i have a new favorite reality show. i hate almost all reality shows - most of them are such trash! the only one i've watched from time to time is the osbournes, and that's partly because i'm just an mtv junkie...but i was flipping channels last night and i came across this new show on bravo that is my new favorite...it's called queer eye for the straight guy. basically, there are five gay guys whose mission each episode is to help out a straight guy, usually to put together some sort of event (dinner/party) involving that guy's girlfriend/wife. so the first show i saw, the straight guy was trying to throw his wife a birthday party. each gay guy has a role...there's one for decorating, another each for grooming, fashion, cooking...and i forget what the last guy does. anyways, they come in the morning of the event, and makeover the house and the straight guy - completely change his house, his clothes, give him grooming tips, teach him how to cook for the event... the amazing thing in the two episodes i watched is that they really have their work cut out for them...i don't know where or how they find their straight guys, but when you see them in the beginning, these are people who are in very desperate need of the "queer eye." and throughout the show, they give tips to viewers...usually geared to the male audience, but some of the cooking tips are helpful. after the guys have done what they can, they leave the straight guy to cook and groom and clothe himself for the event, but the twist is that a camera follows him around and the gay guys (i dunno what else to call them...) get to watch how he does from another location. it's pretty entertaining, the comments they make, etc., etc. and the straight guys really try hard for their women...it's so funny. and they do a really good job...so anyways, just wanted to write about my discovery.

just as a side, while i was watching, they had commercials for the "first gay dating show," yada, yada, called boy meets boy or something. anyways, it's kinda like the bachelor where there's one guy, and about 20 other guys vying for him...but there's a twist (of course)....some of the contestants are straight...okay, how does that work, are they pretending, and if they win they get money...that seems almost cruel to play with the guy's mind like that - what if he really ends up liking someone and gets his heart broken? and then, what kind of straight guys are comfortable playing at being gay...those shows are all about seducing and all that stuff...gross. but the real reason why it struck me was 'cuz there was this one saturday night live that i watched where every other sketch they'd have commercials of new bachelor-type shows...with a twist/secret. like in one, the bachelor was actually a woman, or the bachelor was supposed to be white, but he was actually black, etc. and one of their "twists" was that the bachelor was gay. that's gotta say something, that something so similar to an snl sketch is seriously made into a series...not the bachelor being gay, but the "secret." all the ways they're trying to throw in these twists...ridiculous. i hope this whole reality dating thing dies very, very soon.

i watch too much tv.