Saturday 14 July 2007

MacGyver & Springer: Slow Saturday TV Viewing

MacGyver is so hit and miss. It’s great when it’s in America and he’s doing something like helping out a guy on the run from gangsters, making bombs out of coat hangers and beer cans, running in and out of empty buildings. But other times it’s set in some nameless South American country dealing with something stupid. Todays episode was even worse, MacGyver helping out some teen gang members in the mountains. Apparently it’s some scientific experiment to rehabilitate these gang members. None of them look like gang members, more like a united colours of Benetton group of RADA trained actors. A pilot has a heart attack because the Hispanic gang member was being a knob and MacGyver had to land the plane. Basically they all squabble amongst themselves but then all work together to fix the damaged plane so MacGyver can fly the Hispanic guy to hospital because he’s got internal bleeding. Everything works out in the end and the kids aren’t going to be shooting each other anymore.

A woman wearing only her knickers, missing her two front teeth stands face to face with her mother. This is Jerry Springer. I missed the start but I think the big secret is that the daughter’s a hooker. Mum can’t believe it but while they’re shouting at each other it really looks like their trying to keep a straight face. Now it’s the turn of some dude who’s two timing his girlfriend. How come on Springer women’s tits always fly out when they start to fight? The guys always love it when two women are fighting over them, no matter what the women look like. Jerry picks up a wig that one of the combatants has mislaid. Jerry asks the bit on the side why she’d do this to her friend when she was about to get married. “Look at him Jerry, he’s so fine.” I can never understand how much is real and how much is fake. All I now is that Jamie Dundee books some of this crazy nonsense and that’s alright with me. What he’s learnt from his days in the Memphis TV studio has been put to good use.

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