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Found this great clip of a Garbage show. This is why Shirley’s the best!!

Another filler episode the other night.  Seems like half  of the season so far has been fillers.  Episodes going nowhere and at a slow pace.  This show is going to get canned by next season if this keeps up.

According to the ratings, Wednesday’s episode registered 11.2 million viewers.  Seems like a lot but it’s 700k off last week making this episode the lowest rated new episode EVER.  This season, Lost has seen a couple of new series lows in ratings already .  What was once a must see tv show has become an shell of what it once was.

Lost is not a program which can have so many filler episodes.  The reason it was the best show on television two years ago was because shit was happening in each episode and left you wanting more.  The focus of the show should be the island and The Others.  That’s the mystery everyone wants to know about, not how Jack got his tattoos or Hurley resurrects a beat up VW.

These are songs from the Billboard Pop 100 – which means people actually like them.

4. Avril Lavigne, Girlfriend – I have a love/hate relationship with this song. Right now, it’s hate. Is that ironic?

3. Fergie, Glamorous – She must have won the spelling bee because every song on her album seems to spell something. No, she’s not trying to be like Gwen at all (ehem, b-a-n-a-n-a-s).

2. The Audio Club, Sumthin’ Serious – More spelling. More awful attempts at music. Not on the Billboard charts yet, but you’ll eventually hear this song.

1. Mims, This is Why I’m Hot - I’m not going to make a wise ass remark on the song title, because it’s all been done before. What I’m going to say is that you’re stupid and he knows it and exploits it.

“This is why I’m hot, I don’t gotta rap
I could sell a mill, sayin’ nothing on the track”

Votefortheworst.com has gotten alot of play lately so I’m gonna put in my 2 cents.

I don’t think that I have ever viewed a complete episode of American Idol since it’s inception and apparently I’m in the minority. I am against all that American Idol stands for. It’s nothing but a reality show disguised as a talent show. Now, I do not have any grievances towards reality shows or talent shows per se. It’s just that American Idol plain sucks. And America can’t get enough of it.

Now, votefortheworst.com has been around for awhile now with mediocre popularity but with Howard Stern’s support, it’s gone to new heights. More and more media outlets have picked up on this story. With Sanjaya not being eliminated it seems that votefortheworst.com has done it job. I did catch Sanjaya’s rendition of the The Kinks “You Really Got Me” by accident last week and God was it awful so I’m glad he’s sticking around. Though as a realist I know that Sanjaya will not actually win, but it’ll definitely be one of the greatest tv moments if he’s up there on the final night.

Votefortheworst.com alsoposts all their hatemail which is a hoot so check it out.

OK, so maybe Nikki and Paulo weren’t completely useless. At least not Nikki. I love how the producers took bad actors from Lost, made them act even worse in a show-within-the-flashback-show as kind of an acknowledgement that, well, they are pretty bad actors. I also liked how they acknowledged what a lot of the male fans of the show were saying – Nikki is useless on the show, but at least she’s hot. The producers of Lost took full advantage of her “abilities” and then decided to kill her….or did they?

This was indeed a filler episode, but it was entertaining nonetheless. Sometimes, we can all use mindless entertainment. That said, there were some plot advances. Here’s what we learned:

Nikki and Paulo scammed the producer of Exposé, a tacky TV Show where strippers fight crime that Nikki was a guest “star” on. The scam? She slept with him to get his wealth. Somehow, that doesn’t sound too abnormal to me. Hmm. Anyway, he had $8 Million in jewels and Nikki & Paulo were after it, so they poisoned the dude and took his bling. They were going to escape to America but they ended up on the damned Oceanic flight that everyone else was on. Apparently, Paulo can cook.

Since the flight crashed, they were looking for the diamonds on the island. Paulo found them, but didn’t tell Nikki (he claims it would have ruined their relationship). He kept them hidden by his own, umm, crown jewels. Nikki caught him and then unleashed a Medusa spider on him that would cause him to be paralyzed for 8 hours. She took the jewels from his crotch and as she was about to get away, the Medusa bit her too. She found time to bury the sack of diamonds and make it to the beach, but then she passed out. Sawyer and Hugo saw her and thought she was dead. They found Paulo and buried both of them…alive. Nikki’s eyes flashed open just before more dirt fell on her, but no one noticed.

That’s really most of it. Charlie admitted to having kidnapped Sun. Paulo knew about Ben’s plan to kidnap Jack. Nikki has a nice rack and she can’t act.

There was a little bit of plot advancement, though. We learn that there’s $8 Million worth of jewels on the island. That might be enough to crash a plane in an attempt to steal it.

I could have sworn I saw John’s father waiting at the airport when Nikki and Paulo were there. Or maybe it was just some old man sitting around. Did anyone else notice? Maybe he was on the flight too and that’s how he made it to the island?

We heard Ben admit that his strategy for getting people to do things is to find something they are emotionally attached to and then exploit it.

Now the flashbacks are flashing back to scenes from the island. Since it’s been 84 days or so, it’s interesting to see different perspectives from the crash scene.

Hugo was a fan of Exposé – the show that Nikki was a “filler” character on. You know, the one about strippers fighting crime. Because what good are cops when you have large chested women to shoot down all the evil in the world?

There was something else, but now I can’t remember. Oh well.