Shark Bytes

Marissa finally was eliminated. Yippee!! Still, though, the show jumped the shark big time this season.

Yes, there are cynical British judges on most of these shows: American Idol, America’s Got Talent, the show about the best invention (can’t think of the name of it), Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance. Then we have Gordon Ramsay on Hell’s Kitchen.

As far as this pain Marissa, the only way to get her off the screen and stop them from giving her the trophy is to fight fire with fire – power block voting for another contestant (Kristi or Jason are my choices), because those idiot Xena fans are voging several hundred times for Marissa, and Marissa is viting for herself because she is “having a blast”. I can’t stand her.

This show is so far down the list of "stars" by now that it is hard to tell which one is the celebrity and which one is the "star". Next season they will probably have that fat tub that's on "Lost" and a middle relief pitcher from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Now we have a nightly dramatic twist on ET as Donny Osmond, another 'star" anal-izes it for us. "Marie faints! And lands on Dr. Quinn's dying mother!" And why does every one of these judge shows have to have a cynical English guy on the panel? This show is crap.

How about a slightly different format for"Dancing With the Stars." We've see what the younger generations can do, how about giving us seniors a chance to "Trip the Light Fantastic" and call it "Dancing Wth Grandma and Grandpa".

Marissa is certainly confident that those whackjob Xena fans will carry her to the finals, and then to the win. Last Monday at rehearsal she said to Tony “next week someone else will be sent home then we will be in the FINALS. Wheee!”

She is so self-absorbed it’s pathetic. In addition to ballot stuffing, she’s also playing the cancer survivor card and the surrogate mon card not to mention the weight card (“boo hoo I’m not a size 2. I’m doing it for the big gals”) She makes me sick.

From The Washington Post:

There are more important things to get riled up about, but this television show with its glossy faux reality is so simple, so silly, so wonderfully frothy that it is positively unnerving to watch it take such a terrible, wrongheaded turn.

No one with eyesight and a sense of rhythm could argue with a straight face that Winokur deserved to stay. She is a Tony Award-winning actress with musical theater chops, but make no mistake, in this celeb dance-off, she is the beneficiary of the sympathy vote. She has the "You go, chubby girl!" constituency -- that condescending rush of support from those who believe that anyone over a size 4 who can shake her hips to the beat of a cha-cha-cha is some sort of savant. Voters have been swept up in her gushing, raspy, please-wean-yourself-off-the-Red Bull enthusiasm. They fell for it, talent be damned.

I don't have a problem with Marissa's weight, it's her phoney gaming and grinning and screeching that gets to me. Here's the latest: Marissa is good friends with Lucy Lawless (Xena) and on Lucy Lawless's website (look at right hand side) Marissa posts her blog. She recently claims she got an e-mail from a young girl named "Heather" who voted for her 615 times. I think Marissa is voting for herself like crazy, she admits going home and creating dozens of email accounts and voting for herself. Wgat a crock that is. She begs for people to vote fo rher so she can be on cover of TV Guide, never asks for votes because of her dancing whihc is barely mediocre. The crazy Xena fans are keeping her in. I also read that Marissa is going to get a talk show set to launch in 2009. That will be a worse disaster than her dancing.

Christian should have been given a zero score when he stopped his dance due to his injured arm. Then he should have been voted off by the public. What a croc!

i always loved this show until the last two weeks. jason and christian did not deserve the scores they received. and, cari ann saying kristi's dance was bad just proved how set up this is. they decided before the stars danced who was going to win. how sad this show couldn't be unscripted. i will never look at it the same again.

I would like to know myself why Marissa is still on dwts. She isn't any good at all. And now Cristien and his sympathy votes for his poor arm. Give me a break. Now that is what I call the lowest and can't see why the judges fall for the crap.
My favorite two pro dancers are Tony and Derek, but because of Shannon he is off for the season. But I am sure he will return next season

It's jumped this season absolutely! The FAT chick has absolutely jumped the shark. I think the "Vote for the Worst" crowd are voting for her.

Now the one-armed contested with the injured Christian!! Oh Brother!

Yeah Marissa is a piece of work. She begs for votes on her blog and tells people to sae her so she can be on TV Guide cover. She is the worst dancer ever on the show. I think she gets lots of votes because she is overweight. I saw the group dance when Tony lifted her, what a sight that was. All her blubber came crashing down. Last week she danced in a pink cress and at the end could hardly get up off the floor, and when she did she had to pull her dress out of her crack, LOL! She looks ridiculous and acts like a 10 year old. “Ride the Winokur Wave”. ?? I think not. Too bad the judges baby her too. Before DWTS most people never heard of this loudmouth pork chop.

The shark had a mighty fine feast when Def Leppard performed "Nine Lives"

Sooner or later, the four TV networks will get the message--producing reality fare such as Dancing With The Stars, Survivor or American Idol will become no more cheaper than hiring writers and actors to do scripted programming. The reality genre will eventually run its course; and when the scripted programming gets farmed out to the cable networks, what will be left on TV when it goes digital in February 2009? Other than news or public service shows such as America's Most Wanted, not much. There is a reason America has an annual Turn Off The Tube campaign every year...