Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
I'm addicted to my DVR (ghetto version of TiVo). Without it, how could I stomach a nauseatingly sweet 2 hour specials of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
Last night's episode was about the Tom family from Northern California. This woman adopted 8 kids with disabilities, ranging from two Russian girls born without legs to a little girl who had been burned in a crib fire.
The show is guaranteed to cause tears and I'm never so willing to be manipulated to tears. Almost every episode makes me wonder where they find these people. She's a single mom raising orphans with serious orthopedic problems. And all these kids want is to have a normal life, to be able to wash dishes and cook dinner and get upstairs when it's bedtime. I'm a little jaded and cynical but I can't believe there are people THAT good.
So these lovely, charitable people are deserving of all the goodness ABC and Sears are sending their way. Aside from the stupid and antics of annoying Paul, (seriously, you want to know how to make a little kid dying from cancer smile? Stop using her illness for ratings you jerk!) the "design team" is made up of people who seem to genuinely care about these people and believe in what they are doing. Again...are people who get paid to be on-air really THAT good?
The fun part of the show starts 15 minutes before the end. When the family arrives home from their Disney World vacation they are greeted by a crowd of hundreds of cheering neighbors. Wonder where those people were before the camera crews showed up. The reaction when the family sees their new home is priceless. I can't imagine how jarring it would be to go away for a week and then come home to a place you've never seen. And to know it's yours. The tour inside is always great and truthfully, I've even started looking at the Sears website to decorate my house. The kids rooms are cheesy. The Backstreet Boy room? She's 16, by 17 she'll be over them. The book room was a good idea but c'mon, he drilled through perfectly good books to make that bed. But the kitchens and bathrooms are always amazing.
You'd think the free vacation, brand new house with brand new stuff would be enough but not for Ty. Ford delivers new cars, there's a swimming pool out back and wait for it...rip up that mortgage Mama Tom.
Last night's episode was about the Tom family from Northern California. This woman adopted 8 kids with disabilities, ranging from two Russian girls born without legs to a little girl who had been burned in a crib fire.
The show is guaranteed to cause tears and I'm never so willing to be manipulated to tears. Almost every episode makes me wonder where they find these people. She's a single mom raising orphans with serious orthopedic problems. And all these kids want is to have a normal life, to be able to wash dishes and cook dinner and get upstairs when it's bedtime. I'm a little jaded and cynical but I can't believe there are people THAT good.
So these lovely, charitable people are deserving of all the goodness ABC and Sears are sending their way. Aside from the stupid and antics of annoying Paul, (seriously, you want to know how to make a little kid dying from cancer smile? Stop using her illness for ratings you jerk!) the "design team" is made up of people who seem to genuinely care about these people and believe in what they are doing. Again...are people who get paid to be on-air really THAT good?
The fun part of the show starts 15 minutes before the end. When the family arrives home from their Disney World vacation they are greeted by a crowd of hundreds of cheering neighbors. Wonder where those people were before the camera crews showed up. The reaction when the family sees their new home is priceless. I can't imagine how jarring it would be to go away for a week and then come home to a place you've never seen. And to know it's yours. The tour inside is always great and truthfully, I've even started looking at the Sears website to decorate my house. The kids rooms are cheesy. The Backstreet Boy room? She's 16, by 17 she'll be over them. The book room was a good idea but c'mon, he drilled through perfectly good books to make that bed. But the kitchens and bathrooms are always amazing.
You'd think the free vacation, brand new house with brand new stuff would be enough but not for Ty. Ford delivers new cars, there's a swimming pool out back and wait for it...rip up that mortgage Mama Tom.
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