This has got to be one of the funniest commercials I’ve seen in a while. Dairy Queen always has a way of cracking me up with their television ads. The baby in this one is so cute… especially his laugh at the end. I should really stop buy there one day since I haven’t been since I was a kid. Heck, I didn’t even know they sold stuff like hot dogs, burgers and chicken wraps until recently!
Did any of you check out this revamped show this past Sunday and Monday night? I have to admit, I was anticipating it’s debut… mainly because I was a big fan of the original show back in the early 90s (Nitroooo!). Sunday and Monday’s debut episodes were 2 hours each (which I found a tad long), but the show sticks to it’s Monday timeslot at from 8-9pm beginning next week.
My thoughts? I thought it was okay. They did the original series justice (no pun intended) by keeping a lot of the original events in with a few modifications. Putting a pool of water below events like Joust and Hang Tough, instead of the pads was cool. Too bad I could never go on this show since I can’t swim. 
I found there was way too much talking though… too many interviews with the contestants (and it seemed there were a lot of commercial breaks)… I wanted to see more action. I liked the new event of Hit and Run… looked kind of fun. The Wall has always been one of my favs though.
The Eliminator seemed a bit long. What’s w/ the fire on water… seems a little dangerous (one of the first contestants hit her head on the fire emitting metal bar). Get rid of the hand-bike already… or at least put it near the beginning when the contestants have more energy. LOL… they all were so exhausted at the end. One female contestant literally just lied down and hung on to the top of the reverse escalator near the end of it, losing her huge lead. I didn’t like the barrel roll thing they had in it either.
Most of the Gladiators seem all right. From the men’s side I like Toa, and on the woman’s side I think Crush and Fury are cool. I wouldn’t want to be caught alone in a dark alley with Hellga though.
Check out a clip from the new series and the original:
You ever wish you had the ability to turn objects into something else? Like gold… or better yet food? Well “Tim” here has that awesome power. Only thing is, that it’s not all that it cracks up to be.
Very clever ad from Skittles. I feel like buying a pack right now.
*spoiler warning*
Dammit… just as I was about to give the writers of Ugly Betty kudos for such a good season premiere, they had to ruin it with the revelation of a dream sequence!
If you remember from last season’s finale, Santos (Hilda’s fiancé) was a victim in a convenience store robbery. That show ended with Betty informing Hilda of the news at her son’s school play, and her breaking down in her arms.
Now that left us thinking is he dead?, is he just injured? Why is Justin talking about missing his grandpa who’s in Mexico when his father just supposedly died?!
The anticipation was finally over when I saw Santos waking out of Hilda’s bathroom with bandages around his supposed gunshot wound. Tonight’s episode went on with the happy couple savoring their time together, even though Hilda was very anxious about Santos being out of her sight (lest he get shot again).
Then in the last 5 minutes of the show a nice, bright bedroom with Santos saying his vows to Hilda in her wedding dress was ruined by a cut of Hilda in her darkened bedroom with tears in her eyes. She finally admit to Betty that Santos was gone.
It’s not good to tease an audience like that. I have enough dream sequences with all the soap operas I watch. I didn’t need to see it on one of my favourite prime time shows!
They could’ve kept Santos (played by Kevin Alejandro, who coincidentally had a reoccurring role on one of my favourite soap operas, The Young and the Restless) on the show. It would have been realistic if he survived the gun shot wound, dammit!
On to the other characters. Alexis woke up out of her coma… but she doesn’t realize that she became a she from a he (did you get that?). Daniel kicked his pill habit, and Betty buried her last reminders of Henry. Amanda and Marc search for the truth regarding her paternity (the scene with her parents is hilarious!). And Claire and Wilhelmina clash.
There was a low shot of a man’s feet as he stepped of a bus at the end of the episode. I thought it was Santos (hey… it could happen! He could’ve said “F&*% NY! I’m moving to Woodbridge“, and left the show that way after he got injured from gunshot wounds). But it was Henry coming back to town. I’m looking forward to seeing his relationship with Betty grow after the fact that his girlfriend may or may not be pregnant with his baby.
So aside from the little Santos trickery the show did, the season premiere was pretty decent.
Here’s a clip from Las Pasiones de Betty:
I’ve been waiting on this episode for months! And it was well worth the wait because it kept me wanting more.
Set 4 months after the time when the season finale ended, tonight’s episode of Heroes let faithful viewers piece together the happenings after the citizens of NYC eluded the Peter-the-bomb-threat.
Almost didn’t recognize Nathan with his new bush-man beard. Glad to see hottie Peter is still alive, even though he was trapped in a shipping crate in Ireland for what seems like months.
Poor Hiro… he always seems to get himself into some predicament. He needs to beware of that whole space-time-continuum thing. Kensei not being Japanese is a bit of a twist.
Looks like Claire’s made a new friend, even though he kinda has stalker tenancies with him flying up to her window and ogling her from a distance, then floating off like a feather in the wind.
Nice to see that Matt finally made detective (although he got a divorce) and Mohinder still fighting the good fight. Molly’s dreams are freaking me out though. I wonder what the writers are gonna do with that storyline.
The elders Ms. Petrelli and Mr. Nakamura have a long history behind them. It sucks that it doesn’t look like George Takei is going to be in any more episodes. Maya (Dania Ramierez) is a nice addition to the show. I like the dichotomy in her character as it pertains to her personality and her dark power.
Can’t wait until next week! 
I also PVR-ed Journeyman. Looks like a decent show from the previews, but I’m too tired to watch it right now, so maybe tomorrow.
