as probably most of you girls know and probably none of you guys do, the TLC channel has a show called "four weddings" and a show called "four houses." "four divorces" is probably next.
anyway, so they've got four weddings and four houses and the premise is the same for both. in the wedding one, four engaged women who have never met before, meet. and attend each other's wedding. and give each wedding a score and whoever has the highest score wins a honeymoon. in the house one, four people who have never met before, meet. and tour each other's home. and give each home a score. and whoever has the highest score wins ten thousand smack-a-roos.
so far, as reality t.v. goes, not too shabby. BUT.........
how fair is it to pit someone who thinks that as much glamour and glitz and bling and bedazzle that you can possibly afford to spend makes for a good wedding against someone who thinks the simpler the better? likewise, what kinda sense does it make to have someone who loves the suburbs and target and the home goods store square off against someone with the taste of jackie kennedy onassis on steroids?
i'm surprised the liberals aren't all over this one.
in the wedding show, at the beginning of each episode, each bride gives an intro to her "wedding philosphy" (bet they don't teach THAT at sarah lawrence). on a recent episode, one bride said that her wedding was going to be a "rhapsody in all shades pink." and the next bride said that pink is the root of all evil.
in the house show, one woman said that if you don't have art in your house, you don't deserve to live and another woman said something along the lines of "art, schmart."
and so then, with these diametrically opposed viewpoints, they go to each other's wedding or to each other's house and, instead of suspending personal judgment for just a second here and trying to evaluate the wedding/house not according to your own individual taste but according to whether or not the person who had the wedding/house did the wedding/house in a successful manner, given their taste, these clowns go to a wedding that's all done up in pink and if they don't like pink they say, "i don't like pink so i give this wedding a zero.".
in other words, there's no apples and apples going on with these folks. it's all apples and oranges, all the time.
oh. that reminds me. if you're hosting a wedding, don't serve fruit. very un-okay.
fruit on your dining room table is still fine.
as long as it's not in a bowl from target.
