Monday, October 23, 2006

Stupid questions

Okay, I'm a fan of the Extreme Home Makeover show. It's cool to see what the design team comes up with, and the family always seems to be a deserving one. Ty Pennington asks some really stupid questions, though. Take last night's episode. Here's a family with something like 7 daughters. They also had a son who had some kind of cancer and died when he was 8, I think. The details don't matter for the purpose of this blog. Anyway, whenever they start talking about "Jimmy boy," the parents and sisters cry. Here comes Ty with the stupid (paraphrased) question: "Does it make you sad to think about Jimmy?" or something absurd like that.

Gimme a break.

Of course the family is sad about the child being dead. Why would someone even ask that question? I don't know the answer, other than to think that someone, somewhere thinks it makes for good TV. Bah.

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