Whoopie! Knocked up sluts and celibate freaks let's start the party.

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And to think, I almost gave up on this show. This season, the fun, the sassyness, the intrigue of the first season is back. Yay!

This episode's theme: Halloween. Bob and Lee threw a party that no one will soon forget.

But first we had Carlos leaving Edie and Gaby trying to leave Victor until Victor's dad presented a check that'll keep her married until after the election.

Carlos outsmarted Edie and moved his money so she can't find it. But then Carlos spills the beans to Gaby about his offshore account to Gaby.

Susan discovers that Mike's dad is alive and demands to see him. Mike's acting weird and it looks as if he's addicted to some sort of drugs. Susan gets on her high horse and blasts her dad after meeting him in prison.

But back to the party: Bob and Lee have a party with Dead Man's party. Danielle crashes the party as doing a spot on impression as Bree.

Lynette meanwhile is hunting a possum that's destroying her garden. Luckily she got some gun tips from Bree so she can possibly take the possum out. But we discover the possum is symbolic of her cancer and she's trying to kill it.

Danielle is a hit at the party until her water breaks. Adam comes over to help deliver the baby and he calls Bree out on faking a pregnancy. Danielle delivers a baby boy as the Scavio kids look on through a window.

Bree and Danielle talk with the new baby in Bree's arms. Bree suggests that Danielle holds the baby and she submits. She then tells Bree she wants her to take the baby.

Gaby tells Victor that she's leaving him. And then he tells Gaby that he's going to start making more time for her and he actually shows some compassion toward her.

Susan is still on her high horse and then goes to see Mike's dad and tells him that she doesn't believe that Mike's dad does feel some remorse. Mike's dad tells Susan to watch out for Mike's demons which makes her even more panicked.

Edie comes over to see Victor and reveals the affair that Carlos and Gaby had. At Lynette's, the doctor tells Lynette's has beaten her cancer! (Yay!)

And just as she's celebrating, she sees the possum she wanted dead and cries over it. Meanwhile, Bree says goodbye to Danielle and Lynette revels in being cancer-free.

And they're off: The Amazing Race, the recap!

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I love this show! Where else can you travel around the world from the comfort of your couch? Just think in one hour we went from the steps of the Playboy Mansion to the green shores of Ireland? I'm sooo glad that awful Hugh Jackman/Melanie Griffith show got cancelled so we can get a real entertaining show on TV.

These are the teams I hate so far:

Mirianna and Julia: They're two sisters and they scream and yell too much.

Ari and Staella: She's not so bad but Ari is a byotch and needs to get some help. When you threaten to cut up and eat a donkey that's bad. Thank goodness we don't have to deal with them anymore because taxi-stealing karma got them good. I hope PETA calls them.

Jennifer and Nathan should NEVER get married and NEVER be allowed to have children. And her pushing the donkey didn't help.

Shanna and Jennifer aka the blondes remind me too much of the beauty queens from the last two seasons.

I really like : Azaria and Hendekea and Ronald and Christina. The both are families and you can tell they are in it for fun and competition.

I'm kinda meh on the rest of the teams. I had hope for the lesbian ministers but they seem to be chillin a bit too much for me. TK and his girlfriend need to get it together quickly.

So far it looks as if Azaria and Hendy and the goths are the teams to watch out for. Although when Phil was describing the trip for two to the brother to Azaria and Hendy I was a little creeped out.

The thing I LOVE most about this game: You can go from first to last to first again in an instant.

Episode grade: A+

Live from New York it's ...

this guy as host and this guy in a skit!

All I can do is sit and cry....

About what might have been. Make sure you watch parts I and II.

The queen of ALL media

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She's got her own talk show. Her own magazine. Her own radio station. Her own school. And now her own YouTube channel. What's next?

I love, love Oprah but YouTube?? Really????

Hang on, is that fear I smell?: "Ugly Betty" the recap

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If you're not watching "Ugly Betty," then you're missing one of the best show on TV. Every week, the writers pack the show with such witty lines and storytelling that the hour just flies by. This episode was al about "secrets."

