

Ever wonder what it’s really like to try and make it in the cutthroat world of professional modeling? Yeah, me neither, but MTV seems to think enough people are curious that they created 8th and Ocean just to show us it’s not all puppies and cream. Sometimes, in fact, it’s just the opposite. That’s right, [...]

With just one week to go before the season finale, I was hoping Beauty and the Geek would pull out all the stops, maybe try and build some tension for next week’s episode. Boy, was I wrong. Really, the only highlight of this episode was seeing Josh simulate the missionary position with Cher. (Anyone remember [...]

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This week’s episode of The Bachelor had it all: good, bad and ugly. The good? It was a rare one-hour episode. The bad? It was a “reunion” show. The ugly? The behavior of the dumped ho-pefuls. Plus, is it just me, or is the whole idea of having a reunion show before the show is [...]

This week’s episode of Beauty and the Geek was pretty solid. We got to see the Beauties experience life as a Geek (even it was only for an hour at a fake bar party), and the Geeks got to see their Beauties model handpicked lingerie. All in all, not a bad way to spend a [...]

So I flipped on the TiVo last night to start this week’s recap of The Bachelor and saw it was another two-hour episode. Two friggin hours? Had I known that, I’d have stopped at the liquor store on the way home, as I only have seven beers in the fridge. Fortunately, the first 35 minutes [...]

Since this is a couple days late, I’m going to dispense with the clever intro and get right to the recap. This week’s episode of Beauty and the Geek starts off with Cher and Josh returning from their victory over the evil Chris and his minion. Ever the optimist, Josh is expecting the other contestants [...]

Five weeks into The Bachelor: Paris and we’re already down to four girls. And while there’s been lots of drama getting to this point, I gotta ask: where’s the sex? I know the French don’t play le baseball, but does that mean Travis isn’t even going to try to reach second base? It’s not that [...]

When it comes to recapping Beauty and the Geek, it seems the more things change, the more they stay the same. For once, I experienced no technical difficulties with the signal, and yet my recap is still late. I’d planned on having it up by Sunday evening, but I forgot that big football game with [...]

I realize this recap is a day late, but we’ve been having trouble counting the reverse cock block ballots from Florida. Hopefully, we’ll have a final tally before we’re done. Tonight’s episode of The Bachelor starts off with Host Chris Harrison meeting the six ho-pefuls in the den. This week is going to be bit [...]

First off, let me apologize for last week’s screen-grab heavy recap of Beauty and the Geek. While I certainly didn’t expect a mention on SNL (ala Mischa’s nip slip), I thought a shot of Cher’s bare ass might at least elicit a “no she d’int” or two. Maybe America just doesn’t find the idea of [...]

When I asked for an alternative to “Reverse Cock Block” in last week’s recap of The Bachelor, I was expecting to get five, maybe ten, suggestions at best. So imagine my surprise when I counted nearly 40 entries by last night! Because I’m such a comment whore we at TVgasm take our reader comments so [...]

There’s probably only one or two of you that know this, but before I started recapping The Bachelor I used to recap The Biggest Loser. (And WWE: RAW, but I try not to think about that when I’m sober.) Anyway, just as one of the hardest things about covering The Biggest Loser was trying not [...]

One of the great things about living in Colorado Springs is that I’m close to some of the world’s best skiing: Copper, Breckenridge, Keystone, Loveland; all are within a two-and-a-half hour drive from my house, depending on traffic. One of the not-so-great things about living here (besides Focus on the Family) is that as a [...]

Oy, what a week. To start, let me say thanks for all the comments on my first shot at recapping The Bachelor. I think I got more for that one post than I did on all my RAW recaps combined. No big surprise there. It even got cited on ABC’s message boards, which J-Unit, using [...]

Thanks to sg-dub’s hiatus, some of the programming has been shuffled around here at TVgasm. Which is why I’m now covering Beauty and The Geek instead of The Biggest Loser: Special Edition. (Well, that and the fact that TBL:SE sucks fat balls.) Anyway, Beauty and The Geek is another show I’ve never watched before, which [...]

Right up front, I’ll admit I’ve never watched an episode of The Bachelor before. (Or The Bachelorette, for that matter.) Which made me a little apprehensive about recapping the show, as I know how seriously some of you take your snark. But when have I ever let my unfamiliarity with a show stop me from [...]

I know it’s a bit late to ask, but since this is my first recap of the new year, how was your New Years? Make any resolutions? Like losing weight, perhaps? Then The Biggest Loser recaps are the recaps for you. Not because they’ll inspire you to do anything, but because they’re usually so crappy [...]

Contrary to popular belief, being a TVgasm recapper isn’t all strawberries and Astroglide. In fact, it can sometimes be downright tedious. For me, those times are every Monday night at 7:00, when it’s time to watch RAW… Tonight’s episode started with a recap of the Trial of Eric Bischoff. It’s done just like an episode [...]

Evidently, unbeknownst to me, someone in the copygodd household (my money’s on Beavis, our cat) decided they’d override my Season Pass for RAW and watch The Bermuda Triangle instead. Which means there’ll be no RAW recap this week. However, that doesn’t mean we can’t laugh at some pics from this week’s episode: The Trial of [...]

This season-ending Biggest Loser recap is brought to you by a blend of cold medicine, unsobriety and the ethereal musical stylings of Rasputina, who, in addition to being one of my favorite bands, are also playing here in town the same night as my office holiday party. Stupid job! To start off tonight’s live two-hour [...]

Back on July 27, I did my very first RAW recap for TVgasm. And like tonight’s RAW, it took place at the Gund Arena in beautiful Cleveland, Ohio. As I said back then, RAW in the Gund is like a televised homecoming for me, as I grew up just down I-71 a bit, in not-so-beautiful [...]

Greetings, dear readers. I trust your Thanksgiving was a happy one. I sit writing this recap in a cabin outside of Silverthorne, Colorado. To the west lies Copper, to the east Loveland, and to the south Breckenridge and Keystone. To my immediate right, a cold bottle of Never Summer Ale. To my left, a half [...]

When B-Side and J-Unit suggested we do a special Thanksgiving tribute to The Food Network, I have to admit I was a little hesitant to participate. For one, I don’t watch TFN. For another, I have the culinary skills of Jeffrey Dahmer. But hey, as the three regular readers of my RAW recaps can attest, [...]

After last week’s very emotional tribute to Eddie Guerrero, I was curious as to how RAW would recapture their momentum heading into this weekend’s Survivor Series PPV. Little did I expect they’d turn to the musical stylings of Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins for inspiration. But it’s just this kind of risk-taking that makes RAW [...]