TVgasm Recaps - Television Specials: If I Only Had a Blaine

Tonight, on ABC, magician David Blaine has another special of him not doing magic. After bing submerged in a tank of water for a week (another non amazing non magic thing he did) he will attempt to hold his breath for a record breaking 9 minutes!! THAT'S LONGER THAN ANY OTHER PERSON EVER, FREAKING WOW!!

Allow me to break this down for a moment. For over 60 years television has brought into our homes innovative story telling, variety shows, world news and now a two hour Monday night event all leading up to a dude holding his breath. Is this really television worthy? I enjoy ghetto trash and the hottest girl in the trailer park vying for Flava-Flav's attention as much as the next guy, but 2 hours leading up to holding ones breath for 8 minutes is hardly enough to pull me away from PRISON BREAK and 24. Thankfully, that's what TIVO is for and I will likely set mine for the last 12 minutes of the special which begins on ABC tonight at 8/7 central

What do you think, is this TV worthy or is it at best a cool webcast?

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Posted by madeyoulaugh on May 8, 2006 11:57 AM

Comments

It's barely worth Blaine's mother talking about it to her closest friend. He's an idiot, please quit talking about him.

Posted by: The Svan | May 8, 2006 12:25 PM(#1 of 16)

Neither, for once I may agree with The Svan

Posted by: hardly@work | May 8, 2006 1:12 PM(#2 of 16)

the guy is boring

Posted by: dredge | May 8, 2006 2:10 PM(#3 of 16)

I saw this guy this weekend. Such a tool.

Posted by: scarieri | May 8, 2006 2:40 PM(#4 of 16)

He's cheating. He'll be breathing pure oxygen befor ehe starts which can let you hold it up to 15 minutes.

Its not going tpo be recognozed as a world record.

Hes a loser.

Posted by: EdHill | May 8, 2006 3:12 PM(#5 of 16)

Blaine is a waste of "pure" oxygen...

Posted by: HoneyBunny | May 8, 2006 3:22 PM(#6 of 16)

I truly hope someone steps on his air hose long before he comes out of the stupid bubble.

Posted by: jenny10girl | May 8, 2006 3:31 PM(#7 of 16)

A TWO HOUR special leading up to an attention-hungry idiot holding his breath for not even 1/13 of the full runtime? Height of ridiculosity.

Posted by: tvtvtv | May 8, 2006 5:00 PM(#8 of 16)

Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.
Again?
Presto- oh, it's David Blaine and he's holding his breath. Guess I don't know my own strengh.
Now this isn't something we'll really like.

Posted by: zevonia | May 8, 2006 6:05 PM(#9 of 16)

The funniest thing in the world was when he lived in his little plexiglass box for 40 days (or whatever) in London. British people have no tolerance for any of that self-important shit. About half way through, some dude got one of those remote controlled little airplanes, with a bag of McDonald's cheesburgers, and flew it up to his box to taunt him, when he was like, 3 weeks through it. But the most hysterical thing was how scared he got on the first couple of nights up there. Some drunken students had one of those laser pointers and were shining it in his eyes when he was trying to sleep. He got up screaming blue murder and freaking out because he thought "sniper terrorists" were marking him... f*cking tool.

Posted by: missmermaid | May 8, 2006 7:15 PM(#10 of 16)