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What HGTV executive thought it would be a good idea to have a show that shows a couple of bottle blonds sell a $200k property in Rancho Cucamonga? Did someone lose a bet? In the HGTV blurb for this disaster it says that this family is "some of California's most sought-after and successful agents"....really? HGTV has many "good" real estate programs like "Property Virgins" (the Sandra Rinomato version, not the new one), "Selling New York" and even "The Property Shop", which I admit was a bit weird and I often wondered if it was really a Canadian soap opera rather than a reality show. But come on HGTV, we know you are upset that Bravo has "Million Dollar Listing", but is there any need to go so down market with this? What's next, a show about selling trailers in Florida???

So I read that Mike Judge "borrowed" the idea from C.M. Kornbluth's Marching Morons, but like most Hollywood films today everyone "borrows" from someone else. So I watched this film wondering if Fox made the right decision to let this film sit around and then basically let it die a sad death. After 10 minutes I realized that they made a good decision. It is bad. Not particularly bad acting, Maya Rudolph and Luke Wilson seemed more than adequate delivering their lines. It was not even a particularly bad idea. It's just that the idea didn't really materialize into anything more. The script was flat, one-dimensional, character-destroying and just plain horrible. Some nice touches, mostly visual, but the script didn't make sense and the actors were forced to meander through a waste of 84 minutes of everyone's time. As I said, I really wanted to like this movie, I really did.

Carlos is perhaps not the most original comic, but the first series was amusing, his forthright comments and observations were fresh. I missed a couple of seasons, but after all of the allegations of stealing material I caught a couple of episodes of the Mind of Mencia at the end of July 07. A bit of a change I see! Carlos is much more into toilet humor and sex jokes than the race observations. In one episode he sort of implied he was in the same league as Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle. I think not. Perhaps Comedy Central will give him one more season, but episodes I saw sounded tired and samey with more words beeped out than the Osbournes. Carlos, go back to stand-up for a couple of years, get some fresh material and try again.