November 8th's Weekly TV Thoughts

You'll notice a big show not on my list.  Yes, Happy's Place was back for season 2 Friday night.  Finally!  But I wasn't home Friday night to watch it.  Don't worry, I'll catch up next week.

But here's what I did watch this week.

TV Shows We Love – I never watched The Honeymooners.  I may have seen a couple of scenes here or there.  But I’ve heard about it for years, so I enjoyed hearing about the history of the show.  So much I didn’t know.  Now, I’m kind of curious to watch the show sometime.

Celebrity Weakest Link – That was at once the funniest and the most painful thing I have watched in a while.  They just couldn’t seem to get any right answers.  Were there two rounds without banking any money?  But how much they were laughing and ribbing each other was fun to watch.

Dancing with the Stars – Well, that was disappointing.  I’ve been rooting for Danielle, even voting for her.  I’m not surprised she got eliminated before the finals.  But yes, Andy should have gone home before her.  Some fun dances tonight, and the team dances were great.  Flavor Flav was a poor choice for a guest judge.  Usually, I’m impressed when they bring in a non-dance guest judge, but he was so all over the place.

Wipeout – I thought they had a few unaired episodes left, so I was only partially surprised when this popped up on my DVR.  But what really surprised me was that they didn’t have teams on this episode.  Kind of interesting to watch people doing it by themselves again after pairs for so long.  I’m assuming this is a one time thing, but we will see.

Shifting Gears – Much better episode than last week.  I feel for Riley.  It was a sitcom turn around for Carter, but I’m happy to see he learned his lesson.  I did love the loyalty shown to Stitch in the other storyline.  I get that keeping it a secret drove the story, but I don’t feel like he really would have kept it a secret otherwise.  And I think the reaction would have been the same no matter how the guys found out.

Survivor – I’m glad they didn’t do that whole “earn the merge” thing.  That was always a little silly.  Sorry to see Nate go since I liked him.  And a completely wasted idol, although I’d be worried about going home with it in my pocket as well.  From here on out is when it always gets interesting.

The Challenge – Usually, I’d be rooting for an underdog, but I was really hoping that Theo would go home.  Especially since it was Jake’s birthday.  There really are so few teams left that there is no where to hide.  I’m curious what TJ is going to pull since the teams are more concerned about the vote than actually winning.  You know that threat meant something.

The Amazing Race – They bunched the teams up a little.  Glad they had an overnight to get them at least within an hour of each other.  And we saw a little jumping in ranks, although not too much given the time differences.  These teams seem fairly even if there wasn’t a big chance to change things up.  We can certainly see which team is the team to beat.  That’s what, four wins in a row for Tucker and Eric.  I do like them, so I wouldn’t mind them winning.