A movie and a TV show...

First of all, we watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It was a pretty funny movie. One main recommendation about the movie: don't watch the extended version because it only involves male genitalia. Good times. All in all, it had some great lines, but was only just above average.

On an interesting side note, the yoga instructor is Pat the crackpot marriage counselor from The Joe Schmo Show, perhaps the greatest "reality" TV show of all time. Basically, they throw one regular guy named Matt into a typical reality show house. All the rest of the characters are actors who are in on the joke. There is the Rich Bitch, the Gay Guy, the Virgin, the Game Player, the Smarmy Host and others. Anyway, they rig everything up so that crazy stuff happens and the whole time Matt is just a nice guy who can't figure out quite how to react to all these dysfunctional people in the house. His most famous line from the end of the last episode is, "What is going ON?!?!" in a horribly whiny, slightly cracking voice.

Now for the next connection: we are currently watching True Beauty and let me say, Ashton Kutcher is a genius. Punk'd, Beauty and the Geek, and now True Beauty. The premise is that 10 contestants have been brought in because they are good looking. However, the tests on the show are meant to test their character, such as leaving confidential files on a table next to them and seeing if they look at them. At the end, the two worst contestants are taken before the judges and one of them is given the boot. The booted contestant is shown their awful behavior and told the premise of the show. The first week was awesome. The girl completely freaked out and was yelling at the judges about how she wasn't a bad person and she is the hottest chick ever. Should be great.