Thursday, January 27, 2005

All the Pretty Houses

It turns out that Scott of The Gamer's Nook likes Extreme Makeover Home Edition, which -- I have to admit -- I enjoy as well, although I have some nagging questions about the show:

1. Why is it always someone who's really down on their luck, preferably with some disease that requires some kind of super-odd construction stuff? It would be nice just to see them pick a nice, healthy family that happens to live in a crappy house.

2. It's cool that the nine year old son who's really into, say, monkeys gets a room decorate with monkey-stuff to the gills. But what happens when that same nine-year-old son is a fourteen-year-old son five years from now who might not so much want to sleep in a monkey-shaped bed? Or when that same kid, two years later, wants to, you know, bring one of them girls by..."Uh, on second thought Susie, maybe we should just sit in the living room and watch a movie...."

3. The big one: Just how good can the quality of construction be after building a house in seven days? In the episodes when they pour new foundations, can the concrete even be completely dry before they start erecting walls?

4. Actually, this is the big question: Why, oh why, does each episode not feature more shots of those two really attractive women using power tools?! Always remember my Second Theorem of Womanly Goodness:

Attractive Woman + Workwear + Power Tools = Happiness


For proof of the Second Theorem, have a gander at Amy Wynn Pastor, a carpenter on Trading Spaces. Yup, that's what TV needs: more women doing stuff with power tools.

(Kidding and light-hearted stuff aside, Scott also links a very worthy cause. Give if you can.)

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