I finally set up DirecTV in my new apartment last night, and within just a few seconds of flipping through network television’s 9 p.m. Tuesday lineup was able to achieve a stunning sense of overwhelming dread, horror, and hopelessness. Hooray!
Here’s the Saddest Thing I saw on Summer TV Last Night:
Three sad women posed onstage as Madonna, Paris Hilton, and Scarlett Johansson (though my first guesses were a deranged doll, a chronic nose-picker, and a Debbie Downer who’s unsatisfied with her recent shopping spree at The Limited). The show: It’s Worth What? on NBC. It doesn’t really matter why this tragic arrangement of humanity occurred; suffice it to say that the whole point of It’s Worth What? on NBC seems to be that host Cedric the Entertainer gets to say “It’s worth WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?” before commercials.
It’s scary in there, you guys.
If you see other Things That Make You Die Inside on summer TV and want to make others share your pain, leave ‘em in the comments or send ‘em to me @EWAnnieBarrett on Twitter. It’ll be like the opposite of my hidden gems initiative, just for summer. Pellets of misery? Oh, I love it! Include an exact timestamp so I don’t have to watch the whole show. Do my job for me!
So what’s the saddest part of this frame? I say “DOG FOOD CAN” placard. You?
Summer TV is a wasteland. Annie Barrett is my homegirl.
On the major networks: yes. On cable: no. Breaking Bad, Damages, Louie, Wilfred, Futurama, Curb Your Enthusiasm, etc.
Wilfred has been a completely pleasant surprise – so funny!
Don’t forget the dork TV: Eureka, Warehouse 13, Alphas and Doctor Who.
saddest part: how much ScarJo has let herself go :-/
ScarJo when she was in “He’s just not that into you”.
The sad part is if an actress is cast as Paris Hilton for a summer game show being labeled as dog food isn’t the most humiliating part.
I had the misfortune to watch a portion of this show and decided that the best part about it was the commerical breaks.
Repeats of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, that this sad mess replaced, was LOTS better.
haha pellets of misery needs to happen!
we the people r letting this wasteland flourish and expand by watching this garbage. my god trash like what’s it worth , the bachlorette in all it’s phoniness , it goes on and on.. who is watching and why..they coulddo a show about stool samples and people would tune in.
Hey, do you know about the USA? Do you know about the government? Can you tell me about the Constitution? Hey, learn about the U.S.A.
In 1787 I’m told our founding fathers did agree to write a list of principles
for keeping people free.
The U.S.A. was just starting out, a whole brand-new country, and so our people spelled it out the things that we should be.
And they put those principles down on paper and called it the Constitution, and it’s been helping us run our country ever since then. The first part of the Constitution is called the preamble and tells what those founding fathers set out to do.
We the people, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
huh? The first poster makes a rambling tirade (albeit rightly so) against the trash that’s on TV, and you respond by talking about the constitution?
Three is a magic number,
yes it is, it’s a magic number.
Somewhere in the ancient, mystic trinity
you get three as a magic number.
The past and the present and the future.
Faith and Hope and Charity,
The heart and the brain and the body
give you three as a magic number.
It takes three legs to make a tri-pod
or to make a table stand.
It takes three wheels to make a vehicle
called a tricycle.
Every triangle has three corners.
Every triangle has three sides.
No more, no less.
You don’t have to guess.
When it’s three, you can see
It’s a magic number.
Burn Notice, Covert Affairs, Leverage (yeay Hardison and Parker), Breaking Bad, and White Collar (Matthew Bomer. YUM) …. summer TV is not a wasteland. Too bad not a single one of these fun shows get recapped.
Breaking Bad gets recapped!
And they only pretend to recap RHNY or RHNJ. EW doesn’t even bother to communicate a simple paragraph of explanation to their own readers. Just as crappy as NBC in their own way.
Probably because no one in their right mind actually cares about those trashy wanna-bes. There isn’t a single woman on any of the million versions of Real Housewives that could call herself a “housewife”. What do any of them know about laundry, dirty dishes, bagging lunches, crying babies, budgeting for 4 on an income of 1? THAT is something a REAL housewife knows about!
It’s NBC… this POS surprised you somehow???
Be surprised it wasn’t hosted by someone from SNL (or Jerry Seinfeld)
The one gem this summer was Love Bites. Such a good show that nobody watched. A shame.
ps — Instead of “It’s Worth What?”, it should have been called, “Some idiot approved What?” I can’t believe this is on TV.
Annie, posts like this make me realize how much I missed you during your cross-country move!
S.J. is stolen biological material, taken against will and formed to clones line 200 pieces total. Sign of dangerous criminal activity. Original Scarlett Galabekian future pediatrician doctor, pediatrician nurse license she obtained in 2008
This is a perfect example of why I limit my TV watching and don’t own a DVR or Tivo. lol Waste of time in the summer…
This is why people avoid some of this stuff and watch the summer reruns on rival network CBS. Some of the talent competing in the top 48 of NBC America’s Got Talent was pretty bad and dull. Especially the 2nd set of 12 of the top 48. The summer lineups aren’t very well executed this year. It’s Worth What is okay, but I don’t see it lasting past its summer run. Too decadent at times with the expensive items being brought on stage.