Fox has taken an undeserving family who, for whatever reason, they seem to think America is fond of and given them the chance of a lifetime. New home, new clothes, and gave their dog a bath. All that and the told the BIGGINS family that all but one of them was obese. Hold please...I need a moment to clear my throat, for I am choking on irony.
What was a poorly produced, poorly cast, poorly edited night of television, did have a limited few good moments.
For the good, the bad, and the spawn of Dr. Phil....keep reading after the jump.
THE GOOD
Though as you will read, the show is mainly craptacular, there were some elements that made it worth watching.
First, the men of the family. Zekia, Omar and the dad Anthony are level headed, caring, sharing wonderful men. Anthony sweats love on and caring, something which has clearly rubbed off onto his sons Zekia and Omar. Anthony is a hard working man who supports a full family of five plus a dog. Watching these men get the opportunity of a lifetime would have been so wonderful if not for the screaming banshees that were the women.
After being berated and talked down to on the national television network that is FOX, Anthony still had nothing but wonderful things to say about his puffy wife. Even building a bench to reenact his proposal to her bloated, waterbed ass. Fancy shmancey bling bling of a ring included (do I need to tell you she lost the first two wedding rings he gave her?) Did she reply with tears, kisses and hugs. NO! Instead she, accusingly and unplayfully, accused him of lying about building the bench then went on to demand he tell her how much the ring cost and couldn't believe him that the ring was real. Ahh, that's love. I was just wondering why Dr. Phils son couldn't renovate this family and bitch slap some sense into this woman.
Which brings me to my next positive about the show. Dr. Phil's son, sans bitch slapping, pointed out the way she mistreats her husband which cause her to finally show emotion over something other than her shows being thrown out. She genuinely seemed embarrassed to have her flaws pointed out publicly. Certainly she seemed to feel no remorse over being a pool of lemon juice to Anthony's open wound of marriage, but she didn't like having it pointed out. So she apologized.
The house. Ok, beyond the men of the family, I hate to give props to the show, but the house they built it 7 days was pretty amazing. Extreme Make-Over Home Edition has got their competition out there with this crew. They didn't just build a house in a week, they built a truly incredible house, by anyone’s standards in one week. Toss a talking snake an apple tree and some naked couple in the mix, and it would have been damn biblical work!
That about does it for the good... but it may be worth mentioning, part of the design team are three blonde triplets who used to be bikini models.
Ok, now that does it for the good.
Dr. Phil's Seed. Wow. I don’t know what the hell this kid is doing in show business. He's so bland he makes his dad look exciting. He served little to no purpose on the show, acting as somewhat of a host and something of a participant.
Reality hosts tend to have a moderate aura of condescension, a glow of indifference and a voice that could make Stone Phillips proud. Dr. Phil’s seeding however, was scared, insecure jittery with a stank of confusion. I don't fault him, I just think in a hasty decision to get someone, who’s got a dad, who knows Oprah, they wound up hiring youth and inexperience to host a multi-million dollar network show. He was just in over his head and Fox didn't know what to do with him. He was the voice-over guy, the let-the-family-know-they-got-guy, and at one point he seemed to even be a builder guy. His use was something of a mess.
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Comments (8)
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1 of 8 | Posted by Daina | Posted on September 2, 2004 12:45 AM
Love the picture of the wife! Sadly, not much of an exaggeration. When she was screaming on her front porch, I wonder how many of the people there wished they had a tranquilizer gun?? I'm guessing just about every one of them including her family. I genuinely liked Anthony and the boys, too. Mela and the daughter were just not very likeable. And is it just me, or do you think it's weird how they did closed-captioning text when they spoke. How humiliating is that?
2 of 8 | Posted by CarolineInTheCity | Posted on September 2, 2004 6:53 AM
I'm so glad I passed on watching this show... however reading your review was worth it just to see the word penis.
3 of 8 | Posted by Retroqueen | Posted on September 2, 2004 7:11 AM
At the end of the show, after the family toured their new home complete with a fountain, home theatre, home theatre lobby, kitchen equipped with six monitors (3 for watching your cooking shows, 3 for making your own cooking show), bedroom/beauty salon with thumbprint-activated door lock, bedroom/New Orleans jazz club, basketball court, and air-conditioned dog house, my girlfriend remarked, "Well, I'm glad they didn't end up with anything tacky."
4 of 8 | Posted by John | Posted on September 2, 2004 9:20 AM
It was an ok show, I laughed my ass off when the aunt came to see them and the house was torn down. The aunt's exact words were "I was coming over to eat some fried chicken with them and they gone." I laughed for 10 minutes over that. Just hearing how she said it is what made it so funny.
5 of 8 | Posted by Larry | Posted on September 2, 2004 7:13 PM
Dr. Phil's spawn was chosen because he looks sexy in a sweaty t-shirt, if you're into that sort of thing.
6 of 8 | Posted by JJ | Posted on September 7, 2004 4:07 PM
Thank "GOD" someone else see's this waste of sperm "Dr. Phil's Son" as a no talented, self inflating, ego tistical, retard, who used his fathers fame as an excuse to make the american veiwing audience suffer for an hour a week by being on t.v. I cringe everytime he decides to tell a father of three children how to raise his kids when he dosen't even know what it's like to be with a girl. Also in every episode he comes down on the foreman who obviously has been given the job because the people at fox feel he's qualified to complete the job at hand. i just hope this guy will knock this annoying prick out ending his rein on t.v. Finally why did fox hire him? The only answer could be the crack there smoking was laced with a special narcotic the american public has yet to embrace. i feel for Dr. phil who must cringe when he watches his wet dream attempting to steal his thunder.
7 of 8 | Posted by joe | Posted on September 13, 2004 9:51 PM
FYI: The picture you provided of the wife isn't, that's the daughter.
8 of 8 | Posted by Shawn James | Posted on October 14, 2004 6:32 AM