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Seamonkey
| Monday, January 19, 2004 - 8:02 pm
Oh well, I can survive without FF, I can take that or leave it and they do rerun eventually. I actually could go upstairs and watch the tennis but I'll see how the first hour goes.. it is first round so the matches are less likely to be cliffhangers, but want to see how Venus Williams is playing.
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Halfunit
| Monday, January 19, 2004 - 8:02 pm
I love Steve! He is a riot!
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Grannyg
| Monday, January 19, 2004 - 8:04 pm
If I was her I would be having a cow about now. There is no way she will pull this off.
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Texannie
| Monday, January 19, 2004 - 8:06 pm
My kids and I are cracking up!
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Gemma120in2002
| Monday, January 19, 2004 - 8:17 pm
Steve is great! LOL! He reminds me of the late John Belushi.
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Naja
| Monday, January 19, 2004 - 8:44 pm
Now that was funny! I bet it gets better and better. I accidentally tuned in since it was on after AI, and I am so glad I did.
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Lilfair
| Monday, January 19, 2004 - 9:03 pm
Steve seems to be having a good time playing with her mind. I feel sorta sorry for her. Her parents are going to freak. I like this much more than average Joe. AJ is somewhat painful to watch. I couldn't help but crack up throughout the show.
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Wilsonatmd
| Monday, January 19, 2004 - 9:10 pm
I'll just say, if they don't end up giving her the money anyway at the end of this unless she quits, I smell a lawsuit coming.....and people would hate the Fox network. And you notice Fox set the AI show up for almost 70 minutes so people wouldn't flip channels, and they showed the credits as the show was opening....but NBC countered that with the 2 hours of Fear Factor (it was only supposed to be 1 hour...and this isn't the last couples ep hippy..tonight was shows 2 and 3 of 7 in the couples tournament that will run into Feb Sweeps...but they went to a VOTEOFF?? This isn't Survivor! I guess it was fair because they had both failed the stunt, and the couple who left were admirable in letting the other team stay)
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Deesandy
| Monday, January 19, 2004 - 9:12 pm
The real question here is, what won't we do for money...
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Scribe
| Monday, January 19, 2004 - 9:53 pm
Somehow, admist the Iowa Caucuses and Idol and that awful Average Joe Hawaii I found MY Big Fat... Premise sounds awful, but Steve is very funny. I will watch next week...
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Ladytex
| Monday, January 19, 2004 - 10:00 pm
Oh heck, Steve had me dying laughing over here. I almost feel sorry for her...
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Jimmer
| Monday, January 19, 2004 - 10:06 pm
We watched this with considerable trepidation. However, Steve (the actor) is priceless. It's simply a wonderful take-off on schlock reality shows. Very funny - I just hope it doesn't get too cruel, but then I keep reminding myself that they haven't locked her into this and thrown away the key. She can walk away anytime she likes. Her reactions and expressions are hilarious.
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Azlen
| Monday, January 19, 2004 - 11:30 pm
I wonder exactly how many women they had holed up at the hotel in case the contestant bailed. I am also kind of curious if Randi was the first contestant or if there were any before her that couldn't go through with it.
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Gina8642
| Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 12:06 am
I started watching, but I just got too angry. The butt of the joke, her family, doesn't get any compensation for participating in the show. It is just wrong to subject them to something they didn't sign up for. Deleted right off the TiVo list.
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Tabbyking
| Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 12:37 am
her folks get $250,000 if they go through with showing up and not stopping the wedding, so they do get compensated. i think he's funny. how could this gal think he's for real? she should be smarter than that and realize there is something else up. no one could be that bad without having a lot of it be put on.