This week Betty and Henry continued their secret fling all the way to "Wicked." Betty first had to go through all sorts of shenanigans including a fake date with Gio the sandwich guy.

Hilda was lying about working in an exclusive salon only to be working at a "Hooters' knockoff called "High Beams." Unfortunately, she got busted by a classmate of Justin's. But fortunately for Hilda, Papa Suarez and Justin bought her a hairdrying chair and Hilda's own business "The Sweet Hair After" was born.

Daniel is still trying to save "Mode" even almost resorting to sleeping with a "cougar" (I loved it when they added the cat growling sound effects).

Mark too is carrying on a secret romance with his pudgy boyfriend and after he's outed in front of Amanda he admits he was wrong to dismiss Cliff.

Wilheimena is also carrying a secret: She knows that her daughter hates her and refuses to come to the wedding. After she overhears Mark and Amanda talking about it, she realizes that the show must go on with or without her daughter Nico.

The fun thing about the show is the quotes: Here's a sample:

"There's supposed to be one white and one dark in each box. My wedding theme: Ebony and Ivory! That idiot wedding planner has gone and segregated them!" -Willie to Mark about her wedding favors.

Mark shouts: "This is unacceptable!" Willie says "What to we want?" Mark says "Intergrated chocolates!" "When do we want them?!" Mark shouts: NOW!"

And the best news of all: Gay Justin is back!!
Here's a sample: When Justin's friend tries to trade Playbill's he tells her "Nice try Hillary, but the Merman is a collector's item. And it'll put me through college someday or send me to Billy Elliott school."

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. You should be watching.

Episode grade: A+

The boys are back: "nip/tuck" the recap

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"Tell me what you don't like about yourself."

And that's the signature line of this gem of a show "nip/tuck' and after umpteen months away it's back! Last season, our boys Christian and Sean moved from Miami to Los Angeles. So far, they've hooked up with a publicist whose's a shark and she's landed them a hot new gig on a show called "Hearts & Scapels"

Christian is still up to his old tricks of being a ladies' man and Sean's still the moral compass of this show, but at the end of the episode, it looks as if the compass is off center.

Episode grade: A+

All you need to do to lose weight is to eat right, exercise and shut up and listen to me: "The Biggest Loser" recap

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The aftermath of Neil's decision to waterload before the last weigh-in made the TBL camp a not so fun place to be. Everyone pretty much snubbed Neil but the direction of the game got changed a bit when Bryan, Ryan and Nicole all got a vote.

In the end, the cowboy David was sent packing. It's not a surprise because we knew early on by the face time he was getting that it was going to come down between him and Kae. (Note to the editors of reality shows, let's NOT telegraph what's going to happen.)


Episode grade: A+

Don't forget to watch!

Screencap from "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!"


It's the great pumpkin everyone! Well SOME of it anyway.

If you have kids, share this with them. If not, watch it by yourself! Whatever the case, enjoy!

Tonight at 8 on your local ABC station!

Help! My show is broken!:" Heroes": the recap

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OK, I'm calling it: "Heroes" has jump the shark. Not even Kristen Bell can save it and she's a good actress! I was soo bored at Hiro's, Peter's and Claire's storylines that it wasn't even funny.

I'd write a recap but I can sum it up in bor-ring. The big reveal at the end about a virus wiping out New York screams legacy virus. and Marvel Comics did that years ago.

The big reveals from last night: Claire makes the cheerleading squad after she and West cares the bejubus out of some actress that was totally trying to rip off the head cheerleader from this movie.

"Nikki" teams up with Mohinder to look for new mutants. I put "Nikki" in quotes because I suspect it's actually Jessica and that the Company brought the Jessica personality back.

Monica gets a shiny new Ipod from Bob full of abilities she can copy while in Ireland, Peter and his new girlfriend (I wish I could care enough to remember her name) go over to Canada to find a room full of stuff.

