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TV ClubHouse: Archive: The Family (ABC): Episode 4 (August 13th) Discussions!: Archive through August 14, 2003

Maryk

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 12:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Can't wait for tonights episode! Still rooting for Cousin Mike!

Hippyt

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 12:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
YAY!!!!!

Seamonkey

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 01:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yay Cousin Mike!!

I LIKEY MIKEY!!

Scorpiomoon

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 01:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm with you guys!

Brenda1966

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 02:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I will not forget to watch tonight... I will not forget to watch.... I will not forget...

Pamy

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 06:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I can't wait!!!

Kellee

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 09:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay it was totally awesome..I absolutely LOVE this show...it is a hoot!!!

I loved the dinner party...I loved the competing themes...did ya notice how almost no one actually seemed to talk to poor Helmut..the guy must get that all the time...people ignoring him for his wife...(I am surprised Anthony didnt ask to get an introduction to Lucci daughter cause she is a really pretty girl...*LOL*)..I deffinately think the right team won though...for sure...I think that they did great...

As for the life boat...yeah Dawn Marie is a spaz...okay I do understand panic attacks but the girl does seem to cry her way out of things...but we knew Anthony or Uncle Mike were going up cause the cousins wouldnt throw to either of them..and ya knew Mike was going up cause the only one who would have thrown to him was Jill and she wasnt eliminated...plus I think the rest know Mike is a favourite of the board...with good reason...

I would deffinately say that Anthony was a cry baby and the way he treated his mother was awful..but them again children learn what they live right????

I cant wait to see next weeks!!!

Scorpiomoon

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 09:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I share Kellee's love of this show!

I swear, as the weeks go on, the opening of this show gets funnier and funnier. I love everything about this show!

Oh man! The hotel they got to go to in the Bahamas was breath-taking. So far, this has been the best prize anyone has won.

Kellee, you're right about Helmut. I felt bad for him.

Foliage

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 09:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I haven't watched this show much and there is something I don't understand. Do these people not see a corellation (sp?) between being nice, sincere or having some control and pleasing the trustees? If Mike has avoided elimination 3 times it looks like they could see that something in his behavior is attractive?

They are so loud, if I were Helmut I would just sit back and take it in also.

Curlyq

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 10:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Exactly, Foliage. Every time Mike avoids elimination the others say they don't understand what the board is basing the decision on. Duh! Watch his behavior and follow suit.

I would suspect Dawn Marie's panic to be exaggerated if she had not already shown panic in that little pool full of stingrays earlier. She just seems like a panicky type. However, I did like how she stood up for herself to Anthony by pointing out that aside from this she's always done everything that's been asked of her. When she and Uncle Mike were on the same team for the dinner party contest I knew they'd win because they were the only two to show up for that dinner etiquette lesson.

I found the editing pretty funny tonight. Especially when Dawn Marie made that inappropriate comment and they played it up with a shot of Susan Lucci fidgeting and dead silence. I do hope they weren't really laughing while the opera singer performed for them, though. I'd like to think that was creative editing as well, and that they weren't really that rude. Why would they expect a celebrity visit when they were the losers of the competition?

I think I agree with Anthony's comment at the end. I would've loved to have seen him and Cousin Mike competing against each other in the end game.

Tabbyking

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
but dawn marie has been 'panicky' or irritating about many things earlier on: she threw a fit when riding pants weren't the right size and they looked as if they fit to me. maybe she just can't admit she's a plus-size gal. she also refused to eat dinner the night they played polo because she was sure her burger meat was donkey. she is a total goofball ditz. that said, she is so worth it for entertainment value!
also, because abc brought back 'the family', i have ended my several-month long boycott of all things abc.

Jasper

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 08:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I missed it!!!! Damn I forgot it was on, can someone tell me what happened, was there a nomination/elimination? If so who! I'm kicking myself.

Pamy

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 08:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This is the BEST!! I loved Susan Lucci at dinner! I wish more people watched this, it is the best new reality show with such great drama!!

Realitynut

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 08:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Pamy I agree with you so much. I keep telling all my friends and family to watch this show and no one ever remembers. I think it's the best. I was so afraid Mike would go this time instead of Anthony. Maybe the family will get smart and quit putting him before the board.

Curious1

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 09:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Jasper -

There was an elimination. It ended up coming down to the eliminated family members choosing one person to save from a life boat out in the water. Cousin Robert saved Dawn Marie because he felt sorry for her since she was freaking out about being in the water (their small boat had a hole in it and was sinking plus it was night time and really dark out). Robert told the rest of the family that he saved her because she was having a panic attack but in the voice over he said it was strategy because Dawn Marie is an ally that might bring him back into the game.

Cousin Melinda saved Jill, saying she felt sorry for her out there.

Cousin Maria (I think that's her name Tall dark haired girl) saved Cousin Ed.

