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Well wednesday was whack. I went with fat to the kings game to watch them choke and die in the final seconds, and lose the game. Frankly I blame sheridan (that wont be funny unless you are chenny, connie or fat - sorry). We did get to hang out a bit though and talk basketball which was nice. Also the pre-basketball ritual of oportos was upheld, although sadly being a wednesday, there was no room 208 on TV for us to laugh at and make fun of.

A little background info for all ye uninformed non-watchers:
Room 208 is a show on one of the cable TV music channels (I think channel V), and it's filmed live on friday nights at fox studios. Oporto at the entertainment centre plays channel V inside the store for customers to watch. The basic premise of the show is that this crazy punk/lesbian? chick is in a constructed nightclub in the channel V studios at fox with a dumptruck load full of teeny boppers (aged 12-14 I think). The teeny boppers are engaged in a fierce dance off, and home viewers vote in for their favourite dancers using one of those $2 per minute scam hotline things. As votes are coming in by phone and sms, any insightful comments sent with the votes are scrolled across the bottom of the screen. The comments are usually in one of the following formats:

* OMgz MaNNNZZ [insert name here] is TOTaLLy hAWWWWWT!
OR
* OmGZZZ maaaNN! [insert name here] has [imperfect physical feature]. Dey sh00d [insert cruel comment about said feature here]

The SMSes alone are pretty funny... but I haven't even touched on some of the most amusing aspects of the show. Firstly the nicknames! Each dancer has their own personalised IRC style nick name with which people can identify them when voting. Some examples are "Brown sugah"(sic) and "miss mango" and "ant". The funniest thing however, is the attention whores. There's one in every show (at least). They always HAVE to be on camera at ALL times. If someone is being interviewed, within seconds you can bet your knee high socks and beret, that the attention whore will be in the background dancing their way into your living room like an inquisitive emu. After all this stupidity, the dancers with the most votes in the last 15 minutes of the show go into a kind of finals situation where they podium dance off against each other and a live vote is carried out and displayed on the screen.

I have to say, that as stupidly crap that the whole idea of room 208 is, I enjoyed the brief few times I have watched the show, because of how serious the kids involved take it, and how funny it is to watch all the crazy stuff going on, and the sms payouts. In a way, I really feel sorry for these kids, because they will regret being on TV dressed and acting like that when their 21st comes around. We're all victims of outdated culture from time to time though.

So hats off to you room 208. A show that is completely stupid, yet suprisingly entertaining.

posted by hunt @ 6:47 PM