Maya activates her Wonder Twin power to get Sylar, Alejandro and herself across the border much to the deaths of some Minute Men. (I'm guessing New York is hit by a Maya/Legacy Virus combo)

And badass H.R.G is back!

Episode grade: C-

Bossy women run this street

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Best episode of the season! This episode was the perfect storm of funny, sad, serious and side-splitting.

Loved that Bob and Lee are fitting into the neighborhood. We start out with Bob and Lee's new (hideous) fountain proving the wrath of the ladies of Wisteria Lane. Bree sums it up best with this quote "With all the gay men in the world, we get the two with no taste." But not to be outdone Mrs. McClusky asks Bree to talk to the gays with this line.

"Bree you should go talk to them you can relate to them. You had a son that came flying out of the closet and a husband that was looking for a doorknob."

We also had Bob telling an old neighbor "If you ever want to talk fashion, we're here for you."

Each of the ladies had her hands full as Bree had to deal with the ramifications of Danielle fleeing the convent, Lynette trying to save her kids' treehouse, Susan dealing with Bob and Lee's fountain and Gaby trying to juggle an affair with Carlos.

The best scene in the whole episode is when Lynette and Katherine campaigning for the office of the neighborhood association.

Episode: A

What the hell is going on here?: "Heroes" the very late recap

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Because of the fires in San Diego, a lot of the regular programming was pre-empted because of the fire coverage. As a result, a lot of the shows were aired over the weekend. That being said, here's a quick and dirty "Heroes" recap.

When we last left off poor Molly was trapped in her nightmares and Matt and Mohinder were both lost about what to do. Molly before she conked out tracked down Matt's dad who apparently had connections to the old heroes. Matt hooks up with Nathan and they fly to Philadelphia to confront him. It turns out that Matt's dad is a louse and he's the one stalking the old heroes. We also learn he has abilities similar to this DC Comics character.
We also see that his dad his headed to get Bob who runs The Company.

We also learn that the Company has sent an agent to find Peter (Kristen Bell) and she's willing to kill to get answers. Unfortunately her first victim is the guy who owns the pub where Peter's been hiding. Peter and his new girlfriend are hiding out in an apartment and Peter accidentally taps into Issac's powers to paint where he should go next. (So I guess Peter "permanently" retains powers.)

In New Orleans, Micah helps Monica get in touch with her "copycat" powers. She apparently can do anything she sees, like muscle memory. Micah shows her a comic book that Issac did (He must have done a bunch before his death) and shows her a character called St. Joan (two guess who this is going to really turn out to be.)

In Japan, Ando gets help deciphering Hiro's writing and we see them prepare for the battle of "The White Beard." (YAWN!)

The episode ends with Mohinder showing up at Monica's door saying he needs to help her and Ellie ordered home by her Daddy.

Episode grade: B.

"I like blowing" : "Ugly Betty," the recap

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It's the end of baseball season but "Ugly Betty" keeps hitting home runs! This week's theme: affairs of the heart.

Betty is still reeling from the shattering news that Henry's going to be a daddy. Hilda and Justin try very different ways to heal their broken hearts. Claire tries to see if there's room in Bradford's heart for her while Marc finds "like" in an unexpected place and in an unexpected package. And Christina's old issues come back to bite her.

We start off with Betty and Henry trying to avoid each other and trying to move on. After Christina tells Betty that it's time for her to move on, she dips her toe into the Internet dating pool. She goes out with a man on a bowling date and basically talks him into boredom and he ditches her as fast as he can. Henry gets wind of Betty's date, follows her to the bowling ally and swoops in to save the date. They finally, finally, FINALLY decide get together.

At Casa de Suarez, Hilda is hanging out with the Golden Girl rejects while Justin is hanging out with rough-crowd wannabees.

The both realize the need to get out their grief and move on.

At the Meade household, Willie tires to play "It's a Wonderful Christmas" much to the dismay of the whole family. Claire sees them out side and realizes that they are a family and she and Yoga head off to Italy.

