Psssst, Ya Wanna buy a Hilfiger? - 
by sg-dub
With The Cut now in its 4th different timeslot on CBS, it's becoming almost fun to see it appear in my TiVo cue. The latest move, to Friday nights, appears to be its last stop on its collision course with Reality Oblivion. I guess they could shift it to UPN Saturday nights or something... Time will tell. This week's episode did benefit from the Tiffany Network's bold move to air Veronica Mars as a lead-in. And judging from recent TVgasm posts regarding that show, perhaps more than the usual 6 of you actually watched The Cut. And if you did, you saw the hands-down best episode of the year...
The Cut has been a tragedy from the get-go; horrible host, blatantly derivative format, boring cast, confusing challenges, arbitrary judgments, etc. Normally, I'd have given up on the show long ago... But unlike the show's Felix, I'm not a quitter. Felix, you see, was responsible for the title of this week's episode: "I'm a grown-ass man and I quit." I would have pegged him for a breast man, but I'm getting ahead of myself. So before we get to the cause of our intrepid Latino skateboarder's declaration, let's explore what brought him to the brink.
As usual, the show opened with the post-eviction reaction - and this time Rob Walker from Brooklyn was decidedly not happy. He was pissed at Chris for pointing out the obvious to HALfiger - Rob sucks and has only one talent, and even that is debatable. Chris attempted to defend himself (Quite frankly, I don't remember the chain of events last week so I'm not sure who was more correct) but Rob wasn't being receptive. In fact, he issued the Reality TV fatwa, "It's on." This, despite Chris "Swear[ing] to God on [his] mother!" Where does that fall in relation to swearing on the Bible? And more importantly, why is "swearing" to anything given such respect on reality TV? If I were to ever be on one of these shows, I'd just swear upon every living and supernatural creature I can think of if it keeps me in the hunt. Do adults actually give credence to such empty oaths? Why?
After some perfunctory footage of someone arguing with Liz (this time it was Chris), we were whisked to the whimsical environs of... Cranbury, New Jersey. Candy Cane smokestacks, maple syrup thick rivers, lemony yellow skies, giant chocolate box stores... Except without the candy canes, maple, lemony, and chocolate parts. They were met there by HALfiger-9000 in his "Casual Tommy" outfit. His ginormous hair part, however, was still anything buy "casual." In a new twist, HALfiger not only told the required painfully boring story - he retold one from an earlier episode! Yes, it was the one about how a young COBOL HALfiger sold reconstructed bell-bottoms on the streets of New York. Yawwwwwn. The present day Supercomputer HALfiger giddily showed off his huge distribution center, which moves some 5 to 10 million units per month. Pretty impressive, especially when you realize his clothes suck.
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