The TV thread

I paused it about halfway through, turned to my friend and said, "HE'S TROLLING US, ISN'T HE?!"

 

Watching the Rose Parade off the DVR (slept through it live). While I appreciate HGTV's commercial free coverage, the direction/production has been a mess. I don't know if they are piggy-backing off someone else's feed or what, but between two brothers who host a show on HGTV keep stepping all over Nancy O'Dell when she's trying to describe a float, mispronouncing names (it's not Sierra MAD-ree, it's Sierra MA-Dre, La Can-ya-da, not La-CAN-A-da) and not getting clear shots of what they are talking about it was pretty much a disaster.
Always felt like I was missing stuff watching on other networks - and yet - even without ads I kept feeling like HGTV was missing stuff (too busy doing cutaways to a guy about a half-mile up the road for some reason). Found a parade guide on-line.

 

My 8 year old is now obsessed with Food Network shows. The best of them that we've been watching is Guy's Grocery Games, which is a fairly amiable game show.

The worst is Cutthroat Kitchen, which really seems like it took 10 minutes to put together.

 

A lot of people loathe Guy Fieri (and I do think he's kind of a tool), but my fiancé and I have discovered close to a dozen really good places to eat on vacation from watching Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.

 

I love Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, but I want to puke every time Guy sticks his disgusting, uncovered hand into whatever food the chef is making.

He does it all the time. My wife and I made a drinking game out of that, and how many times he says something is "super tender."

 

I loathe Guy Fieri, but I watch 'Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.'
It's a great concept. I just can't stand the host.
I won't watch anything else he's on.

 

The cousin of a friend of mine owns a place which was featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and said that Guy was actually pretty nice and normal to deal with.

 

Yeah, he seems "real". And by real, I mean in real life he seems like a food dork that tries to act cooler than he is.
Sort of like a 14-year-old girl that wears too much makeup and a push-up bra when her older brothers friends come over. Tries to hard to impress.

 

Well, it's hard to get excited about each of 400 places that you visit, or to personally know even a fraction of them. so anyone who hosts a show like this is going to be somewhat phony.

 

His show did highlight two places I had previously visited and had classified as the best Italian place and best microbrewery I've ever been to. In the same episode, too!

He does hit some really, really good places.

 

I even have the app and have used it many times.
Like the info I get from the show, which is why I watch it.
I just find him annoying to the point of borderline repugnant.