AUTHOR: tbooty DATE: 7/08/2004 09:42:00 PM ----- BODY: as you all know (or maybe you don't. shut it.) i am not much of a reality tv person. i find most of the shows retarded. (i'm not sure that that's what they're going for or not, but that's the consensus i got from myself.) the only "reality" show i watched for more than a few minutes (unless you count trading spaces, while you were out, what not to wear(on occasion), queer eye for the straight guy, clean sweep and the odd for better or for worse- all of which i suppose the argument for "those are reality shows tani!" could be made) was the one my cousin was on last year. (that being the original "average joe") and the ONLY reason i watched it was because i was related to someone who was on it. (he didn't win. should have but that girl was SUCH an idiot! oh well. her loss.) this brings me to my point. i think. anyways (when in doubt, forge ahead....) last nite while i was getting caught up on everyone's blogs, i had the tv on in the background. i LOVE tlc programming. (duh. i think all the shows i named above EXCEPT for queer eye are tlc shows!) last nite "for better or for worse" was on. have you seen this show before? no? let me 'splain. it goes a little something like this........... first they find a couple that will allow them to take control over their wedding. then they make the couple choose a "team" of 5-6 people that will help the show plan the wedding. then the team is told that the bride & groom have NO SAY over what happens AND they have a $5000 budget to plan the wedding with AND they have A. WEEK. to plan. so this one was better than most as most of the things were going smoothly. (i saw one one time where the band WALKED OUT of the wedding before it had even started. to make matters worse? the band CONTAINED a family member of the bride! (at least i think it was of the bride. could've been a family memebef of the groom.)) but i digress. this one was going along just fine. the couple loved the way the wedding turned out. bride loved the dress and the decor. groom was thrilled. all was well in "we let strangers pay for our wedding, had no say in it, AND let cameras follow us around on our wedding day" land. UNTIL. at the very end, they showed a close up of the right side of the bride's face. now. the woman looked gorgeous as all brides should on their wedding days. on her face that you could plainly see at the end of the show? a MONSTROUS zit! i mean HELLO! could they have not fixed that before airing the show? i mean "reality" yes, but to traumatize the bride when she watches her wedding on NATIONAL television and to see that honking thing? we're talking emotional distress here people! did anyone else SEE this thing? wow! that bugged me all 5 minutes before i went to sleep last night! --------