Not Our Generation. Not the Best. Not Too Bad.

If you've taken notice to my lack of posting lately; observant move. And to you and myself, I would like to say, "Welcome Back!....Kotter." Welcome Back Kotter, a 1970's primetime TV show that I have had the pleasure[?] of watching a bit of recently.

Gabe Kotter, a 30-something-year-old alumni, returns to his home town to teach a class at his old high school. The students in his class call themselves 'The Sweathogs' due to the fact that they are not ambitious or 'smart'. The kids goof off and make jokes and mock people and on many occasion, tell Mr. Kotter to stick a rubber hose up his nose. Honestly, it is not the highest quality show, and the actors (including John Travolta at the age of 20) are not the best. Shamefully, it makes me laugh. Shamefully, I like it. Shamefully, I cared enough to look it up on IMDB.com. In duing so, I came to the conclusion that I am not the only one who thinks Kotter is worth it, because IMDB gives it a rating of 7.2 out of 10.

What Ever Happend To Baby Trever?

The very first episode of Desperate Housewives, Edie refers to Mrs. McCluskey watching her son because Edie herself would be "entertaining" a man friend. Later in the episode, Edie's house burned down. The entire neighborhood stood outside behind the yellow caution tape surrounding the ash that was once a home. One of the concerned neighbors were Mrs. McCluskey, without a small boy who could have presumably been Edie's son.

After that episode, viewers did not see or hear about this kid. Until, two seasons later, eleven-year-old Trever came into the picture. He was the son of Edie's that she used to lure Carlos into liking her. (No, that's not a bad reason to have a child at all.) Supposedly Trevor lives with his dad, but I find it flawed that a main character has a son, whom, for two years she neglected to show us.

Beverly Hills 9021-Oh No

The CW is re-making Beverly Hills 90210. Although the original show is secretly a guilty pleasure of mine, I believe this re-make is a tragic idea. Solely because this proves to us viewers that the television industry has completely run out of ideas. It's already happened with movies. There is such an unbelievable amount of re-make movies that I could just kill myself.

I would be interested to know if the CW is just borrowing the name and zip code from the old soap opera, or if they will actually name the characters Dylan, Donna, Kelly, Brenda, Brendan, etc. I have my hopes set on the plot lines not paying drastic homage to the original 90210. That could be potentially corny.

Ahhem, Ahhem...Reality Stars Are'nt Real Stars...Ahhem...

I'm going to touch base upon a subject that is sore to some. Reality TV. Lets face it, I will never consider any of Laguna Beach, The Hills, Tila Tequila or Brooke Knows Best to be a real show. I feel that reality TV is just a way for us to invade other people's privacy because we don't have anything dramatic going on in our own lives.

Our generation has taken reality TV to a whole new scary level. To prove this, I will point out that Lauren Conrad was on an issue of Seventeen magazine.

What's so great about Lauren? Seventeen always tries to find inspiring, talented girls to put on their cover. But, Lauren? She is a spoiled, bratty rich girl who has no talent. When your on a reality show you aren't acting (at least your not supposed to be.) So she can't act, she doesn't have some kind of ridiculous album out, so she can't sing. I'm assuming she doesn't dance. so, unless she is a closeted bowing pin juggler, Jack The Ripper deserves to be on the cover of a magazine more than this reality star.

To try to quote Rachel Quaintance on 'I Love The New Millennium'.....

"Every episode of Laguna Beach was like:

.omg, do you think Stephen is gonna be there?

.I don't know

.ughh, if he is that would be, like, so drama

.yeah

.ughh. Hey Stephen

.Hey

.ughh. This is so drama."