Stars Earns Stripes is Another Big NBC Fail

When I first read about NBC's Monday night Stars Earn Stripes Reality TV Show, the concept seemed so ridiculous to me that I thought it might be entertaining.

An slight added hope that it might be entertaining was the fact that the man responsible for unleashing Survivor on the world, Mark Burnett, was one of the creative geniuses behind Stars Earn Stripes.

Well.

Stars Earns Stripes, in my opinion, is a terribly wrong TV show.

"Stars" are paired with what the show calls "Operatives" to go on "Missions."

The "Missions" seem like a trivialization of what the men and women in the armed forces actually do in real life.

Somehow it all seems in bad taste to me.

Dean Cain is embarrassing himself being all overly earnest about how dangerous the "Missions" are. At one point he said something along the line that he could get killed on one of these serious "Missions."

Dean Cain has also mentioned his young son multiple times. If he really thought he could get killed on this Reality TV Show, leaving his young son without a dad, shouldn't he get himself off this show pronto?

Dean Cain is very impressed to be paired with Chris Kyle. Cain had read Chris Kyle's book "American Sniper" prior to meeting him. Chris Kyle is reputed to be the deadliest sniper in American military history, with 160 confirmed kills out of 255 claimed kills. These kills took place in Iraq and earned Kyle the nickname "The Devil of Ramadi."

I am sure each of the men and women that Chris Kyle killed deserved to die. But still, something seems unseemly about focusing on this.

Sniper kills is part of "Mission" on Stars Earn Stripes.

General Wesley Clark also seems to be embarrassing himself by being involved in this dubious operation.

The show is very repetitive. I could not watch it without a fast forward button.

Of the "Stars" I don't think Laila Ali and Todd Palin have embarrassed themselves. Yet. Beyond the fact of agreeing to be on this show.

Whatever happened to the NBC that produced "Must See TV" on Thursday nights? With Friends, Seinfeld, ER and others?

NBC is the last place network, despite the fact that for 3 weeks in a row NBC has had the top rated TV show, for 2 weeks that being the Olympics and this week America's Got Talent.
Speaking of the Olympics. NBC's coverage of the world's biggest sporting event was reviled by millions of viewers, considered by many to be a HUGE Fail. NBC botched both the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.

Methinks Stars Earn Stripes is symptomatic of whatever is is that has diseased the quality of what the National Broadcast Corporation broadcasts.

I watched the first 2 episodes of Stars Earn Stripes. I won't be watching any more episodes.

Dancing With The Stars With a Lot of Sarah Palin & Todd

We saw more of Sarah Palin tonight on Dancing with the Stars than in all her previous appearances, or so it seemed to me. And husband Todd spoke. I do not recollect hearing husband Todd speak before.

Sarah and Todd were in the audience tonight to watch the live romance, I mean dance, between daughter Bristol and Mark Ballas.

Bristol seemed, to me, to have greatly improved this week, with both dances. And she got her highest scores ever. Still at the bottom, though.

Jennifer Grey was a bit less annoying tonight. She got six 10s. Making her the top score getter.  Both Kyle Massey and Brandy got perfect scores on one dance. I don't know who ended up with the most points between Kyle and Brandy, because I offed the TV before I was given that information.

Before the second dance, for each dancer, there were little bio packets telling the dancer's story. I actually watched all of them. I found each to be interesting.

Kyle's family took a big gamble to get him from Atlanta to Hollywood, but they were almost ready to give up and go back to Atlanta when they got a call. You really can not help but like this kid.

Jennifer Grey has had even more bad stuff happen than we've already been told about. A car wreck with then boyfriend Matthew Broderick over in Ireland. That is where the neck problem came from. The most interesting thing I learned, from Jennifer's bio package, was that that guy who sits next to Jamie Lee Curtis is Jennifer's husband.

Brandy's family and friend's painted her as one tough cookie who has had some struggles, including a fatal car accident. I have grown to like Brandy.

And then there is Bristol. The most interesting thing in the Bristol bio package was Bristol saying she got the call from Dancing with the Stars, instantly agreed to do it, then took off in her pickup and drove 5 days to get to Los Angeles. Now, I have driven from Washington to California. Easily doable in 2 days. Wasilla, Alaska to LA in 5 days? Driving solo? This is one spunky single mom. With good tires.

I was surprised at how open the Palin's and Bristol were about her getting knocked up by Levi Johnston. The term "knocked up" was used by Bristol. Sarah used the term "baby hump."

I am guessing that, even though she had the fewest judges' points, that Bristol will not be sent home tomorrow night. Mark Ballas said he's been hearing people say that the reason Bristol keeps surviving is because of her mom's popularity and the Tea Party People. Mark insisted it was, instead, people connecting to Bristol's  ordinary person story. Methinks it may be a combo of the two. Then again, tonight I read that Sarah Palin's negative numbers have never been higher. As in, she is starting to back up on more and more people.

All My Children's Susan Lucci was in the audience tonight. Is Erica Kane considering being on Dancing with the Star? That might be amusing if she brought her Erica Kane personality.