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Kappy
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06-29-2002

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The worst thing about the wrestling was that they purposely scheduled it to go 10 minutes into the next hour so that if you tuned in 'on the hour', you had to watch the wrestling for another 10. When the guy started choking the pregnant woman, I'd had enough and turned the channel and almost didn't go back at all. Ayeeee - is that what wrestling has come to?

I tuned in last night looking forward to what I thought was a repeat so that I would be all set for tonight. It would really help this show if they repeated it at some time during the week. That's how I got hooked on Nip & Tuck - ran into it on a repeat night and liked it so much that I started looking for it's regular time slot.

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 12:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"When the guy started choking the pregnant woman, I'd had enough and turned the channel and almost didn't go back at all."

Wow ... wrestling really has sunk to new lows. Spike just makes it so difficult to watch Joe Schmo (but I'm not giving up!).

Moderator
Moderator

06-30-2002

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 1:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
We have created a sub-topic for this show and placed both this thread and the Spoiler thread in here. You are now able to create additional 'Spoiler' or 'Show' type threads inside this topic as well.

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Pamy
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01-02-2002

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 2:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
THx 22! You rock! I was trying to do that but didn't have the magical powers that you do

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 2:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
last night's show was off the hook!!

LOL to the bags and boxes.

Pamy, I'm with you.. Ingrid would be the best best friend!! I'd love to watch this with her.

My DVR started recording at 11:05 and I started watching it a bit later, so I just ff thru the horrible wrestling.

THe subtitles that Wilson pointed out were funny.

Too funny that "joe" was so concerned about the well-being of the frog and getting a substitute "half hearted locket" for the wailing girl..

Riviere
Member

09-09-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 7:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm trying to figure out why Cammy told her silly story of being in a video to Ingrid at all. It just made Ingrid more suspicious she's being faked out. And I'll go crazy all week over the "to be continued" ending!
Tim is being such a good sport! It was sweet how much he enjoyed his surprise birthday party.

Konamouse
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 7:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wait, did I miss something?
I don't remember seeing captions under Ingrid's pictures. Arrggg - teach me to not pay attention. Guess I was just too tired to notice? I watched the show on Tuesday night. From what I read, those captions are priceless.
'squeek'

Madelane
Member

08-20-2001

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 7:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yeah, couldn't the producers have stopped her telling the story when it was obviously not going over well? Not to mention when she waited for the camera man to change batteries. Ambrosia should stay because she seems to be good at ad-libbing.

Kona they're talking about the "super" under Ingrid's name during her interview segments. It always just said "thinks it's all real" under both her and Tim. But they got all silly with it as she revealed how much she suspected. Someone transcribed them and they're very funny.

Speaking of that - was it really out of order to edit the interview in with the events? I thought reality shows always did that - have somebody sort of rehash everything after it happened, then splice it in to sort of narrate what they're thinking as it goes down. Am I making any sense?

Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001

Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 10:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
well apparently the move to after Wrestling helped... Muggum on another board said they got ratings comperable to last year's numbers, but Tuesday nights is still a problem...and I do think part of that is from Nip/Tuck on FX (which went down a little from the premiere, but still had 3.2 million viewers).

Brenda1966
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07-03-2002

Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 10:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Tuesday night thing isn't a surprise to me. Last Comic Standing is on Tuesdays and it's doing well. Also Sex and the City started airing on Tuesdays. There are too many other good shows on that night -- and we're about to add Big Brother and Amazing Race to the mix.

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 1:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Its almost like a let down after watching Reality TV on Tues, what's next? Twiddling thumbs waiting for BB and TAR...

DH and DS's have to catch this on the reruns btw - they are camping, I lol so much I wake DD up, and have to switch channels!! So I imagine the reruns on this is just as high as the first run showings!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 5:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm happy they are getting better ratings!! Better ratings = another Schmo show!!!

Too bad they can't combine Mon and Tues ratings.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Friday, July 02, 2004 - 8:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The latest BLOG is up...

http://schmoblog.spiketv.com/

I love that the producers do the BLOG and give us insider info, another cool aspect of this show!

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Saturday, July 03, 2004 - 6:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

quote:

We don’t mind if Joe and Jane think they’re on a ridiculous, tawdry show. That’s different from them thinking they’re on a fake show. Does that make sense?




YES! That's why I love the show!! Good blog, I enjoy it, and laugh all over again.


Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Saturday, July 03, 2004 - 8:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Another great part of show is the music they play, it cracks me up.

