ABC to America: We Dare You To Make Fun of the Blind Autistic Kid

Miscellaneous TV

By B-Side | Tuesday, November 9, 2004 | 10:14 am | 3 Comments

I don’t watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and I probably never will. Luckily for us though, Michelle Collins at You Can’t Make It Up does, and she’s not afraid to admit it. Check out her minute by minute post of this week’s two hour sobfest here.

I particularly enjoyed this passage:

7:21 p.m. Ty calls the fam and tells them they'll be picking up some "new duds" (I quote to indicate the douchebaginess of the word "duds") for the vacation they're going on. "It's a high class place, so you'll need a jacket. And don't worry... it's on me."

Cut to: The limo pulling up in front of a desolate, barren looking SEARS, somewhere near Fallujah or Tikrit, I forget. I wish I were kidding, but there is no humor to be found there. "It's a high class place".... hmm... in Ty-speak, looks like the family will be feasting on DQ Blizzards."

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  1. 1
    smithie
    Posted November 9, 2004 at 2:20 pm

    I watch this show every week. Crying is a requirement, even my boyfriend who I have never seen cry actual tears in our 3 year relationship gets “dry eyes”, which I think is interesting because they are anything but dry, anyway…
    In this weeks episode we learned that Chewbacca was actually deaf. Seriously that’s what the deaf dad sounded like. This week’s ep was a little, um funny, when it wasn’t being terribly heart wrenching.
    It’s getting more and more impossible to qualify for the show. This week you had the deaf parents, blind/autistic son, last week was the single woman who adopted drug addicted babies 11 years ago and got screwed by a contractor that wrecked their house and left without finishing it, if I remember the week before that was the girl addicted to sunlight, seriously, sunlight. What happened to the good old days of the women having triplets, or military family’s fixer-uppers, even a widow won’t qualify anymore unless they have 10 kids. My boyfriend and I were discussing what we would have to do to qualify our southern Californian home for the show. We decided, first we would have to be married, I would have to get knocked up with a minimum of 5 children, adopt a couple racially mixed orphans for good measure, and he would probably have to loose a limb or two. We decided it isn’t worth it.

  2. 2
    smithie
    Posted November 9, 2004 at 2:27 pm

    PS I highly recomend a tivoed hour of American Dreams to follow up the sobfest. The oldest son is MIA in Vietnam and everyone is convinced he is dead. His knocked up girlfriend is about to give birth with his baby and is falling for James Taylor’s son. It’s a tear jerker.

  3. 3
    Genevieve
    Posted November 10, 2004 at 8:54 am

    Hey, thanks for the link to the youcantmakeitup, she’s great & I bookmarked her for lots of reading later.

    p.s. my girlfriend keeps trying to have me fill out an application for that show but I keep telling her we just aren’t a sad enough family.

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