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Tabbyking

Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 04:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
is that the shy guy? or the guy with the nice 'tush' going into the shower?!

Tabbyking

Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 07:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
didn't america get to help pick through a phone-in? (not sure, because i really didn't watch the first episode and missed the second entirely.) if so, when did/is this whole 'staying at the ranch' taking place? how would someone know kevin made it to the end if it's going on now? if it's all from earlier, how did america get to help choose?
was this all filmed a couple of months back and then we will get to choose when there are 2 groups? who have been sitting and waiting for weeks and weeks and may not even like each other anymore?!

Kitt

Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 02:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think the couples are at the ranch right now. The phone-ins to choose which one of the two suitors (chosen by the family) would continue were live, so the rest has to be happening now doesn't it? Like the Big Brother updates, I think the Ranch updates are recorded during the week and we see the summary, so at the very worst, spoilers would be a couple of days old. That's my impression anyway.

Nathalia

Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 02:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes Tabby, Kevin is the one that got asked if his faith would get in the way of sleeping with Jill. I'm not really sure how the whole things works since I missed the first few episodes.

Tabbyking

Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 04:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
but how would someone's 'knowing kevin' make it possible to know he made it to the end? isn't it the middle right now? i am confused. (nothing new!)

Realfan

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 08:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
That whole sex fantasy thing on the latest episode was totally Fox, and totally uncalled for. Ugh. And Billie Jean--they keep having to blur out her bottom cuz she keeps sticking it in the air! LOL!

I think two couples could "make it." I don't like this format where there can only be one winner. What if both couples want to stay engaged?

Stephen is a head case.

So is the cold chick who Xavier was stuck with. She wasn't at all attracted to him? How could she not be? He's a hottie! :)

Fruitbat

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 09:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I watched this for the first time last night. I was so glad to have ANY reality TV to watch.

I am sure that if a couple really does connect, and voted off, they will become engaged if that is their desire.

I don't know the names but there was only one couple that seemed to be enjoying each other equally. But I dont see them in love. Odd show.

Realfan

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 09:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Fruit, by winner, I mean the couple who wins the house at the end. I would think it would be nice to award both couples if they both stay married for the required year. Why not? Fox can afford it. Considering their ratings on this particular show, maybe they'd have to delve into Joe M's profits to pay for it.

I think the show creators blew it big time excusing one couple a week anyway. They should have given all ten singles more chances to mingle. Who knows what other hook-ups might have happened, complete with the requisite jealousy, etc? So far, these people are basically in a labatory bubble. Send them to parties, send them shopping. See how long they last in the real world.

It looks like that's sort of the plan for next week, with visiting families. And it looks like it does spark conflict. Which makes it barely watchable.

Fruitbat

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 10:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
They get a house? wow. That is a nice gift. Can they live in Malibou? I suppose there would be a limit. Anymore info on that?

They have to stay married one year..........that's it?

Realbiz

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 10:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
While the concept of the show may work in theory (if the couples are truly compatible), however, it is still a "made-for-TV experiment".

I do think the panel's questions are quite valid, they targeted right to the couples in different ways. Jennifer was so rude, and yes COLD last night, I'm glad the French guy was spared of her in the end. Like he said, the judges comments to her were like a mirror, and that "truth hurts".

Even though the relationships were protrayed as a TV show, the behaviour of the couples are a reflection of real life, to a degree at least.

Tabbyking

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 10:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
well, we have described jennifer as cold for two weeks now. how come she hasn't figured it out for herself in 26 years? she looks like a young bonnie bartlett (married to william daniels and played his wife on st. elsewhere and played tim's mom on home improvement, etc.) but no personality at all. just 'beige' if she were a color. now, put xavier with the chick that stephen is barely kissing (she should quit hounding him, though!) and let them screw their brains out, then put the gal back with stephen! lol i believe we could call it 'we have some wonderful parting gifts' for xavier.