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Bob2112
| Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 12:43 am
The family gets $250,000 if they attend the wedding and she gets the other $250,000. She just can't tell the family there is money involved. This was stated in the program somewhere during the first 10-15 minutes. We added a Tivo Season Pass for it after watching the first episode. Guess they break even on watchers. <...or what Tabby posted...>
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Tobor7
| Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 4:50 am
Well... if you missed this show, you really missed a good one! I'm sure it will play again. You HAVE to catch it. This was one of the funniest shows I have seen. We were falling off the couch and spitting our food out! What a GREAT idea! Even after all the reality stuff out there, they seem to come up with something fresh and creative and funny. The show is well shot and produced so far. It looks good. The hostess woman is not too pretty but just pretty enough. She seems to work well even with the hook nose. Randi is the girl involved. She is adorable. Not model material, but average looking in the best way. Pretty but not too pretty. Not fat but not thin either. (She did look a bit thick in that juicy suit though... but that was ok.) She has nice hair and a great smile. Her personality is good as well. She is taking things in good spirit, and even had the tears to cry at one point. I totally buy her. She is a likable person. Steve is the guy involved. He is really an actor playing the part, but he is doing a great job. When he threw the vase down I couldn't stop laughing. Her reactions to him are priceless. I don't know how he is holding a straight face during some of the stuff he does. So now, after the premise is set up... it should get even better, and even funnier. here we have 2 characters that we can like and laugh with. I feel like I am rooting for both of them somehow. They should have added a $250,000 incentive to Steve if the wedding is called off. He really needs good incentive to wreck the thing. I wonder how he will handle her when she falls apart. he does not seem to have enough of an "a$$h0le" in him to be super-cruel to her. I am very much looking forward to the next shows... seeing her parents... and his parents are actors... all set up with a plan and a script. She won't know what hit her. This is going to be a break-out hit of a show. What's not to like? I'm loving every second of it. Catch it if you can!
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Texannie
| Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 6:53 am
Did ya'll notice some little inconsistancies? In the limo she says she has been holed up for two weeks without seeing her family. The host says 3. In all the promos it talks about a million dollars on the line, but it's only half.
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Deesandy
| Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 6:59 am
Tex, I heard in the limo that it was two and a half weeks. Randi thinks that it is a million dollars because she believes that her side gets half and that Steve's side gets the other half. It is all part of the scam.
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Vsmart
| Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 7:03 am
I turned it off before it was finished. Azlen is right: Randi was the contestant that stuck until the wedding. But the previews showed her family leaving.
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Lori
| Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 9:07 am
I liked it. Steve was soooooo funny and Randi's facial expressions were priceless! He's obnoxious all right, but not too bad at this point! Actually at times he seems normal...or maybe I'm not all that normal?
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Happymom
| Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 10:16 am
ITA with you Lori, he does seem normal, just somewhat obnoxious but not too obnoxious, not annoying...he's doing a great job. I really liked this show! What a good laugh! Very fun! I heard/read that Randi is told she gets $250K and her family gets $250K if she can pull off the wedding. (In the beginning of the show the host told her that they have to pull off the wedding with all of her family in attendance and no one objecting. Yes, it is edited to look like her father will object!) That accounts for half a million. What I heard/read before last nights show was that she thinks Steve will get $500K also. However, what she doesn't know is that if she can pull it off, she gets the entire million. (which actually may mean $750K for her and $250K for her family.)I cannot remember where I heard or read this. I don't remember hearing it on the show last night. Maybe she was holed up for 2 1/2 weeks and Randi and the host each rounded it differently.
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Tabbyking
| Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 10:34 am
i remember reading somewhere, too, that she'll get a full million if she carries it off, but she was not going to be told that. it would be a 'bonus'. i think she was in a hotel for 2.5 weeks but probably had been away from her family for a few days before the actual sequestering, too. oh, tobor, you made me smile. if i looked the same 'a bit thick' in that juicy suit, i'd jump naked into the hot tub! she is a cutie, though. what's funny is probably half the stuff he does reminds her of her first grade boys
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Realfan
| Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 10:39 am
I enjoyed it. Got some good laughs out of it. I was starting to really feel sorry for Randi, but then again, I'm surprised she isn't suspicious. I also thought she was too freaked by some of his behavior--like when he got up and speared the stake and brought it to his plate. So what? They're alone, the buffet is just for them, they're not in a nice restaurant but at "home." I could see doing the same thing. I didn't hear her ask him much about himself. I would think she'd want to built enough of a rapport that she can tease him and abe friends, or she'll never convince anyone of anything. I gather her family is really uptight--like the fiance's family in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." It should be funny to see how they react.
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Realfan
| Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 10:46 am
I think Steve looks sort of like Joe-Van's (Evan Marriott's) brother... It's to do with the hair!
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