Tonight’s Top 10 Shows: Tuesday, August 14

Watercooler

By SuburBint | Tuesday, August 14, 2012 | 12:14 pm | 6 Comments
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Tuesday, August 14

The Social Security Act was enacted on this date in 1935. Politicians argued vigorously about its mechanics, funding, and constitutionality then, and still haven’t stopped.

America’s Got Talent (NBC 8pm) Twelve acts discovered online perform.

YouTube has a lot to answer for.

Hotel Hell (Fox 8pm) Ramsay’s efforts to save Vermont’s Juniper Hill Inn lead him to believe the business can’t be saved.

Until a completely unexpected turn around at the last minute, followed by a comment card at the end of the episode notifying us that the place went belly-up approximately 4.7 seconds after Gordon left the property.

Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family 8pm) The girls try to piece together information regarding Maya’s whereabouts before her murder; Aria deals with the aftermath of meeting Ezra’s mother.

It could have been worse, Aria.

Hillbilly Handfishin’ (Animal Planet 8pm) Oklahoma car salesmen try to coax catfish out of their holes; a pair of New Jersey girls wades into the muddy waters.

That sounds vaguely familiar. Speaking of which:

How “Jaws” Changed the World (The Discovery Channel 9pm) A retrospective on the blockbuster shark film, “Jaws.”

That’s some bad hat, Harry.

Dance Moms (Lifetime 9pm) Episode: Revenge of the Candy Apples

Cavities. Lots and lots of cavities.

The Week the Women Went (Lifetime 10pm) The women of Yemassee, S.C. prepare to abandon their town for one week, leaving the men and children to fend for themselves.

I don’t know who I want to slap first: the people who thought of this show, the people who green-lit it, the people who agreed to participate in it, or myself for having the immediate, knee-jerk reaction thought of “Yep, those menfolk and young’uns are screwed.” This show speaks to a level of innate sexism and gender stereotyping in our culture that is condescending to everyone, and it pisses me off.

The Glee Project (Oxygen 10pm) Finale: Chris Colfer is the guest mentor in the season finale.

Overheard in the producer’s meeting while a winner is being decided. “Hey, guys! You know what our viewers will never expect? If we make them all winners!” “Yes, but we did that last year.” “Exactly! Nobody will expect us to be that ridiculous again! It’s brilliant, I tell you! Brilliant!!!!”

World’s Worst Tenant (Spike 10pm) Finale: The team stakes out a construction jobsite to catch a vandal in the act; Todd and Rick make a risky decision to save a horse and property.

Note to self: stop expecting reality shows to make any sense.

Franklin & Bash (TNT 10pm) Finale: Jared’s father attempts to buy the firm from Stanton Infeld; Peter helps an old high school friend who is running for governor.

Did you know that Mark-Paul Gosselaar grew up speaking Dutch and Tagalog at home? Now you do.

What will you be watching tonight?

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After giving birth to her fourth child, SuburBint carefully weighed the options and decided that recapping reality TV was probably a better choice in the long run than alcoholism. Liver function tests have yet to confirm the wisdom of this decision. Being an honest-to-goodness recapper is also a dream come true, as she has aspired to do this ever since discovering that such a thing existed way back in 2002.

Her favorite shows of all time include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Coupling, Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, Firefly, Community, Parks and Recreation, Doctor Who, and Veronica Mars. She can also quote The Big Lebowski in its entirety, and will do so with little to no provocation.

 

6 Comments

  1. 1
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted August 14, 2012 at 12:38 pm

    Ok confession time. I was VERY young when I first saw Jaws. It scarred me so bad that I actually thought a Great White would shome how make it’s way into my above ground pool in the ‘burbs of New England while I was swimming in it when I was a kid.

    That is some messed up stuff!

  2. 2
    exhero
    Posted August 14, 2012 at 12:56 pm

    I’m excited that I can actually view Gasm from work again. Last week when I tried to come here it was displaying the website blocked screen stating the reason as ‘porn.’

    I don’t know what you all were up to last week but sounds like I missed a party.

  3. 3
    georgiababe
    Posted August 14, 2012 at 7:20 pm

    I saw Jaws for the first time at a slumber party when I was 8 and I FREAKED out. I had to call my mom at 3 am to come and get me because I couldn’t sleep and I refused to set foot in a pool (let alone the ocean) for months.

  4. 4
    SuburBint
    Posted August 14, 2012 at 8:35 pm

    When I was a kid, I also freaked out about sharks in the swimming pool… and I didn’t see Jaws until I was 24. At least you guys had a reasonable excuse! I did refuse to shower for two weeks after seeing Psycho at the age of 13, however. And then there was the whole Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? incident where I was convinced that my sister was just waiting to feed me a canary, never mind the fact that we didn’t even own a canary. Movies, man.

  5. 5
    Chris Velazquez
    Posted August 14, 2012 at 10:57 pm

    I watched both Jaws 1 and 2, one day after another, when I was four years old and naturally, I was freaked, wouldn’t even take a bath. And a few days afterwards, my family went to the beach. I was scared to death of “the big fish with big teeth will eat me like the kid in the movie”, but Mom kept assuring me all was well, so I stayed on the shore with everyone. And then my stupid redneck father with a shitty sense of humor snuck up behind me, grabbed me by the ankles real hard and started dragging me deeper into the water. Not only did I swallow water, I developed a phobia of sharks that continues to this day, so severe that footage on tv, pictures and even cartoon and bad CGI sharks will send me into a nervous breakdown.

    Figures, despite watching horror movies since I was three, the one that traumatizes me is the one based on a super popular member of the animal kingdom that gets one week a year dedicated to it. Thanks, Dad, you ass!

  6. 6
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted August 15, 2012 at 9:28 am

    Good call on Psycho, I totally snatched open the shower curtin for YEARS, just in case.

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