Tabbyking

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 10:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
realfan, every time billie jean shakes her blurred heiny, i can hear michael jackson's 'billie jean' going through my head!
only the lyrics are more like:

oh, billie jean she's my lover
get her naked a$$ under the cover..

Realfan

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 01:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
BWAH!!! Good one, Tabby! Yes, Xavier and Denise would have a great time. Stephen is about as bland as Jennifer. He just annoys the heck outta me.

Kellsma

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 09:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG Tabbyking, I was thinking the same thing. Xavier belongs with Denise and the other two can go home. What is interesting is that the two that are so cold, Jennifer and Stephen are ones that asked for America to find them spouses. They signed up for this as one of the five main contestants. What were they expecting? I think Jill and Kevin will make it. I think
Tony and Billie Jean are just a bit too trashy and I don't think Steven and Denise will make it past next week.

Tabbyking

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 09:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
billie jean just seems the type to have had dozens of one-nighters to me! and tony is starting to look like a wease--er, a deer caught in the headlights!
i do like jill and kevin. i hope they don't burn themselves out!
i did have to laugh, because it's probably true, lol, when billie jean asked tony on the way to the ranch, "so what kind of movies do you like?" and tony said, "porn" and billie jean said, "me, too!"

little scuzzers!!

steven seems like someone who just left the priesthood! the only good thing is, you know he doesn't have a checkered past. hell, he probably doesn't even have a checkered jacket!

i thought having the friends was kind of creepy. billie jean's looked like they stopped by on the way to a hell's angels convention giving out free drugs. denise's sister was totally whacked.

i couldn't believe the scenes from next week when they travel to the pickee's homes. seeing tony's place reminded me of gregg on the bachelorette! holy ship, didn't these people know if they won, this would happen? maybe that is clean to him! eeek!

i still think the gals should sleep with the guys'
dads and the guys should hop in the sack with the gals' moms to see what sex will be like in another 30 years! ,>)

Djgirl5235

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 05:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
EEEEEWWWWWW Tabby! I really didn't need that visual! I hate to admit that this show has sucked me in! All it is, is Fox putting a little porn on primetime tv... it's pathetic! I find myself feeling sorry for Denise, and wanting to just slap Stephen... also, everytime I look at Stephen, I only see his nose... it's awful, I know, but that's all that I see on him and I can't get past it....

Tabbyking

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 01:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
well, seems denise can't get past it, either, poor thing!

Nathalia

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 03:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Real, I agree with you. I think that interacting all the couples would have made for better tv. Maybe Stephen is wishing he got one of the others?
Or maybe he had a preconceived idea what his wife would look like, petite and blonde maybe, and he just can't get past that. I don't at all feel sorry for Denise, she just never stops asking for affection. I think now when she sees the tapes she will be kicking herself for not just keeping quiet and letting things happen on their own. Then her thing with "what you want me to lose 30lbs" yikes! They've only known each other for what 3 weeks? And the schoolgirl outfit, she told him she wore it with some other guy. The same outfit? Same thigh highs? Maybe I got that part wrong, but wearing the same "sex" outfit with different guys is just not right to me. Seeing her in that outfit was just not right to begin with! I laughed so hard when Stephen called it the "military" position. Next week looks good. Jill's dad looks like a gem! lol

Happymom

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 02:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
She did say she wore a school girl outfit with some other guy. I thought maybe it wasn't exactly the same outfit, because I thought Fox provided the fantasy outfits after the little sex fantasy chit chat with the "expert".

Crazydog

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 06:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, this was the first time I saw this show and I thought it was so stupid it will probably be the last. I found it utterly boring. That Jennifer was so cold. She seemed extremely angry that the judges called her cold and brittle and said that it was uncalled for. I think this show will be a real eye opener for her. I guess the truth hurts. She is in denial.

The host tries too hard to be like the hosts of other dating shows like this one.

Tabbyking

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 09:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
gosh, too bad this isn't an ABC show. they could just pull it like they do everything else!

