Reality TV Crashes and Burns (Or: What the HELL was that?)

By: Laurie | February 21st, 2009

So a couple of years ago, I was watching the wonderful TV show “Whose Line is it Anyway?”

If you’re not familiar with it (and if you’re not, you should be, if only because it was the show of our co-owner, Drew Carey), it’s all improv. And one of the skits in this particular show required one of the improv guys, Ryan Stiles, to say only one line throughout the entire skit. The line?

“What the hell was that?”

The deliveries:

What the HELL was that!?!?
What the hell was THAT?!?!
WHAT the hell WAS that!?!?

That’s kind of how I feel after learning that our reality TV winner, Vini Oliveira, was cut loose this week and didn’t even make the trip to Portland.

What the HELL was that?

Seriously, was there a point here? The TV final was a farce that had nothing to do with the players on the field. So I figured that the final choice had something to do with what the player had shown in practice and the coaches’ view of where he would fit into the team.

Apparently not.

So now Vini is gone. And…um…

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?!?!?!

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• katrinka_ohio |  February 21st, 2009 at 10:02 am

  
  
  

  Slight correction: the skit (or “game”) you refer to with Ryan Stiles on “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” was called Two-Line Vocabulary; thus Ryan was only allowed to say two lines during the course of the skit.

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• Laurie |  February 21st, 2009 at 11:44 am

  
  
  

  Oh how I love Google Alerts for famous people.

  This one was MUCH nicer than the ones I got when I implied that Clay Aiken would never have made it without American Idol.

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• Melissa |  February 21st, 2009 at 12:28 pm

  
  
  

  I hope they replace Vini with Ryan Stiles!

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• Laurie |  February 21st, 2009 at 12:45 pm

  
  
  

  Melissa, I’d be good with that too.

  Actually, I think that instead of doing silly things like having kids play on the field during halftime, they should have a “Whose Line Is It Anyway” improv session every home game.

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• Johonna |  February 21st, 2009 at 2:25 pm

  
  
  

  you know, that kinda makes me want to add little snarky bits about celebrities at the end of the Inter blog just to see who shows up.

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• Frankie |  February 22nd, 2009 at 11:10 am

  
  
  

  Supersearch was a horrible fiasco. I feel a little misled and still cringe when I recall the 3rd rate production values of the finale.

  I’ve always thought the kids playing at halftime was rather cute- the younger they were the cuter it was. But that was OK for USL Sounders since the parents had to buy tickets so they could take pictures of their kids.

  My ideal halftime entertainment? Archery!

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