Here are 10 Things I Loved About This Week’s 10 Things I Hate About You!

(by Laneia!)

1. Dr. Stratford likening Kat to a cactus, which she twists around to mean “green, spiny and phallic.”

2. Some girl: “So I’ll see you at the swim team party tonight, right?” Bianca: “I’m all over it, like mustard!” That’s girl’s just adorbs!

3. Lindsey Shaw looking hot in the black rocker tee and an armful of bracelets.

4. Purity Security!

5. Montage of sisterly photos cause Kat to soften up a bit towards Bianca, only to find that B’s already split for the party. Aaah, the old Hello-Kitty-under-the-sheets trick!

6. Barefoot Cameron!

7. Everything about this quote: “Oh, I’m so sorry, I thought you were some other guy. I’m not saying you are a guy. You could be a butch lesbian—or a transgender male! Whatever you are, I – I celebrate you!”

8. Cameron getting carsick in the back of a parked car.

9. Bianca using hairspray to get rid of Kat’s stamp from the club, then spitting on her hand just because she could.

10. Their dad waits up for them with tests and rules and ideals and trust issues! I love over-protective sitcom parents!

Weeds

(by Intern Nicole)

This week on Weeds we learn who the Mexican lady is who spoke Spanish that I didn’t understand last week (until Brooke translated. Hi Brooke!) She is Pilar, some influential lady in Mexico who will help Esteban run for Governor. I’m sure you can just google her like Shane and Nancy did.

Esteban has a birthing room set up in the house so basically there is no record of the birth when it happens. Nancy freaks out, calls Andy, and to get him there tells him Esteban is dead. This is exciting for Andy and then disappointing when he learns he’s been duped. Still Andy is convinced to bring her to Dr. Alanis to get the baby a birth certificate.

Celia goes to the “You’re Pretty” seminar and it’s awkwardly funny. She later has her mall co-workers over for a “You’re pretty” demonstration, and uses Isabelle as her before and after. The mall workers just want free samples, but one of them is interested in more than the samples. She starts saying the Huskaroo song in a, I guess, seductive? way and tells Isabelle she thinks she’d look better without all that stuff on her face. Then Celia says “Well there goes the dyke market”. Celia and Shane have a moment later and Shane wants her to tell Nancy she will take care of him.

Silas tells Doug he wants to break up the partnership. Doug is stoned and thinks that he sees Stormtroopers. However he really does see them though, because Comic Con is going on (This is referenced to twice and I feel as though Carly would have picked up on it and therefore, is included here. Yay!) Later, Dean arrives to represent Silas’s case. Doug calls him a jinx. Then we learn the dude with a beard who worked for them is actually an undercover internal affairs agent, and arrests the annoying cop extorting them.

Esteban and Cesar storm through the hospital and find Nancy and oh surprise, surprise, the baby is already born. Esteban tells Nancy “You have no idea what you’ve done” which she responds “He has your eyes”. The baby is cute, I’ve decided his name is Diego. How’d Shane get to the hospital?

Better Off Ted

(by Intern Tirna)

This past week on Better Off Ted, we learned about Veronica’s overly competitive relationship with her father! It’s based on lies, stealing and mistrust and Veronica and her father are constantly stealing each others’ ideas. So when he comes to visit, she’s suspicious.

However this is a very special visit as he informs Veronica that he is actually dying. She doesn’t believe him at first but after she comes around they decide to have “normal” “father-daughter time” now since there won’t be any time at all when he is dead. This fails and they decide to go back to the competitive thing. Ted is forced to recall his failing relationship with his father, who he was never able to impress due to his lack in plumbing skills.

Meanwhile, Phil and Lem have found a cure for baldness but it also grows hair on inanimate objects, and before long there’s hair everywhere. As Ted shaves his desk, Phil and Lem work on a reversal potion for hair product defect. On another note, we learn that Ted has been pushing his daughter to run for class president, and she tells him that all she really wants to do is play in the mud. Deciding that he didn’t want to be the kind of father his father was, Ted resolves to let Rose be happy with her mud pies. This episode taught us one important thing about life: worry less about what others are doing and do what makes you happy. Also Portia De Rossi is hot.