Tabbyking

Monday, March 31, 2003 - 10:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
well, denise and stephen had to go. he was finally normal and even affectionate when they were with their families. once they got back to the ranch, he was cold and aloof again. maybe xavier will call denise! i wanted to slap her when she started the 'what's wrong with me' thing again. a couple of episodes back she started in with 'what is it? do you want me to lose 30 pounds like everyone else does? what's wrong with me? i'm attractive and smart and make a good living...' i was like 'quiet, already! what an inferiority complex! yeah, that's a total turn-on!'

jill and kevin scare me!! she said she would post nude for playboy 'again'. her folks were insane. oh my heck! if you miss 'the family', you would love to hate jill's folks. the mom is a donna and the dad is a wannabe wiseguy. the mom was smoking in the kitchen while cooking with a full room of people and they had to bleep the dad about half the time. he is one of those hairy guys, where you know you are gonna find a pit hair in your ravioli. why do hairy small guys wear muscle shirts to the dinner table?!

billie jean's male friend was hysterical. literally, over thinking he would lose her as a roommate. we had to hear him crying in the bathroom. and when tony's dad made the nice toast to billie jean and tony, billie jean had to slurp her wine and then say, 'cheers, beers and queers!'
i am watching this, because unlike an abc show, it's still on! not much else going for it!

Kmjm

Monday, March 31, 2003 - 11:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi Tabbyking, I guess it's just you and me watching this dreadful, crass show, teehee. I really thought that Denise and Stephen had something going this week when their families meshed so well. I was disappointed when they were booted off.
Seriously, they're not going to marry off wacky Billie Jean and Tony, are they? She is so incredibly needy, I see a big emotional train wreck on the way.
And that sweetie, oops I mean Jill, does she really think that men look at Playboy because they think that the human body is so beautiful that they want to esthetically appreciate it? Actually I thought Jill's Dad was at least honest-he had real and justifiable concerns- who wouldn't under those circumstances?
I'm going off to bed now- just needed to share these thoughts- such a relief anyway to watch this instead of the endless loop on CNN.

Tabbyking

Monday, March 31, 2003 - 11:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
the dad was just such a ditz, though, trying to act like the big man. he kept yelling and swearing when kevin called jill 'sweetie'. 'her name is jill marie!'
i'll bet he looked at his daughter's playboy spread. ick! and i'll bet he slept with 'aunt donna' on their first date, so he knows what losers guys can be! lol i would be afraid to marry into that family. there will not be one private moment or any decisions that 'uncle mike and aunt donna' don't have to egg in on. creepy!and for jill to say she would pose again if she wanted to, makes me think she is another evan marriott--into this for the exposure and minute of fame, and milking whatever she can from it.
i felt so bad for his parents and wondered at first why his dad didn't say something. then i saw that you can't reason with 'uncle mike', but i'll bet he had to bite his lip to keep from letting his anger out! you could tell the sister wanted to bop 'uncle mike' over the head.
sorry about the uncle mike and aunt donna for their names. the mom looks just like aunt donna from 'the family' and the dad is just a buffoon.

Mamaanja

Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 05:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
You know, I appreciate that they were probably trying to get an interesting, diverse (except racially) group of people for this show. But perhaps they should have maybe looked for some people who were actually ready and willing to get married? WHERE DID THEY GET THESE PEOPLE? I'm such an optimist, I really wanted one of these couples to work out. I just can't support either of these two couples that are left. Bille Jean and Tony are obviously caught up in the sexual moment, and he's starting to realize it. Jill and Kevin.....I think their families are way too different. It would be a constant issue, and magnified when children came along. Speaking of children, I was yelling at Kevin through the tv "Tell her you don't want the mother of your children showing her "birth canal" to the world again" Fortunately, Playboy probably doesn't want saggy breasts and stretch marks, so it probably wouldn't be an issue. I think that Jill feels guilty about being in Playboy, which is why she defends it so vehemently. Really, Jill, it's not unreasonable for your future husband to request that you don't show your tatas to the world again. Really, it's not.

I think Denise should hook up with Xavier or that sweet guy that was with Cortez.