Is it bad that my two current favorite shows (ok, three) are from Spike TV? Does that make me slothenly? Lower of class? Crude? I dont care. I love The Joe Schmoe Show. Its art-imitating-life-imitating-art. I feel like Im watching a mix of the Truman Show and Ed TV. And he seems like such a good guy. I lay wager that he will be cool with the whole thing when it gets revealed. Im hooked. I hate it.

Next up is Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. Spike buys all the episodes of a Japanese game show a few years old and redubs the whole thing disregarding the original scripts and makes it topical filled with double entendres. Combined with the violent tasks the contestants go through, its a good laugh. It makes me laugh every show.

Finally, Stripperella. Backstory: a few months ago I discovered Pam Andersons V.I.P. which honestly has some funny lines in it. Granted you have to sit through some terrible lines and action to get one or two gems from her (character not yet hired into her agency is about to be shot, Pam blurts: “Leave him! Its not like he’s on payroll or anything!”) Now comes this cartoon she does the voices for. It proves that she is totally in control of her image and her career. And I find it ironic her best work yet is a cartoon character. Best line of the show so far: Evil Character to a Richard Simmons parody character…”This is no time to fudge pack!” (see…he was packing fudge for an admirer who lost 10lbs…I guess you’d have to see it…).