My Life on the D-List

(by Intern Jess)

This week was all about the preparation for what turned out to be a HILARIOUS!FAIL at the Apollo Theatre in NYC. Kathy was determined find out if comedy was colorblind and decided to try out her assortment of Lohan-Hills-Cher-Suck-It-Jesus-Octomom jokes on a primarily black audience. Anyone who has been watching this season knows that each episode features Kathy and a famous friend attempting to get a 3rd celebrity on the phone for a little 3-way action. This episode had rapper T.I. but did not have the celebrity call included. Why, you ask? Well, Kathy & T.I. did call Justin Timberlake but JT did not clear the rights to use it in the episode. Kathy recalled filming the episode on Howard Stern last month and said JT acted so embarrassingly “faux-street” in the call and she knew he would never approve the footage.

Kathy finally makes it to the Apollo Theatre and even gets an intro from Al Sharpton. Unfortunately, the group of kids who had been performing earlier for Amateur Night had not yet left the room before Kathy took the stage. After a few “where my gays at?” and Whitney Houston jokes she wips out ”don’t Octomom’s lips look like she’s got a pussy on her face?” She finds out the hard way that “apparently, you’re not supposed to do your pussy jokes on kids’ night” and promptly gets thrown off stage.

I will transcribe the amazing letter she received from the Apollo the next day:

”How disappointing that our hospitality was abused by Kathy Griffin last night. I’m appalled that she chose the consequences-be-damned approach to her material and did not feel she could balance her material to our house. She is not welcome at the Apollo. Not now and not in the future. If I get refund requests, I will compile them and forward an invoice to you forthwith.”

Lola’s Hot Girl of the Week: Gabrielle Anwar in Burn Notice

(by Intern Lola)

With most shows on hiatus, summer brings a dearth of good TV programming. But thanks to USANetwork’s unconventional scheduling, a new season of Burn Notice is here to rescue us from the doldrums with action! humor! heart! It’s like watching a blockbuster movie every week and what summer blockbuster would be complete without a badass leading lady?

Gabrielle Anwar plays crazy/awesome Fiona Glenanne, who loves blowing up stuff and looks fierce doing it. Furthermore; since the show is set in the city where the heat is on, every episode has plenty of random hot girls in bikinis. Gabrielle Anwar should always be one of those girls, because she is freaking ripped. That said, she can also rock a suit.

Fiona definitely appeals to my love of crazy chicks (Who’s with me?) but Gabrielle Anwar first won my heart in the Disney film Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken. Sure, I was only 2 when the movie was released in 1991, but it was love! The fact that she is now 39 and a mother of three just makes her a total M.I.L.F. in my book.

Lex’s Hot Girl of the Week: Neve Campbell in The Philanthropist.

(by Intern X)

I was meandering through the humid waters of summer television when I stopped on The Philanthropistwhere I recognized a familiar face: Neve Campbell. She was a big deal in the 90s, starring in two of my top guilty pleasures, Scream and The Craft. The Craft was great (weird, but great); notable moments include Neve’s character switching to skimpy revealing clothing after curing her skin condition with a Wiccan spell. In Scream, Neve’s character Sydney did serious justice to the horror “final girl” spot—probs one of the best out there. And although I was too young to see it at the time, I hear she made out with Denise Richards in Wild Things – bonus hot girl points for that.

But her first big debut was her spot on Party of Five, a super dramatic teensoap from the 90s. So her current return to TV is more serious. Campbell’s character Olivia is the business partner of a very wealthy man who, having just recently lost his son, sets out to right his wrongs. She’s hot in this role ‘cause she gets to look powerful/foxy in all of her business attire. This show is pretty good and has the potential to
enlighten viewers to all kinds of issues as each episode takes place in a different country (because social awareness is also pretty hot).

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