The love music they played with the clouds around Piper and Tim, then later when Tim gives Gerald the lap dance they play the same music and frame them in the clouds!!

Tim has a great sense of humor, I LOL when he was talking about the lap dance and said Gerald had him at hello! LOL

Gerald's 'diary rooms' are funny too, when he said the way Tim thanked him by dry humping his face I fell off the bed!

If you aren't watching the show at least two times you are missing out. I always see things on the 2nd(ok and the 3rd or 4th!) viewing that I missed the first time/s!!

Alisons
Member

01-10-2003

Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 7:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My parents are visiting this weekend (I come by my reality-junkie-ism honestly, my parents love it also) and I recorded all the Schmoes up to now to show them. They were practically rolling off the couch! My dad especially found Tim really funny in how seriously he took everything. I did explain to them about the pearl necklace, and my dad said, "Oh, we called that something different in our day." He was joking but I was glad I explained it because it makes the pearl necklace ceremony so much funnier to be in on that!

We also had a raging debate on whether Ingrid really figured things out. I find her reactions rather odd, like she recognized the host or something because if *I* were on a reality show and people were "acting funny", I would assume that it was because they were wannabe-actor-media-wh*res and that they were acting over the top for publicity purposes. My first thought would NOT be that it was a Truman/Schmoe type experience. I think that just call her bluff and keep going with it. (Of course I have been a defense contractor for 20 years and that is what we do all the time so I may be slightly prejudiced.) I related to the guy with the grayish hair and the glasses who said he wanted to keep going with it.

If Cammy was screwing things up - well she is SUPPOSED to be playing a moron so anything she did wrong should have just been able to be swept up by eye rolling and saying, "Well, it's CAMMY we're talking about..."

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 8:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think they are going to tell Ingrid the truth but still let her stay, she seems like she would have a blast playing along.

Wapland
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 8:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This show is absolutely hilarious...and I agree with pamy..2,3 times is sometimes just not enough

Spear
Member

08-06-2001

Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 11:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just a heads up to those planning on taping episode 4 on Monday -- the schedule I have says it's on from 11:05 to 12:00 but this episode is supposed to be a 90-minute episode. Also, wrestling normally runs late. Personally, I'm setting my recording to go until 12:45.


Konamouse
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, July 05, 2004 - 6:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i've set mine to start at 11p and run until 1a...just in case.

'squeek'

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Monday, July 05, 2004 - 8:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Muggum posted at Tivo and said it is only 60 min tonight and that he would explain later.....

Spear
Member

08-06-2001

Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 12:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Is anyone else having trouble getting to Muggum's blog? I'm getting a "404" error.


Scorpiomoon
Member

06-06-2002

Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 12:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You know, I'm just not liking the second season of this show.

I was looking forward to it just as much as all of you were, and I feel disappointed.

Yes, the cool thing about the first season was that it was new and hadn't been done before. But the first season had a charm to it that this season lacks.

Last season they had tons of sexual overtones. But there was also a lot of bonding--more emphasis on relationships between the cast. This year it's one cheesy sex gag after another. The first couple of times were funny, but now they seem lame.

Not only that, but I don't find any of the cast likable. They just seem like average actors. No one is really leaving an impression.

And now that Ingrid knows and they brought in a new woman, it makes the show seem sloppy and disjointed.

Obviously they couldn't duplicate what they captured the first time around, but I really think they failed with this season.

Riviere
Member

09-09-2000

Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 1:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kind of reminds me of BB3, BB4, BB5, oh did I get ahead of myself counting?
Joe Schmo is a fun spoof of the reality genre, it appeals to an audience bigger than "kumbaya pals forever" singing round the campfire one day and cutting each others' throats the next. I like all the over the top innuendo and wish the show was even more Mole-ish next time to NOT LET THE TV FANS know who the Schmo is.. Talk about a neat twist!!!

Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 4:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think hiding the Schmoe would defeat the purpose of the show. The most funny part is watching Schmoe fall for something that is outrageously obvious to everyone but HIM!!

The Mole was a great show, but that show's premise was to keep you guessing. Schmoe's premise is to allow you to watch a joke being played on someone. Hiding the Schmoe would negate that fun.

JMHO....

I'm actually having a lot of fun with this show. While I enjoyed the first one, because it was new, I had no clue how the joke would play out on Matt, so I really didn't relax and enjoy last time. This time, I'm just enjoying the heck out of it!! And I actually thought the bringing in of the new "schmoette" was a clever idea!! This tells me the show was well thought out before it began, or the producers are very good thinking on their feet!!

Accollades to Brian Keith Etheridge!!!