While I can understand the appeal of the smarmfest that is ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” I can’t for the life of me understand the Ty Pennington thing. The Ty Annoyance Factor has actually seemed to be ratcheting up since the show opened a couple seasons ago. This past week they did one of their VERY SPECIAL TWO HOUR EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION EVENTS. At the end of hour one, rather than just continuing with the program, they do this gimmicky roll-the-credits-while-Ty-runs-around-screaming-like-Timmy-the-idiot-monkeyboy
-with-a-megaphone thing. He’s yelling about how the house isn’t done, don’t roll the credits, we need to finish this project for the family, don’t roll the credits, dontrollthecredits, DONTROLLTHECREDITS. And he’s doing this all over the project site, aiming his stupid megaphone at all the volunteers whacking together the show’s latest 4,200 sq. ft. foot house for a family of four. If I were on that construction site, my tool of choice would be a Craftsman Air Nailer. And the only stud I’d be looking to shoot it at would be named “Ty.”
I can’t help but wonder what happens to these houses after the 1,200 workers, the 24-hour security, and the 150-person video crew leave. Some of these houses aren’t exactly in the ritzy part of town. At least one new TyMansion appeared to be surrounded by crack houses and meth labs. And who’s going to take care of them? Remember, they’re building these gigantohomes for people who couldn’t take care of 900 sq. ft. bungalows. This week they put up the huge house for a woman who’s in 4th stage cancer. I hope someone donated a maid.
This is not to say I don’t support the idea of helping people in need. I’ve only seen one family I thought was actually scamming to get the new place. But I can’t help watching and wondering “What next?”
And of course, there’s my loathing for Tyler “Megaphone” Pennington. Final note to Ty: dude, use a little less product in your hair because, damn.
Follow up to an earlier post: little sister Patti hit up Giant Eagle for a 1-cent tank of gas. Damnit, she beat me by 44 cents.
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I think I remember the one with the crack houses. I’m thinking Beyonshakila Raniqua Washington, the neighborhood crackwhore, moved into the 900 sq. ft. second bedroom for the shy yet cute 3 year old deaf wheelchair bound daughter of the Operation Enduring Iraqi Freedom parapalegic soldier who is allergic to sunlight, the dark, cotton, polyester, all manner of pet dander and food. Does that ring a bell?
LOL, that sums it up pretty nicely!
Well, I think it was “Sweet Alice” but I could be wrong :)
Go Patti!!!!
I get free tanks of gas from BP all the time. We charge everything we can, pay it off every month and they send us wonderful $20 gift cards for BP gas. So, do I win?
That last post was me, Merno.
They should do “Our beautiful one week house is now a festering dung heap” shows about a year after the build. Kind of a “where are they now” episode to show how the houses have become dilapidated eyesores in the neighborhood.
I wouldn’t be terribly surprised to see that. How well put-together can a house be if it was built in a week…especially those huge houses?
Geez, my kids love that show and love Ty. He seems to have the maturity of 5 and 6 yr olds. And yes, less product Ty, please.
I have wondered what happens to these houses after the crew leaves. I’m sure most of them are dumps like their old houses, just larger dumps.
oh and Ha ha on the gas thing! I’m very proud of that!
There was a news piece on local TV here over the summer. Fox or some other channel was trying to do a knockoff of extreme makeover for a wheelchair bound guy, but afer they slapped this piece of crap home together and left, the family came to find it was almost as bad as the home that they were formerly living in. Half the electric was non functional, the “security system” was a tangle of wires in a closet that apparently wasn’t connected to any thing, and the rail on the front porch was so loose it couldn’t hold a cat up.