I would have given a dollar for Dennis Hopper to say:

[cajun]Pabst Bleu Ree-BON!!!![/cajun]

Yeah - this show has taken a serious turn downhill. That said, last night's episode was one of the better ones in the past month.

IMO, the last good episode of this show was the one where Alec Baldwin guest starred.

Up until a month or so ago it was mindless fun plus boobs. Lately only one part of this formula seems to remain. As nice as that is it's not enough to keep me watching indefinitely.

Last night I got very bored and just wanted the show to end. If they are running out of creative ideas in the first season, the show probably won't last past season number two which I think it will get based on momentum from the fun first half of this season.

I agree.

I haven't seen it yet, but I just want to give a SHOUT OUT and a big eff-you to NBC for telling us that this show starts at 8:59, but still not ending Fear Factor until 9:00 (and a few seconds) just to create TiVo conflicts.

It was worse than that. I had to hit my 30-sec quick-skip 4 times to get to the start (LV started at 9:01). I stated several weeks ago that this NBC nonsense is all about screwing the DVR owners because their schedule is not at all accurate.

Thank goodness at the end of shows like this I only miss the preview of next week show. Otherwise I might miss the end of the "9:59" ending shows that might bleed over.

Though this probably REALLY pissed off people with Fear Factor SPs who don't pad, since my LV recording had actual FF content. I haven't checked to see how many people are bitching about that at the DVR forums.

[EDITED TO ADD: Looks like people ARE pissed about the FF thing. Fear Factor cut off early!!! Who WON?? (though a badly named thread, since it's really FF that ran LATE) This was the final show of a seven week "Couples" tournament-type thingy]

Umm, well I never thought so, but it has always been entertaining and IMO that's what it continues to be. I liked last night's episode, it was showed them all in a little different element. And the wet t-shirt contest was just awesome.

Anyone know who played the brothers?

another ok episode but yeah seems to going downhill

"You Can't Take It With You", Episode #117.

A resident (Sean Astin) wins the jackpot at a slot machine, then fakes his own death; Ed's mother (June Lockhart) regales the staff with stories of her son's childhood; a couple uses coupons to avoid spending any money in Las Vegas.

Cast: James Caan, Josh Duhamel, Molly Sims, Nikki Cox, James Lesure, Marsha Thomason, Vanessa Marcil, Sean Astin, June Lockhart.
Producer(s): Gary Scott Thompson, Scott Steindorff, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank.



Reminder: This is a new episode.

Bette Deline.

Nicki Aycox looked much better on Ed as Stella Vecsey than she did tonight playing a stupid local from Vegas.

Alright ep - Ed's mom telling stories about her son was kind of funny.

Sean Astin didn't do to great a job. I don't know if it was over-acting or if he just can't act, but his story-line was just sort of blah.

They need to get the girls on the show as close to naked as possible. That would definitely help.

Pretty bad episode.

The stuff with Ed & his mom was ok but the rest was terrible.

Not bad.

"Quit poking me!"

Way too much nekkid hobbit action in this episode.

Better than the last four or five episodes (although still not as good as earlier in the season). Maybe they can get it back on track.

The coupon couple. Baw ha ha h aha ha, they reminded me of someone.. hmmm

I totally didn't know that was Stella Vessey!! She was about 100X hotter on ED, too (in this I thought she was just some annoying girl).

Overall, okay episode. Definitely not the best, but better than the Mardi Gras episode.

They really played up the hobbit angle, using forced perspectives multiple times to make Sean seem even shorter than he already is. Especially when he played that huge slot machine.

A pretty good episode, though.

Decent episode last night. Still not like the beginning of the season though.

I did like the way they were poking fun at Ed by having his mom give up the embarrassing details of his youth.

"Poor Binky."

Dang, I knew I'd seen that chick somewhere. Yeah, much hotter as Stella.

Not a good episode at all. Astin's whole storyline was horrible.

not too bad but not great