That left Uncle Mike, Anthony and cousin Mike (the bald guy we all love) in the boat with only Aunt Donna left to choose. She chose to save her husband, stating in a voice over that she trusts he'd be able to handle the money better than her 23 year old son. This really upset Anthony and he started throwing around alot of verbal threats to the rest of the family members, "watch out for me now" type of comments.

During the board of trustees it showed that a few of the members had actually changed their minds regarding their dislike of Anthony. Some of them were impressed with his "charisma" and "charm". They felt that when there were the two teams who had to set up and hold a dinner party for their surprise guests, Susan Lucci and her husband, that Anthony interacted very well with her getting her to dance with him and all. However, some of the trustees saw this as an outside layer of "charisma" with not much else under the surface. They voted to deny Anthony the money living cousin Mike in the game for the third time.

Merrywidow

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 10:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I love this show too but maybe it's because I grew up in New Jersey & actually knew families who interacted with one another like this one does. As to their not being able to figure out what it is about cousin Mike that the trustees like...it's human nature for each of us to think we are justified in our actions & the things we say to others (we're "giving good advice", "telling it like it is", "being honest", "are more experienced" etc., etc..) so each of them thinks his/her actions & reactions are ok. Cousin Mike is not a close member of this family (an in-law's son?)so they tend to discount & ignore him & most aren't trying to get to know him better. He is a truly nice guy & personally, I think, he is the most intelligent member of the "family".

Weenerlobo

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 10:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I like Mike (cousin)! I love the fact that Anthony and Aunt Donna are out of it (well for now anyway). It'd be nice to see Uncle Mike bite the dust too!

Dawn Marie cracks me up - what a drama queen. She seems like the type of person that would be the best friend to have, even if she did drive you nuts once in a while.

I think Cousin Mike knows exactly who the Board of Trustees is too, and has pretty much from the get-go.

Crazydog

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 10:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I like Cousin Mike as well. I think he is actually not related to any of them except Jill. He is her cousin. So if Jill is the daughter of Aunt Donna's brother, then maybe Mike is the son of Jill's mom's sister. Or something like that.

I loved that Donna had to choose between Anthony and Uncle Michael. I think she made a better decision from her perspective. Anthony was not going to last long anyways and she didn't want to risk Uncle Michael against Cousin Mike.

BTW, is there anyone else that really digs the theme song? I love it, it's like a cross between the Dynasty and Dallas themes.

Rslover

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 10:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Last night was the best episode, between Susan Lucci and that boat/water fiasco. Too much.

Merrywidow,
I grew up in Brooklyn (Bensonhurst) and I knew families like this too. LOL.

Weenerlobo, I think Mike figured it out too. Isn't it rather obvious? Is it so hard to figure out that these are the only people that have been interacting with them (for the most part) on a daily basis.

Brenda1966

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 11:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Go Cousin Mike! When are they gonna learn to quit putting him up -- he's going all the way!

Does anyone know how this show works once they pare them down? We're now down to 5. When does the 1 "denied" person get their second chance? Who decides the final winner?

Crazydog

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 11:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't think it's so obvious that the servants are the board. They see cameras filming them all the time. For all they know, the board consists of the billionaire donor of the money plus his advisors, who are reviewing every minute of footage shot.

But it would be obvious to me that somebody was watching my every move, and I think I would try to be a little more respectful to the servants than some of these people.

Realfan

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 11:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Mike is the son of Donna's brother-in-law's brother, I believe. In other words, a nephew by marriage.

I loved Donna's "Sophie's Choice" situation--and of course she chose right. (Her husband would have to share the mill with her, but her son? Nah...) Pretty silly that she was mad at another competitor for choosing Cousin Ed over Anthony, like she HAS to support Donna's part of family? NOT.

Dawn Marie's freak out had my husband yelling at the TV, "Shoot her and put her out of her misery already!" He hadn't seen the show before. I thought it was a blast, and next week we have the golf cart accident!

I really want to go to the Atlantis in the Bahamas . . . It was even more awesome than on the TV ads they used to run over and over.

Scorpiomoon

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 12:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Crazydog is right. I think these guys believe either someone is watching the taped footage or there are hidden cameras in the house. I think when you're in the middle of a situation one tends to believe the un-obvious must be reality rather than looking at the obvious.

Cricket

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 02:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't understand why they didn't automatically elimate Dawn Marie for trying to swim to shore while Mr. Tan was (rather ineffectively) shouting "Do not come towards the shore...stay out there." She blatantly disregarded him, so she should not have been saved.

It would have been interesting to see her up against Michael (the son.) The board's comments would have been hysterical. I don't find her amusing at all. She is a whiny brat.

From the previews of the next show, it looks like Michael is still upset with his mother for picking his father over him, lol.

Sanfranjoshfan

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 02:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Cricket - The son is named Anthony, not Michael....