At Mode, Marc meets a portly photographer and realizes that there's some there, there. And to make this episode the best it can be we end with lovebirds Betty and Henry deciding to take the plunge. Yay!!

Episode grade: A

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I'm done: The last Bionic Woman recap (until it gets better)

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I wanted to like this show. The pilot was OK. The second episode sucked. The third episode was GREAT. The last episode not so good. This one just mediocre. So mediocre that I don't even want to recap it.

That being said, if it gets better I'll let you know.

Episode grade: Who cares?

The girl who wanted to be a model and then didn't: "America's Next Top Model" the recap

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Oh. MY. GAWD!

Not since Tyra went crazy and screamed at a model since there has been an episode this good.

The episode started when this male model stopped by and made the girls go all into a tizzy.

Then a challenge for this organization resulted in Heather being the winner and getting to meet Mary J. Blige.

We then had the ladies doing a shoot for recyling. Saleisha came out on top.

And then we had Ambreal (nOOOOOO) in the bottom two along with Ebony. And sadly Ambreal was chosen to go home (NOOOOOOOOO!!!)

And then Ebony blurts out: "I don't want to be here." Tyra looks stunned and tells her not to let the door hit her on the way out.

Ambreal is spared and ding-dong the witch is gone!

Episode grade: A+

You'll notice something different about this week's blogs....

Because of the nonstop fire coverage, I haven't seen a LOT of my favorite shows for the past few days. Since a lot of them are on NBC, they'll be re-aired over the weekend. I hope to have my thoughts then.

Stay tuned.

And PRAY for us!!

It's baaack!!!: The Amazing Race!!

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When the fall schedule was announced a few months ago, I was worried about "The Amazing Race" being left behind. I shouldn't have worried. A show this good will surface eventually.

It'll be in its usual time slot of Sunday nights at 8 p.m. on CBS And if you've never watched, I URGE you to watch it. Seriously.

This season we have married lesbian ministers (GO girls, I mean women!), dating Goths (with pink shirts and hair!) and of course the run of the mill atheltic people. And young folks bonding with old people.

I cannot WAIT!

A word about the fires..

If you read my profile, you'll notice that I'm in San Diego.

It's pretty bad here folks. Ash and soot is everywhere. In the media locally it's been nonstop fire coverage. My heart breaks and goes out to the folks that are discovering via TV that their homes are gone. And to my colleague in the media Larry Himmel, I feel awful for you and have mad respect that you were able to do this. I wouldn't have been able to.

Even though I'm so in love with my TV set I'd like to run away with it forever, I'm not missing my favorite shows. Sure I'd like to see Tyra and Oprah and the rest but now with today's technology I can watch them later when I'm in a better place.

Plus you can to www.cbs.com; www.abc.com; www.cwtv.com and www.nbc.com to see the shows you missed.

Personally, I'm not directly affected by the fires because I'm lucky enough to live in the central area of the city. But it's sad when I see the people get to what's left of their homes. A few colleagues of mine were evacuated and some have gone back home now but what about the rest of the people in San Diego.

After this is over, we'll be seeing tons of stories about the cleanups, the startovers, the leftovers etc. The sad thing is, is that we went through this four years ago about this time.

This time, we appear to be better organized but it still is all so very sad.

A long time ago, we used to be friends: Veronica Mars Season 3

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And now it's over. I'll let you in on a secret. I still go to the CW on Tuesday nights at 9 hoping, praying I can see the show. But alas, it's not there.

The main reason to BUY the disc is not only the great episodes of this little show that should STILL be on air is seeing "Veronica Mars: FBI." Even though Kristen Bell has moved on to bigger but not necessarily better things, I hope the rumored movie will still happen. We need closure!

Did Keith win the election? Where's Wallace? Where's Mac? Where's Weevil?

And after you watch the "VM:FBI" you'll want to know more about the new cast that was introduced.